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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-01-18
BLOT =and:,,SHOE DEPARTMENT

In this department the New Price List win
t ne most attractive to purchasers, as we'll as
Just received, which makes the Stock very
complete. '
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-01-18
Clothing Department.
DRESS GOOD DEPARTMENT.

The New Price List on DRESS GOODS is
SO much cheaper than they have heretofore
Deen sold that any lady can affhrd to pur-
chase beautiful New Style Dress.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-01-18

ONCE Southern Life Insurance Co.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-01-18
HAT DEPARTMENT.

The New Price List on HATS will induce
QUICK sales, as they are much cheaper than
are sold by other dealers.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-01-18
For Sale.

Prepared Mocking Bird Feed for sale ut
Galloway and Gayle's. janlIdlw
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-03-02
Paper Barrels.

There appears to be no doubt that pa
per barrels are to come into extensive
use as substitute for those of wood. 1t
is manifest that, their form being that of
a uniform cylinder, there must be a saw
ing of fifteen per cent. in stowage, a
large gain, obviously, in slowing in a
vessel, and also in the cost of storage in
warehouses; and they are said to have
successfully withstood all trials as to
ability to burst, having been expert
mented with in this way TO the extent OF
four thousand pounds inside pressure.
The paper is made waterproof, impervi-
Gus to air or moisture, and is thus not IL
able to absorb the odors or favOrs pecu-
liar TO other articles when stored to-
gether in vessel; and, being about air.
tight, they are especially desirable as a
protection against the insects and ve--
min which abound in warm climates,
and against loss of -four or sugar, ETC., in
handling. They are more manageable,
too, than the wooden barrel, as they roll
at a true angle, while the wooden barrel,
from its convex shape, is liable to roll in
any direction. The paper from which
the barrel is made is manufactured from
wheat straw; the hoops are only added
for protection in rolling, so that if they
become loose, or even knocked of, the
barrel is in no degree impaired.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-03-02
"reminiscences Of Hazlitt.

Hazlitt entered room as If he had
been brought back to it in custody. He
shufiled sidelong to the nearest chair, sat
himself down upon one corner of it,
dropped his hat and his eyes upon the
floor, and after having exhausted his
stock of small talk in the words, It's a
fine day" (whether it was so or nOt),
seemed to resign himself moodily to his
fate, and, if the talk did not take turn
that reused him, thus he would sit, in
tent and halcabsorbed, for half an hour
or half q minute, as the case might be,
and then get up suddenly with "Well,
good morning" shuttle back to the door
and blunder his way out, audibly NUT
tering curses on his folly for willingly
putting himself in the way of becoming
the laughing stock of the servants, for it
was of that intellectual grade of persons
that Hazlitt alone stood in awe. There
was no reaching drawing-roOm without
running the gauntlet of the servants
hall {; and this it was that crushed and
cOnfounded him. / am certain that
Haziltt never knocked at door without
fearing that 1t might be opened by a new
servant, who would wonder what SO
"strange" person could want with their
master or mistress.
And this "poor creature" Gas he used
to call himself), apparently with scarcely
energy enough to grapple with an infant
or face shadow, was the launcher forth
of words that could shake the hearts of
princes and potentates, and make them
tremble in their seats of power. This
efiigy of silence was the utterer of floods
of indignant eloquence that could stir
the blood like the sound of a trumpet,
and the writer of the celebrated invec-
tives of the Catalogue Raisonni," the
essays on "The Spirit of Monarchy" and
"The Regal Character"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-03-02

Speaking of this reminds one of very
we'll authenticated rumor that the great
bonanza kings, Messrs. Flood, O'Brien,
Mackay and Fair, are going to send one
hundred and fifty tons Of gold and silver
bullion from their Consolidated Virginia
mine to the Centennial, and pile up the
glittering bars in some conspicuous spot,
so that all the world can see what one
mine produces in FIVE monthsl The
value of the bars will be ten million
dollars in United States gold coinl If the
idea is carried out, it will be the grandest
sight among million of grand sights,
and i venture to say more people will
visit this mountain of wealth than any
other single thing in the building. Five
millions Of the bullion are now boxed up
ready for shipment, and the balance will
be ready in due time. Few people ever
saw such vast sum as ten millions OF
dollars all in one or several piles, and
think the proposition of Messrs. Flood
Il Co., If carried through, will add much
to the charm, the wonder, the eciat, and
the success Of the exhibition.-Phiiadel.
phia Press.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-03-02
Death Of Hon. Reverdy Johnson.

The death of the distinguished Amer
ican statesman and jurist, Reverdy John
son, is announced. He was found dead
in the grounds of the executive mansion
at Annapolis, Maryland, his birthplace.
He had recently returned from London,
where he had been visiting his son-in-
law, Mr.. Kerr, and, although nearly to-
tally blind, was in the enjoyment of un-
usually good health for one so old.
Reverdy johnson was born at Annapolis,
Maryland, May 81, 1876. He was ad-
mitted to the bar when nineteen years of
age, and rapidly achieved fine legal
reputation, reporting for eleven years the
decisions of the Court of Appeals of Ma
ryland, during which time he prepared
seven volumes of Harris and Johnson's
reports. When twenty-one years Of age
he became deputy Attorney General of
Maryland. From 1921 to 1925 he was a
State Senator, and in 1845 he was recog-
nized as the leader of the Maryland bar,
practicing at the same time before the
Supreme Court of the United States. He
was elected United States Senator for six
years in 1874, and became Attorney
General of the United States during
ITeSluenU ldylOTS dunllnlSITdIlOn, III
lS49, but retired from that position upon
the death OF the President in 1850. He
was a member of the Peace Congress
which convened at Washington in 1861,
and in 1862 was again elected to the
United States Senate, and was employed
by the government as an umpire to ad-
just questions arising in New Orleans
during the war. In June, 1868, he was
appointed Minister to England to sue
ceed Hon. Charles Francis Adams, and
there negotiated the first treaty for the
settlement of the Alabama claims, which,
however, was not approved by the Sen
ate. Mr.. johnson was warm supporter
of the constitutional amendment abol-
ishing slavery. In 1869 he relinquished
the English mission and returned to Bal
timore, where he has since resided, with
the exception of the last few months
spent in London, where he was received
with profuse honors by the English bar
and British ministry. Althoug gh eighty
years of age, he took an active interest in
the affairs of the day, and every morning
it was his custom to have the daily news
papers read to him by some member of
his family. Few Americans have passed
away with more distinguished hOnors
than Reverdy Johnson.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-03-02
Food for Children.

Children don't like fat meat, so give
them good bread and butter, and allow
them plenty of sugar. A chemist will
tell you that both fatty substances and
saccharine or sweet substances are
eventually oxidized in the body. Sugar
is the form to which many other things
have to be reduced before they are avail.
able as heatmaking food; and the for
nation of sugar is carried on in the body,
1t has been proved that the liver is a fac.
tory in which other constituents of food
are transformed into sugar. Now, it is
probable that your children really need
sugar to keep them well, and IL is fortu-
nate that most children are fond of vege-
table acid. A saucer of berries, or a ripe
apple, is often better corrective for chill
dren's ailments than dose of medicine
yet the majority of parents give the
nauseous dose preference over the fruit.
II does seem sometimes as if parents were
occupied more in denying than in graft
flying their children's appetites. This Is
neither necessary nor fair. They get as
tired of bread and milk as yon would
And what comes Of itY Simply, that az
soon as they have an opportunity, they
indulge their love for fruits and sweet,
TO excess.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-03-02
The Average ParlOr.

There are parlors belonging to rich men
who are the sons of rich men, who have
been educated carefully, and who have
travelled and seen all there is to be seen OF
the splendid and beautiful, and yet
though their rooms are full of the ex-
ternal evidence of wealth and travel, the
things seen unhappy; the colors all
"swear at one another" rs the French
artistic slang has it; the chairs and
tables, like people too early at country
party, are waiting for an introduction,
and the taste, il taste it may be called,
in the pictures and bric-a-brac, Is so dis
cordant, that If the owner likes one-half
of these, we cannot understand how he
should be able to tolerate the other. Of
course, it is not fair always to judge the
owner of one of these multifarious draw
ing-rooms by what he puts forward as
his own taste. In nine cases out of ten it
is not his taste at all, but the taste of
the town, and he has meekly put himself
into the hands of the fashionable fur
nisher. We might as well lay the charge
of the theatrical, vulgar paraphernalia Of
modern first-class funeral at the door
of the dead man, upon whose unresisting
body all these hideous floral emblems"
are piled. The fashionable undertaken
sits on him when alive. We cannot Judge
of his taste until he shows it, until he
takes his house into bis own hands, and
makes it TO his mind. 1t is to persuade
people to do this that these papers are
written, but the writer is not very hope
full of persuading any but young people
and those who have natural indepen-
dence. Rich people are for the most part
so bullied by their money, they don't
dare do what they like. And people
who are well on in life do not, as a rule,
take enough interest In the subject
They find the old shoes easier 10 the
feet,
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-03-02
An Astronomical Difficulty.

A curious paper was handed in recently
ut the sitting of the Academy of Sciences,
by M. Balls. on still unexplained ques.
tion Of astronomy. In 1896 the Dutch
pilot Barentz, who had been shipwrecked
on the coast of Nova Zombla, was obliged
to winter there with his crew at the place
called Icy Haven, situated at 76 degrees
North latitude, and So degrees 1 min.
utes East longitude from Paris. During
their stay on this inhospitable coast these
Dutch mariners witnessed singular
phenomenon, the cause Of which has re-
mained unknown up to this day. On the
4th of November the sun had quilted
the horizon, as it was expected to do, and
the night was, in due course, to last I'M
til the Sth of February. Instead Of this,
the sun reappeared on the Oath of
January, date which our author cor.
rects from calculation, and finds to have
been the 25th. In short, daylight came
fortnight earlier than was expected.
On their return to Holland, this piece of
news they brought was received with
universal incredulity, but Barentz ad-
duced an argument in support which
was decisive. 1t was this: On that
memorable January "a he had, at six
o'clock a. M, observed q conjunction of
the moon and Jupiter. Now, this as
Economical event was marked on the
ephemerides of Venice for that day at
one o'clock after midnight. This settled
the question, and the only difficulty now
remained how to explain the prema-
ture return of the sun. The phenomenon
was attributed to the great polar cold,
and it was admitted that the refraction
of the atmosphere could, in certain cases,
amount to Al degrees. A long time Of
ter, about 1870, Lemonnier took up the
matter, and found an error in the longi-
tude, which Barentz seemed to have mis-
taken, and it might therefore be doubted
whether he saw the conjunction ut all.
M. Balls has endeavored to elucidate
this point by taking up all the calcula.
tions again from the beginning. He ar.
rives at the conclusion that Barentz Ger.
tainly committed an error, but not that
attributed to him by Lemonnier, whose
calculation was wrong; that Barentz
nevertheless, could have seen Jupiter in
a line with the horns of the moon, and
that the premature appearance of the
sun was caused by reflection, similar to
that which produces the rainbow.-Pari,
Messenger.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-03-02
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

/IF possible, transplant upon fresh
plOwed land before the surface is dry
Generally roots are struck quicker with
out watering than upon other land
with it.
REMEMBER, tillage is manure, tillage
is earliness, tillage is moisture in drought
and you can not give too much of it, and
one horse with a cultivator is worth ten
men with hoes.
If the ground be dry, so much heat il
held and radiated from it that frost
which freezes hard on top of four-fooi
fence will hardly kill a tender plant ly,
ing on the earth.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN introduced
broom-corn into this country. While
examining an imported corn whisk he
found a single seed, which he planted in
his garden. From that seed the corn
was propagated.
A NEW YORK farmers three cows OBJ
served him as he drove home in freshly
painted wagon, and that night they raj
lied around it and licked the paint off.
The next day all three of them died
from the effects of their extraordinary
debauch.
WITH colts and valuable horses exer-
else is necessary, for without exercise
they are not improving, but really de-
teriorating. Horses should not be kept
in stalls two consecutive days at a time.
Turn them out where there is pure air
and sunlight, and the natural soil for
their hOOfs tn stand upOn
SEED sown in late May or June should
be sown somewhat deep in anticipation
of the weather. Late beets and mangel
wurzel for main crop are quite gener-
ally sown too shallow. The finty crust
inclosiDg the germ needs considerable
moisture to burst freely upon the growth
of the sprout.
The ovarium of q hen contains about
600 ovulas, and hence in the course of
her life she can not lay over that num-
Der of eggs. The first year she laysfrOm
10 to 20; the second, 100 to 120; the
third, 120 to 1876; fourth, 100 to 1l6 !;
fifth, 60 to 80; sixth, 80 to 60; seventh,
35 to 40; eighth Is to 20; ninth, to
10. From this Al will be seen that it is
not profitable to keep hen after she is
four years old.
A CORRESPONDENT of an English pa
per, advocating the protection c. the
crow, states that having shot crows in a
corn-field, he opened their stomachs, ex.
pecting to find them full of grain. On
the contrary he discovered that they con-
tanned large number of caterpillars,
whose ravages on the crop were quite ev-
ident. In the Barbados, the negroes
call the crow the "blessing of God,"
from the aid which it gives in destroying
cockroaches.
TILL deep with cabbage, and shallow
with onions and turnips. Earth up
fibrous rooted plants like cabbage, corn,
etc, but not edible rooted crops like
beets, carrots and parsnips nor should
these last be worked deep after they are
well along in size, or they will put out
side shoots and grow scraggy. Beans
and celery should never be touched
while wet from dew or rain. Cabbage
and caulifower seem to prefer that
time.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-03-02
A New Story Of General Cass.

Shortly after Mr.. Cass reached the dig
nifty of Governor. in 1914, he was in
Washington, and stopped at the aristo-
cratic hotel there. 1t happened that the
landlord of the hotel had remarkable
resemblance to him, in both manner and
personal appearance. Indeed when he
had prepared his toilet and descended to
the Office below, many of the idle guests
would have saluted him as landlord.
Jones, newly made member from the
West. arrived at a certain juncture, and
easily mistaking Cass for the proprietor,
stepped briskly up with, "How are you,
old by, (slapping him familiarity on the
shoulder)-can you give me room at
once 2" Disturbed at the rudeness, the
Governor yet managed to rise to the
height of the emergency, and blandly
bowling, answered, Excuse me, sir, but
I do not quite comprehend. am Gov
ernor Cass, of the State of Michigan"
The enthusiastic and laundering mem
Der stammcred out an apology, and
moved away to find the proprietor. In
the evening, Cass, on his way to his own
room, met the member in a corridor.
" Helloa," said Jones, siding up to Cass;
then in confidential tone: 81 want to
tell you what muss ] got into. When
came in this afternoon 4 made thun-
dering mistake, and took old Cass from
Michigan for you"
The dignified Governors previous as
tonishment was little compared with that
now. He again explained that he was
Governor Cass, of Michigan" and stiff
ly bowling, passed on, leaving peor, con-
fused Jones in the hall, ponderingon the
strange fatality which seemed to follow
him as regards" Governor Cass, Of Mich
igauv
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-03-02
ing back his hair, the prisoner showed a

ing back his hair, the prisoner showed
great scar down one side of his head.
The whole court looked on breathless
as the captain stared at the scar and the
man till his eyes seemed starting from
his head. At length, as if in dream,
the captain muttered to himself, "GOod
God is it possible %
Then, slowly and deliberately, he got
out of the witness box, and clambered
into the dock, where he seized the prison
ers' hand, and, turning to the judge,
said:
"My lord, this was the best man in my
crew, and saved my life. Providence
has sent me here to save his. He is so
changed by illness and imprisonment
that | could not recognize him. But
there is no mistake now, and if you hang
the old bos'un of the Vulture, you must
hang his captain with him."
Then followed scene rarely witnessed
in court of justice. Amid cheers and
sObs that no one cared to suppress, the
judge briefly directed the jury to recon-
slider their verdict, which they at once
did, finding unanimous "Not guilty"
The prisoner was discharged, and left the
dock arm-in-arm with the captain. They
were hurried into chaise and drawn TO
the inn in triumphal procession, and,
after a sumptuous lunch, they posted off
together to London. AS they cleared the
ancient town Captain Sharpe might have
been heard addressing his companion
as follows:
"Well, old pal, we pulled through that
business pretty well, l think. But it
was a near go. That was a good notion
of Willy Bob's to wait for the verdict
before moving. We could never have
touched that evidence"
eyes" replied the innocent and long
suffering boatswain of the Vulture )" and
if you had cOttoned me q minute too
soon, the old beak would have been fly
to the trick. Lord, l was fit to burst
when the old boy began to cry"
From which brief remark we gather
that Captain Sharpe" might have
known more of the burglary than of the
Vulture. Nothing more was ever heard
of either of them. Such is is the story
of "The RecOnsidered Verdict"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-03-02
"Not Mad, Sweet Heaven!"

Insanity is year by year increasing,
more than keeping pace with the increase
of population it is we'll, therefore for us
to do something not only to protect our
selves, but to check the career of this ter
rible scourge. The causes of insanity
are manifold; they are seldom, if ever,
one only. There has been long prep
aration beforehand, whereby the mental
or bodily state has been weakened or dis
eased, and then some sudden trouble or
excitement brings the diseased state into
morbid activity, or suppressesits activity
altogether. Like most of our bodily dis
eases, it is frequently too late to do much
to cure the complaint when it shows it.
self; our efforts have to be principally
directed to the prevention to study the
physical causes of mental disease, and
beware how we incur danger. Theprin-
cipal cause of insanity (including idiocy
and moral perversion) is hereditary
predisposition. This does not necessarily
mean that the parents should be actually
insane temperament bordering on in
sanity in both parents is much more
likely to cause the minds of the children
to be affected, than if one only was mildly
afflicted with the actual disease. Those
parents who have insanity strongly de-
velOped in both their families, that is,
those who have had several of their rela-
tives insane, are almost sure to produce
mentally defective children. Marriage
of near relatives is also fertile source Of
insanity the nearer the relationship. the
more certain are the children to be either
mentally or bodily defective, or both.
How far cousins may marry with safety
is disputed point; but such an union
certainly involves much risk. Another
ply sical cause of insanity is intemper-
ance. An habitual drunkard is to a GER
tain extent a constant maniac, and liable
to furious outbreaks. 1t may not be right
to say that more danger is to be appre-
hended from constant moderate con-
sumption of alcoholic liquors, than from
an occasional drunken bout; and yet IL
may be so, for if instead of resting the
brain, when we feel it fatigued by over
work, we stimulate IL to activity by
alcohol, much harm must surely be done.
The conclusion of the whole matter
seems to be, that men must be taught to
live less selfshly; they must give up
many animal pleasures, and exercise for
bearance and selfabnegation for the sake
Of their children, II they would not have
their sins visited upon the heads Of their
innocent o1springs.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-03-02
The Customs OF SOlOmOn's Days and
0uro

The style of dress and ornaments of
the Hebrew ladies Of the present day
and in fact the prevailing toilets of all
the time of Solomon. With all these
changes and variations of centuries, the
gradation Of chignons and crinolines, we
now find much of the simple grace and
easy symmetry of ancient Greece.
The scriptures narrate great many
things about the style of Dress worn i'm
the time of Solomon and in the law of
Moses several directions are given con.
cerning garments worn by the Israelites
In the book of Judges the girls of that
period are described by Deborah as ga
prey of divers colors of needlework,"
while Samuel says, their clothing is of
silk and purple" In the frequent in.
tercourse between the Jewish and other
nations, the ladies, tired of their SIM
plicity, sought the fashions of the clever
Egyptians, the elegant Phenicians and
the luxurious Persians. Even patient
Job became impatient at the dresses, and
Isaiah denounced "the women of the
PERIOD" living for nothing but dress and
Irritation, with one desire, "to see and
be seen." The tunica, worn by the
ladies in the time of Solomon, was
much like the polonaiSe of to-day, and
the belts with fancy clasps now worn are
about the same as the leather girdles and
silver buckles worn of old.
We also find recorded that trains
were worn to dresses, and that camels
hair shawls were common. Embroi-
dered mantles, fastened with golden
pins are also spoken of. The hair was
also oiled, dyed and put in coils; little
curls were let hang over the foreheads,
and, strange to say, the girls of ofSolomon's
time it is stated, used paint. Wells were
worn, and sandals were made of blue and
violet cOlOred leather with fancy latches.
Solomon, it is related, said to Shulamite,
How beautiful are the feet with shoes,
o princes daughter!" Hair nets were
worn, and earrings of all forms and much
value were very common. Bracelets on
the right arm, strings of pearl and heavy
gold chains around the neck, rings on
the fingers, and ornaments, were all worn
by the ancient Hebrew ladies.