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•LAWK A CAME, A MP (WV* a boy f*ll of Joy, «.Mr,p, ooy, haa atoy WWoh MMtet* of <jn(»erai1dl>ow __ By r*put* BT'I aciite$ rMbtr but M MOOI« And hia aim I* at i»lom, I trow. . __ It i* (stmt ho1* a q>»r, <««*> <«•»•,. »"d * •"» Xbrt hti arrows ura swift in th*-ir flignV flirt a otrt, >nd beware how you dare uj *Ii*l Mast the youngator by day or by night ITow be bring* 'Heath hlawiafa,ailken «trlnga,pratty thing*. And he oalla them hie true 1ov*n* knot, Which h<> tri-s »•> diaguiae, •« ho tie* up bla W Then he> blind a» a bat, every jot; But I Cud, though be'a blind, he'a incJned oft to b'nfl , ... . » Maiden*' heart* with hi* gay " oorda of lore! " Bo beware, have • care how you far* whan you dare Xo oommuue with this boy II yon rove. With a glance of romance he'll advance, and enhance AU the virtues that he may po«*«*; „t . On hi* knees »e wi 1 p'.eane: by degrees he Will MN Then lie"l flatter, and aootho, and care* • Bo again, to lie p'aiu, ii > 0 1 1 <leign to retain In your nervice this cheruii, I »ay, ^ Bmtnan, and beware, or he'il dare e'on to MAT IN in triumph t J Hymen one day. ROMANCE OF A POCKET-BOO*. I was just 25 when I met Alios Thorne, the daughter and heiress of George Thome, the great banker. I fell desperately in low with the charming girl, knowing well that such love was utter madness. Her father was reported to be a very proud, ambitious man, who would look nigh for a son-in-law. I felt that he would not so much as give a hearing to my suit; and as to winning her without his consent, what would that bring to her but misery ? I had nothing with which to compensate her for the sacri­ fice of a marriage with my poverty. So we bade good-by without a word^ ol explanation, though I knew she rea<W the anguish in my heart, and tears were in the soft eyes averted from me. I kissed the trembling hand she placed in mine, and turned away and bade fare­ well to her and hope together. Scarcely had I got back to town and was striving earnestly to drown vain re­ gret in the bustle and interest of busi­ ness, when a terrible misfortune fell upon me. Mr. Overton had given me a check for $20,000, desiring me to go to the bank and get it cashed. Having exe­ cuted the commission and returned, im­ agine my horror on discovering that the pocket-book containing the money was gone. Whether stolen by villains or lost by my own carelessness, what mattered it ? It was gone, and I was utterly ruined. What I suffered during the next few hours God only knows; and when, after being dismissed, I returned to my owji room I was very nearly desperate; not only had I lost a lucrative position but my future appeared to be irretrievably blasted ; for there are suspicions which •re as fatal to a man morally as would be physically the wound of a rifle ball. But I was young and of a hopeful na­ ture, and I began to realize that I ba l been leniently dealt with. Oa recalling all that had happened after mv leaving the bank, and the utter impossibility of the pocket-book being taken from the breast-pocket of my coat, I came to the conclusion that I must have dropped itt and thereupon I resolved to have re­ course to all means in my power to re- oover the money. I had saved up during the last few yeans a considerable portion of my sal­ ary, and determined now to devote it to the purpose I had in view. I ad­ vertised daily in all the prominent jour­ nals, not offering the customary reward, but describing my unfortunate posi­ tion. my honor lost and my fortune blighted. For two weeks I kept my loss before the public, and had almost begun to despair of any favorable result, when, one morning, a stranger came to me--a tall, dark, stern-looking man, who re­ garded me with a pair of kindly brown eyes, that had something familiar about them. The stranger declined the seat I of­ fered to him, and began at once speak­ ing brusquely and to the point. "I have heard of your loss," said he. "I have read your advertisement in the pa­ pers, and I feel deeply interested in and lor you. I have just left your late em­ ployers, and, after the satisfactory man­ ner in which all my inquiries were an­ swered, I became your Burety for the $20,000." " What t" I sprung toward him in the wildest excitement. " Oh, sir!" I began, but he stopped me. "Let me finish," said he. "I've done this because I am convinced that you are an upright, honest man, and the greatest proof of my confidence I can give you is that I am about to offer yon the-position of cashier in my bank­ ing house. My name, air, is 'George Thome." " Yea, I recollect the affair," replied Mr. Thorne ̂ who appeared to be suffer­ ing, "I never heard," oontinued the doo- lor, " what became of the poor devil; and yet I should like to know." "Should you?" said I, laughing; " then let me gratify your curiosity. I, Arthur Wallace, am that poor devil, doc­ tor ; saved from rum and despair by mv . benefactor here." And then 1 related all llie events of the last fifteen years. The doctor sprung to his feet and grasped his old friend's hand, " Well and generously done !" said he; but Mr. Thorne interrupted him. " I am not well," he said, faintly. " I suf­ fer greatly--let me go to my room." The next day he sent for me to his private office. I found him looking pale and haggard. " Sit down, my dear Arthur," said he, in a low voice, "and listen to me. For a long time I have bad a confession to make to you--one that weighs on me so he ivily that 1 must ease my conscience of its load. I can better bear to do so now, that I have in a measure made some amends for the trouble I onoe caused you." " The trouble you caused me," cried I. "Ton have been the most generous of men to me. It is through your kindness I occupy my present position ; it is to you i owe my happiness, and, more than all, my honor." Mr. Thorne opened his desk, and took from it a pocket-book. " Do yon remember this ?" said he, as he placed it in my hand. "Yes," replied I, "it is the one I lost; but how--" ^ i could not finish my question. The truth stared me in the face. I sprang to my feet in dismay. "Great heavens!" I cried; "you found the money." " Aye, and kept it," he'groaned, with anguish in his voice. " But oh! do not condemn me without hearing me. Yes­ terday you heard Dr. Ponard allude to the great losses I had sustained by the failure in Philadelphia. I did not dare to make my embarrassments known, as that would have hastened my ruin--my ruin ! God knows it was not for myself thai I cared, but for Alice, my darling child. It was on the 14th of Deeemlwr that you lost the money. Oh, I shall never forget the date. It was on tint day that I meditated suicide. I was short, of $20,000 to meet my liabilities, matur in g on the 15th. I wa3 overwhelmed with despair; the air of the office seemed to stifle me, and I rushed into the street. I had hardly gone ten yards when my foot struck something. It was your pocket-book. I opened it, and the sight turned me giddy and faint. Then commenced within my breast one of those moral struggles which, even to the conqueror, is fearful, but in which, alas ! I was miserably vanquished. The next day I satisfied all claims upon me. To the world I was George Thorne, an hon­ est, upright man; to myself I was noth­ ing better than a malefactor. You know the rest Turough my guilt you passed two weeks of indescribable anguish. I have since endeavored to make repara­ tion for the misery I caused ; but 1 also suffered. Moral atonements are the most cruel, because they are eternal. I have known and yet feel the bitterness of expiation. Say, my son, can you for­ give my crime ? " Could I forgive? I looked at the pal­ lid face, anguished eyes. What were my sufferings of those two terrible weeks compared to the secret pain and shame this man had borne for years ?-- this man, the victim of one solitary de­ viation from rectitude, so upright in all else, and whose life since had been one long atonement. I grasped his hand, tears filled my eyes. " Father," I cried, "Alioe's father and mine, all is forgiven, forgotten. Do I not owe all the happiness of my life to that same lost pocket-book?" THE FAMILY DOCTOR. IT is said that a poultice of fresh tea leaves moistened with water will core a stye on the eyelid. * THE true philosophical Way of treat­ ing burns or scalds is to at once exclude the air, with cotton batting, flour, scraped potato, or anything that is tedious rheumatisms, to be a source of torture for a lifetime. Multitudes of lives would be saved every year, and an incalculable amount of liumnn suffering would be prevented, if parents wOuld begin to explain to their children at the age of 3 < r 4 yeais the danger which at­ tends cooling off too quickly after exer- JOSH BILLINGS* WISDOM. handiest. IIT Spelled From Ilia New "Cook Book."| The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other. There is a great deal of religion in this world that is like a life-preserver, only cise, and the importance of not standing put on at the moment of immediate dan- - still after exercise, or work, or play, or George Thorne, the father of Alice, the girl that I loved! Ah, the mystery wss solved! It was of her his eyes re­ minded me ; it was to her I was indebt­ ed for this help. Fifteen years had flown since the day I lost the pocketbook. I had now be­ come a prosperous man, surrounded by all the luxuries which wealth affords. I had found in Mr. Thorne more than a patron; I found a friend; under a brusque manner he had a heart of gold. From the first day of our acquaintance he had evinced toward me the liveliest interest and affection. I was soon made partner, and when, on a certain blessed day, I became the husband of Alice, and his Bon-in-law, he presented me with a receipt for the •120,000 that he had paid to the Messrs. Overton for my loss. So time went on. The banking-house known as the firm of Thorne k Wallace was in a thriving condition. I had a beautiful wife and two lovely oh il then,, and yet, with all the sources of happiness, I was not quite contented-- there was a crease in the rose-leaf. For some time past I had been vainlv endeavoring to account for the extraor­ dinary interest which my father-in-law had first taken in me, because I discov­ ered, as I grew older and saw more of this selfish, egotistical world, that very few such generous actions were per­ formed without motive, and the solution of this, to me, difficult problem fre­ quently occupied my thoughts. • At first I had attributed it all to . Alioe's influence, but I knew now that it had been as great a surprise to bur as to myself. About this time Dr. Ponard, one of Mr. Thome's most intimate friends, ar­ rived in New York, and one morning, while sitting at breakfast, expressed great surprise at the numerous adver­ tisements in the papers relating to money lost and found. •' Well," said he, "I have not the least sympathy for those who lose money. They are generally careless, stupid peo­ ple not lit to be trusted ; although I re­ member Staving heard of a young man who lost trpocket-book, some years ago; " containing #20,000, and I declare when I read his piteous appeals, which were in all the papers, my heart fairly ached for , iiim. " But," continued he, addressing < inv father-in-law, who had become very < * jjale, " you ought to remember the cir­ cumstances, for it occurred just at the jtime of the great failure in Philadelphia, which you were so heavy a loser." The Yard Measure. Every one is acquainted with the na­ ture and utility of the yard measure. It is the British standard of length, regulat­ ing all other measures, and consequently is the foundation of business transactions and professional operations of many dif­ ferent kinds. But its high utility is en- j tirely dependent upon its fixed and | uniform dimensions. It would be in the j greatest degree iuconveujent and unsatis­ factory if a yard in one part of the I kingdom meant something different to I the measure which passed ui dir the ! same name in another, or if the least j variation were found in the yard measures of different parts. Hence it is necessary i to have some authoritative standard by j which the dimensions of the yard shall | be :iccurately adjusted, and according to I which thn legality or otherwise of any ] measurement uiav lie determined. Many curious particulars are connected with the formation of this authoritative staudard of the country; and few persons unacquainted with the facts would have any idea of the interest which thus at­ taches to so common an object as the yard measure. In our early history dis­ putes often arose in the measurement of cloth, ctc., and frauds were frequently committed. To check thein Henry I. ordered a standard yard to be made and kept at Winchester, and decreed that it should ha of the length of hi.x man arm. Tiiis was a rough and ready mode of set­ tling the matter, which presents the greatest contrast to the formation of a standard measure to the present time. The disadvantage attending it was that, in the event of the standard being lost or destroyed, it would be next ti> impossible to construct another of precisely the the same dimensions. To avoid any such difficulty, a scientific basis has been taken iii modern times for the formation of the standard yard measure. Plainly stated, this basis is (he crnrt length of the clock prudulum which vibrates seconds of time in the latitude of Lon­ don. This may appear to some to be a simple rule, by which the standard may be determined with comparative ease; but on the contrary, it is a matter requir­ ing the most mi..ute and accurate re­ search, which only astronomers and mathematicians of the highest attain­ ments are competent to undertake. EAR-ACHE.--Take a smallpieoe of cot­ ton wool, make a depression in the cen­ ter and fill it with pepper, gather into a ball and tie it up ; dip it into sweet oil and insert it into the ear. MR. SCOTT, of Jersey City, claims that the following will positively cure ! neuralgia : Take the leaves of the large field thistle (not the Canada), press a gallon measure full of them and fill the measure full of water. Boil them down to a half-gallop. Strain off the water and let it coo!. Of this take a wine- glassful every morning before bJ-eakfast and a wineglassful every afternoon just before tea. Take the leaves of the same kind of thistle, put them into a clean cloth, and pound them into a jelly. Put a layer of this on the afflicted part; bind on with cloths every night. Be sure and get the leaves fresh. CpLDs, taken in hand promptly, arc easily remedied. If they are allowed to cling on for a few days, they usually " run their course" of a couple of weeks, if not much longer. For a slight cold, accompanied with sore throat, a simple remedy, often effective, is a teaspoonful or more of powdered chlorate of potassa in a tumbler of water--all that will dis­ solve. A teaspoonful of the solution i3 to bt< gargled in the throat and swal­ lowed, repeating it every hour or HO. A sudden, severe cold is most often broken by a gentle physic of calcined magnesia 6r castor oil, with warm foot bath, and avoiding any chill or draught of air for a day or two. For filling up of the lungs aud much gathering or coughing use a simple cough sirup, made by mixing equal quantities of sirup of ipecac, pare­ goric and castor oil, or sweet oil; shake well, and take from half to a full tea- spoonful, according to age, three more times a day as needed. A warm | sweat is good, if great care be taken to j have no chiily feeling for a few hours j after. If one does not cool off very j gradually, more cold will be taken. I Croup is, in some families, much dread- j ed. Its guttural cough is unmistakable after having once heoid it. When first! noticed admiuister sirup of ipecac--ton j drops for an infant, up to twenty drops to a large child--every hour or so until | vomiting is produced. Then use the j above cough sirup three times a day, or i more if needed. If more than a slight j attack, the sirup of ipecac is accompan- i ied with foot oaths as warm as can be j borne, with a table-spoonful of good i mustard stirred into each gallon of water. I In addition the chest and neck are well ' bathed with camphorated oil or volatile I liniment, and covered with flannel lined with thick cotton batting. It is well j where croup is feared to keep ready for I use a flannel cut to fit the chest and I neck, with tying strings on the neck cor- j j ners, and with thick cotton batting ! stitched on to the under side. These { remedies have proved effective in ordin- ary croup, ll at all severe and not ! ' yielding immediately to the above simple home treatment, a physician must be called in. The Boers. The typical Boer, says a writer on South African affairs, is doubtless a pat­ tern of hospitality, simplicity of heart, fondness for his home and family, and of those general domestic attributes which are so dear to an Englishman. But in his relations and contact with the native races and real owners of the soil, the Dutch Boer seems to lose all sense of reason and justice, and to remember only those early and blood-stained annals of pioneering, when the white man and the black neither gave nor asked for quarter in their struggle for supremacy in the land. Indeed, his intolerance of a native is so intense that he can not be induced to look upon him as a human being, but he regard* the unfortunate aboriginal as a wild beast to be hunted andsliot down. But the Boer has his fairer side, al­ though his type lias as yet been un­ changeable. As he existed when he ruled in Cape Colony in 1808, so now he exists in the present day in his settle­ ments in the interior. He is uneducat­ ed, uncultivated: unprogressive and obV ! stinate; but he develops qualities under | adverse circumstances which must com­ mand English respect. He is certainly i domestic as far as his own family circle I is concerned, but, at the same time, the I reverse of gregarious in regard to the I world in general. ger and then half the time put on hind side before. Experience is a school ̂ wliere a man learns what a big tool he has been. I The man who doesn't believe in any hereafter has got a dreadfully mean opinion of himself aud his chances. I There are two kinds of fools in this I world--those who can't change their opinions and those who won't. I A good doctor is a gentleman to whom ' we pay three dollars a visit for advising : us to eat less and exercise more. ! Out in the world meh show us two sides to their characters; by the fireside , only one. 1*116 world is filling up with educated ; fools--mankind read too much and learn | too little. { Every man has his follies and often- ' times they are the most interesting things he has got. | United States Laws Regarding Dress. j In 1817 the United States had a uni­ form designed to meet the usages of Eu- ropeati courts, on the recommendation of the mission to Ghent in the year 1817, : in which the United States Ministers' | costumes were fixed as follows: A blue 1 coat, lined with white silk; straight standing cape embroidered With gold, single-breasted, straight or round but- j ton-holes, slightly embroidered. Buttons I plain, or if they can be had, with the | artillerist's eagle stamped upon them, i. : c., an eagle flying, with a wreath in his mouth, grasping lightning in one of its talons. Cuffs embroidered in the man­ ner of the cape; white cassimere , breeches; gold knee-buckles; white silk | stockings, and gold or gilt shoe-buckles. ' A three-cornered chapeau bras, not so : large as those used by the French, nor so small as those used by the English, a black cockade, to which an eagle was afterward attached. Sword, etc., cor­ responding. j The Secretaries of Legation had the j same costume, with the exception that i their coats had less embroidery than There is no greater fallacy-than this. ! those of the Ministers. For the grand Will forms the foundation of character. ! gala days at court, where the occasion of remaining exposed to the wind, or of sitting at an open window or door, or of f pulling off any garment, even the hat or bonnet, while in heat. Dangers in Bringing Up Children. The cruelty done to children by some I Sarents, as well as by teachers, is in- I escribable. Children aro held to be of the lame temperament, of the same j adaptability to learn as their parents and teachers ; yet the boy who cannot learn ; his lessons as quickly as another is ! thrashed, or he is degraded in some way. Grown people forget the intense misery , to which children are thus exposed. • The child's horizon is so limited that he I sees no remedy to his woes, and his sor- j row absorbs his whole little being. j " Fathers, provoke not your children ' to wrath, lest they be discouraged." If the life of a child be embittered the re- j suit is shyness and secret aversion, j Even a child feels itself wronged, and a ; sense of bitterness is implanted in its heart. We can never think without pity of a parent who lost a promising son by death, and was haunted through life by hia parental severity. " My boy,"' j he said to a friend, " used to think me 1 cruel, and he had too much reason to do so ; but lie did not know how I loved him at the bottom of my heart; and now j it is too late !" | WTe often think when we hear of par- j ents beating their children that they should rather be inflicting the punish­ ment upon themselves. They have been the means of bringing into being the in­ heritors of their own moral nature. The child does not make his own temper ; nor lias any control while a child over its directions. If the parents have con­ ferred an irritable temper on the cliild or i it is a duty on their part to exercise self- control, forbearance aud patience, so that the influence of daily life may, in the course of time, correct and modify the defects of its birth. But the "child's will must be broken!" Without the strength of will there will be no strength of purpose. What is necessary- is not to break the child's will, but to educate it in proper directions; and this is not to be done through the agency of force or fear. A thousand in­ stances might be cited in proof of this statement When the parent or teacher relies chiefly upon pain for controlling the child's will, the child insensibly associ­ ates duty and obedience with fear and terror. And when you have thus associ­ ated command over the will of. others with pain, you have done all that you could to lay the foundations of a bad character--a bad son, a bad husband, a bad father, a bad neighbor, and a bad citi­ zen. Parents may not think of this when they are beating into their children their own faults; but it is true, never­ theless. There iB no doubt that the commaid over the will of others by pain leads by degrees to all the several stages of irritation, injustice, cruelty, oppres­ sion and tyranny. When Eufibrdius, of Cologne, heard a great cry issuing from a school-house he opened the door, entered, and rushed up like a lion, and, raising his staff against the teacher and his assailant, delivered the boy from their hands. " What are you doing, tyrant?'* he said; "you are placed here to teach, not to kill Bchol- He Wasn't a Clergyman. There is more than one broker in Wall street whose general look might deceive a stranger into believing that he was a member of the cloth, but the particular broker we have in mind looks the pro­ fession more than any of his fellows. Business called him into Pennsylvania, aud at the village tavern he was sup­ posed to be at least a bishop. He : heard the boys talking about a horse­ race which was to come off in the after­ noon, and without asking any useless questions he picked up his cane and put in an appearance at the proper time. Three horses were to start, and there was a crowd of fifty or sixty villagers and farmers at the track. By-and-by everything seemed ready for the start, but there was a hitch somewhere. Nearly an hour passed, and yet no one mounted j the judges' stand. The broker had held i . aloof from all, and was becoming im- 1 When he first com- j patient, when one of the crowd edged up Favorite Beverages. I'll take a light drink, said the gas­ man. Give me something mild, said the timid man. Give me a straight drink, said the soldier. Crooked whisky for me, said the hunchback. Let me have something with body in it, said the un­ dertaker. I'll take a Bourbon sour, ! said the misanthrope. Give me n ; brandy smash, said the hoodlum. I'll take a cocktail, said the poultry dealer. Give me a punch, said the horse-car conductor. I'll take a cobbler, said the shoemaker. Give mo a schooner, fcaid the sailor. I'll try a pony, said the horse-jockey. I'll take some bitters in mine, said the disappointed lover. Set 'em up again, said the proprietor of tha bowling-^lley. MEN frequently make great reputa­ tions, by never actually doing anything. Sometimes they do it by telling how things should l>e done; sometimes, by assuming to know all about it, and sometimes by just keeping still and looking wise. mences to farm and settle, he likes to possess not less than 6,000 and ne t more than 20,000 acres of good und'dating "velet." When he has "obtained this, he starts in his wagon with his wile, his cliddren, his scanty supply of gocds and ckatte s, his cattle a|id sheep, and his only literature, the family Biblo. He i selects a good spring of water, being j careful that no neighbor is locate* I with- i in at least ten miles., He builds his ! house with one large central hall, with ; the kitchen in rear, and foitr or fiv9„Wd- ! rooms opening out of the hall, all on the j ground floor, and sometimes with a wide veranda outside. Kraals for his cattle, fences to his garden, and inclosures of fifty or one hundred acres are q uickly run up; and so fertile is the s jil and so favorable the climate that in four or five years his garden will be full of oiunges, ! U nions, cjtrons, peaches, apricots, figs, apples, pears and vines. His herds and flocks multiply, his wheat and Indian corn thrive, thus he lives in a rude but grateful abutulauce. His sons nruve^ at manhood and inar^y; lii:> dHii;{ht« rs ate tought as wives, :u)u, if th<- land is good tind plenty, they r< n alu >m 1 farm near, and lor each generation a..d now family ! a now bou?e is l>uilt n (c.v Hundred yards ; Irom the original. Vo v a< r<-s uiih each 1 g juration a;e l»rou/lu under the plow; j ;<nd the man who is a g< o l furmer, good fatli r ad got husband « an not ; be brought to fiee that he mu>t not eov ,t his i.e gh'oor's land wlieu that neighbor happens to bo a blwk man! Without seu.mi Mit, without t,pi'<k-riie>8, ' ai d without a pani-le <>l en'luit-ia m, a d «4'.h the nu si • i cums< ri >ed in- te 1 i tu d horizon, l>e » as a smbl-oiii : practicability w tio'i aiiuira ly suited for the vorn of a piou.-cr, bul which n»'Ver develops into a power of civiliza- ; tion among s..v ge trioes.' to him and said: " Waiting here to see any one in pfur- | ticular?" . i "Ono." I " This isn't a country fair, you know." " No; I didn't expect it was." " It's a horse-race--a regular horse­ race. " " Yes, I understand." The man returned to the crowd, held a short confab, and then approached the broker again and said: " Say, stranger; I want to ask you a estion." *Go ahead." " The l)oys have set you down for a clergyman, and they hate to hurt your feelings by starting this race. Would you take if kindly if I should ask you to step outside the fence?" " I'd like to see myself stepping out!" exclaimcd the broker. " I came here to see the race, and I've waited a whole hour for the horses to start, ltiug 'em right up, aud, iu case yon are one judge sle rt, I'll see fair play for every starter." Tht* boys followed his advice, but they haven't got it all straight iu their minds yet, and the broker is referred to as "that fallen clergyman from New York."-- W all Street Daily ±S'ewa. was greater than an ordinary levee, a coat similar to that above described, but embroidered round the skirts and down the breast, as well as at the cuffs and cape, was recommended. The coats were distinguished as the great and the small uniform. A white ostrich feather, or plumet, was recommended for the Min­ ister's hat, not standing erect, but sewed round the brim. The above dress prevailed from the date of its promulgation on November 6, 1817, until Governor Wm. L. Marcy, in 1853, issued a circular doing away with such uniforms in a great degree, as fol­ lows: "DEPARTMENT or STATE,\ " WASHINGTON, June 1, 1853. J "In addition to the 'Personal Instructions to the Diplomatic Agents of the United Stated to Foreign Countries,' the following are here­ after to be obscrvedi " In performing the ceremonies observed on the occasion of his reception, the representa­ tive of the United States will conform, so far as is consistent with a just sense of his devotion to republiean institutions, to the costume of the country wherein ho is to reside, and with the rules prescribed for representatives of his rank; but the Department would encourage, as far as is practicable without impairing his usefulness to his country, his appearance at court in the simple dress of an American citi­ zen. Should there be cases where this cannot be done, owing to the character of the foreign Government, without detriment to the public interest, the nearest approach to it compatible with the due performance of his duties is earn­ estly recommended. The simplicity of our usages and the tone of feeling among our peo­ ple is much more in accordance with the exam­ ple of our tirst and most disguislied representa­ tive at a Royal Court than the practice which has since prevailed. It is to be regretted that there was ever any departure in this respect from the example of Dr. Franklin. History has recorded and commended this example, so congenial to the spirit of our political institu­ tions. The Department is desirous of removing all obstacles to a return to the simple and unos­ tentatious course which was deemed so proper and was so much approved in the earlier days of the Republic. It is our purpose to cultivate the most amicable relations with all countries, and this, we believe, can be effectually done without requiring our diplomatic agents abroad to depart in this respect from what is suited to the general sentiments of our fellow-citizens at home. All instructions in regard to what is callod diplomatic uniform or court-dress being withdrawn, each of our representatives in other countries will l>e left to regulate this matter according to his own sense of propriety, and with a due respect to the views of his Govern­ ment as herein expressed. W. L. MAUCY." In an act of Cougress approved March 27, 1867, it was declared that officers^ who had served during the late war as" volunteers in the army of the United States, should be entitled to bear the official title of their rank, and wear, upon occasions of ceremony, the uniform of the highest grade they had held by bre­ vet or other commissions.--New York Clothier. The Careful Father. In a carriage of a train bound from Vienna to I'esth, one evening, there were fivo passengers--an Englishman, two Magyars, a mild looking man of sixty, aud a handsome young German, who seemed dreadfully sleepy. The Englishman observed that the sexagena­ rian esstyped to chat with the young Ger­ man, who, however, yawned and soon , blmnlx*ed. The sexagenarian become j garrulous, and lamented his son's care- | lewmess iu money matters. "See him S.i hU'ii Cheeking of Perspiration. I "ow' «oin» ̂ -7 ̂ ofr . . . . . " . . * s t r a n g e r s . I t h i n k 1 1 1 g i v e t h e y o u n g A. piston merchant, in lending a ; innn a fright for once in his life," and baud on board one of his slaps on a ! lifting Up the lapel of his coat, he laugh- wmdy day, found himself at the end of jngly drew out a p jcketbook. At Press- au liour una a half pretty well exhausted i burg the careful father said he must get The Improved Method of Kissing. How to kiss scientifically, and still ex­ tract all the pleasurable essence of a kiss, is at present a subject of extreme interest in social circles, where young people have nothing better to occupy their minds. The day when a young man could grab a girl around the neck and gobble a kiss in a rough but comfortable manner, is {last. The time when he could circle ler waist with one arm, get his shirt- bosom full of hair oil, aud pirouette his lips over every square inch of hei* coun­ tenance, is 110 more. Science has pro­ claimed against it, aud man shudders, but remains silent. The old stylo of kissing, which sounds like some ono tearing the clap-boards off a smoke-house, is now considered bad taste, and consequently going out of fash­ ion; although the majority of the girls admit that science has cruelly destroyed | all the comfort of a long-lingering, heart- j thrilling kiss, and causes them to express i no little regret at the change. | The improved scientific method of kiss- : ing is to throw the right arm languidly around the fair one's shoulder, tilt her chin up with the left hand until her nose is pointed at an angle of forty-five de­ grees--or rather until he has the aspect , resembling the bowsprit of a clipper- i built sloop--then stoop slowly and graze i about her lips in a quiet, subdued sort of ! way, and tickle her nose with your mou­ stache until she cries "Ouch!" This is ' scientific kissing; but there is no consola- tion in it--nothing to make a man feel like a couple of galvanic batteries were galloping along his spinal column. It is at, luke-warm; it lacks substance, and, i if not stale, is at least unprofitable. School Presbyterian, Congregational, Bob lngersoll, renaissance, Gothic, Byzantine, greenback, composite, Corin­ thian, Scotch, cheviot, cossamer, s am- less, new Wheeler & Wilson, barbed wire, liver pad, and hard finish. It is the central and distributing point for the en­ tire insurance business of America. No insurance company is genuine unless " Hartford'* is blown upon the bottle. Wages and Cost of Living in China. There have been many books written on China from the time of Abbe Hue to the present. But most of them have been too general to present any precise idea of the actual social conditions in .that vast empire. Recent official obser­ vation has, however, done much to clear away the mists which obscure real life. Most of the trades which we have are carried on in the Central Flowery Land. There are there the traditional " butcher, baker, and candlestick-maker." But there is a peculiarity which is not found in civilization. The artist obtains no higher rewards than the ordinary crafts­ man. There appears to be a dead-level for all who work with hand or finger. master workman in any of the trades in China gets $3 per week, or $156 per an­ num. But the workman only gets half that remuneration. One dollar and fifty cents per week, or $78 per annum, is the average rate, and it is not every work­ man who can obtain it. Youngsters or women get 50 cents per week, or 8'26 per annum. It will be observed that these are the wages paid in the higher walks of art and mechanics. There' is only one class of operatives who are more handsomely rewarded. Gold and silver­ smiths do a little better. The silk-reel- er, or spinner, sometimes gets from $1 to $2 per day, because the silk has to be reeled off the cocoons in a given time, and as a consequence the work has to be prosecuted day and night. Consul Denny, at Shanghai, thus figures out the expenses of living in connection with the compensation specified: For a master, per annum-- For food, etc $72 For rent, etc. 36 For clothing. 14 Total, $130 For a workman, per annum-- For food, etc. $45 For reut 13 For clothing 8 Total $63 The same authority adds : " The mas­ ter generally lives at the workshop, where he has, perhaps, two rooms, be­ side a place to cook in. The household furniture may be estimated at from $20 to $30. The ordinary workman, if mar­ ried, will share a small house with a friend, and occupy one room, and have access to the kitchen. He may live with his parents, in which case his earnings go to the common fund. Under such circumstances, $10 to $15 will cover the value of the household furniture." But the common laborer, whether in field or kitchen, does not {jet anything like the wages of the skilled artisan. The farm laborer, during harvest-time, gets, beside his meals--worth about 10 cents--from 10 cents to 15 cents a day, or from 70 cents to $1.05 a week. He can be hired by the month for from $1 .50 to $2. If he gets permanent em­ ployment he is willing to accept $12 per annum, with board and lodging. If he works for shorter terms, 50 cents a month will suffice for house rent and $2 per annum will keep his wardrobe in re­ pair. But there is a grade below these free laborers known as the coolies, who are often glad to work for 5 cents a day. --San Francisco Bulletin, The Game of Scandal. There is a game called "Scandal," which creates a great deal of amuse­ ment when it is played properly. The persons who are engaged in the game stand or sit in a circle. The more the better; thirty or forty will make more fun than ten or twelve. When all are ready, the person appointed takes his riglit-liaud neighbor aside and whispers iu his ear a short story; it may be about some one present, or about some public personage; but whatever it is, he must write it down and keep* it, as a proof of what his statement was. The neighbor, in his turn, repeats the story as exactly as possible to the person on his right hand, and he, having listened, passes it on. At last the tale returns to its orig­ inal narrator, who writes it down as he received it. It is said, and I believe truly, that never once has it come back as it started. The most astonishing al­ terations occur. Innocent Jokes have turned to frightful accusations, and only the reading of the first story can con­ vince any one that he did not repeat exactly what he heard. There is no better type than this amusiug play of the time-worn game of scandal that the world is play­ ing, and has been playing ever since it began. That a number of innocent peo­ ple, with no intention of distorting facts, cannot hand the simplest story from ono to another in the same room for a few mo­ ments without ridiculous alterations, proves the impossibility of getting at the truth of any story which has passed through many lips. The disposition of the hearer colors the tale even as he listens, and more than this, many per­ sons are deaf without beiug conscious of it, and in a peculiar way. There is an auricular illusion as well as an optical il­ lusion. I know persons who, while in­ tently listeuing, near words that are not uttered, aud who, in repeating the im­ pression that has been made upon them, do not intend to tell falsehoods, but who will, nevertheless, say to you, with a bland smile: I have told every one that you told DAT-DREAnsi*' IJl»y within a vine-embowerfd nook, * ^ Aud dmamed and whi ed the niHuf!kaini||£'2. While every perfumed breeze the linden branches fthork. And Hunbeama filtered through the whole calm day The branches of the linden whispered overhead Whi«i er-ed sweet Bounds to lull my drenuiy br Over me the Roldon mnlx'ania' meahes t-pread, And I lay dreaming of my nhipH upon the Some great mliipH that plowed the riiRliipg neo*. Fvir KhlpH thit danced upon the foam-capped blue. That t jK'd like graceful swans l>efore the breee^j, Aud carried treasures o o: the main, fair one, for you. My cnet'ea roue In grandenr and culilimlty. And turret* pierced the etherea^ blue above; And thoe I watched my eliipg upon the fc» That brought rare trea-ures to my own KWeet love And then I dre :mcd I had the poet'g niasric touch, And tuned my l.ro to of love and peace; I lay with tinted dream* like tli-ce--ever mch-- ' 'Mid Lird-smi;, and rustle, aud whisper of BACXKK, Wis. l'lTH AI»» FOIST. ABB horses wounded in .battle called horn du combat f ARE all the victuals mixed when the sailors have a mess ? IT doesn't require a pair of horses to drag out a miserable existence. MANT persons confound the spirit of liberty with the liberty of spirit. IF thine enemy revile thee, revile not again. Present him with a guinea hen. A YOUNG man's friends object to his ' bein" loose, but somehow they have an equal objection to his being tight. YOUNG swell--" I say, boy, what do you do with your clothes when you've worn them out?" Boy--"Wears 'em 'ome agin." " MAKT JANE, have yon given the gold­ fish fresh water?" "No, ma'am; what'a the use ? They haven't drunk up what's in there, yet." WHEN a dead man's property is put under the hammer, it is the sale of ef­ fects, but when a man gets sea-sick, it's the effect of a sail. Ix a letter to a friend, a young lady states that she is not engaged, but that she sees a cloud above the horizon about as large as a man's hand. FRAGMENT of a letter written by a maniac who had formerly a superb in­ tellect : "I am sad and uneasy, like a codtish who feels his wings growing." THE man who is asked to guess at a lady's age, and don't guess several years less than he believes to be exact, is making an enemy, and doing truth no good. A SPRINGFIELD minister remarked just before the sermon : "I should /like to remind the congregation that we havo a prayer-meeting at the chapei every Thursday evening, regardless of tho weather. Those of us who were there last week were led to feel that there must be a scarcity of umbrellas among the people as a whole." „ DARKLY the humor Mut-ea on fate; Ghast y experiment Life *eeiiiH to him, Subject of merriment 8ai.il.-er and grim; la it hiH doom or jg t Something he ate ? A SCOTCH clergyman, who was given to absence of mind, was once op his way to preach in a church a little outside of Edinburgh. The wind was strong in his I face, so that in stopping to take a pinch of snuff he turned his back to it, but for­ got to turn again to his original direc­ tion, and so walked back into the city without knowing it. A YOUNG lady once hinted to a gentle­ man that her thimble was woru out, and asked what reward she merited for her industry. He sent her auswer in the shape of a thimble, on which the follow­ ing lines were engraved: I send you a thimble, for finger* nimble, Which I hope will fit when yon try It: It Will last yon long, if it'n half atroug - Aa the hint which you gave me to buy it. A MAN bought a gallon of gin to take home, and, by the way of a label, wrote his name upon a card, which happened to be the seven of clubs, and tied it to the handle. A friend, coming along and observing the jug, quietly remarked, " That's an awful careless way to leave that liquor!" "Why?" said Tom. " Because somel>ody might come along with the eight of clubs and take it." LITTLE Jean, 20 months old, was mak-. ing persistent efforts to stand on her head. Her mother said, "I don't see what gave her the idea. She never saw any one do it." In a few minutes Jean came running with her picture-book open at the illustration in Mother Hub­ bard, She went to the bafeer'a to buy him aome bread. And when she carau back he atoud on hi* head. and, pointing triumphantly to the up­ side-down dog, said, " See ! see !" "You don't seem to have made much money by bringing your hogs down here," wsis remarked to a farmer who had driven his hogs seven miles to town and then sold them for precisely what was offeied him before he lelt home. " Well, no," said the agriculturist pen­ sively. " I haven't made much money, .but then," brightening, "you know I had the company of the hogs on the ^wsy down." NOT long since, in one of our neigh­ boring villages, a young lady who had been engaged to a tine young man for some time met a richer person, and soon put off the old love for the new. She wrote to the old lover requesting him to return her photograph. Here was a chance for revenge, winch he took by sending the following note: "I would gladly comply with your request, but if I do so it will spoil my eucher- deck. 1 have a collection of photo- me that Mr. X.'s beautiful young wife graphs which "I use "for Paying carusy and perspiring ireely. He sat down to rest;, aud, engaging in conversation, tini'j passed aster than he was aware of. In attempting to rise he found lie was u:> d>le to do so without assistance. He was taken home and put to bed, where he remained two years ; and for a long time afterward could only hobble about with the aid of a crutch. Less expos­ ures than this have, in constitutions not I so vigorous, resulted in inflammation of ! lungs--"pneumonia"--ending in dea h m le^s than a week, or causing out for a minute, but when the train moved on he didn't return. When the young inan woke up they told him that his father had gone out and taken his pocketbook. "My father!" he shrieked, and, clutching his empty pocket, burst Burdette on Hartford. It was a bitter cold day when the traveling combination which I have the honor to feed gathered its solitary valine and stepped ashore at Hartford, Ct. The Dutch found this beautiful city here into a voilev of most' unlilial' impre- i nearlv <250 years ago and the tirst thing . . . • « « 1 4 U < \ « r / l « « l i t ' o o A u r n U l t u n I V \ l r a n v m A ^ v cation, j howled 'I haven't got out. "I never a father," he saw the--old scoundrel before. Good God! that pocketbook contained 3,000 florins. He must have seen it when I took my ticket." they did was to establish Colt's armory and go into the insurance business. You can get injured here in any way and for anything you wish--mutual, endowment, tontine, accident, intentional, nomadic, differential, protoplasmio, Baptist, Old had eloped, and they are so sorry for him." And while you deny that you made any such statement, and stare in wonder at the speaker, you remember having told her that "Mr. X.'s new country house was situated on a beauti­ ful slope of the hill, and that he ^ had bought it to please his young wife." I, myself, no longer believe anything I hear, and only half that I see. When you hear an evil story of any one you know to bo good, discredit it, and say so. Grapes are not gathered from thistles. Neither do thistles grow upon a grape-vine. The frnit tells you from what tree it came; but you know also what a tree is likely to bear. One you know to be good and sweet and kind and noble, is not likely to have done bad or cruel or spiteful or petty things. Why should yon believe a tale of him who is the subject of scandal ? One Touch of Nature. A gentleman was going home at a late hour recently when he was suddenly confronted by a footpad,who, with his pis­ tol pointed at his head, demanded his money. The gentleman assured the fel­ low that he had no money--that he had " been to a church fair." Before he could say more the rascal dropped his pistol, put it in his pocket, and present­ ly took out his wallet, and, crushing something into the citizen's hand, said in grief-broken accents, as he turned on his heel: " Been to a fair ! Poor fel­ low! Take that--I wish it was more. Ho was soon lost in the night. Upon approaching o street lamp the gentle­ men found that the miscreant had given him a $10 bill. Verily, one touch of nature makes the whole world kin. aud I do not wish to break it by giving away the deuce Of diamonds."--Oil Oitjf Derrick. How to Treat Frost Bites. The American Agriculturist says: " If any part of the body gets frozen the very worst thing to do is to appiy heat directly. Keep away from the fire. Use snow if you can get it; if not, use the col Jest possible water. Last winter our little boy of 5 years froze his feet while out coasting at considerable distance from the house. He tried all the wiy home, and the case seemed pretty bad.. I brought a big pailful of snow and put liis feet into it, rubbing them with tho snow. But my hands could not staid the cold. 1 was alarmed to see liiui keep his feet in the snow so long, but he coii.d not bear them out of it. It was half au hour before he wo dd take them out aud then the pain was all gone, and when i had wiped them dry and rui>bed til* m a little he was entirely comfortable, put on his stockings and sho.-s a: id wcui to pluy. He never uftcrwiU'd huu any trouble with his feet on accou.it of tnis freeziifg. His sister got her feet ex­ tremely cold, and put Uu-m at once to tlio fire. Her case at tirat was not so bad as her brother's, and the result was. much worse. H> r feet w re very tend.* all winter, and sue suff.red ir.>in cli 1- blains. Her feet had a swollen, purple look, and she had to take a larger size of shoes." THE company engaged in tunneling the channel between France and Englaud have got rid of the infiltration of water, aud are now working in Bolid rocks. They expect the tunnel will be completed in about four years from this date.