An Indian Romance. Among the Sikh nobles who, at the outset of the mutiny, says the London Spectator, staked their heads on the British side, was the Rajah of Kupoorthulla. He was not a very great man, but he had influence, and no Englishman could have risked his status, purse, and person with more hearty and unquestioning loyalty. He helped to guard the Northern Delhi Road, then the key of our position; and when order had been restored the Governor-General casting aside the old policy of meagre rewards raised him by a single gift of land to the wealth of a great English noble. The Rajah married an East Indian girl, became, under her influence, a Christian, and established a mission on his own estates. Sweeping away at a stroke the prejudices of thousand years, he introduced his wife into society, and allowed her to appear in public, and the officials, for once heartily cordial to a native, threw aside prejudices as rooted as his own, and recommended that the Rajah should receive, officially, precedence in Oude. The Governor-General consented, and at the apex of the new social system of Oude stands a native Christian noble, and the only woman in India for whom the guards turn out in the British provinces is the Christian "Lady of Kupoorthulla.” BODILY HEALTH.-Beauty has its foundation in physical well being. Health has its laws, which must be understood and obeyed; and these laws are clearly indicated in our physical and mental constitutions. They demand: 1. Proper food and drink, in such quantities as the system is capable of readily assimilating. 2. Air and sunlight in abundance. 3. Sufficient exercise, rest and sleep. 4. An agreeable temperature. 5. Perfect cleanliness. Do you envy the good looks of your neighbor Brown's plump and rosy daughter? Do you think poor Molly possesses some cosmetic that is beyond your reach? By no means. The whole secret of a full form and rosy cheek lies in pure blood, manufactured from wholesome food, by healthy and active vital organs, oxygeneated and vitalized in well-expanded lungs, and kissed by the life-giving sunlight on the surface of the warm cheek. She who will have the color she covets on any other terms, must buy it of the apothecary, and renew it every time she makes her toilet.-Journal of Health. A HINT TO THE GIRLS.-Our girls will have to take care hereafter to paint their cheeks with nature's "blooms" only; to take heed and not to rinse the windows of the soul with the tincture of belladonna, and to guard against looking interestingly pale. The highest court of England has ruled that want of health in one or two engaged to be married, justifies the oththe ruling of the English courts is often adopter in a breach of his or her promise; and as ed in our own, it is very probable that this will become a principle with our judges. So, young ladies, look to your calisthenics, and eschew any little proclivities to slate pencils and other delicacies of a similar character, while in the growing age. Think that every time you paint your cheeks, dwadle too long over a novel, or of marrying become less. omit to take your morning walk, your chances DOMESTIC ECONOMY. WASHING CALICOES.-Calico clothes, before they are put in water, should have the grease spots rubbed out, as they cannot be seen when the whole of the garment is wet. They should never be washed in very hot soap suds; that which is middling warm will cleanse them quite as well, and will not extract the colors so much. Soft-soap should never be used for calicoes, excepting for the various shades of yellow, which look the best washed with soft-soap, and not rinsed in fair water, and dried in the shade. SETTING THE COLORS.-When calicoes incline to fade, the colors can be set, by washing them in luke-warm water, with beef's gall, in the proportion of a tea-cupful to four of five gallons of water. Rinse them in fair water; no soap is necessary, without the clothes are very dirty. If so, wash them in luke-warm suds, after they have been first rubbed out in beef's gall water. The beef's gall can be kept several months by squeezing out of the skin in which it is inclosed, adding salt to it, and bottled and corked tight. A little vinegar in rinsing water of red and green calicoes, is good to brighten the colors, and keep them from mixing. TO PREPARE MUTTON HAMS.-We copy the following receipt from the London Field: Onequarter of a pound of saltpetre to half a pound of raw brown sugar; make them very hot and rub into legs of mutton over night. Next morning salt them with common salt. Let the mutton lay about a week, move it over, and rub in fresh salt, and let it remain another week in pickle. Then hang it up to dry. When dry keep it in canvass bags to prevent being flyeaten. N. B.-Do not let the mutton lay in the wet brine, but place something under to raise them from the wet or dropping that will fall from them. HOW TO CURE HAMS WITHOUT SMOKE.-EDS. Co. GENT.:-That course in any undertaking which accomplishes our object with the least labor and in the simplest manner, is the one which should recommend itself to our consid ation. WIT AND WISDOM. -If a man could be conscious of all that is said of him in his absence, he would probably become a very modest man. He who is a tiger in his own family is generally a sheep in society. -When you dispute with a fool, he is very certain to be similarly employed. THE AIM OF THE SOUTH.-To keep all the Kernels, and throw us the Shells! IMPORTANT TO MARINERS.-It has long been said that "Britannia rules the waves," but since the fort and arsenal business has flourished so, down South, we must surely agree that South Carolina is First on the Seize! After trimming hams pork-house style, and rubbing them well with salt, I sprinkle salt over a floor or platform, and lay them down flesh side up, so as to economize space. To each ham I give a teaspoonful of pulverized salt petre, then pack on salt as long as it will lay. In this condition I leave them until they have taken salt, and before the fly makes its appearance. Then I take them up, knock and rub off with a wet cloth, all adhering salt, expose them to the air to dry, and when dried hang them up in a high, dry, dark and airy loft, to cure without smoke. They will pass in market or meet the palate of the most fas-ried again next Easter?" "Bob, did you hear my father gets marNo, Tom, I did tidious epicure. Does he get an old woman?" "No, sir'ee! He gets a new one." W. K. WASHING WOOLENS.-If you do not wish to have white woolens shrink when washed, make a good suds of hard soap, and wash the flannels in it, without rubbing any soap on them; rub them out in another suds, then wring them out of it, and put in a clean tub and turn on sufficient boiling water to cover them, and let them remain till the water is cold. A little indigo, in the boiling water, makes the flannel look nicer. If you wish to have your white flannels shrink so as to have them thick, wash them in soft-soap suds and rinse them in cold water. COLORED WOOLENS that incline to fade should be washed in beef's gall and warm water before they are put into soap suds. SPECIFIC GRAVITY OF FRESH EGGS.--The following facts have been established by a series of experiments performed by M. J. Labiche, of Louviers. 1. Newly-laid eggs have not all the same sp. gravity (placed in a solution of chloride of sodium, sp. gr. 1,060, some sink, and others swim.) 2. Every egg that falls to the bottom of a solution of chloride of sodium, sp. gr. 1,040, can be used in cooking; those that float in the liquid are not sufficiently fresh for that purpose; those that swim on the surface are spoiled. RAISIN CAKE. One pound sugar, half-pound butter, one and a half pounds flour, four eggs, half-pint thick milk, one teaspoonful of soda, same of cream of tartar, one nutmeg, halfpound raisins, half-pound currants. WINTER PUDDING.-Take the crust off a loaf of baker's bread, fill it with plums, and boil it in milk and water. A GRAVE AFFAIR.-A Scotch paper tells the story of a dairy farmer, who, after the funeral of his wife, drove a hard bargain with the grave-digger. At last the indignant gravedigger bringing his hand down on a gravestone, exclaims: "Down wi' anither shillin', or up she comes!" not. 66 - An exchange says that dollars and sense are a very rare combination. But if one has dollars, he is a great man without the sense. "There is no place like home," said a brainless fop, the other evening, to a pretty young lady. "Do you really think so?" said the young lady. "Oh, yes," was the reply. "Then," said she, "why don't you stay there?" - One rose upon a bush, though but a little one, and though not yet blown, proves that which bears it to be a true rose-tree. - False fears bring true vexations; the imaginary grievances of our life are more than the real ones. When you go drown yourself, always pull off your clothes, that they may fit your wife's second husband. A deaf and dumb person being asked, "What is forgiveness?" took a pencil and wrote a reply, containing a volume of the most exquisite poetry, as well as deep truth, in these few words: "It is the odor which flowers yield when trampled upon!" HOLD YOUR TEMPER.-A farmer was once in the habit of attending the disputations of two schoolmen. As the disputants always argued in Latin, a friend of the farmer's inquired why he attended. "To see which beats." "But you don't understand Latin?" "No." "And how do you tell then?" "It is easy to see who has the worst of the argument, by noticing who loses his temper first." YOUTH'S CORNER. Suppose So. BY MRS. HOYT. Suppose I tell you of a boy; Suppose that you were home from school, And all your chores were done. Suppose you'd had your supper And, as you would, no doubt, You'd turned good order, turned the house, Until you'd had your head and heels And that's the place they should have been, Suppose you'd acted all your pranks And made your baby brother cry, Supposing then you took your sled, And shouted as they said Hurrah! here comes another one, And with him comes a sled! Suppose the wind were very cold And so suppose you launched your sleds And sometimes went head over heels, Suppose that you could hardly tell As scrabbling up from where the snow You twenty boys, on forty feet, Tried who could soonest gain Suppose you laughed and did n't mind And didn't know whose knees were out, Or who had lost his mitten, But clapped your hands and all cried "yes!" When same one said suppose We build us here a war-man, Out of these crystal snows. Suppose you built him big and high, And called him General Scott; And built him with an epaulet, And now suppose I tell you Why all these things were done; Why just because you wanted to, And just because 't was fun. Amusing Games. A few evenings since we saw the following games played at a party, in which old and young joined. They created much merriment, particularly the later. In the first, called "Find the Ring," a ring was slipped on to a small cord long enough to extend around the circle of players. Each person took hold of this cord, the ends of which were tied together so that the ring could not drop. The players stood near enough together to pass the ring from the hands of one to the other. One of the party stood in the middle of the circle, and altogether commenced moving their hands back and forth, as though passing the ring. The one in the middle endeavored by watching closely, to detect which hand contained the ring. This was not always easy, as the players all tried to conceal it by passing it slyly from one to another, and also to attract the attention of the "finder," by pretending to pass it when it was not in their hands. The person in whose hand the ring was found, was obliged to take his place in the middle; if the "finder" selected the wrong party as possessor, he must try again, and perhaps submit to some penalty. The second game, called "The Voyage to India," was calculated to try a person's power of keeping a sober face, as every one detected laughing must be counted out until the next game. All took their seats in a circle. One commenced the play by saying to his righthand neighbor, "My brother has returned from India." His neighbor asked, "What did he bring you?" "A fan," was the reply; then the first speaker waved his hand as though using a fan, while his neighbor held the same conversation with the one on his right hand, and then commenced waving his hand. This EDUCATIONAL. was repeated all around the circle, until each one sat fanning himself with one hand. When it had passed around, the leader said to his neighbor, "My brother brought me two fans," The Club as an Educational Institution. and at the same time commenced fanning himself with both hands; and this was passed Education is as much a necessity to the mind around the circle from one to the other until and business of the farmer as it is to the sucall were industriously using both hands. "My brother brought me a boot," said the first cess of the physician, the lawyer, or the statesspeaker, swinging his foot back and forth, man. It need not be of the kind offered by which went the rounds, then two boots were the schools,-though that is desirable, ahd reswung; thus all the hands and feet of the party were in motion. By this time the scene was ally very important,--but discipline of the so ludicrous that most of the company had mind, and knowledge of the leading facts and joined in a hearty laugh, and were obliged to leave the ring. But some five or six yet reprinciples involved in his pursuit, must be had, mained. My brother brought me a hat," in order to the best success. said the leader, shaking his head, hands and feet, and all followed the example. My brother brought me a cushion;" then hands, feet, head and body were set in motion, and the gravest of the company could hold in no long er, and so the play ended with a shout. this had failed, the leader intended next to mention a whistle; if any could keep from laughing after that, we think further trial would have been useless. Origin of Great Men. If The following account of the origin of many of the great men of the world shows that true greatness is independent of circumstances: Columbus was the son of a weaver, and a weaver himself. Rabelias was the son of an apothecary. Claude Loraine was bred of a pastry cook. Mohr was the son of a tapestry maker. Ceavantes was a common soldier. Much of this may be acquired incidentally. by the farmer-indeed is inevitable, as a result of his daily experience; but surely much more is acquirable from the study of the best authorities, from a comparison of notes with other farmers, and from a discussion with them of difficult points involving practical principles not yet fully determined. agency for the attainment of these results than the Farmer's Club? And what better Wherever the Club has been instituted it has proven a source of high satisfaction and great good to all concerned. Indeed we have in mind portions of our State in which whole districts have been very perceptibly improved, in their agriculture through the instrumentality of such organizations. Homer was the son of a poor famrer. Demosthenes was the son of a cutler. Terence was We have annually, on the approach of wina slave. Oliver Cromwell was the son of a ter which is the farmer's leisure season, urged brewer. John Howard was an apprentice to a grocer. Franklin was a journeyman printer, their formation; still they are exceptional rathand son of a talowchandler and soapboiler.er than general, and we, hence, feel impelled Dr. Thomas, Bishop of Worcester, was the son of a linen draper. Daniel Defoe was a hosier, and son of a butcher. Whitefield was the son of an inn-keeper at Gloucester. Sir Cloudesley Shovei, rear admiral of England, was an apprentice to a shoe-maker, and afterwards a cabin-boy. Bishop Prideau worked in the kitchen at Exetor College, Oxford. Cardinal Woolsley was the son of a butcher. Ferguson was a shepherd. Dean Tucker was the son of a poor farmer in Cardiganshire, and performed his journeys to Oxford on foot. Edmund Halley was the son of a farmer at Ashley de la Douch. Lucian was the son of a maker of to re-introduce the subject at this time and to ask every enterprising reader of the FARMER to see that such a club is organized in his neighborhood, and at once, so that the operations of the coming spring may have the benefit of this winter's accumulation of knowledge. The Astor Library of New York city, was increased by about 6,000 volumes during the year 1860, at an expense of $13,328. The statuary. Virgil was the son of a porter.- library now contains, in all, about 116,000 volHorace was the son of a shop-keeper, Shaks- umes, and the number consulted during the peare was the son of a woolstapler. Milton last year was 59,516. The fund for maintainwas the son of a money scrivener. Pope was the son of a merchant. Robert Burns was the ing the library is undiminished, and now son of a ploughman in Ayreshire. amounts to $190,000, safely invested. Visit your Neighborhood School. Questions of wheat culture and the most economical production of beef and pork, are certainly important; and, as this is an agricultural periodical, we of course devote much the largest share of space to those matters, of exclusive material interest. There are other things, however, which demand our attention, and the attention of farmers, just as really as these, indeed, it properly comes within the province of the Farmer to treat of everything which intimately concerns the agriculturalist, the mechanic, or in any way belongs to rural life. And of all the great number of interests which are incidental to these classes of readers, what ones are more important than those which are involved in the education of their children? Shall the farmer bestow his most careful and assiduous attention upon the growing of crops and the improvement of stock, and yet give no thought to the raising of his own offspring? Never Do Too Much at a Time. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, in a lecture recently delivered, gave the following history of his literary habits:-"Many persons, seeing me so engaged in active life, and so much about the world as if I had never been a student, have said to me, When do you get time to write all your books? How on earth do you contrive to do so much work?' I shall surprise you by the answer I make. The answer is this:- I contrive to do so much by never doing too much at a time.' A man, to get through work well, must not overwork himself, or if he do too much to-day, the reaction of fatigue will come, and he will be obliged to do too little to-morrow. Now, since I began really and earnestly to study, which was not till I had left college, and was actually in the world, I may perhaps say I have gone through as large a course of general reading as most men of my time. I have travelled much, and I have seen much; I have mixed much in politics, and the various business of life; and in addition to all this, I have published somewhere about sixty volumes, so e upon subjects requiring much research. nd what time, do you think, as a generale, I have devoted to study-to reading and writing? Not more than three hours a day; and when Parliament was sitting, not always that. But then, during those hours, I have given my whole attention to what I was about.' Oh for a man of great and fearless heart, Origin of Great Generals. It is interesting in our present struggle to recur to the beginning of the military career, and the preparatory education received by the most renowned captains and commanders, during the wars of the first quarter of this century. Every one is familiar with the early history of Napoleon and of Wellington. The following information concerning their cotemporaries shows how few of them received any scientific military education, their talents and genius being revealed in actions on the field of battles: Augereau-Scarcely educated; he enlisted as a volunteer in the rank and file. Blucher-No military education. Berthier-Military engineer; he was always in the staff, never commanding troops. Bessieres-Hairdresser; enlisted as a volunteer in the rank and file. Clauzel-No preparatory education; rank and file. Davoust-From military school at Brienne; he entered the cavalry; he was considered with Massena, next to Napoleon. Bernadotte-No military education; he began as a volunteer in the rank and file. Gouvion StCyr-Drawing teacher; a volunteer in the rank and file. Gerard-No military education; a volunteer in the rank and file. |