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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1881-06-16

Strength OF character consists Of two
things power Of will and power OF will
and power Of self-restrant II requires
two things, therefore, to its exIstence--
strong feelings and strong command over
them. Now it is here we make great
mistake-we mistake strong feelings for
strong character A man who bears all
before him, before whese irown domestics
tremblo, and whose bursts Of fury make
the children Of the household quake--be
cause he is obeyed and has his own way in
all things we call him a strong, he master.
ed truth is, that the is the weak man: ii IL
his passions that are stoDg, he, mastered
by them, il weak. You must measure the
strength Of a man by the power Of those
which subdue him. And Leuce compos.
ure is very often the highest result Of
strength. Did we ever see man receive
a fragrant insult, aud only grow little
pale andiquictly reply? That is man
spiritually strong. Or did We ever see n
man in anguish stand as II carved out ofa
solid rock, mastering himself Or one
bearing hopeless daily trial remain
silent, and never tell the world what
,ankered his home peacep That ia
,trenth. He who with strong passions
remains chaste; he who, keenly sensitive
with manly powers OF Indignation In him
,an be provoked and yet restrain him, elf
md forgiye-these are the strong men. tho
piritual heroes.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1881-06-16
Vol UME XXI.

rnn Car IN Hisroay a good deal of
attention has hcen given o. late years, by
students Of natural history, TO the question
Of historical distribution of plants and
animals and many points Of popular .utcr,
es,s have been calculated by their
researches IL has bccu shown ler OK.
ample, that while the dog has been com
panion OF man from the very earliest times,
the cat is comparatively recent addition
~ the complication OF life Cats were
tanned by the Egyptian priests aud nc
corded religious honorS aud oven worship
But the anoieut Greeks knew nothing ot
the domestic cat although mice we're
known to tbom from the highest antiquity
Indeed. mice were at tunes very trouhle.
some 10 the Greeks, whole districts beiug
sometimes devastated by them and the
people driven away, as they are by grass
hoppers from some places nowadays
In order to cope in some measure with
mice the older Greeks kept woasels or
martens. tanned for the purpose, The
weasel, in particular, occupied tho same
place in the world that the cat docs now,
and numerous iablos and proverbs rotating
to the weasel, which are still current, ori.
ginated at that period. Tho old Romans
knew no more about cats than the Greeks,
and it is only in the fourth century after
Christ that mention begins TO be made Of
the cat as domestic animal. Evidently
IL was at this timo that the cat was dis.
tributed througout Europe aud Asia,
II IL not little remarkable, though
perfectly natural, that the introduction Of
the cat gave new impulse to tales, and
fears Of ghosts and entertainments,
The sly, creeping, nocturnal grimalkin
took rank at once with owls and bats and
soon rs exponents Of all that is weird and
supernatural. Entirely new conceptions
Of witchcraft were gained for the world
when tho black cat appeared upon the
scene with her swollen tail. glistening eye
md unearthly yell.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1881-06-16

HUNTING FOR PLACE. "A good many
people spend all their life time hunting
for the place in this world which they
we're intended to fill. They never settle
down to anything with any restful or con-
tented feeling. What they are doing now
is not by any means the work that is suited
to their abilities. They have sunny ideal
Of very noble life which they would like
TO reach, in which their powers would find
free scope, and where they could make a
very bright record. But in their present
condition they cannot do much or any
thing; and there is little use to try; their
life is humdrum and prosy routine
and they can accomplish nothing really
worthy and beautiful. So they 90 on,
discontinued with their own lot and sigh
ing for another; and while they sigh the
years glide away. and soon they will come
10 the end, to find they have missed every
opportunity OF doing anything worthy Of
an immortal being in the passage to eter.
nifty. The truth is ones vocation il never
some far of possibility. II is always the
simple round Of duties that the passing
hour brings No day is commonplace II
We only had eyes TO see its splendor. There
is no duty that comes TO our hand bu,
brings 10 us the possibility Of kingly ser.
vice.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1881-06-16

The story as told by sophomore o his
little sister: Mary was the proprietress Of
a diminutiye, incipient sheep, whose outer
covering devoid Of color AS CONCEALED at
mospheric yapor, and TO all localities 10
which Mary perambulated her young
Southdown was morally sure 10 follow. II
tagged her TO the dispensary Of learning
one diurnal section Of time, which was
contrary 10 all precedent, and excited
cachiBation Of the seminary attendants
when they perceived the presence Of
young mutton at the establishment Of in.
strnetion' Consequently the preceptor
expelled him from the interior. bat he con
timed 10 remain in tho immediate
vicinity. aud continued Ia the aeighbor.
hood without fretfalness until Mary once
more became visible. what caused this
specimen Of the genus owls 10 bestow no
much affection on Nary" ths impsiuous
progeny yociferated. because Mary
reciproeated the wool producer esteem,
you understand. tho tutor answered back.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1881-06-16

Don't be whining about not having
a fair chance. Throw n sensible man out
a window, he'll fall on his feet and ask the
nearest way to his work The more you
have to begin with, the less you will have
at the end. Money you earn yourself is
much brighter and sweeter than any you
get out of dead mems bags, A scant
breakfast in the morning Of life whets the
appetite for "A feast later in the day. He
who has tasted a sour apple will have the
moro relish for a sweet one. Your present
want will make future prosperity all the
swecter. Eighteen pence has set up many
a peddler in business, and he has turned
it over until he has kept his carriage.
As for the place you are cast in, don't find
fault with that you need not be horse,
because ysu were born in stable. II a
bull tossed man of mettle ky.high, he
would drop down into good place. A
hard-working young man, with his wits
about him, will make money while Others
do nothing but lose it.
Who loves his work and knows to spare
May live and flourish anywhere.
As to little trouble, who expects to find
cherries without stones, or roses without
thorns? Who would win must learn TO
bear Idleness lies in bed sick Of the mul.
ligrubs, where industry finds health and
wealth. The dog in the kennel barks at
aeas; the hunting dog does not even know
that they are there. Laziness waits till
The river is dry, and never gets to market.
'Try" swims ii and makes all the trade
''Can't-do.it' wouldn't eat the bread cut
Tor him, but "Try" made meat out Of
mushrooms. John Pioughmaa'S Talk.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1881-06-16

Boston young lady TO Boston young
gentleman: "And do you think that
Kant's difference between the reason and
the understanding is correct" "Yes. :
"And, sir, what do you understandY'' Il
understand that love you, bu, cannot
give any reason for IL "
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1881-06-16
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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1881-06-16

"lye men Of the Bonrse, he said 10 bis
friend, "are much cslnmniated. ! have
nov been AZ the Bourse for more than 10
years, and never knew but two rascals
who amounted TO anything" "And who
Is the osherY asked the friend.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1881-06-16
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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1881-06-16

Don't cross bridge ill you reach II.
The Columbus journal., 1881-05-25
London FOgs.

Fifty years ago, when we first be-
came acquainted with them, Lon
don fogs were bad enough; but they
were on a comparatively limited
scale. They have since attained
marvelously grand dimensions and
intensity, according to the increase
Of houses and population. What we
ordinarily call London, but is more
directly styled the metropolis, has
spread and spread till it covers a
space of about l20 square miles. In
the winter months every house has
q coal fire, some of them two, three
or four, and there are numerous
manufactures and public works
with furnaces and tall chimneys, all
of which less or more emit quanti-
ties of smoke. This smoke mingles
with what fog there happens to be,
and produces a curious mixture,
that is now only beginning to be
rightly understood. Like every 9TH
er mist, the fog which rises and is
waited along the valley of the
Thames is composed of small par
ticles Of water that ought properly
to be dissipated by the suns heat.
Only one difficulty, is the sun able
to undertake the duty. The smoke
poured out from hundreds of thou
sands of chimneys, does not merely
mix with the fog it coats each wat
cry particle with tarry, oily film,
giving it an unnatural character, and
preserving 1t, so to speak, from i'm
mediate dispersion. A genuine Lon
don fog, therefore, is something
more than a fog. 1t is prodigious
large volume of mist, held in kind
of thrslldom by oleaginous, we, for
convenience, take the readiest word
to express a condition that would
involve some chemical explanations
which need not be gone into. Every
one will understand that the smoke
from the coal fires somewhat unites
inextricably with the particles of
mist, and keeps the whole thing
lowering in dense cloud over the
metropolis. Not only so; the din
gy cloud dsrkens and pollutes the
air, fills the streets, and to certain
extent the houses and lungs of the
Inhabitants. On such occasions the
darkness, even at noon, is so great
The Columbus journal., 1881-05-25
Too Neat.

Men can seldom be accused of
being over neat; but the over-neat
woman is to be found everywhere.
She makes her husband exchange
his boots for his slippers on the
doorstep. No matter how low the
thermometer or barometer, the poor
fellow must dOff his boots on the
porch. Is he wet? He must stay
on the stoop until he is done drip
ping. Consumption? What is that,
compared to a soiled carpet? The
small boy, what a life he leads with
such a mother! Followed about
with dust-pan and brush, and
scolding voice--the hyper-neat wo-
man is always cross-all of child
hoods days, he early runs to a club
room or beer saloon where he can
see little rubbish and find the lux
ury of dirt. The over-neat woman
dislikes to entertain company.
Guests are so dirty, you know"
The parlor is kept dark and unused
from year to year. The carpets
would fade and dust would gather.
We once knew a woman who re-
fused to open her parlor door for
wedding of her daughter. "The
streets are too dusty" she said. 1t
is nothing to her that she makes
other people uncomfortable. She
will have her way, whatever the
consequences; and sometimes they
are bitter enough. We have seen
the lives of good men embittered;
we have seen boys driven to ruin,
and girls imbued with such hatred
of cleanliness that they became very
slatterns by Over-neat wives and
mothers.
The Columbus journal., 1881-05-25
Brain Farming.

Some people imagine that farming
requires but little outlay of brain
power to make it successful. But
as some one has truthfully said -
"Brains make the best fertilizer
man can use." Take two men, one
of them with half the physical
strength of the other, the weaker of
the two will accomplish more than
the other if he exceeds the latter in
brain power. We have known large,
stout, healthy men, who were hard
workers, and yet always on "stern
chase" with their work; they were
always in hot water, always poor,
from the simple fact that their bod
les were better than their brains.
Such man, if he is doing as simple
work As picking up stones on hill
side, will get his stoneboat on the
upper side Of large boulder, and
then by stress of mind and muscle
roll it on the drag, while the weak
er, but wiser man, would place the
boat on the lower side of the stone,
unhitch his team, place the chain
above it, and in twinkling have it
loaded, and save his own strength
for some more important occasion.
And so it goes to the end of the
chapter with the man who does not
" think ;" and this law applies to
indoor as well as outdoor work. I'll
men and women would take time to
plan their work they would secure
better results than to hurry and
scurry about without thought or
system. We honestly believe that
if every farmer would have study |
and library, like professional
man, with a few good agricultural
papers, and spend an hour or two |
each day in reading and planning
his work, he would secure better
results than to spend twice that
amount of active labor on the farm.
This is the time and the hour for
inventions in every di-
rectiOn, and no farmer can entirely |
ignore this increa sed knowledge,
md compete with those who have
heir eyes and ears open.--Easte,n
The Columbus journal., 1881-05-25
The Irish News.BOy.

Charles O'Connor, a distinguished
New York lawyer, when eight years
old was an office-boy and newspa-
per carrier, and would often spend
all Saturday night serving his route.
IL is said that he never missed a
subscriber. When seventeen years
old he became an errand boy in a
lawyers Office. He borrowed law
books, took them home and read by
the light of candle far into the
night. When twenty.four he was
admitted to the bar. His industry
and perseverance have won him re-
nown. A boy will succeed who
makes circum stances bend to him,
rather than bend himself to circum-
stances.
The Columbus journal., 1881-05-25

sured, or failure not so certain-the
days when children hung about their
knees, and daily anxieties environed
them; hOmesick, perhaps, for the
very worries which they have out
grown, for the little trials which
belonged to the hours of their ac-
tivity, for the hopes that time has
dispelled, for the caresses Of dear
dead hands, the sound of voice
that is STILL To-day seems alien
and sunless TO the homesick heart
which lives in the yesterdays. But
if age is sometimes smitten, neither
is youth exempt. The young sicken
for what the future may bring-for
the fame that is so long i'm coming;
for the recognition, the happiness,
the romance, its promises. That
longing, baffled feeling which haunts
US when some good that has been
promised or paid is squandered or
withheld is form of the disease
familiar to most of us, which comes
to us upon some strain of music
which the incense of the 'meanest
flower that blows may revive. Who
has not been touched by il iE re-vis-
iting scenes that were once a part
of our everyday look-out--the old
homestead that has passed to stran-
gers, the orchard where we learned
the sweetness of stolen fruit, the
church where we repeated our lit
tie prayers, the school-hOuse where
we made acquaintance with fractions
and the ferule, or the garden gate
where we parted with our first low
er? Ii may be that the masculine
mind is less susceptible than the
feminine to this sentiment of home
sickness. Man is oftener master of
the situation. If his conditions dis
please him, he has the power to re-
arrange them to give the kaleid-
oscope of life another turn; if the
'madding crowd offends him, he can
pack his valise, and go on a ranch,
where fhe sound of the church-go-
ing bell the valleys and rocks never
heard;' and if country life grows
he may seek his fortune
abroad and medicine hOmesickness
with the infinite variety of the uni
verse.--HdTper'S Bazdr.
The Columbus journal., 1881-05-25
study of English Literature.

The thing we want to save for our
children is the habit of intense, pa
tient reading OF the worlds few good
books, or OF the best that fall i'm the
way of any particular child. Such
books are still rare, and the boy
who has climbed few of them need
not tire his legs tramping through
the vast realms of foothills over
looked from their SUBMITS. There
is but one way now i'm which this
can be accomplished. If child, at
proper age, can be thoroughly in
troduced to one real author, led
through his books and brought into
vital communion with the "hiding
place of his power" he will not be
tempted to fill himself with husks;
but will go on making the acquaint-
snce of other books and authors of
the same sort. 1t seems to us that a
good deal of the instruction in Eng
lish literature fails at this point. A
pupil is not committing to memory
a compendious history of English
literature, even weekly exercise in
repeating poetical "gems." On the
contrary, this sort of instruction lays
the foundation of that hop-skip-snd-
jump style of going through authors
which leaves the mind of the reader
flippant, shallow and dry; trifling
with the surface of culture, untouch-
ed by the influence Of the noblest
minds. 1t may be we'll to give
high-school or academical class
chart of English authorship, with a
few lighthouses and buoys indicat-
ing the great channels of thought
that fertilize the different periods of
English and American history. But
this is properly the work of the histo.
ry class; and nothing is really done
for the student in literature till some
author of commencing power is
taken in hand and read thoroughly
by teacher and class, till the dullest
soul in it comes to know, in some
measure, the power of a great book.
Ii but one thing can be done, let it |
be this. Better give your whole |
school one session a week with your |
most accomplished teacher, in the |
thorough reading of one great au-
thor suitable for the class, than fill |
their minds with a senseless cata-
logue of authors and titles relieved |
by a few extracts like dull suit of |
linsy wolsey illuminated by the
dreary glimmer of an occasional
brass button sewed upon the homely
suit of melancholy gray.
The Columbus journal., 1881-05-25
HOmesickne-<.

Perhaps there is no sensation so
dis-hesrtening or so demoralizing to
the mental and physical system as
homesickness. It is not necessary
that one should be in foreign land
in order to experience the sensation.
In fact, one may feel at home in the
Arabian desert, or among the ruins
of Baalbec. IL lie the uncongeniality
Of the surroundings which predis-
poses us 10 the malsdy rather than
removal from familiar scenes and
faces. The disease has no respect
for persons il more often seizes the
idle than the busy. The king on the
throne suffers, perhaps, from its
quslms when he remembers the hal
cyon days before the cares of state
belesgured MIN the poor-house ten
ant may feel sickening yearning
for the home she has never known,
which has never existed for her the
little child droops away from his
mother; the withered crone has mo-
ments OF unutterable pain when she
recalls the hesrth-stone where the
embers have been ashes for half a
century; the old are homesick for
their youth, the days of their
strength and their prime, when the
world was all before them where to
choose when success was not so as
The Columbus journal., 1881-05-25

that dwellings and places of bus
iness have to be lit with gas as at
night. AS the London gas is more
remarkable for its volume than its
purity, it aids in deteriorating the
atmosphere during fogs, already
sufficiently tainted with the exha,,a-
tions of domestic sewage. At times
it is as difficult to get a breath of
fresh air as it is 10 procure a good
drink of palatable water.
The Columbus journal., 1881-05-25

General Garfield said to delega-
ton from Indiana that wanted a
cabinet position for that State: 81
am under obligations to my district
for sending me to the State Senate /;
| am under obligations to the peo-
pie of my Congressional district for
sending me to Congress so often; |
am under obligations to the State of
Ohio for electing me to represent
them in the Senate of the United
States; and I am under obligations
to the four million Republican voters
Of the United States for electing me
to the Presidency. have more OBJ
legations than can pay. Gentle
men, | am a bankrupt, with more
Obligations than assets.
The Columbus journal., 1881-05-25
COlumb bus Post Omce.

pen on Sundays from IL A. NJ. to ~ M.
and from 1880 to P. NJ. Business
hours except Sunday "A. NJ. to s p. M.
Eastern mails close at II AN.
Western mails close at 4:15P PM
Nail leaves Columbus for Madison and
Norfolk, Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays, A. NJ. Arrives at 6 p. NJ. .
NOr Monroe, Genoa, Waterville and AL
bi0n, daily except Sunday AM. Ar
rive, same, q Pm.
For Postville, Farral, Oakdale and
Newman's Grove, Mondays, Wednes-
days and Fridays, g AM. Arrives
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays,
at q P.M NJ.
For Shell Greek, CrestOn and Stanton,
on Mondays and Fridays at A. NJ.
Arrives Tuesdays and Saturdays, at
6P. NJ.
For Alexis, Patron and David City,
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays,
1P.M Arrives at ~ NJ.
For st. Anthony, Prairie Hill and St.
Bernard, Fridays, 9 A. NJ. Arrives
Saturdays, Bpm.
The Columbus journal., 1881-05-25
CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION.

C.H. yANWYCK, U. ). Senator, Neb-
raska City.
ALVIN SAUNDERS, u. 5. Senator, Omaha
L. J. MAJORS, Rep, Peru.
E. X. VALENTINE, Rep, West Point.
STATE DIRECTORY:
ALBISus NANCE, Governor, Lincoln.
:, j. Alexander, Secretary OF State.
John Wallichs, Auditor, Lincoln.
g. NJ. Bartlett, Treasurer, Lincoln.
C.J. DilwOrJh, Attorney General.
w. W. w. Jones, Supt. Public Instruc.
q. J. Nobes, Warden OF Penite ntiary.
y, w. ~ "; GanIS,N aHSsN Prison Inspectors.
J. o. Carter, Prison Physician.
H.P. Mathewson, Supt. Insane Asylum.
JUDICIARY:
). Maxwell, Chief Justice,
S9oass a@ass ccbb. :; aaAe' Associate Judges.
FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT.
Il. W. Post, Judge, York.
NJ, Il. Reese, District Attorney, WahOO.
LAND OFFICERS:
NJ. b. Hoxie, Register, Grand Island.
VIM. Anyan, Receiver, Grand Island.
COUNTY DIRECTORY:
!. G. Higgins, County Judge.
John Stauffer, County Clerk.
J. W. Early, Treasurer.
BENZ. Spielman, Sheriff.
z. l.. Rosssiter, Surveyor.
John Wise.
NJ. Maher, County Commits sioners.
Joseph Rivet,
Or. A. HeintZ, Coroner.
j. r. Mohtcreif Supt. OF Schools.
8; Byron Re; halissi aiiisiit. Justices ofthePeaee.
'harles Wake, Constable.
CITY DIRECTORY:
}. X. Meagher, Mayor.
II. j. Hudson. Clerk.
John +. Wermuth. Treasurer.
Geo. It. Bowman, Police Judge.
l.. j. Cramer, Engineer.
COUNCILMEN:
LIST Wdrd-JOhn Rickly.
q. A. Schroeder.
2d Wdrd-Wm. Lamb.
l. Gluck.
3D. Wdrd-J. Rasmussen.
A. A. Smith.
The Columbus journal., 1881-05-25

Boston Post: Americans are of a
practical nature. When an Illinois
farmer who had got rich was visit
ing Switzerland, they dilated to him
OF the beauty of the surrounding
scenery. Yes" he replied, "as
scenery it's very good. But it
strikes me the Lord has wasted a
lot of space on scenery that might
have been level and good farming
land" They wanted to lynch him.
The Columbus journal., 1881-05-25

The editor of Red Bank On. J)
paper replies to an attack upon him
in another Red Bank paper by say
ing that "when an idiot, pen, ink
and paper get together, the result
should not be published"