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AN AMERICAN IN BERLIN. 
Berltn, Prussia, Oct. 1, 1865. 
Dear Rxjrai. : — I have now been In this 
beautiful city about, a week. This time has 
been industriously spent, I can assure you, in 
viewing the manifold attractions that this won¬ 
derful place presents to the tourist — its endless 
galleries of art, beautiful avenues and magnifi¬ 
cent buildings. 
Berlin, though so oftcu described, will never 
cease to be a wonder to the American. Perhaps 
it is because it so nearly resembles our Ameri¬ 
can cities in many respects, and therefore its 
magnificence is more readily and thoroughly 
appreciated. In fact, we are much better 
pleased with the cities and villages of Germany, 
than those of any other country we have visited. 
They are always so clean and neat, and we find 
the people so accommodating and courteous, 
that, notwithstanding the difference in language, 
we feel much more at home here than we did in 
Franee or eveu in England. 
The places of interest and amusement in Ber¬ 
lin are without number, and taken in connection 
with “ Rotterdam,” which is one of its suburbs, 
it is in my estimation one of the loveliest spots 
on earth—eclipsing London and Paris so farjthat 
I do not care to return to them. I will not, 
however, dwell any longer upon its general 
merits, but proceed to enumerate hastily some 
of the most prominent details—beginning at the 
Linden Platz, which is situated in the centre of 
the city, and around which are situated the 
King’s C'ty Palace, the King’s Opera House, 
and the Royal University, which contains an 
immense Geological cabinet, museum and pic¬ 
ture gallery. On this square, also, i s situated 
the old and the new Bourse. All these build¬ 
ings are of stone, mostly marble, are immense 
in extent, and elaborately decorated and sculp¬ 
tured, and adorned with myriads of statues 
in marble and bronze. The square itself con¬ 
tains a colossal statue of Frederick the Great, 
beside a number of smaller ones, all of which are 
of beautiful design and workmanship. Near 
here also is a new bronze east representing “ St. 
George and the Dragon,” by Kiss. It is of 
mammoth proportions, and but recently erected. 
Turning from this we will enter some ol the 
above - mentioned buildings ; but time and 
space forbid any attempts at detail. Entering 
the grand museum, we are at once struck by 
the artistic splendor of its walls, frescoed ceil¬ 
ings, mosaic floors and graceful pillars. Here 
are countless statues and busts, ancient and 
modern, embracing an infinite range of allegori¬ 
cal and historical subjects, and portraits with¬ 
out number, each one a study. The Egyptian 
collection contains many rare casts and models, 
mummies in stone cases and undraped, urns, 
vases, Ac., tie., taken from the pyramids and 
catacombs. The Asiatic, American and Island 
Department forms a vast collection, unequaled 
save in the great British Museum in London. 
In another wing we find a vast gallery of paint¬ 
ings, containing many rare pieces from the 
pencils of the old masters. This collection in 
extent, value and beauty, rivals the famous 
“Luxembourg," in Paris. 
Another most beautiful and costly building is 
the New Bourse. It is of immense size, and of 
elaborate and artistic design. The interior is 
finished iu marble, mosaic and bronze, and the 
roof is richly gilded and frescoed. The lower 
floor, viewed from the gallery, when the mer¬ 
chants and bankers assemble to buy and sell, 
presents a picture of animation and confusion 
that Is a Babel to the uninitiated. 
The now Jewish Synagogue, with its immense 
gilded dome and gorgeous interior, is an attrac¬ 
tive object to the stranger. The Invalid Bar- 
rackg and Gardens are also points of great 
interest. The gardens contain an immense 
bronze column, exquisitely carved with historic 
bas-reliefs running spirally around it, and sur¬ 
mounted by a large spread-eagle — the latter 
almost leading me to Imagine 1 was back la 
“ Hall Columbia.'’ The column Is ascended by 
a spiral staircase of ISO steps, and from the sum¬ 
mit you have a most enchanting view of the city 
and its environs. 
Berlin also boasts of beautiful and extensive 
Botanical and Zoological gardens, which cover 
an immense area, and contain myriads of fine 
plants, trees and animals from all quarters of the 
globe. We saw gome very fine specimens of 
Americau plauts and forest trees, as well as ani¬ 
mals. These gardeus are similar la arrange¬ 
ment to the more familiar London gardens, but 
though not go extensive as the latter, they 
form one of the most prominent attractions of 
the city. 
But volumes would not describe the beauties 
of this Elysium, and no description can do jus¬ 
tice to its manifold charms. One thing is cer¬ 
tain, no tourist can say he has “ done ” Europe 
until he has seen Berlin. u. s. m. 
Breathing and Thinking. —Let any one 
think for a moiueut of what he experiences 
when he breathes and attends to the uct. He 
wilt find that his whole Jrauie heaves and sub¬ 
sides at the time; face, chest, stomach aud limbs- 
are all attenuated by his respiration. Now let 
him feel hia thoughts, aud he will see that they, 
too, heave with the muss. When he entertains 
a loug thought ho draws a long breath; when 
bethinks quickly, his breath alternates with 
rapid alternations; when the tempest of anger 
shakes bis mind, his breath is tumultuous; when 
his soul is deep and tranquil, so is his respira¬ 
tion; when success Inflates him, his lungs are 
as tumid as his conceits. Let him make trial of 
the contrary ; let him endeavor to think iu long 
stretches at the 6ame time he breathes in fits, 
and he will find that it is impossibe; that in this 
case the chopping lungs will still mince his 
thoughts. 
02NT THE OCEAN.-BE HOT CAST DOWN 
ON THE OCEAN. 
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a storm come, 
a storm come, yet our hearts shall know no fear, Tho' in raouu-tain3, tho’ in moun-tains, high-er vet the waves appear; 
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Bil-lows roll - ing, bil - lows roll - ing, bear us far from friends and home. On the o - cean, ou the o - eean, ma - ny leagues a - way we roam 
Far be - hind us, far be - hind us. lin - gers yet our path of foam, And the bil-lows, and the bil - lows, 3till in wild com - mo - tioa com; 
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Wild-ly roar -ing, wild - ly roar- ing, tho’ the winds do mad - ly rave, On the o - cean, on the o - cean, trust we him whose pow’rean save. 
NO? CAST DOWN. 
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1 This life's 
2 In heav’n 
3 Then ne’er 
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full of care; 
there is rest; 
be cast down; 
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This life, 
In love 
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of sin, 
to new' sor 
must have sad 
faith per - se - v«r 
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Each day's like the mor-row. No rest find we here, Each I rest find 
In heav'n there is glad-ness. A - bode of the blest. In [ -bode of 
Our home we are near-ing. We’re winning our crown. Our ) winning 
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NATURAL BAROMETER. 
I do not recollect any particular reference in 
the hooks to a very remarkable phenomenon, 
which forms a singular natural barometer. The 
occurrence is familiar t« the observation of 
many persons, who seldom stop to inquire into 
the causes of au effect they ofteu witness, or to 
consider its philosophical significance. For 
myself, I have adopted a theory satisfactory to 
my own philosophy, but I prefer, before pre¬ 
senting it, to elicit the opinion of others. 
Numerous streams of greater or less magni¬ 
tude, under probably the influence of some pe¬ 
culiar circumstance of position or geological 
arrangement, afford striking premonitions of an 
approaching fall of rain. Daring the prevalence 
ofa drought so severe as to reduce brooks to 
scarcely more than pools of water, I have seen 
them suddenly rise, and, in the lapse of a few 
hours, a full current rippling along their beds, 
and this revolution takes place without any rain 
or apparent change in the weather, and without 
any other indication of au approaching change. 
This swelling of the brooks is uniformly suc¬ 
ceeded withiu, generally, twenty-four hours by 
a copious rain. 
We had, in my vicinity, been enduring a pro¬ 
tracted term of dry and hot weather, and the 
signs presaged no mitigation. A few days ago, 
while crossing a considerable river, the fountain 
heads of which lie some fifty miles among the 
mountains iu the interior, I observed that the 
stream had risen in a single day several inches. 
Ascertaining that no showers had occurred to 
cause this sudden rise, 1 announced, upon the 
strength of the above fact, rain the ensuing day. 
The heavens were still brass, presenting no evi¬ 
dence of increased moisture in the atmosphere 
or of auy change. At the point where I had 
noticed this presage there was a slight shower 
the following day, hut iu the district whence the 
river derives Its supply there was a heavy rain. 
I make no claim to any new discovery or 
novel views in the arcana or economy of Nature, 
but venture to present these incidents as worthy 
of investigation.— Cor. X. Y. Observer. 
THE TAILOR AND DEAN SWIFT. 
A tailor in Dublin, near the residence of the 
Dean, took it into his head that ho was specially 
and divinely inspired to Interpret the prophecies, 
and especially the book of Revelations. Quittiug 
the shop-board, he turned out a preacher, or 
rather a prophet, until his customers had left 
his shop, and his family \v;is likely to famish. 
His monomania was well known to Dean Swift, 
who benevolently watched for some convenient 
opportunity to turn the current ot his thoughts. 
One night the tailor, as he fancied, got a reve¬ 
lation to go and convert Dean Swift, and the 
next morning took up his line of march for the 
deanery. Tho Dean, whose study was furnished 
with a glass door, saw the tailor approach, aud 
instantly surmised the nature of his errand. 
Throwing himself into an attitude ot solemnity, 
and his eyes fixed on the tenth chapter of Reve¬ 
lations, he awaited his approach. 
The door opened aud the tailor announced, in 
his uuearthly voice the message : 
“ Deau Swift, I am sent by the Almighty to 
announce to you—” 
“Come iu, my friend,” said the Dean, “ I am 
in great trouble, and no doubt tho Lord has sent 
you to help me out of my difficulty.” 
This unexpected welcome inspired the tailor, 
strengthened greatly his assurance in his own 
prophetic character, and disposed him to listen 
to the disclosure. 
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[From Asaph, a collection of Sacred and Secular Music, by Lowell and William Mason* 
“ My friend,” said the Dean, “ I have just been 
reading the tenth chapter of Revelations and am 
greatly distressed at a difficulty I have met with; 
and you are the very man to help me out. Here 
is the account of an angel that came down from 
heaven, who was so large that he placed one foot 
on the sea, and the other on the earth, and lifted 
up his hands to heaven. Now my knowledge of 
mathematics,” continued the Dean, “enables 
me to calculate exactly the size and form of the 
angel; hut I am in great difficulty, for I wish to 
ascertain how much cloth it will take to make 
him a pair of breeches, and as that is in your 
line of business, I have no doubt the Lord has 
sent you to show me.” 
This sudden exposition came like an electric 
shock to the poor tailor. He rushed from the 
house, ran to his shop, and j ■ ,aick revulsion of 
thought and feeling came over him. Making 
breeches was exactly his line of business. He 
returned to his occupation thoroughly cured of 
his prophetic revelations by the wit of the Dean. 
MOUSE POWER. 
A gentleman in Scotland has trained a couple 
of mice, and Invented machinery to enable them 
to spin cotton yarn. The work is done on the 
tread-mill principle. It is arranged so a common 
mouse is enabled to make atonement for past of¬ 
fences by twisting and. reeling from one hundred 
to one hundred aud twenty threads per day of 
same length and quality of the enclosed hank, 
whieh I send as a specimen of their work for 
the inspection of the carious. To complete 
this, the little pedestrian has ran tea and one- 
half miles. 
This journey is performed every day with ease. 
An ordinary mouse weighs only half an ounce. 
A half-penny’s worth of oat meal, at fifteen 
pence per peek, serves one of these tread-mill 
culprits tor the long period of five weeks. In 
that time. It makes one hundred and ten threads 
per day, being an average of three thousand five 
hundred aud eighty threads, of twenty-five 
inches, which is nearly nine lengths of the reel. 
A penny Is paid here to women for every “ cut” 
in the ordinary way. At this rate a mouse earns 
fid. every five weeks, which is one farthing a day, 
or 7s. 6dL per annum. 
Take 7d. off for board, and Is. for machinery, 
there will arise fis. clear profit from every mouse 
yearly. The mouse employer is goiug to make 
application for the lease of an old empty house, 
the diminsious of which are 100 by 500 feet, and 
50 feet in height, which at a moderate calcula¬ 
tion, will hold 10,000 mouse mills, sufficient 
room being left for keepers and some hundreds 
of spectators. Allowing £2,000 for rent and 
task masters, £500 for iuterest and £10,000 to 
erect machinery, there will be left a balance of 
£2,800 per annum .—English /finer. 
HISTORY OF A DRINKING CLUB. 
Some yeass ago, in a large town iu the west ol 
Scotland, there existed a drinking club of up¬ 
wards of twenty members, all of whom belonged 
to the middle classes ot society. This club had a 
great influence iu municipal affairs, and several 
of its members were elected to All posts iu the 
town council. The drinkiug was carried ou to 
a fearful extent la the tavern where they met. 
The members were to be fouud often in the dub 
at all hours of night or day. Their drinking 
was often connected with such noisy mirth as to 
attract the attention of the passers-by. The 
club was broken up. Two of its members were 
sent to a lunatic asylum. One jumped from a 
window and killed himself; one walked or fell 
into the water and was drowned ; one was found 
dead in a public house; one died of delirium 
tremens; upward of ten became bankrupt; four 
died ere they had lived half their days. 
SO* 0 
GIVE AS YOU'B TAKE. 
BY ALEXANDER ROGERS. 
Mr bairnies dear, when you go out 
With other bairns to p'av, 
Take heed of everything you do, 
Of every word you say; 
From tricky, wee. mischievous loons 
Keep back, my bairns, keep back; 
And aye to all such usage give 
As you would like to cake. 
A kindly word, a soothing look. 
Have ready aye for all; 
We are our Maker’s handiwork, 
He made us—great and small— 
We're all the children of his care; 
O then for his dear sake 
Be sure such usage still to give 
* As you would like to take ! 
T T T ! ! r 
Two terribly tired travelers toiled through 
tangled thickets thickly thorned, toward the 
Talitan turnpike, telling touching tales, theti- 
eally told, to those that thought themselves 
thorongly theoretical tacticians. Therefore 
the throng that threw themselves thickening 
thitherward thought them Thespians. Tbraso- 
like they thundered thrasonically their thrift¬ 
less threnodies. Thirsty they trippled togeth¬ 
er. Their tractability told them tolerably tol¬ 
erant. Their tortuosity, too, transfigured the 
Taiitans timorously. Their tiaras that Tiffany 
toilfnlly trimmed till the topaz trembled there¬ 
in took the throng. The Tokay that they 
took, trying the tavern table, told terribly,— 
tinting, tinging, troubling their thoughts,—till 
their titinnabulary tones tortured the tired 
townsmen, they thereupon thrashed the tipsy 
tironian tyros through the town. They titter¬ 
ed thereat, therefore thereupon the tomtits 
twittered touchingly, transporting thereby the 
thoughtless throng to that transitory tranquil¬ 
ity that thoroughly transcends the terrific 
trance. Two trashy trappers tugging two ter¬ 
rible trydactile tigers took three triennial tu¬ 
lips to the theologie teachers there, telling 
them that theorems theoretically treated ten¬ 
ded toward tiring the too thoughtful theolo¬ 
gian, that therefore theology thetically tinc¬ 
tured thoroughly throttled the thiu thesis that 
theophany throws theurgy to the thoughtless. 
Their tedious trifliug teased the teachers terri¬ 
bly, though their theories taxed their theoso¬ 
phy throughout, therefore the turnkey took 
the two to the trap. The tailor trimmed them 
tastetully, their testimony taken tachigraphi- 
callv taborer tabood them till their taciturnity 
turned to the tallest talking. These trying 
things turned their tantrams to thoughtful 
tameness. The tigers thereupon took to the 
thickets, the trappers to the tollgate. Tardily 
they tendered the tax, tartly throwing the testy 
taxer the two-pence they tawdrily took to 
their travels. The tespians tarried —to tell 
the trutn their tendencies rendering their tick¬ 
ets to tempt tho town. The tagrag thronged 
the taphouse talking theatrically. The tavern 
tronged, the town tattlers told tautological 
tales, ten times teasible, tense, terse, thickly 
tinged, titilating, tissued to tickle the thought¬ 
less. The theatre took —“ The Tempter's Toils” 
threw' the theatre-tending town to transcen¬ 
dentalism. The town-clerk, town-orier, towns¬ 
man, town-tinmau, town-tinker, town-tailor, 
town-turnkey, tons, turned theatrically topsey 
turvev. Thus the Talitan turnpike tale termin¬ 
ates. Toll the tocsin! tell the treason! theolo- 
oglcal Talitan taken theatrically! Tacitly tak¬ 
ing the tale that the T’s tell, thoroughly tried, 
Tottotethins turns triumphantly to the telic T. 
—Boston Gazette. 
YOUR SISTERS. 
Boys, whether large or small, ought to be 
very kind to their sisters, especially if the sister 
is younger than they are. Girls are not so 
strong as hoys, and they have more gentle dis¬ 
positions, and so they should be treated ten¬ 
derly. 
If a boy and his little sister are coming into 
the room together, is it right for the boy to 
ran forward and get the best seat ? No,* no. 
He should go forward and offer it to his sister, 
If a new picture-book comes into the house, 
is it right for the boy to seize it first, because he 
is the largest and strongest, and make his sister 
wait until he has seen it as much as he wishes 
to before he gives it to her ? Surely no! 
If his sister is out in the yard playing with 
him, and she’s afraid of the dog, is it right for 
him to make believe set the dog on her on pur¬ 
pose to tease her ? No, no. Such conduct is 
very thoughtless and cruel. He should take 
her by the hand, and show her how pleased Ro¬ 
ver is to be patted on the head. 
Boys should always he very considerate of 
their little sisters. They should wait for them, 
and help them, and speak kindly to them, and 
remember that God has made them stronger 
in order to be their protectors.— Chad's Pajw. 
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS, 
“Tue Little Corporal” will gladden the 
hearts of the young people who are apprecia¬ 
tive of a good thing, and are supposed to know 
jnst what a child’s paper should be. If they 
don’t vote “The Little Corporal” into their 
brigade by acclamation, we must confess that 
oar judgment is sadly defective. The premium 
picture is enthusiastically admired by all who 
have seen it.— Marshal (Jlich.) Statesman. 
“The Little Corporal” is published monthly 
in Chicago, nL, by Alfred L. Sewell, at 
the low price of $1 a year. Specimen copies 
ten cents. 
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Oxa of the most interesting Teatures of the 
Connecticut State Fair,'at Hartford, was the ap¬ 
pearance of a splendid team of ponies, fivein 
number, and of Liliputian size—all attached to a 
pony waggon. This team, costing it is said, ten 
| thousand dollars, belongs to a fair young lady of 
: four years, from Brooklyn, Long Island, who, it 
! is said, handles the ribbons with great skill. 
' One of the ponies is an Arabian and a fast trot¬ 
ter; three of them are from Calcutta, and the 
only ones of the kind iu this country; and the 
other is a Scotch breed. They form the most 
perfect pony team ever seen in this country. 
Their aggregate weight is 1,920 pounds, and the 
average about forty-five inches high. 
A Child, s Religion.— The Gospel involves 
uo conditions that a child cannot fulfill; it irn- 
| poses no requirements that a child cannot 
meet. A child may trust its promises, realize 
its blessings, and anticipate its rewards. The 
death of Jesus is tho child's plea; the grace of 
Jesus is the child’s strength; pleasing Jesus is 
the child’s easiest rule of right, aud goiug to he 
with Jesus is the child’s bust thought of heaven. 
— Be". S. Coley. 
Never take into your confidence, or admit 
ofteu into your company any man who does not 
know, on some important subject, more than 
you do. Be his rank, be his virtues, what 
they may, he will be a hindrance to your pur. 
suits, and an obstruction to your greatness.— 
Landor. 
