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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-01-21

all Of whom are IN this city, but that
the time was too short after President
Grants invitation, the KhedIve would
have had a palace erected on the Cen
tennlal grounds like the one he had at
Vienna, illustrating the architecture
aud domestic life Of the land OF the
Pharaohs .IIFIht l.I
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-01-21

The New York Herald reasons that
war with Spain would he n hazard
Gus game for Grant to play, since the
first successes would be on the side OF
the Spaniards. They have now a we'll
equipped army OF 2lg,O men, while
our effective army does not exceed 20,
900. Spain has 2il2 war vessels In an
efficient condition, while our whole
array OF monitors and old tubs mum.
beers only LOG. This disparity, the Her
aid admits, would he overcome in six
or eight months, but meantime the
political contest would be-. decided,
add hoe .4
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-01-21

The Sutton Taylor feud that so long
disgraced Dewitt county Is now at an
end. All the parties have been killed
off but one, and as he has no one to
kill himself and as there's nobody. to
kill him, peace will probably reign
there In the future.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-01-21

The Chicago Times looks at it In an
entirely different light. VI course C, se
Blaine was absurd, but the Times
wouldn't let any of the $50 back, and,
what's more, It would be in favor Of
disabling a few more Of the same Kind
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-11
Death of Oratory in the English House of
Lords.

From the London Spectator
There is not one orator in the old
sense left in the House of Lords--not
one man who possesses in full measure
the art which Mr.. Gladstone and Mr..
Bright usually and one or two more
men occasionally-Mr. Sullivan, for
example, when he is really excited, or
Mr.. Lowe, when he loses his intellect
ual temper--still employ. There is
not only no one like Lord Brougham,
Lord Lyndhurst, or Earl Gray, but
there is no one like Lord Derby or
Bishop Wilberforce. Lord Salisbury
is an orator and probably would seem
one if he sat in the Commons, or could
be mentally thrashed every night for
a session in the presence of a great au-
dience but his powers require provo
cation, which they do not often re-
ceive. everybody being more or less
afraid Of him and there is no one
else. Lord Cairns has the forensic
readiness of his profession, but no
passion f.; the Duke of Argyll speaks
logically, but with the effect only of a
clear-minded professor, to whom the
''divine gift'' has been conceded, but
IlOU UAC SAFlIIC AO4u
is marvellously sensible and sometimes
very terse, but never carried away a
human being; Lord Coleridge's silver
tongue is too seldom heard in the
House; Lord Granville only takes well
and easily, putting a trace Of cayenne
in his talk; and Lord Carnarvon is
bound by his office to make compiled.
ted questions clear, and only CLOVIS in
to oratory when the chivalric side Of
his nature is reused or wounded. Lord
Grey retains something of the style Of
the passed-aWay orators and can, in a
happy mood, be persuasive, but his
speaking wants rush and heat; and
the Duke of Somerset, telling as his
speeches are, is an epigrammatist, not
an orator. Most of the young men
talk like clever young men and no
more, and Lord Roseberry is the only
one among them who says anything
people care to read for it's own sake
The debating, in fact, though some-
times effective, and once or twice in a
session exciting from the visible heat
of the disputants, grows dull and
threatens to be, before long, as dull as
the debating in the Commons when
the leaders are not present.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-11
You Will Be Wanted.

Take courage, my lad. What if you
are an humble, obscure apprentice
poor, neglected orphan-a scott and a
by-word for the thoughtless and gay,
who despise virtue in rags. because of
it's tatters? Have you an intelligent
mind. untutored though it be? Have
you virtuous aim, pure desire and
an honest heart! Depend upon it
some Of these days you will be wanted.
The time may be long deferred-you
may be grown into manhood, and you
may even reach your prime ere the
call is made but virtuous aims. pure
desires and honest hearts are too few
not to be appreciated-not to be want
ed: Your virtues shall not always
hide you as mantle-obscurity shall
not always veil you from the multi
tude. Be chivalric in your combat
with circumstances. Be active, how
ever small your sphere of action. It
will surely enlarge with every mo-
ment, and you will have continued in
creasement.
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thus far, and can continue to make nv

thus far, and can continue to make nv
way.''
All the rest execrated} the memory
OF Uncle Polydor, and sbewailed their
dollars spent for his comfort, and not
one would cast a vote or express an
opinion as to the disposal of the two
one thousand dollar legacies. When
they had exhausted their w1ath, and
We're ready to depart, Mr.. Tapewax
begged audience moment. fs
- have here, he said, ssanother
document which revokes all others.
and directs the executors of Polvdor
Millet's will to turn over all his prop.
erty to that nephew who is least aston
ished by the provisions of the will lust
read, and who has good word to say
for his memory. In compliance there.
with, am happy to announce that
Samuel Millet,. Esq, is sole legatee,
and under his direction the necessary
steps to probate will be taken.':
Sammy's straw was a long one and a
heavy one, but it turned out that it
bore good head of plump grain.
AS might be expected from his easy
nature, he healed the wounded feel
ings Of his brothers and cousins bv
handsome donations, erected a splen.
did monument to Uncle Polydor, and
lived happily ever afterward.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-11
The Early Adaptation Of Gas.

Gas, as most people know, is inflam-
mable air given out by coal. But who
first thought Of collecting it and stor-
ing 1t, and using it to light up streets,
houses and churches? The honor is
due to very busy hard working engi-
neer, one William Murdoch, the fore
man OF Messrs. Boulton & Watt, the
great engineers. 1t was when his real
day s work was over that he devoted
himself to the nature and use of coal
gas, and at last he brought the Disco
very into such shape that he lighted
his own house and offices with the new
combustible air; and even contrived q
lantern with bladder of gas attached
to it, to light him along the dark lanes
OF the country at night. This was at
the close of the last century, and great
was the amazement of the public when
the clever foreman decorated his mas
ters' mills, near Birmingham, with a
blaze of light in celebration of the
peace of Amiens in 1902.
So little was the invention under
stood and believed in by those who
had not seen it in use, that even great
and wise men laughed at the idea.
GLOW could there be light without a
Wlck!'' said a member of Parliament
when the subject was brought before
the House.
Even Sir Humphry Davy ridiculed
the idea Of lighting towns by gas. and
asked one of the projectors if they
meant to take the dome of St. Paul's
for a gas meter. Sir Walter Scott, too,
made himself merry over the idea Of
illuminating London by smoke, though
he was glad enough not so long after,
to make his own house at Abbotsford
light and cheerful on winter nights by
the use of that very smoke.
When the House of Commons was
first lighted by gas, even the architect
imagined that the gas ran on fire
through the pipes, and he therefor in
sisted on their being placed several
inches from the wall, for fear of the
building taking fire }; and members
might be observed carefully touching
the pipes with their gloved hands. and
wondering they did not feel warm.
The first shop lighted in London by
the new method was Mr.. Ackerman's,
in the Strand, in 1910; and one lady Of
rank was SO delighted with the bril-
liancy of the gas lamp on the counter
that she asked to be allowed to take it
home in her carriage.
Mr.. Mudoch was, however, too busy
with mis- other pursuits to continue the
study of the uses of gas, and thoughhe
was undoubtedly the first to apply it to
practical purposes, many others laid
claim to the honor, and other people
quickly reaped the benefit of his clev-
erneSS and ingenuity.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-11
Touching Incident.

"A touching incident is reported from
Chattanooga. An utter stranger called
on respectable farmer last week, and
asked him if his house had not been
robbed during the war. The farmer
replied that it had. ''I,' said the
stranger, was one of marauding party
that did it. I took a little silver
locket.'' 'sThat locket," said the
farmer, chad been worn by my dear
child.''. s'Here it isl replied the
stranger, visibly affected. Il am rich.
Let me make restitution. Here are 500
for your little son. He gave the
farmer $50 bill and received $3.50 in
change. He then wrung the farmer
hand warmly, and left. The farmer
has since dried his tears and loaded his
shotgun. The $50 bill was a bad one.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-11
Reflections on Great Men.

We always think of great men as in
the act of performing, the deeds which
give them renown or else in stately at
titudes of repose, grand, gloomy and
majestic. And yet this is hardly fair,
because even the most gorgeous and
magnificent of human beings have to
bother themselves with the little
things of life which engage the atten-
ton of smaller people,. No doubt
Moses snuflled and got angry when he
had a severe cold in his head, and if a
fly bit his leg when he was sitting in
the desert, why should we suppose he
did not Jump and use violent language
and rub the sore place? And Caesar !;
isn't it tolerably certain that he used
to become furious when he went up
stairs to get his slippers in the dark
and found that Calphurnia had showed
them back under the bed so that he
had to sweep around for them with
the broom-handle! And when Solo,
mon cracked his crazy bone, is it un-
reasonable to suppose that he hoped
around the room and looked mad, and
felt as if he wanted to cry? Imagine
George Washington sitting on the edge
VI CAO UCN puOOA4S OA q I4Cn4A DILL Y,
and growing at Martha because the
buttons were off; or St. Augustine
with an apron around his neck having
his hair cut y; or Joan of Arc holding
her front hair in her mouth, as women
do, while she fixed up her back hair
or Napoleon jumping out of bed in a
frenzy to chase a mosquito around the
room with pillow or Martin Luther
in his night shirt trying to put the
baby to sleep at two o'clock in the
morning; or Alexander the Great with
his hiccoughs; or Thomas Jefferson
getting suddenly over a fence to avoid
a dog; or the Duke of wellington lying
in bed with the mumps or Daniel
Webster abusing his wife because she
hadn't tucked the covers in at the foot
of the bed or Benjamin Franklin par
ing his corn with razor ; or Jonathan
Edwards at the dinner-table, wanting
to sneeze just as he gets his mouth full
OF hot beef !; or Noah standing at his
window at night throwing bricks at a
cat.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-11
A Turk Run Mad.

VMr Bayard Taylor, the correspond
ent of the New York Tribune, entered
the bexagonal wooden structure at the
grounds, known as the Turkish Bazaar:
the other day. some mysterious inf1u-
projecting roof assume the appearance
People who don know Whatss kiosk is
WON'T appreciate the fact that it WAS
painted in large. coarse, blue arabes-
que. Such. nevertheless, was the mel
;,ncloly fact.
The floor was strewn with nargilehs.
There was no postille to be seen, but
the flavor of Asia Minor, Damascus and
Stalnboul was in the room. AHactoria
sat behind the counter. Greek pail
kar. wine of Samoa, blood of Mars,
Samian robbers. Mosalems and Athens
were likewise to be seen. Familiar
with such scenes as these, Mr.. Taylor
began 10 feel us Rob Roy did when he
reached his mountain home. But,
alas. the sad allusion was soon to VAN
ISL. rs his wild Athenian eye travel
ed around the apartment it suddenly
encountered the countenance of q man.
lie was of Grecian mould-too Grecian
entirely-it suggested the mountain
range Of Wicklow-the greens of Dun
lawn. and football.
s'IIa l,a!' calculated the journalist.
This fellows Il fraud; I'll try him.
The man opened one eye and mutter.
ed something about Anactoria.
kali kimera'' shouted Taylor,
which means elbows your grand
mother
The man mOaned.
"klimptomeckasin orrpronabis, -
said the newspaper man.
No speeke Dutchman,' remarked
the Turk. and then he closed his eyes.
The editor scratched his head and
pondercd. Had he ever been in Tur-
key. or was his memory Of the mosques
but a wandering fancy of his brain ?
Metempsychosis, perhaps. He con-
cluded. however, to try again.
gegomossomkroptksl,'
which means, ':Give me pipeful of
camel dung, and light her up with
Turkish tobacco
The man groaned again, and Anacto.
Tia reached for something that looked
like (, stuffed club.
':Letterrip, said the novelist, which,
Chen translated, is, ''Your are a set of
Areeks.'
'Shimpkang!' you're a liar) said
he Turk.
''Signposts and dingbats,' > remarked
5hc traveller, not in the least abashed
by the insulting language Of the Chi
bouk-the Interpretation of which may
be said to be. ''Dash down your cup of
Semian wine, or wretched shepherd Of
the swine, or you're no officer of
mine.'
Nv hat in the devils the matter with
that feller?' said Anactoria, speaking
very rapidly.
Il guess he's got 'em,'' replied the
rover from Mount Oliver.
::Hs, ha! Then you speak English,
do you?'' asked the explorer of Sweden
and ScheutZbond rider.
sob, no; we only speak FRENCH re-
piled the Turks in German.
Then give me a drink of the wine
of Samos." said the cssayist,
He got it, paid twenty-five cents for
it, and then sat down in Landsdowne
ravine to think.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-11
Spanish Pictures of American life
From the New York wor,,

From the New York World.
The Epoca, of Madrid, one of the
ablest Spanish journals, has a bright
and clever correspondent at Philade].
phia. who is giving the Madrilenos
some amusing pictures of American
Life. He was greatly appalled, by the
Phlladelphian Sunday, and found IT,
hard to understand how a civilized
people could deliberately make them.
selves SO unhappy on one day out of
seven. But he soon found that the as.
tute defendants of William Penn have
contrlved for themselves q Sunday
spectacle not by any means to be de-
splsed. On Sunday about noon, writes
our Spanish Asmodeus, the best streets
of Philadelphia suddenly became alive
with throngs of the prettiest women
dressed In the newest and gayest cos
tunes, and most benevolently dispos-
ed to be admired. This charming en-
tertalnment to be sure is soon over.
the clang of closing doors resounds in
every street, and solemn silence falls
again upon the city; but it gives a
wonderful flip to the day, and almost
persuades AsmOdeus to be a Philadel-
phlan. He tells an excellent story.
TOO, not very creditable to female ed.
ucation in the Keystone State. With
some friends he found steamer run
nlng up the river on Sunday afternoons
to a place described on the waybills as
''Andalusia.' Visions of Seville and
the Alcazar and the dark-eyed gitanas
danced before their enchanted eyes,
and the Spaniards fastened on board
the steamer The trim I'm tho no1o
ware delighted them with it's panora-
ma of prosperity and peace, but can
dalusia" proved to be simply pretty
Northern village and watering-place.
Whlle they were talking and laughing
about it an American young lady Of
their acquaintance standing by inno-
Gently asked, $50 you have another
Andalusia in Spain, have you e. 20
yes!'' they politely answered land
for the matter of that. another Madrid
besides the one in Missouri, and there
is even a Rome in Italy best de the one
in New York -
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-11
Some Wonderful Stories by Dr.. Doreums.

The celebrated chemist, Dr.. Dore-
tuns, showed the following manner, in
(, recent lecture, how extremes meet:
Eggs can be cooked by the extreme of
cold as we'll as by the extreme of heat.
Butter can be made like ivory, so that
it can be turned. We may, by the
agency Of this, solidify many of the
other liquid substances, and, indeed,
many of the gaseous; but a more in
;ense degree of cold is used, and we
employ laughing gas. This laughing
gas, which is heavy, is the carbonic
scid we have shown; when squeezed
:orcibly by the pump, it becomes as
beautiful and pellucid a liquid as car
ponic acid, and if allowed to remain,
produces most intense degree Of cold.
We can, however, show the liquid.
Let me ask you to observe, prior to
making that experiment, very curl
ously interesting one in regard to the
spheroidal state of matter. We have
here q glass lamp, and we place over
this lamp a platina dish. In the pla-
tina dish we place some Of the mixture
Of solid carbOnic acid, and in the mid
die Of it introduce the mercury, and we
shall find that the mercury would
freeze, showing that we have cold at
least forty degrees below zero. We
used 70 make an experiment, such as
melting lead intensely hot, and then
putting one hand in and lading it from
one vessel to another; for if, in lieu Of
this, you take a quantity of melted
iron, you can plunge your head into it
with impunity, and workmen have
been able to walk on bed of melted
iron. Take a poker and put it in a hot
coal tire, get it very hot, and you may
lift it or wipe it on the tongue with
IMMUNITY. We may have it SO hot that
the vaper actually protects us.
Here we shall have a more eXtraor-
binary illustration of it, for we cannot
only make ice, but can freeze mercury.
We will fill this little thimble with
mercury, and as soon as it is intensely
hot we will introduce the mixture,
and will show this curious illustration,
and attempt to freeze the mercury.
Those who make the experiment Of the
heated lead, please remember to have
she lead intensely hot, and you will
sad that it gives out cold.
Copper mining has been recon-
nenced in the mass copper mines OF
Lake Superior, and with the greatest
success. In the Phoenix a mass Of
seventV.fiVe tons was removed last
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-11

Two young men were recently hang
ed by vigilantes in Llano county, Tex
as, for cattle stealing. Later develop
ments showed that the cattle found in
their possession were hired from a
stockman at some distance.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-11

It is good sign, when you go into
a young mans room, to find a we'll
thumbed bible lying upon the table.
1t is a sign that there are pious serv.
ants in the house.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-11

Copper mining has been recon-
nenced in the mass copper mines OF
Lake Superior, and with the greatest
success. In the Phoenix mass Of
seventy-tive tons was removed last
month.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-11

The Niagara Falls Gazette: ''Some
strangers, actuated by curiosity,
threw goose into the river from the
bridge leading from the main land to
Bath Island a few days ago to test if it
could survive trip over the American
fall. The goose made the voyage in
safety, and was subsequently secured
uninjured, by a ferryman below the
cataract.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-03-08
Mrs, Belknap's Plea.

The Washington correspondent of the Chica
go Times says: The dry report of the commit
tee does but feeble justice to the passionate
scene when the wretched Mrs. Belknap, cling
ing to the hope of girlish friendship for Mrs
Blackburn, visited her, and throwing herself
upon her knees, refused to move until security
for her hurband was promised. She is wo-
man of fine presence. She dressed in some-
thing like grandeur. Her costumes were noted
for extreme decollette. The staid element of
Washington society held her little in reproof
for this foreign taste, when they remarked of
her that they preferred to have 9th
er mems wives display thier charms
so literally rather than their own.
Mrs. Belknap, as Miss Tomlinsop, was bos-
ON friend of Congressman Backburn's wife.
To her Wednesday night she betook herself,
when her husband comingH home from the
Committee declared that all was lost. To work
more effectively upon Mrs Blackburn the
wretched wife brought her baby to plead for
her. 1t was one of the few cold, stormy nights
experienced in Washington, The ground was
covered with an inch of slush, the snow melt
ing as it fell. AS she appeared at Mrs Black
burns it was almost impossible to recognize
her. A plain cloak was thrown over her, aud
her babe was pressed in her arms.
She had barely reached the inside door
when she fell in a faint. Recovering
she fell upon Mrs. Blackburn's neck. She
raved piteously to save her husband and child.
She would bear all the blame. She alone was
guilty. They might hang or imprison her, but
spare her babe and her husband. During the
scene Mr.. Blackburn came iD, and the two
women clung to him, his wife almost as much
moved as the wretched wife and mother.
Blackburn says he was never SO moved in his
life by any appeal but he was .poweress, IT he
had been willing, to shield Belknap; He told
the unfortunate woman gently but firmly that
justice must be doLe, aud that be was power
less.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-03-08
Attorney General PierrepOnfs Letter.

The following is full summary of Attorney
General Pierreponts letter to the Hon. Scott
Lord, mention of which was made in these
columns yesterday:
The Attorney General says, in relation to the
whiskey cases at st. Louis, Chicago, and Mil
waukee, that the Secretary of the Treasury and
himself were in frequent consultation, aud
they never differed in their policy nor IN what
thew deemed the best mode of carrying out the
nolicy. In October last, while the Solicitor of
The Treasury was in St. Louis, they agreed
upop. and the secretary despatched a commu-
nicatiop to the solicitor, in the way of iustruc.
tions, in which he said, among other things,
that unless important ends were to be gsi ned,
be would make no terms with any individual
party. The Attorney General says that the
policy indicated in this order was not commu-
nicated by him in any circular letter to the
dstrict-attorneys of these cities, bat it was
intended to be carried out alike in st. Louis,
Chicago and Milwaukee. Nothing occurred to
lead the Attorney General or Secretary OF tie
Treasury or the Solicitor, so far as the Attorney
General knew or believed, to change TINS
policy in any degree; but about the middle OF
January and subsequent thereto various news
paper slips, private letters and personal state stase-
ments came to the President, and 10 lesser
degree to the Attorney General, that bargains
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-03-08

WELL, what has this House done? An
unimportant committee, prosecuting an aim
less investigation, have stumbled upon evil
dences of fraud by member OF the cabinet.
The committee did well. But what are all
the other committees doing? The country is
suffering from depression of business and
from deprecated currency, and the ways
and means and banking committees have
done nothing. Scarcely bill of Importance
has been passed. At this time last year the
appropriations were all made, and Congress
had adjourned. Some of the House commt-
tees think they have saved $5,OOO,OOO in ex-
peDditures, but an expense of S3,00O,0OO in
interest money has already been incurred by
neglect to give Secretary Brstow the means
to fund portion of the debt at lower rate
of interest. Nearly three months in session
and scarcely anything done.