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New-York tribune., 1877-10-26


A very simple experiment was exhibited, yes
terday, to the members of the National
Academy of Sciences, that throws light oI
some of the possibilities of steam-boiler ex-
plOSions. 1t showed that water or rather
steam. miqht be decomposed into its component
(and explOsve) gases, at an ordinary furnace
heat. II is evident that such circumstances as
those OF the experiment, could only occur in q
boiler with atrocious carclcssncss; but with
ont some carelessness boilers never explode
The experiment was not part of the regular
proceedings of the Academy, but it was al
least as instructive as some of them.
Commissioner Erhardt has discovered that a
pleasant practice exists in the neigbborhood
of the police headquarters of paying persons
supposed to have influence with the Com
missioners large sums for appointment,
on the force. Mankind never tires OF
being swinded. Ever since there have
ben officials, people have been paying
br1bes TO persons with "inlluence who had
none at ALL and so long as officials continue
to exist, this imposture will go on. But Com
missioner Erhardt ought to perseverc, never
theless, and do his best to break up de-
MOraizing traffic.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-29

50 w hat for she asked lnnOcenuy.
. Why, you haven't forgotten that we
agreed to get married when | came back,
have you, YOU little coquette?" and he put
his arm around her Waste just as of old,
and was not reproved. Ii was so very
comfortable, she thought.
"No, but you are engaged, are you
not =
Yes, of course am, to you"
"Ohl but Alic-"
ooh! but, Maggie" and then he stoop
ed aud kissed her, and nothing more
could be said, for the door opened, and
there stood the Colonel, and there stood
Mrs. Marshall, and there stood Maria
Patterson.
:. Miss Dunlop" screamed Maria, hor-
ror-struck.
:" Mr.. Granger - said Mrs. Marshall,
in establishment"
"Hoity -toity!" exclaimed the Colonel,
" What does this all mean|
+" She must leave the house at once,
said the heiress.
"Of course she must" Mrs. Marshall
said. a. never heard of such thing IN
my life"
:" NY dear, Mrs Marshall" said Alic,
looking as if he were beginning speech,
. it is all my fault. You told me, and 50
did the Colonel, to consider your house
my home, and l have done so. Miss
Dunlop here was a playfellow of mine
once, and when l went away we were en-
gagged but somehow we lost sight OF
each other when there were few thous-
and miles between US, and it was the
happiest moment of my life to meet her
again last night, and SO | took the lIber-
ty of calling on her this morning, and
we were Just arranging to get married
next week when you interrupted us"
"Quite right, quite right, my dear
Granger" said the old Colonel, heartily,
YOU shall be married from here"
"Oh! please let me 60 to my mamma
do let me go at once" pleaded Mag
gle, finding her little tongue at last.
g think it would be much more salts
factory if Miss Dunlop went back TO hel
relations, said the heiress, sourly.
So they all finally agreed, and tina
very afternoon Maggie packed up he
modest belongings and all the curiositles
and went to the well-of and bad-tem
, pered aunt.
The bad tempered aunt received he
niece very graciously when she found ssh
was going to marry well the following
week. 1t is amazing how fond peopl
are of rich relations, even though tn
r riches concern them little personally
: AS for poor Mrs. Dunlop, she could hav
Jumped for Joy, only she was too old fo
such violent exercise.
r "Pray, Miss, what are you laughln
e to yourself about ?" asked Allie the ever
: ing before their wedding day.
1 :. Nothing, Alic; only when you wer
l away used to think sometimes that pc
haps you'd marry Chinese heiress wit
e The sort of thing you would think,
e he said grandly; ''as it is, you see,
f am going to marry little girl without
/ pigtail F.; and am very happy, my da
J, Iing-are you p
avery, very," she said, and she was
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The OMce-Seeking Nuisance.

1t is clear that the evil OF office-seek-
ING is a growing one. Since there must
be offices to fill, and since hope springs
eternal, it follows that muItltudes OF PEG,
ple will persist in hunting for places, and
in applying for them long after the
places are all occupied. The multlplI-
cation of offices has only served to IN
crease the seekers after office to an alb
normal degree. 1t is bad sign OF the
times that so many people want to live on
other people For an office seeker usu-
ally expects to get something for nothing.
He wants a sinecure; or, II he has any
notion of work, it rises no higher than
that of Special Agent Blank, who lately
resented being ordered out into the west,
ae he was confident that ne had been APP
pointed to build up an administration
party in his own State. An army OF
officeseekers, like an army Of tramps, Is
an indication of a certain loss OF manly
vigor Poverty and laziness drive many
men into the Highways, where they tramp
so long that they can never again work
for a living. A man once driven into the
ranks of the office seekers, with difficulty
finds lis way out again. IT he holds
office for time, he is in danger of being
permanently disabled. During the rest
OF his natural life he hunts for office, eX-
cept while he holds an office.
BY and by pressure for official appoint,
| ments will decrease. In the nature OF
| things, such high tide cannot always be
maintained at Washington. But though
the freshet may cease, the current Will
continue to flow. The main business OF
the President of the United States Will
be to hear applications for office. From
10 o'clock IN the morning until 8 or
! o'clock in the afternoon, the curious Visl
tor at the White House will see the ante
rooms filed with people waiting then
turn to apply for a position. Ihey nave
their papers we'll thumbed, and repre-
senting great variety OF 1nnuehce'
and they are all determined to see the
President about the particular place
which they want. Most OF these people
have been to the Cabinet officer in whose
department lies the object Of their desires
They have been told that their appllca
ton was useless. They have reserved
the President as their last resort. a
they have failed in the first instance they
are more importunate now.
Unless the highest Office in the Kepuh
lie is to be permanently converted into
laborious clerkship, the present system
of making appointments must be radical
" changed. The President, of course
will control the appointments which ar
prominently to give character to his Ad
ministration. But the great bulk OF tn
Executive patronage ought to be IN tn
LIo &c +ba haads Of the Executive DE
partments. Certainly it is not beyon
: the ingenuity of man to devise a systel
which shall prevent office seeking 1r@I
' becoming permanent nuisance'-N' L
, Times.
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FASHIONS or THE EMPIRE.
short skirts. short waists ana
Poke BOnnetS Decreed
from Paris.
New ork World,l

New York World,I
We are permitted to make the follow
ing extract from a Paris letter of July
31st
ssHow will you like yourself dressed
in the style of the empire, Ia osephlne;
Short skirts, short waists, large poke
bonnets and big bags on your arms? DO
YOU think it will be becoming to our
stvle of beauty? l trust that in as
snming this empire dress-if it is to be
we shall not be entirely deprived of
our influence, as the women of the en-
pire we're, for it is matter of history
that the women of the empire were as re-
markable for their depuration of lnfiu-
ence as were the women of the revolu-
tion-for its enjoyment and exercise.
But candidly, it is said here the Eau
burg St. German have decided to adopt
il. and when the French Sinai issues Its
DEGREES America will be the first to hear
the reverberatiOn.
1--WE drove out to see Carlotta Patti
living charmingly about a half hours
drive from Paris She was very retl
cent of Adelina-said but little of her
7 cav her in London as Marguerite ano
Nicolini as Faust. Why he shoult
have fascinated her is conumdrum
don't propose to answer
AZ met Nine. P, your great modlste
fresh from Trouville, where she had beef
to study all the latest fashions ana
now making her fall purchases, and sne
will have all the great novelties. :.
ssThere is a most wonderful musi
teacher residing here, who almost work
| miracles with her voice: L have neve
seen any one develop it so well and II
sncb a short space of time by metho'
Enecnliar to himself. He is a SPaniar'
named Beleri, and has an exquisite teno
voice himself.
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Ladic. IocDs

Ia ancient times, according l9 iradi-
ton, golden blonde AnIr Was HII the rage.
Achilles, Menelaus, Me.Dager. three of
the most beautiful ancient types. Wera
blondes. Golden hair adorned the head
of Bacchu-. the ideal ot ancient beauty.
The iAvlritn of Apollo. the handsome
Narcissus, Was "a pale, meiauuHuIv
blonde orpAeu-, in the picture which
lac paints ot Circo. represented herewith
hall as ardent as the RAYS 9t the .uu. The
golden locks Of B.uice formed taa theme
ot The song % Cltulus. Al Rome. g..-
den hair was always held tu high esteem.
and Me-sAIul bud her beautiful black
trc.ses uudera yellow wig. Indeed uuu-
dreds Of other case, may bo cited where
In the preference wl- cyIugul for MIr
hair; nor aas the taste passed away with
the years Although to-day che U.ntu#
30 the most beauum. color 0l hair u.-
ca-ilua,ly contested, the universal pre-.
ference !, uuguesti1uably for tHe ,rU.s Hi
gold. one glance around adv ul our
hair omp0rIums ls sufficient ta convince
| the reader of thi. fact Here aud tH..s
may be detected q shadow. hut Do Is only
q shadow stealing umiIIy boo among tUe
/ lustrous sheets of gold nItl which ..u
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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-29
Thc HuIinE Passion strong &"
Death

shanghai Celestial Empire
The supcrsuions of the Chinese AFRO
sometimes very curiou.Iy exemp.i.ied.
The other day n woman died in the city
she was the wife Of % charcoal dealer
who for a long time had boarded
money secrctcly, tine fact being hidden
even from her husband. When She fell
sick, She took her dollars and concealed
them under her pillow, her avarice cN-
tended so iar-the ruling passion strong
in death-that when she died her hands
we're found cutchug Il number of tho
coins so tightly that IL was impossible tp
unlock the fingers. OF course, firmly
as the muscles may have been set 20
would no doubt have been possible
for the husband to have wrenchcd OF cut
them apart had he wished % dose; but no..
"She stuck 10 her dollars during
her life" said the widower 'aud sho
clings to. them still more desperately u
death let her have them uudi-umbcd. .
And so the corpse was buried, I,s dead
hands clasping The dollars with de-per'
ate grip, while the rest Of the poor orea-
lures savings were put into the coffin
and buried forever with her.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-29
THE WAVES on THE BEACH.

The waves curl up on the beach,
And thr 1ugh the livelong day,
Their murmvIing voices whisper
From Newport TO Cape May;
''Come back, for We are waiting
For love, aud song and mirth,
The svrOllers on the reaches,
The bathers in the surf.
Come, for the summer ealleth
For sail, and song. and slee,
For happiness aud laughter,
The cottage by the sea
Aud bright es es. answering sparkle
Those eyes with love divine,
Tparning to brim with giadneas
The cup of loves white wine
Some by the wailing sen shore,
Where waves roll up at play,
Still echo happy voices
From Newport To Cape May;
And music, Jest and laughter
From ruby lips shall fall,
For youth, AMI hope, AMI summer,
And love, transfigure all.
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Two Dollars a Year.
DON'T STAY LATE TONIGHT.

The hearth Of home is beaming
With rays of rosy light,
And lovely eyes are cleaning.
A. fall the shades OF night:
And while thy steps are leaving
The circle pure and bright,
\ tender voice, half grleVlug,
says, Don't stay late tonight
The world in which thou movest
Is busy brave and wide:
The world OF her thou lowest
Is al the ingle II le;
She waits for thy warm greeting,
Thy smile is her delight;
Her gentle voice cntrcatiug,
Says, Don't stay late tonight
The world, so cold, iuhum1n,
VIII spuru thee II thou lai;
The love Of one poor woman
Outlasts and shames them all.
Thy children Will cling round thee,
Let fate be dark or bright
At home no shaft will wound thee,
Then Don't stay late Tonight
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-29

The Railroad Gazette publishes some
,.oIuobIe statistics of railroad cJnstruc-
ton for the first five months this year,
With very sensible comments thereon.
Taking the period referred 10, for each
II NE last FIVE years, which includes The
manic wear of 1878, we find that the to-
toI construction was smaller this year
than in any except 1873, being BOB
niles. against 542 miles last year, and
$50 miles in 1878. la 1873 ir was 9lS
miles. OF the total mileage so far cone
structed, p per cent. is narrow gauge,
and is. OF course, intended only as local
use or as feeders 70 the main roads.
Fifty.four per cent. of the increase was
in the two States Of Texas and Caliior-
nia. while Ohio-chiehy in narrow
ouaoe roads-was next The Gazette
1oints ont that there is now very little
work remaining to be done on long roads,
and that we may look forward % a CONE
naratively small rate Of increased mile
Ace for some time to come, and it adds
that this is ga return TO something like
normal activity ia railroad construction,
not no, a retrogression 70 unhealthy stagna-
ton.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-29
How they Got the Marriage LIZ
cemSe.

From the Bowling Green Photograph
Last week a man go years old walked
Is miles on the railroad to town to Duy
his marriage license. The case Is hardly
40 bad as one that occurred in sumner
county, Tenn, some time ago. a mau
walked to GalIatin 80 miles, to gel ms
license. but after making application ne
lacked so cents of having money enough
ne walked home and tried to borrow 2O
cents. and failing, walked back to Gal.
latin. and spent three days trying TO beat
down the clerk.
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A simple Cure Tor Dr"nr.o""e---

A Brooklyn man writes 90 the sun: ..I
drank more Intoxicating liquor from tho
wear 1851 10 the last day of 1873 than
any other person ] ever knew or heard
Of: and in the meantime, knowing this
sure cure, did not practice Do on myself
but, for fun, did practice 10 on others,
and effected permanent cures. The rDm-
edy of the cure is this. When 81 person
fnd. he must have q drink, Deg him take
a drink of water, say two or three swa.-
lows. as often as the thirst or craving
may desire. Let him continue thls pran-
tice. His old chum will laughi but Iet
him persevere, and IL viii NOT BE q week
before the appetite for any Kind of s.Im-
ulant will disappear altogether an4 "A.
ter be taken to quench the natural ta.rsl.
If at am any time the victim should feel
a craving. iet him take the first ppportu-
nifv and obtain a swallow of water, and
and he can pass and rePass all saloons.
When he goes home 40 night he VIII feel
satisfied and be sober and have money iu
bis pocket. commenced this praclea
the first day of 1874 and never think of
taking a drink OF stimulant-.
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san Fancisco Call Paris letter.
The latest tenderness invented for lap
doos i an umbrella attached to their col
ISrs The pugs heve already top coats,
md baps are specially made for their
travelling with their mistresses In ran
way compartment.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-29

PIUEAPPLE shirts and coats will soon
appear in the market. The pineapple Is
cultivated extensively in the East Indies,
where the leaves are converted INTO
kind of wadding used for uPhoisterlng
purposes intead Of hair, and into q sort
of flannel, of which substantial coats and
shirts are made.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-29

A Scotch witness, somewhat given t0
has recently given ana ex-
act and careful answer which ought 90 DO
appreciated by lawyers Of every land.
''How far is it between the'tWo farms 81
said the counsel BY the road, ita two
miles" Yes, but on your oath, how
far IS it as the crow flies 7 81 donno
Ken never was Q crow.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-27

A New Jersey poultry man fed his
ROSTERS on pulverized blue glass until
the birds crowed so loud that his well
cayed in. [Danbury News. ri
Divorces are so cheap in Chicago that
an active and enterprising man can
have fifty-two wives a year and no fun
eral expenses. Rochester Democrat.
'sIf you don't stop your coughing,
sir" said a testy and irritable judge.
'Tn fine you 1OOl.n "I1l give your
lordship 200l, if you stop it for me-"
was the ready reply.
The druggist who hasn't invented a
cough medicine of his own is some in
dolent man who had rather whittle a
single than wait on customers. De
troit Free Press. q
A gentleman had occasion to correct
his daughter, aged 4, recently. After
it was over and she had sat q while, she
went to her mother and inquired:
Don't you think it would do papa
good to go out doorsP"
One or two churches which dispensed
with quartet singing for q time have
returned to it. The best singing is now
a necessity for a metropolitan church
proposing to maintain its position and
influence in the community. Boston
Transcript.
The Rev. DIR. Ellis, of Boston, said
the other evening: "The revolving
story which Hawthorne has wrought
out in his Scarlet Letter is without
even the shadow of foundation in fact.
1t was all conjured up from his own
distempered and nightmare brain"
About twenty years ago Mr.. and Mrs.
e%taninhofI, of Harrison, Wisconsin,
welcomed a son into the world. The
child was bald at birth, and to this day
hasn't a hair on his head. Since then
five more children have been born to
them, three boys and two girls, all of
whom are perfectly bald. milwaukee
Sentinel.
Mrs. Darlington says that just be-
fore the war circumstances were seen
round the moon nightly, shooting stars
preambulated the earth, the desk of the
sun was covered with black spots of ink,
and comics swept the horizon with
their operate tails. Everybody said
that it prOfligated war, and sure enough
war did come.
The Rev. Joseph Cook lectured in
New Haven, Conn, last Friday night
on "Skepticism in Eastern Massaehu'
setts.n He attacked Harvard College
with such vigor that the Yale men il
the audience positively lickedtheir chops
with Joy. eff Harvard had a Dwight, ,
said he, ''the history Of that institution
and of Boston would be different" Al
this point a big fellow in the audience
calculated: Hoop it up for Dwith
Was he in tho crew."
Colonel Tom Young, now Governor
Young, of Ohio, has a keen appreciation
ola joke. Driving out Spring Grove
avenue one day to his beautiful resi-
dence, he saw on q fence. ''Take Pink,
er's remedy for piles,'' and further
along the solemn expression from som
missionary society. "Prepare to meet
your God" Tom went to the trouble
and expense of employing a sign paint
er to go the place and paint a huge
land" between the two, SO that it read,
Use Pinker's remedy for the piles and
prepare to meet your God. Washington
Capitol.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-27
A Monkeys Fatal Curiosity.

The soldiers at the United States
Arsenal at Summerville had, until
Monday, a pet monkey, the cunning
est Darwinian that ever left the AZ
rican forests. Jocko vas ordinarily a
good monkey, but, like too many of his
biped contemporaries, he possessed a
great fault. Jocko was tormented by
curiosity, and alas! it brought him to
an untimely grave. For some time
Jocko has been in the habit of watching
the artillerymen as they fired the MORN
ing and evening gun and finally became
imbued with an ardent desire to be a
''gay soger boy" Last Monday morn
ing he slyly approached the piece, which
is used for firing the salute, and jerked
the lanyard. To the amateur artiller-
lists surprise and disappointment the
cannon didn't fire. He Immediately
darted to the mouth to see what was
the matter, when the piece suddenly
went of, and so did Jocko-all his aspira-
tions and his limbs blown to the winds.
His remains were literally strewn over
the sward. Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle.
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TUESDAY, MARCH "a, 1877.


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Subscribers who fail to receive their
papers regularly will confer a favor by
Immediately reporting the fact at this
Office. u
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al

A New Jersey poultry man fed his
ROSTERS on pulyerized blue glass until
the birds crowed so loud that his well
An .rod In nanh11 NnNNs -
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$40, $50, 800, $500, $500.

ALEX. FROTHINGHAM q co, Bank.
ers and X No. IL Wall ST.. New
York, make for customers desirable Invest
ments of large or small mounts In stocks of
q legitimate character, which frequently pay
nom I'VE to twenty times the amount In
vested every thirty days. Reliable Stock
Privileges negotiated at favorable rates.
Stocks bought and carried as long as desii ed
on deposits Of three to i've per cent 49,
Circulars and Weekly Reports sent free.
oct3ldly.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-11-10
Grant In Paris.

Despite the clamor Of party warfare at the
French capital the pleasant demonstrations
Of welcome to General Grant continue 1t
is, indeed, happy characteristic of our
fellow republicans on the other side of the
water that they never forget their duty as
hosts, and though they may sometimes
become sufficiently excited over their
domestic concerns to apply to the occupa-
ton of the headsman ingenious labor saving
machinery, they at least never become OBJ
livious to what is polite toward visitor.
There is no city in the world where such an
entertainment as was offered to General
Grant at the opera last night can be con-
Quoted with such brilliant effect as in Paris I;
and the impcrturbable smoker who lighted
his memorable cigar between the acts on
Thursday night will be the richer for the
enlarged intellectual horizon that such q
sDectacle opens.