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.ICE oc lian,tt. 1st andSd Sts .
Brownville, IT. T.
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. S. HOLLADAY, H. D. -
GEONr PHYSICIAN
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BROWNVILLE, N. T.;
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f his profession, from the citizens of Brown
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-arp,- Qneensware, Groceries, and
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HOBLITZELL .& CO.,
JOL3SS ALE A.ND.XITAU. DXALXRS IS
GOODSGROCERIES,
aeensware, Hardware,
NTRY PRODUCE.
ROWXVILLE, N. T.
iasa. c.'c. kixbotgii b, r. tooxer.
H!JQ, KIMBOUGH & CO.,
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. ST. LOUIS, MO.
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. JAMES W.;GIBSON,
BLACKS M ITU,
Second Street, between Main and Nebraska,
BROWNVILLE, ,N. T. '
"I . A. L. CO ATE,
COUNTY SURVEYOR,
BROWNVILLE, NEMAHA CO. .
U'etraska Territory.
E M: M'COMAS, :
PHYSICIAN, SURGEON
AND OBSTETRICIAN, -Two
Miles from Brownville, on claim near Mr.
Coimxigs: Tenders hi professional services to the
cititens of Nemaha county.
NUCKOLLS & .WHITE,
. Hoolx.portf Mo.
. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IS
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HARDWARE AND CUTLERY,
Uedicines, Bye Stufis, .
Saddlery, Boots & Shoes, Hats & Caps,
QTJXEIT S W AKE , STONEwAEE, TIKwAEE,
' IRON, NAILS, STOVES, PLOWS Ac.
Also Furniture of all kinds, Wix.dow Sash, 4;e
N. B. WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD.
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PHYSICIAN, SURGEON,
A Acoouclioux,
. EOCKPORT, MO,
OLIVER BE5NET.
JAMES P. FISKE.
W3t. B. GARRIT.
arGtsTca knight,
"OLIVER BENNETT & CO.,
Manufacturers and Wh&lesale Dealers in
BOOTS AND SHOES,
NO. 87 MAIN STREET,
(Formerly, No. 101, Corner of Main and Loccst.)
ST. LOUIS, MO.
,;a. d. kirk,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Land Agent aud Notary Public,
Archer, liichardson county, N.T.
Will practice in the Courts of Nebraska assisted
by ll."rdiig and Bennett, Nebraska City.
SPRIGMAN &. BROWN,
RAILROAD AND STEAMBOAT
AGENTS.
And General Commission Merchants.
. No. 46, Public Landing.,
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Saddles, Bridles, Ac, ic.
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by ourselves, and warranted to give satisfaction.
A. A. BRADFORD,
D. l. mo'gary,
Brownville, N. T.
WM. MCLENNAN,
Nebraska City,2.T
BRADFORD, McLENNAN & McGARY,
ATTOMIYS AT 1417
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SOLICITERS IN CHANCERY.
' .Brownville and Nebraska City,
': NEBRASKA TERRITORY.
BELNQ permanently located in tke Territory, we
will give our eatire tjm and attention to the
practice of our profession, in all its branches. Mat
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Purchases of Real Estate, Selections ef Land, Loca
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trusted to onr management, will receive prompt and
faithful attention.
. REFERENCES.
S. F; Nuckolls, '
Richard Brown,
Wm. Hoblitiell & Co.,
Hon. James Craig,
Hon. James M. Hughes,
Hon. John R. Shepley, .
Messrs, Crow, McCreary k Co.
" Messrs. S. G. Hubbard Co.,
Hon. J. M. Love,
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Nebraska City,
Brownville,
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St. Joseph, Mo.,
St. Louis, Mo.,
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Keokuk, Iowa. '
June 7, 1858.
R. W. FURNAS,
MI II LOT fflDT,
INSURANCE AGENT.
AND AGENT FOR
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.
BROWNVILLE, N. T.
E. ESTABROOK,
UNITED STATES
District Attorney,
.. OMAHA CITY, N. T.
DEQUIRED to be in attendance oScially upon all
X the terms of the District and Supreme Court of
the territory, tenders his Professional services to such
as need them. He flatters himself that his facilities
fur gaining a knowledge of the practice in each Dis
trict, will enable him to give satisfaction to such as
entrust their business to his care:
Omaha City, June 7, 1S56.
C. r. BAILY.
B. r. RANKIN.
BAILY & RANKIN, .
MIEMLfiMSEffi
OMAHA CITY, N. T.
H. FVBEXHETT, i. 8. MORTON, . H. HARDING
BENNET, MORTON & HARDING.
Attorneys at Law,
Nebraska City. N. T., and Cl MtVid, la.
TTTlLLpracticein all the Courts of NVbra-ka and
M Western Iowa. Particular attention raid to
bU'.nin, locatig Land Warrants, and collection of
REFERENCE:
II'- Lewis Cass, Uetroit.
.':tties D. Morton, f Michigan;
(ir v. Joel A. Mattcson, SprinfeU, Illr
'i ,v. J. W. Grimosj Iowa City, Iowa;
B. 1. FiSled, St. Louis, Mo.:
H m. Daniel O. Morton. Toledo, Cliur '
P. A. Sarpy, Bollvue, Nebraska: "
Sedewich A Walker, Chicago, lit:
Green, Wear A Denton. Counril Elufff, t?w,
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ATJDTJBOS'.
BY JOSEPH 8TEE3.
Child of the forestl one of those V :
. Whom -nature loves to own
O'er whom a holy spell fehe throws
To win them near her throne;
Thou lover of the misty mountain,
Thou hunter of the crystal fountian, '
Well'd from the jagged rock
Thou spark of heaven incarnated;
With wild bells and the dew-drop mated,
' . And with the thunder ehock:
How bast thou stood within the couts "
Of beauty's palace hall,
And gazed upon her children's rports,, .
And knew and loved them all; .
Thou reader of the bright expanse,
Thou kindler at the utterance .
pf truth's eternal dream
Of deathless love, made manifest
In budding leaf, in wild-bird's nest, .
- In valley and in stream:
All ordered by snpremcst skill,
. Which thou hadst eyes to see,
- And strength of eloquence to tell '
In words of poesy:
The eyried eagle's nobler brother,
Familiar each with one another.
As crowned king with king ,
But then, affectionate withal
Towards e'en the humblest bird of all
That spreads a russet wing.
There, in that temple of delights, .
Thy soul hath had its place
For many years of days and nights,
En traced a life-long space,
' No desert path, no solitude,
Howe'er uncultivated or rude,
But spread for Ihee a feast
Of sweet and lovely mysteries,
Whose incense-cloud was songs of bliss,
And thou the gifted priest.
Oh ArDCBONl the world hath need '
Of child-like hearts like thine,
Or it would s;orn all choicest seed
That germs in the divine;
Thou earnest, deep-devoted teacher
Of beauty to thy fellow creature -
Who, with a wizard's rod,
Point'st upward to the fields of air,
And btdst him, contemplatirg there,
Behold the band of God. .
From Punch.
.TEE SHOT "WE HAVE TO PAY. ,
For peace I heard the cannon bang.
I counted till a hundred rang,.
At each ef those explosive sounds, -Thought
I so went one million pounds.
The bells, too, and the cheering boys,
Together made a merry noise,
Their mingled uproar seemed to say
One hundred million pounds hqorayl
That two years' war has cost; and what
For all that money have we got?
Experience chiefly, I Burmise,
And hope that it will make us wise.
Wiseacres we have been, alas!
Forming one great collective Ass,
And pnny wise, at last we've found
Is foolish something o'er a pound.
Obliged to spend these millions could
We but have spent them as wo Would, , ;
A little we should have, I trow, '
Besides experience now to show.
In widened streets we should rejoice,
Could we hare been allowed that -choice,
Some architecture would replace
Our edifices mean and base.
Oh! what might not the board of Health
Have done with part of that v it wealth
Divided into many sums? 1
For one thing, cleared off all the slums.
The Thames might now be drained or near,
To ebbing bright and flowing clear,
With salmon soon as gudgeon thick,
At least as high as Hampton Wick.
We might hare f6unded many schools,
That people might not grow up fools,
We might what might we not hare done
That mortals do beneath the sun?
Oh! what a stress, oh! what a strain
On thew and muscle, heart and brain,
.To work that debt out, so immense,
Will be required for ages hence!
Compelled in strife to interpose, ,
We've had to wipe a bloody nose,'
And through that nose condemned to pay,
Must grin and bear it as we.may.
In future we, perhaps, shall keep
Up, both on the land and on the deep,
A proper force of armed Police.
Whereby we may preserve he Peace.
From the "Old Corner Cupboard."
THE PAST.
Weep not for. what is past
With vaia and fruitless tears,
But husband well thy strength,
To serve the coming years;
In noble deeds, not idle grief,
Let the true soul find sweet relief. t
Mourn not for what is past; '
Though every passing day,
Some pathway may discloso,
Where thou hast gone astray ; "
Tears will but cloud thy sight
Not guide thee to the way of right.
Weep not for what is past;
Not tears of blood will bring
One wasted moment back,
Or stny Time's rapid wiig. .
Pour not thy soul's best life away
Begin anew to live to-day.
Oh! weep not f:r the past,
Though in its dark domain,
Thi forms thou lov'st are bound
By adfriwantine chain.
The deathless spirit should" not fee
So fettered to mortality.
What doth the grave enfold,
That there thy thoughts should turn 7
Coldor the clayjbeneivtb,
Than mouasaental urn.
Tbc lost to thee to life are born r
Eejftiee then in their natal morn
The pastf that narrow span
Is nothitfg now to their,
Poor priner of time,
Yet in thy lirfiroey!
The soul should earthly thrall despise
The future hsth no boundaries.-
. A WONDEEFITL CIOCS.
The CaliforniriJ?armcrt published at
San Francisco gives an account of-a
curious specimen of mechanical in
genuity which has puzzled, the minds
of not a few of the hombres of that ilk.
Upon a flat surface of glass, three
feet square, suspended from an iron
traverse, rod by slight brass hooks in
the yr?ndow, is painted a regular clock
In the centre of the time circle is a
small hole through the, glass, in which
is inserted a fmall pin, as large per
haps as a cpmmon pin. Ihis pin con
fines two large hands to the painted
dial; and here the mechanism, if any
there be, apparently ceases. - This
clock,- without machinery, keeps' the
most exact time, and indeed is quite a
chronometer for regularity; the hands,
which are about a foot in length, mov
ing with exquisite precision around the
dial, noiseless and true. By what prin
ciple or invisible power this clock per
forms its duty,' better guessers than we
must decide. The glass is perfectly
transparent, precluding the possibility
of concealing any mechanism within
the place, if - such a thing were indeed
possible, while the position of the plate
of glass upon "which this, wonderful
article is placed, is such, as to show at
a glance that no external or Separate
influence, is at work upon the instru
ment. The hands, which are of brass,
are not of sufficient . size to hold any
machinery or works large" or strong
enough to carry them with such nicety,
though a slight bulging in the end of
the minute hand, with a screw or two
of small and. delicate workmanship
le"ads to suppose some secret power is
at work there. . The hands may be .set
to twining:, everybody has seen the
needle of . a ship's compass -fly around
when the instrument is moved violent
ly; and as the needle , soon settles
quietly back to the north, so the hands
of this singular time keeper gradually
refix themselves to the exact hour and
minute when left to themselves. When
undisturbed, the point of the minute
hand may be plainly seen to. move at
second intervals, like the beating of a
pulse. Mr. Jordon states that this in
vention is the result of many months
of severe study; that it is a purely
Californian invention, and the work all
performed and the clock made in his
shop' in Washington street. The prin
ciple is entirely .new and he believes
hitherto unknown in the world. We
await the solution of this interesting
mechanical riddle with' great earnest
ness. .
WEALTH VEESTJS HAPPINESS.
Many inadvertently suppose that
wealth and happiness are inseparable
companions, but a glance at the inner
life of men exulting in boundless
wealth, soon dissipates this delusion.
There was great significance in the
Savior's remark, "A man's life consis
teth not in -the . abundance, of the
things which he possesseth." The fol
lowing, sketch of the English Roths
child is in point:. I ,
The insufficiency of mere wealth
alone to confer happiness, is striking
ly, illustrated in the life of Nathan
Myers Rothschild, the Jew, who died
in London some - years ago, " one of
the most devoted worshippers that ever
laid a withered soul on the alter of
Mammon." For years he wielded the
purse of the world, opening and - clo
sing it to kings and emperors as he
listed j and upon; certain, occasions,
was supposed to havo -moro influonce
in Great Britain than !s the .proudest
and wealthiest of its nobles perhaps
more influence than the houses of
Parliament taken together. . He once
purchased bills of the Government in
a single dayj to the amount of twenty
millions, and also the gold which he
knew the Government, must have to
pay them; and with the profits on a
single loan, purchased an estate which
cost him seven hundred and fifty thou
sand. But .with, the clearest and
widest comprehension in money mat
ters, with the most piercing insight
into all possible effecting causes in the
money market, and with .ingenuity to
effect the profoundest, most subtle, and
most ' unsuspected combination an
ingenuity -before which all the ! other
prodigies of calculation . that have from
time to time appeared, sink into noth
ing he was, withal, a little soul. ; Ite
exercised his talents1 and calculating
powers, not only for the accumulation
of millions, and the management of
national creditors, but also for. the de
termination of the smallest possible
pittance on which a clerk's soul could
be retained in connection with his body.
To paTt with a shilling in the way of
charity cut him to the heart. ' -
One of his grand rules,' "Never to
have any thing o do wjth an unlocky
man or, place" -which was also 6ne of
John Jacob Astor's principles how
ever shrewd in a worldly point of view,
was the very quintessence of selfishness
and -Mammonis.m. He was, in short,
a thorough-going Mammon worshiper
rhis whole soul converted into a ma
chine or engine for coining guineas, and
every no Die emotion, immortal longing,
dead within him. . Guineas he did coin,
to a sum that seems almost fabulous :
but, with all his colossal wealth, he was
profoundly unhappy; and with sorrow-
lui earnestness, once exclaimed to one
congratulating him on . the corceous
magnificence of his palatial mansion
and thence interring that he was happy:
"Happy! me happy!"
FETES AND AGUE BE NETTVTLL SPECIFIC
Many years since the fever and ague
prevailed in the French West India
islands, of so virulent a type as to
carry off. great numbers of victims,
and to threaten almost total depopu
lation. The government offered a large
reward for the best remedy, which was
obtained; by the discovery of the
preparation of which I furnished the
receipt, and which not only cured the
disease, but completely eradicated it
from the system,, ensuring the patient
against a renewed attack.
In 1821,. the residents of Washing
ton City were subjected to the disease
to an unusual and alarming degree.
The French Minister, M. De Neuville,
who had been educated a3 a physician
presented this receipt, which, had ob
tained the -prize from his government,
to" an elderly gentleman who had been
reduced to the last stage of weakness
by daily attacks; his three attending
physicians pronounced in favor of its
trial, and in five days it effected a per
fect cure. It was subsequently ad
ministered' in more than a thousand
cases with like success.
Receipt. 1 oz best London Peru
vian bark, $ oz. powdered rhubarb,
oz: salts of tartar, oz.' powdered
gentain and 8 . drops oil of wormwood,
either made up into .15 equal pills, or
what is preferable, mixed with 15 wine
glasses of water, claret or port, in a
bottle.
One pill or one wine glass to be taken
fasting; an hour afterwards light food,
at twelve o'clock a bowl of light soup;
at one o'clock a pill or wine glass of
medicine; an hour after a tumbler of
wine with toast or sponge'eake dipped
in it, or otherlight food; at seven o'clock
a third pill or wine glas3 of medicine,
an hour afterwards a light supper.
The bottle must be well shaken before
taking each dose. . r
The chills will usually be broken on
the second day, but perseverance
through the fifteen doses is necessary
in order to eradicate the disease from
the system. The medicine must not
be taken-while the patient is under the
influence of fever, but there must be a
delay of an hour after the fever has
subsided. The directions as to diet,
must be strictly observed, and the appe
tite which frequently becomes ravenous,
must be restrained during the five days.
The prescription must be made up by
a druggist of respectability, as Peruvian
bark is frequently of imperfect strength.
As I have just seen a case of success
ful cure in an attack succeeding one of
last year permit -me, sir, to make this
remedy. known through your widely
circulating journal for general benefit,
and certainly the medicine should bear
the name of the distinguished French
Minister who first extended its benefits
to our country.' '
BE CABEFTTL OF SMALL THINGS.
Irving in his life of. Washington.
dwells on the particularity with which
the great hero attended to the minutest
affairs. The father of- his country, as
his correspondence and account books
show, was "careful of small things,"
as well as of great, not disdaining to
scrutinize the most petty, expenses of
his household! and this . even while
acting as chief magistrate . of the first
republic in the world. In private cir
clesi in this city, tradition . preserves
numerous anecdotes of this character-:
istic, which, if 'necessary, we. could
quote. .. . . .
The example of -Washington, in this
respeGt, might' : teach an instructive
lesson, to those who sporn what they
call "petty" details. ...There are thou
sands of. such individuals in -every
community. t We all know more or
less of them. ' Yet no man ever made
a fortune, or rose to greatness in any
department, without being "careful of
small things. As the beach is com
posed of grains of sand, as the ocean
is made up of drops of water, so the
millionaire is the aggregation of single
adventures, often inconsiderable in
amount. Every eminent merchant
from Girard and Astor down, has been
noted for his attention to details. Few
distinguished lawyers have ever pract
iced" in the courts, who have not been
remarkable for a similar characteristic.
It is one of the most striking peculiar
ities of the. first Napoleon's, mind. -The
most petty details of his house
hold expenses, the most trivial facts
relating to his troops, were, in his
opinion, as worthy of his attention, as
the tactics of a battle, the plan of a
campaign, or the revision of a code.
Demosthenes, the world's orator, was
as anxious about his gestures or into
nation, as about the texture of his
arguments or its garniture of words.
Before such great examples, and the
very highest walks of intellect,- how
contemptible the conduct of the small
minds who despise small things!
Philadelphia Ledger.
A SOFT PILLOW.
Whitefield and a pious companion
were much annoyed one night at a
public house, by a set of gamblers in
the room adjoining where they slept.
Their noisy clamor and horrid blas
phemy so excited Whitefield's abhor
rence and pious sympathy, that he
could not rest.
"I will go in to them, and reprove
their wickedness," he said. His com
panion remonstrated in vain. He went'.
His words of reproof fell apparently
powerless upon them. Returning, he
laid down to sleep. His companion
asked him rather abrubtly:
"What did you gain by it?"
"A soft pillow," he said patiently,
and soon fell asleep.
Yes, "a soft pillow" is the -reward
of fidelity the companion of a clear
conscience. It is . a sufficient remune
ration for doing right, in the absence
of all other reward. And none know
more truly the value of a soft pillow,
than those parents, whose anxiety for
wayward children is enhanced by a con
sciousness of neglect. Those who
faithfully rebuke, and properly restrain
them by their Christian deportment
and religious counsels, can sleep quiet
ly in the day of trial. .
. Parents! do your duty now, in the
fear of God,' in obedience to this law,
at every sacrifice; and when old age
comes on, you may lie down upon a
soft pillow, assured of his favor who
has said, "Train up a childin the way
he should go, and when he is old, he
will hot depart from it."
It is now stated, on what seems to
be excellent authority, thatLamartine's
library project is an utter failure. A
correspondent of the Independence
Beige thinks that his twenty thousand
subscribers in America, and twenty
thousand more in France,' have been
overstated by at least one-half, and
wonders how he could think of getting
up a work in the style he proposed,
and paying off so large a debt by the
mere profits of. a literary venture.
Lamartine now owes about four hund
red thousand dollars. He is one of
the largest wine-growers in France.'
When upon the death of his father he
came into possession of the estate he
now ownsj he found it burdened with
of about 200,000 dollars. Since the
year 1848 the disease of the vine has
nearly ruined him, and the last seven
years he has had to pay off the interest
on his debts and to feed and clothe
nearly five hundred men, women and
children living upon and cultivating
his estates. This, it is said, accounts
for the-other 200,000 dollars.
Devoting the 'Mummies to a Use
ful Purpose. Dr. Deck, of New York,
comes out with the startling statement
that henceforth all paper may be de
rived from the mummy catacombs of
Egypt... The doctor has explored the
entire valley of the Nile, and has be
come so accustomed to speak Arabic
that he has almost forgotten his mother
topgue. He estimates that the mum
my pits of. the Nile contain about five
hundred millions, of embalmed Egpy
tians, who, he says, will, with their
linen and papyrous cerements, furnish
excellent' material for first-class paper.
He 'does not explain the rationale . of
his theory, but as the adipose and
muscular matter of these bodies have
all been transformed into fibre, it is
possible, as he says, that it can be con
verted into pulp with the same facility
as vegetable matter. Let this idea be
put into practical effect, and it may
even happen that one of the" Ptolemies,
or Cleopatra, or even of Nebechad
nazza'r himself, may yet furnish mate
rial Upon which.to print a daily news
paper. They would thus certainly be
useful in death as well as in life
; Facts Worth Noting. The whole
number of languages spoken itt the
tants of the globe profess more than
1,000 different religions. The number
of men is about equal to the number
pf women. - The average of human
life is about 33 years. One quarter
die previous to the age of 7 years, and
world amounts to 'J,o23; namely,- 587
in Europe, 396 in Asia, 276 in Africa,
and 1,263 in America. The inhabi
one-half before reaching 17. Ofeverv '
1,000 persons, 1 reaches 100 years of .
life; of every 100, only 6 reach the ,
age of 65, and not more? than ono in
500Jives to 80 years of age.0 There
are on the earth 1,000,000,000 inhabi- .
tants. 333,333,333 die every year,:;
91,824 every hour, and 60 every '
minute or one every second. Thcso
losses are about balanced by an equal
number- of births. Tho married aro ,
longer lived than the single; and above '
all, those who observe a sober, indns'
triou3 conduct. Tall men live longer;
than short ones. : Women . have1 rnoro -
chances of life in their favor, pre viotia
to being 50y but fewer afterward. Tho"
number of marriages is in the proper
tion of 75 to every. 1,000 individuals.
Those born in spring are generally
more robust than others. Births and
deaths are more frequent b night thaa
by day.
Scaling Turtles. The tortoise
shell of commerce is merely the scales
that cover the bony shield of the turtle.
These scales are thirteen in number,
varying from an eighth to a quarter of
an inch in thickness. A large turtle' I
will furnish about eight pounds. To
detach this shell from the living animal
is a cruel process, which it made my
flesh creep to witness. 'The fishers do
not kill the turtle? did they do so, they"
in a few years would extirminate them.- " .
"When the turtle is caught, they fasten
him, and cover his back with dry leaves
or grass, to which they set fire. . The ; .
heat causes the plates to separate at ,
their joints. A large knife is then in-
serted horizontally beneath them, and "'
the luminse lifted from the back, care
being taken not to injure the shell by
too much heat, nor to force 'it off till '
the heat has fully prepared it for sepa-
ration. Many turtles die under this
cruel operation. Instances are nu-
merous in which they have been caught , . :
a second time, with the over-coating' '
reproduced; but in such case3, instead
of thirteen pieces it is a single piece, .
Had the poor turtles the power of
shrieking, they would have made that
barren island a very hell with their' .
cries of torture. .
Mutual Forbearance. jfh'e house3
will be kept in a turmoil where there;
is no toleration of each other's errors
no lenity shown to failings, no meek .
submission to injuries, no soft answer
to turn away wrath. If you lay a.
single stick of wood in the grate, and'
apply fire to it, it will go out; put on
another stick, and they will burn; anot
half a dozen, and you will have a blaze. c
There are other fires subject to the
same conditions. If one member of
the family gets into a passion, and i.j
let alone, he will cool down, and pos-
sibly be 'ashamed,- and repent. But
oppose temper to temper; pile on the5
fuel; draw in others of the group, and
let one harsh answer be followed by '
another, and there will'soon be a blaze
which will in wrap them all in its bum
ingheat. . . . .
Maternal Influence. Governor1
Briggs, of Massachusetts, recently rc-
lated the following incident. After
reading with great interest the letters
of John Quincy Adams's mother, be,
one day went over to his seat in Con-.-gress,
and said to him, "Mr. Adams, I
have found out who made you." "What
do you mean?" said he. "I have beea
reading the letters of your mother,"
was his reply. With a flashing eye
and glowing face he started up, and in
his peculiar and emphatic manner,
said, "Yes, Briggs, all that is good id "
me, I owe to my mother."
Moral Courage. Hon. G. A. Sim- .
mons, upon being interrogated by &
southern senator with what he would
do in case some southern gentleman
should send hitt tL challenge to fight a
duel, made him the following quant
reply: "I would," . said he, "sit down ,
and write him thus: 'Dear Sir, I re- '
ceived your challenge this moment. ,
I am . to great a coward to fight, and
you must have known it, or.ehe you
would not have sent me that challenge"
In a shirt-store window, in New
York,-the notice "Hands wanted on
bosoms," was displayed. This attract
ed the attention of a wag, who coolly
walked in and with an air of affected
simplicity inquired of the lady in the
store whose bosom she wanted hands3
on? "Jane," cried the lady, "bring me
the broom, and be qtlick!"
A vicious old wretch of a bachelor
undertakes to prove that Satan was a
woman whose name was Lucy Fir. '
He ought to be beat to death with a
bustle.
We have heard our father tell of an
old fashion, according to which, when,
chairs were scarce the company sat
double each man had a gal in his lap.
We prefer the old fashion to the nevr
one.
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