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Grey River Argus, Volume VIII, Issue 538, 29 June 1869, Page 4

The great want of this age is men. Men who are ' honest, sound from centre to circumference, true to the heart's core. Men who will condemn wrong in friend or foe, in themselves as well as others. Men whose consciences are as steady as the needle to the pole. Men who will stand for right if the heavens totter and the earth reels. Men who can tell the truth and look the world and the devil right in the eye. Men that neither brag nor ran. Men that neither flag n<>r flinch. Men who can give courage without shouting to it. Men in whom the courage of everlasting life runs still, deep, and strong. Men too large for sectarian bonds. Men who do not cry nor cause their voices to be heard in the streets, but will not fail nor be discouraged till judgment be set in the earth. Men who know their message and tell it. Men who know their places and fill them. Men who mind there own business. Men who will not lie. Men who are not to lazy to work, nor to proud too be poor. Men who are willing to ,eat what they have earned, and wear what they have paid for. The New York Times boldly calls attention to an evil in American social life, which has often been made the subject of comment by foreigners. Our contemporary points out that native Americans are fast dying out. The Irish an-1 the Germans keep up the population of the country; but American wives seldom become mothers. They used to have large families, " but they thrived long yesirs ago, before corset strings were invented, and small waists become fashionable, and long before the pernicious doctrines of Malthus were propounded." The proportion of married women in the State of New York who have a child is one in ten. Not long ago, several Massachusetts journals complained that in that model State the same misfortunes, or customs, were found. Infanticide is increasing, and, says the Times, "a certain species of it is practised in the first families." Finally, our contemporary asks, in a despondent tone, "Who will suggest a remedy, and save the great American nation from, utter annihilation ?" What is the difference between six dozen dozen, and a half a dozen dozen ? — The difference is seven hundred and ninety-two, because six dozen dozen is 6 times 12 times 12, which is 864, while half a dozen dozen is but 6 times 12 which is but 72. An old lady had married a young and rather fast man. On one occasion shortly after their marriage, the husband was about to set off on a journey. His wife accompanied him to the railway station and there bade him adieu. " Charles," she said, " remember you are married." "Caroline," he rejoined, with alacrity, "I will make a memorandum of it." And he at once tied a knot in his handkerchief. A tavern keeper in one of the small towns of Wisconsin employed an honest old German blacksmith to do a certain job, for which he paid the cash at once. Afterwards a neighbor got a similar job done on credit, for a less price. Upon being asked the reason, the blacksmith replied 5 " You zee, I have so much sharge on my book, and I zometimes lose 'em ; and zo, Yen I have a good customer, I sharge good price ; but yen I puts it on my book, I do not like to sharge so much : zo if 'em never pays, I no lose zo much." Naoma the daughter of Enoch was five hundred and eighty years old when she married. Courage ladies !