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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-09

tho same material; it's actooatid BY the
same purposes, and works with tho same
AtaolA. -ltAhA -ahanead- . pArti0le, and
cent change any more than ass0feditA kin
ItImny sometimes lose It's distinctive SMELL
trtfie, but it alluz comes back, ez strong 81
ever. Horris Greeley tried to soften il
somswhst, but it was failyoor. sDimocrisy
Is Dimocrisy, and will be- 90. 81 long 81
there's Niger to hate, whisky to drink,
and an frishman to VOTE Like the Canada
thistle, IL can't be killed. Voc may cut II
down, butit'will spring up again from the
root, and flourish ive]ier than ever. l amt
afraid of its dyiu' till the millennium Gomez;
q million nv Noodles and Sankey's can't
Affect it. s1~ 5-nsg ~. J8f.ltt,o 55E Ell
In conclusion, this ia our last change for
success, and we must achieve 1t. There
must be NO nOneenoe, no squeamishness, NO
ithinspenedness, no n0thin bat straight
swaller nv Whatever dose the cOnvenshun
mixes for Us! If it is ''Tilden and hard
money" all right; and of it is "Allen and
soft money!" Just ez right Wv course "Re-
form and Purity" viii be chucked into the
platform, and that is enough nv . rallyin'
cry to yoonite 10 all.
DEMOCRATS Nv the Yoonited States, We cry
to 700 from Kentucky ez one cryin' in the
wildernis, don't be pertikeler. Come up
sQusrely to the requirements nv the s1oOOa-
shen, and take y0or groOel like men. "Eny.
thing to beet the Republicans" is our cry,
and We want you to ekkO it. We kin ct
We will, and we must.
PETROLEUM V. NASBY,
- WITCH wants to be Postmaster.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-09
How IL Looks 70 Wendell Phillips.

The Republicans will succeed-not by
any wisdom or strength of their own-but
by the Democrats folly. We had lazy
club in college-ita members all forbidden
to do anything-especially to be seen run
ming. The president was caught running
and brought up for trial. His excuse was
that somebody pushed him, and he was too
lazy to stop. The war set the Republicans
running, and they have not strength enough
to stop. The Democrats have made their
own defeat sure. They will carry most of
the old slave States by force Or fraud-say
about 100 votes in the electoral college.
They need only fifty more to elect their can
didates. If they had been honest, or bold
enough to put plain, unmistakable soft
money plank in their platform, thew would
have got these fifty votes from the North
western States. AS it ia, with q financial
plank that means anything and nothing,
they will fall between two stools. Hen
bricks, who has been on both sides of the
money question, may. possibly, cheat q few
Rreenback men into voting for him. But
there is only . ghost of q chance Of that.
The Republicans have put the same double
faced financial lie in their platform. They
will succeed in spite of it. But two parties
can not afford to trust to the same liz. The
Scottish pr0verb says, even q pudding. can
charge down hill" In that sense the Re-
publican party, however rotten, can hold
the fort it occupies. against an attack from
noDodies But to capture the government
the Democrats, being outside, needed pluck
ana VII. Let us be thankful that they have
not shown elthensonse or courage.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-09

I'D Es'a &. ' esiis sss
u 1enne no.. 1nllizAi ~hnil9
az ZEE; Rsss e c ss
| sciens4. 7 HSo lili nit Know Tthat any
I better than that which might 10 based upon
| 2 glass Of water. He thought, If it were his
I business to teach Q class Of, young people
| elementary notions Of science, he would be-
gin with such thing al that, and exempli-
! ty BY thehGlp Of IL the uasare Of the ;luid,
| the contrast Of the properties of fluid aad
solid. He would be disposed to give . rough
| explanation Of Why some things float on it
| and others sink In IL; 10. show the different
Liquid and when converted into gss; to
compare with water in these different states
other bodies in their different states; and
| then he thought he would 20 ON to water in
nature. There was absolutely no difficulty
whatever in explaining IN an elementary
way. and sufficiently to the purpose, the
nature of rivers, of rain, of snow, of hail,
the difference of the ocean as com.
pared with fresh water, and then the
great mechanical operations of water. They
could explain the power of water ~ trans-
porting agent; they could speak of the
manner in which it carried away material
and lay the foundation of new land, and 50
forth. In fact, from the foundation, without
having recourse toone single idea which was
beyond the comprehension of . child ten
years of age-without having recourse to q
single technical term or q single abstract
idea-they might build up not only ele-
mentary conceptions of physics and
chemistry, such as q child's mind is pre-
pared to accept, bnt they might build up
competent notions Of elementary physical
geography. His impression was that the
first beginning Of scientific training ought
to be of the character that he had sketched.
Then, az the child advanced in it's kno Wedge
of arithmetic, in powers of reasoning, then
they might try to make their knowledge Q
little more exact. They might come to no.
tions of force and ordinations of force
extend a larger area-and in all instances
he would accompany these with demonsrra-
tons Of the facts, and, 80 far as practicable
make the student observe the phenomena
for himself. In that way he would not only
gain q larger amount of instruction, but
would cultivate the power of observation,
the power of reasoning, and. what was
mo re important than either Of these, they
gained confidence in the use of reasoning
20 Wers of this kind. After that, his own
impression was that the next best study
was human physiology in its elementary
shape. 1t was not difficult to comprehend
elementary physiology, and one reason wss
that tho subject of inQairy was the etudent's
own body. and that he had it always at
hand. *
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-09
Autl.Slaug Society.

| Che Reform Club il the title of new or
gsnization in the West End, organized BY
| young ladies for the purpose of discourag
ing the use Of "slang phrases" in CONVEX
sation. At . recent meeting, while /,
member was addressing the society, sh.
| inadvertently made use of the expression
"awful nice" and was called to order by Z
sister member for transgressing the rifles.
I'm what way have l transgressed2'
"YOu said it would be awful nice to ad
NIT young gentlemen to our deliberations, ,
replied the other.
"WeIL wouldn't it BET" returned the
speaker; "you know you said yourself nc
longer ago than yesterday that"
Yes, know; but you said awful nice.
That's slang"
"Well," said tho speaker, tartly, elf you
are going to be 80 awful nice about it, per
were You. Didn't you tell SaIlie Spriggine,
this morning, to pull down her basques"
mo, didn't" retorted the other, her
face growing crimson: land Sallie Sprig.
gins will say didn't. She won't 60 back
on me-"
This is nice racket you are giving us,"
cried the president, after rapping both
speakers to order. 'Let Us ask what is the
object of this society,""
~ OA5cVuIdSo SIADS! Crl0O dozen
voices
"Kerect," said the president, "go on with
the funeral"
A member rose to explain that she had
been fined ct the last meeting for saying
lawful nice" herself, but she hadn't the
"stamps to pay it now-would settle, how
ever. in the sweet by and by"
"That'u be al right, " said the president;
"psy whom You have the ducats."
Another member asked if . young ladv
could say "old splendid" without subjecting
herself to fine.
You bet she can't" said the president.
who was the original founder of the society,
and therefore appealed to when any nice
question was to be decided.
"Then,' said the speaker, move that
Miranda Pew come down with the dust. for
l heard her say that her bean was 1just old
splendid"
Mirandas face was in blaze, as che
cried:
well. if my beau was such an old hair
pin - your fellow is 1 wouldn't say it:'
''Sh00t the Ginning, /" cried the president.
will you never tumble?' y = -
But the confusion was too great to be
allayed. Mirands's blood was up; some
sided with her and others against her. and
amid the babel that followed could be
heard such EXPLANATIONS as "dry up,"
mice blackberry you are" "wipe of your
chin, hire . hall" ETC., when motion to
adjourn was carried "by large majority."-
Wheeling Inteliqencer.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-09
tFor tho New Orleans Republican. |
A PICTURE.
BIT N. r. B1GNEY

The rose and The lily are beautiful,
But they're tame compared with the living glow
Which lends blush to her dimpled cheeks,
And brightens her brew Of snow.
The diamond and ruby are highly priced,
But there's no life in their sparkling light
They're dead. compared with the lustrous depths
OF her eyes, 20 darkly bright.
There's charm in the song of the mocking bird,
A. it breathes tho notes Of it, own sweet choices
But dearer, and sweeter and purer far,
Is the music of her voice.
~.
md 0, she's gentle. and good, and true
As the best and brightest Of mortal birth;
soul 90 pure in q shrine so fair
Brings dreams Of heaven to earth.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-09
A Crisis in Chicago.
By e. A. WRIGHT.
A late dispatch says:

A late OlspdIcH bay6:
Ii there is quorum in the City Council
to-day resolution will be offered dIsbanC
ing the police and fire departments, abol.
ishing the Board of Public Works and shut
ting off the gas from the street lamps. The
failure OF the city to secure the money 70
pay the debts assumed by the recent reck-
less administration will be- the reason A.
signed in support of the step. Much of the
trouble, however, is due to the fact that the
city can not collect the taxes, nearly
$6,O00,OoO being overdue. The State tax
law is 30 defective that those who do not
wish to pay are practically exempt, and
until this law is revised only those who feel
inclined will pay taxes. The authorities
are arranging tor popular loan of 81 ,00O,-
900 to provide for Temporary necessities
The salaries of all officials are to be cut
down and general reform instituted.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-09
FIRST AND LAST.

" But tell me, dear" she said.
And aeanin0lys IT, egfte 1neee0ae.,
ApS ishysk ssopped tes moaee' n'-o
! 5aI. On -: Sa!s suu lOvsa before ,
| n,I.Ai11, ,,ss.,thnnst aee 70 liF4'''
| Was full OF fender. trusting grace;
qhs DID ~ feef h1s anger then, 20
s sut 81 nsiH9 IL, dssf, the SsSt and worst.
Ur, am mar BIZ SkJltN
1 He turned his eyes Avays
7 Yet closer still her hand he pressed,
/ Nor answered yea noy nAyi
! Al, in one bufnine word,R q"
I Unsaid, unheard!
I Quick came burst Of tears
3 A tempest from n Aprilsk
And then: +" Forgive my doubts and fears,
He he ard her sigh.
. why should easo Whist loves are past.
10 mine b0 lASt1"
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-09

r.. :ns on i 'sss sss ss sS s i
rho iount Of my ssssss n1,sok, 6'E .:r,
When h, thnt e tss lnssgy Dsra e-i "a
.-ai4 ffiao 81 80 g,is a. I ... ...' .-
Ny darling at beside ne - - .s-'''' 3,
With hts bssutifal eyes aGeansi ss%g .
And the Joy that was erst denied me - q !.
A Thought Of the Wondro6s mercy D.
Of the goodness and the love
That prohPtsd "Odr Fathers to sendsf, ixu
such An angel down frsin shove. f. 'i!1L.
Ny needle hew 4 tor and fsstee, 'rs.s ~ -
NV thoughts tock wiDs q y fisw, . -..s.
To the courts ofthe blessed Master ;.l!'f =.
And wnSse siss al s e, . s.ss
Looked . pure end ssfTail 90 he- sF'
II among the shining arehsngels
There was any moro falr to Geo.. si- t.I
But there csme . pale, sad stranger s--r
Into my house enc day: $50
Ny heart stood still, aSr Danger ~
And darkness about me lay:
l bes0ught him that he would leave me- 3
For hls touch was chill and strange l..l
And he laid his hand on nv baby, 90 .,
Who straightway seemed to Charge
His pale littla cheek grew paler.
His bright blue eye grew dim.
HIS clasp on my finger grew hsnter.
The victory was to him
To hat pale and icy monarch. '' 'T
Who rules with relentless SWAY "'s~'.
Who came to my house in triumph
And bO,e my treasure away.
But greater than he remaineth,
Who hath broken the bands Of the tome
Who hath robbed King Death Of his ter1ors,
And lighted the pathway of gloom;
Who hath promised US sweet consolation
If We patiently bow re 18th his rod
And know he has taken my darling
To boom in tho garden OF GGd. --r
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-09
C0rlina.

A Brownsville special to the Galveston
Ne,cs, July 6, says:
Cortina is about fifteen miles from Mata.
moros. with force of several hundred men,
He has issued proclamation, declaring for
Diaz, and is threatening Matamoros.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-09

Poker playing is wicked when the play.
ers cheat, and they always cheat.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-11-24
From the Southland (Mo.) Rustic.
A Great Pigeon ROOSt.

Pigeons have come into this part of the
country by millions. Of evenings the
sky is darkened with them in the neigh
borhood of DR.. Dodson's, on the Auglaize
They have made Dodson's farm their head
quarters and at nights the trees and I'M
derbrusl are loaded down with multitudes
AS this roost is but short distance from
our house we have had ample opportunity
to watch their manmuvres and to hear the
incessant noise they make. little before
shutdown large armies of pigeons are seen
coming from different points of the COM
pass, but each army passes onward as if
they intended to change their roosting
place. After while they return and settle
on the trees around the roost, not many of
them nearer than mile of the place.
They make sudden flights from these trees,
and the sound of their wings is like that
of great storm. There is a constant roar
ing in the air as myriads of the birds fly
to and fro. About dark they fly toward
theroost and for long time they fly around
and around and have the appearance of bees
swarming, although the vast number and
tornado like roaring they make surpasses
anything in the power of man to describe.
After while they alight on the trees and
bushes, and the limbs are bent downward,
often are broken off. The pigeons keep
up constant chattering, which can be
heard for miles away. They are never
still during the night. So far as sleep is
concerned, such thing is out of the ques-
ton with pigeon. They are disturbed
by themselves, such throngs assembling in
a spot that none can be still for moment,
and the incessant discharging of firearms
among them causes them TO change their
location almost constantly. This roost is
visited every night by crowds of men, some
with guns and Others with poles, which
they use in threshing down the pigeons that
happen to be at the point struck Hun
dreds are killed every night; but when
light appears the vast armies again 60 forth
with apparently as much vigor as ever
Pigeons have been killed in New York
with undigested rice in their crops, which
they had evidently gathered in the rice
fields of the Carolinas. From these and
other circumstances it has been estimated
that pigeon flies at the rate of a mile
minute. Imagine, then, millions upon
millions of these birds, all on the wing at
the same time, over scope of country not
more than two miles square, and faint
idea of the noise they make may be obtain
ed. But no one can ever fully imagine
what pigeon roost is or how much noise
they make until one is seen and heard
There is an abundance of mast here now,
and we suppose the pigeons will remain
here until it is all gone. One curious cir
cumstance is that in the neighborhood of
this pigeon-roost we never see pigeon
from the time they leave of mornings until
they return evenings. They are not eating
the mast here at all, but somewhere they
are all fessting luxuriantly, for they are all
fat.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-11-24
Apples for Mich Cows.

For many years have fed apples to
mich COWS. After the cows had become
used to eating peck or half buseahel CHI at
one feeding. have fed them bushel at
once, for day or two, and have then allow
ed the COWS the run of the orchard, (the
marketable apples having been picked
and barreled,) where they ate as many as
they pleased during the day. If cows are
in the habit of eating apples they seldom
choke, unless few apples are fed to many
cattle, when the fear of losing the choice
morsel causes them to take more than one
apple at time into the mouth. The va
grant COW that jumps into an orchard and
eats at her leisure, never chokcs, neither
will hsrd ifnot hurried or hooked by
each other In twenty-five years expert
ence have never had an animal to get
choked. except one calf. This one would
when basket of apples was poured over
the fence into his pasture, invariably take
into his mouth rs many apples as possible
before attempting to eat, and if the apples
were small, he would as invariably choke.
A whole apple would go down nearly t.
the brisket and lodge; the calf would then
begin to eat more leisurely, and after he
had masticated and swallowed about two
IuhltS Vi pOHluCt, Hc WoUlu ACT ike
sick-dog, and in few moments throw up
the whole mass. After this performance,
which was repeated twice day for
month or more, he would quietly eat
half bushel or more at feed, and soon
became fat. This is the only case ofchok-
ing that ever saw.
Many of my neighbors fed cattle and
horses as freely as did, and never heard
of the loss of an animal. | have seen
three or four hundred bushels piled up on
a barn floor to use after cold weather
came, to htten steers, Or keep up the
milk yield in dairy; and these apples
were always fed with scoop shovel, in
tie managers, in giving half bushel each
to cows, and bushel to fattcn steers, at
each feed. The only precaution used was
feeding salt freely until the cattle had be.
come accustomed to eating large quantities
of applcs.-COr. COunt,v Gentleman.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-11-24
The Birds and the Lighthouses.

April and October witness great de-
struction of migrating birds that flying at
night are dashed to death against the
heavy plated glass lanterns of the light
houses on our Atlantic coast. Wcll-authen-
ticated facts seem to render probable that
this destruction of bird-lie is far greater
than most persons have supposed. In
April havoc is among the returning birds,
along our northern coast, from Cape May
to the shores of Maine. On the southern
coasts, and especially along the shores of
Florida, the destruction is greater among
the southward-flying birds in October
The number and variety of these misguid-
ed night-travelers is surprising. The keep
er of the new and lofty light on Anastasia
Island, at st. Augustine, Fla, informed
the writer that there is scarcely any dark
night in the year that does not witness the
destruction of numbers of birds that dash
themselves against the light, and that Of
ten the number found in the morning
ranges from 90 to so. Ducks, however,
are the most notable victims. These heavy
birds are noted for the velocity of their
flight. The keeper found it impossible to
protect the lantern from the SCATTERING
shock of their onset, and had to appeal to
the Government to erect an iron net work
around the light. Even this falls to pre-
vent the mischief, for the ducks strike the
iron netting with such force as to break
through it and break the outer plate glass
of the lantern. 1t is estimated that 100,-
900 birds were killed on our coast last
year.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-11-24

realized what their household had gained
when the new mother came into it. She
herself would have done all she could but
she lacked the wisdom and experience
which made Mrs. Grey the most perfect of
nurses.
"Will he get better Is there any hope q"
she asked the old doctor, whom she had
known all her life, one day when he was
going away.
"If he does" was the answer, 4" his wife
will have saved him. Such care / never
saw"
Marian went out into the old garden. 1t
was the first week in November, and the
white chrysanthemums were all in flower.
Would she be gathering them next to put
on her fathers coffin ? o what would the
world be worth them Had she made
him happy this last year p asked her con e.
science. If he had been happy, surely he
did not owe it to her. She had been think
ing of herself all the time, of her own pain,
and loss, and heartache. If he got well,
would he forgive her If he died, could
she ever forgive herself?
She stood there, leaning sadly over the
white flowers, which meant death to her.
She did not hear any approaching football,
and she started in surprise when her step
mothers hand touched her.
He is asleep, Marian. o, so calmly
and so sweetly! Ihad to come to tell you !;
and there is hope now"
"And you will have saved him !" Marian
cried, her eyes shining through their sud-
den tears with such light as Mrs. Grey
had never seen in them before. 1.-THE doc
tor said it would be you if he lived. You
have saved him for me, and have never
loved YOU"
"Was that not because you thought l eX
pected to become your mother 2" Mrs. Grey
asked, with quiet tenderness in her voice
and manner. 1--WE can have but one moth
er; and if you call me so, it is matter of
form. l cannot be to you in place of the
dead but 1 might be your friend, dear,
Just as if l were not your fathers wife,"
Marian drew closer, and chung to her ST.
lently. She could not speak Just then.
Don't you know | told you that first
night that l knew it all When saw
those white chrysanthemums they almost
broke my heart for they brought an old
pain back so keenly. had gathered them
once myself, and put them in the chamber
of my fathers new wife, as you had done
in mine; and had suffered so just as you
did. But long afterwards knew that a
blessing had come to me with her; and l
meant to be blessing to you if l could"
Still Marian did not speak; but she bent
and gathered a little knot of white chry-
santhemums-the purest and brightest she
could find. She touched the little posy to
her own lips when she had made it, and
then fastened it in her step,mother's bos-
ON. The white chrysanthemums had been
flowers for the burial and for the bridal,
and now they were the blossoms of recon-
Citation Wide Aaoake Magazine.
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VARIETIES.

"A gentleman said when pretty girl
trod on his toes, that he had received the
stamp of beauty.
-" You talk like an Associated Press
agent" is the gentle manner in which q
man is now told that he lies.
The last thing out is Centennial
handkerchief 1t has the Declaration of
Independence printed on it in English,
French and German, so that every patriot
can blow his nose on that celebrated in
strument in three different languages.
DO you ever read the newspapers p
No! Have you any opinion upon any
thing2 No! Do you know your right
hand from your left 2 No! Do you con-
slider yourself species of born idiot q
Yes Then you are fit for a iuryman.-
Swear him
"A lovesick swain thus gives vent to
his pent up feelings, in a serenade TO his
lady-love:
"Oh, Polly, poke your night.cap out,
And listen to my sighses;
My heart 1t beats rub dub,
And my eyes-oh, how they criescs
Then haste, dear Polly, haste away
Day dawns and time it fiiescs,
The stars are going out, my love-
And the eun--oh see 1t rises.n