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Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-08-02

He GAVE 1T UP One of the poets OF
the First Empire, Nepomucence Lemer-
cer, wrote tragedy whose hero was
Christopher Columbus. He had in 1t
violated the unties, which Frenchmen
for years considered an invioable law OF
tragedy. When Lemercier's piece was
played the students hissed it with great
vehemence. Napoleon admired him, and
when he heard the tragedy had been hissed
he ordered it TO be played again. 1t was
again hissed. He became furious. He
ordered it played third time, and went
to the theatre accompanied by regiment
of soldiers. The first and second acts
were heard in silence. 1t was at the third
act that the Kissing was most vigorous.
When the curtain rose on the third act,
Napoleon leaned over his box and locked
at the students, to see if they would dare
oppose his known will in his presence.
What should he SEQ but the whole audi
ence, from the pit TO the last tier, wear
ing nightcaps, and pretending to be fast
asleep. The sight was SO odd, Napol'
con couldn't help laughing, and he gave
up attempting to support the tragedy.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-08-02

DID CUSTER KILL HIMSELF. AN In.
dian account of the death of Custer will
not / think, prove uninteresting. The
Indians say that, after the general STAN
pede, Custer tried to rally his men around
him. He waved his pistol in the air, and
shot i: off twice TO attract his men. Two
or three gathered around HIM, but as the
Indians still continued to advance, one OF
the soldiers tried to run away. Custer
fired at him and killed him, and then
seeing the case quite hopeless, the In
dians gathered around from all parts
turned the revolver on himself, preferring
to die by his own hand. The Indians say
that they think this person was Custer
as he was a chief but they are not GER
tain Of the fact. Rain in the; face took q
a soldier prisoner. but he was not allowed
to live long, as he was killed at dance
that followed the fight. The Indians here
all agree on one thing-that the number
of Indians killed in the fight was SO
they give their names. Cor. Chicago
Tribune.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-08-02

Too MUCH GKAMMAR.-The peril Oi
employing highly educated young men
as clerks WIS again illustrated yesterday
A woman stopped at a grocer's on Wood
ward avenue and asked:
-"Is them lettuce fresh?"
"You mean that lettuce" suggested
the clerk; land it is fresh"
"Then you'd better eat it," she snap.
ped as she walked on"
The grocer rushed out and asked the
clerk what on earth had happened to an
ger her, and the young man replied;
why, nothing, only corrected her
grammar"
"You have turned away one Of my best
customers. Oaly yesterday she came in
and asked me how sold those white SUI
gar. and | got An order for Mole bar
rel. Hang you, sir but il them custo-
mers want granmer they don't expect Ia
find her in grocery No, sir, and il
you see she again you want to apolize in
the most humblest manner l"-DetrOit
Free Press.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-08-02
NUMBER SEVEN IN THE BIBLE.-In
seven days dove was sent out.

NUMBER SEVEN IN THE BIBLE.-ln
seven days dove was sent out.
Every seven days the land rested.
Jacob served seven years for Rachel.
Jacob served seven day for Joseph.
Abraham pleaded seven days for So
dom.
The golden candlestick had seven
branches.
Naaman washed seven times in the riv-
er Jordan.
jacob was pursued seven days jour
ney by Labsn.
Every seven years the law was read to
the people.
On the seventh day a after the rain Noah S
ark touched the ground.
Solomon was seven years bnilding the
temple and tasted seven days at its ded =
icatiOn.
On the seventh day OF the seventh
month the hildren of Isreal began 10 fast
seven days in their tents.
Jobs friends sat with him seven days
and seven nights, and offered seven bull
locSs and seven rams as an ator ement.
A plenty of seven years and a famine
of seven years were foietsld in Pharaoh's
dream by seven fat and seven lean beasts
and seven ears OF blasted corn.
In the destruction OF Jericho seven per-
sons bore seven trumphets seven days;
on the seventh day they marched around
seven times, and at the end Ofthe seventh
round the walls fell.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-08-02

SEVERAL articles and letters have been
printed in the German papers of late
lauding the efficacy Of the sting of the
common bee as a cure for gout. Here is
one of the latest ofthese communications,
which appeared only few days ago in
the augsburg EVening Gazette: II was
lying in bed" says the writer, suffering
from heavy attack of gout, accompanied
with violent pains in my left foot, when
| CHANGED to read in newspaper an arti,
Gle describing how gout NAV he cured by
the sting of bees. at once determined TO
try the remedy, and soon contrived a
small box by means of which captured
bee could be applied TO the afflicted part.
| then let my foot be stung by three bees
in succession, each bee leaving his sting
behind in my flesh. After few minutes
these stings were extracted /; and when
the pain caused by them had subsided |
found that the gouty pain had also left
me. On the same day left my bed, and
on the morrow WAS able to walk about.
For some little time my foot was slightly
inflamed and experienced some burning
sensation but in -four or five days this
left me, and l was completely recovered" !"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-08-02
TWO MARRYING FAMILIES,

Mr.. j. l.. Holcomb, a gentleman Of
Kentucky, but who has been in Critten :.
den County, this State, for several months
tells us ofs rather remarkable though
hardly unprecedented matrimonial affair
which occurred in that county recently:
Out from the line of the railroad and
aside from almost any other well defined
mark of civilizstion-marks so ill,del.
heated in fact that they are as half.
worn date on an ancient con--there lived
old man Rosebury and his two sons,
twins. The age of the old man is rather
doubtful, but it is believed by his near
neighbors, the nearest of whom are with
in a stones throw, that is if the stone be-
thrown mile and half, that he isabout
fifty. The sons. being twins are about
the same age, twenty The near
est human habitation was house oceu-
pied by a Mrs. eileen and two daughters,
though. pity to say. the daughters were
not twins at the time of their birth, and
have not yet succeeded in attaining that
point. Mr.. Rosebury fell deeply in love
with Mrs. Glenn and the two sons, Rob,
er; and John, fell equally as much SO
with the two daughters, Mary and Rach-
Ell. The most imaginable Wholesale love
making ensued. The old man and wid-
ow seemed devoted to each other and the
younger people were sufficiently so to
marry, which they did on the same day
After tho ceremony the six happy souls
and the six happy bodies repaired to the
residence of the husbands. Everything
worked smoothly. The old man was
very kind to his newly made daughters,
particularly so to Rachel, the wife of his
son John. The kindness increased and
the matrimon ia lists marveled, one to an
other. The old man even disregarded
the wishes of his wife and Rachel snuifed
her Grecian nose at her Roman ,nosed
husband. One morning about two weeks
after the marriage, the family discovered
that the old man and Rachel had gone.
Searching and not being able to find them
|
but learning from a ferryman that they had
crossed the river into Tennessee, the tami-
| ly returned. Pretty soon an intimacy
sprang up between Robert, Mary's hus-
band, and the old lady. The old lady
was so wise and had such broad expert
ences that Robert never grew tired of
profiting by her counsel. Another disas-
ter. Robert and the old lady ran away,
leaving John and Mary, who seeing, as
they were not blind, that they were left
alone, clasped themselves in loving en-
brace, for it seems that they had loved
each other from the first. Did they stay
on the farm? No, sir There is n mort
gage on it. They packed up, and ac
cordlng to the ferryman, went over into
Tennessee - Lutte Rock Gazette.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-08-02


ORIGIN OF THE House of RoTHCH1LDs
1t had very humble origin, and it has
attained its present greatness in sur
prisingly short period of time. There is
no need to go back tn the period when the
grandfather of the late Baron stood on
the pavement by the Royal Exchange in
London, little tray Of precious stones
before him. A day came when this en-
terprisng Terson, like some of his rela-
tives in other cities of Europe, had at
tanned the position of money scrivener,
and in quite humble way, had to do
with the mysteries OF foreign exchange.
He lived in one of the by.streets frequent
ed by his race in the city of London, and
to his house there came one night mes-
senger who stated that the Prime Minis
ter of England and the Chancellor of the
Excheque; would be glad of an interview
with its owner. This was some sixty years
ago. when the Jews were still persecu>
ted people in the country, and when the
liberties, even of Euglishmen. were not
held of much account by our rulers. Mr..
Rothchild could only imagine, therefore,
that, at their wits end for money, the
authorities had sent for him, with the
idea Of despoiing him cf his wealth. In
this emergency he called his family to-
gether, this time embracing not merely
his wife and children, but his relatives
and, having denuded hin, self of every
thing he possessed in favor of those about
him, he gave them his blessing, and sor-
rowfully set out in his shabbiest attire for
the Prime Minister and the Chancellor OF
the Exchequcr, he was immensely re-
lieved to discover that all they wanted OF
him was to ascertai in whether he could
help them to make continental remittanees
to large amount without the risk of tor
warding specie. The Peninsula war was
in progress, we had to find means not
only for our own troops but also for
everybody elese's, and Napoleon's gener-
ais had an ugly way of falling upon our
treasure conveys and confscating their
money chests. Mr.. Rothschld thought
with the assistance of his relatives abroad
he could help the English government in
their d difficulty, and in effect he did help
them SO effectively that Napoleon was
literally furious to find that the English
gold" of which he was, not without
reason, so much in dread, was circulating
all over the continent in a most mysteri
Gus and intangible manner. This was
the origin Of the great house of Roths>
child in its character as an international
government financial agency. liverpool
Mercury.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-08-02

GRANDFATHER LICksHINGLE's VIEW
OF IT.-Grandfathe Lickshingle threw
down the paper yesterday in disgust, and
exclaimed:
at makes me sick, by gracious; it
makes me sick l."
"What makes you sick, grandfather"
asked James.
"Why, here's another coachman runs
away with his employ daughter.
at certainly is too bad. said James.
And they get married the minute they
are out of sight of her fathers house.
1.-THE poor, silly thing"
"Well, l should say 'the poor silly
thing !" l should also say tho sap.head
the shallow-pate, the crazy Drained i'm
becile," continued grandfather, in tow
ering rage.
"Thc poor creatures are just from
boarding rchool," said James, with
their heads full Of romantic"
who's just from boarding school?"
yelled the grandfather.
"The poor, silly girls are"
"Who's talkin' about gfrls?" yelled the
old man, little more savagely than be-
fore. ITS the coachman l IN hittin' at
If had son, and he was good coach
man. an he would disgrace himself by
running away with his employers giddy-
headed daughter, d spend my pension
money in rIotous livin' | wouldn't leave
him one red cent to rub against another
Now, you hear your old grandfather
quote Shakespeare" - Cincinnati En-
oJj1eV
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-08-02

81 HAVEN'T been in these here parts" :"
observed grizzly old gentleman Mt our
shoulder in car l2l, for nigh on TO TWEEN
ty year till now, and | love to set my
eyes on the face of an old friend. IL does
me good to see human faces, for believe
there's something good behind 'em. I'm
forty miner. l remember the time
when l was five thousand miles from
home, straight as the crow flies, without
red cent. was hungry, thirsty, tired /,
miserable and moneyless. Hello, said
voice Hello back, said I, and then
young fellow came down the land and
he said, odd boss, how are you p Hear
ty' said /, and dead broke Then the
young fellow plunged his hand into his
hundred dollars in bright gold. Help
YOURSELF he said and turned his head
away. l knew you when | saw you
only dusty speck on the road. You
gave me Il drink and got me doctor
when | WAS threatened with the tremens,
and there is nothing in the world too
good for you.' : | love to live my life
over,' continued the old Californian, be
cause / see the noble in human nature all
along the line. Let 'em say what they
please, there is such thing as principle
among men, and there are lots Of us that
try to live up to it," AS The car stopped
on a switch, he stepped of and stretched
himself under an elm IN numerous daisy
field beaming upon the world at large
approvingly over his gold bowed specta-
cles.-PfOVidence Journal.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-08-02
A LAZY MANS VIEWS.

LIE. us analyzo this lying in bed little
further. maintain that, in the mere
fact oflyng in bed, there is something
healthy and -ecuperative to the system.
The wheels of life are oiled and eased.-
The proper and legitimate purpose of
stopping in bed is to go to sleep. There
is no tonic or medicine in the world like
sleep. The more sleep the brain gets The
better does the brain work. All great
brain workers have been great sleepers.
Sir Walter scott could never do with less
than ten hours. A fool may want eight
hours, as George III. said, but philoso-
pher wants nine. The men who have
been the greatest generals are the men
who could sleep at will. Thus it was
with both Wellington and Napoleon. -
The greatest speakers in the House of
Commons have been the men who can go
to sleep as much as they like. This ex-
planned the juvenility of the aged Palmer
ston. There is man who has been Atty.
General, whom l have seen bury his face
in his hands over his desk and sleep sound
ly until his own cause should come on.
"Sleep," says the Greek proverb, "s the
medicine tor every disease. IL no sleeps
he will do WE'LL" A friend told me that
he treated himself for fever. He went
to bed with a large pitcher of lemonade
by his side. He drank and slept, slept
and drank, and slept himself we'll again,
When you take to your bed get all the
sleep you can, even although to quote
Dick Swiviler's saying, you have to pay
double for double bedded room, COM
Tossing that you have taken a most un-
reasonable amount of sleep out of n single
bed. You will DO banking II whole store
of recuperative energy. Even it you can
not sleep, still keep to your bed. There
is no more pestilent heresy than that you
should get up directly you are awake. If
| it is the early riser who catches the worm,
the worm is a great idiot in rising still
earlier IN order to be caught. If you do
not get sleep by lying in bed you get rest,
hereafter produce good harvest. Sleep
is of course the proper employment tor n
bed, but if you don't sieep you cnn still
lie and read. l don't believe that the
man who gets up really learns or does
more than the man who lies in bed. O
all the sleep in the world there IL zone SC
good rs what you get, in the way o
treasuretrove, after toe usual time o
waking. when, in point Of fact, you have
given up the expectation of getting any
more sleep. AS for being called" rs
the saying goes, that is simply relic O
the barbarism OF our ancestors. | should
quarrel with any man who presumed "tO
call "me. One of the main beauties al
an occasional day in bed is that you get
an extra stock Of sleep, which goes to the
credit side of sanitary account.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-08-02
JUST AS OF OLD.

l saw my love in dreams last night
Pass up the sleeping moonlit lands,
The love beams in her dear ey es bright,
A rose bud in her rose leaf hands,
And round me as nearer stepped,
felt her soft arms steal and fold,
While close against my heart she crept,
Just as of old.
The gray dawn broke, my love was gone,
The golden dream was past and dead,
l got me to the ehurchyard lone
Through which my love forever fled,
found headstone gray with years,
l bowed me to the morn mists cold,
wept and know she saw my tears,
Just as of old.
But ever while live alone
This comfort comes and sosthes my care
We, too may meet, when all is done,
Far off in heavens garden fair;
And by the light above. beyond,
Chastened, each others face behold
Stainless, more pure, but true and fond,
Just as of old.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-08-02

THE SHoEMAKER's DINNER.-A pri-
vate letter from Col. Il. II. Bringhurst,
dated at Parra}. Mexico, May 10, 1879,
gives the following narration Last week
in chihuahua, IA woman went into a
shoemaker's shopin front of his dwelling,
and W as measured for pair OF shoes
The son of Crispin said to the weman
You have pretty foot" Do you
think so ?" said she. He replied
Yes that is the prettiert foot in Mexi-
co." The woman was to come back next
day and leave 81, when the shoes were to
be commenced. The shoemaker's wife
hearing all, said nothing. The next day
the shoemaker was out when the woman
with the pretty foot called according to
agreement, and the wife got her into a
back room and stabbed her to DEATH
The wife then cut a steak out of the dead
woman's leg, and packed the body under
the bed. The shoemaker came home
and ate his dinner. The wife asked him
how he liked the meat. He answered
that it was the best he had ever eaten
The wife then told him he had eaten part
of the prettiest leg in Mexico. He asked
her what she meant. She showed him
the body under the bed, and made dash
at him with knife, but he escaped and
ran to the Palacio and told the Judge
what had happened. The Judge sum
moned guard of soldiers and went to
the house. He asked the wife if she had
committed the murder, and when she
answered yes, and attempted to justify
the act, he ordered her to be shot on the
spot by the soldiers, and his orders were
promptly yed.-LoganSport (And)
Journal.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-08-02

THE papers tell about Syracuse wo-
man who is accompanied everywhere by
a pet rat, Chicago spinster Of bithed
affections who wears live m ik snake rs
bracelet, and permits the sweet thing
to writhe on her arm when she is making
calls, ard lady who pats gold harness
on a Brazilian beetle ami lets it crawl
over her shoulders. 1t is barely possible,
however, that the papers lie.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-08-02

ABOUT week ago an Iowa man died.
He was very wealthy, and left three sons,
his only heirs, and would you behave IT.,
the ungrateful boys got together and ran
away with all ths property before the
lawyers could get at it and divide it with
each other. There is 50 much sordid,
mean, grasping seliishness in this world,
that sometimes it il quite enough to die
courage good lawyer.-Sympathettc
Exchange.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-08-02

NOTHING surprises young man more
says the New Orleans Ptcayuae, than the
shape of his head when he sees it after
bis hair has been cropped close. HIS
ears appear TO be out of place, and there
is general connecting link look about
him that he did not expect.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-08-02

VIENNA is accused of originating the
Boccaccio stocking, or the popularity of
wearing stockings OF which one is white
and the other black. This elownish, not
to say vulgar idea, is not, unfortunately,
confined to Vienna or Boccaccio, for a
Young woman descended from a fremont
street car, the other day, with enc foot
and leg clad in blue and the other in card
inal red boston Courier.
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THERE are no two people who look
upon each other with more distinguished
konlempt than the mizer and spendlhuft,
and guess they are both right ab1ut it.
Josh BILLINGS.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-08-02

CHARLES" "Clara, did poor Carlo
hsve a pink ribbon when you lost him?"
Cara-"Yes, yes, the poor little dear
have you seen him?' Charles-"No, not
exacrly, but there is piece ofpink rib
bon in the sausage ~
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-08-02

GENERAL 5. #. CARY says: In this
country our circulation is sl2 and our
taxes Sl7 per head. Our taxes are s.
per head more than our circulation med
ium.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-08-02
LAST NOTICE.

all PERSONS INDEBTED to the
n late firm OF Karsky Il Abrabm, by
note or book account, are hereby notified
TO make immediate settle'Nent aud SAVE
COSTS. We have waited Until the present
time but can wait no longer, and there
fore say to those indebted to us, kindly
but FIRMLY that the business must be set
tied. KARSKY IL ABRAHM.
WeavervilS. May l4th, 1879. If.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-08-02

The dearest spot on earth-the store
where they do not advertise.
The New York herald., 1879-03-12
BROKERS IN COURT.

Mr.. Albert Nelson. q broker doing business at No.
l25 Pearl street. arrested yesterday and brought
BEFORE Justice ottcrbourg. at the Tombs Police
Court, charged with larceny by Mr.. Jonathan N.
Havcns. OF No. 81 broadway. Tho affidavit of tho
complainant sets forth that ON the 4th inst. Mr.
Havens took from W. W. Haney. OF No. 60 Broad
way. twenty shares of stock OF the Consolidated
Virginia Mining Company. OF Nevada, and
from Mr.. Henry j. Steel of No. ID Broad
street, twenty shares Of stock of the Califor-
mia Gold and Silver Mining Company. OF
Nevada. for which he agreed TO return before three
o'clock of the same day check for their value Mr.
G. A. Nelson, IL IN alleged, had previously made
rangcments with Mr. Havens Tor the purchase of the
shares Mr. Ravens says he delivered the stock 10
Mr. Nelson before two O'Clock ana demanded Ia"
money for them but that gentleman locked the forty
shares In his safe. and said he would give him tdr
Havcns) credit FOR their value. Mr.. Havcns was
therefore. unable to fulfil his agreement with Mr.
Hanley or nir. Steel. The case was laid over for
examination until to-day.
The New York herald., 1879-03-12
"REMINISCENCES or SLAVERY.

Professor Erastus Everett, of Rutgers Female
College, delivered lecture before tho Lebanon Club
at its hail. corner of Columbia and Stanton Streets
the subject being "a Sugar Plantation OF the oldcn
Time" Having lived in the South for years
before the late war. the lecturer spoke only from
observation and experience. In pleasant. colloquial
manner he described the mighty Mississippi River
and its commerce., conducted his audience through
fragrant orange groves and China trees to tho pala
tal residence of the wealthy sugar planter. whose
generous hospitality to strangers $50 long the
latter did not express obnoxious ideas in regard to
the then divine institution of slavery he warmly
cxtolled He culogizcd the ladies of the planters
household for their quiet industry, snd al
though native OF New England. he said
that the Southern ladies the most
beautiful pure and virtuous hc had ever met; I;
that they approached nearer to Solomons dcscrip-
ton OF vWtuous woman than any other class Of
women that he Lad ever read Of He briefly
alluded To the evils OF slavery and said that IL
not much the former Southern aaveowners who
ut fault tho system itself. lie gave his hearers
interior view Of the plantation negroes quarters
and described tho process OF sugar making from the
planting OF tho cane to the final OF the
saccharinc product.