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Life is o. race where some Eneceed
AMiile otliei-s are beg-irming,
Tjs luck in some i:i ethers speed,
That gives an early -winning;
Rat if you chance to fall behind,
ICe'er slacken your endeavor ;
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" Ti-i better late than never I"
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Hut never trip your neighbor;
Tia noble when you con excel,
liy honest, patient, labor ;
13ut if you are outstripped at last,
Press on, as bold as ever ;
Remember, though you are surpassed,
" 'Tis better late than never 1"
Ne'er lalKir for an idle boast,
Or v iotory o'er another ;
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Peal fairly -with a hrolher ;
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And hold your purpose ever ;
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" 'Tis better late than never "
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Your crown is worth the wearing-.
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Nor ever slacken your endeavor,
Put ever keep this truth in mind
" 'Tis better late than never I"
Vo-il in Ecteiisc of tlic JIarried
Mstit.
Mit. Editor : Having noticed in the
Enterprise of Sept. IS, an article in de
fence of the bachelor, including a few
sarcastic comments upon the servile con
dition of the married man, I wish to write
a few words in defence of the latter.
It is true that every situation in life is
attended with innumerable trials and per
plexities ; but to insinuate that the mar
ried man suffers the greater annoyance,
thereby manifesting a feeling of deprecia
tion for the sex, from whom the bachelor
claims to Lave received so many flatter
ing attentions, is extremely unjust.
The author of that article perchance be
longs to that rare class of bachelors whose
lot has been happily cast in the lap of
fortune; on whom woman seldom frowns ;
for the love of money being a predomin
ant weakness, his wealth doubtless se
cures for him those applausive commen
dations that seem to have been exceed
ingly gratifying to his vanity. We doubt
not his sincerity, though we think his log- I
Ic unsound ; for. if the caresses of wo- I
man are so indispensable to the happiness
of life, and he neglects, from among the ;
myriads who solicit his favor, to sslect
one as a -boon companion, who might im
part a brighter charm to every joy, and
diminish the sorrows by which even the
most fortunate are assailed, the evidence
is conclusive, that in his opinion, it is the
weight of the purse, and not the man, by
which they estimate him.
Who courts the favor of matrons with
marriageabls daughters, in the hope of
receiving an invitation to "tea, to evening
parties, and to drop in wheu it is conven
ient?" The bachelor!
Yi'hose fcociety is often avoided by gen
teel mothers, lest little acts of civility
and politeness should be construed into a
solicitation to marry one of her daugh
ters? The bachelor's!
Who is the continual favorite of both
maid and matron? The married man !
Who Hatters the girls with a syren
tongue and lures them only to disappoint
ment? The bachelor!
Wlio, after the engagements of the day,
remrning to his lonely, cheerless home, to
find it cold and dark, would fain light a
lamp, but in attempting to secure the de
sired article from among the sundries ev
er occupying tho table, it falls, crash.
smash upon the floor ; when he gives his
angered feelings vent, in a few unmean
ing sentences, uttered all alone in the, dark,
to the offensive oil, in which lie finds his
feet suddenly submerged ; then hastily
withdrawing his greasy boots, retires to
an unmade bed, feeling much as though
lie was a curse to himself, and a blessing
to nobody ? The bachelor !
Yi'ho returns to his cheerful home, wea
ried with the labors of the day, to find a
large arm chair before a blazing fire, a
nice, warm, dressing gown and a pair of
neatly embroidered slippers, placed there
by some one. for his own especial use.
while before him stands an inviting table,
laden with smoking viands, and the choi
cest tea. around which are smiling faces
and merry voices, that drive away all
thought of care ? The married man !
Who, in sickness, suffers in silence and
alone, sighing for sympathy such as none
but tho gentle heart of woman can im
part, dies in obscurity, having but a soli
tary kitten to mourn his departure from
earth ? The bachelor !
Who, when fortune frowns and the chil
ling blasts of adversity sweep over him,
finds sympathy, and a true confiding
friend at homo ? Tbe married man !
Who often sighs for the sweet tones of a
loving voice, to sing when he is weary,
and lull him into peaceful slumbers like a
child? The bachelor!
Who is generally dependent upon his
neighbors for comforts, pleasures and
cheerful amusements? The bachelor!
Who leaves, at his decease, the noble
intellect, to guide the gallant ship that
plows the mighty oeeaa from pole to pole,
that sends the lightning rouud the worM,
r.n.I the iron Lcrse across the continent
Thess aro tbe unfading flowers that bloom
over the grave of the married man ! Who
ought to lead a single life? The brutal
man that yrould whip his wife! Poor
bachelors I No wonder the hearts of hon
est women ache as they behold your
weakness.
LENA.
Tleasant Hillside, Oct. 2.
SCIENTIFIC VIEW OF DEATH.
From Anpleton's Journal.
It is a law of nature that whatever has
a beginning must also have an ending,
the idea of death itself being associated
with birta.
But this term of life, the moment that
reduces to inert matter the body which
life had animated, may arrive sooner or
later, accidentally or naturally.
Accidental death happens when one of
the essential organs ef life, from some
cause or other ceases to act ; these princi
pal organs being the brain, lungs and
heart.
The action of the brain, however, mav
be almost wholly suppressed, and yet life
continue : breathing may be for some time
suspended, and yet life linger within ; but
when the beating of the heart ceases, then
life is extinct.
Accidental death, therefore, is all the
more rapid from its cause acting more
immediately on the circulating centre ;
it may happen at all ages, although it is
much more frequent in the earlier than in
later stages of existence.
Natural death is much rarer ; accidents
or disease always consuming life before
the period primitively fixed upon by na
hire.
It may also happen at a mote or less
advanced ago. according to the peculiari
ties of constitution, sex, race, climate, etc.
When tho work of destruction follows its
usual course, life departs in an opposite
sense from the one in which it had been
developed ; in the embryo state life seems
to march from the heart to the remoter
organs, but in the old man it gradually
forsakes his body from the circumference
to the centre. Then the members becom
ing motionless, and obeying the law of
heaviness, lose their sensibility and heat ;
and the nmscels no longer obey the will,
even if the will exist ; tho skin becomes
cold and dry, or is covered with a viscous
sweat ; the face assumes a characteristic
aspect, a-id appears emaciated ; the eyes
withdraw deep into their orbits, the cornea
is unsettled, the eyelids are half closed by
the lowering of the upper one, the cheek
bones become prominent, the nose droops,
and the discolored lips are parted and
puckered. The voice, like thought, be
comes incoherent ; the eyes lose their
powers of vison, and the olfactory nerves
are indensiblo to odoi'3 ; but hearing is
among tho last of the faculties to leave
him. The abdominal and pectoral vicera
cease to fulfill thier functions, drinks fall
into the a-sophagus into an inert tube;
breathing becomes short, slow, and irreg
ular, now suspended, now renewed, ter
minating finally in the last grasp. The
pulse beats rapi l!yr but fainter and fainter,
offering numerous remittances until it
ceases to be appreciable. The heart still
continues beating feebly and irregularly,
and its last contraction marks the moment
that separates life from death. No vestige
now remain--, except in certain tissues,
which even for some time after death, re
tain organic properties : the capillaries are
contracted, so as to drive into the vein
all the blood they contain ; the mitabilily
of the muscles is demonstrated when
placed under the influence of the voltaic
pile. These last phenomena of life soon
disappear, then the blood decomposes, its
liquid parts infiltrating the tissues, and
its solid elements being deposited either
on the heart or on the sides of the vessels.
Then follows decomposition, which slowly
and mysteriously reduces the whole to
Avaier, carbonic acid gass and ammonia be
ing the products into which are resolved all
animal matters in a slate of putrefaction.
These matters of complex composition re
turn to the organic combinations which
enabled tho plants to elaborate them ;
thus the study of putrefaction, at first so
revolting, acquires a special philosophical
interest, while revealing to us a chain
work of phenomena admirable on account
of its beautiful simplicity.
jpS'An illiterate negro preacher said to
his congregation :
" My hredren, when de fust man Adam
was made, he was ob wet clay? an' set up
agin de palins to dry '?''
" Do you say," sai l one of tho congre
gation " dat Adam was made ob wet clay
an' set up agin de palins to dry V
" Yes, sar, I do,"'
' Who made do palins?''
" Set down, par," said the preacher
sternly ; " such questions as dat would up
set anv system ob teology."
A party Chinese going to Truckee to
settle, passed through Sacramento, and
among other traps had a household god
a wooden Joss. Tne Union congratulates,
the godless Truckceans ; suggesting that a
wooden god will be a great improvement
on the former condition of the town.
BY F-ZV. I-.OWI.AXD II. AI-EX-.
Nature constructed this man, it seems,
purely in the interests of science, Per
ceiving that the breastwork which hereto
fore she had always built in front of the
human heart, bothered every party that
sought to reconnoiter this citadel of life,
she consented to finish off one man wholly
vrithout such a defense. Engene Gronx
ha3 no skrnwn at all. Tho firm plUi of
bone which usually occupies the front of
the chest, in Ids case h entirely wanting.
Its place is filled by frail and flexible In
teguments. The Doctor is a native of Hamburg.
He could not be a Frenchman, possibly,
for, said a sage examiner, he has no JJon
aparte nar his heart ! liis anatomy is en
tirely unique. A few cases of partial
absence of the sternum have been noted
before, but this is the first one in which it
is congenital and complete. It promises
to afford as much aid in studying the cir
culation of the blood, as that of Alexis
St. Ifartin did in the study of digestion.
The patient is a healthy man, in the
midst of active pursuits. lie has brothers
and sisters with the usual organ here, and
his own children are all perfectly formed,
lie has been aware for many years of the
scientific importance of his peculiarity,
and has been himself its most enthusiastic
investigator. He is determined that the
world shall have the full benefit of this
his malformation.
In 1851, when twenty years of age, he
journeyed through the whole of Europe
exhibiting himself to the medical faculty
of every prominent school. He obtained
an album-full of admiring certificates testi
fying to the marvel of this strange physi
que. In 185C they caged him in the
north, and carried him about on exhibi
tion until lie was " examined" almost to
death. " They pommeled me, to their sat
isfaction" he remarks, "detaining me
there against my will." This was done
by authority of the Czar of I!uai-ia. When
he escaped such treatment, it was natural
for him to think of the free republic.
He first visited America in 1858. Re
turning soon to his native land, he be
came a student in the university of Got
tingen. He graduated there in 1SG2 with
the title of M. I). After receiving numer
ous attentions and dhplonias from the seats
of learning in the old world, he came
again to this country with the determina
tion to remain. He settled in Williams
burgh, N. Y. , and is living there now, an
accomplished scholar and a successful
physician. That science might not fail to
know whatever his case was able to teach.
he has caused a number of photographs
to be made showing the various postures
of the heart, as they appear through the
swelling of his almost transparent breast.
Five of them were taken out without dan
ger. Dr. Upham Lad told Air. Whipple
that it was not sale for Mr. Groux to hold
hiniseh in the attitude in which the sixth
view could be seen, long enough for a
photograph, lie advised him not to take
it at all. But the intrepid subject stop
ped up to the perilous work. Notwith
standing every warning, he insisted that
the views should be completed by the ad
dition of this important one. On another
occasion he was about to ret out ou a
hazardous tour through the U. 3. Should
lie die among strangers, in a few days his
matchless body might be hid forever be
neath the ground. To prevent tills, he
made his will. It was drawn up by Uufus
Choate. The original paper, we comruca
men could not read, of course. Bat he
always carried a copy of it in Lis breast
pocket. By its provisions an eminent
physician ia every large city of the coun
try was appointed a.:, one of his executors.
The one nearest to whom he might by any
sad chance be overtaken by death, was to
take possession at once (if the remains, see
that they were most carefully dissected ;
and place the abnormal portions in a
museum of natural histor'. Upon this
singular document I could trace these
earnest words. " The great peculiarity of
the case constitutes me the trustee of great
and sacred trusts." .
As th's wonderful nlan stood before the
Scientific Association in Salem, on the
li)th of August, and tjiere bared his bosom
once again before the eyes of strangers,
we regarded him with profoundor feelings
than any that curiosity could prompt.
There was the spirit of a hero behind that
slender, trembling wall of flesh. He pro
ceeded with his lecture calmly and beauti
fully. He showed to us by means of
feathers fixed on slight adhesive supports,
and placed upon different portions of his
breast, every throb of the vital pulse be
neath. Then attaching electric wires to
the same places, and connecting them
with little bells, every beat became as
plainly audible. Then by means of color
ed liquids in thin glass tubes, which Ire
caused to flow up and down by the im
pulse of his heart, Le seemed to lay open
to our sight the purple currents of his own
living veins.
By the use of the chronograph Dr.
Groux has found that there is an appreci
ble difference of time between the throb
at the heart and the pulse at the extremi
ties, "he two motions have before tins
been regarded as simultaneous. It Las
now been determined that it takes the
blood 235-1000 of a second to go on its
'longest errand. This 1'act furnishes a
standard by which to test the presence of
obstructions in the vital channels. Dr.
Groux's case decides also the exact posi
tion of the heart in a living person. The
tissues tall away at the moment of death,
and this has led anatomists to locate its
acting attitude incorrectly.
But the cui bono of all this strange phe
nomenon cannot yet be fully given. Dr.
J. Baxter Upham. the graceful friend ard
mentor of Dr. Groux, is pursuing experi
ments suggested by his ease-. Into the
lecture room at Salem, he caused to be
brought the telegraph wire that connects
JSM-JlL J 'g4
with Boston. At that end it was arranged
to touch a lever which rested ou the wrist
of a patient in the city hospital. The
Salem end was attached to a bell and a
magnesium light. When the connection
was closed, each throb of the pulse in that
sick ward sixteen miles away could be
distinctly heard and seen by all the eager
auditory! The effect was thrilling. We
counted the regular pulses of a convales
cent there. Then a man with organic
disease of the heart put his baud upon that
distant cushioned rest beneath the ;r.agical
wire. We timed with our watch the
strange wild race of a life that had broken
from its normal pace. The sensitive lady
felt so near to tbe hospital that she tolemn
ly averred shs was afraid of the small
pox ! Prof. Siiliman Bald that such inter
communication made the whole earth but
one hospital of a slngle ward. Hereafter
instead of sending for our physician by
telegraph, our physician will send lor our
symptoms.
These are a few of the results of a lusus
naturcr. How much of our knowledge
both in spiritual and physical matters is
derived from abnormal examples!
Curious l&cpt-ii lions of History.
The Courrier les Etals-Un's seis forth
in a striking manner the similUude of the
leading events in the downfall of Chailes
X. and Louis Phillip pc ; both kings were
dethroned at the age of 7-1; both abdica
ted in favor cf grandsons each 10 years
old. The previous combat with the peo
ple lasted in each case three days. Dur
ing the year preceding each fall, bread
rose to an exorbitant price, and, as if na
ture sympathized with portentous events,
terrific storms arose immediately after
each downfall. Indeed the similarity will
surprise any one not accustomed to the
perpetual parallels of history. "For,
very mysterious as the government of God
is, yet we may observe throughout that
His providences have a tendency to un
fold themselves again and again under
analagcus circumstances and in similar
results, and all these gou:g on to further
developments in that which Is infinite.'-
And this rcmarl: cf Dr. Isaac Williams li
illustrated by the fact that the Israelites
went out of Tgypt and. Christ was put to
death on the fifteenth day cf tho month
Nisan a coincidence not intended by j
man. (Malt. xxi. 5.) And the conquest j
of Judea by Poinpey, c. c. G3, was on tne
very day when the Jews were commemo
rating its previous capture by Nebuchad
nezzar. Nor is our brief American history want
ing in such parallels. The Fourth of Ju
ly, 17 7G, was the birth-day of our Nation
al Independence. The two mct distin
guished men in the framing of the Decla
ration were Thomas Jefferson and John
Adams the only two of the fifty-five that
sustained It who were elected Presidents
of the United States. Precisely fifty years
after they signed the paper they were ta
ken from the world, This was indeed an
extraordinary event in our history : but
five years after, another President died cn
the same day and month of the year ; and
again on the -lt-i of July, 1S03, a large
army, with its fortifications, surrendered,
and another army retreated after a three
davs' battle. Let any one count the
number of our Presidents, estimate their
average age, their probable duration of
life from that age, and then calculate the
probabilities of two dying on the same
day of the year, and another on the same
day of the year, and he will find thousands
of probabilities against one. and he must
conclude tiiat historic days reproduce
themselves in their offspring. Jice. Gto.
A. Lcakin, in Hours at Home foi
her.
Oclo-
John Allen, th wicked is t man in
New
York, has forbidden any of JI
or S to wes works in his shclauj. He says
she is too wicked for him. Harriet is a
jolly old dame, but in hard luck just now.
The Honolulu Gazelle reports the dis
covery of what is described as a valuable
fire-proof, hydraulic cement. . It is formed
of volcanic ash from the volcanoes of
Moloki, and tho Hawaiians expect to find
in it a new and impoatant source of com
merce. Trobably a puzzolano, as obtain
ed from volcanic remains in Italy, and
used by the ancients as a hydraulic ce
ment, also by Smeaton.
The California Fanner says :
The Chinese Empire contains 500,000
temples, containing 3,000,000 idols. The
temples are valued at $1,000,000,000.
" Tapa, do horses ever kick with their
fore feet ?" " No, Child, they never do."
" Well, if a horse should kick with one of
his hind feet, would not that be one of his
four?"
The Columbia, Pa., Spray says that two
or three miles up the country, during tbe
wheat harvest, the cook made a mistake
which resulted in a good joke on the har
vest hands. She wa cooking onions, and
through mistake ponied whiskey over
them instead of vinegar. The harvesters
at the dinner table relished them very
much, and were not aware that the cnlons
had been cooked in whlskev : but they
found it out in a short time after they
were through eating, and we understand
that one sturdy old member of the church
was so drunk from eating the onions that
he was unable to work till late In the af
ternoon. ubscribe for the "Jxxiira'iiisz."
A'.. -'-- ' '
AKat'dcalPrfPchr on Hie Chinese,
aiv.I comments Iy a UcJ:?ciatie pu.
por. Frcm the San Francisco Herald.
Bev. Horatio Stebblns took occasion,
at the Chamber of Commerce, to let the
people of California know what they have
to expect if they continue to oppose the
immigration cf Chinese :
He caid : "We front on one of the
most remarkable civilizations of the earth
the cradle of mankind. That civiliza
tions has stood there sullen as the pyra
mids but now begins to be stirred by the
emotions of the common mind. The dis
orders in California are the fruits of a vul
gar prejndice against the peopio -who
came here simply to make a living in the
marts of the world. Humboldt foretold
that, in the future ages of this planet, the
centre of the world would be within five
hundred miles of where we stand. Now,
the populations of tho East are not com
ing here to make this tho common centre;
but the populations cf tho Occident are
coming here and I charge you, all ye
liitle-mlnded, small souled politicians I
charge you; stand out of the way of this
immigration, or you are dead men. I can
not tell what you are, or what your re
ligious faith may be, but get up, all ye
village moralists who think the Kingdom
of God enhanced by breaking tobacco
pipes."
Mr. Stebblns speaks as one who speaks
by authority. He hurls this boastful
threat into the teeth of the people as
though It was a light and pleasent duty
to send two-thirds of the citizens of the
State to the infernal regions. "Stand
cut cf tho way, or you are dead men!"
It is tho highwayman's old demand:
'Stand and deliver !" Stand while this
fair and prosperous country is covered all
over with the scum of the bottomless pits of
China ! Stand, while these Asiatic hordes
sweep over the country with as deadly an
effect to the interests of the comunity as
when they came under the leadership of
a Tame-lane! Stand, while they des
troy a'd demand for remunerative labor;"
discourage the coining of free, active Chris
tiiTti irnmivj rants of our own race and blood,
and compel thoue that are here to look for
another country to find bread for tfcoir
children! Stand, and deliver up the gold
coin which ought to be kept in active cir
culation, invested in your real estate,
should build your dwellings, cultivate
your farms purchase your produce, buy
your groceries, construct your railroads
and telegraphs support your churches
and schools deliver it up fur shipment to
Asia, never again to return. Deliver up
your coin and ship it out of the country i
,iro.- p.,iifpmU rf iw. tviii.-7i cnndifniM
its life blood, which creates its business,
stimulates all its activities, or offers the in
ducements v. hich brought us here. Make
money scarce as possible. The less there
Is, the better for tho country. This is the
philosophy cf the Chinese advocates.
"Get out of the way of these Chinamen, or
you are dead men !" You white men,
who settled this country, who developed
its capacities, founded its cities, and made
It what it is -the pride of the nation you
are told to get out of the way of these
Chinamen, under the penalty of destruc
tion. Who is this High Priest who thus
lays his lordly hands upon the sinews of
Free Labor? who undertakes to crush
cut an American and Chrstian civ ilization
for the benefit of that barbarism "sullen as
tiie pyramids?"
A Street in r.io. Rosarip is an old
Moorish street fall of balconies which pro
ject over the roadway, so that lovers liv
ing on opposite sides cf the street could
almost hand their amorous missives across
to each other, or if very long-wasted steal
a furtive and illicit kiss across the inter
vening space. The houses are generally
of two stories, though some have a third,
and others send their long slopping con
cave roofs almost to the ground. Scarce
ly any two alike, though a'similar charac
ter pervades all. All are roofed with the
red tiles which seem to be exclusively
employed for that purpose in Brazil, and
and the roofs usually proiect lor some dis
tance beyond the walls as an additional
protection from the sun and rain. The
material employed in these structures 13
generally granite, but the walls are cov
ered with a kind of coarse plaster or stuc
co, and in many case3 painted in
variegated colors. The prevalence of
bright tints Impart a cheerful aspect to
the street, which otherwise, from its nar
rowness and the deep shade in which it is
involved during the greater part of the
day, would wear a gloomy and dismal ap
pearance. In the evening these narrow
causeways are lighted by lanps suspended
from brackets which are fixed against the
walls of the houses, and it is then that they
take on their most attractive and anima
ted aspect. They swarm with life, and
the pavements murmur with innumerable
feet. Troops of blacks, released from the
toil of the day, gather about the shop
doors, and the lamp-light burns upon their
dusky faces and kindles in their melan
choly lustrou3 eyes. They doa their
brightest attire for this harmless evening
recreation, and some are as gorgeous as
tiger-liliw3. Tutban3 and ear-rings and
strings of golden beads, armlets ofcuriou3
Icrm and device, decorate tho women ;
while such cf the men cs have achieved a
stove-pipe hat and a pair of shoes appear
to have realized their ultimate idea of
personal splendor, and to feel that be
yond these achievements there are no sar
torial worlds to conquer. The shoo in
Brazil i3 the symbol of freedom, as tho
bare foot is the sign-pedal of bondage.
The socia! gulf which yawns between the
shod and the unshod black i3 Eora eihing
Tartarean aud unfathomable. Tho con
quest of the shoe entitles its connierer to
wear a beard, and if nature indones this
arbritary privilehge he is certain of much
consideration from his less fortunate fel
lows. They reverence tho tuft of wool
upon his chin r.s other races reverence the
coronet, tho mitre, or tho ribbon of the
garter. Thomas C. Evaxs, in Harper's
Magazine for Octopcr.
IMPROVEMENTS.
The earth transformed, should be tho
title of our new geographies. Truly
man is working changes almost as mar
vellous as those which geological book3
now teach us to believe took place in tho
stnpendous youth of the world. Tho
Dutch pump an ocean dry. If we can
not make use of the Northwest passage to
India, wo sever continents and unite
oceans. We cannot level the Alps, but
we cut through them. And now M. Les
seps, reversing the example of the Dutch,
proposes to transform the great desert of
Zahara into a vast lake or ocean, by let
ting the waters of the Red Sea into that
immense basin. This was. doubtless, only
a humorous suggestion, but as many a
true word is spoken in jest, soma of us
may live to see the jest carried out. It is
not easy to see how M. Lesseps is to get
the Red Sea waters across the Nile, which
flows between them and the great desert;
but as an English epic poet says ;
"When energizing projects men pursue,
What are the miracles they cannot do?"
Surely tho eminent Frenchman, who has
performed what the greatest English en
gineers pronounced to be impossible, will
never permit so trivial an obstacle as a
mere river to stand between him and the
accomplishment of this stupendous pro
ject. But what would be the effect of
such a transformation cn the climate of
Europe ? From that burning furnace of
Africa comes the hot breath that melts
the Alpine sncwa in Hay, and clothes the
mountain sides with verdure, and givs
Spain and Italy and the south of France
their delightful climates. Without this,
the glaziers would creep further down
ward into the Swiss valley3, the crags
woma remain snow-coverea untu iaie la
Summer, and the countries North of tho
Alps would suffer the rigors of an Arctic
winter. On the whole, M. Lesseps would
better let the desert alone. It won't pay
to change it inco a second Mediterranean.
Piuiovn's Magazine for October.
Tattlixg. " Children, (and older peo
ple ), don"t.lalk againsteach other, calling
one ugly, another stingy, another cross
behind their backs. It Is the meanest sort
of talk. Even if they arc ugly, stingy, or
cross, it does you no good to repeat it. It
makes you love to tell of faults It makes
you uncharitable. Your soul grows smal
ler. Your heart loses it3 generous blood
when you tattle about your friends
Tell all the good you know about them,
and carry the sins to your heart, or else
tell them to God, and ask Him to
pardon them. That would be, Christ-like.
If anybody tells about Mary doing or
saying a mean, or wiekkd thing, call to
mind some virtue that "Mary possesses, and
hold it up to her praise. For your own
sake learn to make this a habit."
A steamboat captain on ono of the
lakes was recently feeling his way along
in the dark, when the look-out ahead cried
out, " Schooner without a light It was
a narrow escape, and as the steamer pass
ed the schooner, the captain demanded :
" What are you doing with your infernal
schooner, here in the dark without a light?
To his dismay, the skipper, who was a
Frenchman, answered, " Yat ze diable you
do here viz your ole steamboat in threo
feet of water, eh?" and just then tho
steamer landed high and dry on a 6anl
bank.
Spooxs! Tbe Stockton Gazelle says:
44 The telegraph states that B. F. Butler 13
certainly on his way to California. This
cry of warning has been so often heard,
and the people of this coast have so often
Lidden their silver ware, without the
Beast really coming, that the probmbility
i3 that the public will not credit the re
port this time, and will be mad enough to
leave their valuables exposed. It is
likely enough that B. F. B. has hitherto
caused the cry of "Wolf7 to be made for
the express purpose of eventually pounc
ing down upon us in an ungarded, mo
ment." "3Iy son," said an old man "be
ware of prejudices. They are like
rat?, and men's minds are like
traps; prejudices get in easily, lut
it i.s exceedingly doubtful if they
ever get out
The price of passage has been
reduced on the Columbia river.
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