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Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-12-02


Juniua Henri Browne, (what a pity that Juniua
doesn't razee his name, just little y declares
that the alleged devotion Of Americans to the
almighty dollar is hardly to be compared with
the English slavery to an onnipotent shilling.
Tipping" as it is called over there has be-
come such habit that everybody falls in with
IT, and If you find any one in England who re-
fuses to have his palm crossed with shilling.
he is probably not to the manor born. The
average Englishman expects a gratuity, he ex-
poets 1t, he counts Oh it, he is aggrieved If he
fails to get it, although he has done nothing to
earn or entitle him to it. Railway officials, hotel
servants, policemen, custodans Of " show
places" ushers at theatres all these and more
1t is the custom to regularly bribe and fee, and
those who omit the " tip" are pretty likely to
suffer by careless attendance. Such is the case
which Junius Henri makes out against our trans
atlantic relatives.
General Jas. S. Brisbn writes to the Omaha
newspapers, on the 10Th of November, describ-
ing the immense corn crop of the regions which,
last year, and early the present season, were
ravaged by the grasshoppers. 1t will yield, he
thinks from fifty to seventy-hye bushels to the
acre, though much of it was planted az late al
July, after the grasshoppers departed. Last
year, seed corn sold at a dollar and half a
bushel now it may be had for fifteen cents.
The crops OF buckwheat, potatoes, turnips, and
pumpkins are also very large, and the general
yield is 80 great and prices 30 low that corn
Will once more be burned for fuel, and many
fields of other crops will not be gathered at ALL
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-12-02
Compound syrup OF wiId cherry bar

Compound syrup of Wild Cherry Bark.
This preparation is the only perfect cough medi-
cine that know OF, and cures all curabe cases and
relieves those that not curable claim nothing
for the prescription, but the method of preparing 1t
such to get all the medical effects from the In
gradients in perfection, and has taken the exper-
ienee and labor OF forty years to place IL al the
head OF the cough medicines of the world. 1t is
used and prescribed by OF the best Doctors in
this and other States for their families and patients
Old persons and old cases of cough relieved and
enabled to sleep and get rest and strength. Pre-
pared and sold only by
ALFRED WALTON,
auRl9 9eodtcjanl 236 Market street.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-12-02

EINE FARINA COLOGNE WATER,
a Imported Farna Cologne, Lavender Flower
Water, Violet Toilet Water, Florida Water, bay
Rum, Rosadora Multinora and other Toilet waters,
Choice Extracts for the handkerchief, PERFUME
Spray Atomxers, &C., for sale by
3. BHINdHURBT CO., ApothecareH-
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-12-02
5nsuranfe Companies.

nELAWARE BOARD DIRECTORS
IL OF THE
UNION MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
OF MAINE.
OFFICE, 2il SHIrLEY ST., WILMINGTON, DEL
OFFICERS:
JOSHUA MA IS, President.
c. +. THOMAS, Vice President.
Il. ENT, Treasurer,
DIR. ID. A. DODGE, Secretary,
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:
Capt N. X. Benson, T. Y. deNormandie, ]. X. Finn
DR.. JOHN r. WALES, Medical Examiner.
All monies collected In this State aae to remain
here and be loaned by this Board of Directors upon
rstclass real estate securities and thus make this
practically Home Company.
1t Is TO the interest OF those wishing insurance 10
patronze this Company and keep their money al
home. feb2l-ly-3
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-12-02
Fresh Medicines.
10 The Iadies.

I'D tHG IHuIGAs
Mrs. DIR. Foster keeps always on hand full SUD-
ply of trusses, braces, supporters pessar
breast pumps and many other articles to numerous
TO mention. Ladies' IN want OF the above line OF
goods can be accommodated by calling at the prl-
vate entrance on West street.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-12-26
OPINIONS OF THEIR MERITS.

OPINIONS OF THEIR MERITS.
Of PittsbTg, Penn.
Baltimore Loyola College. Sept. 0. 1862:
have carefully looked oyer the copy Of Of, Mitehels Itch
and find it TO be q most excellent work.
From Very Rev. Joseph Keller s. j., Prori'eids cf she
Trovtnce Of Maryland.
1 have looked over MitohelIs New Intermediate
0"''-'''N 'O'OOD Jos E. KELLER sJ.
From Req Brother Patrick Provincial Christian Brothers.
Manhattan College, N. y, Jan. =. Is7o.
phes in all schools In preference 70 all Others as
consider them the best and most reliable text books
on the subject with which we, We are rel acquainted; @
Prov. Christian Brothers.
From tie Redemptorists Of Chicago, III.
St. Michaefs Church, April 90, ts7.
hes dr have and Ss%a I'm Sss n S % Ga5
'D't- ~ ''' PETER zIMMER, C. IS. r.
From the Sisters Of Charity.
School of the holy Name, Chicago
We have used Mitobell's Geographical Series for
number of years and consider them superior to any
others.
From Rev Geo F. Haskins Founder and Rector Of tks
House cf the A'get Guardian.
House Angel Guardian, Boston.
Ny preference and that Of all my teachers, is for
Aitchelrs Geographic.
From His Grace he Most Rev. ArchLishop Of Toronto
CaHddd.
We hereby agpFpeys of N:eh9S s as
"'0A fJOHN JOSEPH LYNCH.
Archbishop Of Toronto
Given at St. Miohaers Palace Toronto, April s. Is72.
From His Grace the Most Rev. ArehOishOp Of NsW York.
New York. July II, 1874.
We cheerfully concur in the excellent recommenda
tions already given by many In favor Of Mtchells
eographies revised and corrected by n. B. KeegAn
Of ChicaRo JOHN McCLoSKEY,
Archbishop Of New York.
From His Grace the Most Rc0 Archbshop Of Cincinnati o.
Cincinnati, Ohio July %, 1871.
As Mitchera Biographies are 80 highly approved Of
by eminent Catholic educators OF tho country
and have cleaused from every thing offensive TO
Catholic children by n. r. KeeGan of Chicago We
in all schools In preference
~ ' John B. PURCELL,
Archbishop Of Cincinnati
For terms of introduction, address most convent
ent, the Publishers, or
M. K. KEEGAN,
se26 Am 457 Twelfth Street. Chicago, nla.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-12-26

D1sREsPEcr AT HoME.-One of the dan
gers of the house life is this habit of disre-
spect-that which is bred by familiarity.
People who are all beauty and sunshine
for q crowd of strangers, for whom they
have not the faintest affection, are all ugli-
ness and gloom for their OVID, by whose
love they live. The pleasant little pretti-
ness of dress and personal adornment,
which mark the desire to please, are put on
only for the admiration of those whose ad-
miration goes for nothing, while the house
gowns and thread-bare coats, the tousled
hair and stubby beard, which, if marking
the ease and comfort of the sans taeon of
home, mark also the Indifference and dis
respect which do so much damage to the
sweetness aud delicacy of daily life. And
what is true of the dress is truer still of the
manners and tempers of home, in both of
which we find too often that want of res
pect which seems to run side by side with
affection and the custom of familiarity. 1t
is regretable habit under any of its con-
ditions, but never more 40 than when it
invades the home and endangers still
more that which is already too much en-
dangered by other things. Parents and
to this in the young. They allow habits
of disrespect to be formed-rude, rough, in
solent, impatient-and salve over the sore
with the stereotyped excuse "They mean
nothing by it," which if we look at Alright
is worse than no excuse at all for it they
really mean nothing by it, and their disre-
spect is not what it seems to be, the result
of strong anger, uncomfortable temper, but
is merely a habit, then it ought to be
conquered without loss of time, being mere
ly manner that hurts all parties alike.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-12-26

SILENT INFLUENCE. - Little do We
know of the power of the unconscious in
huence which we exercise on those aroHnd
US. Like the unseen but ever active power
of gravitation, SO. the influence of our ex-
amples and of our lives, though unknown
to US, may be uninterrupted and powerful.
The words we drop are remembered by
others long after we have forgotten them.
Our actions, our tones of voice, our looks
and motions, and our very peculiarity of
thought and feeling and action, may be
producing an mpressiouupon the minds of
others which we never know, and which we
can never remove. Actions have louder
voice than words, and example is more po-
tent than precept. And thus things which
we cay or do without thought, or conscious
ness or recollection, may exercise an in
huence upon those around US, not only while
we live, but after we may be silent in the
grave. Only the day of Judgment, which
reveals the secrets of all hearts, can disclose
the mighty effects which our conduct may
produce. Seclude ourselves as we may
from the world, or even hide ourselves
from our friends, yet still the power of our
example, the things we do, the things We
leave undone, our likes and dislikes, our
habits, our manners, our indulgences, our
pleasures; all these may be fixing the
course of some one around as for time and
for eternity.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-12-26
seeming Star and Catholic Messenger.
JUVENILE COLUMN.
THE CONTRAST.

THE CONTbAST.
twas Christmas Eve. The white snow,
flakes as they hoated lazlly down, coVerGa rS
everything with garment of beauty. me
warm light STONE out from the WINDOWS OF
large mansion, and the shadows on the cur
tains pictured the bending branenes OF a
Christmas tree, with its tapers ana toys ana
ing touches. At the upper windows, bright
little faces appeared every now and then,
and sounds of merry voices and gay laugh
ter, foated occasionally on the quiet eve
ming air.
ones had said their prayers and good
night" and had hung up their stockings In
the chimney corner FOR the good st: Mich
oIas to fill loving lips had kissed them as
they lay down in their cozy little beds, and
their sleep was full of bright dreams of the
Christmas that would come on the morrow
A short distance from this scene of hap
piuess, in a lonely hovel, was seated
Door woman. No warm fire cleaned upon
the walls, NO costly pictures were there !;
but throu gh many. a crack and creVice Iaetne Inc
snowfakes crept. Will the Christ Child
pass in silence this home of povertyf
Upon little straw in the corner two child
rem, slept closely clasped in each others arms
little, pale children, with wan and anx-
ions faces One of them moved, and cried
the Christ Child know it is so cold I" The
mother heard, ard had only strength, to
kiss the little sufferer. "The Christ Child
will come" she said; 81 have seen Him
tonight, and soon we shall all be warm y
And the three slept in the cold and dark
ness.
h The drifting snow wreathed white chap.
let's on the brows of the sleeping children
and the mother, and covered them with a
shroud, white and pure as their silent hearts
silent now forever; for the Christ Child
Il had come and taken them to Himself.
Christmas morning dawned, and the sun
rose bright in the cloudness sky. The bells
pealed forth merry chime, and the sound OF
the Christmas song and Christmas greeting
4 was heard on every side. Happy hearts were
full of Christmas joy, and sad hearts
were lighted and eonse'ed d. BY ash chris.mai a6a 81
goodwill-to some the gladness of earth
to Others the joys of heaven. For i
to the poor, the sorrowful, and the suffer
u ing, the Christ-Chld seems to give little
part in the joys of Bethlehem, it is only t.
unite them more closely with Himself il
this world, and crown them more glor
iously in the next.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-12-26

The expression, I" OF all Others" though
utterly absurd, may be called a respectable
blunder in one aspect, as in another, and
more essential one, it is quite the reverse.
1t is not simply slip of the tongue or pen,
but slip of the head, and hence reflects
on him who commits it a double discredit.
In this aspect the blunder is anything but
respectable. Yet the long roll of those
who have committed it is thickest with
names respectable for both thought and
expression; so that it borrows from them
shadow at least of respectability. We are
reminded of this just at present by pas
sage in the recent banqueting speech of
the British Premier, surely no common
master of expression. ga war with China,"
said Mr.. Disraeli at the Lord Mayors ban
quet, would have been war with coun-
try with which, of all others, England
would not be placed in collision" Mr..
Disraeli, we believe, is the last who has
made this slip. And barely the last for
Professor Proctor, in the CornhU NagG-
sine, was only few days before him. AL
Iuding to Leverrier's discovery of Neptune,
the eminent astronomer said "To the
outside world indeed it was the achieve
ment of all others most deserving of notice
in Leverrier's work." A short time before
that Arsene Houssaye, whose airy genius
begins and ends in expression, had said in
the Tribune: in America, as we'll as here,
you amuse yourself with the life of the
springs and seaside. It is the place of all
Others to study society and fashion"
There is here, indeed, grammatical blum
der superadded, but possibly the transla-
tor, some member of the fribunes accom-
plished staff, it may be, is responsible for
both. Mr., Hardy slips likewise in Far
from the Madding Crowd" where referring
to Boldwood, he says" nobody suspected
that he had shown unequivocals symptoms of
that mental arrangement which Batbsheba
and Tavy alone, of all others, and at differ
ent times, bad thought of in connection
with him." The offenders on this point,
however, are not merely among the crowd
of fine writers and the host of commonplace
ones, but also among those whose names
we do not expect to die. Coleridge in
The Friend" speaks of " truths Of all
others the most awful and mysterious" and
Milton, although he does not use this exact
expression, fairly revels in the confusion
of thought which makes it what it is, sing
ing of Adam and Eve as first seen by
Satan from his lofty stand" on the Tree
of Life:
| So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair
| That since in loves embraces met
| Adam the goodlIest man cf men since born
And she the fairest Of her daughters Ere.
This, we think, will do. The force OF
blupder could no further go. Nor could
the force of example in extenuation OF
laundering.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-12-26

CHALK.-Most people looking at this
substance would take it to be q sort Of
hardened white mud. Such is not the
case, as the microscope shows that it is
nothing but the aggtomeratione Of creatures
almost invisible. Bearing this in mind,
one is astonished at the power of organic
life, which can produce masses that form q
rampant to the coast Of England. Their
minuteness is such that single visiting
card covered with white layer of chalk
contains about 900 shells. These are
formed of carbonate of lime, and are so
small that 10, ,000 600 are required to weigh
q pound, and $50, O,OO0, 600 to make a cubic
foot of the same material.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-12-26

PARITY OF REAsoN1NG.-I am always
glad to tell you a tale when it occurs to
me, aud that is why tell you the follow
ing. A county gentleman had small son
who having been early taken about to the
their secrets, had become quite a baby-ex,,
pert in all matters pertaining thereto, and
quite ready to give his opinion as to a
horse or litter of pups with as much SER
ioue certainty as though, instead of being a
child, he were an old and hardened sports
man and fancier. The country gentleman
had the good fortune to be presented with
twin daughters by his wife, and the boy,
after his usual rounds among the animals,
was taken to see the little creatures as they
lay in their cradle. The child looked at
them gravely, pulled their legs, pinehed chez.
a moment of reflection, pointing to one OF
the two, said, "Keep this one."-Vanity
Fair.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-12-26
The Egg-Dancs in India.
IScibner's Monthly.l


A much more pleasing performance,
and one which might perhaps better have
been mentioned in connection with the
exploits of the juggfers, ia the" egg
dance" This is not as one might expect
from the name given it, q dance with these
fragile objects. It Ia executed in this
wise: The dancer, carries willow wheel
of moderate diameter fastened horizontally
upon the top of her head. Around this
wheel threads are fastened, equally distant
from each other, and at the end of each of
these threads is q slipnoose, which is
kept open by glass bead. Thus equipped,
the young girl comes toward the specta-
tors with basket full of eggs, which che
passes arouod for inspection to prove that
they are real and not limitations. The music
strikes mp jerky, monotonous strain,
and the dancer begins to whirl around
she puts it in one of the slip noosee, and,
with quick motion, throws it from her
in such way as to draw the knot tight.
The swift turning Of the dancer produces
centrifugal force which streaches the
thread out straight, like o ray shooting
from the circumference of the circle. One
after another the eggs are thrown into
these slip nooses until they make q hori-
zoutal aureole or halo about the dancers
head. Then the dance becomes still more
rapid-so rapid, in fact, that it is difficult
to distinguish the features of the girl the
moment is critical the least false step,
the least irregularity in time. and the eggs
dash against each other. But how can
the dance be stoppedf There is but one
way-that is to remove the eggs in the
way in which they have been put in place.
This operation is by far the more delicate
of the two. 1t is necessary that the dan
Ger, by single motion, exact and unerring,
should take hold of the egg, and remove it
! from the moose. A single false motion of
the hand, the least interference with one of
the threads, aud the general arrangement
formance disastrously ended. At last all
the eggs are successfully removed the
dancer suddenly stops, and, without seem
ing in the least dizzied. by this dance OF
twenty FIVE or thirty minutes, she advances
to the spectators with firm step, and pre-
sents them with the eggs which are i'm
medately broken in a fat dish to prove
that there is no trick about the perform
ance.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-12-26
TRLFLES.
Mobile Register
SAKE, singing of =" Proud Miss Mcbride" )"
refers to those

Mobile Registerl
SAKE, singing of " Proud Miss Mcbride"
plaintively refers to those
Who live to grow rich
By saving candle ends and sich
But even the vaunted economies of New
England are thrown in the shade by the
peculiar value of trifes, in the hot strug-
giles for bread in the gayest metropolis of the
world. Tits calculated that there is profit of
fully 100000 a year in Paris from an in
manufacture of the cigar ends cast asid Q
in the streets by smokers. Now, this col
lection is not your ordinary chiBonnier,
or rubbish hunter; he is q chasseur de Gig
ares, which we might Americanize into q
stump hunter. He begins work at the
earliest peep Of dawn, paying special at
tention to such fashionable precincts as the
Boulevards, the Champs Elysess, gatherin g
MP as be passes from street to street
stumps of all Dimensions and qualities, or
purchasing them at Wholesale prices from
the gdrc0ns Of cefes.
By seven o'clock the labor of collecting
is finished and the chasseur has carried its
results to his workshop. Here the better
! stumps of the Londres and the better
description of cigars are sorted from the
common kinds; and with a working CAPT
tai consisting of a block of wood, knife
and sharping stone, the honest tradesman
produces q coarsely cut description of pipe
tOU6CCOs ules hoGok0 AAnAc AA" hOe ioi
| from fashionable 1t is soId to rat catchers,
chiffonniers, street sweepers and the like
at fair prices. And how these strange toll
| ers of the sewers can afford to Fay, is an
other proof of the infinite resources of the
French miRd in the utilizing of trifes. To
us, in the South, there is as much moral as
amusement in this queer traffic.
Did the people of the South-especial'y
of it's cities-pay as strict attention to the
utilizing of each small means of Livelihood,
the sum total would be sufficient to pre-
vent much of the cry about no work to do
If the street Arabs of Paris can live by
collecting cigar stumps, may not re-
spectacle living be had here from manu-
facture of matchesq Ii her street sweeperi
can buy the luxury of regular puff, why
need they who only walk the streets with
hands in their pockets grumble because
good cigars don't grow on the bushesf
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-12-26

Fathers PRovERBs.-"Of all fathers
children, love myself the best !" was the
gentle reproof that met any little act of
selfshness on our part, Sometimes it was
merely apPropriating to our use the best
failing to show proper consideration for
our brothers or sisters. Father had a great
habit of repeating these proverbs instead of
administering the reprooof that is usual in
such cases.
II we were late at breakfast, or made our
appearance with disordered dress or hair,
we were sure to hear, in very serious
tone, " Like to an owl in an ivy bush, what
frightful thing am l."
If, through our csrelessness, anything
was broken about the house, We were re-
minded that 1.-THE want of care does
more damage than the want of knowledge"
We dreaded the iDfliction of proverb
more than we would scoldipg, and it
made greater impression upon our minds.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-12-26
Wednesday, October 8, 1875.

hnh Scholastic year on
Wednesday, October 8, 1875.
With the old advantages Of sound classical ana
can nov offer fer to their patrons the additional advSs
ariang cement and aoeomnnOdaion.
for Sroo hundred has to tSs
Education Of youth have in their favor tho great ad
they profess give ia based upon Religion sad Morality
fS @ G n so s' tn
tae hearts The ss % Of yfas and
Courses the Preparatory, the Classical the Com
j, INTENDED e
braces ell the branches Of a thorough Collegiate and
those give proofs of the roquiaitc In he
and and
and the higher branches Of Matsematos are entitled
to Ehs fSSsss SSsss Of o CT to
those who devote second year to tho study OF Phoso
@ IL SEss,Iss r ssEsfS s.ois:.iss "s
enbrsces al the branches Usually taught IN csamssois
Colleges The third year OF this oorresponds to
stadents AT attend lectures in Natural Philosophy and
Chemistry with the mombe Of the Graduating cLsas
and to be admitted must previously know how TO
read and write.
TRIMS MONTHS.
Entrance Fec frat year only. Is 90
Board Tuition aid W ashing, pay able half yeatly,
MEDICAL fees le "
BED anu Eenulnk ~ w
Circulars can be obtained by addressing the
PRESIDENT OF SPi:IkG HILL COLLEGE
Near Moblls, Ala.
THE JESUIT FATHERS
Corner Baronne and Common Btrects New Orleans,
+. POuRS1HE, College Agent.
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Coa6uctod by the Sisters of Charity,
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This institution pleasantly situated In healthy anc
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Nary College It commenced In 1909, and tnoor
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| build ngs o0nV Venient and spacious.
| TERMb -
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