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--=- - plaifortn, open to the free disc~sion of a.11 questions in wh1ch the general pubhc a.re concerned. Tli1RMS. '!'HE MERCIIANT AND GENERAL ADVERTISER. circulates Ia.rgely in the To\vnships of Darling· ton Clarke and Cartwright. It is a common WEST DURHAM Stea.m Job Printing Ofil.'ce KING STHEET, BowMANVILLE. Seventy-live ce11.s per annurn1 in ad· vance. The 'Merchant' and Obser· ver,'$2·00· .ltAi'ES OF AD~·ttttTISING. Ono cokimn Half dn, · · 4~ per ~um. AND GENERAL ADVERTISER. :;:::;;aew ~ POSTERS, PAMPHLETS, CIRCULARS, .BILL HEADS CHEQUES, NOTES, HANDBILLS, LABELS. CARDS, TICKETS, &c., &c, &c, 2o ~raiunent nd\·erheement~,5 eta per hne first D· Quarter de. - · J5 , " VOLUME V-0. ftt'lrtion, und 2c. per line, each subsequent one· " ::s ' BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO, FRIDAY. SEPTEMB.l£R 8 1876. NUMBER XLIX ---.. farming, and also so much mecban1sm as to be able to make or mend every machine or EXECUTED IN FIRST CLASS STYLE -~-~~ A Shocking Statement. GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY! POETRY. Ii AUTUMN. ENOS. ~:::"., Trains will leave Bowmanville Station, owrnanville time, as follows : GOING \VEST GOING };AST. EoXpless . . . 9 30 3'.m 1 Mixed .· . 4~10 p.m. hf.ixecl · 2:20 p.m. 1 J...ocaJ. .....· 7:o0 P .m. Express . . . 9 00 p. Iil, \ Expree.s ..·. 9 00 p.m. *1.'his train rung every morning of week, 1\Iond(l.ys excepted, Locs.1* .7.20, a..1n. I Express .. ,. 8.30 a.m. ·· <11 Ill G> ·rl · \Vhtle n1Bny p11.use the beo.ut~es of the spurg, And some delight in summ~r·s burning raya, Mine be the task of autumn's JO:lS to smg, ' And trace the splendor of her golden days. Dr. McLAUGHLIN, M. B., L· R. c. P .. L Jl,. C. S., EDINBURGH. .ill. ~dence . Kins St:rcet, two <.,oora enat of l\ilcClung's C11.irriage Shop. Office . Corner of Tempcrnnce and Church Streets, opposite [46-ly\ Shaw'e Holol, ~.f EMBElt of the !{e(lical Council of Ontario. Dr. BOYLE, SURGERY··-SILVER ST. RESIDENCE ON IARlO SIREET. Jjo\\'Jllanville, an. 20th, 1876. 1\ifEMIJEll OF THE ROYAL COLLEGF. Jll ~f SurgeouB, Engl~nd , !iicentia.te of the Itoyal College of Physicians, Edinburgh . Corllcsidence, Corner of Church and Scugog Stree.ts, 1.Sowmanvillc. 10-tf. Dee. 3rd, 1875 ,oner, etc. Dr. Jas. Fielding, = ·· ·= ~· ·MJ ..p a It is the fairest season of thti year'l'he tiJue when Nature doth her wealth un· fold' \Vhet1 over a.U the land, both far &nd neal', She poureth treatiures richer far than gold . I pity lihn who cannot recognize The 1natchless glory of an autumn day , The green leaves. turning bro'\'in, the cloudlc8H Elktos, The fi';!l ds that in the lan<li:;cape round U!:l lay. And trees far in the disLfltu;c cov ~red o't'r \Vitb a soft ha20 ·which dp1ead~ throngh all the h-.:ads of eevon sohd men, at a diota.nt the air, taUle, \\Pllt out of sight. All got on their '\Vhich seems to beautify all thingb f.'.lr u1ore Jcet except the largest, and he fl..oundered ThB>n summer·e brti;:btneiIB, ror spnng's uun· iw:Jlt:ctnally. Stout men were called, ar;.d sh1ne fair. loog tables and each man clamoted for food. For tbree hours, 'va1ter~ toiled with Rreat b~s1ns of clams, oystera, lobsters, green corn and chicken, between the tables and the roastmg bed. The f·1ttest men sat at a specml table, and as the hours rolled on the piles ol ·hells at their feet re.ched nearly to then knees. 'l'ho Prcs1deot of the society was placed at tho head of the table, where he rested heavily upon bis great gold mounted cane, "hich is his badg0 of of11ce. Uharupagne \Vns drank, not in ordinary glasses, but iu tumblers; and one of the largest 1nen, ufter giving thtee cheers for the" Au1er1can Eagle," emptied a.bout a peck of shells Jrom a bnsrn, filled it with \\ iQe, anti drauk the liquid at a draught. He _put the La.11J down, and ha.cl JUBI begun to fell l.iow lus [ather fought under "Gen'l Juck'u," when a great era.eh was heard, and Poetical Old Bachelors == Dr. DAVIDSON, RA.DUA'!'E OF THE llOYAJ, cor.. lege of Pl0.'_sicrn.na, England. ancl Victoria U 1uvcrsity of V1otori~t. College, Under Graduatl! and Pnzemanof the Un1vers1ty of 'roronto,and Royal Cullei;e of Pbys1c1nns and Sumeons Klligston · l\{ember of the Collt:ge of Phys1cui.ns a.nd Surgeons of Ontario, Coroner, &c . Residence and o ffioe- nJ a.1ket Square, Bow· "' z ILi z It is the time when summer's heat h:i p.ist ; It hrini::-s of fruit anti flowers tbu be'!t he wns nghtccl and slowly raised to bis feet. Thea be made a speech. A mew ber sang and last B~fote st~rn winter comes with l876. frp~t snow. Wro~cter, A~g111:it, '!'he bear \\ ent over tiie 1nounttnn, To see \\hat he could see, rl'o ime v. hat he could see. Ao the singer r·peated the refrnm for the twelfth hnH', and i:eewed determioed to sing on, tho h ct.euers Mked for the eecoud verse. ~rhcr4;:upou he went over the sawe verse apa1n, aud then sonie one knocked the choir hom under him, and tipped the table and the d11;hes, c rnpagne bottles and cJa1n shells npun Ins body. This mc1dent broke up the party, alld ~band posted m the centre ol the room played "Sweet Spirit hear my .rraJOr." Aft<'r the relics of the !east bad been cleared awtl}-f alL onled in dances, tbat were cout1autid until late -In the o.fternb"ob· eighty ol the greatest fat men wore weigb· e<l, aml 1t was louud that Mr. Willard Per· kins ot \V 11tcrbury, was tho heaviest, we1gh· mg a92 pouods. Mr. PatrJCk Murphy, of Westport, who carries 302 pounds, waa made fresi<leot for the ensmug year. 4 boy of twolve yenrs, l!'. U Raymond, weighed 201! potiuds. rrhe President's cane was formerly presented to Mr l\fo1phy, and Mr. Peter Reed, weighrng 291 pounds, danced a jig. The :loll;iwiug materials composed the bake . 65 bushels of round clams, 17 bush· els of !on~ clains, 35 bushels of O)'Rter~, 4 barrels of lobsters, 3 l>arrels of bluefiah, 4 barrels of sweet potatoes, 8 bafrels of Irish potatoes, 83 chickens, 42 ducks, 1,000 ears of coq\. Agriculture in Schools. Lt.is very strange, and quite as deplora_:_ blc ae strange, that our coiumon schools de· Fat Men Eating Clams THE TENTH ANNUAL JOLLlllCAT[ON Ar r~Rrn aony's POINr. (llrorn fhe ..,·"·lew Yo~k Sun.) G - The clam digfiers of the Co1111\ cl1cllt coast h~ve been st1mulat.cd to ex' rJ. ( .xer tions by an official not1ce on a po~t11! 1 a.rd, in the centre ot which \.\BS tbe p1ctnrl' uf a ponderous fat mnn, nnd gut abr1ut bi the printed annouuceo1ent that on Aug 2J, the man ville. Bo,vmanville, Feb. 24th. 1876. 22-lly. R R LOSCOMBE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW, . SOLICITOll IN CHANOJ;'RY, ti;c McClung's StoreJ same flat as J, . . .B1imacomb's Dental l"tooms. 0!'~,B,-Over Bowm..,ville, Oct. 27th, 1868. ly D. E. McMillan, ;!iTTORNEY AT LAW, SOLTOI1"0R TN CHANCERY, COlv VEYANGER, &e. Newca~t.Ie, Oct. NEWCASTLE. ONT. 8th, 1875. m51-tf. AT THE OLD STAND. he has secured the serv1ceB of a .l!'IRST-CLASS BARIJERnnd HAIR-J>RESSER, and" pre· paced to gu::i.1autce sat1sfnction, and rfl~vect fullv ohc1ts public patronage. Hatr cuttillg nn<l"'Comb1ng. Jno<lruate s~1tchcs made at the shortest notice .tnd moat rco aonable rattis. A 11.1 R. DAVID MORRISON .ill. bas pleasure in inform1nq: the _ public that ·· ~ = ·· r. 0 .. ·~ · ... IL ;,,J ::> .complete allsortmcnt of cigars, tvb&.cooa,Pand l.).11pes alwa.ys on 11and. [· 16 tf] MARRIAGE LICENSES, ·lt. ,JOH~ II. EYNON, Lot 7, 6th ( 01~. ""vlington, fuear ncthesda Church] ts ~zed to i!ORUC 'J\1a.rriage Licenses. I L d "nY · ut... "- Nov. l9 1874 mB-tf. ar1 iugtO -·~ ' . M Genera.l :Buila.~r a.ni:o.. Contra.oter. Jobbing pro1nptly atte.'~d to. MOTCI'O. Office and Sho:v, on Ontario Sheet. WB~~' DOMINIO:N ORGAN CO'S "Neatness with Dispb:,tch." Bowman v1Ue 1 M ny 18th, 1876 35-t t -IMPROVED ,\ND REMODELLED- Something New. HE UNDEitSIGX\ED th1:1 Gentle· T men of the Dom1111on, that he is prepared to as clean 111fo11ns soiled or fafled garment. 'l he color is restored, and the cont, or what e1ee, -puts on a new ap· Sati~fact1on guarantt:ed, or no pe~uance. chii.rke. THUS PEA.TE. Bown11:..nv1lle, April 21st, 1876. 30-tf. and n1al{e_ almost ns good new, any G RADU A.'l1E of Baxter Un1versitv of ~I~il.! Friendshlp, Kew York. . . Teacbe1 of Piano and 01gan, culhvat1011 Voice, S1ngini;:, 'lh<;>ro11gh 13as111 Harmony Prof. J. Ruse, Cl Gomposition, etc. Darlington, July 16th, 1874, .... 41-ly R. D. FOLEY, has taken out a hcenae 911 ~ ... t: _1.7 7 This Company·has recently been re-organized by the addition of three oi the most ractical men from the.Factory of Clough & Warren Organ Co., o.ttent1on. . Detroit, :Jich.,-each taking an -aetive part in his own pa;ticular dep~rt. ly. ~ Bo,vmc.nville, li'eb. 24th, 1876. ment and are now manufactming aJl Organ eqmil, and m many pomte supe;ior,to any manufactured in the United.Staws or Canada. Our·cele;, AU CTIONEER b "Vox Humana" "Wilcox Patent Octavo Coupler, t d " VoxCeleote" rae ..,, ->¥' H ""Dlt""&,lie" u ce , om , "fi'or the Township of JJarlington. " 0ello " or " Clarionet " Stops, "Flugle orn, ' " Cremona," and Grand Organ Stpp, and AUCTIONEER for thu1 To-wnship. SaJea will rece1ve the best . T. PHILLIPS, HAMP'J.'ON. Prompt attention given to sa.lea, t:tc, on i:en.aon· <1.ble twms. All t~e L~~e Impro-v:ements Wm.. 'Barton, ENNISKILLEN. Can be ob~a,h;i,ed only in these Organs. -a.lea promptly attended to O'l reasonable term.a. Twenty~Flve- DENTISTRY -Diff-6rent Styles, for the Parlor ·· and the .Church, the Best J\.fate:uial allfl- )V 01·k1nansbip. Quality and Volume of tone · " Unequalled. PR1.CEB-$50 TO $1000. Factory qnd Warerooms, Cor. Tempeiance and Wellington · ' · Stt~ets, :Bowmanuil/e. J Brimacom~e; L.R.C.D .. Aqmts Wwn_ted_jnJ£verY County. Send far Pri<e !Mt. - AciareBS DOMINION ORGAN CO., BOWMANVILLE ONT. FEES MODERATE. Bowma11v1lle. Dec. 1374. 11-tf. ' OFFlOE over llfcOLUNG'S Store Alao General ~gentB -:Jo$-f!!.nada, /01· the BRAJJBURY PIANO. ALLAN LINE STEAMSHIPS. Liverpool London, wnd Glasgow ..LL' lVQR Tickets, or infcrmation, apply to W. A. N~ADS, .Agent. Jlowmanville, JUlle 9tl1, 1871, tf-30 Ri.ce:&.°IJfirker ;d._gM.its for the OouJnties of IJ;wrham, Victoria, and No1'tli ----..;:: ., ~ and South Ontario. , Bowmanvil e,DeC:. . 21st. 1875._ j tenth annual clatn bake of th<J :Fl' ;\f~n's Associution \\'AS to be h<?ld at Ui1g ury's Point, Norwalk. it waa also 1u.111011nced that the bak.e wouh.l bo 'the orig· 1111 ru. dian one/ uuder the eupcrv1s1on ut F. E. Stedman, and that it woulJ. eclip>1e anyM thing in tb.e prcy1ou~ history of tLt! society. Qla111s by the bushel and barrel poured mto Gregory Point, and yesterday mornmg there were great hillocks upon the shore of Norwalk Bay, A bed of heated stone was arranged, and upon it the clams were piled until they made a conical ridge several feet above the sand. Over the pile a blau· ket was quickly thrown 1 and above the masa tangled seaweed was spread. Then a sk1l· ful negro cook, whose farne extends from Norwalk to iiltamford, took bis st, tion with a three-tined pitchfork at the side of the smoking roa.at, stirred the cldn1a and scared away the omall boys. Beginning at an early hour, the fat men and th err friends got into Norwalk. Jokers averred that the engine wa.a uncommonly wheezy, that the car epiinga cr~aked and groaned 1 and that n train iu which. were seven of the most noted menibers stopped 1ust east uf Staml0rd until they got out and wal)!:eil to the IQj! of the grade. At abQ ut two o'clock, must of the !llembers bad ariived on the grounds. One large nlan, hailing fr.om Danbury, was ruissed, Gnu he came in on tbe next train. At the depot be IV·· met ~r ~ do~en or more veh1clee, all of which were painted a dingy red, yellow, and Rreen, and \\ere in form similar to a New York am bu lance. He tried the door· of them alL He attempted at Jirot to enter JO the IJSllal 1panncr, hut the space wu9 about four inches too narrow. Then he turned e1dewaye, and the <lrivers, one inside and the other 011tside, pulltd and pushed untll they were red in their facea. It was in vain. The big man made another ·ttack 1ipon the staKe and tned to crawl in over the stepa. Then he gave up and three men at length got him through the door of au nnusually large coach. The Sun reporter occupied the email remaindet of the opace. The heavy coach creaked m every joint as it rolled along the shore of !he bay and over the bill to Gregory's Porn~ As the neighborhood of the hotel was reached the odor of the bukrng clams filled the air, and the fat man, putting hie bead far out of the window, smffe<l vigorously. ' Ah,' said he, ' that smells like business. Don't beheve there's enough, though. Don't smell quite gamey enough.' On tho grounds around the bold were bitched nearly a b.indred Connecticut horses. In the spacious yard, in the halls, and upon the balcony were nearly a thou~ sand persons, about cne hundred and thirty of whom were members of the '1S.Boc111tion. ·There's not a great many of the fatties,' said the drinr of a back, ' but I tell you when five or six of 'em gita together o.nywhares in the yard or ther hotel, then be scarce, fur tbers goin' ter be a squeeze. Why, l tell you a httle bit ago ten of 'cm got inter ther back yard, a!l<l tho»gh yer could count ther heads on yer lingers, the hull damed yard was chock, level full.' The barroom was the first place that most new comers sought, and as few kept o)ft of tht apartment more than three mo· roents ~t a time, by two o'olock there was a solid ahay around the dripping bar, and a long ool~mn stretcbrng mto the yard. All were calling for drinks, or singrng ohl-llme songs. Al half past two it was estimated that 5,000 drinks bad been sold, and one of siJt barkeepers, who had been dr1ven nearly cra~y by th~ eal!·1 Jool>ed at the lme along the rail fur a momeno, sat down, and refused to move 4 fat man chm bed upon one end of the bar, and 1·g·rdlesa of the cries of 'Put him out I' yelled out tho first verse of 'A~ld Lang Syne.' He broke down in the firet hne of the second stanza and called for a glass of beer, ofter drinking which he chan~ed to the old song : 'rrhis world 18 round wise men declare, and hung on noth· ing tn the air.' At that moment some one bit him full in the stomach, another caught him by the legs, and he went over behind the counter in a box of gmger ale bottles. The ~onouncemeut that the clame were ready, caused a rush for the pavilion in which the dinner was to be spread. The great roast war.:1 uncovered. 1 and out of it were taken many sorta of viande," all of which bad been cooked together. P1 ve or six hundred persona had a"embled at the part so far from the true basi· of a pracli· cal education, namely, a preparation for the common and daily duties ot l1!e. Of couree, what \\C call an elementary education in readivg, 'vntlng and anthn1et1c 1 he at the foundation of everything-, anti must be given in all school~ betore an advance 1s m.ade iu any other branches of n,eful )<arorng. But ' the three J:'t's' once acqu1rcd1 the atter~ work t1hou1d have a direct bearing on tht:i probablo lut111e ot the scholars. In the rural dbtpcts \t 1s nat11rally to be qvected that, at an) rate, by tar the larger proportion ot the pupils will spend their hves on tho farm A few of them will push their way to towns and cities, \mt the mnjonty <vill slay in the couDLfY. The boys will succee\i their lathe!" in the p1oprietprship of farms ; the girl· will marry the boys and have charge of the kitchen, the dairy and the poultry ~ ur<l. ln 'iow ot t~ie olmous issue of thetr terru of schooling, is it not, as we said l:lt the outset, both astonishing an<l lamentable that agriculture 1s so completely 1gno1~d 1u our common schools, even in the rural parts o! the country 1 It would not be so surprising 1f this were the case 1n town and i.;1tv schools, although as agr1cul.. Lure and horticulture are founded on the same great princ1 pl es, and it ta desirable that every body should have a gllr<len as well as know ho"'· to manage it, there are good and sufficient reasons why some agricultural ~ustrnction should be given in both urban and suburbQ.n schools. Jlut, agauredly, it should be a prominent branch of study in all our country schools Inste·d of this, "o soooer do the young rurnlists mruiter ' the eltiomeuts' than tbey are put wto ph1losopby, physics and astron· omv ; pestered with languages that are well sty led ' dead ;' and crammed with absurd and revoltrng mythological stories, anytbrng biJ.t fitted to imp1ove them either in mind or morals. How much more suitable 1t would be to teach them such knowledge as will be ot scientific and practical Value on the farm . Instead of wasting their time on Latm, Greek, and French books, that they will lay aside ~nd forget when theu school da.y!:! are over, would it not be far better to fam1liar1ze them with \Vorks on agricultural cliemi·try, farm econpmy, the breedmg and care of domestic nn1mals;da1rv managtimc.nt, forestry and frmt rnlture, anq, last bul not least, housekeeping l There 1s no lack of manuels on tbeso lUH.l other subjects inti· mutely connected w1tll !arm-life. Such books are of permanent value to the schol· ars in the rural drntriete. 'l'be knowledge they would nc<1uire from them. would be of inestimable benefit to them when they ar· rive at 111allhood anq WP'llanhood. (lo far from forgetting what they had learned, their dculy circuwstancea "'oq.ld freshep. the xecollect10n ot 1t, while the etl'ect rn foetenng a ·pilit ot enquiry and a Joye of readrng would be incalculably UBeful, The advancement of agriculture in vanous parts of the Old World, duriug reoent years, 18 largely attributed to the extreme and thorouRh instruction g1\'en in the pub· lie schools, The Maesachusetts Plouqhma11, !~ferrin~ to thia matter, eays : Mr. ~·1eiach· mann, who was conim1ssioned by the Uni· ted States, in !84;5, to visit l'Jurope to ob· tain agl"lcultural inforwation, intorms us in his instructive report that some three hundred and fifty schools exist in Hungary and other parts of Europe, where boys from twelve to fourteen years are taught practi· cal knowledge of the whole bUBinees of implement used in larmmg. TJ>e teachrngs tend to make them thorough economists, so thatthe farm shall always continue to Im· prove, They are not taught abstract science, but positive kuo\vledge,-so1ls, manures, rotation of cropa, the kind at work, nun1 ber of m_cn,.Jiorsea and cattle req u1red to cultivate a given number of acres, Mr. Fleischmann remarks that the periecti0n of Euro· peau farm1ng ia due to these i11sbtutions. This is the kiud ot thing we want in this country. Considering to what an extent we are depenC!ent on agriculture, a.ud what a large propurLiou of our peoplo are engaged in this pursuit, it ta 10 fact the gran<l defect and great desideratum of our educational syatem There if:i, perhaps, an ex..:.ess of zeal in the direction of the professions, and our young people are being crowded along in the various branchea ot high school teach· mg, certainly quite last enough ; but there IS a radic.d defect in a pubhc provision for popular education, \\rh1ch improves nnd polishes up the professional clasi;es, ·while it leaves the commercial and agricultural clusses to shift for theJnselves. Mercantile colleges, where a purely bue1neso edQcation is given, ure the outgrowth of a felt want among ou1 co1nmercial population, and to a. large extent aupply a lack which ought to be met by our Common School system We are not sure but something akin to these mercanhle colleges will have to be set go· ing in order to give an agricultural cduca· tion to the sons of inrmers. Among other dJfficultics that stand in the way ot intro· dllc1ng the otudy of agriculture rnto our schools, is the want of qualification ou the part of teachers. This ts a al!rious, and in the meantiuie, fatal d1f!iculty. The American journal above referred to, Says, that where the study ol agriculture has been attempted Ill the pubhc schools of the Umted States, 'teachers have failed to nu1ke it interesting, because they kne~: noth1ng about it, and cared less. 1 80 1 doubtlees, it wo11ld be here. Normal O\chool teaobiug and the standard ot quahticat1on for cerl1l1· cates, must recognize the matter, before teachers .v11l take any trouble lo fit them. selves to teach agr1oultural science. Our Board of Puhhc Instruction must be inform .. ed of what Lhey seem to be profoundly ig· uor~nt of, namely, that this is an agricultural country, autl thL\t we want first-class farmers a.a well aa first-class lawyers, doctore-, clergy raen, and edito1s. It is time an ag1ta.hon were gotten up in regarQ to this mn.t· ter. Here is ooorl, oound, 11aelul work for the Grangers. 'rhe improvement of farming must have its fouutain head and sou1ce in th~ unpro"l.%tnent ot the farmers. Not 1nnc , perllu.ps, can be done ·with tlie gCR'eration now on the active stage of life, whose school days are past, and v; hose habits a.re formed, but a. great and good work can be doue for the young and ming generation, and it cannot be uuJertaken tqo s.oon.- 6. At least ten thousand Bnlgnrtans are now in pnson and are nndeigolng tortures, nianv of them such aa have not been known in Europe eince the nuddlc ages, auU which were forn1erly declared to Le abolished in l'urkoy by the Sultan Abdul M·djlh. 7 Mauy thousand refugees are crowded Fr~ns IN THE RAa~BA.G -'!1 he 'fiuda' in the rag bag and the rubbish-heap are aome· 10 the larger towns, where they suffer all tunes not a httle curious. A mlstress al kmd· ot abuse from the Tnrk1sh popula· Iowa Betty, the maid, to keep a rag bag ; uon, and are st:uv1ng to death bticause the and occasionally Betty yields to the ti·mp Bulgarians o.r~ ll')t alloweJ. to help thew . tation ol puttrng mto tb·t bag, articles that The Excessive Use of M.edicine. are certainly not rags. Bat apart froni any suspicion of dishoneety, valuables find them. selves in very odd placefl, through inadver tency or forgf!tfulness. "\Ve need not say much about emllll creatures as insects, spi.. ders, 0r lizards that are found by the pa.perinakers in bundles of csparto i they are un welcome intrusions rather than find&. A patent lock W(lS onoe found among the con· tehts ol a ~amily rag bag, and as it wa~ wortli fivesbilliags, tbe buyer wae well content, An old Latin praycr-boo1r1 bought as ,.,.a.ate paper, bad a. bun<lle ot nails, cur.. r ouu m cast-off pockets, in the heels of old stock· inga and inside the linings of dresses. An old coat purchased by a Londun dealer, revealed the faot-a joylul fact to the buyer _,that the buttons consisted of sovero1gn~ covered with cloth. Three pounds ste1ling, in Germau paper money, found their way 1nto a bundl~ of Geru1nu rags that reached a paper maker. The London Rag B rigade boys once i'ound a bank che-qu.e·book, and on another occa.aion six pairs of new silk stockings, in waste pa.per and rags \Vlnch tl;ey had brought; theae unexpeeted articles were, to the honor of tho Brigade, at once returned. A rare find onc::i occ1nrcd in the Houndsditch region. A ;lealer-of the ~eritle1 sex, ·we are told- gave sevenpence and a pint of bcei for a pair of old breeches ; while the bargain was being ratified at a pubhc house, the buyer begun to rip up the garment, when out rolled eleven gold guineas wrapped up m a thirty pound bank. note. We rather think tl::at, 1n str1ctnesa of law, the guineas of this treasure trove be· lcnged to the Crown ; but most hkely tho elated buyer and the mortified seller made merry over the windfall. hiany people, in tbA days when bankrnR was but little understood, bad a habit of conoeahng their spare money about their per1'ona ; thus an old waistcoat, bought for a trifle, WM found !med with bank·uotes I But of all the finds, what eball we tbrnk of a baby 1 A paper ·manufacturer assures us that in a bag uf rags brought from Leghorn, and opened at an Edmburg paper-mill, a tioy baby was found, pressed almost flat Poor banthng 1 Was 11 accid·ntally squeezed to death in a turn up bead ..stead, or was some darker tragedy assocrnted with its bnef hi·tory 1Chun,ber'B Joitrnal. 'lt' hve and oelfish. In lookrng through his u1emuira1 letters and poems, we cannot find oIJe indication thnt he was ever under the influence of ~roman. He lovtid h1a mother and \vas dutiable to t\\po tuesome old aunts who thought poetry one of the seven dead;. ly sine His learning wus entombed with buu. .fI1s gAn1us survivea~in his elegy aud und odes. What became of Ina heart we know not. He might well morahze on hIS bachelorship1 aud call himself a 'solitary fly.' Re Is reported to have bei:ln once In love, an<l as the Indy wasonedayolderthan himself, he u·ed to say, jestmgly, 'that be came into_tbe wolld a day after the fll1r.' Hu wrote nu odO on the pass1on31 in which, after dwelliag on hope, fe11r, deap111r, and pity, he Ui~misses love wtth a couple of hnes. Such "'as Colhn'e idea of love. GolJsmith died unmarned, Shensto11e 'vas not fo1u1d to caphvate ; his person was clurnay and his tuuuner dll3agreeable. He never gave the lady who eupposed heiself to be the ohje\·t of bis .serious pursuit au opportunity tlf ncccpting or rejecting hun. He died unmarried . When we look at a picture .of Thompson, \\'e wondt!r how a. mun wtth that countenance and mien could ever have writteu "rhe Seasons,' or have been in love. He was devoted to bis 1 Amanda, 1 through a long series of yoarf 1 but some destin;r denrnd him domestic bap· p1neas. IIam1nond, the favor1tc of Uont1nenta.l grandmothers, was an amiable youth, and wrote sonnets to 1 Delia.. 1 But this lu.dy waa deaf to his put:itoral strains, so he was doomed to ]rve and die alone. Corneille, Racine and Boileau, were all The Missionary editor of the Northern Gray was, in every Christian Advocate copais fro1n a very care~ senee, real and poetica.1, a cold, fastidious fol and reliable M1ss10nary exchange of old bachelor, at once t!hy aIJd proud, sensI· Great Br1t~111, the following statement, snul p~oetica.l oJd bachelors. to be made on apparently good authority. 'l'his it 1nust be remembered is a hat of atromtlea on au unar1Hed ropulat1on of Bulgarians by tl1e irrt·gulflr Turlnsh., troops, known as Basln Bazo"dk. It 18 said that, 1. More than one hundred towns have'. been utti.::1 ly destroyed. 1\. provu.1cc for· merly bringing in '..\ revenue of a u11lhon of pounds to tlte Goverument, h_ aa beeu devastated. 2 At 1eaet twenty five thousand unarm .. cd and 1noil'ens1ve people have been mas· sacred m cold blood. Accordrng to the TurkISh paper· of Oonst·n tmople, at least forty thousuud. 3. More than one thousand Bulgarian cluldreu have beou taken n.nd sold as Rlaves. 4. Horrible tortures of every description have been inflicted on thousands of those not murdered. 5 The outrages upon women have been 1nore general nnd more brutal than iu any case 1 ever reud of. rrhese outtagea are inore terrLble, bec11usc Bu.lg11Iian wo1ueo have lngher ideas of virtue and cha.B· t1ty tlian those of any other nationality Ill the East. If the women ol Eoglaud could know the la.eta, such a cry of ind1gnattoa would go up as woul<l arouse all Kurope to act1on It would be utterly impossible to tell how many const..itutions have been impaired, how inany dJgeslions lruined, how many complexions spoiled, and h<>W 111 any purt>es einptied, througli medicine. 'Vhat is that you aay-~h,tt a. stitch in tune eav~s n1ne, and tliat the right medit.llne quickly taken a.verts danger 'I Veiy likely; I 11uite beheve uJ.l that. l~ut u 1 ninety-1nne eaaes out of a hun<lrt-'tl,-wh erc 19 the danger, tt.nd what is the emergency ot tbe cnse; }fed1 .. cine is oftt!u the pi ecursor of after misery ; for 1ts 1ned1c1nal ll1.1p. The wiaer:-plHloA· opby of the present day is gradually de· h vering us tro1n theQe potent perils. Nature has !l at"lt'-r1gbt1ng power. \\'tlh1n her; there 18 a k1nll ot v1s 1ued1cat1ix 10 the pbysi~a.1 fran1e. Treat the body kind ly; let aa runcb pure airas poM1ble get to the lungs, and as inuch treHh water aa possible be applied to the fteah, and a9. n1uch healthy exercise as duty permits he given to the muscle, aud as early ris1ug as cncurustances allov.' be aftordeil for th~ recrtlLL1nent of the brain, and then 1ncdici11e will be a very avo1da.b]e affoir.-771e Qitiver. A Wotd A _ b_ o_ ut _ _M _ a_ rr - iage. _ ioualy hnked to getber, e-re1 - pac.~k"'e" d""' m""s.., 1d"'e "" i"t.+:":.C""'<l~t'-'h"'e"""'o~o'C:r-?c"'o:':11:'-sL';; 1; t;u ,;l,_, 10 "11';;;;h~ ·se..:.; to':tp~·J~":"'i:lei aii: rlC;'!y '----~- ~ 00-1 , f;ondQn Ad')JeTtiser. From Pernv!an A Graves- 1'1\l! 00LLE01'!0N OF qvnm11 RELICS 011' A lljB<OlUQ AGE 1'1 SOUi'li AMElUCA. Several u1ontb1:1 ugo, \\ h1le making excavations for a now rcdlroad running out of Pc1u, the wo1ktn(."11 ll\1earthed near Aucona, intcrceling rchca \\ h1ch o.re ou exhibition m Clmton Hall. They comprise mun1n1ics, both of men nnU brutes, together wlth pottery, cloLh 1 netting, needlework, qud v;lnous other things buried in the Per· uv1an tomba, perhups 3,000 years ago. On one table is a colll:.ction of more than tifty heads, all well preserved. Some are bare skulls bleached to snowy "b1teueSB; but by far the greater number are admirably pre· served, with hair peifect, nnd teeth ge:aer· ally in good cond1t1on. l1.111ong the mnmmies, is tba.t of a full gro" n man covered with bandages, over winch IS tled a netting. Anothtir is encloi::ied in a ~ack fastened with twine hed in JUSt such bow knots as our belles use in confinfng their necks Vi ith ribbon. There arc several bab1es1 too One \vears a necklace, and another bold~ rude toys ln ltS hands. Wool lB shown, such 11s \Vas used to stutJ the moutLa, eara, and noses of the dead, The coverings of the bodies \Vere made of itJ and the ornaments were covered with it. In every grave were found p1eces of woolen cloth ol curious design al'.l.d rare workmanship, and d1staff:::1 wound iu wooh:n thread. \Voi k-baskets, needles, hobb111s, aud rolls of \YOol, all in excellent cond1t1on, beiir witness to the industrious hab1ta ui the Peru,·ian woman of the pre b.1storIC age. The colors used rn the cloth· are still bright and fresh, and the th1~ds aro us regular, ancl as strong aa any yarn of t4c present day. A singular teuture ol Lhe woveu cloth--wb1cb, to all appe,~rancee, must huve been the product ot a loom cont:itructed accord mg to the rules of art--JS, that the de· sign ia the same on both f:lidel:l, In addition are crude 1natrun1ents of war· fare 1 oars, coils of rope, and ienders, such ne are used aboard vesaels of our day to pre· vent abrasion of the sides by coming in contact with piers or pilinH, The rag babies found in the tomha are very famihar in shape, and are silent evidenqe tha~ the ma.. ternal met1n~t in Iitt\e p,1rls ol tbuty centu· r1ee ago was as strong as it is in the present generation. ~acks of meo.l, uorn in the car, beans and other mummy food prepared for the departed tQ use in their journey acrose the Pernviau Styx, show that the s01l o! the Pa.c1f1c c.oast oI South Amenca is nut con· ducive to dec.iy. One jltr ot li1na beans ]1as the app·arance of havmg been tilled last week from the vine~ on a Pennsylvania !arm. L1w~ A physician w1itcs thld fullowit:tg senai· ble advwe. 'My profession has thrown me among wonieu of all cla.:ises, and tny experience rn> that God never gave rnu.n g1eater proof of his love tl1an to place women here with him. .My u.<lv1ce is, go, propose to the most sensible girl you know. lf she says yes, tell her how much.) our 1nco1ne is, from what aource dcnvcd 1 and tell her you will divide your last ahillmg with her an<l low her with all your heart in the bargain. And then keep your prowISe. My word for it, ahe will hve w1tlun ) cur income, and to )OUr last Lour you will regret that you tluln't marry l:'iOOaet Gcutlemen, don't wol'ty about icmin1ac extravagance and fen1inine untruth. Just you be true to her, love her aiucerely, and throw it up to her frequently, and u 11101e tond, fa1thful, foolk.h sla\e you will never meet anywhere. You wou't deserve her I know ; but she will never: see it. Now, th1ow aside pride. and selfishness, aud ace \\hat will come of it.' Proverbs Concerning Wives. Civilization and Health With true c1v1hz11tlon health ever appears iu fnendly couununion. 'wtb 1nust not, however, rush at once to the conclusion that health and longevity are developed with every phase ot what is called modern c1viliz~t1on. The modern c'vihaed man conquers, and 1n conquer1ag dnves the mod·Jru savage out of existence, or lcnves him part of a mere fragment of a wander1ug tribe. But c1vih~ation, however refiut-d it may be, however intellectual, intentivc, learued, or knowing 1t may be, is foohsh a11d helplegs to check disease and death unleos it be w1Se as well a.e. knowing, unlesa it he self sac:uficing, and unless the lJU!:iSions of inen, which civilized hfe so va.riou!!tly modities, nre Ill· ftuenced by it in such a 1nanner as to be held from the influence of destructive causes, When civiht.allon leads toexeess oflul;:Ul'y; when it leads to excess of strain, mental or physical, after wealth and the supposed ad· vantages that can Qnly be purchased by wealth i when l t>" spreuds too eagerly the sails ot commerce ; \Vhen it grasps too fiercely after conC\uest and dominion ; when it bring-s about oollisions between classes of men -in the same population ; then it is not an agenoy tor the steady promotion of national health aocl nat10nal life. We, who would do all we can to 1mprove tho health and lite ol the nation, roust al ways bear these truths in mind. Steadi· ness of national life requires steady national repose, The political soundness and ""lety of a nat1on may be read in the annals of its mortahty The beet typical e>1amples of con1m1Jnitiea hving under oc.wditions most favourable IQ vital integrity have been those which haoe been oivihzed m tho midst of I Whatsoever ism tl\e Sqiptur,,, believe the extremest simplicity , in other words me, is high and D1~·ine; there is verily u1 the midst of freedom from tbe evils of rntellectual ci v1hzation.-Dr. B. W. Rich· truth 1 and e. doctrine most fit tor the re- ardson in 1 Good W 01 ds.' freshing and renewing of mcll's minds, Every avenue of comfo:rt -;;d happiness and truly so tempered, that every one may is sometimes stopped in the believer's 1nind, draw fron1 thence that which is sufficient that ho may be brought to know more deep· for him, if he come to draw with a. devout 'y this truth-" All my springs are rn and pious mind, as true religion requireth, Thee." All wom~n are good ; they are good for sonleth1ng or loi nothing, and their dress usually shows winch Lt lB A good wile ia the gift of a good God, and the worknn1.n .. ship of n goutl huRbaud. As the good llil-lll saith, so say \\.'e ; but us the good woman sa1lb, ea it 'ln'lJ..St be rr1ic obedient wife cum· tnan<ls her husband ; the dl8obed1ent w1fe cannot cominand he1selt. A man must ask his wifes lcuve bt!fore Le can prosper i for a n1an's best fortune, or his worst, is his w1fe. ]..fauy blame the wife for their own sh1ftle·· hie. Beautv in n "-OllHln is like the flowers in Spru1g ,· bn.t virtue is hke the stars o[ heaVt:n. 1~here is tnany ,\good wife who can· not s1ng an<l dnncc w~ll. He that hath a. bad \Vife baa pu1g:aLory lor a. ne1ghbor; but says Solo1non the wie.e, .A. good \v1fe HI a good pnze Pr~thntss n:.ak es no pottage. The foolish wool u1 is knowo by her finery A ,vile is better choseu by the ear than b) the eye A fair face doea not sweeten spoilt dinner. ~ The Consciousness of Dogs. l ' A dog fec!s 1n1ger precisely as we do, and after provoc&t1on 1s so1net11ues v111d1ct1ve and sozntunes placable, accord tug to his in .. d1vidual charn,;ter. He ia susceptible of hatred of the b1t+:.erest kind. He is ao excruciatu1gly jealous that lns hte becomes a burden 10 the presence of a ta.voured r1v11l. His envy contmually lead· him to eat what he does not "'ant, lest another animal should take 1t, and illustrate the table of the dog in the manger Gluttony holds out to him temptations under which even hu1 honesty sometimea succumbs; but, on the other ha.nd, from clrunkenuess he i~ nobly eman .. c1pated. A <log ment10ued by the Rev . Thomas J aekson (' Our Dumb Compamone') havrng been once made so drunk with malt hquor that be was u11able to walk upstaue, e\~er after declined to taste the pernic1ou:s beverage, and growled and snarled at the sight ot a pewter pot. Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure still heart, n.nd let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for eve1y breaili a son~ -Gossn,e~. f] ' ! ---------