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Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
CHANGES IN DIET NECESSARY. 
Are the cooks and doctors co-workers ? Let us 
quote what some physicians say upon this subject: 
“ The dyspeptic will do any thing but eat moder¬ 
ately of plain, healthful fo 0 d, a nd driuk water.” 
“The dyspeptic consults doctors, swallows patent 
medicines—mineral waters, takes emetics, and ca¬ 
thartics, and does many things disagreeable, painful, 
aud expensive, rather than cut ofi the supplies, that 
the enemy may leave the citadel.” 
Dr. Dio Lewis says a yonng man called on him, 
with numberless aches and distresses. He was dizzy 
and half sick in the morning; sleepy after dinner; 
restless at night; with constipation; pain and sour¬ 
ness of the stomach; hypochondria, &e. After 
questioning him about nis diet, drinks, and other 
habits, he told him if he would stop his drugs and 
eat ODly what he advised him, ho. would get well. 
For breakfast a piece of unleavened, cracked wheat 
bread, as large as his hand, with a baked apple. 
Twice as much bread of the same sort for dinner, 
with a Baucer of cracked wheat and milk, and two 
or three baked apples. (The cracked wheat to be 
eaten in milk is to be boiled first, we suppose; and 
the apples to be put in milk ought to be 6weet, we 
think, from our experience. ; He was to eat nothing 
for supper, and retire at eight o’clock, with his 
sleeping-room well ventilated. 
The diseased stomach needs rest, and abstinence 
from the things whereby it has become diseased. 
This rest can only be obtained by eating moderate 
quantities of plain and easily digested food, and 
drinking sufficient pure water, either warm, with 
the addition of a little miLk, or fresh aud cold, if 
the stomach will bear it, in small quantities. And 
here we might add, that grapes, currants, berries, 
and all other fruits that are sometimes made into 
wine, would make far the best medicines for the 
sick, if deprived of pulp and pits, or seeds, and 
made into jelly or canned, in an nnrermented state. 
All fermented drinks contain a quantity of alcohol, 
which renders them unhealthful; if preserved from 
fermentation they would be highly medicinal and 
restorative to the sick. But they should not be 
cooked in brass or copper vessels. 
Healthful food may be made highly injurious to 
health by a thoughtless cook, A certain quantity of 
nutritious food is necessary to the growth and 
health of the system, the strength and activity of 
the mind and muscles, and it should always be 
healthfully prepared. The cook who thinks her 
pickles must look green, soaks or scalds them in 
brass or copper kettles, and thus renders them un¬ 
healthful food. People do not usually eat enough 
of pickles at a meal to make them immediately 
sick, and convince them they have eaten something 
wrong though their appetites may crave that very 
thing. 
Physicians tell us that people from various un¬ 
healthful causes often have morbid appetites, or an 
insane craving for things highly injurious to health 
and life. This is the case with the wine bibber, the 
liquor drinker, the opium eater, the tobacco U3er, 
and many others. If one finds that his former diet, 
drinks, medicines, or other unhealthful influences, 
have been such as to create an unhealthful appetite, 
or injurious to health and good morals, it is his duty 
as a ratioual being to conquer such cravings, how¬ 
ever severe the struggle. 
Some people have proved that abstinence from 
food, with rest, quiet, aud washing the whole sys¬ 
tem in warm water with soap, so as to open the 
pores of the skin, was better for them than taking 
medicines, in many attacks of sickuess. Others 
have cured themselves of chronic ailments with 
these measures, and a change from their former 
food and drinks, by eating moderately of boiled 
wheat, or unbolted wheat bread or corn meal bread, 
and fruits of various kinds, and improved in strength 
and mental vigor all the time. 
Hattie Hopeful. 
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MIDNIGHT AND NOONDAY IN WALL ST. 
Did you ever indulge in a midnight aud a noonday 
meditation in Wall Street ? Walk slowly down from 
Broadway while old Trinity is tolling the midnight 
hour, and the watchman’s club is ringing on the 
pavement. Almost every foot and square inch of 
sidewalk covers, or environs with a rocky fortifica¬ 
tion, the dark sepulchres where wealth is stored. 
Here it is, right under your feet, millions upon 
millions of pelf, gold by the ton, bank bills by the 
cart load, bonds and stock certificates by the cord. 
Why, my poor neighbor, if you could squeeze down 
your hand through the grating and get, as it were, a 
piuch of that yellow sand that lies in this subterra¬ 
neous Ophir, you might lie in bed tilt midday for the 
residue of your mortal life. For nineteen or twenty 
houre out of the twenty-four, these treasures lie 
undisturbed in their dark bed. But when old Trin¬ 
ity tolls twelve the next time, the silent sidewalks 
have chauged into a battle-field, and men are digging 
fiercely with their claws to get through the pavement 
aud seize each a morsel of the hidden store. It is a 
tussle of harpies, or a warfare of vultures on a car¬ 
cass, and one seizes a bone and another a slice of 
flesh, aud each flies to his den to devour, and then 
comes forth again to fight and tussle till the bell 
tolls three; and then the first lull, premonitory of 
the midnight silence, comes again, and the warriors 
go to their tents, eager for the next day’s fray; and 
as they wind their way out of the battle-field you can 
read the diary of the day’s campaign in every man’s 
face .—BukartTs Monthly. 
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A Bachelors’ Home.— In Putnam's Magazine for 
May, Mr. €. W, Elliott gives a sketch of life in San 
Francisco, which is not only gossipy but statis¬ 
tical. One of the hotels there must be a perfect 
paradise for confirmed old bachelors. Mr. El¬ 
liott says; —“But the ‘ What Cheer’ Hotel is a 
Yankee shoot grafted upon a California stock, and 
proves a most profitable growth. All is done for' 
cash, and your bed is paid for before you get into it. 
A large restaurant supplies four thousand meals a 
day, at prices from fifteen cents upward. Ample 
means are provided for you to black your own boots 
free; and the library, of five thousand volumes, is 
open to all. There is no bar. The house has one 
more peculiarity—no woman is allowed within it; 
the servants are all men, and no man’s wife can 
sleep with him at this house. It pays at the rate of 
$30,000 to $40,000 pci year. 
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Hope is a great elevator. It sustains the maiden 
at 45 in the belief that her time and man is yet to 
come; it keeps alive the dreams of youth for fame 
and fortune; it nurses the visions for place and 
power; it transforms the old into the youug; and it 
also often induces people to make exceedingly great 
fools of themselves. 
BEAUTIFUL SPECIMENS OF FISH. 
MORONE INTERRUPTA.—(“ SIIORT STRIPED” OR “BRASSY” BASS.) 
As a sequel to the articles on Fish Culture which 
have recently appeared in the Rural, we give here¬ 
with illustrations of two finny specimens,— Morone 
Interrupts , and Macropodus Viridi Anratus. 
The first of these is of the tribe of Ldyraelns , or 
true bass, and is a very haudsome species inhabiting 
the Mississippi river It appears to be common be¬ 
tween St. Louis and New Orleans ; its further range 
is yet undetermined. It ia commonly called “short 
striped” or “ brassy” bass, and in form scarcely 
differs from the ordinary white perch, to which it is 
nearly akin. In color, however, it is very strikingly 
distinguished from the perch, being far more beau¬ 
tiful than the gold fish. Its general hue Is bright 
brassy, with olivaceous shading on the back, and 
blackish bands, broad and well defined. In flavor 
aud firmness of fle3h it is said to resemble the white 
perch, being] in no wise inferior. The species has 
been made known to the scientific world within a 
few years, and has not as yet, we believe, been ex¬ 
perimented upon by pisciculturists. Its beautiful 
coloration, and general excellence, would seem to 
recommend it to the attention of fish breeders. 
The second species showu is of the same family as 
the Gourami , which we illustrated in our last article 
on Fish Culture, apd the peculiarities of which we 
gave some account of. The Macropodus Viridi 
Auralus somewhat resembles a rock bass or sunfish, 
but has a smaUer head and a still smaller mouth, and 
singularly long fins, especially the ventral and anal 
ones, the first soft ray of the former almost or quite 
equalling the entire length of the fish. It is reared 
by the Chinese for ornamental purposes, like the 
gold fish, and its remarkable beauty certainly enti¬ 
tles it to that distinction. It can never be availa¬ 
ble for practical purposes, as it cannot be success¬ 
fully acclimatized, and we give it therefore merely 
as a curiosity. 
MACROPODUS VIRIDI AURATUS. 
ERRORS OF THE TYPES. 
Printers, like all the rest of mankind, are not 
infallible. The typographical furors they are at 
times guilty of are frequently In wror.s, and always 
provoking, especially to authoit Many amusing 
specimens of these errors have bevu given, of which 
the following are perhaps as ludicrous and as pro¬ 
voking as the average; 
“The stillness of the hour is the stillness of a dead 
calm at sea,” Professor Phelps wrote in his book— 
“The Still Hour.” 8everal hundred copies were 
printed and sold, in which the word “ calm ” became 
“clam.” The Reverend Doctor Todd, having pre¬ 
sented some relics from an acquaintance to be depos¬ 
ited in the museum of a prominent institution, made 
some allusion to the “Lives of the Saints.” His 
remarks, when published, alluded, through a typo¬ 
graphical blunder, to the “Liesof the Saints,” which 
so enraged the owner of the relics that he wrote to 
Dr. Todd, demanding their return. The late Doctor 
Bethune used to relate that, reading one morning a 
report of a discourse delivered by him the day be¬ 
fore, he round the remark, “ And the adversary came 
among them and sowed tares” printed, “And the 
adversary came among them and sawed trees.” 
“For instance,” pathetically writes an author, 
“what opiniou can an ’appreciative and indulgent 
public’ entertain of your mythological knowledge, 
when they see you writing about the ‘ Formosa Her¬ 
cules,’ and the ‘ Venus de Medicine ,’ and referring to 
the majesty of the great ’Juniper?’ What is their 
opinion of your classic attainments as you discourse 
of the immortal Horner and Virgin , aud admire the 
Plutonic philosophy, and assure them that the Greek 
(Creek) race was utterly exterminated some twenty 
years since by the Camanehe Indians ? If you men¬ 
tion that you have been ‘regaling yourself with a 
page of Friar Bacon,’ the stupid printer invariably 
has it * a plate of fried bacon ’ —just as poor Gold¬ 
smith saw his lines, in which he so ingeniously imi¬ 
tated the notes of a nightingale — 
‘ Gul, gul, gulf 
* And that low tone, more sweet than all! ’ 
converted Into — 
“Jug, jug. jag! 
* And that low tone, more sweet than ale / 1 
to his everlasting mortification and confusion.” 
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BIRDS NONPLUSSED. 
While Prof. Agassiz was at Rio Janeiro, a solar 
eclipse occurred, and he gives this account of the 
perplexity which such a novel occurrence caused 
the animal creation: 
The effect of the waning light on animals was 
very striking. The bay of Rio is daily frequented 
by large numbers of frigate-birds aud gannets, which 
at night fly to the outer islands to roost, while the 
carrion crows, swarming in suburbs, aud especially 
about the slaughter-houses of the city, retire to the 
mountains. As soon as the light began to diminish, 
these birds became uneasy; evidently conscious 
that their day was strangely encroached upon, they 
were uncertain for a moment how to act. Present¬ 
ly, however, as the darkness increased, they started 
for their usual night quarters, and they had all left 
their feeding-grounds before the moment of great¬ 
est obscurity arrived. They seemed to fly in all 
haste, but were not half way to their night home 
when the light began to return with rapidly increas¬ 
ing brightness. Their confusion was now at its 
height. Some continued their flight toward the 
mountains or the harbor, others hurried back to the 
city, while others whirled about, wholly uncertain 
what to do next. The re-establishment of the full 
light of noon seemed to decide them, however, up¬ 
on making another day of it, and the whole crowd 
once more moved steadily toward the city. 
REGARDING HANDWRITING. 
Some imaginative persons, Edgar A. Poe among 
the number, cherish the delusion that a man’s char¬ 
acter could be read in his handwriting. No niore 
absurd position could be held, as it is at once proven 
by the fact that no man’s handwriting is invariable. 
It is influenced by circumstances, and changes with 
his condition and moods. A man who thinks fast 
will write fast, and in all probability, unless he be a 
scrivner, will write illegibly. It is also assumed 
that all men of great literary talent or marked pro¬ 
fessional ability write badly. This is utterly incor¬ 
rect as a basis for a theory, though true as a fact. 
Such men write badly, because is is of no material 
importance to them to write weU. Editors write 
badly, not because they write over-much, but be¬ 
cause the thoughts they have to set down crowd 
upon them so fast in the order of composition, that 
lest some should be omitted, the pen is forced 
faster than their skill can follow; and as their sal¬ 
aries are not dependent on the beauty of their hand¬ 
writing, they take no pains to make their chirog- 
raphy legible and handsome. Yet there are scores 
of merchants’ clerks who write far more rapidly 
and for a greater number of hours daily than any 
editor or lawyer, whose writing is always handsome, 
uniform and legible. This is because they would 
lose their places were the case otherwise. 
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SPONGES. 
Lowest in the rank of animal life stands the 
spouge, a creature which has been Known from 
antiquity, and whose nature has always been a sub¬ 
ject of dispute. For some time it was classed by 
naturalists among vegetable productions, and only 
recently has it been assigned a place in the animal 
kingdom. It is undecided even yet whether each 
sponge is a single individual, or a congregation of 
minute creatures living together in a community like 
that of the coral polypi. The most important sponge 
fisheries are those in the Grecian Archipelago and on 
the shores of Syria, although the commodity is also 
obtained from the Red Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, aud 
to 60 me extent along the whole Mediteranean coast. 
The sponge has become so valuable as an article of 
commerce, that the fisheries have been nearly 
exhausted in order to supply the demand; and 
unless artificial cultivation is resorted to, it is 
probable that the sponge will soon entirely disap¬ 
pear. The poorer qualities are found in shallow 
water, and tom from the rocks by means of three¬ 
forked harpoons; but the finer kinds, which grow 
at a depth of from twelve to twenty fathoms, are 
brought up by divers, and have to be carefully de¬ 
tached from the rocks by means of a knife.— Ex. 
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INTERESTING TO TEA - DRINKERS. 
If you pour a few drops of strong tea on a piece 
of iron—a knife blade, for instance—the tannate of 
iron is formed, wliich is black. If you mix it with 
iron-filings or pulverized iron, you may make it a 
fair article of ink. if you mix it with fresh human 
blood, it forms, with the iron of the blood, the tan- 
nate of iron. Now, when we remember that the 
liquids wni-’h enter the stomach are rapidly ab¬ 
sorbed by the veins and absorbents of the stomach, 
aud enter into the circulation, and are thrown out 
of the system by the skin, respiration, and the kid¬ 
neys, it is probable that a drink so common as tea, 
and so abundantly used, will have some effect. Can 
it be possible that tannin introduced with so much 
warm liquor, producing perspiration, will have no 
more effect upon, the skiu ? Look at the tea- 
driukers of Russia, the Chinese, aud the old women 
of America, who have so long continued in the 
habit of drinking strong teas —are they not dark 
colored and leather-skinned? When yonng they 
were of fair complexion.— Herald of Health. 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
THE CHILD’S SURPRISE. 
“Mother, come see my flower bed," 
A little girl to her mother said. 
“The flowers are wet with ram, while I, 
Discern no clouds in yonder sky; 
I hear no thunder, and see no glare. 
Of the dread lightning, In the air; 
Yet here in my own loved retreat, 
The rain has fallen on a!! so sweet, 
And hathed In moistn re all my flowers, 
But tell me, whence came the gentle showers.” 
The mother took her hand, and smiled, 
And said, “I'll tell you, ray darling child. 
When dusky evening comes apace, 
To hide from view fair nature’s face. 
The evening dew, a gentle shower, 
Falls on each plant und every dower; 
And they a precious lesson give, 
To yon, If you will it receive. 
“The dew refreshing, falls upon 
Each leaf, and flowret, bright and wan, 
To counteract the scorching ray 
The sun pours m: diem thro’ the day, 
And thro’ the darksome hours of night, 
Preserves the gentle flowers from blight. 
Now you, my child, a flowret are. 
Placed on r,he earth, and kept with care. 
The gospel dew unceasing falls, 
To keep you safe when fear appalls, 
Preserve you thro' all trials drear. 
In grief aud pain your Heart to cheer; 
Mind well, my eUVld, its precepts pure, 
For Us the artnOr ever sure 
With which to meet all woe and pain, 
And lead your way to peace again. 
“ And yet, my child, another thing, 
Concerning the soft dew of spring. 
The morning sun draws up this dew; 
This has its lesson too for yon: 
For when your work on earth is done. 
The sun of righteousness will come. 
Your time on earth, oh, then Improve, 
Let love your every action move, 
That when that glorious eun appears, 
Whether in youth or riper years, 
Our Lord may say, 4 Thou hast done well,’ 
Beloved, thou in heaven shall dwell; 
In peace thou then canst close thine eyes. 
And peacefully to glory rise.” 
Elkhorn, Wis., May, 18G8. B. C. D. 
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SINGING SCHOOL FOB, BIRDS. 
There is such a school as this, and very good 
scholars it makes. They cannot read or write, but 
theycau sing. They sing a. few simple notes, like 
the small linnets you may hear in the fields; but 
after they are taught they will whistle regular times. 
Last summer I was at a friend’s house at Nahant. 
I rose early in the morning, and went down stairs to 
walk on the piazza. While there T heard, as 1 
thought, some person whistling a tune in a very 
sweet style. I looked around, but could see no one. 
Where could the sound come from? I looked up, 
and saw a little bird in a cage. The cage was bung 
in the midst of flowers and twining plants. “ Can it 
be,” thought I, “ that such a little bird as that has 
been taught to sing a regular tune so sweetly ?” 1 
did not know what to make of it. When my Mend 
came down stairs she told me that it was indeed the 
little bird who bad whistled the sweet tune. Then 
my friend cried ont to the bird, “ Come, Bully, Bully, 
sweet little Bullfinch, give ns just one more tune.” 
Aud then this dear little bird hopped about the cage, 
looked at its mistress, and whistled another sweet 
tune. It was so strange to hear a bird whistle a 
regular tune'. “Now, Bully,” said my friend, “you 
must give us ‘ Yankee Doodle.’ Come, come, you 
shall have some niee fresh seed if you will whistle 
‘ Yankee Doodle. ’ ” And the little thing did whistle 
it, much to my surprise. 
My Mend then told me that she had brought the 
bird from the little town of Fulda, in Germany, 
where there are little schools for teaching these 
birds to sing. When a bullfinch has learned to sing 
two or three tunes, he is worth from forty to sixty 
dollars; for he will bring that price in France or 
England. Great skill and patience are needed to 
teach these birds. Few teachers can have the time 
to give to the children under their charge so much 
care as these bird teachers give to their bird pupils. 
The birds are put into classes of about six each, and 
kept for a time in a dark room. Here, when their 
food is given to them, they are made to hear music, 
so that when they have eaten their food, or when 
they want more food, they will sing, and try to 
imitate the tune they have just heard. This tune 
they probably connect with the act of feeding. As 
soon as they begin to imitate a few notes, the light 
is let into the room, and this cheers them still more 
and makes them feel as it they would like to sing. 
In some of these schools, the birds are not allowed 
either light or food till they begin to sing. These 
are the schools where the teachers are moat strict. - " 
) JAfter being thus taught in classes, each bullfinch 
is put under the care of a hoy, who plays his organ 
from morning till night, while the master or mistress 
of the bird school goes round to see how the pupils 
are getting on. The bullfinches seem to know at 
once when they are scolded, and when they are 
praised by their master or mistress; and they like to 
be petted when they have done well. The training 
goes or for nine mouths; and then the birds have 
got their education, and are sent to England or 
France, and sometimes to America, to be sold.— The 
Nursery. 
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Enough for Both.— A little sparrow lighted up¬ 
on a trough where a horse was taking his feed. 
“ Horsie,” said the little sparrow timidly, “ let me 
pick a little, only a grain or two, and yon will still 
have enough.” 
“Help yourself,” said the horse to the sparrow, 
“ help yourself ; there’s enough for both you 
and me." 
And so they ate together, and neither the one nor 
the other suffered from hunger; and when the warm 
sunshine came, and swarms of flies began buzzing 
round, the sparrow killed them by hundreds, and so 
the home was well paid. 
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A Word for Boys. — Truth is one of the rarest 
gems. Many a youth has been lost to society by 
allowing it to tarnish, and foolishly throwing it 
away. If this gem still shines In your bosom, suffer 
nothing to displace or dim it: luster. Profanity is 
a mark of low breediug. Show us the man who 
commands the best respect; an oath never trem¬ 
bles on his tongue. Read the catalogue of crime. 
Inquire the character of those who depart from vir¬ 
tue. Without a single exception, you will find 
them to be profane. Think of this, and let not a 
vile word disgrace you. 
- <»«♦! . »■- 
Idleness is like the nightmare—the moment you 
begin to stir yourself you shake it off'. 
IKS©' 
