| Show BEECHER ON LABOR f rev henry ward beecher ft delivered livered a laatu lecture rvin in boston feb 14 on the he subject of labor we subjoin the following interesting passages karview of the dignity dignify of rork I 1 say gay men in this country ought to be taught lo 10 work with their hands that they should be taught to think that their brain should be educated it is to be inferred but I 1 hold since work is dignified and noble creative and beneficent in its uses that amerlean american aduca cation catho n should always at yi 1 l y s include in it a i sufficient tra training ining lulng to 0 make every man mana a hand worker as well as a brainworker brain worker the jews have a proverb that he who bruam arri djs I 1 1 Is children without af trade brins vt them irem up to steal I 1 am half a jew on n that point it is certain a boy is nayl neglected e ted of his parents who does not know kno how iio llo r w to work and feels above work whenever you see a man whose duty it 1 s to work vork who feels above his work bu pu m may ay ue be sure chatman that man mau is not fit togo to go y higher for no inan man is ashamed to 2 f if do dochat that which god puts do if h he be a fit instrument to do the divine work in this world there is no feeling so peculiarly un american as shame of work it is a foreign advice it is vulgar it has no business here the man who does not know how to work is the man who ought to be ashamed the man who does know ought to be proud of it it is noble fora oora for a man to carry himself up any man who inherits we wealth althis is likerman lik ilk like ilke eaman a man who preaches his fath fathers erys sermons while a man who makes h his is wealth is like the man who makes his own sermons if one inherits wealth h he may excuse himself for being ashamed of work I 1 chave have noticed thal that that men who arb are aro born borne wealthy are seldom troubled with that shame they are usually men who have good sense in the matter of wark and are quite willing themselves fo 10 toil toll where it is ls jf proper oper every american child should know how to use his hands ingeniously no Am amerlean american eilean ellean boy bost is nobody deserves the honorable appellation of yankee who cannot use the axe the spade the plough who cannot yoke and unyoke oxen harness and arlye a team who has not sufficient knowledge of tools to perform any het of necessity A true yankee never sees anything done that he does not steal the trade with his eyes and imagine e how he would do it himself at a pinch and improve upon it hewin he will daany do anything sew on buttons shave a sick man cook rv beefsteak beef steak write a sermon listen to one t or any other drudgery 1 thal that that society may impose upon him this fertility and facility in work d dig 19 unifies the american and universal thrift follow universal industry and ingenuity ity this necessity and propriety of work has peculiar relations to us in the growing rowing e exigencies x eccles of our civilization for we stand at a time when the household is displaced feromone from one ono tendency c and state in society and has not fairly ly y s settled et tl ed upon another when service was a class necessity then the household was blessed in in faithful servants and when all from the bottom to the top of society shall be thoroughly intelligent then subordination of work will give to us again useful and trustworthy assistants but we are living at a period when work aspires but has not attained and the result is that 1 in every household complaints are uttered of the difficulty of procuring help the best remedy that I 1 can propound is to go back to the doctrine and practice of our mothers and sisters I 1 remember the time when the morn i ing woke with the mothers voice the sweetest bell that ever rang at the stairs to call the children up when the table was spread by her hands or her daughters and when sometimes the boys themselves were wore put to the same task and all ta though 1 ugh the morning still she toiled tolled an anusans fang lang s and conversed upon themes worthy of f womanhood of christian womanhood awl ad when the noon meal was clea cleared away and the light afternoon sun poured its full light upon the door dooryard yard and the kitchen mother and sisters sat reading oy or sewing and after the transient evening evening meal the lamp sitting on the table the hearth stone glowing if it was winter again she slid gathered around her the circle those were the days when there was health among women and a virtue and womanhood of f which we have no occasion to be ashamed even in these days among our mothers and sisters and if there was more work in the household today to day I 1 think there would be fewer complaints against foreign servants and fewer complaints for forborne lioma doctors ZV r Y sun it I 1 lale tv LAIE uin ain FAIM parm michael L sulli V county illinois has t largest farm in the world it consists of acres acres of which are under fence and in active cultivation much of the work is done by machinery he drives his posts by horse borso power and cultivates his corn by machinery ditches aitches sows bows and plants by machinery so that all his laborers can ride and perform their duties mr lir S gives employment to farm hands horses and a large number of oxen osen california CALIFor xu OIL the commercial gazette says t the he receipts of earth oil from the interior are beginning to be of considerable moment about 16 gallons arrived at san francisco last last week from the vicinity of san buenaventura gathered at the stanford oil I 1 works and is now in process of refining by stanford brothers the same house are also in receipt of a further invoice of 1000 gallons from the union dattole Ilat tOle toie company COM Pally humbolt which was purchased by them to arrive at fifty cents per gallon in its crude state trea THEA expedition AMA r theu th boston tsa 4 kao ITO lb inai rn at says the last steamer brought the intelligence that professor explorations on the main stream ol 01 the amazon alone had resulted in the discovery of no less than eleven hundred and sixty three species of fish which is a greater number number than exist in the mediterranean in the tho great branches branche of the amazon the madeira 2200 miles long the 1400 miles long ong the rio bio negro d 67 gs TO lacius I 1 lea ita and each ore more than a thousand miles long it is estimated estimate ed that there are several hundred more species diff differing bring from those of the ma main maln 1 i n stream alfred R wallace author of the amazon and the rio negro and henry bates naturalist on the amazon who explored the amazon and a nd branches for several years estimated that the number of species of fish in the great river and tributaries tributa ries was almost fabulous mr wallaces fine collection was burned at sea and thus E england n land was deprived of the result of lo 10 long iong and patient labors in great britian ri an france rance and germany a great interest nt est is manifested in these discoveries co of professor agassiz hitherto only seventy species of Amazon amazonian lan ian fish were sent to the zoological museum at cambridge and those thosa were forwarded by rev J C fletcher in 1862 1802 STI STRANGE tANGE phenomenon we learn arma alla from bob whittle that one of the str strangest anest freaks of nature occurred last satur saturday da in the klamath river about two niiles miles above Kille bues ranch or fifteen miles above the jacksonville road he with others tied their canoe at the bank of the river I 1 and very soon after was much astonished and awe stricken to observe the bed of the river rise up and ind the hill a short distance from frodi him back of the bank sink down so as to make level ground I 1 without disturbing the large trees or river bank where he stood the ground presented a gradual rise from the river and was thirty feet high where it sunk and broke off leaving an abrupt bluff some fifty feet back of the old bank the bed of the river rising on the river side of the trees formed a large bar and turned the water into a new channel about fifty feet on this tins side of the canoe leaving it high ind and dry the earth raised up in the river comprised a mass of chalk formation with large boulders bowl ders dors of rock making an immense bar above the level of the river those who witnessed the unprecedented convulsion sec secured ureda a lurge quantity of offish fish suddenly elevated from ddom their element by the occurrence areka yreka journal eeb eeb feb 24 nativities NATIVI TIES OP MEMBERS OF in the list of members of the present congress 69 were b born orn in new england and 47 in the single state of new york while the remaining places of nativity are equally divided among the western S states tat e s of the union excel except t one born in canada one in B bavaria a varia varla one in scotland ana and two in ireland on the score of professions fes the law lav la v claim abarge majority while printers and newspaper men irien number less than 15 remarkable FECUNDITY A remarkable instance of fecundity which deserves to be recorded elsewhere than in the off omm leial official journal of st petersburg has been published within the last few months twenty two years ago a woman was married to a man named hanow and from this marriage the there re sprang six infants one after the orbr six times twins once there were three and on the last occasion four which wha entered the world in the following order on the ath of april a boy livin living at midnight of the ath and a a girl living and on the n night ig t of the a girl also living T the he strength of the tee poop pooh poor woman was however exhausted hausted and she died at the somewhat early age of 40 it will be seen therefore that she had bestowed on her husband in all 25 children 15 boys and 10 girls of this number 19 have died the place where this remarkable event or rather series of events occurred was wag at a village named in the government of Kours kourik ls |
