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VOL. XII.
let bya axis bk hvooxks.
Let bygoDf' In' l>yir*iu‘s; if bygones In* clouded
Bt might Umt oi'cusloned h pang of regret,
Oh. let them in darkest oblivion be shrouded;
'Tie wise and 'Us kind to forgive and forget.
Let bygones be bvgones. and good be extracted
From ill over which it is folly to fret;
The widest of mortals have foolishly acted
The kindest are thus" who forgive and forget.
Let bygones be bygones; oil. ebarish no longer
The thought that the enu of affection has set;
Eclipsed for a moment, its rays will be stronger.
If you, like a Christian, forgive and forget.
Let bygones be bygones; your heart will ho
lighter.
When kindness of yours with reception has
m ci;
rite ffanic of your love will he purer and brighter
If, Uorllke. you strive to forgive and forget.
Let bygoms In bygones; oh, purge out the
leaven
Of malice, and try an example to set
To others, who. craving the mercy of heaven,
Are sadly too slow to I irgivoa n'd forget.
I.ci bygones be bygones; remember bow deeply
To heaven's forbearauee we ail are in debt ;
7bev value Ho i's Inllnite goodness too cheaply
To heed not the precept, Forgive and forget."
—Chambers' Journal
“ Highly UrntPi'l."
Jlv Mrs Lncia Utlbert Kunklc, in the New York
Independent.
•• 1 assure you, Madam," oh ervod the
iluent salesman, deftly folding and pat
ting the soft gingham—“ 1 assure you
that this pattern is highly genteel. Wo
have almost the same identical descrip
tion of stripe in foulard and in summer
silk, and you could hardly distinguish
them apart. There really is not a more
superior style in this establishment.'’
I bought the gingham, in spite of the
ovation, and that young man will go to
his grave believing that his Mattering
tongue persuaded me. 1 don’t mind
being misunderstood. Having had
viino to grow calm, 1 don't very much
mind the youth himself, though I con
fess that at the moment his little con
ceited nose and his delight in his own
voice were exasperating. Ha maybe
embodied virtue. Perhaps he is the
comfort of a widowed mother. Per
haps lie is the tender father of six
motherless Indies. Helpless brothers
and sisters may look to him for bread.
The Young Men’s Christian Association,
not improbably, Muds him a useful
member. And, of course, we cannot
choose our noses. He may even he
dissatistiod with the “identical descrip
tion’’ of his. But, after giving him the
benefit of all these doubts, I maintain
that he is one of a vast tribe who make
war against a great interest of society.
The grand sachems thereof sit in Con
gress, debate in conventions, (ill editors’
chairs, write papers for the magazines.
The inconspicuous rank and file, whose
multitude is ns the sands of the sea.
may be found in bank-parlors and bar
rooms, in mansions and tenement
houses, in churches and prisons. They
are both male and female, both bund
and free, old or young, rich or poor,
good or had. indifferently.
They have no name. They have no
rallying cry. They arc not conscious of
the foil instincts of destroyers. Never
theless, one and all, do they mock, de
base, wound, weaken, and enslave our
noble mother-tongue.
Coleridge said that it was a kind of
providence which gave to the world, at
about the same time, the translation of
the Bible and the works of greatest Eng
lish writers —Shakespeare,Bacon, I look
er; so that, hv a double power, the lan
guage might lielixcd just when it was iu
"its highest perfection. But the diction
oi the Bible and of Shakespeare is not
half line enough for popular usage. Our
gowns are not more tastelessly over
trimmed than our speech. Our houses,
bristling with sham ornament, within
and without, are not mure tawdry than
our phrases.
I know thut mine is a threadbare
complaint, (mod Master William ilar
risen, rector of Had-winler and liege of
Queen Hess, was much troubled about
this matter. Ho says: “Not a few do
greatly seek to stain onr language by
fond affectation of strange words, pre
suming that to be the best English
which is most corrupted with external
terms of eloquence and sound of many
syllable*. Vet Mistress Harrison was not
forced to buy her household stuff in
“ establishments,’’ nor was the parson's
niece soul vexed within him by the con
tents of a daily journal.
I, more unfortunate, open my morn
ning paper to read in the Washington
column “Mr. Dash [Hig-Kndian Lilli
put] moved that the bill be referred,
and said: “ If I appear desirous to a—
sumo the initiative in a discussion so
momentous, permit me to solicit the
indulgent consideration,” etc., etc. liy
which, 1 suppose, the great senator
meant that, as the time had come to open
the debate, he was ready to begin. The
(thibelline stale convention being in ses
sion at Athens, a delegate is reported
thus: ■ Advancing with energetic elas
ticity, the reverberating tread of the
legionaries of the patriotic Ghihelline
party u—ure- their triumph—' Victory
blazoned on their banners, I aion and
Liberty in-cribed upon their hearts.” j
cannot say* that lids gem was filched
from Topper's treasury, not having the
works of mat sage by me: but it is unite
worthy of the lord who turned r*t. Paul's
“Godliness, with contentment, is great
gain” into "Godliness and content-:
ment, these be the pillars of felicity.” 1
My morning paper goes on to speak |
MINERAL POINT, WIS., FRIDAY, APRIL l\>, IS7S.
of lire as “the devastating element."
Concerning the bursting of a dam I am
assured that the " elemental forces
wrestled in a Titantie struggle with the
utmost resistance of man": meaning,
probably, that hay hales were in vain.
Ofeenrse, the line of the Mood is the
" theati r of desolation." as the losers hv
it are the "unfortunate victims of this
unexampled calamity." A public
building, I Mud, is not nearly done, hut
"gradually approaches eomnleliou."
A notable criminal has not been put iu
jail, hut has "sutl’ered the pmaltyof
his crime and entered upon his incar
ceration for the period of ten years."
A slandered man has not gone to law,
hut “ instituted legal proceedings."
And, finally, from this well of English
undetiled 1 draw up (anil now, by the
by, in the editorial bucket 1 these -park
ling draughts: " Considerations indubi
tably tending to aeeellerate pacifica
tion"; “conditions which ought not to
| disqualify a solitary individual": "en
tirely destitute of intellectual nutri
tion.”
Certain of the magazines can give the
newspapers odds in the matter of line
writing. I could quote from popular
novelists who seem to have " been at a
groat feast of languages and stolen the
serai's": to have “lived long on the
alms-hasket of words."
Perhaps it is their example which
has launched a fleet of uneeessary for
eign words and phrases on the stream
of talk. Some aliens there are, it is
true, so useful, so puniest, so desirable
that we ought to treat them as kindred.
1 do not see how we could spare apropos,
ennui, depot (not in the sense of station,
however, which is a had use of a good
word,) protene, survedanee, prestiye, liiiu
boyanl. It is a convenience, at last, to
have iu the family words so significant
as passe, outre, pronomr, tnntaye, vis-a vis,
tete-a-tete, debut, and concise phrases like
esjririt itn cons, lout ensemble, or i/u/ge far
nientc. But it would he better to write
them English fashion, as we do aproftos.
We might give up porb.-uionnae without
a sigh, “purse” or "wallet” being
equal to our needs, “ Envelope ”is a
good English word, and ought not to he
pronounced in the Yankee-French
manner; while it should he reckoned a
high crime and misdemeanor to use
such affectations as matinee musicale, l>al
costume , soiree dansante. sans cere monies, or
the hard-worked and needless menu and
recherche. My old freind Harrison had
a word to say on this point also, and
mentions that after the conquest “ the
English tongue grow into such contempt
at court that most men thought it no
small dishonor to speak any English
there; which bravery took his hold at
the last likewise iu the country with
every plowman, that even the very car
ters began to wax weary of their moth
er-tongue and labored to speak French,
which was then counted no small token
of gentility. “ But our Enlish ancestors
of the thirteenth century had a cloak
far their sins of syntax which their heirs
of the nineteenth lack.
“ Highly genteel ” as the French lan
guage is still considered, however, the
only words which it affords for the doors
of railway stations, the cabins of boats,
the windows of post-offices are “ Frm
nits,” and “ Homines." We are so polite
as to use “ Ladies ” and “ (ientlomen's”
in the like places, of, indeed, we do not
tall into a lower deep of vulgarity, and
write up “Gent’s.” My J hilly Food, the
morning paper aforesaid, advertises sit
uations for “ sales-ladies,” “ young ladies
to learn the sewing-machine”aiul“ pap
er-box making," and “ladies,”of the
ballet.” 1 detected no lurking satire in
i's allusion to the “ gentlemen who en
gineered the primary,” and it is not
ven long since a great dignitary ad
dressed a murderous mob as “Gentle
men.”
Vow, why must we say “ladies and
gentlemen." when we mean simply men
and women? Why need we write “ soli
tary individual ” when wo refer only to
one person? Perhaps “person" is in
exact,the root word signifying “a mask,”
not a human being. And it seems a
pity that we neglect the Saxon “wight,”
which is too good to lose. “ Person,"
however, ought to emancipate “indi
vidual,” at once and forever, from a de
grading bondage.
The old Laird of Anehinleck frowned
on the intimacy of hi> son and heir,
dames Boswell, with “aim that keepit a
schule and ca and it an academe.” 1 think
the principle was sound, though the ap
plication halted in that case. Hut the
plain citizen may well hesitate, to-day,
to send hi- children to common schools
which are advertised as seminaries and
academies, to business schools which
llaunt as commercial colleges, to schools
of arts which are polytechnic institutes,
and which have not the excuse of Dr.
Johnson at their head.
Of course, the engaging youth w.io
sold me the gingham is a “clerk "or
“a gentleman engaged in mercantile
pursuits." 1 1>• would he bramed with
Ids ow n yardstick rather than call him
self a salesman or his “ establishment”
a shop. He alludes to his wages as
“salary," and, if his pay is raised, as 1
fondly hope it may be, he will announce
to those helpless infants at home that
his “ income has been augmented.”
His employer is “ the proprietor of this
emporium. - ' His letters are “ epistolary
advices." His neighborhood is ” this
vicinitv."
The calling of a horse doctor is a
humane and honorable one. It is onlv
when he says he is a “ veterinary sur
geon “ that the man demeans him
se'f. He who cures corns and bun
ions is one of the world’s bene
factors. unless he calls himself a “chir
opodist, when he becomes a malefac
tor. an issuer of counterfeit speech. 1
take it that an author’s is a reputable
employment. Lawyers have been
known to attain honor and diguilv.
Lord Chatham said that its farmers
were the real strength and ‘■lamina of a
country. 1 wonder why t should be
thought "highly genteel" to describe
these respectable classes as "literary
j geuMemen." “gentlemen of the legal
profession,’ 'agricultural gentlemen."
1 wish young women could be taught
that it does not add a cubit to the stat
ure of a house to call it a " residence;"
that a church or even a meeting-house
; : 's venerable as " the sacred edifice;"
that it is no more genteel to "retire"
; than to go to bed; that the garment so
! fondly and slowly covered with side
plaitings, so coldly and quickly frayed
I out along the paving stones, is really a
gown, and not a "promenade costume:"
: that it need not bring a blush to the
| cheek of even Mr, Fodsnap’s Young
Person to say leg. instead of “limb,"
whim leg is meant; that the supper at
an evening party is not “an entertain
ment ;’’ and that there are well-founded
objections to the use of " nicely " as an
adjective describing the state of one’s
health. "To clothe low-creeping matter
with high-flown language,” said old
Fuller, “is not fine fancy, but Mat fool
ery. It rather loads than raises a wren
to fasten the feathers of an ostrich to
her wings.”
1 suppose young people will he mar
ried, in spite of Sir. Punch’s famous
advice. But, serious as that business
is, it is not half so awful as ‘lsolenmiz
ing their vows .-it the altar." The man
who could do that would register ".I,
Smith and lady" on his wedding journey
(mentioned I j him as his bridal tour,)
would speak of his home as his "do
mestic establishment,” and would say
that a “circumstance transpired” there,
meaning that something happened.
“He that can catch an ink-horn term
by the tail, him they count to be a line
Englishman," wrote a grammarian of
the sixteenth century. The number of
“fine" Americans, as 1 said, passes
count.
V vocabulary too good for the occa
sion is a vulgarity like linmonds at
breakfast or a trailing gown in the
street. Modesty and honesty of speech
belong to good breeding. To talk well
is the greatest of accomplishments, and
not possible, perhaps, to ns all. Hut
simplicity of phrase is in itself a kind
of eloquence, as a plain garb in an
overdressed assembly makes its wearer
seem distinguished.
‘'The bastinado?” says Captain Hoha
dil, in "F.very Man in his Humor."
“The bastinado? And how came he by
that word, trow?”
“Nay, indeed,” answers Matthew,
“//c saill cmhftl. I termed it bastinado,
for my more grace,"
Oh! highly genteel Matthew! How
my salesman would have loved thee'
Hut is it ever for our “more grace,”
when we mean ‘‘cudgel," to say “basti
nado?”
• ♦-
Sensations During Hanging.
A question has arisen which very few
living persons at ein a position to an
swer, I'iz.: what are the sensations ex
perienced during hanging? Some of the
few who have been aide tojgive any ac
count of their consciousness at so critical
a moment say that, after one* instant of
pain, the chief sensation is that of mass
of brilliant colors filling the eyeballs.
Quarlirlii linv-ti' (vol. Ixxxv.) treat
ing on this matter says: “An
acquaintance of Lord Huron,
who meant to hang himself
partially, lost his footing, and was cut
down at the last extremity, having near
ly paid for his curiosity with his life.
He declared that he fell no pain, and
his only sensations were of fire before
his eyes, which changed lirst to black
and then to skyblue. These colors
are even a source of pleasure. A Cap
tain Monlagmie. who was executed in
France during the religions wars, but
was rescued from the* gibbet at the in
tercession of Marshal Turcnne, com
plained that, having lust all pain in an
! instant, he had been taken from a light
of w hich the charm defied description.
Another c riminal, who escaped through
the breaking of the halter, said that,
after a second or two of suffering, a
light appeared, and across it a most
beautiful avenue of trees.” All agree
that the uneasiness is quite momentarv,
that a pleasurable feeling immediately
succeeds, that colors of various hues
start up before the eyes, and that these
having been gazed at for a limited space,
the rest is oblivion. Tne mind, averted
from the reality of the situation, is en
gaged in scenes the most remote from
that which fills the eye of the spectator,
All On )mr A run nil.
If I place my money in tin* savings
hank,” inquired one of the newly-arriv
ed. “when can I draw it out again?”
“Oh,” responded his Hibernian friend,
“sure an' if you put it in to-day, you
can get it out again to-morrow, by giv
ing thirty day’s notice.”
VHKUTI.TI KAI..
fitkuk are said to he bt" kinds of
apples, all traceable to the common
crab.
A n;w pieces of bark otf the root of
sassafras put iu their nests will prevent
or cure lice on hens.
SIIKWOVii in Ooimv, \Vts, shipped
during the yar 1577 I ,‘JS,pounds j
ol cheese, tor which the producers re !
eeived the round sum of $1 tb vj.V
I'm English government has issued
orders to nuy g’l.lHHt cavalry horses, M
each, the horsemen of (treat |
Britain will realize something like 1
irs'.tHHMHHI out of the SuO,(HH',OOO vote
lof credit for war purposes it the war'
i goes on.
fill' best time tor transplanting ever
| greens is just as ‘he buds are beginning
jto swell in soring; hut if much earth is
j carried with the roots, or enough to
I hold them erect against the wind.
I standing on the surface of the ground,
they may beset at almost any time,
except at the most rapid neriod of
giowth.
I loiisert d'lsii is a plant easily grown
and is very agreeable to most persons
as a seasoning to meats, and i- eon
sidered a healthy excitant of appetite.
It can he grown from cuttings m any
deep, rich soil, or even in a mucky one.
It is best alter standing out all winter.
In the vitality of the cities and i- e\
teiisively cultivated as a market crop,
and is tumid to he very profitable. For
family u-e a few plants will snlliee.
An idea of the size of some of the
big trees of California is given by the
following from the I'elaluma Aryus
.billies English is still at work on the
redwood tree he Idled at It.issia l\i\t-i
station some months ago. He has al
ready made from it ‘J.'iO.OOO shingles,
1.000 fence posts, (!,000 stakes, lumber
for a dwelling house and out building,
and has lumber left for ."00,000 more
shingles. The tree was fourteen feet in
diameter.
A ("mar In: Him ,hi 100 in one of
tin' greatest luxuries uf lif(>, mill should
I<> secured I>v each farmer and other
person wli.i has room for a small ice
house. My neighbor, Mr. (ieorge
Kingslnnd, of Kingsland, N, .1,. has the
most, complete icehouse and cool
room, at a moderate cost, that 1 have
seen. It is lit feet square outside, lit
feel high, I'J inch studs, inner lining of
hoards, and sawdust tilled between
inner and outer hoards to peak. The
Hour is ol plank. The house is located
oua hillside, with entrance door at
upper surface, and cool room doot at
lower surlace. The cool room is *1 hv
o feet and tlj feel high, which admits of
ice being packed on three sides and on
lop of it. This makes it so cold inside
in summer, that meat, milk, butter,
etc., freeze* therein, and remain so even
in the hottest weather. This is upon
tin* principle of the Lesley's Aero
Refrigerator, which proves so grand a
success, (\mntry <lailirmuu,
Hur.Mi Advickto lliniKinius. A writer
in the Murk I,mu' I'l.ipii .l.l of a late date
is so eminently sound, that we recoin
mend his remarks as an especial study
to breeders; Finally, then, select, if you
can, of the breed that is acclimatized in
your district. Strengthen it by an infu
nioii of what blood yon find, on study,
to suit best; or, if you be imaginative,
calculate a cross for yourself. Keep
pairing within a narrow circle so long
as no symptoms of physical infirmity
show themselves. Select continually
the best specimens developed, and keep
weeding out the weak; so, with ordi
nary luck, yon will do as all other dis
tinguished improvers of slock have done
before you, you w ill justly win a name,
yon will supply the market with new
stuff, and you will till up your pockets
with money at least, if you cannot
thus, you will in no other way. Hut, in
the first instance, do not go 100 far
afield; to begin with, get as high as you
can upon the shoulders of (he gener
ation before yon. Then be plucky, per
severing, and prudent.
Iliniaior.Nii. Hidebound is a phrase
often made use of to imply an emacia
ted condition of the body, which state
is often occasioned by a derangement
of the digestive and assimilating organs,
or it may be the result of feeding on
poor provender, or from overwork. In
such eases the hair loses its natural
glo-s, from want of nutrition, the skin
becomes unhealthy and scurfy, and
feels tight over the body (hidfhmmil),
which state is produced from absorp
tion of the adipose tissue, Take of
ISarbadoes aloes one ounce; calomel,
one drachm; Jamaciu ginger, two
drachms; powdered gentian, four
drachms. Mix into amass with a solu
tion of gum, and divide into four pills.
One may be given every night and
morning until the bowels are sufficient
!y relaxed. After the animal has re
covered from the edecUi of the catharlie,
one of the following powders may he
given, mixed in the teed, every night
and morning; mix vomica, twenty
grains; powdered ginger, one drachm;
jjowdered gentian, one drachm; pow
dered golden-seal, one drachm; mix.
One and one-half drachms of powdered
sulphate of iron may he given every
day at noon. Feed oats twice a day.
and carrots once. In the majority of
case* lice are to be attributed to an im-
; poverished state of the system, tuul :
want of nroper cleanliness, and it is not
improbable that tho unhealthy, hide
bound appearance is th' chief cause of
these animal visitors; for they averare
ly soon on tin 1 body of a healthy animal
" ill' clean skin, unloss (In' animal thus
j a Hooted is kept close to sonio hon roost.
I'ho treatment most likolv to ho otVootivo
in destroying the lice is, first, to improve
I tho general health by administering
i medicine as already described. Tho
1 body may ho thoroughly smoarotl with
lard oil ami in twenty four hour*
afterward tho skin slumltl he well wash
oil with stft soan ami water. Suitable
clothing should he provided to prevent
tho animal from taking oold. I n'hmi;*
llmear.
baby i. a necessity, hut twins al
wuss did sot'ui lit me to ht> ova spokn
lativo nature, ./os/t Hilliuiis.
' Is this Alder ('rookinquired a
tourist of an old man loaning over a
lonoo." Vos,dis isalldororeok 1 knows
tin," was the reply.
Toaoher with reading olass: Hoy
(readmit “ Vinl as she sailed down tho
river “ Tt>aoher ' Win are ships
failed she" Hoy tprooooioiisly alive to
iln- responsibilities of his se\) Heeause
they need men to manage them."
Very few girls tun spank a ponpei
box as it should ho spanked, and yet
they w ant to gel married and raise fain
ilios. Oil (Siii /Vmccri/.
A harking dog never bites, hut tho
saint' measure of oonlidonee isn't to ho
plaood in a hu/./in’ bee, even if ho does
go to war backwards.” /beo/Wi/u /Vino
nut.
" Ma, are wo oannihals ?" askt'tl a little
Highlh street girl of her mother lilt'
other morning. " Why, my old Id, what
tlti yon moan?" "Ohl nothing, onlv I
heard you say to Itridgot, * Hoy logs for
breakfast.’ ('innmuili Sat unlay Si ; ihl.
A poetess weighing IhO pounds yearns
“to twitter as a bird on some lone
spray." When she gels on a spray and
begins to twitter there is going to be an
item for the looal paper, unless the
spray is as thiek as an underground
gas pipe, \orrintoirn llnultl.
A good little hoy who was kicked by
a mule didn't say any naughty words
or go home crying to his mother, lit'
just lieil the mule within live feet of tho
beehive, backed him round to it, and let
him kick.
A bright little girl not long since was
urging her mother logo up stairs and
hear her say her prayers before retiring.
Her mother, not liuding it. convenient,
told her that .lesus could hear them
just as well. “ Hut, mother," replied
the little doubler," ".lesus can't turn oil
the gass."
I.lllli* f)l*|*H of WlltlT.
I .111 lo of Hiiml.
Iliiki* I In* tnlitlily orrmi
A ml I In* liullliiootlt I iiIMI
1 lllli* nliiH of w lilsky.
I.lltli* hoi iih ol hrcl,
MhKi* Uh* lili obi hmiili’r,
\ml (lid tlriink niopit*.
An Irishman, who hail been Hick a
lon).' lime, wum oni' day met hy tin*
I>arinii prient. when (he following' con
vernation took place: “ Well, Patrick, I
am glad yon have recovered. Were
yon not afraid to meet yonr tlod?"
"(>h, no, your riverence ! Il won meet
inn Ihe other parly that I waa afeard
11 v I" replied Pat.
A gentleman speaking of hi* wife to a
friend, naid: “llcfore we were married,
ahe lined to nay ‘hye hvc’ ho sweet ly when
I went down the steps." “And now
wind doeH aim nay?" naked the friend.
“Oli, )iist the Hume," exclaimed the
man, “hny, hny !" "Ah, I hoc,” naid
the other other, “nlie only exercises a
little different ‘ Hpell 1 over yon."
" Il in the judgment of thin court that
yon marry thin girl forthwith and may
(■oil have mercy on yonrsonl- yon will
remain in the custody of the officer
who will permit yon to go to Winona to
obtain the liceiiHe,’, whh the luminous
decision of a New Hartford ( Minn.) jus
tice the other day.
What do we call money? VV/Vaoic.
Well, hy Heveral or more nanieH.
Home deHerihe it iih “ spondnlix," Home
an “tin* slull," home an “IheHiigar,"
home oh the “ rhino,” Home an “ HpooiiH,”
Home an " the ready,” cithern an “ hrads."
The French call it “ rnn/ml," the
English “the needful'" in Mexico,
“canting." In the South it in “ rocks,"
in the East " tin," in the West “ ragii,"
in Canada it goes hy the name of “ spel
ter.” 11ereahonlM it iH"ahort,"
A tramp wan nulled off the trucks of
a passenger-car the other day, and, after
Hinilingly Hiihmilting to the accuHlomed
kick, turned to the conductor and naid:
“Oldman, yon can hell away at me
with that mnle’M head that you carry
on the end o’ yonr leg till yon kick me
ho full o’ liolen that my hide won't hold
Huge brush, hut von can't knock the
glory out o’ me, or keep me from
nhoutin’ over the thought that I'm just
.'515 mile* ahead o’ thin grindin’ mono
poly. I froze to thin train at Reno.
Whoop 1" Elko I Srr.j I’nut.
It in calculated that if all the insects
of tke world were piled in one nous the
heap would he greater than that of all
the heantH and birds.
NO. 3ii.