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The New York herald., 1877-02-14
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Moody is Just forty. And he holds his forty, well.
Wagner wears stoveppe hat and quietly looks into
picture windows
Mr.. William Beach Lawrence, Of Rhode Island, is al
the Albemarc
Many OF these paragraphs are mucilatcd In the ST.
Louis Globe Democrat
Rear Admiral j. r. NJ. Mullaney, United States Navy,
Is at the Fifth avenue.
Cigarettes very unhealthy but there arc great
many men who still borrow them.
Secretary J. Donald Cameron and Lieutenant Colono
Frederick ID. Grant are at the Brevoort.
There is in Nicaragua a plant which when touched
rivcs shock like that of the electrical eel.
senator oar OF Massachusetts, promises to redeem
that grand old State from charges OF medocry.
Philadelphia Buiietim:-"I.ove may DO pdre and
bo,v passion but still thcro good deal OF Cupdity
about IT,"
To the ordinary Bakers chocolate add very little
vanilla with sugar. and ~ will be good as tho higher
priced kinds.
Tho United States troops arc coming East They
hope that II they can surround a cigar store Indian
they may catch one.
Colonel X. NJ. Lnran, commanding the Royal Engi.
nccrs at Gibraltar. will succeed Major General Leroy
as Governor of Bermud in April next
The man who invented the whistle YVES Adrian
Stevens who recently died. He not to compared
with the man who invented the .Eolian harp.
The Prussiar Socialists who believe that property
ought 10 held by the government for tho fair benefit
of ALL have great advance in the parliamentary
election.
Al the last Harvard examination fOriy-nv per cont
failed in algebra and ytwo per cent in English
position though but sixteen per cent were lacking in
Greek grammar
Mr. j. Knight says that in carly dramatic literature
there arc no warm indications OF domestic life or
of the beauties OF landscape The he says, was
always sign OF terror and not of beauty.
The Rcv. James Martincau who some time ago
compelled to resign his pulpit because OF failing health
seems have recovered his strength TO large extent
since limiting himself to purely scholastic and literary
duties.
oliver Wendell Holmes, in his "Autocrat OF the
Breakfast Table," lays down the theory that 'mem.
ory Imagination, old sentiments and associations al
more readily reached through the sense OF smell than
by any other channel"
philosopher says that astronomy IL the earliest
OF the sciences; but from the way that baby gets
| into short dresses and immediately goes TO work
poRipg into the mica windows of the stove thought
| that the earliest of the sciences mncralogy.
| General William 7. Sherman and Senator John
sherman, OF OHIO, arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
| yesterday from Washington. Last evening they called
| on the Mexican cx-Prcsidcnt Lcrdo, Tcada, at tho
Windsor anu to-hay, accompanied by Secretary caml
cron aud Licutcpaut Colonel Grant VIII pay on1ciuI
vislt 70 the IorMncations 10 the harbor
The New York herald., 1877-02-14
The staten Island Mystery.

The story that fair woman was found
once great deal of curiosity in minds other
wise careless, and aroused intense and tender
feeling among people who are society's true
Jewels. The continuance of the mystery
which enshrouds the case will greatly stim-
ulate the wonder Of the one and the SEN
sibility of the other class allnded to. Even
vulgar curiosity must unconsciously merge
itself in sentiments more noble as the known
facts of the case make their mute appeal to
human sympathies. The mystery of death
is great enough under ordinary circum-
stances, greater when man is found dead
without apparent cause, but greatest when
womanhood, youth and beauty become the
prey of fate or crime. More touching and
pathetic than the circumstances of her dis
covery and condition is the fact that the
dead woman remains unrecognized and
apparently unsought. This truth speaks vol
umes about the isolation and the friendless-
ness which in large cities may betall even
persons who by nature are attractive It
seems impossible that the case can remain a
mystery. Ordinary means of Identification,
particularly that of photography, will ulti-
mately bring about solution of the puzzle
but until then poor humanity will tempo
rarily rise superior to itself through the
exercise of those sentiments which are
always brought into action by sorrow and
misfortune, no matter what the cause may be-
The New York herald., 1877-02-14

THE WEArHER.--Monday evening and ycster-
days storm proved extremely severe, especially
through the ST. Lawrence Valley and III Nova
Scotia. The wind at New York attained it's
highest velocity ut half-past eleven o'clock on
Monday night when it was forty eight miles per
hour. IL gradually moderated during yesterday
10 twenty five miles an hour, and blew steadily
from the northwest. Heavy snow fell in Nova
Scotia, especially ut Chatham. where its water
measure amounted to 1.2O inches. The very
bigl, pressure that follows the storm centre is
now entering the st. Lawrence Valley. and we
sl,all soon experience shifting of the wind to
northerly and orthcastcrly. possibly with snow
or rain. In the far Northwest another dcpres
sion il advancing slowly toward the lakes with
h;ob winds and partial cloudiness over
,,c inner Missouri aud Upper Mississippi
vollcvs. The disturbance in the Southwest has
movcd over the Gulf States, causing heavy rain
Mt southcrIy points and in the Lower Mississippi
Valley. High winds may be expected on the
yuth Atlantic coast when the storm centre
reaches that line. The temperature III the North
west has risen. but continues low over the lakes
tbc Middle and New England States and Can''da
r,,,. Ohio continues to fall and the Upper missls
.;,ui has risen somewhat. The weather III New
york today will bc cold and clear or party
r,ou.lv. followed tonight by rising temperature
Increasing clouduess and possibly rain.
The New York herald., 1877-02-14

From o,r reports This morning The probabilities
are mat Me ,ceaiher ia Nc,o York to-day ,riH be
cold and clear partly cloudy. tolo,ced tonight
by rising temperature, increasing cioudiness and
possibly rain.
The New York herald., 1877-02-14

The STATEMENTS about the supposed causes of
the convict Clancy's death call for prompt and
searching examination. There is unfortunately
% great deal of reason TO suspect prison officials
Of brutality and - great deal of difficulty in oh
tanning evidence in individual eases but here is
81 case in which, il the story told is true the
proofs are visible to the eye.
The New York herald., 1877-02-14

EX-SENATOR CREAMER's LETTER to Comptroller
Kelly is full of startling revelations about mat
tcrs which have long excited suspicion hut
which appear of greater magnitude when con
slensed into cold figures. The natural question
is. What are we going to do about it 1t is pity
that the answer cannot be given that the az
crieved villas very cheaply they might-organ-
ixe a private detective force to bring the Of
fouslcrs tp justice.
The New York herald., 1877-02-14

WALL. STREET YESTERDAY.-The market
opened weak and Neutrality-suspicious. which
continued throughout the day. Western Union
was again weak, owing to the causes and
to the strengthened position of the Atlantic and
Pacific line Government bonds were steady,
while there was a slight decline i'll railway
bonds. Money was easy at 3lo and 2lo per cent.
Gold opened and closed at 1O5l2.
The New York herald., 1877-02-14

QUARANTINE paid its own expenses last year.
Cannot the Commissioners lend haud on the
State prisons now!
The New York herald., 1877-02-14

Pools are not what they used to be- When the
pool of Bethesda was troubled somebody was
always comforted and nobody was hurt; but the
stirring up of the old Chicago and Northwestern
''pool" makes happy nobody but lawyers.
The New York herald., 1877-02-14

HINT TO REFoRMERs.-The complaints
against the management of the Westchester
PoOrhouse were not sustained examination,
yet the committee say in their report that the
investigation will have tendency to improve
the conduct of the institution
The New York herald., 1877-02-14
II RIPPLE SH q e T.
NEW YORK. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY "A, 1877.
NOTICE TO COUNTRY DEALERS.

The Adams Express Company run specinl newspaper
the renusv Railroad and IT'S connections
leaving Jersey City at quarter past four Me- daily and
sunday carrying the regular edition Of the HERALD ms Tar
West Harrisburg and South To Washington. reaching
Philadelphia quarter 81 A. NJ and Washington at
The New York herald., 1877-02-14

OMAMoNY GOES TO IRELAND at last not as
the armed conqueror which his friends once
hoped he might have been, yet conquering even
his bttcrest enemies by reminding them of their
own impending and unavoidable defeat by the
arch enemy of all men.
The New York herald., 1877-02-14

GENERAL SMITH PROMISES clean streets be-
fore warm weather. II he keeps his promise he
will perform greater feat of generalship than
any now on record.
The New York herald., 1877-02-14

THIS Is ASH WEDNESDAY, and Lent begins.
What is the price Of fish!
The New York herald., 1877-02-14

The EMMA NINE BUBBLE like everything else
connected with that famous hole in the ground
is tough. 1t outlasted fifty-two days of legal
abuse before its friends were enabled to take it
n fharue
The New York herald., 1877-02-14

articles. II out of every five dollars given
for charity the poor are only to get one the
people had better be their own almoners and
run the risk of occasional imposition.
The New York herald., 1877-02-14

WHAT Has BEEN DONE AT CREEDMOOR.-The
report qf the General Inspector of Rifle Practice
shows increased efficiency of the militia marks
men to the extent of three hundred and fifty per
cont
The New York herald., 1877-02-14
ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.


BROOKLYN RINK.-PATIN SKATING.
GRAND OPERA HOUsE.-MoSsrxuR ALruoSsE
BOOTHS THEATRE.-FirrH AvESuI
NEW YORK AQUARIUM.
GERMANIA TuEATRE.-THKRrsE KRoEKs
PARK THEATRE.--OUR BoAHpiSc HocsE
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE. Lemons.
wALLACK's THEArRE-wiLp OATS
THIRD AVENUE TnEATKE--Two oRrmASa
UNION SQUARE TnkArRE-TnK DAsicnrtra
EAGLE rHEArRE-AfMrs.
ACADEMY or DEslGN--wArgR CoLoRa
HrADT TTllEATRE--USpER ruE GAsLicnL
NIBLoS GARDEN-ARouSD THE Womb
OLYMPIC NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. rHR CLOCK
BOwERY TIEATRE.-Piaur.
BROADWAY THEATRE. .-ouR, Bora
THEATRE coMIQUE-vAKIEr1
TONY PASTORS TnEATRE-vARnrr
TIvOLI THEATRE--vARIErY.
SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS.
KELLY & Icons MlNsrRELS
NEW AMERICAN MUSEUM.
IIELLERs TITEATRE.-pRKsrIpicrrAr
EGYPTIAN HALL-sESsArioSAL VARIETY.
PARIsIAN VARIETIES
COLUMBIA OPERA HOUsE-vARIrrr.
The New York herald., 1877-02-14

How many Valentines!
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-21
BATES

ElrIts. Mo April I~lh, l>15.
fIIrrr I~Ii.iIGrr ,rr ley. !. + rUrIIug-
ton. 81 tn. NJ / church.. i"i GnrI!v principal OF
t." Lexington !.igh school, has been 49, gncd Ia
THIS Station. II" rrr.t"u',! hHe first -rTiuuu al
thu place SUNDAY hr;"rr last t"a very utt "urivr
Audience. I">i. 1T cor. 13r,i and 4lrh verses.
Mr. Mason x. ilrnIy, "i Lafayette, j. Wilt
ing lee daughter Mr.. iT. l:rr,lch, ia i:u!lrr.
:. Il. ~dsubr""k am! -. -. Austin have been
I" Kansas ity +" confer wItI II committee APP
Ins t railroad tf"I" ktn-n, CITY /" Springfield
M.-eouri, VIA l:a'Irr aud IRE, mIirii III" road
rlrir provinces to reach Butler first viii get u
liberal subscription from liz c,t!,na oil THIS
County 20 -Ay are rH =
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-21
Lexington Market.

Ia ito report the wi"l.etir ,ri.r- ar' sIy-u -
i-i' u,ui column. au,t ryiiI! price, "a Ti.ht taUi
cntuum. Iu ruuHtY. ~rrr,iI'e. TIA" iisHir- ~ IT..
l,N ,i-n"t- VIA TIL" nrrchini- are paving, ali
on Iur iI-iI the price at WHirM lie. ~.Ii.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-21

hear his cry tor office. aui IL will hay" Ia pack
hts black 'Rri'"I-big and leave TOR strIu.. parts
TEL most ILIi1 "f thv earth. Respectfully.
ALFRED JONES.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-21

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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-04-28
Animal Statistics.

Cats are affectionate; they love young
chickens, aweet cream, and the best place
in front of the fireplace.
Dogs are faithful; they will stick to a
bone after everybody else has deserted it.
Parrots are easily educated, but they
will learn to swear well in half the time
they will learn anything else.
The birds eat bugs and worms for plain
victuals, but their dessert consists of the
best cherries and gooseberries in the gar
den.
The owl is only picture of wisdom by
daylight, when he can't see anything.
When it comes night his wisdom wholly
consists in catching a field mouse if he
can.
The donkey is an emblem of patience,
but if you study them closer you will find
that laziness is what's the matter with
them.
The eagle is the monarch of the skies,
but the little king bird will chase him to
his hiding-place.
The OK knoweth his masters crib, and
that is all he does know or care about
his master.
dlC llllIullNO1 DuJ IL thN
can't initiate some mischief they amt
happy.
The goose is like all other fools-al-
ways seems anxious to prove it.
If mules are ever meek it is simply be-
cause they are ashamed of themselves.
The bees are busy people; rather
than be idle they will rob each other of
their honey,
Ducks are only cunning about one
thing: they lay their eggs in such sly
places that sometimes they can't find
them again themselves.
The muskrat can foresee a hard win
ter and provide for it, but he can't keep
from getting caught in the silliest kind
of trap.
Hens know when it is going to rain,
and shelter themselves, but they will try
to hatch out glass egg just as honest
as they will one of their own.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-04-28
Torpedo Boats.

While foreign nations have bestowed
chief attention upon immensely costly
experiments on guns and armor, here
IN the United States the principal aim
has been the perfection of the torpedo
system. An admirably organized and
thoroughly equipped torpedo school for
the navy has for several years been in
existence in Newport, r. |. The work
which there is done is not published, but
many of its results are of great impor
lance. There is also an army torpedo
station at Willetts Point, Long Island
We have also constructed one torpedo
vessel which is probably the most formid-
able craft at1oat mot excepting the
ltalianiron-clads with their 1O0-ton guns),
and in time of war will form the model
for fleet of like steamers. This vessel
IS the Alarm, which would be a disagree
able craft for heavy iron-clad lone like
the Vanguard, for instance, which went
down like a shot on being slightly
rammed) to encounter. She is well pro-
Yided with defensive means. Having
sighted an enemy-say at night-her
compound engines drive her headlong at
AS she nears him the immense electric
light on her bow flashes out its glare,
binding her adversary to her own hull
(Which is already sunk so low that her
deck is but three feet above the seal
while displaying his every, nronnrtior,
hurls its huge shot or shell into the at
tackled vessel is followed by the crash
of the bow spar torpedo striking the de-
voted craft thirteen feet below the water
line. Then, perhaps, after momentary
check due to the torpedo recoil, the
Alarm plunges forward, driving her i'm
mense ram into her adversary's crushed
side AS she swings broadside on to her
foe, another torpedo spar shoots out
from her side, and another torpedo is
exploded under the unguarded bottom of
the enemy; while the machine guns I'M
der the torpedo boats rail keep up
deadly fire of thousands of bullets per
minute sweeping her opponents decks.
Her length is 172 feet, of which thirty
two feet is snout or ram; her beam is
twenty-seven feet six inches, and she
draws eleven feet of water, displacing
about 700 tons. She is built of thorough
~ lesleu CHARCOAL TOn, anu oh inc Ell
glish bracket plan system; that is to say,
she has really double hull, one shell
being constructed inside the other.
Within the outside shell three Longitude
nails of great strength run the entire
length of the vessel and are connected
with the bars running the entire length
in horizontal direction by brackets.
| The different sections can be entered
through man-holes, SO that a person can
pass from stem to stern between the in
ner and outer vessels. These compart-
ments are all water tight, so that in the
event of a leak only one section could
fill. The whole interior of the vessel is
also built in compartments which may
be Theoretically sealed.-.Scient{fc Amer
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-04-28

Mud turtles are the slowest of anv
four legged creatures, and yet they are
always ON the move, trying to get some
where else.
hornets have more fight in them than
anything of their size, but there is no
method In their madness; they will pitch
INTO Westinghouse when they are furi-
GUS just as anxious as they will into a
sleeping baby in its cradle.
Inc crow is the most natural of all
thieves; they will steal, and hide, what
IS OF no use to them, nor loss to anybody
else.
Ants are the busiest of all the little or
Dig bugs, but large share of their time
Is spent in repairing their houses, which
are built where folks cannot help but
step on them.
Flies toll not, neither do they spin,
yet they have the first taste of all the
pest gravies in the land.
The cuckoo is the greatest economist
among the birds; she lays her eggs in
other birds nests and lets them hatch
them out at their leisure.
hats have fewer friends and more
enemies than anything of the four-legged
persuasion on the face of the earth, and
yet rats are as plenty now as in the
Palfhlest days of the Roman Empire.
vi all things lazy the sloth wears the
Delt, and yet his la2iness is all there is
interesting about him.
The frog dodgeth when it lightens
and the toad gapes when the thunder bel
lows.
The crow builds her nest of sticks, the
swallow of mud, the squirrel of leaves,
the wren of feathers and wool, and the
woodpecker digs hole for his eggs in
the rotten trees.
The serpent and the crab change their
clothing each year, and the raccoon lives
all winter long ON the memory of what
ne eats IN the summer.-.joSh Billings.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-04-28
Identifying Finger-Nails.

The fngernails of fashionable French
women are professionally attended, and
this is description of the method of
operation: First, a sharp instrument cut
the nails, sloping them on the side with
a point i'll the center. Then a tiny pair
of pincers were used to pull off all the
pieces of dry skin around the nails, COM
monty called by us hangnails. Then a
steel file was used to raise the skin up
and push it back, so as to show the half
moon on the nail, which is considered a
part of its beauty Then a liquid was
poured over it to battle it; then dried,
and red pomade spread thin, rubbed
off with fine yellow powder, which
caused them to shine. 1t took about
half an hour, and cost the munificent
sum of sixty cents. There are women
nail-doctors in Paris who obtain as high
as two dollars visit.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-04-28
Two Stories.

A MASSACHUSETTS gentleman, Just re-
turned from over the Canadian border,
tells these stories: He was in the hotel
general accommodation room, when two
veterans of the (hoteD bar, laying schemes
for drink, began to tell stories to each
other for his benefit. "These are awful
hard times" said one. 81 never saw
such times before, except when I was in
Ohio, an then l was hard to t to git
along. Nothin' to do. had yoke of
steers, but they want earnin' nothin'.
But lived right on the road the West
ern emigrants went over every day. So
! dug hole in that road at the foot of
the hill near my house, turned a Twin
spring O water into It, and made good
mud-hole. Well, when the emigrants
came along, every day there would be
one or more teams git stuck in the mud
hole, an they would see my steers stand
in out dom nothin', an they would send
up and git me to come an help 'em out;
and alwuz charged as much as five dol
lars lift. Well, | KEEP that mud-hole
right up in good repair till | made
| $25, 900 out ont. an and then sold it out
for $4,000, an moved up here" Story
number two was the other Munchausen's
companion piece for the yoke of steers.
"When was a-choppin'-I could chop
some, you know--an' folks used to ask
me how much | could do in day.
Have you ever tried it?' says they
No, never says L; never but once, an
that wasn't really try You see, just
to show 'em what l could do, got up
one winter mornin' afore light an ground
up my ak sharp, oh! jest as sharp, an
went into the woods. An | chopped
like sixty till about three o'clock in the
afternoon, when l thought it was as
much as could pile afore shutdown, an
| went to pilin'. Well, when | had it
all piled up it measured twenty-seven
cord. An then knew somethin' was
wrong, for knew at the rate had been
chopping it oughter be more. So went
back an begun lookin' round to see
what the trouble was. An there, right
at the fust tree l cut in the mornin was
my ax-head You see, the thing was
loose and slipped off, an had been
chopin all day with the bare helve. y
Boston Ad0ertiSer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-04-28
Om ponna o6aMs.
THE PHOTOtRAPH or LUCY.


Said nurse who braidad syn,',. ri,
OF Lucy's hair. and laced bar y,o "S,,'S
And pinned her sash bo,ys S', IoTI, A.
"'Can This he orr via un,'1,, uo"n'
WIN A''''
Unjust look inst NV nic,st ta ',a's 'o-uay
To have INV picture taLen 81
There's nothing rou~h must snoil VOL, l,,o,,.
The photoGranb ~ T Tuo', sPo'i you know
And. ere the artists shads ,vaS s 3a.u'
Across the camera. bade her lodi
Where round of class an mac tool,
And held the form NJ Inc '0oN'
Our likeness paints If a. we mass 7i'''7'
Mamma explained, and then she sbo,ved
How in her own ewes brightly gio,veJ
A fairy print Of Lucv 7'0"'U
Lucy, no bigger than a bead