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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-07-09
SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR THE sUrFEnERs.

The following subscriptions have been received
by Mr.. Brossard, Treasurer or the French Benevo-
lent Society OF this CITY, as collected by members
from their c0mpatriot5:-
LIST OF MR.. FREDERIC II. coUDERr
caasds SS9ssFi hs tSs
Co. ie S S De kaam ca fsys sou Af0n
LIST OF MEssRs. MARCHAND
peaqt simon Gspe go amel $s1 Go A. Ja sTes
1n AND s CO.. ST. LeSl s Bros vsisE
ftS dSarS S'G se hs Co. S SS sSS iesf
Montsnt $40: Wsl@erSins,. n9suet Co.., 500; Hall;
sS, Ts Ssss ss, a
iaSay SsHl g. SG
& 81 David 81 Edward Hi KersSe
f fe Sc senTE S 9sSea 81 1ese s S. &
Cash i siO; George Marchand SIS aas-a 800 ' '
LIST OF MR. p. LACOsTE.
Us: ! rssSi;; 81; i 6SSixa ss Ersaeai:T: h.;
DAVID fass 81 Louis Betbeais 81 1sns sS l. Ms.trs
Nat eyeSG' raTf reees
sI5 Cash; 81 M. IapS Co: rs; G. Reusssns s2s
es.s IS o..S j; Sf S5sIa:S
LIST OF MIR. L. LAFoN.
L, Lafon $40; W. Vclire S2U; A. Loppln, $40; p. L.
Essis g., BASn ri @
Klein sas
LIST OF MR. G. AYMARD.
Mr. Aymard So; Clumont 50 cents; Mr.. and Mrs.
ozanne, 81; T. Chauvn, 81 cents; Lalane, 81 cents;
Isand) $40; Milot Bros. 81 Balance OF eolecuon
taken for Kansas sufferers. 81 70
LIST OF Mr.. G. AUZIERE.
H. Pos4onier, IS; Denis Louis, So; vianert $iot
Emile JanteL So +. Kabel, 81; j. b. Dubois, 81 -
Castcl 81: Auguste Dublin $s Pic Bots ane, 81; Marx
ssi Calhoun Robbins Co, 81 F9oSer Wnrlng S 90:
John A. Shelter, So, Friend: 81; H. Cristet ";
Cypren Goupet 81; T. Michel, S2; Cash 81; John g. e.
Miller $50 joseph Waltz 90 cents w. + Livingston lying
81; j. vercellt, 81; q. Maurice, ST. n Moussin, 81
LIST OF MIR. LECOUR.
p. c. Duchochois So VI. Guillot So +. Lecedr, "a
LIST OF Mr.. G. PROTIN.
A. Flauraud Son. $25; j. MartinaeAe, y; y
Beckett 81. o
Victor DeIaunay. $40; t. Lorut Sc; G. Harvier.
S20 BOYD Hincken $50; Cash. IS; Cash, 81
Grand total, S3,5l6 3D.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-07-09
MUSIC IN THE PARKS
CENTRAL PARK.

The Department Of Parks announce that II the
weather is line there viii be music on the Mall &C
Central Park tomorrow Saturday, July 10, com.
mencing a. four O'Clock p. H. The following IL
tina uro0ramme:-
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-07-09
PROSPECT PARK.

The eighth concert In Prospect PARK this season
will take place tomorrow afternoon, when tho fol-
lowing programme Will be interpreted By the
Twenty.tnird Regiment Band.-
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-07-09
RELIEF FOR THE SUFFERERS IN FRANCE.

RELIEF FOR THE SUFFERERS IN FRANCE.
TO THE EDITOR OF TEE HERALD
remember what France has done Tor the In.
dependence OF America. On the eve OF the Gen.
tennial anniversary O terrible misfortune pefalA
her. The duty of all Americans Is not to forget IL.
Enclosed are $50 for the subscription when
hope you Will start Tor the relief or tae French
sufferers AN AMERICAN CITIZEN
and constant reader oil the HERALD.
The money is held for tue disposition OF the
French Consul General
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-06-17
FlOcking to the Cty.

A correspondent OF cit paper tells
about the great desire on the part of
young men to leave the country and
flock to the city. The ely is full of
palaces, he says; but all hese do not
contain millionaires. In1ed, many a
one among them is the wihess of pecu-
mary struggles which void amaze the
farmer, and from which henay be thank
full he is spared. Close skeletons do
not all congregate amongwhat are called
the poor; they hold higl revel in the
proud avenues of this fai city as well as
in its meaner streets.
The great cities, it mus be confessed,
offer, as rule, great Advantages; but
they demand, too, grat capital. A
young man going into thm first should
choose time when buiness is alive,
not dead; when there ifa demand for
more, instead of Thousands clamoring
for the one chance. Tlen, to succeed,
and avoid shipwreck in great financial
and commercial centes, he must be
possessed of unusual energy and iudg-
ment and patience; must have an un-
swerving sense of p-0bity and an un-
shrinking devotion to the fulfillment of
all contracts and obligations. Those
two opposite qualities, boldness and
caution-qualities which all men do not
possess-are also Indispensable, in the
long run, to city success. Boldness
enough to undertake operations suf-
ficiently vast to meet the large cost of O
great DISSATISFACTION enough to ad
minister this business so as to keep in
check the temptations to enter into
doubtful transactions or to contract with
those unworthy the fullest confidence
and trust.
But if young men leave their country
homes without those high aspirations
which are to consummate in the great
merchants or the great editors career,
and ask simply to ind an obscure place.
jogging along evenly with the noisy
crowd, L should still say: "Better stay
at homo; there are many rough jolts
even in what is called jogging along in q
big city. There stands more than one
the counter 61 Retail store; and more more
than one New York car conductor BULL
for himself a higher place in his castle
than he has found. Better remain at
home and fit yourself into an honorable
and useful place there, rather than rush
impulsively to the great city, to find
numberless others, equally worthy,
lamenting their fallen lot, OF standiug
altogether idle"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-06-17
The Digger Indians.

The wigwams of the Digger Indians
are built throughout of redwood bark,
and are round in shape, which can bet
ter be explained by saying that they are
in the shape of q bowl upside down,
with smaller one placed also upside
down on top. There are no windows,
and aside from the aperture for en-
trance, which is about two feet square,
and small opening at the top to allow
ing to this conical-shaped inclosure. Tc
enter one of these huts it becomes nee
essary to get down aud crawl in. Once
inside strnnse sight greets the eye.
The majority of both sexes go perfectly
naked, and, being scrupulously particu-
lar, each one does his or her own cook
ing. They sleep in a circle in hollow
places in the ground, with feet to the
center. Their cooking apparatus, which
consists of good-sized rocks followed
out, is in convenient reach, and the
Digger need not rise to prepare his
breakfast. The food consists of bread
made from acorns, which are first
buried, then roasted, then pulverized,
and lastly mixed up with water and
baked. This bread is said to be very
nourishing. Their mode of preparing
squirrel, hare, ETC., is to take them just
as when killed, pound them to n Jelly,
and then roast them. Another article of
food, very common with them, is known
as the fish worm" The Digger is an
inveterate gambler, and his principal
game is very simple, consisting OF hold
ing both hands behind him, in one OF
which is stick, while another bets he
can tell i'll which hand he holds it. 1t
is stated that they scorn cheating, and
after the bets are made, never change
the stick from one hand to the other.
Their money consists of little round
shells with a hole in the center, which
one of their number is selected to manu-
facture. No counterfeiting is ever at
tempted. Each shell represents about
half cent of American money, and is
taken by their tribe as greedily as gold.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-06-17
All From Rags.

1t is stated in Les Mondes, that one of
the wealthiest English velvet manufac-
turers, Mr.. Listar, worked his way into
success by years of patient labor in search
OF way to utilize silk rags. He began
by buying up all such waste at less than
cent pound, and up to the year 1864
he had expended the immense sum OF
81, 100000 in fruitless efforts to find q
process. Nothing daunted, however,
he continued his experiments, and within
the past ten years has discovered &
method of converting such refuse into
velvet of the finest quality. He nov
carries on this industry in England, il
an establishment which employs SOM
four thousand workmen, and hundred,
of travellers are also employed who's,
sole business is to buy the silk waste
and this they do in all parts of the globe
The factory is said TO have cost nearl,
| 90, 900, 900.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-06-17
The Battle of Bunker Hill.

Apropos of the Bunker Hill conten-
nial, Oliver Wendell Holmes has written
a long poem, in which he gives us the
story of the fight as told by an old lady
to her grandchildren. She is pictured
as young girl living in town adjacent
to Bunker Hill, who goes into the village
church steeple with others to witness tho
battle, and wildly describes the assaults
and retreats of the cred coats in their
endeavors to force the "rebels out OF
the fortifcation; the burning of Charles
town, and the final retreat of the patriots
"like the swimmers from wreck" On
her return home she finds on the floor of
the house youth bleeding from a
wound in the chest, but we will let her
finish the account to the children
"Who the youth was, what his name was, where
the place from which he came was,
Who had brought him from the battle and had
left him at our door,
He could not speak to tell us but twas one of
our brave fellows,
AS the homespun plainly showed us which the
dyingsoldier WORE"
" For they all thought he was dying, as they
gathered round him crying
And they said 'Oh, how they'll miss him !
and, What lciH his mother doY
Then, his eyelids just unclosing, like childs
that has been doing,
He family murmured, Mother r-and-I saw
his eyes were blue
-"Why grandma, how your winking ~" ALI,
my child, it sets me thinking
OF story not like this one. Well, he some
how lived along;
So we came to know each other, and nursed
him like Another,
Till at last he stood before me, tall and rosy
checked, and strong.
"And we sometimes walked together in the
pleasant summer weather;
"Please to tell us what his name was 2" 'Just
your own, my little dear
There's his picture Copley painted; we became
so well acquainted,
That--in short that's why I'm grandma, and
you children all are here ~
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-06-17
Forests and Rainfall.

The question of the influence of for.
ests on the NEUROLOGY of region is one
that has been warmly discussed. Some
men of acknowledgements, for example
hold that forests increase the amount
of water received by the soil, while 9TH
ers-Marshal Valiant among them-as
sert that forests diminish the quantity.
Some savans, such as M. Matthew, sub
director of the Nancy school of forestry,
have endeavored, by way of experiment,
to get together such facts as might, ii
they did not set the question at rest, at
least clear up some points and supply q
portion of the experimental data needed
for a full explanation at some future
time. Nj. Matthew undertook to " deter
mine the amount of rain water received
by the soils of two neighboring districts,
one of them covered with timber and
the other arabic land; and to find out
whether, in consequence of the covering
of trees which interrupts the rain water,
tho soil of the woodland is as abundant
ly watered as that of the open." His
conclusion is that timbered soils receive
as much and more rain water than the
open country.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-06-17
A Lawyers Epitaph.

At the sixteenth annual commence
ment of Columbia College law school,
which was recently held, diplomas were
conferred upon two hundred and ten
students. In his address to the gradu-
ating class Professor Dwight couuseled
them to refrain from all trickery, and
disabuse their minds of the idea that
sharpness was legal ability. He remark
ed: If the truth were told of some
lawyers, their epitaph would read :
" Here lies -, who for fifty years was
an expert in legal fiuesse, outwitting his
adversaries, hoodwinking his clients,
and making use of confidential commu-
nications for his own advantage; he en-
tered hundreds of snap judgments, and
abounded in legal devices, submitting to
many rebukes from the court with be-
coming composure, making no rash re-
ply, but refraining from any expression
that would interfere with the future per-
formance of similar acts; he amassed
large fortune and died; his gratified
heirs have erected this monument to
suggest to those of his generation that
never knew him that he once lived,
though those who have experienced his
favOrs will not fail to remember him. u
To such an epitaph as this who would
be bold enough to add (: "And of such
is the kingdom of heaven"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-06-17
A Touching Story.

A very touching and beautiful story
comes from the East concerning the
Princess Marceline Czartoryska, who re-
Gently died in Gallicia. Her little grand
son fell i'll and his life was despaired of.
The dowager in sublime prayer asked
God to take her life in place of that of
her grandson. By sort of miracle the
child was saved almost Immediately the
princess was attacked by malady of
languor of which it was impossible to
ascribe any natural cause.
eft is debt L owe to Heaven" she
smiled, family. A few days later, upon
radiant afternoon, she had herself
rolled out in her easy-chair on the lawn,
and gave orders to have all the doors
and gates of the garden opened SO that
everybody might enter. When the vii
layers heard of it they at once left their
tasks. Old men and women, young
men and maidens and little children,
pressed about the dying princess, who
had long been like a mother to them,
for she held the old-fashioned notion
that the people are the family of the
sovereign. Then began most touching
ceremony. The children came first.
Drawing the youngest one into her arms,
she embraced it, saying: "Let this kiss
fall again upon you all, my dear friends. "
Then she gave to each child n medallion,
bearing the evangelical words Glove
one another" After the children came
the young girls and women. To each
of them she gave little case containing
implements for needlework and chaplet
and an image of the blessed Mary. To
the men she gave an ebony cross, and
for each gift and recipient she had ap-
propriate words. When she had extend
ed er last present she was 50 exhausted
that her son and daughter-in-law, who
stood by her, wished to have her
wheeled back in the house, but she said
no. She then begged the people to re-
cite in loud voice the Dominica orison.
Then at sign from her hand they all
knelt, and their voices in fervent tones
broke out in the recital of the Lords
Prayer. AS the amen still echoed in the
air she felt death invading her heart,
and, whispering "Marcel," the name of
her grandson, the child was brought,
and as he was being carried to her lips
her head dropped upon her breast, and
without sigh she rendered her soul to
God. So much for scene that seems
taken from q poem-an ideal state of
society that one can hardly reconcile
with the present,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-06-17
How IL is Done,

A certain noble lord, relates a con-
temporary, remarkable for the careless
ness of his dress. went personally to pay
his tailors bill. Being unknown by
sight to the new manager, who received
the money, that worthy mistook him for
servant, and, having cast his eyes over
the account and receipted it, he handed
the supposed servant a sovereign, at the
same time delivering himself after this
fashion "Now, there's a sovereign
for yourself, and it's your own fault that
it's not two. But you don't wear out
your masters clothes half quick enough
He ought to have had double the amount
in the time and tell you it's worth
your while to use a harder brush. 1"
With queer smile his lordship an
swered "Well, 1 don't know; I think
my brush is a pretty hard one, too-his
lordship complains of it, anyhow" "
"Pooh! Hard Not bit of it. Now,
come, I'll put you up to q wrinkle that'll
put many a sovereign into your pocket.
Look here" fetching piece of wood
from the shelf behind him, "you see
that bit of stick now that sroughened
on purpose. You take that and give
your masters coat a good scrubbing
with it about the elbows and shoulders
every day, and give the trousers touch
about the knees, and you'll soon wear
'em out for him, and, as l say, it will be
a good five pounds in your pocket every
year. We shan't forget you, don't be
afraid" "You arc very kind" quoth
his lordship, with comical grin. CT
will impart your instructions to my
valet, though L fear for the future, while
he remains in my service, he will not be
able to profit by them, rs I shall not
trouble you with my custom. 1 am
Lord -. wish you good day."
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-06-17

white house on the hill, which W, to be
his first pilgrimage in his matte land,
and would have missed her hadshe not
pursued the old lady with te gold
beads.
"How did you recognize mr." said
Ruth Mayhem, flushed aud ttmulous,
all the independence of later years ut
terly gone.
"I should have known yomnywhere
in the world" said the Rev. Jim Ather-
ton, from Algiers.
Entire nous, 1 believe he REALIZED the
familiar brooch before he die the wear
er. However, that is none obur affair,
since she was perfectly satisfid with the
reply. The result of this melting was
that Aunt Harriet lost her muse, and the
foreign missions gained cheerful, earn
est worker, after all.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-06-17
By-and-D
There's little mischief-maker,
That il stnalin0 half o,,r bIisa

There's little mischief-maker,
That is stealing half onr bliss,
Sketclling pictures in dream-land
That are never seen in this.
Da1hing from the lips the pleasures
Or the present while we sigh,
lon may know this mir schief.maker.
For his name is by-and-bye.
He is si,ting by your hearthstones,
With lis slY, bewitching glance,
Whispering of the coming morrow
AS the social hours advance,
Lettering, mid our calm reflections,
Hiding forms of beauty nigh;
Hes smooth, deceitful fellow,
This enchanter, by-and-bye.
You may know him by his winning,
by his careless, sportive air;
by his sly, obtrusive presence,
That is straying everywhere;
by trophies that he gathers
Where his somber victims lie,
For bold, determined fellow
Is this conqueror, by-and-bye.
When the calls of duty haunt as,
And the present seems to be
All the time that even mortals
Snatch from dark eternity,
Then fairy hand seems painting
Pictures on a painted sky,
For cunning little artist
Is the fairy, by-and-bye.
"By-and-bye," the wind is singing,
"By-and-bye," the heart replies;
But the phantom just above us
Ere we grasp it ever flies,
List not to the idle charmer,
Scorn the very specious lie
Do not believe or trust in
This deceiver, by-and-bye.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-06-17
The Interior of the Ocean.

The popular ideas with regard to the
sinking of bodies in the sea have usually
been quite unscientifc. Some have
theOrized to the effect that, in the case
of ships which founder at sea, they sink
to certain depth and then float about
until broken to pieces OF thrown upon
banks beneath the sea-indeed, n book
was some time ago published, sustaining
this idea. Others, again, argue that the
buoyant force of the water at great
depths is enormous, and due to the whole
pressure of the water above, and that all
bodies which are lighter than water at
the surface will, if sunk to the bottom
and detached from the sinker, shoot up
ward with great velocity, or, in other
words, that the density of the water in
creases directly with the depth.
Now, it is proved by the most reliable
Investigations that, though the pressure
increases with the depth-even to the
amount of fifteen pounds upon every
square inch for every thirty-four feet in
depth--the density is not thereby in
creased sensibly, owing to the incom-
pressibility of the water, so that, in
reality, neither the buoyant force nor
lu6 I6SlSlhilC6 W lue luOllOu Vi any DONly,
is sensibly augmented from the surface
to the bottom.
At the depth OF 5000 fathoms, for in
stance, the pressure upon a square inch
is nearly 5000 pounds, but the column
of $4,000 feet of is only shortened about
sixty feet. The density is thus but
slightly increased, but the effect of such
enormous pressure upon compressible
bodies-as air, wood, etc.-is to con,
dense them into smaller bulk, by
which they may be rendered heavier
than water, and will sink of their owl
weight. A piece of wood cannot sink tc
the bottom of the ocean, but very
slight extraneous force will bring it tc
the surface.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-06-17

The Kansas people have tested the
qualities of grasshoppers as an article of
food and pronounce them, after being
boiled in water to clean them, and fried
in butter, to be quite palatable, and even
good eating, like small fish.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-06-17

Toledo has no public pound for cows,
and COWS have to be privately pound
ed with hoe handles and dray stakes.
The daily gazette., 1875-09-16
SSIEhIFE;S SAL,

Dy virtue OF writ OF Levarl FacIas TO me
ID directed, will be exposed TO Public sale.
at the
DELAWARE HOUSE. No 81 MARKET ST.
kept by Geo. W. 0rtlip. in the City of Viii.
minston. New astio county Delaware. On
TUESDAY.
THE ,rH DAY OF OCTOBER. 1875,
At / o'clock. p. NJ.
The following described Real Estate. viz;
All that certain lot or piece OF land with q
two story house thereon erected. situate in
the City of Wilmington aforesaid, bounded
and described as follows, to wit.
Beginning at the distance of one hnpdred
and sixty-one feet noftherly frop the north
erly side of A street on the eGster!y stcc OF s
fifty feet wide street laid out at ono hundred
and seventy-1ve feet westerly from the west
erly side OF Claymont street, between Lob.
dell and A streets, thence easterly parallel
with A street seventy-two feet TO tho west
erly side OF three feet wide alley, thence
northerly parallel with Claymont street four
teen feet along said alley side to stake,
thence westerly parallel with A street seven
ty-two feet 20 tho easterly side of the Rfore.
said ffty feet wide street, and thence thereby
southerly fourteen feet to the place OF begin
ming. be the contents thereof what they may.
with the free uEe and privilege Of said three
feet wide alley IN common with others en-
titled thereto forever. and of a three feet
wide alley connecting herewith in common
forever.
Seized and taken into execution as the pro-
perty OF william {. Gallagher and Jane hi-
wife and terre tenants, and to be sold by
VIM. II. LAMBSON, Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office, New Castle
Sept. Is. A. ID. 1873 { sepl6-2tawts
The daily gazette., 1875-09-16
MARYLAND,
THE REFORM" MOVEMENT RAPIDLY
PROVING ABoRTIvE.

THE "REFoRM" MOVEMENT RAPIDLY
PROVING ABoRTIvE.
WASHINGTON, September IA
gentleman who has accurate means of
forming an opinion upon Maryland
politics says the campaign in that
State will undoubtedly result in the
election of the regular Democratic
State ticket. The so-called Reform
party and their Radical allies may
possibly succeed in electing some of
their candidates for the Legislature
and the Council In Baltimore city, but
they will not be able 10 defeat Mr..
Carroll for Governor, or Mr.. Latrobe
for Mayor of Baltimore. The latter Is
vigorously supported by his father-in-
law, MIR. Swami, and there is no doubt
of his election. So far as the financial
question Is concerned all parties are
agreed upon a sound currency and a
return to Specie Payments, 80 that the
currency does not enter in any way into
the campaign. The reform movement,
as II is termed, looked formidable at
arst, but during the last ten days its
Know-Nothing character and tenden-
cies have been 30 clearly developed
that large number of prominent men,
who were at first led to sympathiZe
with it, have withdrawn their support
altogether and announced their inten-
tion to vote the regular ticket.