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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-09-22

GREENS AUGUST FLowER.-lt is
natural orpeople suffering with Dys-
pepSla and Liver Complaint or any de.
rangemrnts OF the digestive organs
Sucn as Sour Stomach, Sick Head.
ache. IIabitual Cos,ycneSS, palplta.
ton Of the Heart, Heart burn, Water
brash, gnawng and burning pains at
the pit Of the stomach, Yellow Skin,
Coated Tongue, and diSagreeable taste
in the mouth, coming up Of food aficl
eating, low spirits, &c, to put of
from day to day buying on article that
they know has cured their neighbor,
friend or relative, yet they have no
faith in it until it is too late But il
you will 90 to O. G. kimball, Drug,
glst, and get bottle Of GREENS AUG-
usT FLOWER your immediate cure is
rs certain as You live. Sample Bot
tie of this medicine can be obtained
for 10 cents to try its superior virtue
Regular r. cents. Try it, two
doses will relieve.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-09-22

He was stogy,looking man, one
eye swelled 81 ut, one finger badly
bitten, coat torn down the Tack, hat
gone, and mis- good eye having a wild
look. lie was a farmer, aud he had
come in with some produce, sold 1t
for cash down, and sold his cash for
wLiskey.
Found in an alley, ugly drunk, said
the cour'.
Well, I feel mean enough about it,
replied the prisoner.
Wanted 20 have good time, Ell ?
Yes
And guess you had one You
look pretty, You DO. Mr.. Rambo -
You look nice to go home to YOU wife
and children
4 made 4 fool Of myself
And I'm Glad to hear you own the
corn. You were as ugly as a Malay
when the police brought you in, but
as you are all banged up, repentent
ana 1orty dollars out CT pocket, In
going TO let you 90 home.
Much OBJ ICED
IS your wife an lnnocent-minded
woman, Mr. Rambo ? That is, does
she always believe everything you
say ?
yes, sir, most always
well, new, when you reach home
you tell her that you were down to
the ferry dock TO see the little steam
ers canter back and forth over the
foaming pillows, when tour Tugs and
propeller ran into your bows and al
most stove you to pieces
Yes, sir, will
'And she'll believe it Z?
She will.
well, go out. Put beef on your
eye, salve on your finger, run your
face for hat, and when you come to
Detroit again see if you can't Icep
from making a fool of yourself
Detroit Free Press.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-09-22
Offensive People.

lfto be good man and succefs
full man is offensive to the world ut
large. to be praised is exasperating.
No greater uhkindness can be done to
airy man than to praise him much.
People generally will stand Il moder.
ate compliment paid to II neighbor.
while they are left to qualify it, or to
admit it as a matter OF generosity or
courtesy ; but praised persisted in will
Iuin the reputation Of anybody. There
is nothing more offensive to the aver
age human being than persistent lau-
daton bestowed upon another. TO
hear man warmly praised is sutfi
cient usually to make us hate him {:
and it is only necessary to have the
praise repeated often enough to make
Us desire to shoot him. Praise is one
of the articles we would like to have
distributed a lilIc--not that we want
it, but the object of it is not the best
man-if we know ourselves. Virtue
Is good thing, temperance Is good
thing, genius is not Il bad thing alto
gethcr: but no man IS to be men
toned so many as ten times as having
either Of them in possession without
making his name stencil and an OF
Tense TO the nostrls OF a sensitive
world, The true way OF getting
along we'll in the world is not to make
ones self offensive to ones friends bv
excellence Of character and habits Of
life, by success, or by doing anything
praise~or,hy Let us strike the aver
age SIS nearly as possible Let lis be
good fellows rather than GOOD men,
and choke the first man who dares TO
ascribe TO us a single virtue. Let us
all keep down and out Of sight. All
that We do for ourselves, and Ill that
We do for mankind, only feeds hell
with slauderers, and SO betrayS the
basencSs Of human nature that we
may well blush TO think that we are
members of the human race.-Dr H.
&. Holland; Scribnr for Oc.ober
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-09-22
The French Prime minister has en-

The French Prime minister has en-.
joined upon his official subordnates to
be more careful and legible in their
handwriting; and there arc few Off
cial regions in the world where the
same injunction would not be useful.
Gentlemen in public life are too apt to
write wretched sclawls, there being a
saying atloat that great men, as a rule,
are bad penmcn. Silence, however,
no more implies wisdom than does
bad penman>hip genius The great
men who have written bad hands are
exceptional. Napoleon and Byron
produced, ii is true, strange HERO
glyphics, especially when they signed
their names but Washington. JcH,r-
son, the AdamcS. and indeed all cur
Presidents, excepting perhaps Jackson
and Harrison, wrote good and some OF
them very elegant hands; the same
may be sad Of Clay, Benton and Cal
houm, among politicians, and Irving,
Hawthorne, Lougfellow, Bryant, Pres
colt, Thackeray, Bulwer, Tennyson
and Scott, among men Of letters. Aud
who are to be named above these I?
Jlnins wrote a remarkably beautiful
had and Sterne's ''Sentimental Jour.
uey," as seen in the original IN the
British Museum, is grateful for the
eye forest upon. -Appleto,3s' Jo"rno',
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-09-22

SARGENT S. PRENrIss. No man,
South or North, ever left a reputation
for purer eloquence. Pitted in his
early days against Claiborne, of Mis-
sissippi, and against a candidate for
Governor who alone of all the Demo
cracy had the courage to meet him in
public debate, he took captive the
Southern mind. Not alone by his
sublimated eloquence or ready wit did
he capture it but by his ready SYM
palhy and honest bravery. We have
often heard Judge Sharkey speak of
his victories at the bar, and the vol
umes which record Congressional sue
cesses speak of the great ovation
which the delni gods of Senate and
House paid him ON his deba,e upon
the c,nteSl for his scat All were in
thrallcd by his wilch2ry. lie became
national at a bound. Ills simple let,
ters to his New England home de
scrlbiug his trials AMI victories give
no idea Of bis romantic life. They
vanly endcavor to tell Of tie success
Of his elocuti)n and the temptation Of
bis wild and glorious lite. His para
mount genius was orAtory. His hui,
mon WAS the scr> ant Of this genius.
not its lord. Once, when III joint
d;scu sion Governor McNutt drplortd
his habits, which were rendering his
learning and cloQuence useless, he re-
tolted Oh the Governor with riont
effect. lie FIRST described in classic
style the utilities and ms .aion of
vie and whisky. Before I akjng the
I'D homi0em upon the G ,yernor he
pictured the glug gIug rug Of the
jug, as the politician tits il and rours
rom lis reluctant moaIa the corn
juice so loved Of his soul. There i
no music dearer to his ear, unless it
be the sane glug glug glug as it dis
appears down his ,'apaciou5 throat
Then turning to his opponent, his face
I'LL shining with fun, he said: "Now,
feIow-ctizens, daring this ardent
campaign, which has been so faigu-
inc, have only been drunk once
Over in Simpson County was com
PEELED to sleep in the same bed with
this distinguished nominee, this de
light of his party, this wonderful en-
ponent Of the principles and practices
Of the nwashed Democracy, aud m
the morning found myself drunk ON
corn whisky, | had lain too close TO
this soaked mass of Democracy, and |
was drunk from absorption .'--TThc
Hon. S $. Cox, in Harpor's Magazine
for October.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-09-22

THE MEANING OF "HURRAn."--Who
can tell the meaning OF ''hurrah 2
Jack used it just Low a little thought
lessly, considering its true sense The
pretty schoolma'am says if originated
among Eastern nations, where it was
Used asa war cry from the belief that
all who died in battle went to HEAVIER.
"To Paradise!" (hwrag!) men
shouted to one another, by way Of en-,
couragement, III the thlckeSt Of the
fight (; and so. in time, came our word
"hurrah !" which means almost any.
thing you chooee, so it he of good
cheer.-['' Jackm-the-Pultit,' Saint
Nicholas for Octo6ar.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-09-22

THE Ros.-This was a monstrous
bird which was said to inhabit an
isl'nd ia the Chinese sea. In the
"Arabian Nights" Sinbad the Sailo,
has great deal to say about this
strange ere; turc, whose size and
strength were SO great that it could
cary one elephant in its beak and an.
other in leach Of ITS talons. Pictures
generally represent it in this way; and
the elephants look as meek as kittens,
sailing through the air in this unpleas.
ant style. The three were probably
devo'ired in the course of the day. \
Roc egg was said to be like an enor.
nous white dome, andsas firm as a
mountain.-[ From ''Some Queer Ami,
mails, st. Nicholas for October.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-09-22
THE LAST HOUR.

They came to bear his corpse away
Before her grim and stark it lay,
With blood besprent from shield to crest,
And five wounds open in his breast.
They said to her, "The grave is made
Wherein your lover must be laid,
And you nor we have time to spare,
Unless we seek his fate to share"
She answered, "Yet little space
Give me to look upon his face :
Until this final hour be sped
Leave me alone here with my dead"
They turned away, those stern-faced men,
And left her to her watch again;
Nor stiiled sob, or whispered word,
Henceforth the woful stiffness stirred.
Outside the window, droning bees
Hummed drowsily about the trees
The hot sun blazed along the sky,
The wandering wind crept idly by.
1t shook the sweetness and the bloom
From trailing vines across the room;
One white leaf futtered down to rest.
And turned to crimson on his breast,
She, kneeling by the awful bier,
Made no lament, and shed no tear:
But the dumb anguish in her eyes
Might have compelled the dead to rise.
Could any yearning look or speech
Avail alas the dead to reach p
And the still lips that made no moan
Were pale as lips are, cut in stone.
His head within her arms embraced,
Her check laid close against his face,
And, all its silkcn lengths unbound,
Her dark hair streaming to the ground
So clung she silently and fast,
As one by one the moments passed,
And with the passing hour once more,
Her brothers entered at the door.
For, marching downward through the land
There came apace hostile band,
And he who met its lawless horde
Might choose his death by fire or sword.
Brief time remained for funeral rite
When need like this arose for flight.
So they approached, full sore at heart,
To break that last embrace apart.
And one--the tcnderest-at her ear,
Spoke soothing words of love and cheer:
But won no answer. Mute as clay
And moveless at his voice she lay.
Then, with sudden, vague alarm,
He touched her cheek, he raised her arm -
The arm dropt lifeless from his hold,
The cheek already had turned cold
The grave they followed out for one
Held two before the day was done.
Around it rang the battle din,
The lovers slept at peace within.
Tile AHine
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-09-22
HOW TO DRESS.

A sweet disorder in the dress
Kindles in clothes a wantonness
4 lawn about the shoulders thrown
Into fine distraction
An erring lace, which here and there
Enthralls the crimson stomachcr--
A cuff neglected, and thereby
Ribbons to flow confusedly-
A winning wave, deserving note,
In the tempcstuous petticoat-
A careless shoe string, in whose tic
see wild civility-
Do more bewitCh me than when art
Is too precise in every part.
-UeyTich
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-09-22

A resident of Detroit, who had a
thrifty cherry tree in his yard, borrow
ed stone dog and placed the lmpo-
sition at the foot of the tree to scare
away any bad boy who might want a
feast of cherries after dark. He was
fattering himself that he had a dead
sure thing on the boys, when, the
other morning, he went out to find
the legs and tail broken off the image,
and the body sticking in the ground
labelled, "This ere dorg feels sick"
So did the citizen.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-09-22

Notice is hereby given that all Of
Gccrs, sailors, aod soldiers, wouad,d,
or injured in the late rebel
lion, however slightly, are onh''cd to
a pension and thousands Of pensioners
are cntiIed to an increased rate
Apply Immediately through
Dr.. +. b. JACKSON,
[l724] La,e Surgeon, L. S. Navy.
No. 4 New Chamber ST. New York.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-09-22

A lady in the habit Of spending
much Of her time in the society Of her
nei9hbors happened one day to he
taken suddenly ill. and sent her hns,
band IN great haste for the physician.
The husband ran few yards, but
soon returned, exclalming, MY dea",
where shall / find you when / get
back q
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-09-22
NHkYkg,.li,N NAlLisNAi!.

IOit k- 4II.N III 4 lIttV-iB.
1879, SUMNER ARRANGEMENT 1915
nn and after May 81, 1875, Passenger Tram
" will run a. follows
UPWARD TRAINS.
Day Express Train leaves Concord ut l0.4C
AN and Accommodation Train at lO.ls
A.M*tor White River junction, connecting
it'll train tor We'll River, st. bloomsbury
walron, Newport, Willoughby and Magog
Bakes, Slanstcod, Quebec, Bath, Littleton
LLancastcl, and theWhite and Franconia
Mountains. Also, withMuins for Mont
pelier, Mansfield Mountain, Burlington, ST.
AlbahS, ROuse's Point, Montreal, Ogdens
bursh, and the West.
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN leaves Concord ut
81 7. M for White River Junction. Bristol
EvENING EMPRESS TRAIN leaves Concord
1t $50 Y. N. for White River junction, con-
meeting with trains for Montpelier, Bnrling-
ton, ST. Adams, Houses Point, Montreal,
OGdcnsburgh, anc. the West.
tOr on arrival oil trains from Boston, Wor-
cester, Portsmouth, Portland, sc.
DOW INWARD TRAINS
tMoRNING EMPRESS TRAISieares White
River junction for Concord at LOO \. NJ, or on
arrival of trains from Ogdensburgh aud Mon
t!eal. This train is run to Boston on Sunday.
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN leaves White X,
junction Tor Concord ut 600 A. NJ.
fBRlsToL TRAIN leaves Bristol for Concord
at $50 A. NJ. and Franklin ut 0.05 A. NJ.
mail TRAIN leaves White River junction
for Concord ut 1928 P. NJ, or on arrival OF
trains over the Vermont Central, Passumpsic,
and White Mountains Railroads.
DAY EXrkEss TRAIN leaves White River
Junction at AL p. NJ, or on arrital of trains
nom Montreal and Ogdensburgl, Brattle
boro Keeno, Bellows Falls, Windsor, &C.,
connecting ut Concord with train for Man
chester, Nashua, Lowell all Boston.
trhesc trains connect at Concord with
trains tor Manchester, Lawrence, Ports
mouth, Portland, Nashua, Worcester, New
York, Lowell, ard Boston.
GEO. T.. TODD, Supt.
Concord, n. H., May eth, 1879.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-09-22

ECoNoMIHAL NEW FoCp.-2j cents will
buy package Of sea Moss Fnrine, made
from pure Irish Moss which will make 80
kind, of dishes, such rs cafes, pies, pud-
dings. etc, or 10 quarts Of CuStardS. iclhcs,
creams Charlotte Russo, blanc mango. etc.
Sod By all Druggist, aud GrocerS. Cyl
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-09-22

1t is said that a Chicago alder,
man, receivinga letter from cons'jt
uen; beginning, 'Dear and honest sir,
returned it to the post Office with the
indorsemenb "opened by mistake by
Alderman -"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-09-22

A Too GALLANT CoNpUcroE.-
Conductor B is always very polite
to the ladies' All conductors are petite
to ladies, particularly 50 provided they
arc young and handsome. Miss c.
WAS handed on board at the station as
carefully as though she was ''gIasS--
to be handled with care" Ar extra
seat Was turned over on the shady
side of the ear, and the conductor
took a seat by her side to do the
agreeable, having met Miss C on
the train before. Presently. as mat
tcrs were going along nicely, an old
man in his shirt sleeves half threw
himself into the seat in front, which
the conductor had unlocked and turn,
cd over for the benefit Of tie parties
more Immediately concerned. Mr.. b.
spoke up sharply: $50 away from
here" But the old man didn't 90
Conductor says, still more sharply,
$50 away, or III make you But
still no 60, while vacant, provoking
smile sat upon the face of the intruder.
Whereupon Conductor r grasprd
the old farmer by the nape Of the
neck. AT the same time the young
lady grasped the arm OF the conductor,
eXclaiming, "Please don't. Mr.. b.
This is my father"
Ever since Conductor b always
asks young ladies if they are travelling
alone Harper's Magazine.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-09-22

pYLE's DTTETIC SAIERArUs-UM-
versaily Il Iinowled9ed the hest in use.
Each pound bears the name Of JAMES
PYLE. -- None grEnine without T3Gv1
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-09-22
DIAMOND RHEUMATIC CURE !

1t is from such results and everyday proofs
ike these that physicians are now prescribing
the DIAMOND RHEUMATIC CURE as an
inialiblc apecic for removing the causes Of
the Gout, Chronic, Acute, or Muscular Rhcu.
maism, Lumbago, Siaticl. Nervous Head.
ache, Neuralgia Of the head, heart, stomach
dnd kidneys Tic Do!o euX, Nervousness,
Flying Pains. Twisted Joints, Pain in the
Back and f.oins, Weakness of the kidneys,
Fired feeling, Languid, Weary prosteration,
and all Nervous and Chronic Diseases.
Let any sufferer who reads this purchase
small bottle and take it according to the in.
StructIons around the package, and it will not
take long to convince him that paying doe
tors ices ], money thrown away-Liniments
Of all Kind, are useless.
ihis medicine is for sale by all Druggists
throughout tho United States aud Canada. -
II ii happens that your Druggist has not got
it in stock, ask him to send for it to any
ot the Wholesale Druggists in Boston, or to
e.. II, MARTIN & CO., Concord, n. H.
WELLS, RICHARDSON q CO.,
Burlington, ".
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-09-22

"A harder subject TO deal with
than even an old deck Of cards, is a
man who don't advertise.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-09-22

"A number seven hat will just fit Il
St. Louis moaqui,o bite. --Mlpoul'ee
Sentinel
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-09-22

--Discourslng sweet music-blow.
ing your own trumpet.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-21

founds. They had not to search far.
They found the animal disporting in an
adjoining wood and enjoying to the full
est extent his regained liberty. It was
quite evident that he would not resign
that liberty Without hard struggle for
it. While the method of his capture
was being debated the news of the
housekeeper's death and the events con-
nected Herewith became known, and
that was sufficient to sign the death
warrant of the unwilling cause of, her
decease. It vas q hatd fate, but he
was hotEptepafed to resist it, and so he
quietly Obeyed the summons conveyed
to him through the medium of three
minie-bullets and expired after check
cred enjoyment of twentyfour hours
freedom.
The carcas s of this huge brute may
now be seen in tho William Brown
Mupermin Liverpool, most successfully
stuffed and pictures quely posed upon a
amjniature cliff with stout staff in one
hand and the other hanging listlessly
at his side. No one who views this
magnificent specimen of the cynocepha-
lus will ever wish that he had formed
any other or closer mountaineering
with the formidable ahimai when alive;
yet Ct the same time the creatures dog
like head suggests a canine intelligence
and honesty inviting some degree of
human trust. Amongst the ancient
Egyptians the cynocephalus meaning
the dog-faBed bab0onj was held in great
venerabion as the supposed possessor of
superhuman powers, and was even Sc
lected by them as the symbol of intel
lect and to present their god OF letters,
ThOtb. Whether the above true story
indicates the greater intei1ig ehce for
the brittle, or the human beings whom
he so terrified, is for the reader to de-
eide.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-21
Cur Modern Mermaid.
Shakspeare's weird nictnre al q


. Mermaid on dolpilin's back
Tutoring such dtIlcet and harmonious breath
That the rude sea gear curl at her song"
has been more than realized in Hawaii,
The fish happened to be huge blue
shark, and the rider was Miss Adelaide
Miller, the Hawaiian songstress. 1t is
the newest fish story, and has q moral
like the Oldest che, wherein the fish was
the cause Of & Ihan getting TO tie light
place IN fhe rio5 IF ti11e The new
stlcJ Is worth telling, too.
Miss Adelaide Miller is a native, out
and out, o: Sandwich islands. She is
gifted with voice Of superior sweet.
nos, end is called the " Hawaiian
Nightingale" Miss Miller is as good
swimner as she is a singer, all the
islanders being amphibious from their
youth mp. Miss Miller was visiting
some friends at Waikiki, a Hawaiian
fashionable watering-place near Homo
lulu. The place is also the summer
residence Of the Hawaiian. kings, but
that fact has nothing to 40 with the
story, except to show that Miss Miller
was doubtless in the best company the
islands afford. The beach is always
swarming with bathers. It is consid-
cred safe within the limits of certain
reef, but the daring adventurer beyond
the reef might As well make his or her
will in favor Of the nearest fish.
The Hawaiian sOngsttess was bathing
IN company with several of her dusky
sisters, Tie girls commenced daring
each other to swim to the reef, and
finally the songstress started, followed
by the others. It was @ pretty race, and
the wonder Of the other more timid
bathers. As they approached the dead
-thesweet-vOicedi in the Iead-sOme
men in passing canoe shouted wildly,
Mano ManO !" The glrls knew we'll
enough that meant shark"-the true
blue lan eaJer-cannibals of the deep.
There was roll OF water which broke
the regular sIlrges of the sea. A huge
shark rose to the surface and lifted Miss
Miller on his back. That was the safest
place for her now, and she grasped the
sharks upper fin to keep her seat firmly
on the monster. He, probably terrified
at human aJldacity, skinned on the
surface Of the water at lightning speed
for about sixty yards, and then, getting
tired of his burden, shot down into the
deeps, leaving Miss Miller on the sur
face someR hat astoUished at her adven-
ture. The canoe picked her up and
took her ashore. Now, the course Of
she fish was directly towards the Amer.
lean coast. Miss Adelaide Miller took
the hint, and soon LETT for California TO
sing and make her fortune. The ad-
venture with the fish made her exceed
ingly popular at home, for many of the
Pacific and South Sea Islanders regard
the shark as a sacred animal, and never
kill one except in sell defense. Miss
Miller having taken ride on Il sharks
back consecrated her, and she became
to them divine She is now the Ha-
waiian diva, and We may one day be
treated to her song. Now, this bar
barian fish story is just as good as any
of the adventures that serve to bring
European prjn7G dor9nd8 into notice,
and it is every bit true.-,t. Louis Re