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CHARLES DICKENS on DEATH.

From the "Cyclopedia of the Best
Thoughts Of Charles Dickens" we
Gull the following mourning flowers
which bloom upon the pages of the
dead novelist:
dead, your majesty. Dead, my
lords, and gentlemen. Dead, right
reverends and wrong reverends, of ev-
cry order. Dead, men and women.
born with heavenly compassion in
your hearts. And dying thus around
us every day. - Bleak House, Chap
ter 81.
1.-The golden ripple on the wall came
back again, and nothing else stirred
in the room. The old. old fashion,
The fashion that came in with our
hrst garments, and will last unchang.
ed until our race has run its course,
and the wide armament is rolled up
like scroll. The old, old fashion,
death! Oh, thank God, all who see
It, for that other older fashion vet of
immortality. And look upon US,
angels of young children, with re-
CARDS not quite enstranged, when the
swift river bears us to the ocean, -
[Dombey, Chapter II.
The spirit of the child, returning,
innocent and radiant, touched the
old man with his, and beckoned him
away."-[Chimes, Second Quarter.
1.-The star had shown the way to
find the God of the poor; and through
humility, and sorrow and forgivness
he had gone to his Redeemer's rest.D %
/ Hard Times. Book 3, Chapter 6.
atA arialaf ofr,uru rrr,or, Al,
broken child's toy lies upon the ground
and nothing else remain,- CCricket
on the Hearth, Chirp 3.
II felt my own self as the dead may
feel If they ever revisit these scenes.
l was glad to be tenderly remember
ed, to be gently pitied, not to be quite
forgotten. Bleak House, Chapter As.
From these gairish lights 1 vanish
now forevermore; with a heartful,
grateful, respectful, and affectionate
farewell-and I pray God bless US
every one."-IL Last Reading, London,
March 6, 1870.
when / die, put me near some. !
thing that has loved the light and |
the sky above it always. ."-TOld Curl !
Osity Shop, Chapter 72.
Lord, keep my memory green. -
[ Haunted Man, Chapter 4.
Now he murmured, Il am happy |
He fell into light slumLer, and,
walked, smiled as before; then spoke |
Of beautiful gardens, which he said
stretched out before him, and were
filed with figures Of men, women,
and many children, all with light |
upon their faces. then whispered that |
It was Eden, and so died. ."-Nickle-
Dy, Chapter S.
''Died like a child that had gone to
'leep.-Copperfield, Chapter 8.
And began the wOrld-this world,
)h, not this. The world that sets
his right. BLEAK House, Chapt. 25.
"GOne before the Father; far be-
Tond the twilight judgments of this
world; high above its mist obscuri-
les. Little Dorritt, Book 2, Chap
er 10.
"And lay at rest. The solemn still
less was no marvel now. ."-Old Curl
'sity Shop, Chapter n.
"She lay at rest. The solemn still.
less was no marvel now. ."-Old Curl
'sity Shop, Chapter a.
1T being high water, he went out
Fith the tide."-Copperfield, Chap
er 80.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1873-02-12
Personal CHARArrrP

Many people seem to forget that
character grows that it Is not some.
thing TO be put on, ready made, with
manhood or WomanhOod but day by
day, here a little and there a little.
grows with the growth and strength
ems with the strength, until good or
bad, it becomes almost a coat Of mail.
Look at q model man or woman. re-
liable, prompt, conscientious. cool.
cautious, discreet. yet elear-headed
and energetic. When do you suppose
they developed all these admirable
quantities? In youth. Show US the
way IN which the boy Of ten years gets
up in the morning, works, plays,
studies, and we will tell you juss about
what kind of man he will make
The boy or girl who is late at the
breakfast table, late at school, who
never does anything at the right time.
stands poor chance to be a prompt.
efficient man or woman. The bow
who half washes his face half does
his chores, half learns his lessons. will
never make a thorough mar. The
boy who neglects his duties. be thev
ever so small, and then excuses him
self by saying, 90, L forgot ~ at
didn't think!" will never be a relia-
Die, trusty man. And the boy who
finds pleasure in the pain and suffer
ing of weaker things, will never be a
noble, generous, kindly man, a gen
tleman. On the other hand, the boy
who 10 obedient and prompt in what
ever he attempts to do, is quite certain
OF making life a success, and leave the
world better for having lived in it
Il. T. B., ff5 RdUeRnd Democrat. Jan
u0Fy, 1873. 1r sse-l.-(
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1873-02-12
GOOD TEETH,

Civilization makes sad work with
our teeth. SaVages are rarely ever
troubled with a defect or an ache in
their dental apparatus. It is not hot
drinks which destroy them prema
turely; nor warm food, SO much as
acids, too concentrated vinegar, pick
les, ETC., which acts directly upon the
lime in their composition, and thus
crumbles them.
The foundation for sound. firm,
white teeth must be laid in early life,
by subsisting on food that contains
the elements which the teeth must
have, or they will be imperfeetly
formed, feeble in structure, and fall
early into decay. If wheat flour were
never bolted, but eaten with the bran,
as we find it partially in Graham
bread, then the system would be
abundantly provided with the phos-
phate of lime, the essential ingredi-
ent for the formation of the teeth.
Butter contains a good proportion
of the phosphate Of lime, and hence
those who consume much of it fur
nish from that source a supply for
keeping their teeth in good condition.
ShAAdACh dAC Usually AONCAo VI DACdu
and butter, especially if they are ha-
bitually fed on white fine bread. In
that way they obtain something the
their teeth, but by no means enough.
The cOarser the food, especially bread,
the better for young people. The
soundest teeth belong to persons who
have not been reared on delieacies.-
Poor teeth become hereditary, simply
because the ancestral stock was Ge-
prived, either by perverted taste, or
the habit of feasting on rich eoneen-
.rated diet, of the phosphate of lime
which nature provides in the cover
Ings of grain used as food, and in some
kinds of flesh on which caruivorous
live We cannot have sound
.eeth unless the stomach has the right
material for their manufacture.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1873-02-12
A CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE.

Those most familiar with celestial
mechanism seem impressed with the
opinion that there is a central point
somewhere, around which the whole
creation of matter is.revolving. How
magnificent would the spectacle ap :
pear were it possible to be so circum-
staneed as to see millions upon mil
lions of worlds in their orderly circuit
in the heavens in rapid motion in or
bits prescribed to them about the re-
splendent throne of the Almighty! I!
The whole solar system playing
around the sun is certainly moving
swiftly in space. 1t does not occupy
the same position a single hour. 1t
is not driftidg at random in the re-
gions of underlined space. On the con-
trary. in obedience to law as old as
when the morning stars sang the first
anthem of praise, their speed has nei-
ther been accelerated nor abated, but
travelling in exact accordance with a
divine arrangement. Their glory and
their magnitude transcend the COM
prehension of the human mind.
The dog star is calculated TO be dis
taut from our earth ], 1850, 900, 900, ,O0O,-
900, 900 miles. This is a carefully
worked problem, SuppOsing it to be
a great sun, when its light reaches us.
it is but 1-20, 900, ,000th part of the light
of the sun. Knowing the rate at
which light travels, 196, 600 miles a
second, there is some ground for sup
posing astronomers have approximat-
ed the distance of Sirius. Trigonom-
etry gives no aid to the inquiry, be-
cause no appreciable angle is subtend-
ed in measuring. On the 21st of June
the spectator is opposite where he
stood on the 21st day of December, the
points being 10000, 900 miles apart,
and the rays Of light from the dog star
appear 20 be parallel, although start
ing from that luminary. There is not
space enough between them on strik-
ing the eye to determine the angle.
How can any one in his senses ina
gine all this happened by chance?
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1873-02-12
A VARIABLE DIET NECESSARY.

Man being omnivorous, his food
must be varied frequently for the full
development of those mental and
physical powers which give him do
minion over the earth. .
If only one kind of food is supplied
for considerable time, as that of DO
tatoes for example, there will be
strong muscles but feeble brain force.
A varying diet, ole thing one day,
and something the next not on the
table every meal, has a wonderful in
huence on the harmonious manifesto
tions of both mind and body. Vary
ing the diet furnishes elements essen
tial TO health. 1t eonduces to the
moral wellbeing of an individual who
is both peevish, dissatisfied, and grum-
bier if The same dishes appear invaria.
bly, at breakfast and dinner. Coffee
and tea, properly prepared, are not
loathed, but are always welcome but
nothing else il, on a boarding house
table. In keeping house we provide
what we like. That is the difference
A positive reason why such multi.
tudes fail of success in keeping boar
ding house is because they serve pre-
cisely the same articles all the time.
A devoutly christian stomach rebels
against that system. On the other
hand, hotels or boarding houses hav-
ing the reputation of an admirable
table, have more patrons than they
can accommodate. That is the whole
secret of having no vacant rooms
Starving boarders is no economy, as
the cost of advertisements for dodgers
is vastly more expensive than gener-
Gus variety every day in the week,
which keep the house full.
Living well simply means not to
subsist on the same kind of food,
cooking always in the same manner
The laws Of physiology demand
varying diet, and those hoping for
good paying boarders should profit by
the suggestions of science.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1873-02-12
COMBS.

An English journal states that the
greatest comb mandatory in the
wor d is in Aberdeen, Scotland. There
are thirty-six furnaces for preparing
horns and tortoise shell for combs,
and no less than one hundred and
twenty iron screw presses are eontin-
ually going in stamping them. Steam
power is employed to cut the combs.
The coarse combs are stamped or.cut
out, two being cut in one piece at a
time. The fine dressing combs are
cut by fine saws, some as fine as to cut
forty teeth in the space of one inch,
and revolving five thousand times in
the space Of one minute. There are
some two thousand varieties of combs
made, and the aggregate number pro
dueed of all these different kinds is
5000, 900 annually quantity that if
laid together lengthwise would extend
about seven hundred miles. The an
nual consumption of OK horns is about
T30, 900, and the annual consumption
of hOOfs amounts to 1000; the con-
sumption of tortoise shell and buffalo
horn, although not 80 large, is CORE
spOndingly valuable. A hOOf under
goes eleven distinct operations before
1t becomes a finished comb.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1873-02-12


Senator Patterson, of New Hamp-
shire, has prudently and properly de-
clined the position of President of the
Ohio Agricultural College, to which
he was lately appointed. He had al
ready signified his intention to accept,
and would have done so, but for the
recent disclosures of his completely
in the Credit Mobilier corruption. The
position ia which he now stands be
fore the country. as having not only
held and derived profit fIom Credit
Mobilier stock, but as having denied
on oath that he ever held such stock,
or drew dividends thereon, his own
receipts produced in court proving the
contrary, is such as forever to put an
end to Senator Patterson's usefulness
either in Congress or as a public
teacher.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1873-02-12
A PROMENADE AT HA.HA BAY,

Mr.. Howells, in his story entitled
"a Chance Acquaintance" in the
February atlantic, describes the Jehu
of Ha-Ha Bay, who makes the follow
/ ing proposition to Col. Ellison:
am the only person at Ha-Ha
Bay who speaks English, and I have
come to ask if you would not like to
make a promenade in my horse and
buggy upon the mountain before
breakfast. You shall be gone as long
as you will for one shilling and six
pence. will show you all there is
TO be seen about the place, and the
beautiful view of the bay from the top
ot the mountain. But it is elegant,
you know, I can assure yOu.n
The speaker was so fluent of his
English he had such an audaeious,
wide branching moustache, such a
twinkle in his left eye-which wore
its lid in a careless, slOuehing fashion
that the heart of man naturally
Glove to him; and Colonel Ellison
agreed on the spot to make the pro-
posed promenade, for himself and both
his ladies, of whom he went joyfully
in search.
As the wagon began to ascend the
hill, the road was so rough that the
springs smOte together with pitiless
jOlts, and the ladies uttered some ire
pressible means. Never mind, nv
dear" said the Colonel. turning about
to his wife, we've got all the Eng
Lsh there Is at Ha-Ha Bay, anyway"
WhereupOn the driver gave him a
wink Of sudden liking and good-fel-
loWship- At the same time his tongue
was loosed, and he began to talk of
himself.
" You see my dog, how he leaps all
the time at the horses nose? He is a
moose dog, and keeps himself in prae-
tiee Of catching the moose by the nose.
You ought to come in the hunting
season. l could furnish you with In
dians and everything you need to
hunt with. / am a dealer in wild
beasts, you know, and I must keep
prepared to trap them"
"WiId beasts?D
'' Yes, for Barnum and the other
showmen. deal in deer, wolf, bear,
beaver, fox, moose, earibOo, wildcat,
link-U
What?n i
Link-linkl You say deer for
deers, and link for lynx, don't you ?"
I" Certainly" answered the un-
blushing Colonel. "Are there many
link about here?"
Not many. and they are a very
expensive animal. have been treat
ed shamefully in a link that I have
sold to Boston Snowman. 1t was a
difficult beast TO take-bit my Indian
aWfnlly-and Mr.. DOOlittIe would not
give the price he promised"
What an outrage" " on
g." Yes; but it was not so bad as it
might have been. He wanted the
money back afterwards the link died
in about two weeks" said the dealer
in wild animals, with q smile. that
curled his moustache into his ears,
and \ glance at Colonel Ellison. HE
may have been bruised, I suppose.
He may have been homesiek. Per-
haps he was never very strong link. |
The link is a curious animal. Miss, -
he said to Kitty, in conclusion.
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from the MemphissAppeall
HOW THE SIGHT OF A BEAR AT


Last Saturday gentleman living
near Madison station, on the Mem
phis and Little Rock road, left his
home to go to the village. He had
not proeeeden more than two hundred
yards, mounted on lineal descendant
of Belaam's ass, when he encounter.
ed great, greasy black bear. The
bear was astonished, and, without ia
king time to think, hurried up scaly
bark hickory and seated himself very
comfortably on limb, thirty or forty
feet from the ground. The farmer
was completely puzzled. If he rode
back to his house to get his gun, the
bear would surely escape. He there
fore tieu the mule, long cared, mel
ancholy mule, forty or fifty years of
age, to the body of the tree. The
mule was bride wise, but no bride
would hold him, and q strong leathern
cable was kept coiled about his neck.
With this he was fastened to a tree
the farmer started to the house, and
Bruin, divining his plans, deemed it
proper to get away. He doubtless sus-
pected that gun was coming. He
came slowly down, tearing the bark
from the body of the tree. 1t ratified
about the sleepy mules head, who
had not yet seen the bear and dream
ed not of the proximity of the ugly
beast. The bear descended slowly till
he was within five feet of the mules
great ugly head. Then it was that
the stupid, innocent, unsuspecting
mule looked up. He had never seen
a Dear before. His knees smote one
another, He grew pale in the face
His eyes were projected from his head
the farmer said-half q foot, His
tail was slowly lifted, the hairs all
turned awry, tillit stood at an angle
of fOrty-five degrees above his spinal
column ami then il was thatthe mule
"hoved a sigh and sInoled smile. .u-l
1t was an unearthly sound; the far
mer, fifty yards away, says that il
shook the ground where he stood,
watching the progress OF events. The
bear suddenly twisted itself about and
reascended to its perch. The mule
swooningly fell at the base of the
tree. He lay still and apparently life
less for time, when Bruin again at
tempted the descent; but the terrified
mule bawled and roared even more
terribly and piteously when the bark
began to fall, and he dashed and
danced about the tree so franiically
that BruIn hesitated, and finally, in
Supplied amaZement, sat upon the
limb upon which he first rested. The
farmer came with his rifle. and a bull
let soon stopped the pulse-beats of the
bear. 1t fell heavily beside the mule,
and strange TO tell, as told TO US, the1
mule and bear died side by side-the |
Ole Of mortal wound, the other of
mortal terror. The bear was still |
black as Erebus; the mules face was
already white with an indiscribable
agony Of mortal fear.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1873-02-12

In consequence of Stokes infatua-
ton with Josie Mansfield, his wife
procured a divorce. The same stea-
mer that carried that document to her
In Europe, carried als) the news of
the murder of Fisk. On account of
the same, Mrs. Sutton, a sister of
Stokes, has been discarded by. her
husband for adhering so strongly to
the fortunes of her hapless brotheI.-
The senior Stokes has been rendered
bankrupt thereby, and one brother, a
young man of great promise, died
some three months ago, OF. grief and
shame, while the remaining members
of the family are in the deepest dis
tress. Stokes, the murderer, was, not
very many years ago, a handsome and
atfeetiOnate boy, and the pride Of his
parents. Verify, the steps other that
lieth in watt take hold on he'll. ."
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A gentleman IN St. Paul, SIinnesO-

A gentleman Ia st. Paul. EIinneso-
ta, writes as follows: sr-.
The thermometer has not been
much above zero here since the Ist of
November, and frequently as low as
35 and 40 degrees below. The snow is
from three to forty feet deep, owing to
the Drift. The number of deaths from
freezing in this State. Of persons. is
yariously estimated from 500 to l .OOO
in one day; while the number of cat
tie and horses lost is without reckon
ing. A school boy froze to death while
walking through the snow, and when
found was standing erect, his books
clutched in one hand, eyes wide omen.
and one foot raised up and bent for
ward in the act of making another
step. Two men were found frozen
dead, sitting side BY side, wrapped in
buffalo robes, one holding theIines of
the two horses he was driving. and
the horses We're standing dead in their
tracks, as if attempting to move on.
These are but two of the many like
Instances that occurred. The news
papers here don't say much about it
now. They commenced, but thought
1t would hurt the State, and are now
denying and explaining 1t. These are
mighty polite people up here. I've
had my ears frozen three times this
winter, but they did not dropof.
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THE RICHEST MAN IN THE
WORLD.

This enviabIe person is probably the
Khedive of Egypt. His yearly in
come is $50, ,00O, 600. and he has twen-
ty-five richly furnished palaces with
in the walls of Cairo. He is vastly
more progressive than the Sultan, his
Turkish master is rapidly extending
his dominions, building railroads, and
making commercial improvements,
and will ultimately become independ-
ent of Turkish dominion. He Is at
present making arrangements for the
construction of railroad up the Nile
to Dongola, and thence across the des-
ert to SOudan, which country he will
make one of his own provinces. 1t
has been remarked of him that " the
Vicenoy, upon any throne in Europe,
would be the greatest monarch of the
age" He is not only prince, but a
merchant, a capitalist, statesman
and cultivator. He sleeps only four
hours out of twenty-four, and at his
desk center his railroads, steamship
lines, telegraphs, postal service, pri-
yate estates, sugar mills, cotton cul-
ture, army, naval and civil service.
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Among the annual holiday e,

Among the annual holiday events
in London is the Thieves Supper },
given BY Ned Wright, a thief leon
vieted" before earthly tribunals. and
who claims to have been "convertedI'
by higher Influences en- his conscience
His reformation" dates back nine
years, and he has three chapeIs under
his control. The company, on tine
last occasion, numbered about one
hundred; the. fare consisted of pea
soup and bread; the exercises were
hymns, addresses and prayer. To Sc
cure the attendance of the companv.
to the end that they might hear the
addresses as well as eat the sOup. they
were promised at the close a small BAG
of provisions each, and the promise
was faithfully kept. As the proyerb
runs, that there must be t'honOr
among thieves" no policeman or de-
teetiye was in or near the chapel. 1t
Is due'to 'Ned' to say that he seems
to have maintained his profession and
unquestionably does some good
Whatever good is done, more or less.
IS so much gained. The addresses
made by Wright and q phIlanthropie
were -Sell adapted to the
character and comprehension Of the
audience.
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Cons. Millar, the river editor of the
cincinnati Commercial, was the pub
Usher Of a newspaper called the Non
parell, IN Cincinnati, twenty years
ago. An anecdote is told in eonnee-
ton with his paper that Is worth re-
peatiEg. At the time Lola -Nontez
was acting at the old National Thea.
ter, and criticism appearing, in one
of the papers that did not suit her
she wrote reply, and carried it her
self to the NODpareil office. and OBJ
tanning permission from the publish
er. made her way to the COMPOSITION
room, and going to lease, y set the
article up with her own bands, placed
1t upon a galley, took the proof. cor.
reeted Il, and thanking Mr.. NIiIIar
walked out. Subsequently che pre-
sented Mr.. Millar with ring, which
he still had when our informant met
him. The article referred 10 was
written in reply to one written by Mr..
Mccormick of the Sun.
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A BIG THING on ICE

Billy Kelly. a eOmpOsitor, who re-
Gently left Omaha for Sioux CITY. re-
turned yesterday, in company with
John Henry, another eompositor. the
two boys having skated most of the
distance from Sioux CITY down the
Missouri river. They left that place
Sunday morning at half past six and
skated all day, laying up over night
at section house of the Sioux Citv
and Pacific railroad. Next mornin1
they resumed their trip at daylighf7
arriving at Missouri Valley J1DcfioD
about four o'clock Monday afternoon.
a distance, by the river, of about two
hundred miles from the starting point-
During their travels Kelly froze both
ears, his cheek (of which he has plen-
tyl and one heel, while Henry escaped
with two frozen ears. This is proba-
bly, one of the most remarkable and
perilous skating feats ever undertaken
IN this country. The. .bOSs are 10 day
type ir the RSa Office. and X
will probably be s0me time before
they undertake another similar spin
on the iee.- Csadhd Bee, Dee. -.
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A Connecticut editor having got
into controversy with contemporary
congratulated himself that his head
was safe from a ''donkey's heels-"-
His contemporary absolutely inferred
from this that he was unable to make
both ends meet.D