LABOR.
James L. Blair.
There's a never (lying chorus
Breaking on the human ear
In the Im'jr town Iwfore ui,
Voices loud, and iIm p, and clear)
This ii LiUir' endl' im ditty,
Tnis is Toll's prophetic voice,
Bounding through the town and city,
liuldiug bunion heart rejoiiu
Sweeter tban the mtVi singing
In the anthem of the free;
Jilitlier 1m the anvil's rinjjinK
Thaa the song of lilrd or lice.
There's a glory iu the rattle
Of the wheels 'mid factory gloom!
Richer thau eVr natcbl from battle
Are the trophies of the loom.
See the skillful uiaon railing
Gracefully you towering pita;
Round the forge and furnace Lluzinj
Hlan.i the noble mnn of toil.
They are heroes of the eople,
Who the wealth of nationi ralne;
Every dome, and iipire, and steeply
Rear their head iu Labor's prulsa.
Glorious men of truth and labor,
Khephrrdi of the human fold,
That shall lay the brand and wilier
With the bar'hroun things of old;
FriflsU and prophtU of creation,
Bloodleu Woe in the fight,
Toilen for the world's mil vat ion,
Messenger of peace and I gut.
Speed the plow and speed the harrow,
Peace and plenty tend abroad;
Better far the ipadd and barrow
Than the cannon or the iword.
Each invention, eich Improvement,
Render's weak Oppremion's rod;
Every sln an I every movement
Brings us nearer truth and Uod.
NEW 0RLEAN3 "AUNTIES."
The Feminine Negro of the Crescent
lty In Her (ilory.
CNanby" In Toledo Blade.
The pure feminine uogro is scon in
and about Now Orleans iu all hor
old-time glory. You see them in
the kit.'lieiiH, on tlte streets, in
the horso-car, evorywhore anybody
is soon, and tiiore in a t iniilarity that is
jvondorful. Thoy are almost univer
sally fleshy, without vinible necks
he Load rusting on a cotnfortulile
cushion of Jat on the shoulders, with
enormous arms, partly baro, and no
waist wHatevor. This applies only to
the middle-aged and old. Tho young
'onca are as slim and jaunty a noed be,
and why thoy should a (cumulate flesh
as thoir years roll on is a mystery.
Hut thoy do grow fat with thoir in
creasing years. They are abundantly
iloihy at bO and still more so at ISO.
What Ibby would be at W may never
kr.own.
t iMdand young, fleshy or loan, the
love of color is ovor all of them, and the
color thoy wear must be pronounced.
Their blacks are the blackest of any
thing on earth, their yellows cunnot be
too yellow, and the various sha les of
red must all bo as bright as possible.
No one color satislies them. Thoy min
gle all of thorn, aud the more that can
be crowded into a pattern the bjttor it
plensos them.
It is a pleasant sight to see an agod
negross ruli ng along tho stroot, bearing
a basket or bundle, her mouth half way
open so that tlioiaigh mat is very ciose
to tho surface may 11ml the outer air
with the least troublo, with good-hu-inored
twinkle iu the eye and lurking in
tho wriuklcs about hor mouth, hor short
petticoats displaying two ankles im
mense in size, and about hor head the
inevitable gayly colored handkerchief
wound iu tho shape of a tm ban.
Without this turbau tho dress o! no
Heiress would be complete. It takes the
place of lfat or bonnet, and is a uni
versal as tlte petticoat or shoos. Indeed,
it is more tho thing than shoes, for,
though one may lack in tho matter of
allocs, she always has the turban. 1 1 is
bound closely about tho forehead, just
below the hair, or rather wool,
lino, and tied or inuod neatly at
tho buck of tho head, t inier this
wealth of color the shiny black face,
tho dueling white teeth that always
ehow. for the laughter either begun,
iu progress, or just ending, display
them, make a not unpleasant picture.
Ho jolly aud good-naturod are they that
one does not wonder that whito chil
dren, cared for and almost reared by
those colored women, came to love
their "maiiunys" in childhood, and
continuod the liking so long as thoy
lived.
Tho streets of New Orleans would
not be complete without tho nogresses
and thoir turbaus. They tit the brijht
nun ami the tlower.8 aud tho foli.ige ex
cocdiulv veil, and mako a sort of varie
gated t nish to tho picture. And that
color will always bo tiiore. Tho race is
increasing with great rapidity, and there
is no reason why it should not. The
vo mer rentiire verv little care in that
delicious eli:iiato. " They are turned oil
to shift for themselves at a very early
ago, and a pickauuiiiny is as little trou
ble to its mother as a colt is to its dam.
Turned Away Ilia Wrath,
Harp- r's Bussr.J
An up town pastor, who enlivens his
Friday evening talks with anecdotes, is
no fond of a joko that he woul.'. rather
tell one at his own expense thau not
toll i no at all. This is his latest: "1
was writing by my study window, and a
little Irish child was busying himself
by throwing beans at the w.udow. Los
ing all patience, 1 rushed out of t'io
Lou e, determined to friglitt n tho boy.
It happened that his mother was coining
after him at the samo moment, and wn
mot by his side. 1 stormed at the ch Id,
and then, as tho mother seemed ex
cessively stupid, I gave hero piece of
iny mind. Finally, as a fraud at d over
whelming conclusion of my scold ng, I
said : 'A 1 ttlo discipline n-iw with your
children w ill save you much pain, if not
disgrace, in the future. Think of that,
madam; that is, if you ever do think.'
'Think, it i 1' she replied; I think if
you'd go baok to your bod-room and
wipe the ink a? av your nose you'd bo
prettier, even if you didn't make so
much av a sensation.' It was not a soft
answer, but it had the oflect of turuinj
way wroth."
The Mack Poodle.
The black poodle is again becoming
fashionable iu 1 nglaud. These animals,
to be in correct style, must have their
hair shaved into knots and knobs, auJ
be rendered generally hideous.
Uarnum says the nearer a circus per
former can come to breaking tho neck
without a -tusllr doing so, tho higher
WHAT KIND OF BOOKS?
Hot. Hobrrt foil) ei Talk Before 1 1.0
Young .Hen's Christian I nlon.
I have felt that it would be a good
thing to talk to you to-night about the
companionship of good books. They
will deopen and sweet.-n the joys of
young men and womi n. 1 supp sothat
I might sa' it is fifty-five years, or
nearly so, since 1 droame 1 ovor the ) rt
of them, of one of them especially,
" hittingtun anl His Cat." it was
when I was 5 years old, and it was the
first book I remember reading, Every
boy should have it. Good hooks are
good irionds; they will never dese.t us.
I sat in Shakespeare's chair ut Strut-ford-on-Avon,
and went into his garden
aud had flowers from the flower-bod
near his door. It was all as lovely as a
midsummer night's dream; but I could
not muko him live in Stratford; I e lives
with me. Aiy companions may bo your
friends, young men and women, and till
your life with pleasure, as thoy have
mine.
The best books often reveal their
worth aftor munv years. They diJ not
think much of sliakespeare in his time.
Good Ik oks are like the wine we hear
of (that we never see of course), that
grow s precious in the long lapse of
years. Such is the genesis of all the
great books. We old readers know we
can only get the goo 1 Horn a book by
some suoh pio.es as thut by which it
was written. I speak only of the best,
not of such as you can read as you
would crack a nut 'the greatest books
sre always growing better. We cat
hardly blame the simple fellow who
read ilobinson Crusoe through every
year ; and who, when he was told it wus
not true, said ho would not believe it,
adding to his iniorinunt: "I don't thunk
you at all for tolling me, oithor."
I would say a word of caution. There
are books we can read as a man takes
opium, which muke us feel like heaven,
but they leave a greater desolation thau
opium. There nre also books wo may
devour in any quantity without any
harm, except tiie taking up of our time
books that are as foam to the sea. It
is not for me to say, however (human
nature is So ditlereut), what to take and
what to leave. This is a suro cr.terion,
however: First, if when I roud a book
abont (iod, and find it has put me
further from Him; or about humanity
and hud it has put me further from
mm; or about li e, and it makes me
think it loss wortli living, then I know
that for me it is not a good book. It
may charm mo, but it is not my book.
1 want to speak of novels. I always
enjoy a bright, good story. I use! to
liido thorn under the bed whou I was a
boy, and would do it again if I had to.
This is what Walter heott did for me
forty years ago. And I read him now
with del ght. You say you cannot vead
Scott; you do not know .Scotch. I
would sav, then, "Go loam Scotch."
Some calf novols week-day sermons and
authors week day preachers. It is
about so. '
The Monday Schools of I lie World.
Mr. Fountain J. Hartley, one of the
secretaries of tho Sunday School
union, has published in Tho Sunday
School Chronicle two statistical papers,
in which he gives an estimate of the
number of Sunday school teachers and
scholars in the I n ted Kingdom and
throughout tho world.
Jn tho United Kingdom the totals are
teachers, ti j 4,704 ; scholars, (i,Odl,o77.
In Great Pritan there aro 7t!U,i!i."i
teachers and t!,'Jo,7()S scholars. In
tho Ulited Mates, V&l.'Mi teachers
an I 0,W0,H:15 scholars. As to Sunday
schools on tho continent, and iu connec
tion with the various missionary socie
ties throughout tho world, only an ap
proximate estimate is possible; but Mr.
Hartley gios the following figures as
tho minimum computation : in i.tiropean
countries f;t,0.".l teachors, and 7 ill, 100
scholars: iu connection witn the several
missionary societies, '21, -104 teachers
and SHli.HOS scholars. The grand total
throughout the world is therotore
teachors, 1,700,9.10; scholars, U.bOOy
451.
Solemn Word lo Keiitucklsus,
tfxmlsvillo Courier-Journal.
Again we say, as so often we have
said in those columns, that from the sin
of blood guiltiness no citizen of this
commonwealth is f reo. We do not deal
with crime as we ought. Wo tolorato
murder and pardon vice aud honor
criminals if thoy are brave, l'hysical
prowess is tho only virtue that appeals
to us. We aro passionate, unreasonable,
unrestrained, lawless. Society protect
no mini either by its recognized rulei
of law, or by that public sentiment
which kivcs Btrengtli and fo;eo ami vi
tality to all written laws. I'ntil we
chauuo all tins; mill muiiier is pun
ishod; until w o educate mou to look to
tho law for protection and vindication;
until tho law does what it prdtends to
do, what it is mutated for, wo should
cease our boasting, and no longer con
tent ours dvos with traits and achieve
ments which equally distinguidi the
barbarous and half civilized communi
ties. llottli-d Tear.
E stem 1,'Oor.
In lYvsin thov bottle their tears as of
old. This is done in tho foilowiug man
uer: As tho mourners are sitting
around aud w eepiiw. the muster of cere
monies presents each one with a piece
of cotton, with which he wipes oil' his
tears. This cotton is afterward squeezed
into a bottle, aud the tears are pre
served as a powerful and oilicacious
remedy for reviving a dying man after
every other means have failed. It is
also employed as a churm against evil
lnllueno.'S. llus custom is probably
alluded to in l'salni vi., 8: "l'ut thou
my tears into a bottle." Tho pnetiee
wus once universal, as is found by the
tear bottles which are found iu almost
every ancient tomb, for the ancients
buried them with their dead as a proof
of their a loction.
norhjr the Chraa Flayer,
Chicago Journal.
Faul Morphy, of New Orleans, the
great t chess player of the world, is a
geutly demented wreck. A very small
man, snare of I'esli, scrupulously neat
and styl sh in dress, cane iu hand, up
and down he goes jabbering softly t
himself. Ilis iusanitv, not always ap-
parent, -
not cause I from nveistu-ly
low cf !a-s
Nhakruprareaii Nlaug.
"Hermit" In Troy Times.)
The power of Shake-peare over the
public is shown by the extent to which
bis phrases, aud even his slang, has be
come incorporated into onr language.
In this point, indeed, ue is une piaieu.
Among the-e is ba ( and baggage,
"dead as a door nail," "proud of one s
humility," ktell the truth and shame
the devil," "hit or miss," "love is
blind," "selling for a song," "wide
world." "cut copies," "fast nj loose,"
"unconsidered triilos," "we.itward ho,"
familiarity breeds contempt, "patch
ing up excuses, misery makes strange
bedfellows," "to boot" (iu a trade),
"sho.t and long of it," "comb your
head with a three-legged Btool." "danc
ing attendunce," "getting even" ( re
venge i, "birds of a feather," "thats
Hat," "tag raj," "Greek to me" (unin
telligible;, "send OLe packing," "as the
day is long," "pa -king a jury," "mother
wit, "kill with kindness," "uiu n (lor
silence;, "ill-wind that blows no good,"
"wild-goose chase," ' are-crow," "lug
gage." "row of pins" &a a mark of
value', "viva voce," "give and take,"
'sold" i in the way of a ioke), "give the
devil h's due," "your cake is dough."
These expressions ha' e come under
my notice, and of c oure there must be
many others of equal familiarity. The
frirl who playfully calls some youth "a
milksop" is also unconsciously quoting
Shakespeare, and e.en the "logger
head" is of the same origin. "Mtem
pore" is first found in Shakespeare, and
so aro almanacs, l lie elm ami vine
as a nVure) ma also be mentioned.
Shakespeare is the first author that
speaks of "the man in the moon," or
mentions the potato, or uses the term
evesore. for annoyance. Anotner
often quoted utterance may here be
mentioned, simply because it is goner
ally misunderstood : "Une touch of na
ture makes tho whole world k n," which
is supposed ' to express tho power of
ivniiiathv. whereas it solely relerred to
the widespread operation of selliBuness.
Ueu. Urant'a Nlnnourl Farm.
St. LouU fciiectator.
Onn of the possessions of the Grant
familv, which will Dow probably go to
pay their debts, is their old Dent farm
near St Louis. Jt is about ten miles
from the citv. tierlians fifteen, on the
Carondelet branch of the Missouri Pa
cific railroad. It was left to Mrs.
Grant by her father, aud is now held
probably in her individual uume. It
was tiiore vuere Mrs. uraniwasraisea,
ami it was from there that Gen. Graut
used to haul wood to St. Louis. The
place n iw looks well worn aud some
what dilapidated, tliougn it lias
an iinmeu.se barn. built BOU18
years ago when. Geu. Grant pur
chased a number oi line uorses anu
left tlinm there. It was his intention at
one time to turn the old Lent home-
steud into an extensive stock farm, but
he soon got tired of the experiment and
had a salo whereat he let go all his fine
horses.
I wni there last srtrine and the once
splendid farm was onW a reminder of
what it had boeu. The only family
rn.idenee where l eu. and Mrs. Graut
bad lived for a number of yea s was
almost readv to t amble aown iro.n age
and neglect, and all that was left to re
mind one of Gen. Grant's abortive ven
ture in stock-raising were the magnili
cent but empty barn, ..and. a vagrant
broken-down mule that minced the
grass lonely enough m a slovenly-look-in
? pasturo. Mrs. Graut has always
rtmid ft war.ii affection for her family
homestead, an 1 when she an I the gen
eral were in St. Lou s tho l ist time
they hired Mr. Jesse Aruots best pair
of horses and drove out to spend the
day there.
The Hoys' Fault.
Chicauo Times.)
A veteran of Wall street fays it is re
markable how many young men there
are iu i he street. Go int some of the
largest banks and banking houses and
vou will lind responsible positions tilled
b.v striplings hardly showing the down
of adolescence o their checks, f-o it
is at the stock board aud o hor ex
changes. The old fellow, who says he
has no predjudices against young men,
adds : "The great financial business of
New York is done by an army of
bumptious boys. Is it strange that we
have constant failures, plunders, de
linquencies, and dishonors? It is not
strange; but it is strange that nothing
is learned by bitter experience; that
there is no attempt at reform. If you
observe tho bulk of tho failures in that
quarter you will liud them occasioned
by younger members of the firms, who
have tried to improve on the fathers'
methods, and who scout conservatism
au I caut on as old-fogyish."
A Very Meady l'ule,
Chicago Journal.
L. D. Chevalley, a native of Switzer
land, aged 0t, when rotvntly onboard a
steamboat on the la'.se of Geneva, en
gaged to indicato to the crowd around
nim tho lapse of a quarter of an hour,
or as many minutes or seconds as any
ono chose to name, and, further, to indi
cate by the voico the moment the hand
passed over the qu trtcr-niinutes or
half minutes, or any other subdivision
stipulated. This he did withojt mis
take in the midst of a dive siticd con
versation. He acquired by imitation
and patience a movement which neither
thought nor labor nor anything can
stop. It is similar to that o; a peudu
lum, which at each motion of going and
returning gives him the space of three
tn.ininlx o that tweutv of them make a
minute, aud these he adds to others con
tinuously.
A liliioe Notion.
The Chinese hold the theory that by
nrwri-iniT a f.'llow creature from
drowning, the rescuer is answorable in
the noxt world for all tho sins aiter
ward committed by the person rescued,
which literally moans tnut a wise uis
pensation of Providence has been fras
trated.
Incombustible Manuscript.
An incombustible paper, and inks
and colors not atiectea uy nre, nave
Kn invented. At a trial sumo sneci-
mens were consigned to a retoit in a
pottery furnace lor tour uors ana
came out uncnngej.
Coleridge: Advice is like snow; the
softer it falls the longer it dwells upon
e 1 1 ." "eer r muss into ti: i'-iua
ABOUT LAUGHTER.
ITIany Different Varieties Commer
cial Value of a Good Laugh.
(Chica.-o Tribune
A laugh may convey all manner of
sentiments joy, s.-orn, or anger; it may
be the most musical or most discordant
ofsonuds, the lno.t delightful or the
mo t horrible which can full upon our
ears. Contrast the happy laughter of
merry children with the gibbering cry
of the maniac, or the home laugh of a
dofiant criminal; the musical ripple of
cultivated mirth with the roars of a
tipsy crowd at a fuir.
A really musical laugh is, perhaps,
rarer than a really musical voice. The
giggle, the snigger, the half-.-h.oke 1
lauirh are common enough; but how
seldom do we heir that melodious
Bound, the laugh in its perfection. It
should not be shrill, nor too loud, nor
too long. It should not bear any
double meaning, any hidden sarcasm
in its mirth. It should not be so
bo sterous as to exh mst the laughter
and deafen the listeners.
Teg Wollington is said to have been
celebrated for the musio of ,her
lauzhter on tho stage a most
dirtionlt accomplishment, for nothing
(except, porhapt, a sneeze; is Harder
to counterfeit than a laugh. There are
many variet'es of laughs. There is the
musical, cultivated, and extremely rare
one, pleasant to listen to as a chime of
bells. Tliere is the glad, if tomewhat
shrill, merriment of children, the hap
piness of which condones its noie.
There is the loud guti'aw of the vul
gar, and the laughter which appears
likely t3 tear tho laugher in pieces,
ausing him to wipe his eyes alter the
explosion is over. There is the laugh
of e nbarrassnieut, when a shy person
at a loss w hat to say next, "remarks to
lie," as Arteuuts Ward describes it.
There is the pehoolgirls giggle; and
the i-ch o'boy's snigger, as he reflects
on Bonio roeenfclv-perp trated, but ttill
rocollocled, pio e of mischief. Thore
is the chuckle of the suo. e.ful man.
All these bear some iaui ly resem
blance to each other; they all. in their
degreo, express sensations o' pleusure.
There are darker descriptions oi
laughter. There are laughs more cut
ting than the bitterest speeches, more
alarming than the cruelest threats
Satirical lauirhtor is most oflensive. A
laugh can convey contempt which words
womd fail to express.
Is any one proor against being an
nove 1 bv ridi ule ? Even a dog is ; en-
sible when he is laughed at, and resoutt
the impertinence. Some animals are
indeed quite as tensitive to dens on a
human beings. The laughter of the
underbred, which finds open amuse
ment in the minor troubles of their
neighbors sav the ridicule lavishe I on
sea- ick arrivals at a pior, or on hapless
foreigners in an altercation witn n c Io
nian, or an old gentleman who falls
down a slide also ranks among "laughs
offensive."
Then there is the laugh of . incredul
ity. When Tom goes to his rich old
uncle, full of glow ng descriptions ol
the perfections of the lady to whom he
is engaged, or oi me oppoinimoni
which he e .pects to obtain, does the
old gentleman damp his nephew s ar
dor by a long harangue? No, he onh
gives a dry laugh : aud Tom's hopes of
a check fall rapidly.
Too rare laughers are as unpopular
as toi reudv ones. A toller of good
stories never forgives the man who
does not laugh at his jokos. Many
perrons have male thoir fortunes by
laughing at judicious moments; ap
plauding some poor jest, or becoming
convulsed with mirth at a dull pun.
To ba duly appreciative of his patron's
wit was an important part of the duty
of a hanger-on. With what ready
laughter are a schoolmaster's witticisms
received by his class!
There is a story of a dramotic
author, whose play had boon accepted,
being requested to make sundry altera
tions to suit the taste of the actors.
Among other changes the manager
sngueste 1 that "a laugh" should be in
troduced in the conclusion of a speech
of an out going performer; "it would
civehim a better exit." The author
plea led that to admit this alteration
would spoil the whole dialogue, but the
.. t o;it "nin'r it
IUallUgur Dili uiji-uk obii. v
over and do what you can. 15 's
position in the theatre demands it!"
Whon laiighi are thus prize I it is not
won 'erful that persons who rarely use
their nsiblo muscles are unpopular.
F.ronomlcul Theology.
.Ti'XHS SiftincM
The season for raising corn was not a
very good oue last year, m ana a ont
Austin, on account oi tne arouiu. eev
eral members of the Austin Blue Light
Tabernacle called on their pastor, liev,
Whanedoo lle Hatter, to pray for rain,
he having n glet ted to do so. Whang-
dood'o received the delegation gra
ciously. They stated that ruin had
been prayed tor in most of tae promi
nent cluir hoi of tua white folks, an I
they thought that he also should urge
the necessity of rnmcdiate showers, as
the corn was almost too far gone to
raise more than half a crop.
" iou all savs dat de white, piscopal
bishop an 1 de res' ob de preachers
prayed for rain":" quoriod Whunj-
doodle.
"Dev has done did hit," was the re
ply.
"Fool niggahs!" exclaimed Whang
doodle indignantly, "w hat's de sense ob
mvprayin'lor rain too d.n? i f de
white folks gets ra n, won t you got it
too, wulout my prayin for hit?
Vacation Advice.
fCbaioT-l'iin.l
Last week, when about to break up
for the holidavs, Mr. Spurgeon d.s
missed his young men with a caution.
"lou't get courting, 'that is not good
for etudents. I omo back, as so i:e o.ie
puts it, with vour hearts and mann -rs
uncracked. Walk iu the fields l.ke
Isaac, by all moans, an 1 meditate, but
don't lift np your eyes for 1'becca.
She will come soon euough.
Pr. Talmage: A man is no better
than the picture he loves to look at . I
vour eves are not pure your ueiirt can
not be" One can guess the character of
a man by the kind of pictonul he pur
chases.
ITelen ilmans: A mans wronzt
are his rights unt 1 he a -cumulate
eioub f.i:r' to resent them.
Curious Customs of the Seinluoles,
Pbrniolwrjcal Journal
A child at its b'rth is called
pappoose, but when old enough
to walk it receives a second name.
A girl is a s pnaw at 11; at i0
another cognomen Is given denot
ing that she is of ago. The boy has
more dilliculty in outnininz his last
name. When he enters his teens he is
summoned bsfore the warriors, who
procetd, with shaip hints, to make six
scratches on each side of his four ex
tremities. If he endure the ordeal
bravelv lie receives a name indicating
the valiant warrior he is expected to
become. Of this he is very proud,
and takes the utmost pains to verify it.
If. however, the boy shows any sign of
weakness during the scratching process
he is dubbed for life with some derisive
epithet, as "king of the alligators."
Among the Seminoles intempernnce
on 1 theft are neorly abolished, they say,
"because they strike at the root of the
matter." A man arrested for theft re
ceives, the first time, fifty lashes; the
second, 100 lashes, and is marked for
life by having one ear cut off. The
third otience costs his life. As Indian
laws are promptly and surely executed,
the fir t or second punishment, gener
ally, effectually cures kloptoman a. I'or
intemperance justice is equally sum
Wry. The Indian, excited by liquor,
is a noisy fellow, and his whoops in
variably attract attention to the vender
of the poison. A companv has been
organized among them called the l ight
Horsemen. As soon as unusual yelling
resonnds Irom anv particular locality,
down sweep the Light Horsemen, who
seize the whisky-keg. pour its contents
on the ground, compel the ow ner to pay
Stagalionfor all it originally con
tained, an I leave a slight souvenir of
their visit in the sha m of 100 lashes.
Jackson's Power Of Actlua.
Washineton Cor. Cevelan I L" er.
Andrew Jackson was a consummate
actor, and much of his anger, wh.ch
was the terror of office seekers, was
feigne 1. Senator Hugh L. White, of
Tennesseo, once tol I me that he was in
Washington during the trouble a to
the rechartering of the United States
bank, which, it will1 be remembered,
wus located at Philadelphia. The
friends of the bank held a meeting at
Philadelphia, and appointed a commis
sion to go to Washington and to remon
strate with the president about his
cour-e. Senator White was with the
president when the delegation arrived.
Ho received them graciously enough at
first and permitted them to make their
plea. This they did in the strongest
terms, telling him he was ruining the
country, und that if he persisted tho
grass would grow in the business
streets of Philadelphia and the country
would go to the dogs generally.
As they thus proceeded Jackson's
face began to cloud an 1 his brows to
knit. When they ha I finished he roe
and went for them in the roughest
fctyle, pretending to take some of their
remarks as insulting, and swearing, by
the eternal, he woul I not submit to it.
"In a few minutis," taid Judge White,
"he had driven them terrified from the
room, and as tho last man left he
turned to me with a laugh and said,
That was an easv riddance, wasn t it,
judge?' and commenced to talk of other
matters. The fact oi it was, he was not
angry at all, but he had used this
method to get rid o' people with whom
he did not wish to be bored."
Where Uluckburn .Viet Ills Haby.
U'-iii'-'i-pssniaii K si-HKien, of Kentncsv. '
. Four days before I went to the front
with my regiment we had a little girl
baby. She is now grown, and you
always see her with me at any social
gathering. Well, in our a -my the fur
loughs came very rarely. uen we got
into line tliere was no great chance tor
a man to get home. It was about three
years afierward that a few of us were
one night goin down the Mississippi
os a river steamer. I had been sick
and was returning to my command, b.it
pretty well broken up eve., then. As
for money, wo did not hava any, and
the niglit'was hot as I laid down on the
deck, my throat almost parched with
thirst.
Pretty f oon a little girl came along
with a big gla--8 of lemonade. I tell
you it looked fiood to me. She saw me
eyeing it. stopped a minute, looked
doubtfully at mo, and finally came up
to my side "You looked as if you
wanted something to drink," she soid,
and offered mo the glass. It wasn t the
suuare thing to do, but I took it and
ban led it ba'k to her empty. It was
like nectar to mo. Then 1 thanked the
little creature and sen! her away. Soon
after, just like every child, she came
ba k. leading her mother to see the
poor soldier. Py Jupiter, it was my
wife, and the girl was the baby whom
I had last soen as a baby but just born,
You can imagine the reunion. They
were with my brother s family, and hap
pened ti be going down the river. That
w as the only time during the four years'
fighting that I saw my wife i:nd baby,
and under these circumstances what
man would ever forget it?
American Inventions.
' An English journal gives credit to
Americans for at least fiiteen inven
tions and discoveries which, it says,
have been adopte 1 all over the wjrld.
First, the cotton gin ; seeon 1 the plan
ing-machine; third, the mower and
reaper; fourth, the rotary printing
tiress; fifth, navigation bv steam: sixth
the hot air or ca'orio eugiuo: seventh,
the se iug machine ; ei-j;ht, the ' India-
rubber (vulcanite process) industry;
ninth, the machine manufacture of
h rse shoes; tenth, the tand-blast fot
carving; eleventh, the gauge lathe;
teftli, the grain ele at or; thirteenth
artificial ice manufacture on a large
sc.dei fourteenth, t ie electro-magnet
and ts praitical applicat on; fifteenth
the composing machine lor printers.
Several Things,
A Chieaso rarer enumerates these
things which every man can do better
thau anyone el e: l ote a tire, put on
his hut. edit a newspa:cr, tell a story
after another man has commenced it
and exa.uine a ra lway time table.
Philadelph a Ledger: The prevail
ing disKsition is t trust too much to
legislat.ve remedies lor moral snoit
comic .
TWO SCORE YEARS ACO.
Some of the Customs or Our Fathers
Various Changes,
The San Francisco Chronicle notes
aome of the changes that have occurred
within half a century in the subjoined
paragraphs : Family cooking was bet
ter than at present. Our mothers and
grandmothers "took a hand" in it.
Bread was made at home. Coffee was
freshly ground evory morning for
breakfast. The grinding of the family
coffee mill was a familiar sound of the
early morning, long ere the children
wore un. Foreign help had less sway
in the kitchen than now, and F.uropeun
hands did not mal e a botch of such
purely American dishes as pumpkin
pie, codfish cakes, pork and beans, corn
bread, buckwheat cakes, and succotash.
People then did not live as long, nor
was the average health as good as it is
to-day; they ate more meat, more
greuse, more hot bread, more heavy
dishes, drank more at meals and after
ward chewed more tobacco.
Dyspeptics and consumptives were
more common ; disease and premature
death w ere devoutly laid at the Heity'i
door and alluded to as "dispensations
of Providence."
Tombstones had larger epitaphs and
more verbosity engraved upon them.
At funerals the undertakers cried
with the mourners -the How of tears
being proportionate to the expense of
the funeral.
Collins were very plain and burial
caskets unknown.
Young folks in couples counted it a
privilege ta sit up nights w.tu the
corpse before burial, and in many cases
it was a welcome recreation.
New Orleans molasses, very black
and thin, was the common "sweeting"
for buckwheat cakes. Refined molasses
was 0'iinpuratively scarce.
Tho bank bills were of state banks,
and the further west their locality the
shakier were they. Illinois and Indi
ana bills would barely pass in New
ork o ty.
Much of the silver currency six
pences, shillings and dollars was of
Mexican coinage, bought to this country
by the Santa Fe traders.
The country retail trade was betty
than now. People then could not so
easily by rail run up to the city and
spend their largest cash accumulations
for the more expensive stufl's.
The country dry goods stores renewed
their stock from the city twice a year.
Tho arrival of new goods created
quite a flutter. It tilled the store for
two or three days, untd all the women
in tho village had seen the new stylos.
lipRs were a shilling a dozen and bat
ter was considered high at 18 pence per
pound.
There was i orK currency, Doing o
shillings to the dollar, and 'ew Eng
land currency, ii shillings to the dollar.
business letters were more volumin
ous and formal than now, and w.itten
in a precise, round hand.
Isolated rural settlements contained
greater proportion of lunatics,
paralytics and victim) of St. Vitas'
dance, than they do toJay.
The railroad had not strung places
together, and there wore fewer hospi
tals for special diseases, hence most oi
their cases were kept at home.
The diet was more surouargod with
grouse, ine winter oreaaiasis aitnon-
snnils of tables consisted ot salted ham
and hot oukes.
Dinner was simply a hasty lunch at
noon, liittie importance was auacueu
to tho nece s ty for good digestion or a
pori d of rest after eating.
Tho same heavy diet prevailed in
many fan. dies, w.thout change, winter
aud itimmA'. Heoce on the first ap
proach of the warmth of spring cams
"spring ffver" aud biliousness. For
this the doctors of the period gave
strong cothartics, possibly a "bluemass
pill or a dose of "calomel.
The regular profession then used
mercury in a manner w men wonia now
be doomed reckless. The patient was
given 9 regular purgation and directed
to "diet for a few days, cnudren
were Ftrongly dosed with castor oil, and
rhubarb, and salts and senna on the
leat provocation.
It was a strong age for medicine and
an age of strong medicine. Under such
treatment the stroug managed to re
cover, the weak died, and the medium
class physically lingered on and suf
fered. Liehtuing rods made their way into
use with (li.liculty. The ultra devout
actually opposed them on the ground
that they were an insult to the Peitj,
and that it was an interference with
the works and will of Providence.
Negro minstrelsy was just cropping
out iu the traveling circus. There were
generally two performers, w ho assumed
male and female characters. The pop
ular melody was "Jump, Jim Cro..."
England's Hunting Season.
Frank I. Jervis in The Current.
Xo sooner does the welcome item in
tho yoarly calendar inform the world of
Britain that the season for the legal
slaughtering of nauie has commenced,
thau politics stagnate, the oracles oi
tho L.w slumber, business becomes 1 1
bore, and from the crowded metropolis
a general stampede begins. Every
feudal castlo, mansion, manor house,
county seat and hunting lodge become
scenes tf Ih'e and jollity. He is the
richest and most coveted nobleniau who
has the i.-ost stocked preserve, and the
siinplo country gentleman who is
good man in tho field, who can boat
ttnbblo field, ra se a covey of birds sou
titio a double barrel right and left wits
umnriug aim, stands on a higher put'
n iclo than the most subtle intolle-i
the brightest imagination or tho mo"
copious flow o. eloquence.
? nclo Kick's Moral Proverb.
rrhe Ontury.
Ti e unvd never was known to plJ
icy kind of a game, e cept for keep-
lie who forgives, and doesn't forget,
is trying lo settle with tho Lord W
50 cents on the dollar.
The man w ho has nothing but non
csty to recommend him is suro of s r
ward hereafter, but he can't get a jo-
here on earth.
Men will swear by their relig
will fight for it, will be martyrs for it
will cr cute others for it, will do
thing and all things for it, except
s.-rve it themselves.
the f.-- !t"hv to r,;.