is of a nature to put our parsimony to shame. who came hither with their Bibles, were of 'necesLet us not forget that the population of the Uni- sity zealous founders of schools; the Bible and ted States has increased ten fold since the close the school go together. See, therefore, what of the last century; they have received immi- the schools are in the United States. The grants annually, by hundreds of thousands, who State of Massachusetts alone, which does not have not always been the elite of the Old World. number a million of souls, devotes five millions Must not this perpetual invasion of strangers yearly to its public instruction. promptly transformed into citizens, have nec- People read enormously in America. There is essarily introduced into the decision of public a library in the meanest cabin of roughly hewn affairs some elements of immorality? I admire logs, constructed by the pioneers of the West. the honorable and religious spirit of the Ameri- In the towns, lectures are added to books, jourcans which has been able to assimulate and rule nals, and reviews: on all imaginable subjects, to such a degree these great masses of Irish this community, which the Government does not and Germans. Few countries would have en-charge itself with instructing, (at least, beyond the primary education,) educates and develops Tranquility reigns in the largest cities of the itself with indefatigable ardor. Ideas are agiUnited States; respect for the law is in every tated in the smallest market-town; life is every heart; great ballotings take place, millions of ex- where.-Uprising of a Great People-Gasperin.. cited men await the result with trembling; yet, notwithstanding, not an act of violence is committed. American riots--for some there are-are certainly less numerous than ours; and they have the merit of not being transformed into revolutions.

dured a like ordeal as well.

Public Lands of the U. S.

As to crimes, they are numerous only in cities; still the criminal records of the United States appear somewhat full when compared with ours. I know how great a part of this must be assigned to the insufficiency of repression; in America, criminals doubtless escape punishment much oftener than among us. Notwithstanding, there is real security; and a child might travel over the entire West without being exposed to the slightest danger. In the heart of the manufacturing States, mod- have been enacted by Congress relate to the el villages are found, in which everything is com- public lands, and to the settlement of the land bined to protect the artisans of both sexes from claims derived from the governments which for the perils that await them in other countries. merly had jurisdiction of the soil. Who has not heard of the town of Lowell, At some periods of our national history, a where farmers' daughters go to earn their dowry, considerable income to the treasury was derived where the labor of the factories brings no dissi- from sales, and at others the cash receipts declined pation in its train, where the workwomen read, to a sum but little exceeding the cost of adwrite, teach Sunday-schools, where their mor ministering the land system. During the first ality detracts nothing from their liberty and sixty years of the present century, the average income from sales was two and three-quarter milAnd let not the Americans be represented as a lions of dollars per year, and the quantity disposed people at once honest and narrow-minded. If of by sales, and for military bounties, was about they are still far from our level-and this must two hundred and five millions of acres. necessarily be true, in an artistic and literary During the last ten years the income from lands point of view-we are not, however, at liberty to was less than during the preceding decade. This despise a country which counts such names as was occasioned by the large quantities of land— Hawthorne, Longfellow, Emerson, Cooper, Poe, granted for internal improvements and for milWashington Irving, Channing, Prescott, Motley, itary and other purposes-which have competed and Bancroft. in the market with the lands of the United

From the foundation of the government to the present time, the management and disposal of the public lands has engrossed a large share of the of acres embraced in the territorial extent of the public attention. Of the two thousand millions United States, one thousand four hundred mil

lions belong to the public domain.

By a liberal policy in granting and selling lands, about one-third of this vast patrimony has been disposed of, leaving about one thousand millions of acres still the property of the government. About one-fourth of all the laws that

progress?

But the true superiority of Americans is in the States; and, more recently, by the passage of universality of common instruction. The Puritans, the Homestead law, under which large quanti

ties have been entered at nominal rates. The
annual receipts from ordinary sales for four
years past has been as follows:

For the year ending June 30. 1861,
For the year ending June 30, 1862,
For the year ending June 30, 1863,
For the year ending June 30, 1864,

$884,887.03

Toe-Corns and Boot-Heels.

"Tall aches from little toe-corns grow."

125.043.20 Not one person in fifty who has reached the age 136 077.95 of forty years is free from corns. Some persons' 678,007.21 lives are rendered utterly miserable by them. The depressing influence of civil war has been They are produced by friction and pressure. If felt during the last three years, but the results for that just closed demonstrate a revival of the an- but if they were to stand on a rock or floor they men went barefoot they might not have corns; nual demand for the public lands, particularly for would have corns on the bottoms of their feet in abundance. This is on the same principal that During the year ending June 30, 1864, public calloused bunches form on the hocks of oxen and lands have been disposed of as follows:

settlement and cultivation.

Acres sold for cash,..

Acres located with military warrants,.
Acres located with agricultural scrip,
Acres certified to States for railroads,.
Acres taken under the Homestead law,

.1,261,592.61
Acres disposed of during the year,................... .3,281,865.52
During the quarter ending Sept. 30, 1864, the
aggregate quantity aken for the same pur-
pose,

Making a total of,..

But

other animals at the points where they touch the 432,773.90 floor while they lie down. Commonly, corns are 515,900.06 214,418.14 produced by tight shoes, not necessarily hard ones; 857,180.87 cloth shoes, if tight enough to press the toes against each other, will make corns between them. corns are frequently made on the outside of the foot and little toe by boots that are amply large; 939,476.90 but the individual inclines to tread his boots over, 4,221,342.42 and on sidewalks especially the outside of the heel becomes worn off, and this has a tendency to throw the weight of the person against the outer side of the boot, which chafes the foot and produces inflammation and corns. To obviate this, persons who tread their boots over should have the heels built, not as they commonly are, pared under a little on each side, nor even straight, they' should be built out at the bottom of the outside so that they shall stand bracing inward, and then

the outer part of the heel should be filled with

heel should be simply pegged. If this method does not carry the foot square, the heel of the boot should be repaired, if need be, two or three times, oftener than the sole wears out. Persons generally think that the heel need not be righted any

Under the acts of Congress of July 1, 1862, and July 2, 1864, making grants of land to aid the construction of railroad and telegraph lines to the Pacific coast, the initial point of the main line of railroad from the Missouri river westward has been fixed at Omaha, Nebraska, and the definite location of the road for one hundred miles west from that point has been approved by the President. The route of the Pacific railroad to California has been selected, and a map of the pre-hardened steel nails, while the inner part of the liminary location thereof, from Sacramento east ward to the great bend of the Truckee river in Nevada, has been filed in this department. The lands along these routes for twenty-five miles, on both sides, have been withdrawn from market pursuant to the requirements of the act of 1862. In the administration of the laws regulating the grants of swamp lands to the States, and authorizing the allowance of indemnity in certain We think the sole of the boot or shoe should cases, where swamp lands have been sold by the be quite as wide as the bottom of the foot when United States, a liberal construction has been the weight is borne upon it without the shoe on. adopted and a generous policy pursued. No The custom is to make slim, narrow-soled lasts, alteration of these laws is demanded by prin- not so wide as the foot by an inch, and this is ciples of justice. An extension of the indemnity, more especially true respecting ladies' shoes. For or of the time now prescribed by law for selecting the sake of having what is called a "genteel foot," swamp lands, would, in my opinion, be prejudicial hundreds of men and women are made semi-cripto the interests of the United States.-Rep. Sec.

Interior.

oftener than the boot wants half-soling; but this is a mistake.

ples, and compelled to hobble instead of walking with gracefulness and ease during the last half of their lives, as a penalty for having gratified a silly THE will of the King of Wurtemburgh, lately ambition for a small foot when young. Shoes deceased, contained only seven short paragraphs. should always be made sufficiently roomy not to Some men who have but an acre to bequeath, cripple the wearer, and the heels kept square at make a great deal more fuss than this one who the bottom, so that the foot shall not be rolled left a kingdom.

over on its side in the shoe.-Exchange.

The Home.

A POEM FOR EVERY DAY.

Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs;
Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease,
And though but few can serve, yet all can please;
O, let the ungentle spirit learn from hence,
A small unkindness is a great offense.

To spread large bounties, though we wish in vain,
Yet all may shun the guilt of giving pain.
To bless mankind with tides of flowing wealth,
With rank to grace them, or to crown with health,
Our little lot denies; yet liberal still,
God gives its counterpoise to every ill;
Nor let us murmur at our stinted powers,
When all the sweets of concord may be ours.
The gift of ministering to others' ease,
To all her children gracious Heaven decrees;
The gentle offices of patient love,
Beyond all flattery, and all price above;
The mild forbearnce at a brother's fault,

The angry word suppressed, the taunting thought;
Subduing and subdued the petty strife

That clouds the color of domestic life;

The sober comfort, all the peace that springs
From the large aggregate of little things-

On these small cares of daughter, wife and friend,
The almost sacred joys of Home depend.

Poets of Great Britain-Mrs. Hannah More.

GOOD ADVICE.-William Wirt's letter to his daughter on the "small, sweet courtesies of life" contains a passage from which a deal of happiness might be learned: "I want to tell you a secret. The way to make yourself pleasant to others is to show them attention. The whole world is like the miller of Mansfield, who cared for nobody-no, not he, because nobody cared for him. And the whole world would serve you so, if you gave them the same cause. Let people, therefore, see that you do care for them, by showing them the small courtesies, in which there is no parade, whose voice is still to please, and which manifest themselves by tender and affectionate looks, and little acts of attention, giving others the preference in every little enjoyment at the table, in the field, walking, sitting, or standing."

WIT AND WISDOM.

A MAN must ask his wife leave to thrive. THERE are other commands in God's Word besides the Ten.

PEOPLE who do not respect themselves, will not respect others.

THERE is one good wife in the country and ev ery man thinks he hath her.

OPINIONS founded on prejudice are always sus tained with the greatest violence.

THE every-day life is a thousand times more eloquent than volumes of profession.

FIRE and sword are but slow engines of destruction in comparison with the babbler.

WE go down stairs one step at a time. One drink at a time, is the process which takes men to the bottom.

"PATRICK," said the Judge," are you guilty " 'Plase, yer honor," said Pat, "wait till I hear the ividence."

TEA is so scarce in the South that they haven't even drawings of it, and there are no grounds for supposing that they have any coffee.

IT is useless to talk about "love in a cottage." The little rascal always runs away when there is no bread and butter on the table.

AN old gentleman of great experience says he is never satisfied that a lady understands a kiss unless he has it from her own mouth.

"I SAY, boy, where does that road go to ?” inquired a pedestrian of a rustic youth. “I don't sir" replied the boy; "tain't been nowhere since we lived here."

HA! is the interjection of laughter-ah! of sorrow. The difference between them is only the transposing of an aspiration; in the turning of breath, our mirth is changed into mourning.

a

HORACE MANN very beautifully remarked that a brother's tender relation to a sister was de

Or all mortal joys, the joy of action is the most designed by Heaven as a preparation and a intense; indeed, there is no other joy. Life is bles- prophesy of that holier relation for which one sedness. The life of the lower nature we call pleas- shall forsake father and mother, and brother and ure-the blessedness of the bird and butterfly. The sister.

life of the social nature we call happiness-the THERE are but two ways which lead to great blessedness of the fortunate and successful. The aims and achievements-energy and perseverlife of the spiritual nature-activity in usefulness, ance. Energy is a rare gift-it provokes oppocare, duty-we call joy.-0. B. Frothingham. sition, hatred, and reaction. But perseverance lies within the reach of every one, its power in

BEAUTY in woman is like the flowers in spring, creases with its progress, and it is but rarely that but virtue is like the stars in heaven,

it misses its aim.-Goethe.

HEALTH AND DISEASE.

The Skin.

DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

Two Receipts Worth Trying. The skin, so far as we have considered it, iso- FRYING.-There are two ways of frying emlates the man and makes him world-tight. It is, ployed by the French, who, whatever may be however, necessary that the world's goods should said to their credit or discredit, have brought the cone into his house, and that his own produce, science and economy of cooking to a degree of not to say wear and tear, should be carried forth; perfection we may well study and practice. nay more, that he himself should go out and in "One method of frying is to immerse the artiwith the common freedom that a man requires. cle to be cooked in boiling fat. Notice, BOILING. The skin is our abode, and not our prison. It The philosophy of this is to so instantly crisp must therefore have bi-valve doors and windows, every outside pore as to effectually seal the inopening outward and inward; and these, as small as the supplies that are to come from without, and collectively, as large as the spirit that is to step forth from within. The skin, that is to say, the body, must be porous.

The cuticle, or superficial layer, is a very permeable membrane. Three orders of perforation are visible upon it, all of which are channels of communication from the body to the world and vice versa. The offices necessarily performed by the skin, as the frontier of the body, are the purification of the system, through the elimination of some of its products, and in its renovation by fresh supplies.

terior against greasy particles. It may thus remain long enough in the fat to be thoroughly cooked as safely as if enclosed in an egg shell.

The other way is to rub a perfectly smooth iron surface with just enough of some oily subthen cook it with a quick heat, as cakes are stance as to prevent the meat from adhering, and baked on a griddle. (During this process I cover it. Mrs. H.) In both these cases there must be the most rapid application of heat that can be made without burning."

HOW TO GET EARLY TOMATOES.-Mrs E. D. Kendall of Maryland, thus writes to the Southern

Field and Fireside :

Purification is the first and, probably, the most A good large turnip is far better than any hotimportant of these offices. This is effected by bed for propagating early tomatoes. Cut off the the entire surface of the body which is contin- top, and scoop out to a shell three-quarters of an ually giving off an atmosphere of exhalations, dif- inch thick. Fill the cavity with rich mould, fering in quantity and quality at different times. plant a half a dozen seeds, and place the turIt has been calculated by an ingenious anatomist, nip in a box of loam. Keep in a warm room, that in a square inch of skin there is a length of by an east wind, if possible, and sprinkle with tubing of 73 feet, or in the whole body, of 28 tepid water every day until there is no longer miles; this vast drainage being arranged to con- any danger from frost, then remove the turnip duct effete material from the body.-The Human to the out-door bed, and thin out all but one Body and its Connection with Man-Wilkinson. plant. Should the turnip shell put out shoots, pinch them off, and the shell will soon rot, afThere is no animal that requires the care nec- fording a fertilizer to the tomato plant, that will essary to keep the human body in a state of send it ahead wonderfully. A dozen turnips thus health. Mothers, with families growing up around tomatoized will afford an abundant supply of early you, it is a serious matter to have the hair, teeth, tomatoes for an ordinary family.

STARCHING BOSOMS AND COLLARS.-Pour a

and skin of children committed to your care. Beauty, comfort, and length of days, for your children are all depending upon the faithfulness pint of boiling water upon two ounces of gum arwith which you first acquaint yourselves with the physical laws of their being, and then the firmness and self-sacrifice with which you see that they live physically, as well as spiritually, to the best ends-that of a complete and a happy life.

abic, cover it and let it stand over night; in the morning pour it carefully from the dregs into a clean bottle, cork it and keep it for future use. A table spoonful of this gum arabic water stirred in a pint of starch made in the usual manner, will give to lawns, either white or printed, a look of newness when nothing else can restore them after they have been washed. To every pint of starch add a piece of butter, lard, tallow or spermaceti candle the size of a chestnut.