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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-06-12

ES-RuYS' SHOES
BOYS SH0E9l
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-06-12

TAR, J. w. DEWITTS PILE REMEDY,
- the unrivalIed French cure for Blind,
Bleeding, liberated and Itching Piles. Cusr-
anteed to cure any case. Price 20 cents per
bottle. For sale by
ie7 T.. S. LEADBEATER s. BRO
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-06-12

- ,,,ng and Columbus St. (J my q G. M1LBURN
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-06-12

TNRY OUR MIXED TEA AT FORTY CTS.
l. FER POUND; nice delicate favor.
GEO. McBURNEY & SON,
ie4 l66 and 10 King stree.
a - for sale at bottom prices by
jel0 B, W. AVERY, &c King st,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-06-12
GitY Council.

The regular meeting Of The City Coaacil was
held last night
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-22
Afraid to Bid,

At an auction sale Of miscellaneous
goods on Michigan Avenue, says Chi
cago paper, the auctioneer put UP a
wolf robe, und invited bids. An old
man inspected it closely, seemed to
think there was bargain III it, and yet
he hesitated TO bid.
Don't you want it," asked the auc-
tioneer
"Yes, kinder" was the reply.
"Then why don't you bid and take
it,"
"Wall, I've bought heaps o. things
in dry goods and So on," slowly rejOin-
ed the old man. land | never yet took
home anything that the old woman
thought was worth the price. If l got
that ere robe for over fifteen cents,
she'd grab it IN, pull at one end, chew
Oh a corner, and call out, Cheated
agin-more'n half cotton!' That the
reason l dasn't bid"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-22
Paradise Among the Pagans.

Japan, says the Fortnightly Review,
seems to be a country where men new
er lose their temper, where women and
children are always treated with gen.
tleness, where common laborers bow
and beg pardon Of each other if they
happen to jostle accidentally, where
popular sports do not infiict suffering
upon the lower animals, where paper
screen is ufficient protection against
all intrusion, even that of burglars,
and where cleanliness takes such a
high rank among social virtues as TO be
carried almost to ludicrous excess.
japanese manners are certainly very
different from our own; but the Japan
ese are thoroughly well-bred people.
Manners are not idle;" urbanity, gen.
tleness, and consideration for others
are not mere superficial qualities; when
such national characteristics are found
combined with courage, energy, and
intellect, they may surely be accepted
as evidence of an advanced civilization.
Foreigners, after living in the interior
Of Japan for considerable time, on
returning into ''civilized society,"" have
even stated that the manners of their
own countrymen appear to them vulgar
and almost brutal, accustomed as they
have become to courtesy singularly
free from servile or mercenary consid-
eratiOnS.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-22
Laatte.the Banker.

In the zenith Of his prosperity as a
worldrenowned banker, Laftte re-
tanned the same principles of frugality
and saying that characterized him in
his days of indigence. He was never
the avaricious and grasping miser, but
he was ever the parsimonious saver.
Lie would scold, and sometimes read
his clerks lecture upon their wilful
waste of pen, a piece of paper, or an
inch of twine; yet he had vein of
charity, and could be magnificent in
his benevolence.
One morning a lady entered the
boudoir of the banker, to solicit his
subscription to some charitable object.
He appeared somewhat rufiied in his
temper just at the moment, but he re-
ceived her graciously, as FTenchman
r.nows how.
What do you roquire, my good Sis
ter?'' asked the banker.
Sir" she replied, Il come to you on
behalf of my distressed neighbors;
their necessity is great"
''Indeed! you have called at the right
time, for just now am angry with that
gentleman for wasting my wafers." At
the same time he pointed to young
man seated at a desk, who smiled, but
was evidently disconnected.
The benevolent lady pretty much
concluded that her mission would be
fruitless one, and that her visit might
not be without some good result, she
amiably applied herself to excusing the
fault of the clerk, who had called down
the reproof of the careful money dealer
by not making one wafer serve to seal
two letters. Laiitte listened attentively
and afterwards presented to the lady
ciIeck for one thousand francs, saying
at the same time
''If, i'll my career, 1 had not econo-
mized in tritles, it would not be SO easy
for me to have contributed to-day to
the excellent object which you have in
hand. Pray, look i'll upon me from
time 10 time"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-22
WHOLE NO. lO43.
Tardy Compassion.

Four thousand Greeks, who had been
made prisoners by the Persians, were
subjected to all the cruelties and mutt
lations that Persian tyranny could in
flict. The hands and feet of some, the
noses and ears of others were cut off;
after which their faces We're branded
with hot irons. Alexander, on ap-
preaching Persepolis, saw these men,
and could not refrain from tears. He
assured them they should again see
their families and native country
"AlaS!" answered they, "how will it be
possible for us to appear publicly before
all Greece, in the dreadful condition to
which we are reduced, a condition still
more shameful tlIan unnappy?n The
best way to bear misery is to conceal it
and no country is so sweet to the
wretched as an oblivion of their past
calamities. They therefore entreated
that they might be permitted to end
their days among those who were ac-
cuStOmed to their miSfortuneS. Alexan.
der granted their request, and gave to
each of them 5000 drachmas, five suits
of mems clothes, the same number of
women's, two couple of oxen to plow
with, and quantity of corn to sow.
He also commanded the governor of
the province to protect them, and to
exempt them from all taxes and trib-
uteS.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-22

An Englishman hunting in Algeria
had native for guide, and found
himself late in the afternoon in desc
late spot and entirely out of provisions.
The native suggested that hs should
shoot a monkey and broil it over the
campfire. 'What does monkey taste
like? is it good TO eat?" said the hunter.
We'll" said the native, in the most
natural tone, sit tastes very much like
man, but is not so juicy" The Eng
lishman at once struck out for home,
with bis guide well III front of him, and
never took his eyes off him until they
reached a civilized place where food
was plentiful,
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-22
A Valuable Hint.

We read in a scientific journal:
There is a method which have adopt
ed in my own house to cool The tempe
rature of any room during hot weather,
and that is TO hang sheet or blanket
down ouside windows upon which the
sun may be shining, This sheet is wet,
and the evaporation of the water pro-
duces deliciously cool apartment.
The sheet is kept damp by having a
vessel filed With water above the top
of it outside, and piece of flannel ar
ranged to form siphon, and touching
several portions OF the sheet. The wa
ter gradually empties out of the vessel,
and may be replenished if necessary.
The window is, Of course, OPEN"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-22

According to an exchange from the
Pacific coast, Messrs. Miller and Lux
have 10000 acres in all in California,
an area nearly as large as the state of
Rhode Island. There must be at least
400, 900 acres all in one body running in
a strip ten OF twelve miles wide and
sixty miles long from Hills ferry south
ward. ii is covered with farm-houses
well equipped in all respects. They
own about $4,000 head of cattle, and
last year their new born calves number
ed $4,000 head, OF sheep they have
vast number, as we'll as Of hogs, and
they furnish the largest share of fresh
meat for the San Francisco market.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-22

An account of the earth-wax,
scientifically known as oZokerite, and
which is mined in the Austrian pro-
vince of Galicia, appears in the second
number of the Proceedings Of the
American Chemical Society. This
substance occurs at depths ranging
from about one hundred and sixty TO
three hundred and twenty feet below
the surface, in certain petroleum bear
ing strata along the northern foot of
the Carpathian Mountains. tits found
in Jumps or layers from one to three
feet thick, and is of pure honey yell
low color, with the hardness of commol
beeswax. The better qualities Of tbs
earth-waX are manufactured into cere-
sine, a substance hardly distinguish
able from beeswaX, and sold as such in
Russia, to which country large quanti-
ties are exported. The removal of its
impurities changes the ozokerite into
ceTeSiGe.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-22
How to Choose q Horse,

An English paper tells us that the
purchasers of horses for the French
amy always endeavor to obtain a first
look at the animal when he is in the
stable; noting if the animal supports
himself equally well On all its legs, and
if one seems to yield, especially exam
lining it. Attention is then directed to
the largeness of the pupil of the eye,
which ought to be more dilated when
in the stable than when exposed to
light. After the animal has been led
out of the stable, the eye ought to be
again examined, to see if the pupil has
been contracted; if not. the sight is
feeble. Others, to test the power of
vision feign to strike the forehead with
the hand. IF the hollow over the eye
be profound and the temple gray, old
age is to be concluded. Wounds about
the temple suggest attacks Of staggers;
and when the end Of the nose presents
circular scars, it may be concluded the
horse has been twitched with a cord to
insure his quietness while being shod,
or having had to submit - soma nain-
full operation.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-22

An old soldier, relating his expert
ence at a Temperance meeting in Iowa,
said that at one time he got possession
of two kegs of whisk6y, took them to
camp, put a faucet in one of them, and
passed the whiskey around among the
boys until they all got pretty full.
About the time the keg was empty, he
said, for moment his conscience told
him he was doing wrong. lie picked
up an AK and knocked the head of the
other ksg il, and-(here he was inter-
rupted by the deacons' startling cry or
Amen" ''Thank GOd!' GLORY be to
God!'0 After the house became quiet,
he continued: Il knocked in the head
of that keg, gave the boys a tin cup,
and told them to help themselves" 1t
WAS case of premature enthusiasm,
and the wicked scofers il The audience
had their turn 10 shout.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-22

The taint, or unpleasant and peculiar
taste which so much butter possesses
can be avoided when all necessary pre-
cautions are taken to prevent the &C
cess of any kind of odorous vapors to
The milk or cream. Nothing is so
strongly ahsorptive Of odors or volatile
havors as butter. 1t absorbs and re-
tains the vapors from cheese, from
meat, and especially from every kind
of decaying vegetable or animal matter.
If improper or strongly-favored food
has been given to the cows, it is in the
butter made from milk that the taste OF
that food will lie most clearly per-
ceiyed.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-22

In choosing the nest mutton, the rat
should be white, clear and hard, the
scored skin on the fore-quarters nearly
red, the lean firm, succulent and juicy,
rather of darkish red color, while the
leg-bones should be clear and nearly or
quite white. Indifferent and poor
mutton is seldom fat; but if so, the fat
will have yellowish appearance. If
the animal has been driven a long way
or was diseased, the flesh will be fiabby,
the kidney-fat small, with stringy ap-
pearance, while the lean, seen through
the skin on the back, will be of a dark
blush shade.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-22

An authority in dairy matters ex-
plains how rancid butter may be great
ly improved and almost restored to its
original excellence, by kneading it well
in fresh milk and then washing thor
oughly in cold water, with the addition
of little salt. In almost every parcel
of butter some small proportion of
casein is retained, and the decomposi-
ton of this is accompanied 10y the
formation of butyric acid, which
causes the unpleasant taste and smell
knowa as raneidity. This butyric acid
is readily soluble in fresh milk. and
hence can easily be got rid of by the
simple method of treatment recon-
mended.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-22

The Khedive of Egypt makes great
show of setting his kingdoms in order
by sending for European officials and
giving them and their expensive staffs
splendid salaries-S20,0 ,010 d year the
two Comptrollers-General have; but
there is one thing he might do, which
would inspire more confidence in him
than anything else among fnanciers
and men of sense all the world over
restrict his own expenses to 100000 a
year until Egypt is out of the very
thick wood which environs her. 1t is
notorious that his expenses during the
past fifteen years have, without any
exaggeration, been on an Arabian
Nights scale of splendor.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-22

A curious bathing f;:ir FIR was held at
ajudhia, in Dude, last February.
When peculiar conjunction of the
planets takes place, and which only
occurs once in eighty years, the natives
rush in crowds to the river, as they
believe that if they manage to bathe
and go through certain ceremonies in
four minutes and half, they will OBJ
tain the remission of their own sins
and those of millions of their ancestors.
On this occasion the rush to the river
was so great that numbers were trod-
den under foot, and sixty-five persons
lost their lives.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-22

We can gain the greatest victories
over ourselves. What wits we should
be if we only uttered the bright thing
we think OF when the occasion has
passed. A good constitution is like a
savings s-boX-its value is not known
until it is broken. Memory is strength
ened by exercise, and life by remem-
brances. Never mind any other dowry
if yolrhave industry and economy. 1t
is said but true that we can silence our
consciences easier than our desires.
Mental pleasures do not cloy. Jeal-
ousy is no more than awkward homage.
We can pardon, but can we forget'
What a catalogue Of social virtues q
man requires to make him generally
beloved
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-22
Lament Of the Prince of ChOshin on
the Death OF his Wife.
FROM THE JAPANESE.

Waking at midnight when the wind is still,
Alone seem to drift upon a tide
OF dreary waters, while the dying moon
Sinks slowly, gathering all her tender rays.
And leaving the dark-visaged night forlorn:
Means the wild wind, the air is filled with
frost;
Ny eyes are duh, but solitude and cold.
Like cruel-throated watch-dogs, scare away
The tiInid traveller, Sleep.
cannot rest;
dear face shines upon me like star
Through death and darkness. Poor sweet.
lonely love.
On, would be the stone upon her grave,
Or the least flower that blossoms on her dust,
But for the blessed hope that 1 shall meet
Ny darling somewhere in the silent land
The rock of death divides the rushing wave
But the twain streams shall surely meet again.
Through the dim world the village temple beIl
Touches my ears, and every solemn sound
Repeats her name whose pensive thoughts
were prayer,
My arms are empty, but my heart is full,
And shall be fun Of her for evermore.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-22

The most venerable couple in Texas,
nerhaps in the country, are Mr.. and
Mrs. Robinson of Mountain City. He
is reputed to be 103, and she 102 years
old, and they were married in Ken
lucky eighty-two years ago. Mr.. Rob
inson says he never sWore but one oath
has never borrowed but fifty cents, and
never gave note. He and his wife
are like children in their devotion TO
each other, and after any separation
shed tears OH meeting. Recently they
we're presented with a comfortable
house by generous neighbor.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-22

Gen. Trepoff, the head Of the Rus
sian police, was in Poland thirty years
ago, when the Grand Duke Constan-
tine received from man IL the street
a box on the ear. The man fed and
could not be found but the rumor
spread rapidly. Trepoff went TO the
palace and proposed to publicly an
nounce that he, and not the Grand
Duke, had been struck. The offer was
accepted, and Trepoff was created q
lieutenant. That began his career.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-22

Adam was farmer in Paradise; Job
the honest, upright and obedient, was
a farmer; st. Luke was farmer, and
is popularity believed to have been the
first who subjected the OK to the use of
man; Socrates was a farmer, and so
Was Cinoinnatus; Burns was farmer,
and the muse found him at the plow;
Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Ran
dolph, Lincoln, besides vast number
of other great and representative men,
Were farmers. Truly, the profession
has been amply dignifed by its vo-
taries.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-22

The Scientific American gives the
following which our readers, who raise
poultry, will do we'll to heed sPut
tablespoonful of sulphur in the nest as
soon as the hens OF turkeys are set.
The heat of the fowls causes the fumes
of the snlplr'r tn panAtrate evary part
of their bodies, every louse is killed,
and, as al nits are hatched within ten
days, when the mother leaves the nest
with her brood, she is perfectly free
from nits or lice.n
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-22

n. Begnard, of the French Academy
of Science, has noticed indications Of
the presence of ammonia in cast steel.
He says that newly broken ingots Of
steel give distinct smell of ammonia,
and the escape of the gas cannot only
be heard, but can be rendered visible
by placing the steel in soapy water,
when bubbles will appear. Soft steels
do not manifest these phenomena.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-22

The Number of acres cultivated in
corn in Iowa in 1877 is put at 5,063 ,695.
The average product was 80 bushels
per acre, making an aggregate of 1877
4S3,7l5 bushels, an increase Of 133, ,599,.
S04 bushels in the last fourteen years.
This places Iowa second on the list of
the corn producing States in the United
States. The shipments of corn over
the railroads of the State for the past
five years aggregate 47,341 ,38a bushels,
of which II COZ ,4t6 were shipped in 1877
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-22

Francis White of st. Louis promised
his niece that, if she would attend to
his household duties until her marriage
he would give her 81 900 and wedding
outfit. With this understanding she
lived in his family fourteen years; but
when she married lie refused to give
her cent, because her choice Of a hus-
band did not please him. A jury
awarded her SLIGO.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-22

Precautions against insects of all
kinds should be adopted early in the
season, because when they are allowed
to be developed to maturity they pro-
pagate eggs in such abundance that it
is almost impossible to keep them un-
der. The destruction of one early
moth is far better preventive than
killing hundred caterpillars.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-22
Women aS Teachers.

The work of women in the public
schools is, on the whole, excellent.
Those who are failures are not in fault
1t i3 the imperfect system which per-
mits ill-educated, unapt girls to take
charge of lower grade schools, that
deserves blame. The Cincinnati Com
mercial says of the competent teachers:
THE work in these grades, the hardest
steadiest, and most perpleXing work in
our whole system of instruction, is
done by our 500 and 500 women
teachers. 1t would be the basest in
gratitude to cut down their scanty
earnings, and it would seriously affec
the usefulness of the schools besides.
ine best teachers in the district
schools could certainly do better than
to work for less than many a good
shop-girl gets"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-22
DR.. Charles G.. Abbott. writing in |

DR.. Charles c. Abbott, writing in the
American Naturalist, on the traces of
voice in fishes, says that in the seve-
raj years of his study Of the habits of
our more common species, he has con-
cluded that certain sounds made by
these fishes, are really vocal efforts,
and he gives u list of those which he
supposes to possess vocal power. They
are the spineless perch, mud sunfsh,
gizzard shad, mullet, lamprey, catfish
and eel.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-22

A rural poet thus breaks forth: "Oh
the snore, the beautiful snore, filling
the chamber from ceiling to floor
Over the coverlet, under the sheet,
from her wee dimpled chin to her pret-
ty feet; now rising aloft like bee in
June, now sunk to the wall of crack
ed bassoon, now, 1ute-like, subsiding,
then rising again, is the beautiful
SnOre of Elizabeth Jane
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-22

BY an error of the press, the London
Eclectic Review was advertised the
other day as the Epileptia Review, and
on inquiry for it al a booksellers shop,
the bibliopole replied that be knew of
no periodical called the Epileptic Re-
view, though there might be such a
publication coming out by fits and
start.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-22

Gen. Robert Toombs says that tea
growing in Georgia is not new thing
that for the last forty years ''tea
trees" have been grown there. They
were planted by DR.. L'Acce, who failed
in his tea culture only because he did
not understand the treatment Of the
leaves. The general heids that when
Americans understand the manipula-
ticiI of the leaves as well as the Chinese
do, the former will produce as good as,
if not better tea than, 10 the latter.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-22
A farmers wife in Russell Co.,

being annoyed by persons who stole
butter from her cellar put quantity OF
strychnine in firkin, which was stol-
en-. but the thief sold instead of eating
it and the result has been four deaths
and several dangerously i'll. No ar-
rests so far.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-22

a house too clearly shaded by trees
will be apt to suffer from dampness.
Ii building let the living and sleeping
rooms, as far as possible, face towards
the South, and thus gain the advan-
tage Of the sunshine. The sun is a
great preseryer of health.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-22

The theory that the planet Jupiter
has an atmosphere about ten thousand
miles in thickness is strengthened by
some obs bservations of that planets sa-
teliites made by Mr.. Todd, of Adelaide,
South Australia. He states to the
Royal Astronomical Society that he has
several times actually seen one of the
satellites through the atmosphere Of
Jupiter, as it passed behind the body
of the planet.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-22

Life would be impracticable unless it
were the primary rule to believe what
is told us. There is not single rela-
ton in adult life in which we are not
compelled to depend upon the word of
another-of husband, a wife, friend
an agent. We believe certain things
respecting them-in their honor, their
chastity, their affection, their faithful
ness. To what kind of condition would
life be reduced if we were to apply to
these matters "the universal duty Of
questioning all that we believer"