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Year: 1869

To WASH LACE AND FINE Il nTSGs
-Laees and fine things should be
washed in hot soft water. Well soan
them, and squeeze aud shake out.
but on no account rub them. Re.
peat the squeezing and shaking out
Till they are clean. Rinse them In
some clean hot water, and well soap
them again, aud put them into a
saucepan with enough hot water to
cover them. Soft water Is best, but
II that connot be procured add
peice of soda-say a quarter of an
ounce to half gallon of water, ac-
cording to the hardness of the water.
Boil tor half an hour. Then wash
them out again and rinse In cold
blue water. Hang them on clothes
horse till dry, when they can be
starched. Lastly, roll them up In a
dry cloth for two hours, by which
time they will he fit TO iron.
Year: 1869

SrREnf's DAzAa continues 70 Be the fash.
ionab.s resort for the ladies, whom they are
in search Of something choice and recherche
All tie late novelties will be found here,
and also the Ocean Wave hair crimper. A
splendid line Of goods are now on exhibi-
ton In this store, direct from. ths. East
Ladies 70 around and examine the stock
you will surely find something to please
you.
Year: 1869

A young man who studied law in
Connecticut became acquainted
with tho following facts. which are
very remarkable, though not 80 very
singular A farmer cut down
tree which stood SO near the boun-
dary line of his farm that it was
doubtful whether it belonged to him
or his neighbor. The neighbor how
ever. claimed the tree, and prose-
cuted the man who out it for dama-
ges. The case was committed from
court to court. Time was wasted,
temper sourcd. and temper lost /;
but tho case was finally gsined BY
tho prosecutor. The last my friend
knew of the transaction Was. the
man who gained tho cause = came
to the lawyers Office to execute
deed on his whole farm, which he
had been compelled to sell to pay
his costs! Then houseless and
homeless, he could thrust his hand
into his pocket and triumphantly
exclaim, 1--we beat him -
Year: 1869

edly, till he sent me right under by putting
his paws on my shoulders. When came
up out of breath and with mouth full of
water at his side, yelled out as well as /
could, Quiet, Rollop This was heard
above the noise of the waterfall, and at
tracted the attention of some gentlemen
near the bridge; but it failed in its effect
on my poor dog, who, delighted to see
me above water again, began fondling,
and again putting his paws on my shoul-
ders and head, sent me down under water
ever so far. Thinking my only chance
was to dive from him under water, turned
under the water and struck out as fast as
possible, and as long as l could keep I'M
der. The boatman tells me he had seen or
heard none of this, swimming towards the
other side OF the pool, when turning
round at this moment, neither / nor the
dog were in sight, and he got alarmed, as
kept so very long under water. He says
the dog must have dived after me. When
came up, greatly spent and out of breath,
to my horror the dog was close to me-


Again and again he was upon me. When
l came up the last time, gasping and ex-
hausted, hit the dog with all my might
hard on the tender part of his nose, driving
him away three or four yards / then
struck out for the shore with all my
strength race for dear lise-my faithful
dog close at my heels / touched the
ground with my knees, and with an utter
exhaustion staggered the two PAGES to
the bank, and fell down with heaying
chest and gasping breath, unable to move,
while my poor dog licked me all over to
show his gladness at my having got out
safe. Having had so narrsw an escape of
life, for most likely the dog would have
prevented those from diving after m, who
were ready to help me land whom now
beg most sincerely to thank), think it
my duty to warn others, as few know what
dangerous companion a dog is in the
water, unless, indeed, it is specially broken
in, or swimming with those who, unlike
the writer, are perfectly at home in the
midst of the Deep" ...
Year: 1869

THE following curious story is told by a
correspondent of Land and Water, Lon
don magazine:


"The following adventure may serve as
a warning to others: Last Saturday l took
my first bath of the season in the beautiful
and retired pool below the Weir at Odney,
near Cockham. This pool, like most OF
the pools ON the Thames, is known to be
dangerous when much water is coming
down, as the undercurrants are very
strong, flowing directly back beneath the
upper-aown current until they reach the
boarding, which is extensively undermined.
As the water was low, no danger was ap-
pretended on this score, even by q poor
swimmer out of practice like myself !
had with me a young retriever Of very
large breed, famous swimmer,
whom, unheeding, left upon the
bank united. While swimming on my
back, and splashing with my feet, friend
Rollo, thinking, doubtless, his master was
in bad way, hastened with all speed to-
wards me; having turned on my breast, /
was then swimming leisurely away to
about the middle of the pool, which is fif-
teen feet deep. When felt the dog close
upon me struck out hard, but could not
get away, his claws scratching my back,
and bObbing my nose under water repeat
Year: 1869

I am going to seek my fortune over the land and
Take my warm hand. Lille, and come along with
We want-not alone, but you-riches, health and
put the first before the last with little blush Of


shame:
Bat long before we've gone our route you'll nnd
That wealth viii lead both health and fame the


world. and me and you
I am gong to sock my fortune, out in the busy
To push among the rich and poor the humble and
To walk through dark and devious ways, DER rough


and dangerous ground,
With shackled feet, and blinded eyes, and hands


with letters bound.
An this to seek the phantom, wealth, that flies so
And leaves US when IT If,s the latch to open wide


deaths door.
am gOiRg g; Ito to seek my fOrsune-and mine your own
Nor sludder while You risk with me the perils Of


the
Full many thousands tempt the storm, and dangers
And many a ship goes down at sea- deep laden with
All this 70 seek the gttcring trash, through battle,
And find only clutch the toy to lose 1t with our


breath.
j am going to seek my fortune. We want both
But should we lose the nrst wen win bright, undy-


ing name.
For this we must have sleepless nights, and weary,


toing days
For this we must walk sterny on, nor once with


draw our gaze
From that dim star whose glimmering sheen we


scarce can call our own,
That fails when most we want its light, and leaves


us all alone.
amgoing to seek my fortune. Fame lasts, they say,


through time
And fame may be by virtue won, and SO it may by


crime;
BY offering to the lust of blood a hecatomb OF


lives
By making countless orphans weep, and countless


widowded wives
All This that we may win a name the world may


wish to save
name that cannot serve beyond the portals OF the


grave.
4 am going to seek my fortune, with both these


phanfoms flown;
And now, sweet Lille, we may seek for rosy health


alone.
For this We need peril risk, no death by land or



For Faith, and Love, and Hope will give the boon


to You and me.
And thus, without a seepless night, without sigh


or tear,
Without a wandering step we IL find glorious for


tune here.


-R1ckdrds Monthly for September.
Year: 1869

liz Mark Twain's new volume of remi-
niscences of foreign travels he for once
abandons his persistent habit of making
fun of everything, and thus discourses of
the Egyptian Sphynx:


After years of waiting, it was before me
at last. The great face was so sad, so earn
est, so longing, SO patient. There was q
dignity not of earth in its mien, and in its
countenance a benignity such as never
anything human wore, 1t was stone, but
il seemed sentient. Ifever image Of stone
thought, it was thinking. 1t was looking
toward the verge Of the landscape,
yet looking at nothing-nothing but
distance and vacancy. 1t was looking
ever and beyond everything of the present,
and far into the past 1t was gazing out
over the ocean Of time-over lines of
century waves which, further and further
receding, closed nearer and nearer together,
and blended at last into one unbroken
tide, away toward the horizon of remote
antiquity.


1t was thinking of the wars of departed
ages; of the empires it had seen created
it had witnessed, whose progress it had
watched, whose annihilation it had noted /;
of the Joy and sorrow, the life and
death, the grandeur and decay, of five
thousand slow-revolving years. 1t was
the type of an attribute of man-cf a
faculty of his heart and brain. 1t was
Memory--Retrospect into
visible, tangible form. All who know
what pathos is in memories of days that
are accomplished and facts that have van
ished-albeit only trifling score of years
gone by-will have some appreciation of
the pathos that dwells in these grave eyes
that look so steadfastly back upon the
things they knew before history was born
before tradition had being-things that
were, and forms that moved, in a vague
area which even poetry and romance scarce
knew of-and passed one by one away,
aud left the stony dreamer solitary in the
midst of a strange new age and uncom
pretended scenes


The sphynx is grand in its loneliness; il
is imposing in its magnitude; it is impress
i've in the mystery that hangs over its
story And there is that in the over
shadowing majesty of this eternal figure
of stone, with its accusing memory of the
deeds of all ages, which reveals to one
something of what he shall feel when he
shall stand at last in the awful presence
of God
Year: 1869

THE owners of the Baden gaming estab-


lishments spend great sans in advertising


their hells, by having inserted in the
papers wonderful accounts of how large
sums are won. One can hardly take up q


German paper without reading how this


duke or that baron has broke the bank by
his lucky gains
Year: 1869

One Of the most discouraging signs 70 be seen
IN connection with Congress ssional legislation is
furnished by the votes Of the House upon con-
tested election cases fair illustration of which
was furnished in that Of Myers rs Moffatt, dis.
posed OF yesterday. One would think that IN
n matter of this kind, where there must from
necessity be a great variety of circumstances
and q wide range Of facts, thers might be some
points upon which fair-minded men of bath
parties could agree: but precisely the contrary
seems TO be the invariabie rule,-each party
voting solIdly for the contestant rspresenting q
IFS own political views OF course what may
be SAID or thought in regard to one party
applies with equal force to the other, since
each is apparently aole to take only q partisan
view Of any case involving a question of
political steneth; but the mere fact that neither
seems able or willing TO rise above considera-
uons Of that character cannot fail to weaken
The confidence OF the public in the wisdom and
patriotism of their general acts.
Year: 1869

VESSEL ASHORE AT MoNTAUK-rwo LIVES LOST
During the late gale the three masted schooner Mary
Mines from Philadelphia for Boston, laden with
coal, went ashore seven miles west Of Montauk
Point and Immediately broke up. The crew con-
sisted Of nine men, two Of whom were lost
Year: 1869

From the Georgetown ID. C.) Courier, Sept. III


The position which the memory OF General Raw
Inns is likely to occupy might be shadowed forth by
incident In the last year OF his ne The fact to
which we refer is not generally known outside OF
the private ci;cle in which he moved IN his native
State OF Illinois. ft well known that General
Rawlins was not encountered with wealth. He was
not sharer in the spoils Of war. Some parties In
Illinois knew his circumstances, and knowing them
combination was formed and entered into by men
OF every shade OF political opinion and religious be-
lief, the object OF which was to raise tribute TO his
worth and present him with gift or slo0o0o. Raw
Inns heard that such project was on foot and with
o purity Of patriotism AKIN TO that by which the
early fathers OF American independence were gov
erned he gracefully declined the honor intended
him. And on several occasions since he became
Secretary OF War costly presents were sent TO him
from different localities, but without even having
them opened they were in every instance aud imme-
dlately returned TO the donors


Total Subscription in the Hands Of the


Treasurer.


General Butterield furnishes the following as the
subscriptions 10 the fund for the relief Of the family
OF the late Secretary Rawlns:-
Year: 1869

From the San Francisco Chronicle, May 16.l


At the Mechanics Pavilion yesterday,
Paul Martinetti accomplished one of the
most perilous feats ever attempted at
public exhibition in this city, by riding q
velocipede backward and forward on
single wire, the whole length of that
mammoth building. The wire was
stretched from the front entrance Of the
pavilion to the old picture gallery at the
back, distance of two hundred feet.
10 the center of the fountain was placed
an upright post to hold up the sag of the
wire, so that the velocipede had to pass
over rather steep inclination to get over
this pest MaFtlnstt, On the 6rst veloci-
pede eyer used in the pavilion, run the
machine at q smart pace to the top of
the post and remained there for several
seconds, when be started down the in.
cline on the other side and balanced the
velocipede at the elowest level on the wire,
aud then came the whsle distance back
to the starting place without turHing
himself or the machine. When it is
taken into consideration that the wire,
less than half an inch thick, was sus-
pended twenty feet from the aoor, aud
stumble would have probably bsen fatal,
some idea Of the feat may be formed.
II was performed with as much ease as
Il the velocipede had been on the aoor,
Year: 1869




1t has already begun here. Your read
ers are no doubt we'll aware that great
many of the ladies who come to West
Point to spend the summer are not mar
ried, but marriageable, and, | may add,
quite willing to be married, provided they
can get cadet to give the word of com
mand. Now, cadet may not marry
while he is cadet, says Uncle Sam; but
handsome young fellow, who happens
to be under the special tutelage Of the
Government here, is not destined to be a
cadet for all time, and no one knows this
better than the husband hunter. True,
the cadet is always special object of ad-
miration to all females, but to the mar
riageable would-be married one who
comes here, the metallic eruptions in the
gray uniform coat are something be.
yond all description irresistible. Why
this should be is neither here nor there,
but that it is so the husband hunting of
past seasons is an incontestible proof, the
protestations of delighted mammss to
the contrary Notwithstanding. Now, the
West Point husband hunter is as pecu-
liar as she is hopeful. She evidently be-
lieves that inertia is property of mind
as we'll as of matter, and acts according
ly-talks great deal and says very lit
tle-which, everything else being equal,
is very charming to say the least She
dresses well, fixes her hair-or somebody
else sin the most bewitching style, and
is always trying to look pretty, which, as
general thing, costs no uncomfortable
artistic effort. As rule she is one of
those kind of women whose prospects
fade with her beauty, which may be COM
plimentary to the true art of masculine
appreciation or not, as you like it, and
she consequently hates to hear people
prate of years gone by, when she and
somebody else had such times in Flirta-
tion Ramble. Whenever cadet is in
her tolls he is made to feel that he is
nobody and that she is somebody, with
well-flled purse at that; and | will say,
in Justice to her class, that in nine in
stances out of ten she has more money
than youth or beauty. She generally has a
mamma or a papa along, who comes,
apparently, as Q sort of escort to see
that no poor cadet or officer dares TO pro-
pose the awful question but they come
really to hurry up things as quickly as
possible after graduation day, if gray
coat should succumb in the unequal
struggle; and you know somebody says
that loves wings, when tinged with gold,
are beautiful to view, and | am sure a
hand that can draw check for $40, 900
has more than once blinded the cadet eye
to facial female uginess. In fact the
husband hunter at West Point works in
mysterious ways her wonders to perform,
and is very often triumphant, despite the
natural difficulties she has to contend
against. Indeed, if perseverance from
year TO year deserves reward, many of
the husband hunters now here ought to
get a big one, and, as the only reward
each is looking forward to is mate for
life, the cadets should put themselves in
trim and be graces for sweet PHYS
sake" if not for that of somebody's bank
account
Year: 1869

From the New 1Ork llmes.J


1t now begins to look worse than ever
for the Spanish power in Cuba. The
sudden resignation of the Captain Cen
eral under mob pressure, the savage
demonstrations of the loyal volunteers,
the souabbles between the Spanish lead
ers, the compulsory resignation of a num-
Der of the principal functionaries, the
decentralization OF the Spanish party, the
antagonism between the regular and vol
unteer troops-these and other details
reported by the Havana cable within the
last few days, bstoken q breaking up OF
the ground on which the Spanish author
ity rests. We have all the signs that or
dinarily appear in connection with a fail
ing cause. Aud if to these we add the
facts that the revolutionists are now rap
idly supplying themselves with arms,
that the leaders are learning the art OF
war and their followers are acquiring the
courage to fight, that the prevalent an
archy in the island is all in favor OF the
insurrectionary side, that the hot season
gives them a new advantage, and that in
all respects they are in better condition
now than ever before-we shall see that
the prospects Of the revolution are bright
ening as those of the Spanish party ere
becomiHg hopeless.
Year: 1869

Prof. Agassiz says that fishis kind Of
food which rsfresbes the system. es-
peciAlly after intellectual fatigue, There
Is no other article that supplies the waste
of the head so thoroughly as fish diet !
and the evidence Of il is in the fact that
ell the inhabitants Of the sesshores the
world over are the brighter population OF
the country. Fish contains phosphorus
to q large extent, Q chemical element
which the brain requires for growth and
Lealth.
Year: 1869

OF the children born in Paris one
fourth are illegitimate, and one-third die
before attaining the age Of five years,
Two deaths occur among the illegitimate
infants TO one among the legitimate. The
native population Of the city dimiuishes
by two-fifihs in each generation; so that
but for replenishment from without the
city would be depopulsted in less than
three generations.
Year: 1869

Governor Clayton issued procla- nation on the 10th inst. restoring civil law in this county. It has now been nearly two months since martial law was declared and we have not heard of single person being arrested for the purpose of being tried for treason against the State of Arkansas. If there has been any oirense for which martial law might properly have been declared, this militia certainly has proved very intellectual in finding the offenders. Waiving all question as to the right of the Governor to proclaim martial law, have we not right to charge him with maladministration o' the.goyernment, and shown desire to tyrannize over and opprcss people who had no voice in placing him over them as a ruler? Unquestionably we have. He has permitted every species of corruption; he las used his high office exclusively for the advancement of party interests and entirely ignored

 

 pointed revengeiul and incompetent men to the command of districts where they had personal spite and malice against its people; he has made auNil- iary troops of men who were nothing more than banditti in another State, and they have robbed our people for their services as soldiers; and he keeps officers tn command who are constant ly permitting the grossest outrages to be perpetrated by those under their command on old age and inofiensIve woman. The effect of his declaration of martial law in this county alone has been to drive scores of good and use full citizens from our State and deter as many more from making theii homes here. It has destroyed conf dence in the government and kept back all kinds of enterprise. II has ruined the planting and mercantile interests entirely. Will not the Leg islature take some action in regard to the militia bill? Have they no inter- ests at stake whatever that will render them uneasy about the future? How much more of murder, riot aud out rage is there 10 be permitted before the error will be found? We hope there will soon be an end of it.
Year: 1869

THE PRESIDENT is not entirely free from the
cares Of official life while at Long Branch, as
a number OF papers requiring his signature
are forwarded to him from the various Depart
ments daily. He will sign no commissions
until his return to this city,
Year: 1869

TBK PUBLIC DRBr.-Tne prospects for 8
large reduction Of the public debt during the
present month increase daily. The Treasury
authorities are in flue spirits oncerning the
finances, and believe that unless the receipts
fall on heavily durirg the remainder Of the
month the reduction will be Al least eight or
nine millions of dollars