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Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-18

MN SluD
A communication from Aunt Polly Freeze,
of Sulphur Springs, Texas, inquired if the
club had an almanac compiled solely for the
use of the colored population. Brother
Gardner stated in reply that steps had al
ready been taken in that direction, and an
other year would see the matter ac-
complished He was already at work on
the tables, and submitted a proof of the
monrn of October as sample. 1t read a.
follows:
ZENITH MONTH. OCTOBER THIRTY DAYS
Historical events
MI Ham and eggs.
T-2 Goldfish.
VS. Drown your cats.
Tt Look out for cider
F.-5. Chilblains appear.
Sc Take In your feet
ST Beware Of the cops.
Washington Ratchet: Motto OF the cor.
net player-AI high for an high and E soos
tor toot
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-18
Monumental Nerve.

r'voiccs'' in ST. Paul Pioneer Press.l
Speaking Of Albert Pulitzer the other even.
ing, Leander Richardson said: That man
IL the monp mental nerve. Years ago he was
reporting bn New York daily. You re-
member when the Gould-Fisk and the En-
slish bondholders OF Erie held their famous
meeting in the Grand opera house. The
factions entered by different doors, the pro
gramme being for them to meet opposite the
center aisle, take partners and walk to the
stage arm in arm. Gould headed his
contingent, and al Pulitzer, watching his
chance, pushed the English MILFORD who was
to walk with him aside, hooked his arm with
JAYS dexter wing with the remark, so:to
voice, 'Mr. Gould, how is this, anyhow"
and actually got an interview en- route tc
the stage As Pulitzer expects his reporters
to have cheek equal to his own, his subordi.
mates do not regard their places as sine
ruraS "
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-18

When a man escaped he was hunted with
blooihounds. i have seen Nero, the head Of
them, myself i tried to cultivate friend
ship, but did not succeed A colored man
told me there was no trouble getting rid Of
the hounds. All you had TO do was to dig a
hole with your heel, fill 1t with cayenne pep
per, and when the dog shifted it he would
give up the pursuit
We started school in the prison and had
lessons in German, French, Latin and Greek,
and We had a law school The only graduate
was b. +. Black, a member now of Beecher's
church When left the prison he told me to
tell young lady III Cincinnati that he would
not go 10 college again, but would marry her
as soon as he got home. l did 50 and she
was glad to hear it l met her afterward on
Fulton street. He had carried out the pro-
gramme. We started a weekly paper. Every
Sunday we came together to hear it read
The articles were written on all sorts OF pa
per, in ink and IN pencil The crowd would
roar with laughter and the gulrd wouIi say:
They are having good time" We resolved
not 10 have our funeral before We died.
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a little table with a box on it; we were told
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Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-18
OUR DIAMOMD-cUTTING INDUSTRY
European Stones Recut in America-How
the Work Is Done.
lPittsburg Dispatch-l

European Stones Recut in Amerfca-How
the Work Is Done.
lPittsburg Dispatch.l
@Are there any diamonds cut in this cityf'
was asked Of . prominent Fifth avenue jew
eler.
@None," he replied; but we sometimes
have rough NORTH Carolina stones given Us
to be cut They are sent to New York or
Boston The art Of cutting diamonds was
introduced into this country by Henry ID.
Morse, of Boston, in 1853, but at present
there are several places in New York
and Chicago where this work Is
done The European stone is not
as finely carved as those cut in America
There they work to maintain the size and
weight Of stone regardless Of its brilliancy,
but here brilliancy is the necessary requisite,
and frequently a stone brought from across
the ocean and already cut Is made more val
liable here by recutting. 1t will be smaller,
but by this improvement it Is made more
valuable as an article of sale in this country
In Europe they can sell everything that Is q
diamond Those cut here are more regular,
while the European stones are in all shapes
to save material"
What Is a perfect diamondp
aOne that is blue white and brilliant. Then
there are the pink and green stones, which
are also gems. They are peculiar colors, but
good. An of-color stone is ono that is tinged
with yellow. Stones are reduced in price
according to the quantity Of yellow found.
think diamond-cutting will be great
industry in the large cities yet, for
Americans do the finest work. But there is
is not enough work here for single lapidary,
though for initial cutting in stones think
there is employment here for good workmen.
We how send all that sort Of work to New
York, which is the center of this part Of the
trade as Boston Is OF New England, Chicag
Of the west, and San Francisco Of the Pacific
coast The most of the diamond-cutting of
this country is done by machinery. Mr.. Morse
has an appliance in which he mounts two
stones in a double .athe and uses one
against the other, very much the same a
the old hand method By the old way two
diamonds were GENE Iued, each on the end OF
a separate stick, ar handle, and they were
rubbed together with strong pressure by
hand. Mr. Morse cracked the ice by cutting
the celebrated Virginia diamond in 1859, and
since then the industry has grown consider.
ably. There is no tariff on the uncut stoneS
while the cut diamond is subject to q very
heavy import duty. That fosters the in
dustry."
what becomes Of the dustr
at is called bost, and is used in cleaving OF
polishing diamonds Cleavage Is the follow
ing of the sides of the capitalization OF the
stone As general thing it can be more
highly polished, and is therefore the mora
brilliant. Sometimes they are so hard tha,
they cannot be polished. The chips ths'
| c,,na off in claa wing ara used tn repreSr,rA
the eyes of animals and birda The rags fol
solitaires few years ago filled the markea
with cheap clippings
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-18
God Bless It!

am sure have always thought Of Christ
mas time. when it has come round, as a
good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable
time; the only time know of In the long
calendar of the year when men and women
seem, by one consent, TO open their shut-up
hearts freely, and to think of people below
them as if they were rsasy fellow passengers
to the grave and not another race of Great
ures bound on other journeys Therefore,
believe it has done me good, and will do ms
Good-and say God bless it'll
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-18
Didn't Know the Stairway.
Exchanye.l

Two friends are seated before a table GOV.
cred with empty bottles. I'VE must &C
home to bed" says one. Not without dry
ing another bottle, responded his compan,
ion. NO, not tonight; l can't get drunk
for few days yet" "Whyr Because
have moved and am stopping with a friend.
"And he doesn't want you to get tightr
mo, it's not him; it's the stairways. don't
know them yet, and they are awful steep"
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-18
Business Is Looking Up.

uIldUohpIIIok
A few weeks since the celebrated Schuy
Ierville paper mills manufactured forty five
tons of cardboard to be used exclusively il
making playisg calls. Other large orden
for the same materials are waiting to b
filled. These demands for peculiar quaiit,
of paper show pretty clearly what our M
tional game really is and affords a text fa
the moralists t. elabors.e. Draw poker and
old sledge have still a strong hold on the pop
ular heart
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-18
Business Il Looking Up.

A few weeks since the celebrated Schuy-
lerville paper mills manufactured forty-tive
tons of cardboard to be used exclusively in
making playing cards Other large orders
for the same materials are waiting to be
filled. These demands for a peculiar quality
of paper show pretty clearly what our ma
nonal game really is and affords text for
the moralists to elaborate. Draw poker and
old sledge have still strong hold on the pop
ulAr heart
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-18

[Chicago News
Mamma, be late suppers badr
"Yes, my child, very bad"
9What makes 'em badP
@Why. it Injuries the health to eat just be-
fore going to bed"
@Oh! 1 thought may be it injured the
.,ealth to go to bed right after supper"
Johnny wasn't hustled off to bed as early
Is usual that night just the same.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-18
Late isccveries.
Washington Hatchet.

An English electrical Journal has discov-
cred the following popular fallacies concern
ing lightning, viz: That chewing the
splinters from a tree struck by lightning will
cure the toothache; that such splinters will
not burn; that the bodies Of those killed by
lightning shock do not become corrupt, and
that no one Is killed by lightning while
asleep.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-18
baltimore Americana

The accidents of book-making-things
which may make or mar the success OF
work, irrespective of its merits-are per
ilous thought to the author. curious in
stance is T. R Howe's Story of a COuntr,
Town" The book was written in AtchI
son, Kan, and was published in the office of
q country paper In poor type, on rougn
paper, clumsily bound, it made its appear
ance in great newspaper offices and swell
magazines Everywhere il was dismissed
with brief Indifferent paragraph. By all
the tokens the book fell dead.
Barney Macauley, tks actor, returning
from the west brought ~ith him the Atchi
son book 1t aroused in him a curious inter
est, and he passed it around among a grou,
of newspaper men Of his acquaintance. The
first public notice following this revival wal
a column in The New York World, writteI
by Mrs William Conner, born Ada Webb
the wife Of Capt William Conner, of the st
James hotel, at the instigation of a friend
Through the same disinterestednesS favor
BILE notices began to peer through the col
umns of various weeklies, and finally the
magazines blossomed into eulogleS A copy
was generously sent to The Saturday Re
view, which followed in time with favorable
notice.
Now everybody swells the chorus James
r Osgood & Co republlsh the book, and
contract for a new novel, for which Serb
ner & Co, unhappily too late, make a higher
bid Failure and success. Each is but g
chapter of incidents To the tired reviewer
what good can come out OF a countri town
in poor type and dirty paperl The languid
interest of q man in a long railway journey
is happily conveyed to tne right man in
stead of the wrong man, and success is irf
sured, Yet all the time the book remain
the same, hewn out of hfe-blood veined witt
humanity
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-18
Injurious Late Suppers-
tChicago News-l

tChicago News
mamma, bs late suppers badi'
"Yes, my child, very bad"
"What makes EN- badP
"Why. it Injuries the health to eat just be
fore going to bed"
"Ohl thought may be it injured the
health to 60 to bed right after supper"
Johnny wasn't hustled of to bed as early
n usual that niGht iust tl.s came
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-18
ONE GENTLEMAN AMONG 'EM.
The Barber Expresses q Decided Opinion
to His Suriy Sunday Customers
New York Sun

The Barber Expresses . Decided Opinion
to His Suriy Sunday Customers
New York Sun
A number Of solemn and discontented
looking men sat in restless row in an up
town barber-shop, waiting for their cus
tomary Sunday mornings shave They
were fashionably dressed and surly. The
head barber bowed politely to each one as
he entered. There seemed to be but one
idea among the customers, and that was to
discourage any attempts at conversation on
the part of the BARRIERS, and a silencs
overhung the shop, broken only by the sound
of the razors as they scraped the chins oi
their victims with Q no;D like escaping
steam
The door few open, and young man en-
tered with rush. He was a sort of barber
shop young man, and he was on intimats
terms with every artist in the place. They
smiled as one man when he came in.
How are you, Gusr be asked as he poke<
the tallest and narrowest barber in the rib
playfully with his cane. sOn deckP
"Betcher life," answered the barber, dis
playing grin and at the same time execut-
ing back-handed upward stroke with the
razor that nearly lifted his victim out OF the
chair. I'm way up in g sharp minor,
am. III be ready to daily with your hide In
about two minutes by the clock.n
sLet 'er go,1 said the Young man cheer
fully. as he threw AWAY his toothpick and
began to mare his nails Then he gazed at
his boots with a good deal of approval and
finally rose. shook himself, and remarked
confidentially to the thin barber, Get onto
them pants, GUS
The barber swept the razor crosswise, and
turned from his victim to look at q pair of
new trousers of q very loud pattern whici
the Young man wore proudly on his Thin
legs.
How muchr he asked cautiously, but
with the air Of connoisseur, while the vic
tim sat up in the chair and began to rub
alum on his face tenderly,
Eight plunks, 5 per cent. off fur cssh
What's your idsar of thsml'
well" said the barber slowly, HI cant say
I'm dead struck on um, but still considers
um yer> gentlemanly pants-sort of tony,
you know
This discriminating criticism sewn to
please the Young man. He bought wi at he
allied a .see-gars from the proprietor, and
smoked il with great satisfaction as he con
tinred to stare at his legs.
Shortly after this the victim slid out of the
chair and resigned himself to the brush boy,
while the Young man looked at the section
of discouraged moustache In the mirror
and then leaned back in the chair lux
uriously. No man was ever more tender ly
lathere | or humanely shaved than the brisk
youth with the new trouserS
"Pd like to try an egg shampoo on your
skull said the barber, in the course of his
remarks: its a new caper here, though it's
been known a good while in other shops
VIII YOU go itf,
Don't give me any large breeze. Gus
Wboever heard of an egg shampooF'
saOh. no; on the level, you know. ]
vouldn't mt IN no lob, on you.p said tns
barber affectionately. ats the best thing
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-18
SNOWFlAkES
Ye who have scornel each other,
Dr- in irr,ai friend mr. hrorbar

Ye who have scorne1 each other,
Or injured friend or brother,
In this fast fading year;
Ye who by word or deed,
Have made kind heart bleed,
Come gather herei
Let sinned against and SHINING,
Forget their strife's beginning,
And Join in friendship now
Be lin&s no longer broken;
Be sweet forgiveness spoken
Under the Holly Boush.
Ye who have loved each other,
Sister. and friend, and brother,
In this fast fading year;
Mother. and sire, and child,
Young man and maiden mild,
Come gather here;
And let your hearts grow fonder
As memory shall ponder
Each past unbroken vow:
Old loves and younger wooing
Are sweet in the renewing,
Under the Holly Bough-
-IChsries Mackay.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-18
Mr. Ruskin has discovered that Athena,
che goddess of wisdom, wors .bangS"
The Cause OF the Cofon-

Ben: Perely Poore, who always writes Q
colon () after the Ben in his name, defend,
its use on the ground that Washington and
jefferson invariably used the colon after an
abrsviation of Christian name, thus: Geo;
Washington, Thos: Jefferson. In fact, Use
of the colon Is one Of the good'old customs
which Mr. Poors, himssh rare old-timsr,
rsligiously alings to
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-18
Exasperating.

A close observer says that nothing exasper
ates woman who has been shading heE ays
from the gaslight with her hand all the even
ing SO much as to find that after all she had
left Ter best diamond ring on the washstand
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-18

So much that's beautiful and bright,
Rare truths to which it was a stranger,
The world has learned since Bethlehem's
light
Shone DER the infant Jesus manger.
That Christmas tale in which appears
The child God and the mother human,
Has left Tor eighteen kunired years
A lustsr ON the name of woman.
Let all the enlightened hosts Of earth
Our debt of gratitude be vocing;
And let this time Of Jesus birth
Remain day Of glad rejoicing.
ELLA Wheeler.
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep
God IS not dead; nor doth be sleep!
The wrong sail fail,
The right prevail,
With peace on earth, good will 70 men.
-ILongfellow.
Who taught mankind on that first Christmas
Day
What twas to be man; to give, not take;
To serve, net rule; to nourish, not devour;
To help, not crush; if need, 60 die, not livei
-ICharies Kingsley.
The poor will many a care forget,
Ths debtor thinks not of his debt,
But as they each enjoy their cheer,
Wish it were Christmas all the year.
Thomas Miller
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-18
The Cause Of the Colon

Ben: ferely Poore, who always writes a
colon q after the Ben in his nsme, defends
its use on the ground that Washington and
jefferson invariably used the colon after an
abrsviation of Christian name, thus: Geo.
Washington, Thos: Jefferson. In fact use
of the colon is one of the good old customs
watch Mr. Poore, himself . rare old timer,
relipiouslv cling, to
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1885-07-15
THREE LESSONS.

There are three lessons would write,
Three words as with golden pen,
In tracings of eternal light
Upon the hearts of men.
Have hopeI Though clouds environ round
And gladness hides her face in scorn,
Put thou the shadow from hybrow,
Nonight but hath its morn.
Have faith! Whereer thy bark is driven,
The calms disport, the tempest's mirth,
Know this, God rules the hosts of heaven,
The inhabitants of earthl
Have Lowell Not love alone for one,
But man as man thy brothers call;
And scatter, like the circling sun,
Thy charities ON all
Thus grave these words upon my soul,
Hope, faith and love. and thou shalt find
Strength when life's surges maddest roll,
Light, when thou else vert blind.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1885-07-15
The World without Sugar.

Has any housewife ever realized the
alarming condition of cookery in the
benighted generations before the inven-
tion of sugaTsl 1t is really almost too ap-
palling to think about. So many things
we now look upon as all but necessaries
- cakes, puddings, made dishes, confec-
tionery, preserves, sweet biscuits, jellies,
cooked fruits, tarts, etc-were then prac-
tically impossible. Fancy attempting
nowadays to live a single day without
sugar; no tea, no coffee, no jam, no
cake, no sweets, no hot toddv before
one goes to bed; the bare idea of 1t is
too terrible And yet that was really
the abject condition of all the civilized
world up to the middle of the Middle
Ages. Horace's punch was sugarless;
the gentle Virgil never tasted the con-
genial cup of afternoon tea; and
Socrates went from his cradle to
his grave without ever knowing
the flavor of peppermint bulls eyes.
How the children spent their Saturday
as, or their weekly oaolus, is profound
mystery. To be sure, people made honey;
but honey is rare, dear and scanty; it
can never have filled one-Quarter the
place that sugar fills in our modern afrec-
tions. Try for moment to realize
drinking honey with ones whisky and
water, or doing the years preserving
with pot of Narborine, and you get at
once common measure of the difference
between the two as practical sweeteners.
Nowadays we get sugar from cane and
beet root in abundance, while sugar,
maple and palm trees of various sorts
afford q considerable suDDlV 10 remOter
countries. But the childhood of the
little Greeks and Romans must have
been absolutely unlighted by a single
ray of JOY from chocolate creams or Ev-
ertOn tatfy. The consequence of this
excessive production of sweets in mod
ern times is. of course, that we have
begun TO distrust the indications afforded
rs by the sense of taste in this particular
and TO the wholesomeness of various OBJ
iects.-L0AdoH CsFnhlk
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1885-07-15
WISE WORDS.
l dare no more fret than dare curse
and swear.

1 dare no more fret than dare curse
and swear.
Though we travel the world over to
find the beautiful, we must carry it with
us, or we find it not.
We ought not to Judge of mems
merits by their qualifications, but by the
use they make of them.
A wise and good man does nothing
for appearance, but everything for the
sake of having acted WELL
The human mind is alwaysi nexorable
in demanding a motive for all human
actions. 1t is only himself that each man
permits to act without one, and avails
himself of the privilege with astonishing
frequency.
1t is the temper of blade that must
be the proof of a good sword, and not
the gliding of the hilt or the richness of
the scabbard; so it is not his grandeur
and possessions that make man con-
siderable, but his intrinsic merit.
Ay, that's the word-punctuality! Did
you ever see a man who was punctual
who did not prosper in the long run2
We don't care who, or what he was
high or low, ignorant or learned, savage
or civilized-we know that if he did as
he agreed, and was punctual in all his
engagements, he prospered.
There is no moment like the present /;
not only so, but, moreover, there is no
moment at all, that is, no instant force
and energy, but in the present. The
man who will not execute his resolutions
when they are fresh upon him can have
no hope for them afterward, they will be
dissipated, lost and perish in the hurry
skurry of the world, or sink in the slough
of Incidence.
"Be sure you are right, than 20
ahead" To act from impulse or to de-
eide instantly may at times be necessary
or even imperative in an emergency; but
it is to be remembered that emergencies
do not oftenest come to those whose
motto is to ''make haste slowly" Mans
outward circumstances, which are famil-
iarly said to be beyond his control, are
many times beyond his management be-
cause he did not exercise control at the
time when his work was in his own
power.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1885-07-15
Go and Cure YOURSELF.

General John A. Dix once made pro-
fesslonal call upon Dr. Abernethy, and
of course got good advice, and being
wise enough to accept it, he lived to see
four-score years, a result of which his
dyspeptic youth scarcely gave promise
After hearing a few words of the chronic
invalid's lament, the eminent but ecceu-
trio physician cut him short with the
following impromptu address;
''Sir, you are pretty Ear gone, and the
wonder is you are not gone entirely. If
you had consulted common sense instead
OF the medical faculty, you would prob
ably have been we'll years ago. / can
say nothing to you except this You
must take regular exercise, as much as
you can bear without fatigue, and
modest quantity of plain food, OF the
quality you find by experience best to
agree with you. There are few general
rules which any man of common sense
may learn in a week, such as this: That
rich food, high seasoning, etc., are in.
furious. can say no more TO you, sir;
you must go and cure yourself.