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PRAYER AND POTATOEQ.
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tIf a brother or sister be naked, and destitate
6 daily fgsiw, and one of you say unto theU , de
Sart in peace, he ye warmed and tlled; notwith- I
atanding ye ve them not those things which me
needll ,r the boldy; what doth it pIroft-JAsuh
An old ulya sat in her old arm chal
With wrinklet visage and disheveled hair,
Andi hlunger-worn features;
}'or days and for weeks her only fhre,
As she sat there in her old arm chair,
Had been potatoes.
But now they were gone; of had or good
+Not one was left for the old lady's food,
Of those potatoes'
Andlshe sighed, and said, "What shall I ,do..
Where shall I send, and to whom shall I go
i or more potatoes?
Andl she thought of the deacon over the way,
The deacon so wnly to worshipl and ,ray,
Whose cellar was full of potato'.
And she saidt: "'' will send if,r the deacon to
Ile'll not mind much to give Ime some
O(f such a store of leotatoes."
And tle dlesen, came over as fast as he coull, I
Thinking to do the old latly somre good,
BIut never, for onlle., of lutatw;
le asket her at once what was her chief want,
And she, Ioor soul, experting a grant,
lunlltltdistely answered, "'PotatLes."
Ikut the eacon','s religion deln't lie that way;
Iltwas miore accustomned to preach andl to pray
Thant to give of hi hosardet potatoes;
Sto, not hearing, of course, what the old lady
said.
Hle rne to pray. with incovered heal, 1
But she only thought of potatoes.
lie iraytel for patiene. and wisdom, andl grace.;
But when he prayed, "Lord, give her peace,"
She audibly sighed, "give lotatoese:
Anil at the end of each prayer which he said,
lie eard, or thought that be heard n its stead,
That same reluest for potatoes.
The deacon was tronubled; knew not what to do; !
'Twas very embarrassing to have her act so
thout 'these carnal potatoe." "
So, ending his irayer, be started for home;
But, as the door closed, he heard a deep greaa,
"O, glee to the hungry potatoes!"
And that groan followed him all the way home,
In the midit of the night it hanated his room-
"o, give to the Asagry potatoes!"
lie coul Ihear it no longer; arose and dressed;
From his well-filled cellar taking in haste (
A bag of his best piutatoes.
Again Ie went to the widow's lone hat;
Her sleepless eyes she had not yet shut;
lit there she sat, in that old arm chair, I
With the same was features the same sad air,
And, entering in, he poured on the door
A bushel or more from his goodly store,
of choice otatoes.
The widow's heart leaped up for Joy,
ller face was haggard sad wan no morw.
"Now" said thedeseon, "shall we prays"
"Ye.,l' said the widow, "noe, you may;"
And he kleeled him down on the sanded door,
Where he had poured his goodly store,.
And Inc a prayer the deseona prayed
As never before his lips essayed;
No longer embarrassed, btt free and tall,
He poured out the voice of a liberal soul,
And the widow responded, aloud, "amen !"' P
But said no more of potatoes. I
And would you, who hear this esimple tale,
Pray for the peor, sad praying, 're ,"
Then preface your prayers with alm and good
deedt1
arch out the poor, their wants, mant their needs;
'ray for pece, a d ae, sad sdlitul food,
For wisdom, and guIdance, for all these are good;
mat Ien'lf rge hepote.n.
N. 1'. Observer.
J(dHNNY FORTNlIGHT.
Yes, that's my name, and I'l bet nine
ty-nine out of every hundred of you nev
er heard it before. But you know who I
am, for all that. Londoners call me the
tallyman; ust-eaders, I mean, and other
unfashionable folk, for of course Belgra
via and Tybnrnla know me not, any more
than they know several other tribes who
prey as Ido on the dwellers In those parts
of London which the swells have only
heard of.
Down near the Land's End I'm called
Johnny Fortnight. They're fond of queer t
amis down there; they call a littleblee 1
shop a kiddle-wink; a bed is a ty the t
Industrious ant is a murrlan; amail is a
boolawn; a wel a peeth (puteu, my
friend the natloud schoolmaster ug
sts);a root a mobr; amineabal ; and
migtgo on with a age o ue I
Sfor the re Coroh. The
sing their words -and, although a ock-'
Hey would catch er meaning far sooner
than that of a Zummerseat or Dosset or
Devonshire laborer, he would notice, be
sides the queer words, a lot of queer
phrase such as "(Good night upon you," I
b enin dikerencs of race.
Is It this dlerienee which makes them call
me Johnny aforeeald ? No, the reason is
that I make them pay for what they by of
me at the modest and equitable rate of a
shilling weekly, and their constant ef
fort Ia to put off payent till the week
after, so, whereas I wish to be Johnny
Weekly, they dear to make me what they
iave take. to call me.
For the rest, I am a most respectable
Individual. If you met me with my well
combed beard (sually " ,dy"--ed, ay
my detractors;) my nlmbpaa b r,
as aest, breast-pina nd all, after a dosea
miles on the tramp, as when I iarted
om home; my well-polished bootb,
which I alwsy msansg t keep iena-
sac m do it West wnrrwallfor eve
weather like this ea't turo poraded
gralte Into mud; my trim legings, and
sight to see, you'd never bealeve that lam
the representaetlve and linesl descendmant
of tha dirty, ricky, slouchlag old Aa
a I m lIILb m ~ld ; It would
notpay to be o . Do yo think
S mycustomrns would believe me If 1 was
a Uantldy as Itle Phere, the draper i
Ut, Fusty Churebtown, or as apreatead
lgu poor Mrs. PearSm, who has
ad Iksr A hlw a i weht
tine #year e lall alll foad
I, the pardtel1r Iwho new a a
well kaow and -ppnele ,l It
pays, thatr does; nId I am mot tlm0
maa who takes s t1 (smy the s
akr that mry asIou nt as o r.
moat of thes pursers o mnes ",
ad many ofh "mi cptanls" tohoot,
and, many o athe aIs great m wh
aut ther 0mosey "aot Is use" aWmog the
b aier t Ye ums the op, e tr a
deal more when wm're pra t
In "te Church' and Its sa ab
trusted, if he bav tsell ay
aygt ~t mast take your word
ser. As - weknowoer msn and
*woren. r, ar heold n tbmeah
The thigIsis isbe seader ;om s
etsr lhi .. "tr im * * I w-_
•kr am ca a Is do. In
nuder thse oi the Cmmer l -Bo
tel p tOSLFo t, mooking my erg
oule 'I tlake myes my
be a nrdt aerase nos. It.wa
wb all vp whichmen peqis Intbd4
time made a thoroughfare. I looked ti
round the corner, and sawa man, evident- P
ly more than half drunk, trying to feel a g
gap in the wall, and asserting at each fall- cl
ure that it @as "blessed" strange he u!
couldn't ind his way, what with the moon to
and all. lHetalked loudly enough to rouse p
the neighbors; and pretty soon a door f
opened, and a clear, decided velee, as of W
one used to command, called, "Who are ti
you, making this piece of work at this "
time o' night?" Whereupon our inebri. e
ated friend began In the old miner's to
drawl: "Oh. young Pusser, don't 'ee be
angry now. You do knaaw me. I'm s
.J:ames Trembaath l;. to Ballosinny; ti
worked at the blacksmith's shop this i
more nor twelve year. Yes, you do as
knaaw me. I was in voure class for years, 01o
young Pusser. And then I took to takin' pi
a drop too mmch : and that's what I done gI
this night. and now can't find my way HI
home. But you do knaaw me, young at
'uoser; and there, if you'll show me the -
way home, I'll tell 'ce what, I'll give 'ee
a shilling for the missionaries." Exeunt i e
purser and blacksmith, leaving me to re- P4
Ileet on the strange tie between " leader" 01o
and class. and on the possible advantages I
therefrom to a man in my line. Yes. I tr
must manage to be a class-leader before u1
long: and then if I takes missus and open h
shop somewhere. as well as going my gI
rounds. I shall do double as well as 1
could without leadership to help me. h
I'm a" local." as I sakl, and I'm very se
proud of that same. I'm not one of them bi
that hold to colleges and all that for train- (a
ing to the ministry. Of course the par- *
son lie's all dark ; that's what you might fo
expect. I've been to hear him times, and t
he always speaks, to my thinking, like at
one who fancies there's something to be 01
said on t'other side; and that'll never do, a'
you know. in religion no more di
than in politics. No half measures forme; it
none of your folks with an aggravating Ye
sort of conscience that makes them think, 'e
and hesitate, and ask themselves ques- t
tions. I hate crotchety preachers, just as is
much as crotchety l'arliament men. I
like a man that goes straight forward, as t
if he could see the goal ahead; and didn't W
care to look at anything between him and ta
it. And that's what our young men out am
of the colleges are getting too fond of w
doing. Between you and me, they're gt- A
ting almost as bad as the parsons. But h
I know what I've got to say, and I say ni
it; and there's the Book to back me, and itl
they've anythina to sayagainst the Book, t'
why, they'd better not say it to me, that's ni
all. 1 go ahead when I get on a text; am
I've read Spurgeon till I flatter myself
I've formed my style on his-on the best sI
part of his, of course. V
Yes, I'm highly respectable; I am so
by the confession of the head of all the
Johmnles in this half of the country. He's C
a Scotchman, is M'Clutchy' a good many
of us are Scotchmen, though they mostly
leave Presbyterianism on the other side
of the Border. Fine fellows those Scots; o
I admire them, though I'm not one of h
them-" missionaries" (as I called them
at a quiet soiree some score of us had last
Twelfth Day at Camborne) carrying with
them "the gospel of trade." A great hit I
I think that was. And then I drew an
eloquent contrast between those early tl
missionaries, Saint Perran, Saint Leven, V
Saint Senan, and Company, whose names k
have filled the land, and who brought with
them but an imperfect creed, which had
to be trinimedn at the Reformation. and
further altered by glorious John Wesley
and ourselves, who carry the perfection
of modern fabrics round to the most out- P
lying cottages. Truth in staff is at least p
as grand a thing as truth in word; and
that is what we persistently preach. How '
we practice it those must say who buyr
our articles. One thing we certainly don 't
do; we never condescend to the shop
tricks about the three farthings or eleven
pence halfpenny lightly penciled on when
the shillings are as big as a window-pane. N
We should be asha.aed of such a clumsy
contrivance. "No there's the price.
mum; and If you like it you needn't pay
all at once you know. A shillin a week
is my rule. Can't make up that Well;
they must be poor gettings where the wife
can t save that much out of her market
ings. You think the sturs well enough.
Iti, indeed, you may take my word for
it. I you was to go to Truro, you'd and I
that's just what all the tip-top county a
people are wearing mow; and doesn't it I
suit your face too? Black hair and eyes b
-why, I can almost light my pipe at a
them," said I. suddenly remembering
an old story. "Come, then; If you've a
set your heart on it you shall have it, as t
far as I can help you to it. Ahillingto a
start with for a dress like that, and only
nine shillings for the whole of t. We'll
dropaext week; that's as fair as any one '1
could asy; ad you shall e me a con- 2
pleof ashUllthe week ater. There'll i
be a 'general my' betwixt this and then, ft
and, sales it's a very had month indeed, d
you'll easily manae that much, and no
body the wiser."
That was bow I began my frst deal 8
with Mrs. Bosanuo, in a lone cottage up
on the moor behind Nether Bosperrow. I
She was a rosy tountry Irl, not well '
"out of the teenso year with babby
of some six weeks old, her husband work
b" "undertribute" in Wheel Conscience. I
Thgs were looking well with them; he'd
brougt home six pounds last mouth, at
vast sum fora CoraMlsh minaer, though ar
Scotehmen tell me it is just nothing corn
pared with the wages up dl. The·
poor damp cottage looked as bright and
abheerfl as stoneware sipntels andr npe
of Burnt and Highland Mary, ad-emp
gla pltes on the mantleheUbet, and
(erm prits on thewalls could make
It. IthouglhtIknew every inch of my
but mie of these Geawn peddlr sap
had eearly been bebrehnd with me.
Palt is, laneo's hoise bed been mpty
br years, nd I thought, ntil som dy
tolid me, that it was empty stilL But
trt those ermnsa to mad out where
leara. _sweeP, rmrij ofever iu aln
¶lte- on aristle goeds. lhave my
S and I bope ot I aonsibn e to
,the obntofa g denamin, g. It'st
Ia earleatsres of welknkownp in s
stlrk about la all thcotha Igo into.
Whalten our '"soeles"h b t that
mas ftm. depralvg it? Tracts! We're
overdone withthem. I an pick mough
up any S aundy bout the lanes to keep
s L je- li tera for the rest of the
Sweek. owmuch better togea the Art
Oadolm to lettm reprtint thelir unes of
thn"Pelr's Progre," sad of the
" ~ Mrmr"m dtwoorthrseemoe,
and s them r mext to nothar-send
rtsem round redy-bound with the book
hawir s I'd warrant they'd g a sale.
But thsadlael:nt It ashows you
rat Ih mhavc mE ad thnat I can be
dtttabl eespe loo at ly anyof
,their wares. The Cornish are hfhly
I decoros, hut I'Prve seen bits of priats tat
it ae aever doa glrl amy good to look at,
n aor a boy either, and that rooms where
n h bg mB wason the little round table,
asbedwreored with an satLmsesar, In
the corner. There's another class of to
prints, too, bought, I Nancy, for their I at
glorious colors; these are simply the tt.
cheapest Romanist pictures. of which our at
unsophisticated folks don't know the lo
meaning. I could show you half a dozen ce
places where the Pope is execrated, and d
Home held in reprobation. and yet on the to
walls are "The Seven Colors of Mary. or sh
the Sacred Heart." Yes; I am sure our in
"societies"-Tract and Christian Knowl- pi
edge-might do a great deal with advan- tr
tage in the way of pictumes for the poor. ci:
BIut I was telling you about Mrs. Bo- In
sanco. Well, she aid well enough that all
two shilings, and a shilling more, of
alter letting another week drop, and then, at
after waiting a good bit, anpther couple f1
of shillings : and then, without waiting to bt
pay up all,whatdid she do but buy a pair of
green glass ear-rings and a brooch to I
match-(these Cornish girls are all mad nt
after jewelry; it's in the blood, I think) as
-and half a crown's worth of flowers- to
" real flowers" they always call the artiti- sa
cial ones, because they last longest, I sup- ur
pose. I once had the honor of walking su
over three miles of mooralengside of 1er ht
Majesty's inspector of schools for our dis- jt"
tricrt and he-a Cornish man, too-stuck pa
up for this love of " flowers." and I think lo
he even had a weakness foir the rings and he
glass jewels; "it siowed taste strugg!ilg ga
against difficulties." I don't agree with co
him. It wouldn't do for me to give up ate
selling what every body wants to buy; m
but if I could afford to keep a conscience tih
(as somebody says-you see I'm a well- w,
read man, thanks to my Scotch friends wi
for that), I'd never sell any of that rub- ac
tish any amore, I've seen the harm of it, it
and know how often a fly-away hat full wi
of flowers covers an uncombed head, "1
and a gorgeous brooch fastens a torn Ii
dress with nothing but rags underneath ft
it. And as to the mischief in other ways, lx
young Blobbles, who's a "lady's man," w,
could tell, and does tell, too, much about "t
that; and I'm afraid more than half of it A
is true.
So, mind. I didn't try to sell those y<
things to Mrs. II.; I only showed them
with tre rest of my stock, and she singled
them out as a banker would a false note
amid a pile of good ones. Buy them she
would, and she'd manage the paying. i
And she did for awhile; but when her th
husband for three months brought home fit
nine, and twelve, and eight shillings, and a
then went up to fifty, and then down to
two pounds, and stuck there for a twelve 02
month, she having her second baby, and
and a long bout of fever, too, during the m
while, how could the poor woman pay, I "a
should like to know ? Of course my way 3'
was plain. I couldn't afford to lose; and
so at last I had to tell her husband, and be
the storming rages he got Into were
enough to frighten a body. He wasn't a'
going to pay her debts, he d go to prison tli
first - but he did pay a little, and then he al
coul' pay no more; he had debts at 'a
"shop ' and little gettings, and so I was n
obliged to county-court him; and some
how he did get into Bodmin jail, as p'
he said he would. What could I th
do? It wasn't my fault, you know. 1I
It's that horrid gambling plan tha:t c
they call "tribute work." Nothing a
throws me out of my reckoning like that; f
there's no certainty in a man's pay. yl
Where a man works "to wages" you
know what he gets, and what is wife can
afford, and in many parts (though seldom h'
in this teetotal district) anything that's is
spent on your wares is saved from the em
beer-shop. But a tributer may get six hi
pounds one month, and nothing at all the P'
next. I was up at Haley o$e day, and I
met an old fellow I'd known rears before hI
as a miner, taking a load of early Cornish a
cabbages to sel. "Hallo!" said I; Ix
"them sort of things don't grow down in f
Wheal Kitty." "No," he rejoined; "no a
more Wheales for me. I had two-and- 0o
thir years of it, man and boy and how el
do you think I stood when I left off? b'
Why, seven shillings on the wrong side,
and one month I made as much as eight P
Sounds. No more tribute work for me m
I've turned market-gardener; it pays, and lI
there's no miner's disase."
Let me explain this. In a mine the h'
"grassmen" (surface workers), who look it
after the water, the stamps, etc., get in
wages from two pounds five shil
lings to two pounds ten shllings a
month, rarely higI.er. The underground
men are either "at tutwork," the ground e
bein let out to the lowest bidder at so e
mun a fathom, or "under tribute," in
which case, after paying their share to- g
ward the working expenses, wear and
tear of tools, etc.,they get previously- A
arrauged proportion ofthe value of the tin b
which they have raised.
This "tut-work" is uncertain enough.
The rock varies every few fathoms, and
the men's constant complaint is that the
mine captains won't set long larains, e
for fearif a manhas bought ahar bl I
dear he might come to a very soft bt be
fore hemad his length. "A tt"' man
sometimes makes very little "when the
ground do turn agaInst him."
But "trmiute" is as gambling as specu
lating in mine shares. A man may have
a ich lode, and then his gettings 'are
worth having. Half St. Fusty was built t
in that way by tributers in North Levant. a
But mines are poorer now-adays, and i
mine captains are sharper. They take
care to put all the rich lodes to tat-work, t
ad If a man does make six pounds one t
month they're pretty sure to "cut him
down" for three or four months to I
comae. *
That's why so many men have gone
abroad. Assoon as the high price of tin
forced up wages a little, an so gave them
a pound or two in hand, off they went, to I
the Immense disgust of prsers and cap
tals. It was qatea rtampede lst spring.
You se, trisute kapoorllfe. Suppo 1
gamam -only digs out ok nd earth, I
his lode thinniag out to nothiMng, why he
doesa't receive a shilling at the month's
end, and has his candles, tools, powder,
and mine dues to pay for out of his capi
tal, if he has any. An ahomiaable sys- 1
enm, and keeping the men slaves to the
shops, alwai in that wretched state of
lving fnrma d to mouth, It's just a
trick to work poor mines that never
ought tobe worked cat all, by taklg the
men intos partnerabp of the headsl wIm
tals you loe rt. No mIae oght ever
ro be hl ou which an't aromi to pay
fair wedy, not outh, wages to its
orkmen·; and shaee minm vay from
riehaens to poerty, mines ought, to my
thinking, to be worked by the state.
However, that's not the point; what I
Ssamy is that tribute uined the Bosanaos,
p andhas do em ouat of many a homest
Sshllig. Hoaest, I . for I'm,as I told
I you, a hghl pe ladividual; I'd
mo atodo rhatlf ths mlmerin my
Sa dei~t la-proote a mie th t
I wt outmae tmay theM
tem k wth sad drop hm wherea the
r uo seIt gave htim b re atn to at the
t week-dsay evening means of gra.ce. Very
Sreligious men, and yet they do sarange
a thngs-things that I should scorn.
, Yet, somehow, respectable as I
a am, squire, and parson, ad doe-I
tor, all look suspiciously on me;
and they say I sell ba I goods. and charge i
twelve shlillings for what could be bought
at shop fir six. They say I egg women bi
on to extravaiance, and make them de- C
ceielfl, and so bring all sorts o evils on 4M
-Amilies: and that when a woman takes C
to cheating her husband about shillings,
she wont stop there. I don't know; I
must leave it to you to judge, my candid at
public. Remember, I'm a missionary Iii
trade; what a grand title in this commler- r
cial country ! 1 walk hundreds of miles is
in the year, in the cause of Manchester KE
and Paisley and Birmingham. I'm a sort In
of Livingstone here inn West ldrharv. h.
and, as for cheating-not if I know it.
Of course, quality and all that's the li
buyer's look-out. I'm not going to cry of
"stinking fish" to please any parson. ck
I just act up to the exigencies of busi- '1
ness (that's tihe phrase), and you know di
as well as I do, that every plate glass dr
tradesman of them all does the of
samne. 1)o Messrs. llookemi and Sqee.-l its
ur rise above my level when they ot
supply some O)xford mooncalf with a V
hundred pounds' worth of (mostly female) to
jewelry? Or is the mooncalf's tailor a "'
pattern to Johnny Fortnights when he al
lows little suppers to be given in his bI
house, and puts down the same, wine, ci- o0
gars, and all, in his bill as coats an l waist- st
coats? 1 think I'm a good many cuts ii
above that kind of work. I work hard for to
my shilling: and though I once overheard *ti
the parson of St. Fusty soundly rating a t
woman whom he'd been relieving, and iti
where I'd juinst called to look after an old II
account, he didn't convince me that I got hi
it dishonestly as things go. I don't say, li
with my prototype in Shakespeare." G
"What a fool is honesty :" but neither do at
I see why I should shut my mouth "when f'
iortune trops boioties into it." lko you. no
baker, who have been filled for short nIt
welwht, or more adulterating publican, at
"call me rogue." an' you will. Like J
Antolycus, "''m proof against that title"
-at any rate when bestowed by such as at
you.-All the Year R~,tad. Is
What Folks are lade if. fo
Tint number of bones in a hunmau body II
is get erally estimated at 245, of which ti
there are reckoned in the skull, head and s
ftac, 61l; in the trunk, l ; in the arms II
and hands, GO, and in the legs and feet, f;
60. The weight of the skeleton is about gi
one-tenth the weight of the whole body. di
Bone, when used as a lever, Is 22 times
as strong as sandstone, :1 times as strong of
as lead. nearly 2) times as strong as box, at
yew and oak timber. 1i
The number of muscles in a man is .540 di
being more than twice the number of the a
bones. Th'e bulk on the body, upon an s
average, Is equal to a cube of a little more hi
than sixteen inches on a side, and the H
amount of water equals a cube a little is
more than fourteen inches. on a side, or gi
nearly three-fourths of the body. u
An adult drinks about fifteen hundred st
pounds of water yearly, and throws off, he
through the various waste-gates, nineteen b,
hundred pounds. The diftculty of ac
counting for the four hundred pounds
has led some to suppose that the water is t
formed in the system by the union of ox- at
yen and hydrogen. i
i'he salts that have been enumerated it
are found in almost every part of the it
body. Common salt (chloride of sodium) I
Is found in every fluid and solid, except g
enamel. The whole amount in the human ti
body is 277 grains. It serves many Im- a
portant uses. g
Carbonic acid is found in the lungs, al
imentary canal, the blood and urine. The p
amount of carbonic acid, however, varies, (
being from one to three pounds in twenty- p
four hours, and the causes of variation i
are temperature, age, sex. state of health rl
or disease, development of the body, mus- f;
cular exertion or repose. This gas (car- ,
bonic acid) contains, in every 100 pounds,
28 pounds of carbon (charcoal), and 72 1
pounds of oxygen (gas). Hence the t
maximum weight of carbon which escapes g
in this form from the lungs of a full-grown (
man is about fifteen ounces in twenty-four
hours. (
The averageamount of air which passes
in and out of the lungs at each Inspiration a
is about 20 cubic inches: the amount
passed through them in twenty-four hours 1
is about 622,000 cubeic inches, or, as others t
estimate it, from :1,000 to 5,000 gallons I
every day. This varies greatly. In the c
first place, the lower the temperature the
greater the amount of animal heat
to be gathered, and, consequently, I
the amount of air to be consumed.
Also a person laboring In the open air
breathes more deeply than one confined
to the house. From a series of 5000 ob
servatio:ns made by Dr. Hutchinson, the I
following principle is deducted: "For t
every inch of stature from five to six feet,
eight additional cubic inches of air are
carried out at a forced expiration after a
fhll inspiration." That is, If a person live
feet six inches in height can expire 422 I
cubic inchesa person five feet sevenineh
es can expire 430 cubic inches.
The nails of the hand grow about two
fifths of a line per week, while those of
the feet require four times that period for
the same mount of growth. Cases are
on record where the nails havebeen shed
periodically. The timhue n'sury for a
nail to grow its whole lengh varies from
twelve to twenty weeks. The nails are
thickest at their most convex portions,
instead of their edges; they grow ouly so
long as they are cut, and among the lite
rary class of the Chinese, who never cut
their nails, they are said to attain only a
length of two Inches.
In man, the average weight of the brain
Is M ounces, in females, 45. The average
apacity of the crania of Germans and
Anglo-axona s s90 cable inches. Daniel
Webster's cranium contained 12 cuble
inches.
The amount of blood in a healthy body
is about eighteen pounds, or ten quarts.
The heart is six Inches in length and four
inches in diameter, and beats 70 times per
minute, 4.200 times per hour, 100,800 times
3per 0, 36,72000 times per year, 2,560,
440 times in three-core and ten; at
each best 2.182 ounces of blood are thrown
out of it; 175 ounces per minute, 6Oi6
pounds perhour, 7 3-4 tons perday. In
an ordinary life of a man, the beart beats
Sat least 3,000,000,000 times and propels
through the aorta 1,500,000 to of blood.
The amount of gastric juice secreted by
Sthe stomach of a Well-fed grown person,
Shas been estimated at from10 to 80 ounces
in twenty-four hours. A healthy stom
I aeh'contains no gastrie juice except where
food is taken, and by its contact with the
Ssurface of the mueoaus membrane excites
I the secreting organs to pour out the gas.
I trie lid in the requisite quantity. If the
, stomach is in a healthy codition, and the
t brtin healthy the quantity of gastric
jue reaeed or thrown out will be just
saent bfor healthy digestion. If the
a condition of either organ be tapprled, the
C gastric Juiae sereted may be either def
f cient in quantity or vitiated in quality.
0 Let us study ourselves, that we may
nderstand ourselves better. The proper
t study of mankind is a.
- LI order to quiet the maidens' fears of
e their constancy, the lovers in the eastern
Spartof Maine bind themselves by a prom
[aaory note as follows: "Haxron , Me.,
Sept., 19,1872.-Dear Mary : I promise to
I marry you in six months from date.
. Yours lovintgly, . N."
Patent for Irawing a Prize. to
llr'O r.a is rather a suspicious name, i h
but a little story in which it figures in the :I
:levelantl Padesdsr is well authenticat- - 1sl
etl. Frank hugger keeps a salon in ta
Cleveland, and Mrs. Hugger, his wife, "1
somaetimes tends bar, and handsomely p:
waits upon customers. Mathias Curth is it.
an occasional customer. All the persons to
nammed are Germans, and have great rev- Al
ernee for old German customs. Curth l oa
is a good natured saddler who allows his K
generosity to get the better of his judg- tit
mnent, and, although he works hard and sa
has a great deal of money owing to him, mi
h:e sometimes cannot collec.t his dues. Ills hit
financial embarrassments thus produced
of ten make him melancholy and despomn
dent and diss tilstled with all the world.
TLen he goes to lhugger's saloon for a
drink of his favorite beverage, plain lager, sh
drawn, if not brewed, by the fair hands it
of Mrs. llaugger. This revives his s1.ir- ea
its, but does not collect his bills. The In
other day he was unusually dispirited. is
Visions of constables anti sheiaffi began rim
to haunt him, and he hastened into Il tg- tih
"er's to get a drink, lie was far from in
iapipy and began to t:dk over his trou- til
bles with Mrs. llugger. lie took a see- re
ond and third glass and then a bright idea pi
struck hint. It was a thought born of r
his FatLerland, the pleasant German eas- ut
tom of "kissing for luck." lie had read wi
lthe tempting announcement of thei "G rd se
Gilt concemrt of the llarmonie society," at of
tihe Oetroit Opera-house on tihe 21st inst. A
lit proplose to Mrs. Hugger that they fri
buy a ticket between them and kiss for TI
Iuck over it, according to the good old be
Germani custom. The lady thought
she wouldn't go into the speculation. or
S'urth pressed the matter, and stated his i w
necessities so feelingly that Mrs. Hugger at
finally consented to buy a ticket with him, thi
anti they two then and there kissed for se
luck as the German custom is. over the fit
bargain. They two repaired to a book- in
store where the tickets were for sale, to
bought one between them, each paying to
hall the price and then and there kissel n
for luck over the purchase in accordance th
with the sweet old German custom. Mrs. ih
llugger then resumed her place behind th
the bar, and Curth wended his way to the N
saddle-shop a happier if not a richer man. a'
lie had great faith in the German patent SI
for drawing a prize and immediately be- tt
gan to see lis way out of all his financial ii
dialculties. de
This transaction took place on the 20th ca
of January. The drawing was next day, t(
and he would not have long to wait for ti
his luck to change. That night he a
dreamed that the ticket in which he hrId I(
a half share drew $.00-$250 would be P
something. Hle rose early and treated It
himself to a holiday. lie ,as soon at Ic
Hiugger's saloon and told his dream. It c
is to be presumed that he took several p
glasses of lager. according to the old Ger
man custom. lie became so certain of v,
success by virtue of German customs that at
lie offered to bet the drinks with every- U
body that came in that he would win a i
prize. hugger's customers laughed at d
him and took all such bets, and then all v
took a drink. So the morning wore away n
and Curth felt himself already a rich man. el
Mrs. Hugger had more faith in the thriv- n
ing business she was doing in lager, than tl
in the drawing which was taking place in
Dk.troit. Curth had Informed the mana.
gers of the drawing of the number of the
ticket held by Mrs. Hugger; and in the a
atternoon Mrs. Hugger received a tel
graphic dispatch announcing that this t
partnership ticket had drawn the grand I
prise, ,000. It was rather more than ai
Curth expected, but he exhibited no sur
prise at the announcement. Mrs. Hug- t
ger was suspicious and did not believe in I
her extraordinary luck until she read the e
following dispatch in the Cleveland Plai- I
dealer of the 22d inst: I
DSrnotº, Jan. l.--The drawing of the t
Harmonic gift concert Is taking place at I
the opera-house to-day. The irst prize e
$20,000, was drawn by Mrs. Hugger, of I
Cleveland, Ohio. I
There was no further doubt about it. I
Curth thinks he can get along quite com- I
fortably on $10,000, forgives his debtors E
and means to cling forever to the tried a
and true old German customs. Hugger, I
himself, knows all about it now, anddoes
not object to the method which so vastly I
improved his fortunes. What delightful i
observances the German eustoma are! I
Why can't they be Introduced more gen
erally among Americans, especially waen
lotteries abound ? Then everybody might
draw a capital prize and no gentleman of I
any heart or generosity or sense would I
think of buying a ticket without first con- I
suiting a lady, sharing his fortune with I
her and "kissing for luck," according to
the good old Germa custom. By this s
method one might draw two prizes at the
same time, and in such cansea the money
wouldnothavetobe divkled. There are
many beautiful Germancuastoms, butkism
ing for luck with such reaults isthe ostt
admirable of them all.--Ercage.
SThePlage.
T Ta unprecedented Senatorial denoe
I ment in Kansas ranks with the most strik
ing noccurrences of history. It is a novel
I and startling diseiosure, of such a nature
as to exact extraordinary attention from
the people of the LUnited 8tates.
Everywhere crowd the indications of
Sorrnption. Wealth-seeking threatens to
tenguiph political life. If the highestposts
a are purchaable, shut the book of history
with cont.mpt, call the aspirations for
a freedom the vaporings of folly, and dis
a miss the notion of popular rule as the
I silliest of dreams. Are the highest posts
1 purchasable? How Iar is our Uoverm
e ment a Plutocracy ? To what extent has
the Purse in the lobby dominated the
people? The revelat os of Tammany,
the vast Iandgrants o COgress the Cred
r it Moblller exposures. the Calwell case
r as the type ofllke Instances, the notorious
a buying up of legislators and judges, the
outpouring of money to carry poplula
t elections and Legislative sehemes, all U
n lIstrate the suecess of the Purase in sMb
a jugating the peo Were this work to
n goonunchecked, we might slh forthe
ta rItturn of the herote age of brate force,
Is while we surrendered to the mean age of
I. gred. But thereis a measureless latent
y public sentiment, slow to be moved to ex
a, pression, but certain to pass inato action
as when his have grown past its endurance.
.- When or how it wiU aet, amid where it
e will stop when once fairly moused, no
me mortal knows. Something of Its temper
a gleams in the late demonstrations at To
e peka, and gives forth a war ning which all
e concerned will be wise to eh . If the
me essity of integrity beoms incompre
ic hesible to tnrutd leders In high plae,
st they wilt dnd the desplsed inhtsinoi
am honesty suddenly taking theahape of pop
me ulanrengeno. The common mind may
- liack snrtely, but it has stmrong hold of
certain d-shiod maxims that have
y ty to many adroit politicians
er and - l a lers, an wom these
I plain Iners the neeemlty b
]lictidltylupublle men. Inth vulg_
of perception of the indispensbienes of
ra something like moral preinipe in the ob
n- taining of sacred trusts, In the safety of
., the Republic.
to On one hand is the insidious growth
e.a I adpower of corrpteio, and on the oth
er the latent power eof ta people. The
task of patriotism is to arouse and direct
the latter in time, before the fornwr shall
have goaded it to fury. The part of sa
pacious politicians and political capital- tlhe
asts is to note the hopele,.ssness of under- the
taking to control parties and maintain h)o
"rings," for spoils. happily we have np
passed, saflly, a grave politicl ceri.is, and. wC
its objects securd. can devote attention all
to combating the hydra of corruption. rt.
All honest and patriotic men should now tni
join for.es in this tlght. The atl'ir in exn
Kansas powerfully appe'als to every sen- an
timuent of honor and of prltenete for ar we
salntary expression of the popular dtter
mination to have purity in the legislative tin
ian
Details of the Nortileet Ilsaster. lit
rep
The details of the terrible disaster to the die
ship Northfleet are published, from which tt:.
it appears that at lot o'clock at night the th
cat"laint andt others were alarmed by a cry lile
from the otier of the watch, "A steanter Nw:
is right into us." 'The captain and pilot we
rushal on deck,.but befwore they got there pr,
the steamer had run into th vessel. strik- the
ing her amidships and cutting her below *al
the water mark. The earlwenter quickly yi
reported her nearly half of water. The at,
pumlps were started promptly and the mi
crew worked hard at them for some lilu- pre
uties, but while it was found the water api
was rapidly ga:inine, a p mic seemed to do(
seize both crew authl pas;senger,. anmd the cat
oflhiers could not keep them in check. 11
A crowd of inen anld WOtllmen had rushed iup ott
from their berths, manty only hall clothel. e (i
The passengers had mostly retired, atnl to
but fi'w were undlllre;ig. r
The noise of the collision is likened bh 11 a
one of them to a peal of thiunlder. and surlitl
was the violence of the shock that those
standing were knocked downl. It appears ia
that the steamer rebounded and came a ('
second time in collision with the North- an
fleet. The water began to pour in, and .,e
in a very short time the passengers' qutar- fo
ters were swamlped. Women were slower hi
to rutsh on deck than men. and many were tie
not Ii a condition to go till the water rose th,
threateningly around them. No one on et
board the steamer was heard to speak, al- ca
though loud and eager shouts front the of
Northfleet must have made her crew ,
aware of the terrible danger that existed. sh
She backed for two or three minutes. and al
then steaming away, was s(oot out of il
sight. For half an hour the scene on the ,
deck of the Northtleet was apalling; men
cursing and swearing fought their way b3
towards the boats, while the captain and a
first mate roared out commalnllds to the m
men to keep back and allow the women g
to get to the side of the vessel, but ap- at
parently without success. Rockets were in
fired and blue lights burned. A gun was
loaded, and tie screw of the ramrod be- lt
came detached from the handle, and the )i
piece could not be discharged. w
Signals of distress were seen by several
vessels, but appear to have been regarded le
as signals for a pilot. for no assistance nt
was rendered. Meanwhile the scene on tl
deck baffled description. The captain, at
finding the men determined to leave the ,
vessel, went below, armed himself with ,
revolvers and ascending the poop, de
elared his determintation to shoot the first
man who iried t,: leave the vessel before
the women were saved. The first loat
launclhed was lowered by a number of
sengers by cutting the ropes. There is
being no ladder at hand, the only way of el
getting into it was by leaping or dropping o
some ten or fifteen feet. As there was a y
terrible rush towards the boat, the scene I
was one of distressed confusion, and a si
man and boy fell into the water and were e
drowned. The officers did all they could a
to force the men who first got into the N
boat to leave it, that the women might be ii
saved, but to no purpose, even tiring with ,
blank cartridges, it is supposed, at first. d
It was unavailing, however. About thir
tv persons having got into the boat it put
off with not one of the crew In it. An- 6
other life-boat was launched and a man d
got into it; he was ordered to leave, and f
refusing, the captain shot him in the calf f
of the leg. Capt. Knowles then placed
his wife in the boat and said to the boat- r
swain, who had already got in, "Here's
a charge for you, bosen . Take care of
her and the rest, and God bless you." I
Wringing his wife's hand he bade her I
good-bye, saying: "I shall never see you j
igain.' It is impossible to describe the t
panic that raged at this time.
Heart-rending shrieks on all sides. A e
passenger seeing the captain's wife int the i
t boat, threw his own wife In, Ia4d her n
baby to her and then emterle e boat t
himself. A little girl was thro*n into
the boat by her father, who tried to save a
the rest of his family, but the seething, t
maddened crowd pressing toward theside i
of the vessel prevented him, and with Iis ~
wife and two other children he went down t
with the ill-fted vessel.
The engineer made frantie efforts to
save his wife and children, but was
jammedl between thecook-houseand gun
wale and received dreadlfil ilojutes,
though he was afterwards rescued In a p re-I
carious state. Only two of the seven
boats aboard were lannehed, owngn, no
doubt to the panic, and one was riously
Injured.as the tackle ad boat fell into the
sea. When the asecod boat had got off it
1 seemed to become a question of moments. I
SThe quarter-deek was erowded by men,
Swomen and children. some crTing, swear
ing and praying. The aptain and pilot
Swere together, and the latter was heard
Sto say, " It you want to save yourselves,
a make for the top-mast," to which many
Por people rushed. Ina quarter of an
hour a tug picked up the second hoat with
-thirty occupants, and then steamed for
e some time round thespot. Aboutthre
s narters of an hour alter being struck,
Sthe Northfleet went down with an awful
Ssuddenness. Three hundred and twenty
e seven souls were on board at that me
, ment. The Arstboat was 100 yards, and
- the second only twenty or thirty from
e the vessel. The crew of the first boat,
Safter landing the women, rowed around
a the seen :of the wreckand saved fivemen,
r trying to swim to the showre. A lugger
- took off theoccupants of the second boat,
- thirty-four passengers, and a pilot cutter
o resued the pilot and ten men, Who, hay
eIinggone down with the veral, rose to
, the surtee and eldng to the ial-op
f mastrigging. Tht vesel lies in eleven
t fathoms of water. Th srvirs sayl the
* captaIn displayed the reatest heroism,
n maintained his presence of mind, and
from first to last strove hard to put an
t end to the panic and did his dutty bravely
u to the end. He was at the last moment
r going across the deek in the hope of en
Sabagi some of the crowd croaching
1 round the boats on that side to get away
re om the ship. The survivors say the
- other boats got adrift whben the ship sunk,
, andexpress a ellef if the pasonger had
Sallowed them to be lowered propery they
p- could have saved at least100 more lives.
y The unfortunate women could not delimb
f the masts, although tbhdid all In thlir
le power to help themn, Coeqently, all
ai the women and children, with the axeep
e I don of the captain's wife and another and
b I twochildren, were drowned.
of WALLA WAuLL, In Washington Territo
- ry, has what it euphemistieally terms a
41 "moiety for proteetlon against cattle anad
hore-tlieves," with a central counell,
b and branches for the administration of
h- jrustce. These branches vary frog ten to
he twMenty ee frMa the groun .
Intellectual Overwork.
A.' a rule, we shoull s:ay tlhat
the comnplaillts of overwork ari :moinhgt
the mollut limsnnv of a'll the ,x u.ll.s set uill,
by umtwe for tile vils which they brhilng
upon tlheuselves. Very fiew ,ople really
work hard : and when tlhey dl,. It genaer
ally agre~s with tlheml. Iirectly'or indi
rt"ctly. idleness ales' fifty tinaesr as lmuchli
,nisa.hief. for the best care fir the love of
excitemnent is stea:ly alpplieatilon. A vast
amountll ofgaodl pity is thlrowtn away ill the
worldl: an,. instead of solemnaly warning
our friendsl no to do too luinll. we .lshouldi
tind it simpler to refilse the ildiraect coun
pliment for which they are inianeuverinag.
an I advise thln to reIax their mindl by a
little strenluous a .tivity. When the danger
really exists. it may generally he remn
dled ralher by redict1ributing the burden
thatn by dinmiJnishing It. .\ ve.ry slight
physical exertion mayv injure a man for
life.if only lie undertakes it in the wron i
way. 'Try to lift a thousand paunnds'
weight by a sudden jerk, and you may
aproihally break a bhalon-vessel. livideh
the weight into ten portion, andit lift e,'h
,.ainily by itself, and the exerise mal.y (dl
yo:i gaoo. Hun a mile alter a liheavy meal,
anlld you may be hijured lir life: walk ten
milies a day, alnd youl may niaterially in,
prove your health. The samle principle is
applicalle to intellec'tual labor. To lay
down any general rules is lniposiiblet. iw
caule c ilintiutlion Vary infinitely. One
ilain requliren twice: ae much i 'eep as all
othler; one manl can do work befonre break
tst whlen another findsa it anIswer better
to sit uip at nightt: and so on. A few
plractical rules will Iwe learnt by practice.
The Law'l, for example in a snlisiile pa
Ier on the subject, remarks lpol the inm
loirtance for nnieli who work at -night of
hlavlng a whlitei,powerli, aind steadly light
coneenitrated union their palper: Ilickering
and diffused light being one of the most
seriouls caale of brain irritation. Goodt
food. with a nloderate supplily of stiniu
l.nts, and a inlal pipe before turniing into
weil, is a comnfortable recommendln ation of
the same authority : whilst, of course, ex
tess in tobacco and alcohol i a conistant
cause of the Incapacity for sleep which is
often coniplacently attributed to over
work. The rule is, in short, that a mati
should take care that lie gets good sleep
and keeps Iis digestion in order. A little
unprjualiced observation of his own
svmuptonis will teach a man 'of ordinary
sense how to keep himself in hemlth : antd,
by a judicious arrangement of his time
and habits he will find that lie can do as
much work with perfect Impunity as will
serve him, if he so pleases, with an adminlr
able excuse. Eat too much, drink too
mlach, smoke too much. and doeverything
in a hurry and at the wrong time, and five
lhours a day may send you to an early
grave. Show a little common sense, andl
without injuring your health you may be
as voluminous ant author as Voltaire, or
do as much legal or officia! work as the
most Industrious minister or barrister of
the day, andi see your children's children.
and laugh at the degeneracy of tihe rising
generation in the twentieth century.
LJr,,atn Silaurdamy R,'ri,'.
Knlg Bill.
The king-elect of the Sandwich Islands
i. a bachelor. lie has been engaged sev
elal times to Victoria Kamamalt, a sister
of the late king. This lady died about two
º years ago. It was more the late king's
desire to have "Prince Bill" marry his
I sister than it wa the former's wish to
espouse Victoria. It was hoped that such
an alliance would better perpetuate the
Kamehameha dynasty. VIctoria wasanx
lous to capture the handsome bachelor.
I who was her junior by several years ant!
did not allow
'iersailment, like the worm I' the mutt,
t Feed u*on her lamuagatl caheek,"
r but laid siege to his heart by every art,
device and blandishment known to the
I femaltmind. The gallant prince, thoughl
f not reelprocatlng this ardent attachment
was still willing, for state reasons, to unite
with her In the bonds of matrimony. The
d preparations for the regal nuptials were
f all complete on more than one occasion.
A liberal trousseau was imported front
r 'Paris, the date was fixed, the marriage
i feast spread, and everybody was ready for
SUthe wedding except the bridegroom.
"Prince Bill" got gloriously drunk on the
day fixed for the alliance. Instead of go
Slung on his honeymoon he went on a terri
r ble spree, and was transported to his
t home on a wheel barrow.to the Inteneecha
t grin of his allianced and the mortlflecalon
e and disgust of all the chiefs and nobles of
' the little kingdom. Another day was
e fixed for the marrag, with the same dis
® astrous conclusion. It is said that alter
a this the princess became too partial to the
flowingt bowl and drowned her vexations
Sin royal "tanglefoot," seldom enioying a
Ssober paeiod. Mutual friends still, how
ever, endeavored to bring about the union
Sof Lunllio and Kamamalu, and might
have esucceeded had it been possible toget .
I either of them sober enough to stand be
fore the altar. When "Bill" was sober it
Sturned out that "Vie" was drunk, and
Swhben "Vie" was sober"Bill" was drunk.
It Finallly the attempt to unite the two
Sbranches of the family was abandoned,
"and the poor princeses, so the romance
runs, drank herself to a premature grave.
The oung kinl is therefore yet single,
and or the exclusive benefit of our un mar
Sried lady readers we will add that he is
y aid to be particularly "sweet" on Amer
a ican ladkis. Here isa u magnitileent ehance
h for some of our belles to capture royal
r game, and only think of it-a king at
" that.-&ekeaage.
- Where the ban de mt tSet.
Id A scwr witnessed by some travelers
n in the North of Norway, from a cliff one
,t, thousand feet above the sea, is thus de
ad scribed:
a, "The ocean stretched away in silent
rr vastness at our feet; the sound of waves
tr, scarcelv reached our alry lookout; away
ier in the North the huge oll sun swung low "
r- along the horizon, like the slow beat of
to the iamdulut in the tall clock qt our
p Ig a ' parlor corner. We ll steed
il lent,. loclg at our wa~lbes. Whben
e1 both had s e the. it twalve, mid
 I ngtt, fnl nM mb h rMp
ld stly iovebthe wamrs, aili dfof
ai runnlngdue north spaig the water be
yI tween us and him. There lal shone in si
mt lent majesty, which knew no eWttllag. We
- nvonm tarly took off our hats; no word
ig was maid. Comne. If you can, the moat
Iy brilliant sunrise and sunset you ever saw
Ie and the besauties will pale before the gor
k, leous coloring which no l lit up ocean, ,
ll Ihee and maonulan. In half n hour
cy the man had swnlg up percepibly In his
. beat, the eolor elagedto thoee of morn
ab Ing, eh beeae riappled over the flood,
owe N ter~t ·a nother piped up in the
bl ua--lus-we had slid another
A sTrramL entemporary, evidlently
edited by a badclor, uses the following
to elaborate metalor: "I have seen lovers
s alook into eache other's eves with that
ad sublimely silly expression characteristic
il.of such unfortunates, somewhat like the
of piteous, appealng look of a forlorn calf
ito going home through the rdn." This ex
preeslon has been patented.
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