PLACES OF INTEREST IN PHILADELPHIA TO WHICH VISITORS ARE ADMITTED.

Academy of Natural Sciences, N. W. cor. Broad and Sansom. Open to visitors on Tuesdays and Fridays; price of admission, 10 cents. Arsenal, United States, near Bridesburg. Daily on application.

Almshouse,

Arsenal, United States, Gray's Ferry road near Washington avenue. Daily on week-days on application. Blockley, West Philadelphia. Daily on week-days on application. Asylum, United States Naval, Gray's Ferry road bel. South st. Daily on week-days on application.

Blind, Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of, N.W. cor. Twentieth and Race. Concert by the pupils and general admission to the buildings every Wednesday afternoon; admission 15 cents. Carpenters' Hall, place of meeting of the first Congress, Carpenters' court, Chestnut st. between Third and Fourth. Open for visitors on weekdays between 10 A.M. and 5 P.M.

Custom-house and Sub-treasury, Chestnut st., south side, between Fourth and Fifth. Daily between 9 A.M. and 3 P.M.

Correction, House of, junction of Pennepack Creek and Delaware River. Admission on weekdays on application.

Deaf and Dumb, Pennsylvania Institution, N.W. cor. Broad and Pine. Daily on application except Sundays; tickets can be procured at the Public Ledger office.

Design, School of, for Women, S. W. cor. Merrick and Filbert. Admission on week-days bebetween 10 and 3 o'clock on application. Exchange, Merchants', N.E. cor. Third and Walnut. Open daily.

Exchange, Commercial, Second above Walnut. Open to strangers when introduced by members. Gas Works, City, on the Schuylkill near Point Breeze; old city, Market and Twenty-third st.; Spring Garden, Morris st. near Fairmount. Open on week-days on application to the superintend

ents.

Girard College, Girard avenue west of Ridge. Open daily on week-days. Clergymen are not admitted in consequence of special directions in Stephen Girard's will; other visitors may procure tickets at the Public Ledger office.

Hospitals.-Pennsylvania, Eighth below Spruce. Visitors admitted on all days (except Saturdays and Sundays) between 10 A.M. and 5 P.M.

For the Insane, Male and Female Departments, between West Chester and Haverford roads, West Philadelphia. Visitors admitted on all days (except Saturdays and Sundays) between 10 A.M. and

5 P.M.

Wills, for the blind, Race st., south side, between Eighteenth and Nineteenth. Open on week-days to visitors on application.

Municipal, for contagious diseases, cor. of Hart lane and Lamb Tavern road. Permits to visit may be had at the office of the Board of Health. Libraries.-Philadelphia and Loganian, S. E. cor. Fifth and Library. Open to visitors between 10 A.M. and 5 P.M.

Mercantile, Tenth above Chestnut. Open daily

for strangers.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Spruce st. between Eighth and Ninth. Open on week-days

for strangers on application to the librarian, except during months of July and August.

Masonic Hall, Chestnut st. between Seventh and Eighth, north side. Open to visitors on Mondays between 10 A.M. and 4 P.M.

Mint, United States, N.W. cor. Chestnut and Juniper sts. Open to visitors free on all days but Saturday and Sunday between 9 and 12 A.M. Morgue, cor. Delaware av. and Noble st.

Navy Yard, United States, Front st. below Washington. Open to visitors, upon application to the officer of the day, daily between 9 A.M. and 5 P.M.

Park, Fairmount, containing 2991 acres, extending from Fairmount along the Schuylkill and Wissahickon to Chestnut Hill on the east side of the Schuylkill, and from the Wire Bridge to a point opposite Manayunk on the west side of the Schuylkill. Open to visitors at all times.

Other Parks and Squares designed for public use.-Hunting Park, York road, Nicetown lane. Squares.-Washington, S. W. cor. Sixth and Walnut.-Franklin, N.W. cor. Sixth and Race sts. Logan, N.W. cor. Race and Eighteenth sts.Independence, adjoining the State-House.Rittenhouse, S.W. cor. Walnut and Eighteenth. Jefferson, S. W. cor. Third st. and Washington st.-Parade Ground, N. W. of County Prison. av.-Norris, cor. Susquehanna av. and Hancock

Prisons.-County or Moyamensing, Passyunk road below Tenth st. Permits for visitors are to

be had of the inspectors.

Eastern Penitentiary, N. side of Coates st. W. of Twentieth. Tickets for admission daily, except Sunday, are to be had at the Ledger office.

House of Refuge, white and colored departments. Admission every afternoon except Saturday or Sunday. Tickets may be had at the Iublic Ledger office.

The Public Ledger building, composing and press-rooms, S.W. cor. Sixth and Chestnut, are always open to the inspection of strangers and visitors; over 110,000 persons were shown through this establishment last year.

The great Publishing and Bookselling House of J. B. Lippincott & Co., Nos. 715 & 717 Market st., open on application to strangers who may wish to examine the facilities of that immense establishment.

State-House or Independence Hall, Chestnut st. between Fifth and Sixth. Open on week-days between 9 A.M. and 5 P.M.

State-House Steeple. Tickets to be had of the superintendent at Independence Hall.

United States Naval Station, League Island. Admission, by application to the officer of the day, daily between 9 A.M. and 5 P.M.

Union League House, S. W. cor. Broad and Sansom. Admission only to strangers in the city upon introduction by a member.

Wagner Free Institute of Science, Seventeenth and Montgomery sts. Museums and cabinets open to visitors on week-days.

Water-works.-Fairmount, in Park, east side of Schuylkill River, north of Morris st.-Schuylkill (formerly Spring Garden), east side of Schuylkill River, Fairmount Park near Girard avenue.Belmont or West Philadelphia, Fairmount Park, west side of Schuylkill River near Reading Railroad Bridge.-Delaware or Kensington, east side of Delaware River, near Gunners' Run.-Roxborough, east side of Schuylkill above Manayunk. All these are open in daytime to visitors.

THERE a two things which grow stronger in the heart of man as he advances in years the love of his country and of religion, Let them ever so much forgotten in youth, they sooner or later present themselves to us arrayed in all their charms, and excite in the recesses of our hearts an åttachment justly due to their beauty.

MATRIMONY.-Two persons who have chose each other out of all the species, with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment, have, in that action, bound themselves to be good-humored, affable, discreet, forgiving, patient and joyful, with respect to each other's frailties and perfections, to the end of their lives.

IF industry is no more than a habit, it is at least an excellent one. If you ask me which is the real hereditary sin of human nature, do you. imagine I shall say pride, or luxury, or ambition, or egotism? No. I shall say indolence. Who conquers indolence will conquer all the rest. Indeed, all good principles must stagnate without mental activity.

PUNCTUALITY. If you desire to enjoy life, avoid unpunctual, people. They impede business and poison pleasure Make it your own rule, not only to be punctual, but a little beforehand. Such a habit secures a composure which is essential to happiness; for want of it many people live in a constant fever, and put all about them in a fever

too.

THE wedding ring is put upon the fourth finger of the woman's left hand, because in the griginal formulary of marriage it was placed first on the top of the thumb, with the words, In the name of the Father" then on the next finger, with, "And of the Son;" then on the middle finger, with, "And of the Holy Ghost; and finally on the fourth, with the "Amen, THE BEAUTY OF VIRTUE-The following fine reflection is to be found in the life of Lord Her bert, of Cherbourg "Everybody loves the virtuolis, whereas the vicious do scarcely love one another." Upon the same subject an Arabian happily observed that he learned ftue from the bad, for their wickedness inspired him with a distaste of vice.

LOOK WHERE YOU'RE GOING-If you intend to marry, if you think your happiness will be increased and your interests advanced by matrimony, be sure and "look where you're going." Join yourself in umon with no woman who is selfish, for she will Sacrifice you; with no one who is fickle, for she will become estranged; have naught to do with a proud one, for she will ruin you Leave a coquette to the fools who flutter around her; let her own fireside accommodate a scold; and flee from a woman who loves scandal as you would fee from the evil one. "Look where you're going" will sum it all up. Young ladies, when you are surrounded by dashing men, when the tones of dove and the words of compliment float out together, when you are excited by the movement of the whirling waltz or melted by the tenderness she mellow music, arrest your self in that roy atmosphere of delight, and "look where you are going."When the daring hand is pressing yours, or your delicate tresses are being fifted by himh you dcy loves you, when the moonlight invites austing and the stars seem to breathe out nocence, sten with caution to the words you hear, gaze into your heart unshrinkingly and where you're going."

THERE is a great difference between the two temporal blessings, health and wealth: wealth is most envied, but least enjoyed; health is frequently enjoyed, but the least envied; and the superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflect that the poorest man would not part with his health for money, but that the richest would gladly part with his money for health.

EQUALITY OF MAN'S DESTINY.-The different ranks and orders of mankind may be compared to as many streams and rivers of running water. All proceed from an original small and obscure source; some spread wider, travel over more countries and make more noise in the passage than others, but all tend alike to an ocean where distinction ceases, and where the largest and most celebrated rivers are equally lost and absorbed with the smallest and most unknown streams.

LYING supplies those who are addicted to it with a plausible apology for every crime, and with a supreme shelter from punishment. It tempts them to rush into dangers from the mere expectation of impunity; and when practiced with frequent success, it teaches them to confound the gradations of guilt, from the effects of which there is, in their imagination at least, a sure and common protection. It corrupts the early simplicity of youth; it blasts the fairest blossoms of genius; and will, most assuredly, counteract every effort by which we may hope to improve the talents and mature the virtues of those whom it affects.

THE WAY TO BE HAPPY.-Cut your coat according to the cloth is an old maxim, and a wise one; and if people will only square their ideas according to their circumstances, how much hap pier might we all be! If we would come down a peg or two in our notions in accordance with our waning fortunes, happiness would be always within our reach. It is not what we have or what we have not which adds to or subtracts from our felicity. It is the longing for more than we have, the envying of those who possess more, and the wish to appear in the world of more consequence than we really are which destroy our peace of mind, and eventually lead to ruin.

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