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One rode with Stonewall and 
his men, 
And Joined his fate to Lee: 
The other followed Sherman’s 
mnroh 
Triumphant to the sea. 
Both fon»?M ( or w hat they 
deemed the right. 
And died wit h sword in hand: 
One sleeps amid Virginia’s 
hills. 
And one in Georgia’s Band. 
The same sun shines upon 
their graves, 
My love unchanged must 
stay: 
And so upon my bosom lies 
This knot of blue and gray. 
OLD BOOKS. 
A curious fact, not 
generally known, per¬ 
haps, is that there are sev¬ 
eral chnreh vestries in the 
kingdom which contain 
libraries which have been 
formerly left, to them by 
bequest, or some other 
means. The original fash¬ 
ion was to chain or fasten 
the books to the shelves. 
The vestry of the church 
of All Saints, at Hereford, 
may be taken as one ex¬ 
ample. It possesses an 
almost unique evidence of 
the middle ages, when 
books were chained to the 
shelves, and a money 1 
pledge required before the 
sacred volume could be 
obtained for perusal. This collection, which 
goes by the name of Dr. Brewster’s library, 
probably after the name of the donor, was 
given to the parish in the last century. The 
books have only been removed once from 
their holding. 
This method of diffusing knowledge was 
only short-lived, occurring, as it did, in the 
time of a thrifty and generous church ward¬ 
en, who sold the books to a London biblinpo- 
list at what was deemed a long figure, and 
the profit was intended to he carried to the 
year’s receipts. The Hereford Journal, how¬ 
ever, took up the matter in correspondence, 
ftud the books were saved from the impend¬ 
ing confiscation. They have since remained 
on the shelves of the vestry. There are 
some interesting works in the collection, 
and a catalogue of them was published in the 
same paper at the time of their sudden re¬ 
moval to Loudon. Luther’s “ Common¬ 
place Book” is one, anti it affords an inter¬ 
esting memento of the great Reformer. 
Another valuable book is a fine specimen of 
early printing, in the year 1541, in rubric and 
black letter. The books, however, are too 
thickly covered with dust to invite any one 
but an enthusiastic searcher after old vol¬ 
umes to attempt unearthing whatever other 
treasures may be there concealed. So says 
“ Once a Week.” 
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BELLS IN THE OLD COUNTRIES. 
The number of bells of Moscow are kept 
constantly ringing during the whole of 
Easter week, tinkling and tolling without 
order or regularity. The larger bell near the 
cathedral is only used ou important occa¬ 
sions, and when It sounds a deep, hollow 
murmur vibrates all through Moscow, like 
the fullest tones of a vast organ. Tim bell 
is suspended in a tower called the belfry of 
St. Ivan, and beneath it are others less in 
size, but yet enormous. It is forty feet nine 
inches in circumference, and weighs more 
than fifty-seven tons. The great bell of 
Moscow, known to be the largest ever found¬ 
ed, laid for many years in a deep pit in the 
midst of the Kremlin, and is truly a moun¬ 
tain of metal. The natives regard it with a 
religious veneration, and would not allow a 
grain of it to be filed off; but the Czar 
Nicholas caused it to be removed and placed 
upon a granite pedestal. It has been con¬ 
structed into a chamber. The size of the 
room is twenty-eight feet in diameter and 
twenty-two feet one inch in height. 
The bells in China rank next in size to 
those of Russia. In Pekin, it is stated by 
Father Le Comptc, there are seven bells, 
each weighing 120,000 pounds. Excepting 
the bells cast for the new houses of Parlia¬ 
ment, the largest of which weighs fourteen 
tons, there is only one bell in England which 
weighs 27,000 pounds. It was cast in York- 
minster, and is only 7 feet 7 inches in diame¬ 
ter. The great Tom of Oxford weighs 17,- 
SXJIvTIvIJLZFt FLOWERS. ZR. SCENE. 
000 pounds. The bell of St. Paul’s in London 
is nine feet in diameter, and weighs 17,500 
pounds. One placed in the cathedral of 
Paris, in 1808, weighs 37,000 pounds. An¬ 
other in Vienna, enst 1711, weighs 40,000 
pounds, '['lie famous hell called fchiaanne ol 
Erfurt, is considered to be of the finest bell 
metal, containing the largest proportion of 
silver; its weight iR 20,000 pounds, and it 
was cast, in 1497. 
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UNION HOME AND SCHOOL. 
This Home and School for orphans of 
soldiers whose lives were sacrificed during 
the late war, is the result of the efforts of re¬ 
fined and patriotic women and public-spirited 
citizens of this city to create a refuge for the 
orphans of the soldiers and sailors of the 
Republic. The organization which lias re¬ 
sulted in erecting the beautiful building here¬ 
with illustrated was effected in May, 1801, 
since which time,despite all discouragements 
and with no public endowment, the work of 
creating and establishing this Home, the 
while caring daily for the orphans, has been 
persistently prosecuted. The location of 
the Home is at a beautiful spot on the Hud¬ 
son River, fronting on the New Boulevard 
at One Hundred and Fifty-First St., New 
York. The ladies who have so nobly and 
zealously looked after the little ones who 
have no other parents than 
a grateful people and who 
are entitled to be regard¬ 
ed as the wards of the Re¬ 
public, have now the co¬ 
operation of prominent 
officers in both the Army 
and Navy. It has won 
the attention and com¬ 
mands t he sympathies and 
co-operation of city and 
State officers and of all 
good citizens, and is a no¬ 
ble monument to the per¬ 
ennial love and patriotism 
which vitalizes and in¬ 
spires American women. 
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RANK OF CITIES. 
TnEcitiesofNew York, 
Philadelphia and Brook¬ 
lyn maintain the same rel¬ 
ative rank, as to popula¬ 
tion, that they did in 1800. 
There has been considera¬ 
ble shifting of places, liow- HOME A1 
ever, among those that 
now constitute the remainder of the twenty 
foremost cities of the Union : 
During the last decade 8t.Louis has ascend¬ 
ed the scale from the eighth to the fourth. 
Chicago, in a similar proportion, changes 
from the ninth to the fifth. 
Baltimore, which in 1800 was the fourth, 
retrogrades to the sixth. 
Boston pursues the same direction, from 
the fifth to the seventh. 
Cincinnati retires a step, from the seventh 
lo the eighth. 
New Orleans falls back from the sixtli to 
the ninth. 
San Francisco, taking a noble forward 
leap, vaults from the fifteenth to the tenth. 
Buffalo lags behind from the tenth to the 
eleventh. 
Washington makes a stride from the four¬ 
teenth to the twelfth. 
Newark, New Jersey’s thriving metropolis, 
drops, nevertheless, from the eleventh to the 
I hi r teen Hi, 
Louisville, twelfth in rank in 1860, is now 
assigned to the fourteenth. 
Cleveland, four steps forward, mounts from 
the nineteenth to the fifteenth. 
Pittsburg alone retains the same relative 
rank now as then, the sixteenth. 
Jersey City rises from twentieth to the im¬ 
portance of the seventeenth. 
Detroit recedes from the seventeenth to the 
eighteen ihi 
Milwaukee from the eighteenth to the 
nineteenth. 
Albany, which was, ten years ago, the thir¬ 
teenth, now takes the old place of Jersey City 
as the twentieth. 
HOME AND SCHOOL FOR ORPHANS OF UNION SOLDIERS. 
SECRETS OF LONGEVITY. all unde 
le twenty - you 
‘ To chew well and to walk well,” said ot i ier _ 
as ascend- Bosquillon, “are the greatest secrets of wa j| { 
fourth. longevity that 1 know of.” One of the most Ug UC ’_ j 
i, changes pernicious habits that can be acquired is 
that of eating fast. The loss of teeth is not j F 
he fourth, necessarily conducive to a short life, if the hj s foreli 
imperfection in chewing is remedied by a over 
more careful and slower process. Simplicity 
in diet is another great point. Two or, at 
the most, three dishes ought to suffice, hut 
monotony should he avoided. There should 
be variety in simplicity. It is also of im¬ 
portance to preserve a certain degree of 
regularity in repasts. 
The number of repnsis may vary with age 
and constitution ; but. three repasts, a light 
break fast, a good dinner in tin: middle of 
the day, and a light supper, are admitted 
more favorable to health than late dinners, 
which leave the stomach unoccupied for a 
long interval and overloaded at. night, It is 
of further importance that the mind should 
be at ease during meals. That which is 
pleasant promotes digestion; every thing 
that is the reverse is obnoxious. Plutarch 
declared laughter to be the best sauce. Ex¬ 
ercise should precede alimentation, and im¬ 
mediately follow It. 
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EXERCISE AND REST. 
Exercise can kill as well as cure. To 
be taken advantageously, it, should ho done 
with judgment. Sometimes a particular 
part of the body needs exercise, hut the 
whole body is too weak to give it. In such 
cases only the part needing it should have 
it. But there is one rule which is applicable 
to all—never go against the instincts. Many 
persons have hurried 
themselves into the grave 
by endeavoring to “ keep 
up” when they ought to 
be in bed; and they do 
keep up, too, for so long a 
time that when they take 
to their beds their strength 
is so completely exhaust¬ 
ed that the system has no 
power to rise, and they 
fall into a typhoid eondi 
tlou and all is lost. When 
anything serious is the 
mutter with domestic ani¬ 
mals they court quietude 
and perfect, rest. Some- 
, times wc feel indisposed to 
exercise from sheer lazi- 
1 ness; in all loose condi¬ 
tions of the bowels, debili- 
Ijp ty an instinctive desire 
to sit down and stay there, 
is universal. 
In most of such cases 
)LDIERS. quietude is cure. But 
llmre is one safe cure for 
all under all circumstances - -if every step 
you take is with an effort, do not take an¬ 
other—go to bed ; if yon feel the bet ter for a 
walk, then walk, but stop short of great fa¬ 
tigue.— Dr. W. W. Jlall. 
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If the best man’s faults were w’ritten on 
his forehead, it would make him pull his hat 
over his eyes. 
Summer flowers, how lovely' 
On the grassy lest, 
Where the river grandly goes 
To the mighty sea. 
Hummer flowers, how lovely ! 
In the thorny lann, [eve, 
Where the hints nt morn and 
Sins their sweetest strain. 
Summer flowers, how lovely! 
In Ihc garden bowers, 
Shaded In the sunny time. 
Sheltered from the showers. 
Slimmer flowers, how lovely! 
All ithout the land ! 
Gifts so freely given away 
By our Maker’s hand. 
Hark! the children’s voices, 
Ringing sweet and clear, 
Fnr tlm sunshine and the 
flowers 
To their hearts are dear; 
ij&J Through the glades so leafy. 
O’er the grassy Idlls, 
By the rivers rolling slow, 
By the gushing rills; 
They are gladly roaming, 
riueklng, its they go, 
Of the blossomsnntl the buds. 
In their path that grow. 
Ilf] They are making posies 
Ol the flowers so fair, 
That, so freely fling around 
Perfume on tho itlr. 
Happy, happy children, 
As ye pluck the flowers, 
Thuuk Goo ’or the sunny time. 
Thank Him for the flowers; 
Thank Him for the Seasons, 
Tllttt, In coming, briug 
Slimmer and the Autumn time, 
Winter and the Spring. 
For Ills love Is honndless. 
Tender is his care. 
Sending us so many flowers. 
Each and all so fair. 
lanes far iUtntltets. 
LIFE AND LOVE 
IN THE “ LAND OF FLOWERS;” 
OR, GERMAN EMIGRANTS IN AMERICA. 
HY ADOT.PHK BtSKNBACIT, M. D. 
[Concluded from page 178, last number.J 
IX. 
Almost before lie began, my friend Muh¬ 
lenberg had ail unexpected piece of good 
fortune, though I could have told him that 
his luck was nothing unusual on this Bay. 
With his two sous (my hoy being instructor) 
lie went out one morning to try a new seine, 
just finished by the evening work of the 
eutire family sitting around a blazing pile 
of pine knots. While they were watching 
the hay for prey, they saw its surface agi¬ 
tated as If a light breeze played on tho 
water. Nearer and nearer came the dark 
pulch, that now seemed alive with dancing 
fish ; my hoy recognized it us a school of 
mullet, and prepared lo throw out the seine 
and take them. On they came with a rush and 
a roar, as if the hay were lashed in a gale; 
the seine was run out and took them all in 
its embrace, llerr Muhmcnburo was beside 
himself with excitement; he had never wit¬ 
nessed such a sight. All the family were 
set lo work to clean and pickle fish for a 
market, uud they filled nineteen barrels. 
When next the steamer for Key West 
touched the pier, a speculator took the lot, 
paying $10 a barrel. Mein Herr, looking at 
the money, thought himself rich. 
Before a week passed he had an acre 
planted in salads and kitchen vegetables, of 
which nearly all the work had been done by 
the younger children. He had completed 
the fish corrall uud built a kitchen in which 
the cooking was now conducted, and had 
cut nearly all the timber for Ids house, 
nicely shaving the bark from the logs. In 
another week he had built a comfortable 
log house, containing four rooms fifteen feet 
square, with a great garret extending over 
the whole and an open hallway, fifteen feet 
wide, through the center. On the east and 
west were deep piazzas—one end of which, 
on the east, overlooking the bay, was in¬ 
closed to make a bedroom for Katrina. 
The invalid girl had not been idle either; 
each afternoon with light tools she had been 
at work in front of the house, and now it 
was a pretty flower garden, though as yet 
with few blossoms. She had transplanted 
crape-myrtles, roses, a young oleander, be¬ 
gonias, u splendid cactus (the night-bloom¬ 
ing cercus), an Arabian and a Cape jassa- 
mine, a fine lantana, and some plants of the 
camellia japonica. When, on the second 
Sunday, she sat with Wtlhelmina in the 
[See Ili.i'stration.] 
Summer flowers, how lovely! 
In the woodland glade, 
Twining round the leafy 
boughs. 
Peeping through tho shade. 
k | Summer flowers, how lovely ! 
on the mountain steep. 
Where the torrents, in their 
haste, 
Down the ridges leap. 
Summer flowers, how lovely! 
On the breery hill, [down 
Whore thestreamlut murmurs 
To the village mill. 
fflisttlfom. 
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SUMMER FLOWERS. 
THE BLUE AND GRAY. 
Upon my bosom lies 
A knot of blue and gray ; 
You ask the why ; tears fill my 
eyes, 
As low to you I say— 
I had two brothers once, 
Warm-hearted, bold and Kay; 
They left ray side—one wore 
the blue. 
The other wore the gray. 
