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VOL,. XXXIX.
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TRUE HEROISM. rt r:
Let others write of battles fought
On bloody, ghastly fields, ,
Where honor greets the mm who wins,
' And d-atli the mm who yields ;
.But I will write of him who tights '-'-
And vanquishes his sina,
Who ttrocg'cs on through weary years,
AgiWnst himself, and wins.
lie is arheroj sttuhch and brave,
Who Sltsan unseen foe, , ;
And puts at l.i.t beneath his feet,
. His passions .base and low, .
And star ds eret in manhood's might,
,: Undannreil, undismayed
The bravest man that drew a sword
j ln forajor in raid. f t . ;$
- - , .. , :,t ; .. ',i
It calls for something more than brawn
Or musclo to o ercome ' r
Aa enemy who in ir?httj not '
With banner, plume and drum- .
A foe forever lurk;n? nigh,
" M'ith silent, sk-altny tread, -
Forever near your board by day,
i At night beside your bed.
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r. All honor, then to that brave heart,
Though poor or rich he be,
Who struggles with his baser part
' Who conquers, and is free.
. He may not wear a hero's crown,
Or fi!l a hero's grave ;
But truth will place his name among ,
" The bravest of the brave.
THE PUZZLED CENSUS TAKER.
BY JOHN G. BAXK. Vs'
"Got any boys 1 the Marshal said
To a lady fr om over the Khine ; f '
And tha lady shook her fluen head,
AuJcivilljaaswered '3Ve."
"Got any puis t" the Marshal said ,;
To the lady from over the Rhino ;
And again the !a1r shook her heaJ,
And civilly aas'ered "Arine." $.
"3ul some are dead ?" the Marshal said
To the lady from over tha Rhine ;
And again the ludy shook her head,
; And civilly answered "Sine."
Hnsdaiid of course V the Marshal said v
f To th lady trom over the Rhine ; '
And again she shook her flaxen head, ,
f . And civilly answered "aVi'ie." : .
I'" , ' "f
J ."The d 1 you "hare ?" the Mirhal said
- To the lady trom over the Rhine ;
h nd aga:n she shook hrr finxen head,
And civilly anrii ere J "Arine "
"Now wha t do you mean by shaking your head
-And alAays nin-crin,: 'Sine V " - j . .
uJch k'tn nicht JCailinh," civilly said
J The lady irum over the Rhine. - , -.".
4.
t
fyein pronounced nine, in the German, for no.
Putting Up Stoves.
Inconsequence of cold weutber t-nce
more, about Vaesa days there is a uni
versal r-nltin up of stovea preparatory
for the winter campaign, and tiudoubt
edly a great deal of profanity 1 indulg
ed in. One who has cojuiderable expe
rience in puttinr up stoves says the Grst
step to be taken is to put on a very rag
ged old cont, under the impression that
when he gets hi3 mouth lull of plaster
it will keep his shirt bosom clean. Next
be gets his hands inside the place here
the pipe ought to go, and blacks his fin
gers, and then he carefully makes a
black mark down one side of his no3e.
It is impossible to make any headway,
in doing this work, . until his mark is
made down one sideol this nose. Hav
ing got hi3 laae properly nvtrked, the
victim is ready to beiu the ceremony.
The bead of the fatni- who is the big
goose of the sacrifice grasps one .. tide
of the bottom ol" tha stove, and his wife
aud the hired girl tnke hold of the oth
er side. In this way the load i3 started
from the woodshed towards the parlor.
Going through the. door the head of the
family will carefully swing the stove
around and jam his thumb nail against
the door post, (this part of the cere
mony is never omitted). Having got
the stove comfort vb y in place, the next
thing is to find the b gs. Two of these
are left in the stove since the spring be
fore." Tho other two must bo hunted
alter for twenty-five minutes. They are
usually found under the coal. Then
the head of the family holds up one
side while hi3 wile puts two of the legs
in place, and next he hold.s up the oth
er side while the other two are fixed,
and one of the first two falls t ut. By
the time the stove is on its legs he gets
reckless, and takes olf his old coat re
gardless of his linen. Then he goes in
for the pipe and gets a cinder in his
eye. It don't make any difference how
well the pipe was put up bt3t year, it
will be found a little too short or a lit
tle too long. The head of the family
jams his hat over Lis eyes .and taking
a pipe under each arm goes to the
tin shop to ha-re it fixed. When he gets
back he steps upon one of tho best par
lor chairs to nee if the pipe fits, and his
wife makes him get down for fear he
will scratch t'te varnish off from the
chair with the nails in his boot heel. - In
getting down ha will surely step on the
cat, and may thank his ttars if it is not
the baby. Tlien he gts an old chair
and climbs up to the chimney again, to
find that in cutting the pipe off the end
has been lei'c too bij for the hole in the
cbitnaey. So lie goes to the wood shed
and splits one side of tho end of the
pipe, with tin old axe, and squeezes it
iu his hands to make it smaller. FinaU
ly he gets the pipe in shape and finds
that the stove does not stand true. Then
himself and wife and hired girl move
th stove to the left, and the legs fail
out again. Next it is to move to the
right. More difficulty with the legs.
Moved to the front a little. Elbow not
even with the hole in the chimney, and
he goes to the wood 3hed after some lit
tle blocks. While putting the blocks
under the leirs the pipe comes out of the
chimney. Head of the family gets the
dinner table out, put3 the old chair on
it, gets his wife to hold the chair, and
balances himself on it to drive some
nails into the ceiling. Drops the ham
on" to his wife's head. At last gets the
nails driven, make3 wire swing to hold
the pipe, hammers a little hexe, pulls - a
little there; takes a long breath, and an
nounces the ceremony complete. .
Job never put up any stoves. It would
have ruined hi3 reputation if he had.
N Y Express.
JUST AND FEAR NOT! LET ALL THE
I? ICIIMOWD, W
r .. , , , The Power of Words i- .':
The knowledge of words is not an el
egant accomplishment only, not a luxu
ry, but u necessity, of the cultivated
man. ; It is necessary not only to him
who would express hi nself but to him
who would think with precixsion and ef
fect. There is, indeed, no higher proof
of thorough and accurate culture-- than
the fact that a writer insteid of employ
ing words loosely and at hap hazard,
chooses only those which are the exact
vesture of his thought. " As he only can
be called a well dressed man whose
clothes just fit himr-being neither small
and shrunken, nor loose and baggy,
it i3 the first characteristic of a good
style tLat the words fitclose to the
ideas. They will be - neither, too big,
here, hanging like a giant's rope on the
limbs oft dwarf,"nor too small there,
like a boy's garments into which a man
has painfully squeezed himself; but will
bo the exact correspondents and per
fect exponents of his thought. Between
the most synonymous words a careful
writer will have a choice; for, strictly
speaking, there are no synonyms in a
language, the most closely resembling
and apparently equivalent terms having
some nice shade ol distinction a fine
illustration of which is found in Beu
Johnson's line, 'Men may securely sin,
but safely never;' aud arain in the reply
with which Sidney Smith used to meet
the cant about the popular education in
England: 'Pooh, pooh! it i3 tho worst
educated country in the world, I
grant you; but it is tha best instructed '
Wm. Pitt was a rctaaikaMa example of
this precission of style. Fox said of
him, 'Though I am myself nevea at a
loss for a word, Pitt has not only a
word, but the word the very word to
express his meaning.' It is related of
Robert Hall that when he was correct
ing the proofs of his sermon on 'Mod
el Infidelity,' on coming to the famous
passage, 'Eternal .God, on what are thine
enemies intent? What are those enter
prises cf guilt an I horror that, for the
safety of their performers , require to be
envelopad ia a darkness which tha eye
of heaven must not penetrate?" he ex
claimed to his friend. Dr. Gregory,
'Penetratel did I say penelfale, sir, whei
I preached it?' 'Yes .' 'Do you think,
sir, I may venture to alter it? for no
man who considers the fcrco of the En
glish language would use a word of
three syllables there but from absolute
necessity. For peneiruie put pierce:
pictceis the word, sir, and the only one,
to be used there.'
Few persons know hor hard easy
writing is. Who tha. reads the light,
sparkling verse of Tom Moore, dreams
of the mental pangs, the long and anx
ious thought which a single word often
cost him. Irving tells us that he was
once riding with the Irish poet in the
streets of Paris, when the hackney
coach went suddenly ir.lo a deop rut,
out of which it came with such a jolt as
to send their pa'e.9 bump against tho
roof. 'By J ve, I re g t itV cried
Moore, clapping his ht;ids with great
glee. 'Got what?" asked Irving. Vh'
said the poet, 4thai wordVve hunted
for for six weeks, to complete my last
song. That rascally driver has jolted
it out of me.', Western Monthly. .
Death of George Peabody.
A man untitled, but glorious a sim
ple citizen, but with a beautiful fame
throughout Christendom, and honors be
j'ond those of Princes, George Peabcdy,
died on Thursday night, November 4th,
at his London residence. His health
has been rapidly failing during the last
year; and when, after his trip to this
country, to try if tbe air of his native
land would not restore his strength, he
grew worse and was confined to his
house, tho most serious apprehensions
were entertained. -. We heard the other
day that the Queen of Eugland had in
quired by telegraph as to his health, ex
pressing the tenderest anxiety for his
welfare. The outlines of his history are
familiar to every schoolboy. He was
born in Danvers, Massachusetts, and be
came iu his mature years a banker in
London. His sagacity and integrity in
business gave him great wealth. A bach
elor, he devoted his foilune to benevo
lent objects, and secured, more than any
other ruan of this generation, the uni
versal esteem of mankind. ' It was the
felicity of his career to bestow his
wealth in his own time and way in the
benevolent and educational enterprises
that his judgment most commended. His
gifts have been of astonishing magni
tude. Long ago he,was remarkable for
them. Each year he has added to them
hundreds of thousands, and sometimes
millions. His prosperity has , been as
wonderful as Ids beuevolence. : His age
exceeded the allotted ?p.vn of three
score and ten. His example will be of
inestimable value in impressing those
who contemplate woiks of charity to do
them while they can see them well done.
He has nejoyed the celebrity of his vir
tues, and will be remembered with af
fectionate reverence when the warriors
and monarchs of the lime are forgotten,
or but lightly esteemed. No words that
the Cable has flashed at miadight thro'
the Atlantic have touched as many
hearts with sorrow, and at ' the same
time called ,up as many kindly and
grateful recollections of generous deeds
as these. George Peabody is deadl Cin.
Commercial.
Chicago is breaking out with a regu.
lar eruption of hist orerans. The first of
, five new ones recently ordered has just
been completed, and puzzles philosophy
in a report that it is blown by water.
Tbe old law maxim, 'the greater the
truth the greater the libel,' is expunged
from Connecticut's code. The rever
end gentleman who sued another for
calling him a mutton-head has received
only 91 damages, ,T
ENDS THOU AIM'ST AT, BE THY
AY1VE CO., IXD.,
Treasurer of State.
In "aliiProoaV-li".v'' bur Republican
State Convention, will beheld, as ; usu
al, in February thoagh a postponement
until a few months later would, we be
lieve, be judicious and it is not amiss
to look over the ground now to sea who
would be th.8mo3t available and. proper
persons to choose to make up a strong
ticket that will, insure success , "at the.
October election. - --.-!
A3 Treasurer of State, General " Kim
ball ir serving hfs second term, and . is
uoj i eligible tmderour statute, tor a third
terra. " , Therefore a new man will , hayts
to be ehosenj and who -shall it be?
Among the politicians of the State there
are,1 doubtless, a " number who 'would'
accept the place if it were thrust - upon
them,- and no doubt many of them would
make ood and efficient offljers. But it
seems to us that just,.at, this timo hones
ty, integriti' and efficiency, combined,
should have the preference in making
up our ticket over simplv political and
military prominence. Viewing the sit
uation from this stand point, and hav
ing the material wherewith to make a
Treasurer of State that; would be an
honor to our common wealth, we pre
sent Shelby county's claims for a place
on the ticket, in the person of Augustc?
D Lrxcn, for that office.
" That the people of our S ate may the
better know Mr. Lynch, we will briefly
sum him up thus: A son of Rev. Tho3.
II Lynch, D D; a graduate of Asbury
University; President for some time cf
Urookville College, and for the pait four
years, Cashiar of the 'Frst National
Bank, of this city. In what ever capac
ity Mr. Lynch has served, he has always
pre-eminently shown his ability for the
task before him, and his financial abili
ty is heartily acknowledged by all who,
as stockholders or otherwise, arc inter
ested in, and familiar with the conduct
of that enrcrprising Banking IIou?e."
Modest and of unassuming manners,
Mr. Lynch would never p it, himself for
ward and struggle for place, but his
friends in Eastern Indiana, knowing his
meritp have determined that he shall at
least have a formidable strength iu the
coming convention.
Mr. Lynch was chosen Chairman of
our Cclinty Republican Central Commit
tee at the opening of the last campaign,
and labored zealously and donated lib
erally for the success of our ticket. He
is an ardent and live Republican, and a
man who would conduct the office of
Treasurer of State, if not better, at least
as well as it has been heretofore.
The Republicans of Shelby county,
although in a minority, have never been
known to flag or fall behind in the work,
heretofore we have always - been on
hand at our State Convention to do our
duty, nnd have never asked anything
for ourselves. Tins time we intend to
ask, and expect to recieve.
Love, Postry, and Business.
A recent number, of the "Chicago
Tribune," tells an amusing story of a
higfcly sentimental dry goods clerk in
that city. '' He lately married and was
so filled with his own happiness that he
was impelled to impart it to Purround
ino objects. It has been his habit to
write rhymes of a love-sick sort on
praps of paper that lay about the store,
and on the piles of wrapping paper in
which goods are enclosed. This pecu
liarity lias been the source of much
nmu-rraent to his fellow clerks
A .few days ago, when the store was
crowded with customers, a man came in
with excitement visible in his hands,
t:is hair, and his heaving breast, who
stepped up to the happy poet, and,
pointing to some lines, asked him if he
wrote them. He wa3 oblidged to own
them.
The scene had now attracted all per
sons iu the store to the spot. The irate
isitor directed the clerk to read the
lines, which he did aloud as follows;
'Come in the evening, come in the mor
ning, ',; ,
Coire when you're looked for, come
without warning,
Kisse3 aud welcome shall be there be
fore you. -
And the oftcuer you come here, the
more I'll adore you.'
There, sir, how dare 3'ou give such
stuff to "my wife m' wife whom I
adore? You wretch!' - ' " " ,
It was some time before the explora
tion, which was easy to make, proved
satisfactory. It is . needless to say that
scribbling poetry on wrapping paper i3
forbidden in that store, lest soma loving
s.vaiu should again maka the mistake of
wrapping up a dress iKittenv for an inno
cent laiy in verse intended by the au
thor for the maiden of his own heart.
Remains of Indiana Soldiers in
Florida John Trindie, Superintend
ent, furnishes to the Indianapols Jour
nal the following names of Indiana sol
diers whose remains are interred in the
National Cemetry atA Fort Barrancas,
Florida : : - V '
Hiram Fisher, Company A. 2ith In
fantry, died Febr'aiy 22, 1SG5 ; buried
originally at Barrancas, Florida.
. II. Whittaker, Company F, 1st Artil
lery, died July 7, 1865 ; buried ; origin
ally at Barrancas. Florida.
. M. L. Morgan, Company L, let Artil
lery, died December 9, 1865 ; buried
originally at Fort Pickeus, Florida. "
Thomas Lucas; I, 1st Artillery, died
November ; 13, 1865 : buried originally
at Fort Piekeffs. Florida. V . .
J. Tiiplett, Company I, 1st Artillery,
died October 8, 1865 ; buried originally
at Fort Pickens, Florida." .
A man in Connecticut having adver "
ti?ed Ids wife for 'leaving his bed and
board,' the fugitive spouse! responded
as follows:. , 'i weut away from the lazy
fellow to earn my board, and the bed
belongs to my own mother.'
GOD'S, THY COUNTRY'S AND TRUTH'S!"
IVOV. 1G, 1869.
Chips and Scrapings.
c Gen. Wool is dead. ; -
California talks of a constitutional
convention. -
, Hon. Amo3 Kendall died at Wash
ington ou the 11th inat.
' An effort is being made to confeder
ate Canada and British Columbia.
It is said the Kentucky tobacco crop
ba3 been damaged about oucthird.
A statue'of Mr. Peabody '. is to be
erected, at Rome, by order of the Pope.
The remains of the late George Pea
body are to be brought to this coun
try. . - r- -
Indianapolis has a Woman's Suffrage
Association organized on the 12th in
stant. -
Anna Dickinson is gloating over the
similarity of the Bostonians to theMor
mans. ' ' , '
Hog cholera is dcstroj'ing a, large
number of hogs in the country north of
Dayton.
Samuel Elliot was elected President
of the American Social Science Associ
ation, at Boston.
The Erie and Atlantic & Great
Western R. R. have carried their war
into the Ohio courts.
Wm. C Bryant is translating for the
New York Ledger a romance by Caro
line Coronado de Perry.
Nearly all the Georgians who emigrat
ed to Brazil immediately after the war,
are returning to their old homes.
The late Franklin Pierce was a class
mate of Longfellow and Hawthorne, in
Bowdoin College, in the class of '24.;
The recent census of Atlanta Ga.,
shows the population of the citj' proper
to be 29,166 of whom 13,184 are color
ed. A hat manufacturer claims for him
self the title of 'Universal Sympathizer,'
because ho says, he has felt for every
one. '
A claim is put forward for the harboi
of Wiscasset, Maine, that it has an echo
which distinctly repeats eighteen sylla
bles. An Irish paper says of the late Lady
Palmersou, 'her father was a sister of
Sir Ralph Milbanke, the mother of Lady
Noel Byron.'
The reunion of Old and New School
Presbyterian Churches was effected on
the 12th inst, with appropriate cere
monies, at Pittsburg.
It is gratifying to be assured by 'The
Times' that after the great gold con
spiracy burst, Jay Gould was for Ihrae
days a non est man.
The Mexicans are jubilant over the
completion of a railroad between the
City of Mexico and Peublo. The road
is forty miles long.
Four women were elected members of
the School Committee in tho town of
Eastt'ord, Windham county, Connecti
cut, at the recent election.
The Governors of eighteen States
have appointed the lSlh inst., as a day
of Thanksgiving, in accordance with the
proclamation of the President.
Mr. Aquila Lockwood, one of tho de
fenders of Baltimore in 1814, died at the
residence of his son, in that city, on
Saturday, in the 83d yeir of his age.
Ladie? are like - watches pretty
enough to look at sweet faces and del
icate hands, but somewhat difficult to
regulate' after they are set a going. .
The wives at Cario, III., have formed
themselves into a society whose ruling
is to lock all the doors at 10 P. M. after
which hour 'dad' don't get into the
house.
At a recent fair in Boston, 36,000
persons were weighed, and their aver
age weight was 133 pounds. The heav
iest man balanced tho scales at 370
pounds.
A writer in the New York Times
charges that the practice of indulging
in 'private bottles' at homo is fearfully
on the increase among respectable la
dies in New York.
During the past fiscal j-ear seven hun
dred and sixty millions of letters passed
through the mails of the United States,
being an increase of forty millions over
any previous j'ear.
The boiler in Henderson & Lang's
Plaining Mills nnd Sash Factory, Cov
ington, "Kentucky, exploded terrifically
last Thursday. The house was torn
down, one man killed and several others
wounded. , . -
An unfortunate couple in .Vermont
have been married sixty-nine years, and
have lived in the same house during ail
that time. Think of the pleasurable
excitement lost by people who have
missed sixty-nine 'moving days!'
. In answer to the question, 'Wbat be
comes of all the newspapers that are
seized by the French police,' the 'Pall
Mall Gazette informs U3 that they are
boiled to pidp ia huge caldrons of hot
water literally soup-pressed, in fact. t
A contemporary says there are only
two persons in the country . who have
not communicated their views on the
Byron question to the newspapers, and
they are citizens of Cape Cod, who
went off mackerel fishing six weeks ago
and haven't returned. ' ' ' ' -
; The only actual sovereigns who will
attend the opening of the Suez Canal
.tre the Sultan of Turkey and the ' Em
peror of Acstria. Tho Sovereigns of
France, Italy and Trusia, will be repre
sented only by proxies, - and Russia,
Great Britain and the United States, will
not be represented at all.
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" An old lady was once asked" what
she thought of her neighbors of the
name or' Jones, and with a- knowing
wink'replied: 'Wby.T don't like to
say any thing about ray neighbors; but
as. to Mr. Jones, souiftimts T think,
and then, again I don't know; af.er all
I rather guess he'll turn Out to a good
deal such a frdlcw as I took him for.'
A letter from Colonel Emory, of the
Fifth Cavalry, dated fFort McPherson,
November Stb says that three Sioux In
dians were recently i found, suspended
from trees and riddled with bullets. On
the body of one of them 'a letter was
found,' signed T-your sister, Carrie : War
ner 'and dated Morris; N. J., May 8th,
1869V - '" :! Si" 5 ".f
" ' A. Yankee in. Paris, who was listening
to the boasts . of some English anq
French about the wonderful genius " of
their respective countrymen, at -last
broke out and said: VO, pshaw! . yeou
git out! Why, there,s Bill, Devine, of
our village, who can paint' a. piece of
cork so 'zactly like marble, that the
minute you throw it into tho water it
will sink to the bottom just like a stone."
Curiously enough; the physical work
er is being better and better paid and
less and less, hardly tasked in this land
of ours, while just the reverse obtains
in increasing ratios for those who live
by the lower form of brainwork; so that
luckily, the bribe to use hand is grow
ing daily, and pure mechanical labor,
as opposed to that of the clerk, is being
'leveled upward' with a fortunate celerity-
" " -" . ' ' ' 1
In a late number of tho 'Independent'
there is a poem intended to be very se
rious and touching, which begins with
this remarkable line:
"I have a casket in my soul's boudoir."
The New Haven 'Palladium' thinks
the poet might have made her verse
more musical, and equally explicit, had
she written: ' . .
"I have a sofa in my soul's saloon."
'What is the matter with you?' inquir
ed a Judge, who had called to see his.
sick neighbor.
'Veil, I don't know, chudge, dey say
it ish de cout; but vy should I have de
com? I lives plain; I don't eat nor
drink too much.'
'Perhaps,' suggested the Judge, 'it is
hereditary?'
I guess it is hereditary; I remember
my wife's uncle had it.' , "
'Thero would have been no debt,' says one
of our Democratic cotemporaries, 'if the ' Radi
cals had not been in power in this country .
To which we might reply, there would have
been no country. But Mr. Buchanan is a
good specimen what Democracy can do in the
matter of debt. Duting four years of profound
peace he ailded to the burdens of the country
no less than $60,000.00o! The Radicals found
when they came into powar a" debt of $89,
000,000 every dollar of it a legacy from their
Democratic predecessors.
The Public Debt Decreasing.
Since the Administration of General
Grant went into power, . the public debt
has steadily diminished, at the average
rate of about eight millions of dollars a
mouth. Should this average be main
tained till the first of March next, the
debt will be less by ninety-six millions
of dollars than' it was when General
Grant was sworn into office. It is the
ambition of Secretary Boutwell to exceed
that amount, and to make the reduction
a round one hundred millions at the ex
piration of the first year of bis terms as
Secretary of the Treasury. He believes
that in demonstrated ability to pay lies
the hope of negotiating such a loan as
will enable him to reduce the rate of in
terest on outstanding obligations from
six and a half per cent, to four and , a
half. This accompiiahed.without any ad
dition to the present volume of currency
it wid be possible to lighten the bnrdens
of taxation, provide revenue to meet
constantly accruing expenses, leave a
large surplus to apply to the debt, and
open a direct way to the resumption of
specie' payments. The scheme looks
feasible, and the desired result will fol
low as surely as effect follows cause.
Marbiaik.- Marriage ia a woman's one ca-
reer, let women rebel against , the edict
as they may; and though thero may be word
rebellion here and there, women learn tbe
truth earlier in ihiir lives. And women know
it latter in life when they, think of their girls;
aud men know it, too, when they have to deal
with their (laughters. Girls, too, now acknowl
edge aljud that they hve leirned the lesson,
and Saturday Reviewers and others blame them
for their lack of modesty in doing so most
unreasonably; most uselessly, and, as far as
the infljencu of these censors may go, most
perniciously. Nature prompts the desire," the
wojJd acknowledges i:s ubiquity, circumstan
ces show that it is reasonable, the whole theo
ry of creation requires it; but. it is required
that tho person must concerned should falsely
repudiate it, in order that a mock modesty may
be maintained in which no human being can
believe! Such is the theory of the censors who
deal heavily with our Ergltab. women of the
present day. Oar daughters should be edacas
ted to be wives, but forsooth! they should nevs
er wish to be wooed! - Tha very ilea is but a
remnant of the tawdry soatimentality of an
age in which the mawkish j insipidity ; of the
women was the reaction from the vice of that
preceding it. That our girls are in quest of
husbands, and know well in what their lines
in life should be laid, is a fact which none can
....... , . ,- . . . . . t
dispute.' Let men be taught to recognize i the
same truth as regards tho. t selves, -and - we
shall cease to hear of the " necessity of a' new
career for women. From The Vicax of Bull
iiAMPTOr, in the. November number of Lippin
cott's Magazine '' . sm"?, 1. ! ',
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The yearly meeting of Friends ,of the
Hicksite denomination' has just closed in
Baltimore. ! : n " ' " - .
The new Catholic cathedral now b
ing built in Brooklyn, N. Y. will cist
$2,000,000, and will seat 15,irJ0 persons.
At a largo meeting of the Clergy held
in Dublin, Ireland, it was decided that
the . laity have the right to act upon
questions of doctrine an discipline.
There are 21 ordeiSjOf 'Protestan t
Sisterhoods,' with over 699 members,
In the established church in England:
The work arid organization corresponds
with the Roman Catholic Sisters of Mer-
cy- 1 f I.. i i l - - J
7'zThe i clergymen, - according ... to , th o
Christian Advocate, .cost the United
States $12,000,000 annually; the' crim
inals, ' 040,000,000 ; the ' lawyers $70, -000,000
; intoxicating beverages, 530, -000,000.
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The Hebrew National, a new Jewish
journal published in .London, give, the
statistics of the Jews in the world.
There are 6,000s000 Jews in the world,
one half of whom live in Europe. ' Amer
ica contains 260,000.
An order was sent to a Chicago 1,ook -seller
which, among other things, enu
merated 'Six Primitive Christianity.' It
was sent back with the response pencil
ed opposite that item and not at ail' in
jest : No Primitive Christianity to be
found in Chicago. t . : . ;
: An original notice was posted about
the streets of Clupham, England, con
taining the following piquant invitation,
to worshipers at 'Bethesda ; Chapel :'
'Ned Wright, who, before his conver
sion, was convicted three times of burg
lary, will deliver a Go9pel address.
Come and welcome! u No collection.'-
The Old School Presbyterian assem
bly is in session at Pittsburg. Also the
New School. r -The United Presbyterian
Assembly, and the Reformed Presby
terian Synod are in session at the same
place. Unions are about to be effected
between the Old and New Schools, and
between the United and Reformed. .
Rothschild and the Archbishop of
Paris met at a public dinner, some time
since, and arrived at the same moment
at the door. Neither 'wished to enter
first the Jew showing respect, the
Christian tolerance. Finally the Arch
bishop cried out : "M. Rothschild, j-ou
are the son of Mosef; I am the 'servant
of Jesus; you have the precedence of
age; the Old Testament is more venera
ble than the New."', And the bank'ir
went in first. .
. A lively de:rand for tract at a Western
settlement recently encourag'd the hopes
of the Tract Societ3" that an Immence
work of revival must be going on' there.
The cry was constantly for "tracts,more
tracts." At last it leaked out that the
settlers were using these promoters of
faith, not for moral cornfort.but to paper
their log cabins with. The. Trace Soci
ety, since the discovery, is a wiser, but
a sadder institution. '
Old Father Taylor, of Boston, though
aged seventy seven, is still hale and
hearty, and especially active at camp,
meetings. Lately at Eastham,' Mass ,'
he became very much interested iu a
young man, for whom he prayed thus :
'O Lord, perhaps youTdon't know who
the young man is. He is Captain ,
son of , of Harwich, one of our best
friends and most prominent citizens.'
, The English Church Congress at Liv
erpool, presented most of those signs of
dissension and indecision which usually
precede the decline and fall of any sys
tem, and? none of .the unanimity tht
tends to secure a 'fixity of tenure.' In
deed, one of the outspoken Episcopal
divines, Archdeacon "Denison, said very
frankly that the Church polity wa3 a
sort of 'rubbish,' and .that, in his opin
ion, the establishment was doomed to go.
r A number of Jewish rabbis are in con
ference iu Philadelphia. They are of
the progressive party bf.that people, and
are debating proposed reforms in doc
trine nnd worship." They have adopted
resolutions abolishing, the use of the
Hebrew tongue in , their worship, dis
claiming tho doctrine of bodily resur
rection, and the renewal of the Jewish
state, and declairing the Aaronic priest
hood and the Mosaic sacrificial worship
things of the past, to be mentioned only
in an adncationil capacity, and not be
practiced. , . , v' l '
An old lady, who had not been relig
iously instructed, attended a' Methodist
meeting' in the West. After hearing
the minister describe the sufferings of
our Savior, in the most, pathetic manner,
she was .profoundly affected." She wait
ed to see the clergyman as he was pass
ing, and as the latter made his appear
ance she rushed up to him, grasped him
by." tho. arm, and earnestly .. exclaimed,
Where , did all this happen that, .you
have beeu preaching : about V ' In" Pal
estine,' an3wered the' minister, 'about
1800 years ago.' "Ah, well,, answered
the old lady, 'a3 it happened so very far
away and so very longago, let us hopo
that there is not a bit of truth in it !';
.' At the recent Church Congress held
in Liverpool, Archdeacon Denison
shocked the Sabbatarians by saying that
he had some years ago encouraged" the
young men to play cricket between
morning and afternoon service on Sun
day.' The favor this recognition of mus
cular Christianity received from many
members of the ? Congress shows that
English :; Churchmen .are ' considerably
more liberal "than ' religious denomina
tions in this country. Among the meas
ures', considered by r the Evangelical
Council in New York is the enforcement
of Sabbath observence by the power of
the magistracy. .We believe it was' one
of tbe Beechers who said there ought to
be a bowling alley in the basement . of
every church but he or she did not say
the pins ought to be set up to be knock
ed down on the first day of the week. '