THE HORSE. COL. C. H. SMITH. HOLD ON, BOYS. HOLD on to your tongue when you are IN the domestic horse we behold an an- just ready to swear, lie, speak harshly, or imal equally strong and beautiful, endowed say any improper word. Hold on to your with great docility, and no less fire; with hand when you are about to strike, pinch, size and endurance joined to sobriety, scratch, steal, or do any disobedient or speed and patience; clean, companiona- improper act. Hold on to your foot when ble, emulous, even generous; forbearing, you are on the point of kicking, running yet impetuous; with faculties susceptible away from duty, or pursuing the path of of very considerable education, and per- error, shame, or crime. Hold on to your ceptions which catch the spirit of man's temper when you are angry, excited, or intentions, lending his powers with the imposed upon, or others are angry with utmost readiness, and restraining them you. Hold on to your heart when evil with equal willingness; saddled or in har-associates seek your company, and invite ness, laboring cheerfully; enjoying the you to join in their games, mirth and revsports of the field, and exulting in the tu-elry. Hold on to your good name at all mult of battle; used by mankind in the times, for it is more valuable to you than most laudable and necessary operations, Hold on to your truth, for it will serve you gold, high places, or fashionable attire. and often the unconscious instrument of the most sanguinary passions; applauded, well and do you good through eternity. cherished, then neglected, and ultimately Hold on to your virtue; it is above all abandoned to the keeping of bipeds who price to you in all times and places. Hold often show little superiority of reason, and on to your good character, for it is, and much less of temper. ever will be, your best wealth. TO THE EVENING STAR. STAR that bringest home the bee, That send'st it from above, THE WILD HORSES. A TRAMPLING troop! I see them come; Appearing when heaven's breath and brow With flowing tail and flying mane, Are sweet as hers we love. Come to the luxuriant skies, Whilst the landscape's odors rise, Of thrilling vows thou art, Too delicious to be riven, By absence, from the heart. MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS. Wide nostrils never stretched by pain- And flanks unscarred by spur or rod- They stop-they start-they snuff the air, Approach, retire, wheel round and round, OPEN TO OBJECTION. DP.. ABERNETHY's prescription to a rich Four good mothers, says that quaint patient was, "Let your servant bring you book "The Tin Trumpet," have given birth three or four pails of water, and put it into to four bad daughters :-Truth has pro- a wash-tub; take off your clothes, get into duced Hatred; Success, Pride; Security, it, and from head to foot rub yourself well Danger; and Familiarity, Contempt. And, with it, and you'll recover."-"This adon the contrary, four bad mothers have produced as many good daughters; for vice of yours seems very much like telling Astronomy is the offspring of Astrology;"Well," said Abernethy, "it is open to me to wash myself," said the patient. Chemistry of Alchemy; Freedom of Op- that objection." pression; Patience of Long-suffering. A GARDEN IN WINTER. TRENCH. WHERE is the garden's beauty now? GAIN BY TOIL. LONGFELLOW. THE heights by great men reached and kept A DUTCH REASON. "MYNHEER, do you know what for we call our boy Hans?"-"I do not, really." -"Well, I will tell you. Der reason we call our boy Hans is-it is ish name." I have a meadow, in the form of a right GOD might have made the earth bring forth angled triangle, containing three acres. Enough for great and small; The oak tree and the cedar tree, Without a flower at all. Our outward life requires them notThen wherefore had they birth?To m'nister delight to man, To beautify the earth; To comfort man, to whisper hope For who so careth for the flowers I mowed a strip two rods in width around it, and found I had cut just one-half of it. Required the sides of my meadow. PROBLEM N. There is an island 20 miles in circumference; and three men, A, B, and C, start from the same point, and travel the same way about it. A goes 3 miles per hour; B, 7 miles per hour; and C, 11 miles per hour. In what time will they all be together? PROBLEM O. A gentleman purchased a span of horses, for which he gave his note of $600 on interest, at six per cent., for such a length of time as will make the interest equal to one, plus the quotient of the principal, divided by the square root of the sum of the principal and interest. Required the length of time for which the note was given. A RIDDLE. From a river take a letter, and a number will appear; From this number take two letters, and a woman will be here. Pray tell what river this can be, POETICAL ENIGMA. I'm a singular creature, pray tell me my name; I partake of my countrymen's glory and fame; I daily am old, and I daily am new ; I am praised, I am blamed, I am false, I am true; I'm the talk of the nation while I'm in my prime, But forgotten when once I've outlasted my time. In the morning no Miss is more courted than I; In the evening you see me thrown care. lessly by. Take warning, ye fair!- I like you have my day; But, alas! you like me must grow old and decay. BIBLICAL ENIGMA. I am composed of 22 letters. My 2, 22, 20, 18, and 10, was the son of Zerali. My 7, 5, 1, 22, 3, 9, 8, was a patriarch. My 12, 13, 16, 16, 2, was the son of Obed. My 12, 9, 19, 17, 2, 22, 14, was the son of Noah. My 4, 10, 6, was a plain in Pales. tine. My 15, 5, 2, 11, was the son of Ephah. My whole the names of two of Solomon's sons. PUZZLE. Three men, A, B, and C, agree to dig a ditch for $24.80. A and B calculate that they can do four-fifths of the labor; A and C that they can do two-thirds; and B and A man bought 19 apple-trees to set out C that they can do three-fifths. How in his orchard. He wanted to set them much should each receive according to out in 9 rows, with 5 trees in a row. llow the estimates? could he do it? LIST OF STATE AND COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES In New England, with the Name and Address of the Secretaries, 1861. MAINE. State Board of Ag., S. L. Goodale, Saco. North Aroostook, Joel Bean, Presque Isle. MASSACHUSETTS. State Board of Ag., Chas. L. Flint, Boston. Middlesex North, Geo. Stevens, Lowell. North Kennebec, J. Percival, Waterville. Mendon. Penobscot and Aroostook Union, L. Rog-Hampshire Franklin and Hampden, II K.! Piscataquis Central, E. B. Averill, Dover. Hampshire, A. P. How, Amherst. West Somerset, A. Moore, North Anson. NEW HAMPSHIRE. State Society, Aaron Young, Dover. VERMONT. State Society, C. Cummings, Brattleboro'. Hampden, J. N. Bagg, West Springfield. Hoosac Valley, W. W. Gallup, N. Adams. RHODE ISLAND. CONNECTICUT. State Agricultural Soc., Henry A. Dyer, Hartford, F. A. Brown, Hartford. FARMERS' CLUBS In Massachusetts, with the Names of the Secretaries, 1861. Shrewsbury, S. A. Cushing. TIDE TABLE. The tides given in the Calendar pages are for the Port of Boston. The following table contains the difference between the time of high water at Boston and several other places. When the sign is prefixed to the hours and minutes, in the table, the time must be subtracted from the Boston time; and when the sign is prefixed, the time must be added to the Boston time. RANK OF THE STATES BY THE CENSUS.-The following table, giving the rank of the States at each general census, by their comparative populations, is curious and instructive. By drawing a pencil line through the name of a State, in each column, its relative rise or fall will be strikingly exhibited. Thus, Virginia, which during the first three decades held the first rank, is now the fifth, having been passed successively by New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and lastly by Illinois. North Carolina, in 1790 the third State, is now the twelfth. Illinois, in 1820 the twenty-first, is now the fourth State in the Union,—having in the last ten years nearly doubled her population, and passed seven other States. Since 1850, six free States have risen above fifteen slave States, while but one slave State (Arkansas) has passed a free State (California). Eight free and four slave States have risen or retained the rank held in 1850; eight free and ten slave States have fallen. The slave States are printed in Italics. THE PUBLIC DEBT.-The public debt of the United States, Jan. 1, 1861, was $63,709,321.63; of which $11,900,461.64 were in the form of treasury notes. This debt has of necessity been largely increased since. TABLE OF SIMPLE INTEREST, AT 6 PER CENT., So arranged that the interest on any sum may be at once ascertained. Principal. 1 Day. 1Week.11 Month. [1 Year. Princi-1 Day. 1 Week. 1Month. 1 Year. Cts. 20 0 0 00 0 00 0 30 0 0 00 0 00 0 10 1 2 2 0 8 7 0 35 0 4 20 3 0 10 0 0 40 0 4.80 00 0 Where the interest is at the rate of seven per cent., add one sixth to the product, of eight per cent., add one third, &c. Where at the rate of five per cent., deduct one sixth, of four per cent., deduct one third, &c. POST-OFFICE REGULATIONS. (1861.) Letters.-A letter not exceeding half an ounce, three cents, pre-paid, under 3000 miles; but over that distance, ten cents, pre-paid. "A letter, when conveyed wholly or in part by sea to or from a foreign country, over 2500 miles, 20 cents; and under 2500, 10 cents, except all cases where the postages have been or shall be adjusted at different rates by postal treaty or convention." Drop letters, one cent. Advertised letters, one cent in addition to regular postage. Valuable letters may be registered at the office, on payment of regular postage and five cents additional. Newspapers, Periodicals, Unscaled Circulars, &c., not over 3 oz., 1 ct. each, to any part of the U. States, or ct. if paid quarterly or yearly in advance. Newspapers, &c., not over one and a half oz., half the above rates, if sent within the state where published. Newspapers, papers, and pamphlets, not over 16 pages, 8vo, in packages of not less than eight ounces to one address, one half cent an ounce; though, if separate pieces, the postage may be more. All transient matter to be pre-paid, by stamps. Books, bound or unbound, not over 4 pounds each, 1 cent an ounce under and 2 cents over 3000 miles; to be pre-paid. Weekly newspapers free in the county of publication, when transmitted by mail. Bills and receipts for payments of money for newspapers may be enclosed in subscribers' papers. Exchanges between newspaper publishers, for one copy from each office, free. Newspapers, &c., to be so enclosed that the character can be determined without removing the wrapper; to have nothing written or printed on the paper or wrapper, beyond the direction, and to contain no enclosure other than the bills or receipts mentioned. To these rules we would add, always sign your name, and also direct all letters, &c., sent by mail, plainly and distinctly; and use the folded sheet, in preference to envelopes, as this saves separating the post-mark from the letter. LETTERS NOT PREPAID TO GO TO THE DEAD LETTER OFFICE.-The Postmaster General has issued the following important order: "Whereas, by the act of the 3d of March, 1855, the postage upon all letters except such as are entitled to pass free between places in the United States, is required to be prepaid; and whereas the Department, through courtesy, has hitherto at considerable labor and expense notified the parties addressed, in all instances in which the writers failed to prepay, that their letters would be forwarded on receiving the postage due thereon; and whereas, instead of diminishing, the number of such letters continues to increase, thus showing the omission to prepay is intentional; it is therefore or lered that from and after the first day of November, 1860, all such unpaid letters be sent to the dead letter office, to be disposed of in like manner as other dead |