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OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1871.
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A TRUTH.
We wives are only wli.it yon m ike of us
Indifferent, good or b id unfaithful, true;
We tire your handiwork.
You tak us from our mother's bosoms
warm .
Likf birds, whose tender wings all yet
unnVdgcil.
St:ll near the nest would lurk ;
"We build our little homos upon ynnr trees.
Of faded grasses or of colored flowers
WhateVr you choose t bring;
"We strive to be patten' help in little ways
To make the new grown nest a haven of
lovi
We pipe the songs you sing!
Young, passionate, yet pliable and weak.
We trust to you for succor, wisdom,
. strength.
And trust infallibly!
E'en if we be a little warped or wrong,
A tender hand can shape us back again
To all we fain would be!
In woman's breast there throbs nn restless
heart
That would not even beat to kindly love
From him she calls her - lord!"
All! as ye give, so shall ye then receive
Your measure shall be meted back again
With generous accord!
Believe, then, we are but what you make
of us
The echo of your words, your thoughts.
3'our deeds.
Oh! look well to ynnr lives
That thev be pure. just, honorable, true,
Affectionate and kind. Then see yours Ices
All mirrored in your icives!
About a Lost Pang.
A romantic story comes from
Kansas City, Missouri, anil, like
many otheis, its incidents have
grown out of the war. la ISO I, a
young man of Kansas Citv enlisted
in the Confederate service, receiv
ing as a parting gift from his mo
ther a plain gold ring. In 1804,
the'' young man was taken sick at
Clarksville, Texas, and during his
delirium lost this ring. After a
fruitless search, he gave up all
hopes of ever. seeing it again, and
when sufficiently recovered to leave
the place, he remarked to his nurse,
a " pretty and amiable girl," that
if she would find his ring, he would
come back and marry her. At the
close of the war he returned home,
where the loss of his mother re
called the lost ring to his memory,
and so he wrote to his former nurse,
in 18G9, asking if she was still sin
gle, and if she had found the ring.
In 1870, he received an answer
from the maiden, saying that she
was still single, and that only five
days before, in the course of some
repairs to the house, the ring had
been found. The denouement can,
c: course,
be
easily guessed. A
new offer of marriage was made
and accepted, and with money in
his pocke., and a good home be
hind, the man has gone to Texas to
bring back his " bonny bride."
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EXCELLENT In'TERST RULE.
The following ruie tor computing
interest may prove of value to
many of our readers:
4 per eent.-ALultiply the pniici- t,veve 10urs after the destruction
pal by the. number of days to run, J Chicago was dispatching light
separate the right hand figure from . trains' to that city, freighted
the product, and divide by 0,
5 per cent. Multiply by the
number of days and divide by 72.
G per cent." Multiply by the
number of days, separate the right
hand figure and divide by G.
8 per cent. Multiply by the
Kumber of davs, and divide by 45.
0 per cent. Multiply by the
-pumber of days, separate the right
hand figure and divide by 4.
10 per cent. Multiply by the
number ot days and divide by 30.
12 per cent, Multiply by the
number of days, separate the right
hand figure, and divide by 3.
15. per cent. Multiply by the
juimber of days and divide by 24.
18 per cent. Multiply by the
number of days, separate the right
hand figure, and divide by 2.
20 per cent. Multiply by the
number of days and divide by IS.
Small Patch. A little girl oi
thirteen, out West, lias been pre
sented by her father with a small
farm of 7,000 acres in a corner of
his back yard to play at garden
ing. ir W
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Our Hew York Letter.
The Velvetdom of New York
at the Grand Ball Col. Jim
Fisk a no the Naval Officers
Strang e Vicissitudes Tn e
Sainted Turkey Amusements
The Mace-Cobuen Contest
jArANEsE PltlNCEs AND FeGEE
Island i m.
New York, Dec. , .1871.'
The ball given in 'honor of the
Grand Duke Alexis was undoubt
edly the finest affair of the kind in
many years. If it had drawbacks
they must be ascribed to that
charming characteristic of the gen
uine New Yorker to make money
somehow, but to make it ; and to
that other social peculiarity, which
permits a conglommeration of the
elite and the riff-raff, especially if
Itff-raif has on its paste breast
pins and good clothes. The tick
ets of admission were nominally
$10, but the perennial committee
man quietly added another magic
circle to the figure, pocketed the
ninety dollars of profit as his re
ward of merit, and so exacted trib
ute from those among Noodledom
and Poodledoni who, since the ar
rival of the Duke, have been stand
ing, metaphorically, on their social
heads, in their mad desire to smell
the atmosphere of royalty. Yet
the ball itself was a magnificent
display; a charming jam and jum
ble of bright eyes, handsome faces,
pretty speeches and rich toilettes.
Fully four thousand persons were
present, who, between dress, dia
monds and political titles, repre
sented the curious patchwork of
" Our Best Society." Of course,
there were some odds and ends to
the Mosaic, which will not bear
microscopic examination, but then,
you know one gets tangled among
these so often now-a-days, that they
must be regarded as a part of the
" make-up" of all strictly fashion
able comedies, and not be scrutin
ized with those virtuous winks
which, in well regulated circles,
sometimes disturb the whole side
of a woman's face.
Apropos of the New York ball,
another was given to the Grand
Duke by
the Naval officers, at
Brooklyn,
and
c.- vorv col ( t. inn
autocratic it was, that marines were
stationed to stop the street cars
containing "the common people"
from passing through the scented
air of the vicinity, while the police
were especially rnjoined to prevent
the entrance of Col. James Tusk,
should that famous personage put
in an appearance. To his brother
Colonels of the New York regi
ments invitations were freely issued,
but, be it said in their honor, that
every one of them resented the
slight intended for their associate,
by persistently staying away.
Now
Jim
v;i- "
as
he
is
called, may have his foibles and
heaven knows that his personal af
fairs have been ventilated by the
Jenkinses of the press down to the
very creaking of his boots he may
have operated boldly in Wall
street ; run the Erie Railway to
suit himself, or done a score of
questionable acts characteristic of
the strong individuality of the
man: but all these have their off
sets, and when the ledger of our
lives is opened, I fancy there will
he found standing to his credit a
balance of greater good than evil.
As lie was passing the grand stand
of the committee and its families,
at the head of his fine regiment,
on the day of the reception parade,
the few parvenus Leathered 'there
had the bad taste to vent their
spleen at him in the presence of
the Duke a curious exhibition of
borrowed mariners but elsewhere
nlon r the entire route, from the
t broilers upon the sidewalks and
the crowds in the windows, the
wavimr handkerchiefs of the ladies,
and the cheers of the men, testified
that the people of New York had
i.nr tm-o-ntion T ie man wno. in
t I V ' W ' . - - - - - i
with the means of relief, and him
self driving from door to door to
receive thcTcontributions from the
public. They had not forgotten
the enterprise that had given to
the metropolis the two most ele
rant stcaiushins in the world : that
had
j l
re-orgaiii.ed and created
a
crack "
regiment of volunteer
soldiery, with a band of one bun
dred and fifty musicians ; that had
built an opera-house; and, in short,
done a thousand good things, that
lend such brightness to a man's
character that his faults are seen
only in the shadow. The Naval
gentlemen admitted to their ball
a great many individuals worse
thrui James Fisk, and the true man
hood of New York to-day has no
sympathy with the snobbihness
which made flesh of one and fish
of the other.
In wandering around New Y'ork
one occasionally sees strange char
acters who illustrate, in a melan
choly manner, the"ups and downs"
the vibratory vicissitudes of city
life. Taking" an avenue car the
other evening, I finished a cigar on
the front platform. There was an
expression on the face of the driver
as the fitful Hashes of the gas
lamps rested on it, so sad, so intel
ligent, so full of a manhood far
above that which is ordinarily writ
ten on the physiognomy of his
class, that I felt impelled to be
come for the 'nonce a sort of inter
rogation point. lie met my ad
vances kindly, and after a little
while told me, with a voice full of
gentle tones, the story of his life.
Years ago he was clerk in a large
establishment down town, and as a
commercial traveler visited most of
the prominent cities of the United
States. Eventually he became a
partner, made
money.
and
was
prosperous in the relations of busi
ness. A wife and three daughters
were the jewels of his home, and
they lived in a style becoming their
means. The firm was overtaken
by the panic of 1857, and, unable
to stem the current, went down.
Private property was absorbed in
the payment of debts, and a few
months found him penniless. lie
became a clerk, supported himself
on a mere pittance, went into the
army in 1S02, was disabled, his
wife and daughters meanwhile died
and he returned to a desolate
household, almost broken-hearted.
Bad luck seemed to follow his foot
steps, and all of his efforts to get
out of the mire proved futile. At
last, made desperate by the prints
of want which had already crossed
his threshold he secured his pres
ent humble position, and for the
last two years, through winter's
cold and summer's heat, has held
the reins over a pair of horses who,
with all their toil, doubtless enjoy
infinitely more of the solid com
forts of existence than their unfor
tunate driver.
But such is life. Pascals enjoy
the rosewood and velvet, while in
telligent worth too often ''walks
the earth with bleeding feet."
The weather has become intense
y cold, and in twenty four hours
every skating run. an i pane in
these latitudes will blossom into its
'antastic winter display of circling
brins and flirtations on ice. The
water begins to stick m the halt-
rozen pipes like the aniens in Mac
beth' throat, and the public foun
tains are covered with the frosty
beard of the dying year.
Thanksgiving, for the first time,
was celebrated as a national anni
versary, and the people, having
their bone to pick with the annual
turkey, picked it. clean. Millions
of the patron saint were martyr
ized. The stores were closed ;
business was hid under a bushel,
and the few wayfarers on the street
hurrying homeward looked as if
they were taking a lingering meal
with their eyes on defunct gob-
blings. The unfortunates m the
miblie institutions were treated to
m extra dinner ; and hilarity gen
erally drifted from its moorings,
and for the nonce traveled around
loose.
The theaters are in full blast, and
present unusual attractions. Nil
sson, Capoul, Wachtel, in opera ;
Edwin Booth, m l lam let; John J v.
Owens, in Solon Shingle ; Anne,
in opera bou lie ; Sothern, as Lord
Dundreary; besides a dozen lesser
lights, are drawing line audiences.
The partial panic resulting from
the suspension of the Bowling
Green, the Guardian, and Stuyves-
ant banks lias abated. All ot the
institutions make a better showing
than was anticipated, and the de
positors are re-assured and hopeful.
It is thought that pecuniary com
plications with some of the uis
graceful public officials may have
had something to (to with tne "run
whh-h compelled the banks to
close
their doors.
The Mace-Coburn prize-fight is
re gar d e d h e re in t h e u n c h r i t i a n
parlance of the natives as a "put
up job," and disgust at the results
extends even to the virtuous swens
of Upper Ten do m. Why Coburn,
the party of the first part, did
not, with his "left duke," pro
pound such a proposition on me
knowlege-nox ot Alace, as to se
cure for that distinguished gladia
tor an obituary notice wnile m the
TP'dth of his fame: and vrhy Jem
Mace, as the party of the secom
part, and true type of the muscu
lur missionary, did not "plump'
r.nn " bnUC l Ot flVCS" PJtO tllC
bread basket, and with the other
assault the " spectacletar-probocis
of the aforesaid Coburn, in such a
righteous manner, as to call for a
first-class funeral, are questions
which disturb this religious com
munity.. They don't understand
the wavs of Providence.
Ten Japanese princes are at one
of tK Yn,.' York hotels, ai route
to Oxford, England, to be educat
ed. They are minus pig-tails and
oriental drapery ; in manners are
evidently gentlemen by nature,
and in speech gentlemen by cul
ture. Their command of English,
especially when under sail among
the vowels, is admirable, in view
of the fact that they learned it in
their own country ; but when
they strike an archipelego of our
Anglo-Saxon consonants" they get
awfully wrecked, and act "very
much as if they had a severe at
tack of diptheria, or a piece of
beef in their throats.
Three cannibals are also (n route
Fcgee Islanders, who have been
dieting on the broiled clergymen.
New York is in doubt how to
ovate tJiem, and Dclmonico is in
despair at the prospect of being
ordered to serve up some of his
boned friends the politicians.
A KUSONNE.
A Parallel.
The Washington correspondent
of the Cincinnati Commercial, a
Republican paper, draws the iol-
owmg parallel :
Andy Johnson had faults enough,
ut avarice was not one of them.
He owned, notwithstanding, while
io was President, a few thousand
lollars' worth 'of railroad bonds or
shares in Tennessee ; but the exi
gencies ot war prevented him from
hsposmg ot them, and he did not
realize anything from their interest.
Johnson, according to report, occa-
lonallv took a drink. -Grant, ac
cording to report, does so quite fre
tuently. Jut tyrant has one griev
ous fault which Johnson has not.
Fhe latter, during his entire official
ife, from Alderman to President,"
never accepted a present amount
ing in value to $50. Grant, dur
ing a period of less than six years,
las accepted presents amounting
in cash value, presents that money
ought, to scores of thousands of
lollars. The only one he was ever
known to refuse was the biich pup
rom Cleveland, Ohio, on which
there wen; express char-res amount-
ing, I believe, to 810. He has ac
cepted houses and lots, horses nnd
carriages, libraries and works of
art, live stock and furniture, wines,
cigars, and, indeed, everything that
was oilered. I hose who contrib-
uted the most liberally were ap
pointed to the best offices, and I
cite A. T. Stewart of New York.
Roar of Massachusetts. Fish of
New York, Boric of Pennsylvania,
and Murphy of New York, as spe-
" ... . A -
cimen Pricks. lthougu Andy
Johnson, when he came to the
Presidential chair, was worth less
money than Orant was Vviien he
left the office of General, yet he
refused even the compliment of a
number of rich gentlemen of New
York, who offered to present him
with a pair ot horses and a family
carriage. Jonnson was too poor to
drive handsome horses, and his sta
bles were scanty enough. In the
White House stables, in Johnson's
tune, there were live horses; there
are now eigntecn, mciiuimg the
sore-tailed colt.
The Earth and the Planets-
Science has shown, says a French
philosopher, that the physical and
climatoiogical conditions ot the
earth and the other planets are
identical. On those planets, as on
the earth, the sun shines and dis
aiipears yielding place to night, and
cold and darkness succeed to heat
and light. In them, as on the earth,
the rich carpet of herbage covers
. i . l 1 l : n
uie piams, ami lUAiiriau. woods
cover the mountains. Rivers flow
maiesticallv on to the seas. Winds
blow regularly or irregularly, and
purify the atmosphere by mingling
their strata charged m different de
grees with the product of the
evaporation of their soil. In quiet
nights, dwellers on these planets
see the . same heavenly spectacle
that delights our eyes, the same
costellations, the same celestial
visitors. x hey have panoramic
views of the planetary globes with
their following of faithful satellites
and luminous stars, shining like
gently .brandished torches. Once
in a while there is a sudden lumin
ous trail, which furrows the heav-
ens like a nasi, ot silver: it is a
star that shoots and drops into the
depths of space. Again, it is rn
comet, with a beautiful trail, that
comes to bring news from workb
millions of miles away.
0-J
ice i res hi en t. onax nas so
often expressed and reiterated his
irrevocable determination to aban
don political life, in the face of a
public that is indifferent whether
, he docs or not, that his resignation
h",s got to be as suspicious as that
of the ancient virgin at the sack of
St. Sebastian, who was so vehe
mently opposed to being ravished,
even while there was no evidence
that she was in danger. Why don't
Mr. Colfax wait for the ravishing
to begin, before he cries out ?
The Joica lie form .Leader is the
name of a paper -published at Os
ealoosaby tho " Iowa Reform Pub
lishing Company." Its aim is the
organization, of a new party in
that State. The paper is edited
with more than ordinary ability,
and "-ives many good reasons for
another organization in that State,
which shall be made up of Dcrn
ocrats who are not cowards, and
Pr.nnlilifnns who are not thieves,
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COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY
A Permanent Lab 3 1 ing Class.
fFrotn the Sao Francisco Examiner.
Sometimes great men, so-called,
utter fallacies decorated in glitter
ing verbal garbs which elicit great
applause, while if the same were
spoken by others of lesser note,
they would not attract attention.
Here is an illustration : Senator
Morton, who is regarded as one of
the biggest guns of the Radical
party, said, "We want no p.rma
manent laboring classes in this
country. The child of a laborer
may become a Governor, or the
President of the nation, while the
child of the rich may, through im
providence, lose his wealth and po
sition and become a laborer."
While no one will doubt these
facts, how, we ask, is their exist
ence to prevent our having a per
manent laboring class? "Let all
our Governors and Presidents
come from the laborers, and yet no
perceptible impression would be
made on the millions who earn
their living by the sweat of their
biow.
It is very true that we must
have in this country no law to pre
vent a laboring man or his son
from rising to highest stations.
The road to honor and wealth
must be preserved unobstructed to
all. We must not onlT keep it
open, but we must facilitate the
journey of the adventurous travel
er who seeks, from the lowest so
cial vales, to climb "the steep
where lame s proud temple
shines." We must give him words
of encouragement and furnish him,
ere he starts, with the scaling in
struments of education. But there
ire a limited number who can rise
above the great r.rimeval curse.
j.
and in this and all other countries
there will be a permanent laboring
class. Some may full into it and
others may rise from it, but there
it will remain immutable as the
o-re-it. ocean
There
is work for head and
muscle, out
i t
neither can do with
out the other. A single head
plans great works of improvement,
and gives employment to thous
ands of brawny arms. For these
there is always something to do.
while it is, easy to overcrowd the
fields of mental labor. No mat
ter how great the supply of genius
it cannot force a market. The de-
maud for this is necessarily limited,
and that is why nature only once
in a while produces such men as
Bacon, and Shakspearc, and Mil
ton, and eostcr.
While, therefore, it is a fact that
we will always have a permanent
laboring class, and it is only
through such that the greatness of
our nations can be developed, we
snouia aim io improve it as aciass
and lessen the distance between
1 11 4 1
those who toil with their hands
and those who toil with with their
brains. This we can only do by
systematizing labor by lessening
the hours of manual toil by edu
cating the minds as well as "the
nerves and muscles of the labor-iii'-
classes. For this reason we
favor compulsory education. La
bor is pronounced a curse, but
when accompanied with gross ig-
. Til I
norance, it is a ctouuie curse, n
mcn could read they would read,
and it is by reading that great so
cial reform is wrought. Now that
the press has become such a power
in the lann now mat, iikc snow-
flakes, the daily papers fall about
us, filled with mental food for
those who can appropriate it, it
becomes doubly necessary that
every man should know how to
read. HowT is it that a few great
capitalists few in comparison
with those who are not capitalists
manage to rule the country ?
How is it that Presidents, and Su
preme Courts, and Congresses, and
State Legislatures are all managed
and controlled br them ? How is
it that they are suffered to wield
the powers of government as to
levy contributions upon the toiling
masses, for their own enrichment?
It is because those masses are not
true to themselves are not edu
cated, and consequently cannot be
true to their own real interests.
mi .
xney are m too many mst; n -es
mere human machines, moving as
thev are moved, marching to the
polls like dumb driven cattle, - and
depositing their ballots as they are
told not as their own intelligence
directs.
Some may say it is well that the
laboring men do not understand
their power. If the horses or oxen
understood theirs, they would soon
destroy these wno make them tod
Great power, mischievously
no
uiimwy wieiaeu, is to ne depre
cated ; but when controlled by in
telligence and mi no, it is grand m
its operations, oi recent vears
the laboring classes have been
making noble exertions to better
themselves. They have effective
organizations in many States,
Could they but unite their strength
an exercise it to a single 'purpose,
- and with, concerted action, they
would soon have capital. But, un-
fortunately, laboring
uca are nn-
r
igja-xjg3:s:
wary and easily deceived, and
hence thev lend their oganizations
m too many instances, not to then
own amelioration, but to the ad
vancement of the schemes of cor
rupt politicians, who use them for
selfish ends. U'ntil they learn to
guard against these they can ex
pect to accomplish nothing. Their
labor organizations will be in vain.
They must not only remain a per
manent laboring class, but con
tinue to be the hewers of wood
and drawers of water to men who
toil not nor spin. One of their
class, here and there, may rise to
high station, but it will 'avail them
naught. The true friend of the la
boring class will not flatter them,
but impress upon them the necessi
ty of improving their condition as
laboring men. This they can do,
but the primal curse will yet en
dure forever.
Is Female Eulfage a rand ?
Lectuee ey Mus. Xoiitox, at
Xewaiik Can Women Work
Like Men Ihk Equality of
the Sexes.
Af.Mnterc sting lecture was deliv
ered Nov. 23d, at Newark, N. J.,
by Mrs Sarah Norton, on female
suffrage. Mrs. Norton, who had
heretofore been an advocate of the
doctrine, prefaced her lecture by
remarking that as female sultrage
was considered by many to be a
progressive movement she would
simply say that she had
"rno guessed" out of it.
There was at the present time a
widespread contagion of various
kinds of movements and isms, or
what may be termed in political
phraseology "new departures" from
those well-tried systems under
which the world has prospered.
Among these the most dangerous
yet in operation was that known as
the "woman's rights movement."
Woman's rights sounded grand at
first hearing to large-min led men
who revered woman, and they en
dorsed the movement "on sight,"
not because the women of their
own households required anything
which was promised by its success,
but because there might be women
who did, and because they could
deny nothing to women, it sound
ed exceedingly promising to a cer
tain class of unoccupied, unambi
tious, childless, or unloved women
(applause and laughter) and from
those two classes the movement
gained its proselytes. Everything
turned upon want of proper occu
pation; when this was lacking in
women or men of certain tempera
ments they were
ALWAYS niri: for mischief.
(Laughter.) All the women who
publicly advocated woman's rights
were those who had failed to find
their proper place in lifet Mary
Wolstencraft, the contemner of
marriage, fust originated this sub-f
tie and illusionary disease--it was
as much a disease as yellow fever
or the small-pox. (Laughter.)
The growth of all the evils com
plained of by women's rights ad-
vo.ates war because ot the tenden
cy of society towards the very
conditions they strive to estao-
'jIie subject of
wo:iiaiits
redits, followed out to its logical
conclusions, legitimately merged
into and ended in the repudiation
of the Bible, the abolition of mar
riage, and of the establishment of
free love in its most revolting sense,
or no love at all, as such a state of
things would suppress nature her
self and place humanity below the
level of unreasonable brutes.
There is no such thing as
EQUALITY OF TI1F SEXES,
or of classes, or races, or any other
two things between which nature
has. drawn her dividing line.
There were three reasons why, if
.voman could, she should not en-
-are m man s worK. 1 he nrsi is
that so doing would bring the sex
es into too close contact it was
not wise to hold fire to liax.
Laughter. Few -women couid j
transact business on purely busi
principles, everything with them
turned upon a matter ' of feeling.
Likes anddisnk.es controlled them
and took precedence of judgment
iml principle; facts were nothing,
opinion was everything.- Many a
woman had lost t lie iove ot her
husband through her ignorance of
household matters, and whether
he went or stayed she had .virtual
ly lost him. As all things contain
ed in themselves the elements of
their own destruction, so did all
things contain in themselves the ele
ments of their own .salvation, ana
where was the law more supreme
than in the relation of man and
woman?
NO LEGISLATION COULD REMEDY THE
WRONGS
contrast unless these wrongs ;
w
hich were evolved irom
mmated m
crime, and all the crimes
culmination
po
ssi hie-" to
such
a
already covered bv
were
......
suites.
Voman
ijasis upon wmen
Hi US Uii"
. - -i ,oii was i-ii
men indulge in the license of which
reformers complained, and that
this same leniency would be incorJ
porated into her hwv making is -as
certain as that each sex is more in
dulgent towards the opposite sex
than their own. Early marriages
and no divorce laws were the rem
edies she would suggest for tW
greater proportion of marital diffi
culties. The possibility of mankd?
people being able to separate was.
the roisoNous groundwork .
which made the contemplation of
it possible, and in nine cases out of
ten bred tire discontent which mad do
separation seem a necessity. Un
der a republican form of govern
ment, where individual freedom
was the fundamental law and the
franchise the exponent of that free
dom, women had the same right to
it that men had, else they must bo
designated and proved to be not
citizens; but admiting the right, it
was not always wise bj use the
rights that we had or might claim,
when the good and evil results of
doing so were equally balanced;
but in the present case, where there
was no good and all evil, the right,,
anomalous as it appeared, assumed
the form of highly stupendous
wrong.
Applauscj
Housekeeping ox a Small
Scale. Within a mile of the city
of Concord, New Hampshire, on
the free-bridge road leading to the
"dark plains," is a newly built
miniature house, the dimensions of
which are only about ten feet long,,
eight feet wide, and seven feet
high. It has two small windows
and a door on the front side, and
a stove-pipe through the roof is
substituted for a chimney. In this
diminutive dwelling reside a man
and wife, with four children, from
ix months to six years of age, all
of decent appearance, and ot at
least ordinary intelligence. Prob
ably there is not another instanco
of such compact housekeeping
among Americans out of large
cities. The house is situated near
a public watering-trough, at a turn
in the road. The eldest of the
children mentioned (a bright little
boy) seems to make a business of
standing on the top of the trough,
and unchecking the horses that
come up, thus often receiving are
ward of a few cents for his ingen
ious enterprise.
Grumblers at Newspapers.-
Horace Greeley hits the nail on tho
head when he says: " It is strange
how closely men read the pagers.
We never say anything that any
body don't like, but we soon hear
of it, and everybody tells us about
it. If, however, once in a while,
we happen to say a good thing, we
never hear of that nobody seems
to notice that. We may pay some
man a hundred compliments, and.
give him a dozen puffs, and be
takes it as a tribute to his great--ness,
and never thinks of it nev
er thinks it does him any good..
But if we happen to say anything
this man don't like, or something
that he imagines is a reflection on
him or his character, see how quick
he flares up and gets mad about it.
AH our evils are duly charged to
us but we never, apparently, get-
any credit for what good we do,'
Air Beds in the Morning.
The wise housekeeper should seo
to it that all the beds should bo
aired immediately after being oc
cupied. The impurities which em
anate from the human body from
insensible perspiration, arc mado
up of minute atoms, which, if al
lowed to remain long, are absorbed
by the bed, .and . will then, to a
greater or less extent, vitiate the
air for a considerable time after
ward. Let the occupant throw the
bed open on rising, and, as soon as
is convenient, open the windows,
and ventilate the sleeping room.
One hour's early ventilation is
worth two hours' late airing.
An Iowa gentleman who was
involved in domestic troubles met
with a genuine "Job comforter"
the other morning. Meeting an
old friend, who was a widower, re
lated hia tioubles to him, and told
him that he expected to be broken
up, as his wife had commenced
suit against him for the sum of
three' thousand dollars alimony
'.'Well," said the widower, "I'll
wait and see how she comes out,
and if she succeeds I'll go for her.';
Cured Her- A shrewish wife
quite sick, called to her husband to
come and sit by her bedside.
"This is a sad world, my dear,"
said the wife, plaintively, "ycry,"
coincided the man."Wcre it not
for leaving you, I would love 'to.
quit it." "0h, my dear," eagerly
responded the fellow, "how can.
von think I would interfere with
your happiness. Go by all means.
The lady got well.
The loss of McCormick, the
manufacturer of the celebrated
fire at unicago,
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