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colonel and the great events'in history of the two 
worlds, in which these great but dissimilar men 
took leading parts, were then scarcely foreshad¬ 
owed. A hundred years ago the United States 
were the most loyal part of the British om pircj 
In which, witlitu a score of years thereafter was 
established the great republic of the world. A 
hundred years ago there were but. four newspa¬ 
pers in America. Steam engines had not been 
imagined, and railroads and telegraphs had not 
entered into the remotest conception of man. 
When we come to look back at it through the 
vista of history, we find that to tin; century just 
passed has been allotted more important events, 
in their bearings upon the happiness of the 
world, than almost, any other which has elapsed 
since the creation. 
GERMAN REGARD FOR WOMEN. 
G. Monod, a French writer, In his book enti¬ 
tled “ Germans and French,” makes the follow¬ 
ing remarks: “ The regard of the Germans for 
women is the most remarkable trait of this war, 
for it. is a national virtue, and one of the sources 
Bmndenburgers, Saxons, Hanoverians, Rhenish- 
Prussians, and Sehleswigers.” 
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MOTHER AND CHILD. 
A pretty picture of happiness, content and 
health embellishes this week’s Rural. The 
mother has dropped her work for a moment 
and is tossing in her arms her little boy, who Is 
happy, healthy and handsome. There is no more 
enchanting sight in the whole domestic world 
than this; no occupation is so crowded with 
maternal happiness. The mother holds in her 
hands the embryo man who may some day be¬ 
come the President of the United States; wholit 
least is destined to exercise much influence in 
the course of a lifetime either for good or evil. 
The possibilities wrapped up in a child arc be¬ 
yond estimation, flow important that till chil¬ 
dren should have early correct training! 
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A very little girl was learning to read, and a 
part of her lesson ran:—“The cat has a rat.” 
She t hought for a moment, and then exclaimed: 
“Catsdon’t have rats; cats have kittens. But 
sister Susan has rats in her hair.” 
of labor were nominally from six to six; 
but he had visited tho laborers’ cottages at 
eight and nine o’clock in the evening and found 
them still at work. What t hey obtained for extra- 
exertions might bo a mouthful of bread and 
cheese, or only another quart of sour elder. 
His remedy lor this evil had hitherto been mi¬ 
gration, hut after removing, through his own 
exertions, as many as t hree or four hundred 
families to the North, ho was sorry to confess 
that no permanent progress had been achieved. 
The removed families were vastly benefited by 
the change; In fact, they were now living in 
comparative affluence, but those who remained 
in North Devon enjoyed no benefit. Their wa¬ 
ges were still as low, ami their cottages as bad as 
before. Ho concluded,, therefore, that nothing 
COUld he done for laborers, as a class, while they 
continued isolated. Other and similar state¬ 
ments were made, all the participants being thor¬ 
oughly convinced of the necessity of some deci¬ 
sive and immediate action for the relief of the 
suffer era. 
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The rays of the sun shine upon tho dust and 
the mud, but they are not soiled by them. 
versity, signalizes his accession to a post in 
which he may yet do considerable harm by 
writing a “Compendium of the History of the 
United States.” 
Gail Borden and Hih Relations to Some 
Forms of Concentrated Food is the title of a 
pamphlet by S. L. Goooalk, Secretary of the 
Maine Hoard of Agriculture, in which is given a 
record of his efforts, discoveries and invent! ons 
in the line of supplying the country with con¬ 
centrated food, together with his claims as a 
first, discoverer. It is an interesting record. 
-- 
Very breezy and rustic is the Dolly Varden 
hat, a broad brimmed gipsy, faced with rose- 
tinted silk, caught coquettishly up at the back 
with loops and scraps of ribbon, and with a 
branch of cut roses, lull blown, perfect, and 
perfumed at the side. 
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Honeymoon trips to Europe are quite tho 
thing this summer, many couples being booked 
for the steamers every week. They are half¬ 
seas over in bliss at start ing, but it is sic transit 
long before the voyage is completed. 
full (0vOj.liC!i. 
A HUNDRED YEARS AGO. 
One hundred and ten years ago there was not a 
single white man in Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana 
and Illinois. Then, what is the most flour¬ 
ishing part or America, Was as little known 
as the country around the mysterious moun¬ 
tains of the moon. It. w;is not until 17TG 
that Boone left his homo in North Carolina 
to become the first settler in Kentucky. 
The first pioneer of Ohio did not settle until 
twenty years after that time. A hundred years 
ago Canada belonged to France, and the popula¬ 
tion did not. exceed a million and a half of peo¬ 
ple. A hundred years ago the great Frederick 
of Prussia was perforating those grand exploits 
which have made him immortal in military an¬ 
nuls, and with his little army was sustaining a 
single-handed contest with Russia, Austria, and 
France, the three great powers of Europe corn- 
combined. Washington was a modest Virginia 
of the strength of the Gorman race. Crimes may 
have been committed; but, during a seven- 
months’ experience in war, I dirt not hear of a 
single one that was vouched for by trustworthy 
witnesses. On the contrary, 1 have seen women 
treated with the greatest respect, exciting the 
astonishment of the French soldiers. ’ We would 
not have acted so,’ they frequently told tno. Tho 
children were the especial favorites of the Ger¬ 
mans. When there was no food In the house, 
and tho mother would complain that site could 
not give the children anything to eat, tho sol¬ 
diers found food for the whole family They 
played with the children, took walks with them, 
learned French from them, and often the fact 
that there were children in tho house made 
friends ol’ foes. They spoke of their own chil¬ 
dren at homo, counted ‘ un,deux, trois,’ by their 
fingers saying tall * corn me eti, cortunc on, ct com - 
meea,’ showing the hlght. with their hands. The 
author makes a distinction betweenthedilTereni 
army-corps, more from hearsay, however. Ac¬ 
cording to him, the rudest wore the Mooktou- 
burgers, Pomeranians, Polos, Silesians, Eastern 
Prussians, and Bavarians; the politest wore tho 
HOW ENGLISH LABORERS LIVE. 
The London correspondent of the Boston Post 
says; 
A very important meeting was held in London 
recently, pursuant to a published call, to consid¬ 
er the condition of the laboring classes, and dis¬ 
cuss oilier quesiioos affecting the nascent agri¬ 
cultural unions. The audience was of a com 
portta* character, and included several members 
of Parliament, n$ well as roprcsontalves of the 
middle and lower classes. Tho most remarkable 
feature of the session was a statement made by 
Canon Gmilestone. He said that in Ills own par¬ 
ish there wore cottages unfit, for housing cattle. 
There was scarcely a whole pane of glass in the 
windows: I lie mild llnorshad holes in thorn so 
deep that, to prevent children railing in, planks 
hud been laid across them. The buildings were 
ill-\ eni Mated and badly drained. The moil’s wa¬ 
ges were from nine to ten shillings u week, with 
two quarts of sour elder a day. Nothing could 
tie more uncertain than the inode of payment; 
lor one farmer gave good privileges, another 
had, and another hardly any at all. Tho hours 
LITERARY ITEMS. 
J. B. Ford St Co. will soon publish H. W. 
Beecher’s “Lectures on Preaching,” delivered 
at Yale. 
The Inland Monthly for June, St. Louis, has a 
fine portrait of Gov. It. Gratz Brown, and much 
interesting reading matter. 
Rand, McNashby & Co. publish a monthly 
railway guide, which is a complete travelers’ 
hand-book. It is like other railway guides, with 
the exception of containing no maps. 
Samuel R. Wells of New York has started a 
new magazine, called “The Science of Health.” 
It is devoted to health on hygienic principles, 
and Is filled with short articles from unknown 
writers. 
The Sixth Annual Report- of the American 
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani¬ 
mals lias been issued from tho office at iwn 
Broadway. It has some good illustrations and 
contains many valuable facts. 
The Nation says Mr. Alexander n. Stephens, 
professor-elect of History in tho Georgia Uni- 
