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HYGIENE AND FASHION. 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
TALKS WITH OUR. BOYS AND GIRLS 
The following curious statements are gathered 
from the Medical and Surgical Reporter, a weekly 
journal published in Philadelphia and New York. 
They will be eutirely new to the nou-professional 
reader, who is perhaps entitled to the benefit of a 
doubt concerning the tale of the rat: 
“ Plastic surgery recognizes life in a part, and 
grafts one portion of the body on another, or re¬ 
places a portion of a nose or a finger when lopped 
off, and witnesses its growth. In lower auimals 
this principle is more astonishingly developed. Cut 
polyp into a dozen pieces, and each fragment will 
develop itself into an independent and perfect type 
of its species. A French uaturalist cut off’ the tails 
of tadpoles, and saw them not only live, but grow 
for ten days, iudiffereut to all nervous centers, di¬ 
gestive apparatus or circulatory systems. But the 
member that seems to have the strongest dose of 
vital principle is the tail of a rat. This is the very 
idol of life, and here, if anywhere, we ought to 
locate the seat of vitality. 
“The following experiment was made hy ’Mr. 
Bert. He dried a rat's tail under the bell of an 
air pump, and in immediate proximity to concen¬ 
trated sulphuric acid, so as to gradually deprive it 
of all moisture. Then he placed it in a hermeti¬ 
cally-sealed glass tube for five days, At the end 
of this time he subjected it for a number of hours 
to a temperature of 98° Ceut. in a stove, and subse¬ 
quently sealed it a second time in his tube. Four 
days more having elapsed, he united this tail by its 
cut extremity to the freshly-cut stump of a living, 
healthy rat, and quietly waited the result. His suc¬ 
cess was as complete as it was marvelous. It com¬ 
menced to expand aud perform the natural duties of 
a tail, and three months afterward he demonstrated, 
by a seeoud amputation aud careful injectiOQ, that 
it was a living part of the seeoud rat! 
“ What rich lessous practical surgery may learn 
from such experiments cau be imagined. A careful 
aaatomist has transplanted a fragment of boue from 
the skull of oue rabbit to the skull of another, aud 
found it form adhesions and replace the lost por¬ 
tions perfectly. A piece of periosteum, taken from 
a rabbit twenty-four hours after death, grew and pro¬ 
duced bone, wheu neatly grafted on a living animal 
of the same species. Nerves also have been removed 
from one body to another with success. The dis¬ 
eases to which grafted members are subject, after 
they have been exposed to certain re-agents, are 
also full of hints for the pathologist and physician.” 
Is it not strange that our young men and women 
spend so much time in the study of popular sciences 
without acquiring a knowledge of self? Why do 
they not turn their thoughts within and behold the 
wonderful structure? They toil years, delve deep 
in the boundless regions of science, in order to 
know and magnify the wonderful works of God, 
without once learning how wonderfully their own 
frames are constructed. 
The Divine Word reveals that man is made, iu the 
express image of the Father’s person, and is the 
crowning work of creation. As a reasoning, ac¬ 
countable being, man dwells beneath a weight of 
responsiblity. He should study to know the human 
structure perfectly, aud how he can best preserve 
that symmetry of form, health of body aud purir.y 
of intellect with which he is endowed. Iu his high 
self-sovereignty — created a little lower than the 
angels — mao was ’perfect, mentally, morally and 
physically. But through ignorance of, and inatten¬ 
tion to the. laws which govern his being, combined 
with all “the ills which flesh Is heir to,” he has 
sadly degenerated. A more general knowledge of 
the laws of human nature, aud a correct under¬ 
standing of physiological truths, would lead all 
candid, reflecting minds to an investigation of the 
unhygienic habits which are rapidly enfeebling 
and destroying the health of our race. 
Fathers, mothers aud teachers need thorough 
knowledge of the science of physiology. They 
should realize its value, aud appreciate the vital 
importance of combating error in all its forms. Iu 
doiug their duty they have a great foe to meet, a 
terrible tyrant to conquer, whose impregnable bar¬ 
riers bring our most precious treasures beneath his 
ruthless baud. That foe is Fashion 1 Thousands 
of valiant soldiers are needed where there are uone. 
That a general reform of living aud dressing is need¬ 
ed, none will deny. Old and youug, middle-aged 
and infants, are falling on every hand, a sacrifice to 
luxury, immoderatiou and medication. The most 
withering desolation is seen among the fair, frail 
daughters of “ weak-miuded" Eve. Many uoble 
women have striven to free themselves from the 
fetters, but, alas! common sense and modesty are 
generally sacrificed upon the altar of the corrupt 
frivolities of a more corrupt nation. 
Think you the sensible mother, if she understood 
the importance of a free action of the chest to a 
proper performance of the functions of the heart and 
lungs, would be disposed to bind np the ribs of her 
daughter as if they were the hoops of a cask which 
might burst if uot properly seemed? Think you 
she would persevere iu a course w’hich she knew 
sooner or later would add to the hectic flush aud 
consumptive cough? Would that young wife, if 
she knew how those long, heavy skirts, hanging to 
her compressed chest, are weighing, depressing, fet¬ 
tering her strength, energies and motion, continue 
to thus drag aud weigh herself down V 
How soon, alas! the bloom and freshness fade 
from the faces of our mothers aud sisters. Is it 
any wonder ? Fashion teaches how ’tis done. They 
must be ladies, delicate aud white; they become 
such in much the same way as you bleach celery,— 
by exclusion from sunshine aud pure air. They 
must be as unskilled in performing any of the duties 
of life as are the gay mod. / plates of Leslie’s pages, 
and just as extremely adorned. So long as this 
state of things prevails, shall we call woman wise 
aud noble ? 
Says Dr. Dull;—“T he yoimg lady who prome¬ 
nades with draggling skirts and a delicate waist, the 
observed, but uot the admired, of all observers, 
would not feel flattered in being told that she was 
bodily diseased and mentally imbecile because of 
her dress, yet it would be strictly true.” Being 
so enslaved to fashion, she could hardly have any 
thought or feeling on the subject. You may talk 
about the necessity of breathing to a young lady 
whose figure is a caricature on humanity, whose 
blood is foul, whose secretions are all depraved, 
aud whose mottled Bkin aud pallid cheeks clearly 
indicate the seeds of tubercular consumption—all 
because she does not breathe enough 
BY LTU1LE PAUL. 
HELP YOURSELVES. 
\\ olld you not all like to become useful ? Wo 
think you would. Your bright eyes answer the 
question, “yes,” “yes,” “yes,” they seem to say. 
Girls and boys everywhere tire thlnkiug of the time 
when they shall he growu up,—thiftkifig wlmt they 
will do, and making plans for a very happy life. 
That is right. A happy life means a useful one; no 
person is really happy who is of uo use in the world. 
“Aren't there a great many useless people?” 
asks Charlie. “I think HaKht Easy must be a 
useless man. He uever seems to work any, but 
stays around the bar-rooms und drinks and swears 
all the while,” 
We don’t wonder at your question, Charlie. 
There arc a great many people who appear to be of 
no nse whatever. Harry Easy is one of them 
he would, his life would he very 
useless ,to himself,lie is useless 
I Because he does not care to he 
people ilo not care to help him. 
lazy loafer, instead of a respected 
The tirst step towards becomin 
i is to become useful to yourself, 
j plG&se, young friends. Learn to 1 
j‘ou possibly eau. Do not ask 
teachers to aid you in anything ut 
many times to do it alone. Con 
without help, and the next will In 
more easily. Do your work as 
you will feel better, even if it - ls n 
for doing it alone. 
You have all heard of, and m: 
GOTHIC CHAPEL, MAMMOTH CAVE, KENTUCKY, 
Our engraving represents a scene in [the Mam¬ 
moth Cave, aud one which all who have visited 
that wonder of Nature will readily recognize. The 
illustration was engraved from a photograph taken 
by rnoaus of the magnesium light—a process which 
has been used successfully iu Europe to obtain views 
of the Catacombs of Rome, and in Egypt to get 
views of the interior chambers iu some of the pyra¬ 
mids. The Gothic Ohapd is in what is known as the 
Gothic Arcade, and is entered from the main cave 
by ascending a flight of steps some fifteen feet in 
height. The Chapel is a large room, the ceiling of 
which appears to be supported by gigantic, stalac¬ 
tites, which exteud to the floor. Wheu a number 
of lamps are hung upon these columns, or carried 
in the hands of visitors, the Chapel presents a beau¬ 
tiful appearance. We visited the Cave in May last, 
and particularly remember the Chapel and other 
noteworthy points and scenes iu the Gothic Arcade. 
Mammoth Clave is situated in Edmonson Co., Ky., 
about equidistant from Louisville and Nashville. At 
Cave City, on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, 
aud nine miles from the Cave, conveyances are usu¬ 
ally in readiness to convey passengers to aud from 
the Mammoth and other caves iu the vicinity. Mam¬ 
moth Cave is certainly a great natural curiosity. It 
extends (as the proprietors claim, but many visitors 
greatly doubt,) nine miles under the ground, and 
embraces a great variety of chambers. Visitors are 
accompanied by a guide, each member of the party 
carrying a small lamp, yet a half dozen lamps give 
but feeble light in the large chambers, and the guide 
Uses tire-works in some of them. The entrance to 
the Cave is uearly two hundred feet above Greeu 
River, a very green-looking, turbid stream, less than 
a half mile distant. 
— The Mammoth Cave is a great curiosity, but it 
is eertaiDly “run” on the catch-penny, swindling 
principle—the chief proprietors or managers of the 
“show” making it a point to detain visitors at their 
“Cave Hotel” as long as possible. Our party was 
delayed a day under the pretense ( which we subse¬ 
quently ascertained was only a pretense,) that no 
guides could be procured. After leaving, and on 
comparing notes, our stage load of a dozen or more 
(inside and out,) unanimously concluded that each 
had been “sold” iu some manner. However, we 
soon had some occasion to forgive, if we could not 
forget, the unnecessary detention, for on returning 
to the Cave City Hotel, we were so well entertained 
— found such excellent “ board and lodging”—that 
the said hotel was voted an institution worthy of 
special commendation to all travelers who should 
thereafter visit the region. 
talking to. He owes much of his success in life to 
hcl/nvr/ himself. We have just read a little anecdote 
of him which may interest you. It shows how he 
tried to do bis work alone. 
He was hauling logs for his father, and it hap. 
pened that he went after a load when uone of the 
choppers were in the woods to help Uiru load them, 
He was then only twelve years old, and very small 
of his age. The logs were large, and very heavy. 
Many boys would have said, “ I can’t load those 
great things aione,” aud so would have returned 
borne without any. But, Ulysses believed in help¬ 
ing himself, and never giving up without a fair trial. 
Cue log lay so that one end of it -tuck up several 
feet, while the other end was on the ground. Here 
was a helper at once. He backed the wagon up 
under the raised end of the log, then hitched a 
chain to the other logs, one by oue, and with only 
the help of “old Dave,” oue of the horses, succeed¬ 
ed in getting them all on the wagon, in good shape. 
Help yourselves, children, wherever you are, 
Sell' help is better than other help, far; 
Never sit down and dcspondingly sigh 
“ Oh, deart I can’t,” but with cheerful heart try. 
Help yourselves, children, you then will succeed; 
Useful your lives will become, then, indeed; 
Helpful and hopeful, no work will he hard,— 
Every day’s efforts will bring their reward. 
Helpful, and hopeful, and patient., and ldnd, 
May you lie ever; aud soon you will Und 
Patience and helpfulness wlnulng for you 
Victories grand as the warrior e'er knew I 
Wait for no other, but proudly rely 
On your own hands aud the earnest “ I’ll try;”— 
Do for yourself, and do all with your might; 
Ever keep doing, and over Do Right ! 
CURIOUS ELECTRICAL PHENOMENA, 
Prof. Tyndall publishes the following account 
of some curious electrical phenomena observed by 
Mr. R. Watsou and a party of tourists in ascending 
a portion of the Jung Frau Mountain in Switzerland. 
Mr. W., in a letter to Prof. Tyndall, says: 
“On the 10th of July I visited with a party of 
three, and two guides, the Uol de la Juki/ Frau. 
The early morning was bright, and gave promise of 
a flue day,—but as we approached the Col clouds 
settled down upon it, and on reuchiug it we encoun¬ 
tered so severe a storm of wind, snow aud hail, that 
we were unable to stay more than a few minutes. 
As we descended, the snow continued to (all so 
densely that we lost our way, and for some time we 
were wandering up the Lots eh Battel. We had 
hardly discovered oar mistake when a loud peal of 
thunder was heard, aud shortly after I observed that 
a strange, singing sound, like that of a kettle, was 
issuing from my alpenstock. We halted, aud find¬ 
ing that all the axes and stocks emitted the same 
sound, stuck them into the snow. The guide from 
the hotel now pulled off his cap, shouting that his 
head burned; and his hair was seen to have a similar 
appearance to that which it would have presented 
had he been on au insulated Btool under a powerful 
electrical machine. We all of us experienced the 
sensation of pricking or burning in some part of the 
body, more especially iu the head and face, my hair 
also standing ou end iu au uncomfortable but very 
amusing manner. The snow gave out a hissing 
sound as though a heavy shower of hail were fall¬ 
ing ; the veil on the wide-awake of one of the party 
stood upright iu the air, aud on waving our hands 
the singing sound issued loudly from the lingers. 
Whenever a peal of thunder was heard, the phe¬ 
nomena ceased, to be resumed before the echoes had 
died away. At these times we felt shocks more or 
less violent iu those portions of the body which 
were most affected. By oue of these, my right arm 
was paralyzed so completely that I could neither 
use nor raise it for several minutes, and I suffered 
much pain in it at the shoulder joint for several 
hours. At half-past twelve the clouds began to pass 
away and the phenomena finally ceased, having lastr 
ed twenty-five minutes. We saw no lightning, and 
were puzzled at first as to whethur we should be 
afraid or amused." 
VIOLIN AND HARP STRINGS 
The Round Table makes the following sensible 
remarks in regard to smoking in the streets: 
“ The street is not a private smoking-room. One 
man has no more right to void his tobacco smoke 
into the face of another man than lie has to 
void his saliva. If he haf N why, in the name of 
sense? Because the smoktj,- the less disagreeable? j 
That is a matter for indiviftial preference; and be¬ 
side, a man has do right to do the least disagreeable [ 
thing. Why may not a man appear on Broadway 
with a long stick strapped horizontally across his | 
back, or with an open package of asafictida in his 
pocket, or carrying a pole cat in his arms, or with 
his clothes drippiug with kerosene oil, or with a rat¬ 
tlesnake coiled around his neck, with as much right 
as he may smoke there ? Because it is uot custom¬ 
ary to cany asufmtida iu the pocket, nobody thinks 
about it; if it only were the custom we should hear 
a fearful cry from the tobacco smokers themselves. 
If a man treads upon another’s foot, he apologizes; i 
hut be will carelessly void offeusive smoke into his 
very throat, and never think that he does anything 
reprehensible. Lf a man dislikes smoking he can 
keep out of the street. But the right of the tobaeeo- 
hater in the street is equal to that of the tobacco- 
lover; to refrain from smokiug in public places is 
not granting a concession, but uot to refrain is vio¬ 
lating a right. Upon actual right, without reference 
to the sanction of custom, a man would be perfectly 
justifiable iu resenting the smoking of tobaeco near 
him as a personal affront.” 
An English paper says; — “The manufacture of 
strings for musical instruments has been carried on 
from time immemorial in some of the small villages 
in the Abruzzi, and at the presout time the Neapoli¬ 
tan provinces maintain their superiority in the pro¬ 
duction of this article. They require the. greatest 
care aud dexterity on the part of the workman. 
The treble strings are particularly difficult to make, 
and are made at Naples, probably because the Nea¬ 
politan sheep, from their small size and leanness, 
afford the best raw material. They are made from 
the small intestines, w’hich must be very carefully 
scraped; the intestines are then steeped in alkaline 
lyes, clarified with a little alum, for four or five days 
until they arc well bleached and swollen. They 
are next drawn through au open brass thimble, and 
pressed against it with the nail, in order to smooth 
and equal their surface; after which they arc washed, 
spun or twisted, aud sulphured during two hours. 
They are finally polished by friction aud dried. 
Sometimes they are sulphured twice or thrice be¬ 
fore being dried, and are polished between horsehair 
cords. The strings manufactured in Italy are noted 
for their strength, transparency, brilliancy and clear¬ 
ness of tone. This manufacture was introduced into 
France by a Neapolitan nobleman in 1760, who es¬ 
tablished a manufactory at Lyons. This industry is 
carried on in various other towns in Italy, namely, 
Gubbio, Foligno, Bologna, Venice, Vicenza, Padua, 
Verona, and Bassano.” 
and, while 
she is under the dominion of fashion, she will stare 
at you as insensately as a mau who is thoroughly 
addicted to tobacco-using will when you tell him 
that it is a filthy and disgusting habit. Both are 
too demoralized to profit by instruction, or admo¬ 
nition, where appetency and fashion are concerned. 
It is a remarkable fact, that no man can ever get 
rid of the style of handwriting peculiar to his coun¬ 
try. If he be English, he always writes in English 
style; if French, in French style; if German, Italian, 
or Spanish, in the style peculiar to his nation. Pro¬ 
fessor B-states. I am acquainted with a French¬ 
man who has passed all bis life iu Eugland, who 
speaks English like one of our own countrymen, and 
writes it with ten times the correctness of ninety- 
nine iu a hundred of us; but yet who cannot, for 
the life of him, imitate our mode of writing. I 
knew a Scotch youth, who was educated entirely iu 
France, aud resided eighteen years in that country, 
mixed exclusively with French people—but who, al¬ 
though he had a French writing-master, and perhaps 
never saw anything but French writing in his life, 
yet wrote exactly iu the English style; it was really 
national instinct. In Paris, all the writing-masters 
profess to teach the Euglish style of writing, but 
with all their professions, aud all their exertions, 
they can never get their pupils to adopt any but the 
cramped hand of the French. 
Some pretend to bo able to tell the characteristics 
of individuals from their hand writings. I know 
not how this may be, hut certainly the uation to 
which au individual belongs, cau instantly be deter¬ 
mined by his haud-writing. The difference between 
the Amcricau or English and the French hand-writ¬ 
ing is immense—a schoolboy would distinguish it at 
a glance. Mix together a hundred sheets of manu¬ 
script written by a hundred Frenchmen, aud another 
hundred written by Englishmen or Americans, and 
uo one could fail to distinguish every oue of them, 
though all should be written in the same language 
and with the same pens aud paper. The difference 
between Italian, Spanish aud German hand-writings 
is equally decided. In fact, there is about as great 
a difference between the hand-writings of different 
uations as iu their languages. And it is a singular 
truth, that though a mau may become identified 
with another uation, and speak its languages as well, 
perhaps better, than his own—yet never can ho suc¬ 
ceed in changing his hand-writing to a foreign style 
PAPER BOAT AND PAPER CHURCH 
The origin of “the outlandish persons calling 
themselves Egyptians, or Gipsies,” aud constituting 
a strange kind of commonwealth among themselves 
of wandering impostors and jugglers, is still a sub¬ 
ject of great curiosity, notwithstanding the question 
is conceitedly said to have been tong since set at 
rest. Dr. Short dwells especially on the first ap¬ 
pearance of gipsies in Europe being coevai with the 
century which witnessed the discovery of the New 
World aud the uew passage, to the Indies, although 
the hypothesis of ascribing to them a Hindoo origin 
is of very recent date. The arguments for it consist 
iu the physical form of the people, in the language, 
and in the history of their migration. Each of these 
topics Dr. Short has examined separately in detail, 
aud his general conclusion is that the gipsies, when, 
above four centuries ago, they first appeared in 
Western Europe, were already composed of a mix¬ 
ture of many different races and that the present 
gipsies are still more mongrel. In the Asiatic por¬ 
tion of their lineage there may be a small amount of 
Hindoo blood; but this is thought to be the utmost 
that can be predicated of their Indian pedigree. 
They have a “ paper” race boat in Portland. It 
is thirty-one and a half-feet long, twelve inches 
wide, and weighs but twenty-two pounds. The 
lightest wooden boat of similar dimensions weighed 
forty-one pounds. The most singular part of the 
matter is that the paper boat is four times stronger 
than one of wood. All that portion save where the 
sculler sits, Is gas-tight, so that in the event of a 
race sufficient gas may be taken into it to reduce 
its weight to eight pounds! A man pulling in a 
boat weighing hut eight 'pounds is something to 
think of with astonishment. 
There is a paper church near Berlin, Prussia. The 
relievos outside, and the statues within, the roof, 
the ceiling, the Corinthian capitals, are all of papier- 
mache, rendered waterproof by saturation in vitriol, 
lime-water-whey and white of egg. The church 
will contain uearly 1,000 persons. When Frederick 
II. of Prussia set up a lituited papier-mache manu¬ 
factory at Berliu, in 1765, he little thought that 
paper cathedrals might, within a century, spring 
out of his snuff' boxes, by the slight-of-hand of art. 
HOW GOLD PENS ARE MAD E 
Our young friends wiU be interested In the above 
picture, we are sure, wheu they learn what it illus¬ 
trates. Many horses know a great deal, and the 
friendty one here shown is one of the most know¬ 
ing ones. 
Some little time since his owner was leaving his 
residence, on his way to his office, when the horse 
rau up to him and caught his arm, and tried to pull 
him off’ in another direction. Then the horse turned 
and trotted away toward a pasture a quarter of a 
mile distant. In a few minutes he came again, 
making an unusual noise, and seeming to desire his 
owner to follow him. The gentleman did so, and 
on reaching the pasture found the horse’s mate 
entangled in a bridge, which had broken through 
with him, and unable to move himself. Of course 
the owner at ouce helped the animal out of his dan¬ 
gerous position ; and the friendly horse rubbed his 
head against the gentleman and manifested much 
satisfaction. Don’t you thi uk he showed a very good 
disposition, thus to try to help another in trouble? 
Gold pens are tipped with iridium, making what 
are commonly known as “diamond points.” The 
iridium for this purpose is found in small grains in. 
platl urn slightly alloyed with this latter metal. In 
this firm it is exceedingly hard, and well adapted to 
the purpose of the gold pen maker. The gold for 
pens ij alloyed with silver to about sixteen carats 
finenets, rolled into tliiu strips, from which the 
blanks are struck. The under side of the point is 
notched' by a small circular saw, to receive the 
iridium point, which is selected with the aid of a 
microscope. A flux of borax aud a blowpipe 
secure i to its place. The point is then ground 
ou a eo iper wheel with emery. The pen blank 
is next lolled to the requisite thinness by means 
of rollers especially adapted to the purpose, and 
tempered by blows from a hammer. It is then 
trimmed around the edges, stamped, and formed iu 
a powerful press. The slit is next cut through the 
solid iridium point by means of a thin copper 
wheel, fed with fine emery, and a saw extends the 
aperture along the pen itsolf. The inside edges of 
the slit are smoothed and polished by the same 
means of rapidly - running wheels aud emery, and 
burnishing and hammering, to produce the proper 
degree of elasticity, finish the work .—Scientific Am. 
Tub Nautilus does not sail, as was supposed In 
former years. The investigations of naturalists of 
the present day have dispelled the beautiful dream. 
Aristotle first fancifully described it as the “ Paper 
Nautilus, in fine weather floating ou the surface of 
the ocean, with his sails Bpread out to the breeze." 
In the motion, the animal really sits unattached to 
his shell withiu the long tentacula stretch'Ug from 
the projected head, while through the short funnel 
beneath it forcibly spirts forth the water, the recoil 
from which sends him backward. Yet the old writ¬ 
ers have said the Nautilus may have first suggested 
to man the idea of sailing upon the water. 
Lours II., King of Bavaria, who died at Munich 
recently, was boru August 35, 1845, and succeeded 
his father, Maximilian II., the 10th of March, 1864, 
and houco was in hia “id year when he died. Like 
his father aud his graudfather, King Louis I., who 
is still living, the late king was a great patron of art 
aud science.. His passion for music, in fact, was so 
great as to lead to a ueglect of the most important 
affairs of state. The King last year was betrothed 
to his cousin Sophia, Duchess of Bavaria; but the 
engagement was soon broken off, according to some 
reports, in consequence of a difference of opiniou on 
Wagner, the composer; according to others, iu con¬ 
sequence of different religious views. He.hud the 
reputation of being the handsomest monarch of 
Europe. With regard to the German question, Uc 
was supposed to be personally in favor of establish¬ 
ing the most friendly relations with the North Ger¬ 
man Confederation. He is succeeded on the throne 
of Bavaria by his only brother. Prim e Otho, bom in 
1848, who as King bears the name of Otho I. 
Choose ever the plainest road; it always answers 
best. For the same reason, choose ever to do and 
say what is ever most just and most direct. This 
conduct will save a thousand blushes and a thousand 
struggles, aud will deliver you from those secret 
torments which are the never-failing attendants of 
dissimulation. 
) Doctor’s Cxnes.—I t was formerly the practice 
t among physicians to carry a cane having a hollow 
’ head, the top of which was gold, pierced with holes 
\ like a pepper-box. The top contained a small 
it quautity of aromatic powder, or of snuff; and on 
' entering a house or room where a disease supposed 
I to be infectious, prevailed, the doctor would strike 
i. bis caue ou the floor to agitate the powder, and then 
p apply it to his uose. Hence all the old prints of 
> physicians represent them with caues to their noses. 
“I wish yon would behave better a,t’the table,” 
said a boy to his little sister, rather hastily, one eve¬ 
ning. “Don’t speak so,” replied his mother; “she 
is a good little girlj on the’whole." “I don’t 
J® where the good comes in,” he replied. “It 
comes in riglit after the a,” said his sister. 
The Place for a Poor Man.—A merica is the 
poor mau’s paradise. Said Bishop Kingsley after 
his return from his European tour;—Iu no country 
in Europe, that I have visited is there any chance for 
a poor man—none. As soon as a child is as high as 
your table, he is put to work, and works till he 
dies. Social, literary, elevating culture for them 
seems almost a foregone consideration. We in 
America do uot know oyv advantages. 
If you acquire habits of idleness when young, 
they will trouble you wheu old. 
