OBEDIENCE 
THE AEOHDUKE MAXIMILIAN, 
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Ip yon’ro told to do a thing. 
Ami tnran to do It really, 
Never let It be by halves ; 
Do It ftilly, freely! 
Do not make a poor excuse, 
Waiting, weak, unsteady; 
All obedience worth the name 
Must be prompt aud ready. 
When father calls, though pleasant bo 
The play you are pursuing, 
Do not say, “I‘ll come when I 
Have finished what I’m doing.” 
When ’tis said “You’ve ate enough,” 
Don’t reply, “O mother 
Let me have just one cake more, 
t won’t nsk another!” 
If you’re told to learn a task, 
And you should begin it, 
Do not tell your teacher, “ Yob, 
I’m coming in a minute t” 
Something waits, ami you should now 
Begin and go right through it; 
Don't think, ir it’s put oil' a day, 
You will not mind to do it. 
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0EIGHT AND SEALS OP THE STATES 
NUMBER EIGHT 
lead to corridors front whence the galleries are 
reached. The carved and gilded ornaments, the 
pictures aud line coloring of this Hall, which is 
hardly equalled by any legislative hall iu the 
world, cannot bo justly described in our brief 
space. Underneath the galleries are cloak¬ 
rooms aud ft barber’s shop, lor the use of mem¬ 
bers only, and the hidden nook where liquor can 
be had is not there. Noble statuary adorns the 
passage-ways around the Hall. 
These galleries will seat 1,200 people. The 
three hundred desks on the Hour for members 
are ranged In scmi-eirclcs. Light comes down 
from the ample skylights above and there arc no 
side window**, as passage-ways, aud rooms sur¬ 
round the Hall on every side,— Committee 
Rooms, Post-Office, &e. The stairways of our 
native marble —veined Tennessee, ><rdfi antique , 
and Vermont,—are rich and noble, and the Ires 
coed pictures very tine. These great stairways 
Tins noble room is in the south wiug of the Cap¬ 
itol and is one hundred and tliirty-niue feet long, 
(cast nud west,) ninety-three feet wide, and 
about thirty-six feet high. Galleries are around 
the four sides, and an nmplo space is reserved 
for reporters over the speaker’s desk, from 
which there is open entrance to a large room 
fitted up for the ubiquitous newspaper men, 
and ft telegaph office from whence messages can 
(lash to the remotest end of the laud. 
SEAL OF KENTCCKV. 
The famed Daniel Boone was the pioneer of 
Keutue.ky in 1775, aud the Indian troubles were 
so severe as t,o give It the name of “ the dark 
and bloody hunting ground.” Until 1790 it was 
part of Virginia, and was made a State in 1702. 
Eastern Kentucky, near Virginia, is quite inouti- 
tuinous; the center of the State is varied in sur¬ 
face, rich, beautiful and productive. Along the 
Ohio its natural wealth is quite equal to that ou 
the northern side of the river. Tlu: whole State 
is rich in resources, and has much wealth of the 
farm. Corn, wheat, tobacco and fruits thrive. 
Tobacco is a great staple; the warehouses in 
Louisville for its sale arc immense. Salt is 
found abundantly, aud iron ami coal also. Man¬ 
ufactures are becoming large. Mammoth cave, 
aud others in the limestone, regions, are curiosi¬ 
ties, from their great extent of miles beneath 
the earth, and their grand beauty. 
Its area is 42,000 square miles. Its population 
in 1800, 1,155,084. The Seal explains itself. 
EXCELLENCE OF WISE ECONOMY 
RELATIVE VALUE OF DISINFECTANTS 
atlflltS 
In Mr. Cooke’s report to her Majesty’s Com¬ 
missioners npon the value of disinfectants, 
some important experiments, which bear upon 
sanitary science, are recorded. One of them, 
showing the relative value of chloride of lime and 
carbolic acid as disinfectants, deserves serious 
attention. Some meat was hung up in the air, 
and the odor of putrefaction was strong. It was 
then divided into two pieces; one was soaked 
for half an hour iu chloride of lime solution, and 
then washed aud hung up again; the offensive 
smell had entirely gone. The other piece of 
meat was soaked in a solution of carbolic acid, 
containing one per cent, of the acid; it was then 
dried and hung up. The surface of thc^meat 
was whitened, but the offensive odor was not re¬ 
moved, though it was masked by the carbolic 
acid. In two days’ time the Imd odor had en¬ 
tirely gone, and was replaced by a pure but faint 
smell of carbolic acid. In a few weeks’time the 
piece of meat was examined again. The one 
deodorized by the chloride of lime now smelled 
as offensively as it did at first, while the piece 
treated with carbolic acid had simply dried up, 
and had none of that offensive odor. Even 
after a month’s exposure no change had taken 
place, This shows us that while chloride of 
lime merely removes the smell of decomposing 
matter—in fact, is a deodorizer—carbolic acid 
actually prevents decomposition, and is, there¬ 
fore, in an emiuent degree, antiseptic. 
OO-OPEEATIYE INDUSTEY, 
As the capacity and intelligence of laborers 
increase, the rights of labor and the relations of 
labor and capital become, inevitably, matters of 
some- 
more thorough and frequent discussion 
times in good faith and fair spirit, sometimes 
incited, for selfish purposes, by reckless dema¬ 
gogues. Of late, “labor strikes’’ have been 
frequent In this country aud England, often dis¬ 
astrous to workmen and injurious to employers, 
and surely not the best mode of settling differ¬ 
ences. Eight-hour laws have been passed in 
several States, our own among the number, yet 
so framed as to have no marked or immediate 
results. With increased wisdom and a higher 
standard of manhood aucl habits on the part of 
laborers whatever of injustice or overwork may 
have been in any case imposed ou them must 
cease by the growth of their moral power. 
Without such wisdom, or if cursed and de¬ 
graded by dissolute habits—which make many 
a working rnan bis own worst enemy — fewer 
hours of work would, too often, be but an open¬ 
ing for more dissipation, and the just claims of 
the employer would be rudely spurned. The 
problem is mutual justice and mutual respect 
and help, and the justice, manly conduct and 
self-respect of the workmen must solve that 
problem. 
In England, co-operative associations are nu¬ 
merous, in which laborers and capitalists, or 
laborers alone, unite, and the profits are divided 
between stockholders and workmen by mutual 
agreement. 
In this country there are quite a number of 
similar associations. In Troy the iron moulders 
have begun such a move, witli good results, so 
far. In Chicago a manufacturing company have 
agreed with some forty workmen for a similar 
plan. In Cincinnati a large firm of furniture 
makers begin co-operation with a large force of 
their best men, and we hear of other like move¬ 
ments, which will be watched with interest by 
all thoughtful persons. Industry, skill, mutual 
confidence and justice must exist lor success, 
and without these qualities “eight hour” laws 
are of small moment, and “strikes” but the 
blows of blind giants smiting down each other 
oftener than their real or fancied enemies. 
meat, butter aud lard; all else which is needed 
in a family costa less. Kents here and in Boston, 
aud iu the manufacturing towns of New England 
generally, are nearly one-half less than in Chi¬ 
cago and the small towns of the West. Wood 
and coal are no higher, while clothing, furniture, 
dry goods, boots and shoes are from 10 to 20 per 
cent, cheaper.” 
We can say from a tolerably wide experience, 
that at a hotel in Boston or any New England 
city, your fare at tabic, your room aud all, is 
better than at a hotel of the same cost in western 
cities,— far better than in the South. 
The people in Massachusetts, as a rule, live 
far better, with the same means and in the same 
social position, than those in other parts of the 
country. Surely, this living pleasantly cm mod¬ 
erate means is excellent and most desirable. 
How is It? Not incauness, for these people are 
generous in case of need, and do not stint 
themselves. 
It is wise care, saving waste, and making the 
most of things—a rational economy whereby 
much Is saved to be freely used for best and 
truest cuds, in-doors and out; in housekeeping 
and business it is indispensable to the highest 
culture, and is greatly needed in place of the 
foolish pride and wasteful carelessness of which 
so much is seen. 
SEAL OF TENNESSEE. 
The building of Fort Loudon, in East Ten¬ 
nessee, in 1757, commenced the settlement of 
this region, which was met by many obstacles 
aud struggled against Indian troubles for more 
than twenty years. Originally this was a 
part of North Carolina, bot became a separate 
territory in 171)0, and was made a State iu 1790. 
The Cumberland Mountains divide the State 
into East and West Tennessee, and make much 
of its territory rough aud rocky. But the val¬ 
leys arc rich, and large plains among the kills 
are also productive. The climate is healthy, the 
air in the bill regions pure, the products em¬ 
brace, not only the cotton of the South, but corn 
as well, which is produced in great quantities. 
Iron ore abounds in the hills, and the veined 
marble is very beautiful. Tbe Tennessee River 
gives steamboat navigation, and the Cumberland 
also to a limited extent. 
The natural advantages of this State are great. 
Its area Is 41),000 square miles, Its population 
In I860, 1,109,801. Its Seal has the steamboat, 
the plow and the grain sheaf—fitly emblematic 
of its occupations. 
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QUICKSILVER, 
During the past year, the toal production of 
the various quicksilver mines of the world was 
about 85,584 Jlasks, of which the old Almaden of 
Spain aud the ldriun mines of Austria supplied 
89,625, while the remainder came from Califor¬ 
nia. But the enormous capacity which our Pa¬ 
cific quicksilver mines have already attained has, 
up to the present time, tended rather to depress 
than to stimulate the trade in that metal. With 
last year’s production, the. accumulated stock of 
all the different markets of the world is approx¬ 
imately 120,000 tlaska. For many years the 
Spanish mines controlled the whole market, but 
so energetically have the California deposits 
been worked, especially the New Aiinaden, 
which surpassed its ancient namesake by nearly 
three thousand flasks last year, that the market 
is much more independent than it used to be. 
The Peruvian miues are dilapidated and almost 
abandoned; the Austrian arc limited in capacity 
and furnish ores of a low grade, and the Spanish 
Almaden, so long the arbiter of price, is rich in 
ore, but poor in administrative vigor. 
THE CRIME OF ASSASSINATION. 
A New Yorjv contemporary, referring to the 
failure of the recent effort to take tbe Czar’s 
life, says it is the last of a remarkable series of 
failures. True it is, in former times assassina¬ 
tions were more successful. Henry IV and 
Louis XV of France, Henry III, Gustavus III, 
Gnstavus the Great, the Dukes of Guise and 
Berri of France, Buckingham of England, Mur¬ 
ray of Scotland, and. other rulers and ministers, 
have fallen, to whom may be added our own 
President Liueoln. But of late not one in 
twenty of regicide plots have succeeded. Tbe 
attempt ngaiust Bismarck, against the King of 
Prussia, two attempts against Louis Philippe, 
and two against Louis Napoleon, are among a 
number of failures so large of late that tlic Czar 
may have had the lhct in his mind when he re¬ 
marked, after his last escape, to Napoleon, “Our 
destinies are in the hands of Providence;” a 
truth, however, not more applicable to sov- 
The advance of Chris- 
CLIMATE OF RU8SIAN AMERICA 
An article on meteorology, prepared by Pro¬ 
fessor Henry of the Smithsonian Institute, for 
tbe United States Patent Office Report for 1865, 
contains the following paragraph illustrative of 
the climate of Northwestern America: 
“In the North-Pacific Ocean, on the western 
side of our continent, the great circle of water 
passes up along the coast ot Japan, rcc-roBscs the 
ocean in the region of the Aleutian Islands, 
miugles with the fitful current outwaid through 
Behring’s Strait, and thence down along the 
uortkwest coast of North America. In this 
long circuit, the northwestern portion of it Is 
.much more cooled than the similar portion of 
the whirl of the Atlantic. It therefore modifies 
the temperature of the northwestern coast, and 
produces a remarkable uniformity along the 
whole extent, from Sitka to the southern ex¬ 
tremity of California. It is an interesting fact, 
which we have just derived from Captaiu Rogers, 
that an offshoot from the great whirl of the Pa¬ 
cific, analogous to that which impinges on the 
coast of Norway, enters along the eastern side 
of Behring’s Strait, while a cold current passes 
out on the western side, thus producing almost 
as marked a difference iu the character of the 
vegetation on the two shores of the strait as be- 
i tween that of Iceland and Labrador.” 
SLEEPING-CARS, 
Toe sleeping-cars on the principal railroads in 
the United States are a monopoly, the profits of 
which are enjoyed by a few patentees, who have 
formed themselves into a corporation and buy 
up all the patents, and the railroad companies 
are prevented from running cars of this kind 
themselves. The bargain made between the 
patentees and railroad companies is that the 
patentees shall furnish the cars, and keep the 
’upholstery and bedding In repair, while the rail¬ 
road company is to furnish the motive power 
and keep the car in repair. A sleeping-car costs 
about $5,000, and its annual expeusefor attend¬ 
ants aud incidentals is about $2,000. The aver¬ 
age receipts are said to be $80 a day for each car, 
or $9,000 annually—a yearly profit, when the ex¬ 
pense is deducted, of $7,000 upou the original 
investment of $5,000. On some of the great 
railroads, however, the profits frequently reach 
300 per cent, per annum. 
SEAL OF MISSOURI. 
Missouri was admitted into the Union in 1820. 
Its southern and south-western parts arc some¬ 
what flat near the Missislppi, and rolling, even 
mountainous aud rocky, farther wCBt, but with 
’’much good soil. The great Missouri River flows 
through the center, on its way from the distant 
Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi. Along its 
banks and northward is rich land, rolling prai¬ 
ries and plains. Settlers are now rapidly going 
to this State attracted by Us great advantages. 
Within eighty miles of St. Louis are vast beds of 
lead, marble, coal, and the famed Iron Mountain 
with its supply ample for the world’s use for 
centuries. Of late tin has been discovered. 
A branch from St. Louis west ward is rapidly 
going ou to join the great Pacific. Railroad for 
California. The area of the State is 60.000 square 
miles; its population in 1860, 1,142,012. The 
great bears and stars and Indians on the Seal 
tell of ruder days, and the Latin motto — “Let 
the safety of the people be the supreme law,” 
points to a fast-coming higher civilization. 
ereigns than other men. 
tian civilization has uo doubt exerted great in¬ 
fluence in increasing the repugnance with which 
assassination is looked npon in modern times, 
and, combined with the sturdy and ingenuous 
character of our own people, has made it in this 
country the most abhorred of crimes. 
Ancient Relic. —The Albany correspondent 
of the Syracuse Journal says“ In my rambles 
the other day I discovered an ancient relle in the 
shape of a quondam house, now grocery, built 
in tbe year 1710. It is said to be the oldest 
building in Albany. It is located on North Pearl 
street, and is built in true Dutch Style, with ga¬ 
ble end on the street. It was of old the resi¬ 
dence of the Lansings—and before Albany was, 
this was a trading post. Age seems not at all to 
have impaired the strength of its walls, built of 
Holland brick, and I dare say it wil> yet outlive 
manyaw’ooden structure of modern growth.” 
The pleasure of doing good is the only one 
that never wears out. 
