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ling notic^ printed on
I boards, with a nico bor
> in a place of business
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lafrount here, veil you
Le peesnis, ain't it ?"
t Beust said, tho other
kungarian journalist
|eve that I have amassed
I was chanceler of the
fcpire. The truth is, I
|oorer than when *1 came
writer advises young
favorably upon those
agricultural pursuits,
ason that their mother
a gardener. He forgot
ver, that the gardener
tion in consequence of
(îudiana) paper says :
hero are swarmimj with
and sportsmen have
~ng them down by the
i roost is said to ex
ht miles of woods. At
il and boys kill them
save ammunition."
'eo. Peabody, the Lon
once sawed a cord of
cord, New Hampshire,
a night's lodging at the
at was a practical lecture
n who fail to pay their
use they are out of
arted, but illiterate, liv
keeper, who could not
horse ill-treated, used
perfect sincerity, and, us
with accuracy : " My
them as abuses bosses
"to me, and comes as
reathin'."
anderwerken, a young
nfrfrom Troy, New York,
nd fields of Africa, has
h several fine specimens,
eighty-two-carat stone
and an cighty-threo-car
He and two partners
iking thirty negroes iu
the diamond rivers.
in sewing
1 successful introduc
is known as the " car
It is an " automaton,"
to run along tho room
i of carpets to
18 propelled by the oper
the same time, does the
Ui ease which is really
• who was sympathizing
ghbor Jones on the death
d : " You should re
• Jones, there is no loss
gain. John, you re
ys a monstrous
1 was," respond
ed parent ; " but to
laid up with the rheu
! ^iûter and died just
e is pretty tough neigh
A Step in Atlvancc.
The new French éducation bill,
which, if we understand tho some
what enigmatical telegrams, has pass
ed the* French assembly, provides
that every child between six and
thirteen years of ago mud be sent to
school. A persistent refusal on the
part of parents to send their chil
dren to school, entails a loss of civil
rights. A more important provision
limits tho suffrage, after 1880, to
such as shall be able to present a
certificate of study, showing that
they have passed an examination in
certain specified branches. We arc,
in this country, just trying the ex
periment of confining all offices to
those who have passed a competi
tive examination. It is a fair ques
tion whether, since the voters are
the rulers, they should not also be
required to pass nn examination in
reading, writing, and speaking tho
English language. Should tho
servant, iu learning, bo above his
master ?
Artisiaus Versus Tbc Jvca ?nc«l
Professions»
We have time after time urged
upon our peoplo tho advisability of
directing tho choicc of their sons to
a means of living hitherto tabooed
by what is called " good society."—
Wo havo pointed out 'to them tho
certainty of an artisian making a
living where lawyer, doctor or cler
gyman might starve in genteel idle
ness.
The world cannot do without
craftsmen. Tho workers in iron
wood are always iu demand. A man
may go into n new country, whether
civilized or demi-civilized, and carry
his recommendation in his first stroke
of work. lie does not Deed to build
it up step by step as falls to the share
of the learned professions. His first
work establishes his fitness for his
place, and for tho first work he has
not long to wait.
We said those things several years
ago, and we repeat them with in
creased emphasis. A ruined coun
try, and peoplo brought up to habits
of luxury, and then suddenly impov
ished, required au entire change in
thought and habits. There are vast
landed estates, but no money, and
greatest curse of all, the terrible
turf hunger," which made the plan
ters hold on like grim death to deso
late and uutilled acres.
Under these circumstances, what
were our young men to do ? Some,
all honor to their energy, threw
themselves into the hardest agricul
tural labors. But every one knows
how disaster after disaster has houn
ded the planter ever since the war.
Floods, and failure of crops—
high-priced labor—a niggardly legis
lation, which fought over every cent
appropriated to the benefit of the
people, as so much taken from their
own perqusites—all these things have
reduced tho Southern planter to the
last extremity. Of tho brave-hearted
young men, who four or five years
ago set forth, hoe in hand, to re
trieve their disasters, how many to
day stand free of debt, and with
means of living for ono year ahead
insured to them ?
Others (and by far too many'
threw themselves into the overcrowd
ed ranks of professional men.—
Where ono of them has made a liv
ing, twenty have failed. Yet adher
ing to old tradition, twblßssß oblijt'.
that the sinews of mind and body
should only bo exercised in the old
timo honored rùts.
But at no time since tho war can
wo remember the day when a good
artisan was not certain to get work
and pay, even when apparently there
was no money in the country. In
the infancy of any community they
are indispensable, and if wo are not
in swaddling clothes, we would real
ly like to know where a more imped
ing proccsa can be found.
To-day good mechanics are in re
ality the most independent and pros
perous members of our community.
Some have made large fortunes, oth
ers are making them. The cry is
universal for skilled labor, and the
ranks are not as well filled as if
young men would put aside an old
effete prejudice and recognize man
ual labor not only as a necessity, but
as an honorable necessity. The old
life is null and void. Tho new life
requires different training and cul
ture. It is better to roof a house
well and get good pay for it, than to
sit under the same roof and let pov
erty and discontent eat out the heart.
As a general rule there is no want
of culture among mechanics. In
fact, they are usually intciligeut men,
better posted on the issues of the
day than most of their fellow-citizens.
They arc peaceable, law-abiding,
and usually make up tho beat part of
every community.
Let no one suppose that our re
marks have grown out of any want
of respect for the. " Three Black
Giaces." We pay them due honor,
but%iey arc not so universal in their
favors that they lavish wealth and
reputation upon their most incapable
followers. We merely suggest there
are thewes and sinews of very little
use in the learned professions which
might bo turned to profitable ac
count among the welders of iron and
fashioners of wood. We merely
deprecate the folly of parents who
in many cases will not allow their
sons to follow their own inclinations
and choose an honest trade instead
of a profession.— N. O. Times.
Bills Signed by tue Governor.—
The following is a complete list of all
tho bills passed at the last session of
1872, which bave been signed :
1. Civil rights concurrent resolu
tion.
2. To amend an act to incorpo
rate tho town of Carrollton.
o. Appropriating balance of sala
ry of the late Lieut. Guv. Dunn to
his widow.
4. Belief of J. Osboru.
5. Joint committco to prepare an
address to the Congress of the Uni
ted States.
G. Relief of Sirs. Mary Barlow.
7. Relative to tho removal of duty
on rice.
S. Belief of Wm. Bendel.
9. Amendment to Revised Civil
Code.
Pontchartrain Railroad bill.
Appropriation bill.
Supplementary appropriation
10.
11.
12.
bill.
13. Relative to police jury of Red
River.
14 License bill.
15. Relief of Alex. Lazano and
others.
16. Relief of Mrs. Lipshuts.
17. Revenue bill.
18. Establishing an additional
term of the District Court of the
parish of Carroll.
10. To incorporate the Indepen
dent Hook Company No. 1, Alexan
dria.
20. To incorporate Independent
Hook and Ladder Firo Company
Alexandria.
21. To define fees, &c., of Audi
tor of Public Accounts.
Iron-Papeu .—German journals
complain that this article, which is
simply common paper mixed while
in tho pulp with iron filings, so as to
increase the weight, is " shamelessly
advertised in all English and Ameri
can papers," alid is particularly re
commended to shop -keepers for wiap
ping up their wares. As the papers
in which groceries arc put up are
generally weighed along with the ar
ticle, there can be no doubt that the
use of such paper is fraudulent.
Bufwe must demur to tlio assertion
that it is advertised in all English
papers.— American Artisan,
0*er«Woil4.
The complaint is quite universal
that in our American jifc wo over
strain the muscle, over-wear the
brain and over-burden tho heart.
Men at the hottest point of enter
prise give out, and consumption
takes tho body, lunacy the mind,
avarice tho affections. Promiuent
men drop suddenly here and there,
when they are all aglow with pers
piration, and dilated eye, and ab
sorption of success. The epitaph is,
" died of over-work." It should bc j
" died of mis-managed work." That
wheel on the car is not hot because
it rolls faster than the other wheels,
nor because it is weaker or stronger;
but becsuse its journal was not pack
ed as well—because some unusual
friction has heated it. « Here is a
sewing machine with which a woman
has flung thread enough to baist the
two hemispheres together at the
equator, and reach tho north pole,
and make a spool of ifc. And yet it
has needed little repair as it sunt
the dollars together with its monoto
nous buzz. Here is another that is
returned, broken in pieces and radi
cally injured. Lack of lubrication,
misfeeding or guiding caused an in
jury, and then it has been up-hill
work ever since, till it has becomc
absolutely worthless.
Men are worked in precisely the
same ways. A man cannot run his
body, and leave his mind behind
without harm ; nor nis mind and
leave his body iu tho lurch ; and
neither, and fling hia soul out to the
dogs. False work, mis-judged, and
mis-guided work, is the crime of the
day. No mechanic shall fail in mus
cle, nor in skill if ho will fertilize his
mind as hegoes along, and keep a
window in his oor.î open to God. No
business or professional man shall
waste in body, or waver iu mind if
ho will proportion his intellectual
and physical toil, and not forget his
religious obligations.— Rev. Wm. Ai
da Jiartlelt in tlui Chicago Pulpit.
What won't American inventors
do finally ? A civil engineer has pe
titioned Congress for aid to enable
him to test his method for producing
artificial rain. To try this experi
ment, ho asks only for 300 cannon
ind 30,000 pounds of powder. He
furthermore wants the cannon to be
discharged simultaneously by elec
tricity. Tho rain-maker calls atten
tion toihejact.that heavy showers
have followed great battles, and he
suggests that the government ought
to find out whether artillery had any
thing to do with tho rain. In case
the experiment is successful, wo sup
pose that every well-to-do farmer will
invest in 300 cannon, and keep a
largo stock of powder always on
hand. And, then, in dngr times, the
clerk of the weather will receive
thundering salutes of artillery.
Newspaper Borrowing.—A West
ern paper whose subscription list
has suffered from tho evil it depre
cates, says : " Reader ! if you have
borrowed tho paper you are reading,
don't do it again. Subscribe. It
isn't safe, to borrow papers. We
once know a poor, but honest man,
who borrowed a paper, innocently,
and inadvertently, from a hitherto
wholesome neighbor. Fatal act.
That terrible centagion, the small
pox, was conveyed insidiously iu the
fibres of that sheet. Of that exten
sive and interesting family, a doting
father, a fond wife, several intellectii
al and heroic sons, thirteen lovely
daughters, two popular mothers-in
law, and three beautiful aunta—not
one remained to tell tho tale."
Some Pennsylvania wood-cutters
recently sawed down a large poplar
tree, and found snugly ensconced
therein a hickory sappling fully four
inches inside the bark. Both hickory
and poplar were perfectly eouul.
lïiltlcrsround Hiver.
Two Me n Discover a River Without
Source or Mouth.
[From the hejuvenworth (Ind.) Democrat.]
During this age of discoveries and
superstition it becomes our duty to
report a fact, which, to those unac
quainted with the singular develop
ments of the day, may be somewhat
disposed to doubt. But wo give it
as a positive truth, as related to us
by one of tho best citizens in this
county, who went and examined it.
It is as follows : Two men, named
John E. Stanley and Frank Henni
ger, were employed to dig a Meli on
the farm of Mr. Benjamin Ellis, who
resides in Washington county, near
the line of Harrison and Washing
ton counties. They commenced dig
ging in a place where, as they
thought, it would be probable not to
encounter an obstruction in their
search for water. They had pro
ceeded but a short distance, how
ever, when they encountered a bed
of lost " niggerhead" rocks, which,
upon being broken open, were found
to contain water and other substanc
es, supposed to bo oro of some kind.
When they reached the depth of
sixty feet from tho surface, they
ciame to a large cave, which they
followed tho distance of ten
twelve feet, when there before their
gaze was a beautiful river of clear
water, which upou examination was
found to contain an innumerable
number of small white fish. Upon
closer examination it was found
to be sixteen feet wide and five feet
in depth, and as clear and cold as
spring water.
is an experiment, a lighted can
dle was placed upon a small piece
of plank and sot afloat. It started
off into the darkness with tho cur
ent, and was soon .lost to sight.
Several persons have visited this
curiosity, and many were tho con
jectures as to where the water came
from and whither it wont, but noth
ing satisfactory could be arrived at.
It seems, however, to bo the general
impression in that neighborhood
that, in days gone by, when the
country was inhabited by Indians,
they had known of this cave and
river, and had concealed their wealth
in it, and then filled tho entrance to
the cave with loose rocks, and left it
to return, perhaps, at some future
time and convey it home. The last
is only a supposition, yet wo think it
a very probable one. Who will in
vestigate this matter and throw more
light on this strange and singular
discovery ?
A Practical Study .—Tho students
of the mining class in the Massachu
setts Institute of Technology made
an excursion with some of their pro
fessors last summer to the mines of
Colorado and Utah. On<| of the re
sults of this trip is tho addition to
the laboratory of tho institute of
about eleven tons of gold and silver
oro, upou which the students cau try
their skill. Here is a practical sort
of studying, and it is only an exam
ple of tho spirit which prevades the
entire plan of instruction in this ex
cellent institution.
A Nashua fisherman, who recently
visited the bayous of Winnipiseogee
in search of picl^erel, hired a high
priced assistant to show him tho
grounds, cut holes, etc. On the re
turn trip, after three days of bad luck,
the high-priced assistant remarked :
"Wall, Mr. —, I didn't think how
you'd ketch many. You seo tho fact
is, I seined 'em all last fall."
--►-*»»-«
On a certain occasion Lord Alvan
ley half affronted Mr. Grovillo, with
whom ho was dining. The dining
room had been newly and splendidly
furnished, whereas tho dinner, was
but a very meagre and incufiereut
one. While some of the guest s were
flattering their host on his taste,
magnificence, etc., "For my part,"
said his lordship, "I had ratlicr have
scon less gilding and more carving."
A Dolly Varden dress is thus des
cribed for the benefit of ignorant
people : " A • Dolly Varden' is a
moire antique dress pattern, and it iff
made of some material, and is cut
bias at the top and bottom and trim
med with honiton polonaises and
tube rosas, with a peplitm running
two chains and three links to tho
south-west from tl>e starting point,
around the skirts of civilization, and
pinned together sèlï-acting safety
pin. The figures are so large that
it takes eight dress patterns to show
them off to advantage.
Pertinent . —A Loudon exchange
says : The publisher of a London
street periodical was recently'fined
£50 on account of the obscenity of
the engravings it contained, which
were considered as unfit to bo placed
iu tho hands of the children for sale.
What about the lads who have .to
assist in its machining and folding ?
Are tho morals of juvenile printers
less worthy of care than gutter ur
chins ? Is it exactly the right thing
to undertake tho printing of such
works ?
The vicinity of Knoxville, Tenn.,
was visted by a very heavy earth
quake shock on Monday morning,
Feb., 2Cth. Buildings was caused
to creak and strain, and much alarm
was created. It was accompanied
by a heavy sound resembling thun
der.
[from Tuesday's issue.)
New Haven, Ct ., April 1.—The en •
tire Republican State Ticket is elect
ed beyond a doubt. Voting pro
gressed quietly, with less than usual
excitement.
Washington , April 1.—A bill was
introduced repealing tho income tax
and forbidding its collection for '71.
Repealing tax on brandy and reduc
ing whiskey tax.
An effort to get a two-third vote
for the Supplemental Civil Rights
Bill failed.
A bill repealing the law giving por
tion of fines and penalties to infor
mers in Internal Revenue cases pass
ed.
Private dispatches received from
Connecticut say that it is very doubt
ful if there is an election by the peo
plo. Gov. Jewell himself shares these
impressions. Indications are that
the Republicans gain one legislator
over last year when they had twen
ty-six majority on joint ballot.
The committee reported favorably
on Parker's nomination for Survey
or of Customs, at New Orleans.
Tho Earl of Granville's second let
ter to Secretary Fish, reached here
and will be read in Cabinet to-mor
row.
New Yore , April 1.—Advices havo
been received from the Aspinwall
showing that tho steamers Pizaro
and Virginia, are in close quarters.—
The Capt. of the Virginia threatens
if I'izaro fires he will run into her
and sink both vessels.
At Seven P. M., Professor Morso
continues very low ; sleeps at times
but conscious when awake.
Louisville , April 1.—The celebra
tion of the Fifteenth Amendment
was o notable success, 'f he conduct
of the people was perfect. Speeches
and concerts were largely attended.
Vicksbdiïg , April 1.—t>own steam
er Frank Pargoud at 7 p. m.
New Orleans , April 2. —No cine has
yet been obtained as to tho perpe
trators of the robbery of sixty thou
sand dollars yesteaday from a run
ner of the Citizen's Bank, although
the Bank offers twelve thousand
dollars reward for the a rrrest of the
robbers.
New Orleans , April 2.— Gold quot
ed at 10 to 10 1-4.
Cotton, firm and unchanged. Low
Middling 21 3-1. Molasses, light
supplies and in tho absence of buy
I ers no accurate quotations can be
obtained.
' Cut.