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The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

For more than thirty years a dingy little shop
Garden. bore above its door the name Of Thomas
Hailes Lacy. The shop, "A repository for theatre
cal publications and pictures, possessed attrac-
tions although it was dingy and small, and the
sidewalk before its windows was generally
thronged with idlers, who found amusement,
missing elsewhere in its pictures of theatrical
persons-actors from Garrick to Blackstone, COS
TUNED as Hamlet, or Ion, or Cousin Joe. Mr..
Lacy enjoyed for many years almost a monopoly
in his trade, and his reputation as seller of play
books was established throughout England, Amer
lea and Australia. He achieved large fortune,
and about year ago, or less, he sold his shop
and library to q New York publisher and retired
from business. His death, at an an advanced
age, Is just announced. His wife was popular
actress, known as Fanny Cooner
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

MOVING MACHINE AcCrDENTs.-On giving the
particulars of an accident by which farmer was
run over and killed by moving machine, the
Canada Farmer adds the following sensible ad-
vice: In most cases. these deplorable occurrences
result from want of proper precautioD, and We
cannot too earnestly entreat our readers to do
all that prudence and forethought could accom-
plish in the way of avoidance and prevention of
snch calamities. Only the steadiest and most
trusty teams should be put TO these machines,
and they should be in charge of careful and ex-
perienced drivers. We have known mere colts
them. Human life is too valuable to be risked
thus Accidents will happen in spite Of all hu-
man endesvors to prevent them, but it should be
seen to, that when they do take place, there
shall be no room for self reproach because of
neglect or carelessness"
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

II you have been picking OF handling any acid
fruit ard have stained your hands, wash them in
clear water, wipe them lightly, and while they
are yet moist strike match and shut your hands
around it so as to catch the smoke, and the stains
will disappear. If you have stained your mus
lin or Bingham dress, or your white pants with
boiling water through the stains and they will
disappear. Before fruit juice dries it can often
be removed by cold water, using n sponge and
towel if necessary. Rubbing the fingers with
the inside of the parings of apples will remove
washed out or sopped up from the carpet with
cold water immediately when it is spilled, can
be almost entirely removed. Ink spots on floors
can be extracted by securing with sand, wetted
in oil of vitriol and water When the ink is re-
moved, rinse with strong pearlash water.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18
A Fanny Scene.

After the battle of New Orleans, a ball wa.
given in that city in honor of Gen. Jackson AT
ter supper we were treated to a most delciou;
"pas de deux" by the conqueror and his spouse
an emigrant of the lower classes, whom he had
from Georgian planter, and who explained BY
enormous corpulence that French saying: "She
shows how far the skin can be stretched" To
see these two figures, the General, long bag
gard man, with limbs like a skeleton, and
Madame lie Generate, short, fat dumping bob.
bling opposite each other like half-drunken In
dians in the wild melody of Possnm up de Gum
Tree" and endeavoring to make spring into the
air, was very remarkable, and far more edifying
spectacle than any European ballet could posi-
bly, have furnished
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

The number of birthplaces of noted men that
are in sight from the top of Kearsarge, in New
Hampshire, is remarkable. On the eastern side
you look almost directly down upon district
ten miles square in which were born Ezekiel and
Daniel Webster, William Pitt Fessenden, John
Dix, Farmer the electrician, and the Bartlett
family, including Ichabod, famous in New Hamp-
shire. Vice President Wilson was born in Farm
ington; Lewis Cass in Exter; U. s. Senator
Grimes, in Deering; U. S. Senator Chandler in
Bedford Levi Woodbury. in Portsmouth; Horace
Greeley IN Amherst; General Butler in Deerfeld;
Franklin Pierce in Hillsbnrough; Chief Justice
Chase IN Cornish, and Chief Justice Chase, of
Maine, IN kumney, and all these places may be
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

DESPERATE CASE OF RHEUMATIsM-A wo-
man with the rheumatism consulted clairvOyant,
who went into trance and wrote the following
startling description of the case:
hnd your case one that battles skill. The discs
is complicated; the spine is mulch disesed; have
hurt 1t by fall. The liver is liberated, canse
You TO raise a thick N" Tcuss. Your he'd syme-
-tthizes. nev spells of telling dizzy, and the
scrofula in the blood, which has destroyed the
vitality, cases some teudancy to dropsy. The
throat is effected by Katarr in the he'd. You can
with proper treatment, be helped. / hoap this is
not to late to Benefit 20; if you want treatment
l will attend You at wOnce.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

THE Rev. -, of Erie, Pa, is an energetic
worker, but yet he has failed to convert a GER.
tain wealthy stakeholder in various mining enter
prises. Talking to him the other day, he said
"Ar. -, you are getting your fortune by in
vesting in mining stock; now want you to take
soine stock in the golden streets of Heaven
The reply was a continuance of the metaphor
swell, guess won't invest to-day; Pve lost
considerable on that North Shore tin investment
and who knows but the country you refer to may
be 'salted' tool"
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

DIARRHEA is sometimes cholera in its early
stages-it therefore demands immediate treat
nent. The deaths of hundreds Of infants and
young children by darrhea cannot go on without
tue cuipable negligence of their parents. Chill
dten are neglected, or they would not die in such
numbers.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18
0nr Strap 8onk.
THE POOR FIppLER's ODE TO HIS OIL
RInnIE

FIDDLE.
Torn.
Worn
Oppressed mourn;
Bad.
Sad
Three-quarters mad;
Money gone,
Credit nome
buns at door,
Half q scare.
Wife in lain,
Twins again.
Otheis aing.
Nurse a-railing.
Billy whooping
Betsey grouping.
Besides poor Joe,
With festered toe.
Come, then. Fiddle
Come my time worn friend,
With gay and brilliant sounds
A sweet tho transient solace lend
Thy polished neck in close embrace
clasp, while joy illumes my face
When Ger thy strings draw my bow.
My dropping spirits pant to rise;
lively strain 1 toueh-and To-
/ seem to mount above tins skies.
There on Fancys wing soar.
Needless of the duns at door;
Oblvious all, feel nv woes no more
But skip DER the strings,
As my old fiddle sings,
'Cheerily D, merTily gn.
'Prestoi good master.
You very well know.
I will ind Music.
If you will find bow.
From T. up to alto to G. down below.
Fatgued, pause TO change the time,
For some Adagio, solemn and sublime
With graceful action moves the sinuous arm;
Ny heart, responsive to the soothing charm.
In $500 g,,on;.bsS he IN az.
More more zutye grown eyes with tears oerfow
And Resignation mild sInooths my wrinkled brow
TheOphiclride may grunt and the Tromb may bawI
But by Poll. my old FiddIes the prince of them all!
His Ode to Cecilia would s.ein rugged verse
Now to thy case. in flannel warm to lie,
Till called again 70 pipe thy masters eye.
mil
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

SMALL darkey of Montgomery, Ala, sent out
to pick berries, the other day, buttoned himself
up closely in the remnant of Yankee overcoat
When he returned, his mother observed and ac
costed him:
"What you wear dat tick coat for, SIGH hot
day as dist"
"Cause, nanny" replied the loyal boy, ode
Yankees does it,"
"You're little fool" said the indignant man.
ma; ''dO you s'pose de Yankees got as much sense
as we Mericcns has,"
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18
Che fun Of the Ching.
"As1Ar1c CHOLERA"

II, supped on clans and cabbage,
And cucumbers aAbby and stale;
And he drank two bottles Of elaret,
And a bottle Of icy ale
gk, diued upon green apples,
Cheese and vanilla ice;
The uickle jar she emptiea,
And the 1obster-sslad WAS nice
And they-bOtb felt rather poorly,
At the closing of the day:
And the oOroner's jury called it
Asiatic cholera
And all the papers frothed With
Display type black and broad.
And the pi0Is people maundered
OF the Providence Of God"
And so the world defies sense
And sanitary rules,
And calls the Creator tyrant
Because the creatures are fools
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

A GENTLEMAN whose house was under repair,
went one day to how the work progressed,
and, observing quantity of nails lying abont,
he said to the carpenter, "why don't you take
care of these nailsi They'll certainly be LOST. !"
"No," replied the carpenter, you'll find them in
the bill -
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

To PICKLE ONIoNs.7Tbe following mode is a
good one: Take those that are small, peel them.
put them in cold water, change them twice a
day for two days; then put them in salt and wa
ter for two days, changing them twice a day
drain them well; take off the next skin: put
them in jars, and spice and pepper them as for
other pickles; then boil vinegar and pour it, hot,
over them. Put small piece of alum in the
vinegar, which makes them firm. If you like
them red, add cochneal or white distilled vine
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

~ say, fellows, remarked loafer to some OF
his companions, "let us see who can tell the big.
gest lie"
GAN right" said one. "rm the biggest fool
in America"
40, pshawp exclaimed the first, contemptuous-
ly; ave agreed to tell nothing but lies, and you
begin by telling the truth"
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

i TOLD Wright to write me the right about q
rite, snd Wright wrote the rite was right; then
Wright wrote Inc to write what right had to
write, and wrote Wright that rite was not right,
and if he said the rite was right had a right to
write Wright that Wright was not right-or any
other man.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

AT Sunday-schOOl concert the other evening,
the following occurred: Little fellow ERECTING
his verse III am the Bread of Life" Superin-
tendeut Questioning him to his knowledge of
the Bible Who said Il am the Bread of Life p ~
Little fellow lin surprise y" said it,"
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

The Lebanon Standard says: "a lady of this
times abont the head and face by humble bees
A strong solution of soda, applied to the wounds,
at once checked the swelling and aleviafed the
pain The philosophy (or chemistry of this is,
the bee poison is an acid, which the soda neu-
traliZes. This is worth rememberinrn
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

81 SAY, landlord, that's dirty towel for man
to wipe Onp Landlord, with a look of amaze
ment, replied: "Well, you're mighty particular.
Sixty or seventy of my boarllers have wiped on
that towel this morning, and You are the first to
find FAULT
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

Two ministerial candidates for q vacant pull
pit, named Adam and Low, having to preach the
same Sunday, Low, who preached in the morning,
took for his text, adam, where art thou" In
the evening Adam gave his return shot, by select
ing for his text I" 70. here am u
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

THERE is a Troy woman who has horror of
profane language. She was called upon to testi-
IL in police court in that city, but she refused
never guilty of doing and what's more, a thing
never will do Twill tell You the truth, Judge,
but will swear TO nothing"
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

1T is said that glycerine mixed with the water
in steam engine boilers prevents the deposition
of lime salts, and consequently protects the boil
er from incrustation. About one pound of gly-
cerine to every 300 or 400 pounds Of coal burnt is
sufficient for this purpnse
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

The STING or BEEs.-Tbe swelling may be in
stantly arrested by an application of equal parts
OF common salt and bicarbonate Of soda dissolved
IN warm water and well rubbed in on the place
bitten or stung.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

BY means of the drill, wheat is sowp regularly
and all the same depth. If the seed is good there
need be no allowance made for wsstage, as in
sowing by hand. One bushel and q peck per
acre is plenty, and, if the grains be small, one
bushel IL is planted regularly and at a proper
depth, and it all has equal chance to grow
and to fasten its roots firmly in the soil By drill
ling, fertilizers can also be sown at the same
time.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

WHENEVER good land is in fair state of fer
fility and has been MANFRED occasionally, clover
sod plowed in the fall and exposed to the cold Of
winter, or plowed immediately after crop of
hay is taken of, or. still better, if the crop of
grass Ia plowed under about the time it is in
bloom and left lie until seeding time, will always
yield the best crops of wheat.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

A FRENCH physician has discovered that the
peculiar odor of Russia leather has q very bene-
nciai eject upon weak lungs, and he advises
eonsunptlve patients to repose upon pillows
covered with that material.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

4 LITTLE girl was one day reading the history
of England with her goyerness, and coming to
the statement that Henry l. never laughed after
the death of his son, she looked up and said,
aWhat did he do when he was tickledin
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

A FASCINATING young lady at party in Tusca-
loosa. a few evenings since was asked if she ever
read Shakespeare. She replied, with toss of her
pretty head: "Shakspearef OF course l have.
.,.ad that when it first came out"
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

aHRoTHER in a Thursday night prayer meet
,,., AZ IA Crosse, added to his prayer: 'And that
Teiis-r who stole my horse-hit him with thun-
derholf before he gets over into Iowa.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

1T is said that the danger of drinking water
whilst violently heated, can be obviatetl BY sim
ply wetting the wrists, and if practicable the
feet, with water previous to drinking.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

Ts,e bey that recommended few drops of pan
..,.,Se "a sugar has his match in another who,
&c., sueessfnlly spelling "chcanery," defined it
-, he q IaTge coop to raise chickens
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

WESTERN gentleman smokes q segar while
milking his COW, and the other night, absorbed
IN thought, he lowered his head. the lighted end
OF the segar touched the cows flank, and away
the milk went across the alley as though kicked
by IN army mule
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

DsSOY asked a BARRIERS boy if he had ever
.tavsd : monkev. aNo, air." answered the lad !;
az y Ia. n con will take o seat. III try,
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

NEVER put your horse to bard work upon a
full stomach,
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

A SETTER and pOiuter-AeOmpOsitor'
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-18

treal. offered a resolution 10 memoriallze
the Dominion government in favor Of
the appointment Of a committee to act
with ono to be named by the United
States. to take steps for The establish
ment OF reciprocal trade between the
two countries. Messrs Hanley. OF De-
troil aud Hill. of Boston, referred to the
fact that there WAS growing feeling
throughout tho United States in favor Of
reeiprocation with Canada. Under the
new administration, they c9osidcred II
would be easy 10 make the preliminary
arrangements for a, treaty next March.
The resolutions were adopted, 2 tArt
PHILADRLPHIA, January l5.-The
freshet in the Delaware and Schuylkill
has subsided, but the water is still high
and the bridges and mills have been con-
siderably damaged.
ASSHoLis, Mp January ls.-The
Wharton poison trial continues. The
mother of VanNess, on the stand, testi-
fed to a chronic illness in her family,
but none ever had convulsiops- w
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-18
MISCELLANEOUS.

PRINCETON, ILL.,, January l8.-The large
andspacious farm house and contents
of Colonel George Huston, two miles
south of Galway. was entirely destroyed
by fire last evening. Loss from SIS, 900
to $40, 900; insured for $250O. EE fFs
kDlAEAPoLis, January is.AThe pork
packing season closed here yesterday,
with the exception Of one house that
packs the entire year. During the sea-
son al $3.50 hogs have been killed
The competition between the rival
railroad routes between here and New
York via Cincinnati has reduced rates
until round trip ticket can be pur-
chased for S24 60, less than half the
usual fare.
DUBuQuE, IA, January ls.-The body
Of man, frozen to death, was found
near Lansing this morning. supposed to
be from Wisconsin. Three women living
aear Mona, in this State, being very
poor and out Of fuel, went to bed last
night to keep warm, and this morning
all three were found dead in their beds,
having frozen to death during the night.
ALBANY, n. Y, January ia heavy
rain on yesterday caused a sudden rise
in the river Of eight feet above the ordi-
nary mark, and is still rising Fears are
entertained that the piers will be entirely
ruined BY ice which is moving rapidly
down the river. The ice began to move
about clock this afternoon. A party
Of ladies were crossing the river near
here at the time the ice began to move,
and we're all carried of on the floating
ice. No assistance could be rendered
them, and they are supposed to have
been drowned.
CLEyELASD, o., January 7.-Albert
W. Chamberlain, who was arrested a
few days since as the supposed murderer
Of an old hermit named George Neon.
noughey, near Scion, Ohio, and brought
TO this city and lodged in jail. confessed
the deed to-day in the presence Of bis
father. the Superintendent Of Police,
and Rev. L. Cooley He vas asked
what impelled him 10 do the deed. and
be said be done il in q single moment,
and that if he had stopped 70 reflect he
sould not have done H. He waived an
examination 10 the Police Coari. ard
viz be tried At the February term.
Orr1FA, OxElRIo. January 1.-THE
Board Of Trade resumed lie session this
afternoon. Hon. John Young, Of Mon.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-18
FOREIGN.

LONDON, January 1.-THE ex'Em
press Rugcuie held arocepiion at chisel
horst yesiot day. which was attended BY
many welIknown Bonapariisls aud q
liquidation Of workingnon from Paris.
Prince Napoleon alAo received large
upmbef Of hls fciendS.
vienna, January IA general strike
Of the eomposiiors in the city is threat
ened. A demand for an increase Of
wages has been met with refusal from
the employers, One hundred Of the
compositors bere are now idle, md IL is
feared that in the event Of strike be-
coming general large proportion Of
tie newspaper press Of the capital will
be compelled 10 suspend publication
temporarily. No Disturbances are re.
ported. -rt.wr-~
PARIS, January lT.--The rumored fu-
sion OF the 0rleanists and Legitimists
Is contradie,ed on reliable authority.
BERIIN. January l7S--A treaty Of
navigation has just been completed be-
tween the German aud Russian govern
ments, and has been signed by their
respective plenipotent.aries.
LONDON, January lss-S. r. Graves,
Liverpool member Of Parliament, is
dead. The German military budget for
1873 increased 100000 thalers. Ger
many's relations with Bavaria are cool,
King Louis refuses to recall The ambas-
sador from Rome. n -sNarIarl
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-18
LATEST ITELEGRAMS.
AKENoAE PRESS ARTICULATION. VIA 8. ?. = A.
TEJK5RAFH ooNPAST.
specials 90 the Ledger.
NEW YORK.

New York, January ls-A special
cable dispatch from London to the World
says. Prince Napoleon intends to abb
stain from all intrigues against the Ires-
ent French Government, either in his
own behalf or in behalf Of the so-called
Regency, Eugene and her son. The
Prince Imperial is now styled Napoleon
". Prince Napoleon further declared
that when the actions be has brought
before the French courts on the ques-
ton Of bis expulsion from France are
decided. his rights as French citizen
recognized and free residence in
France guaranteed him, he would ad-
here to aud support the Republic
The New York department Of the
Grand Army of the Republic hold their
annual encampmept on the 22d and 23d
inst. Excursion tickets will be issued
by the various railroads leading thereto.
The rumor current that Stokes had
committed suicide arose from the discoT-
cry Of a vial containing pillets Of nox
vomica in bis cell It's understood that
in the event OF Judge BosrdmSn refusing
to sign a bill of exceptions in his case,
Sheriff Brennan will place double watch
on him.
A heavy sleet and storm occurred to-
day, and telegraph wires are again badly
disarranged.
Ex-Mayor Kalbaeisch, Of Brooklyn,
viii not live through the day.
The French international refugees
expected yesterday failed to arrive, much
TO the disgust Of many Of their county
men, who repaired to Castle Garden 70
tender them welcome. Il is nov Be.
lieved tha. they viii not arrive until the
esriy part Of the week. when he steam.
ships Queen and Holland, Of the Ham.
burg line. are due; upon either Of which
they are likely to be-
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-18

Linden street Christian chureh-seryices at
10:Oa. m. and 7.so pm. b David Walk. pas
tor.
First Baptist chureh-services at II am.
BY Rev. @. A. Lotion. pastor. and @. W..
Griffin At 7;i5 pm.
Central Baptist Church-seryices at II am.
and pm. By DR.. Landrum. pastor. sun
dag school. 9s30 an.
Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Court
ltrest--seryioes II an. and $50 pm. By
Rev. L. G. Ransom. pastor.
81. Lazarus Chutch-services at II am.
and I'D pm. b. Rev. d.. Wheat. rector.
fernando street Methodist chureh-ssr-
vioss II an. and 7's5 p.n. Rev. GuilfOrd
Jones. pastor. ..rI
Grace Church, Hsnando strcst-serriess
At II an. and pm. By Rev. ]. Carmichaol.
rector. -