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Year: 1869




Never make up your beds, however zeal
GUS you may be to get through with your
mornings work, Immediately after their oc-
cupants have arisen. The bed clothes and
coverings should be left well spread out and
exposed to the air from an open window for
several hours after they have been used.
This is rule to which Health commands
obedience.


HIRED FRUIT AT pAHTIEs.


1t is not uncommon for people to hire
china and glass to use at large parties and
balls; but in Paris they have gone step
farther, and hire fruit to adorn the center of
the supper-table. When the banquet is over
the fruit is removed, and next day, perhaps.
appears on some other aristocratic board,


HOW ALL LADIES HAVE BLONDE HAIR.


Harper's Basar tells an "anxlous in
Quirer," that the most reliable hair-dressers
in New York refuse to dye dark hair blonde
as it Injuries the hair, and is a tedious, disa-
greeable process A harmless powder is
used that will produce the blonde appearance
for an evening. A box containing sufficient
powder for two applications costs about
seventy-five cents. The hair is oiled, and
sometimes a preparation of perfumed gum
arabic is used, before applying the powder.


LYING AWAKE TO TALK"


Two young ladies are reported to us who
clay away to talk, ever SO long" after Miss
Dickinsons Lecture, planning and contriving
how they might be useful; what they could
do to earn the bread they ate; how they
could assist Fathers cxertions, and relieve
Mothers toll. Peter Piper, and Sarah Jane,
too, awakened great interest in the subjects
of Woman's labor and training.
Year: 1869

"A large number of ornamental trees are
being set out on the Thames embankment
in this winter weather.


In McHenry County, Illinois, there is
cheese factory which produced S55,226
worth Of cheese last year from the milk Of
eight hundred cows.
Year: 1869

THE WHIPPING PosT.-The American Mechan-
les Lyceum concluded its debate on the whipping
post last Saturday evening, and by large major
ity gave its decision In favor Of that mode of
punishment Most The members are compara-
see their error
Year: 1869

of the handle. The Government that will have none
of his help shall have his hurt. He spoke for half an
hour the other night eheered on by Lord Derby and
the Tories who delighted in the spectacle which to
Lord Russells old friends was saddening if not sur
prisIng. What he said had little effect IN the
House and will have none out Of it. To-day nobody
remembers his criticism except to regret that q man
who has done so much real service in his time should
forget his dignity and Selfrespect in his declining
daYs o. W. 5,
Year: 1869

In the matter of the pardon issued to Moses
Depew by President johnson, which was
afterwards revoked by President Grant, Judge
Blatchford, of the United States District Court
At New York. decided on Saturday last against
the discharge OF the prisoner on the ground
that pardon is not complete until 1t has been
delivered. and as the Presidential ofice never
dies, President Grant had a perfect right to re.
call a pardon issued by his predecessor, if it
had not been completed.


That this Is sound law, will perhaps not be
denied; yet somehow the conclusion arrived at
seems 10 be trending on very dangerous ground
Decisions based upon purely technical points,
and in which political Considerations are pos.
slbly not wholly lest sight Of are too apt to re.
turn at some unfortunate time to plague the in
ventor. At the very best, Judge Blatchford's
decision in this case, while it would seem to
recognize and establish them. really has the
effect Of ignoring and striking at the contin uity
and stability Of our Government. If one ad
ministratien may set aside at will the acts of
its predecessor, we are but little way TINS
side OF anarchy.
Year: 1869

We arc informed by the daily press
that "thc Indians OF the plains will net
take scalps from the heads of negro sol
diers killed in battle"
Is not this a fragrant violation Of the
spirit Of the civil rights bill, Of the new
amendment to the Consultation, and Of
the reconstruction policy OF Congress !
This is the crowniBg insult TO our col
ored citizens.


Shall the red skins be allowed TINS to
make distinctions on account Of race and
color


When the colored troops fights brave
", may those untaxed Indians scOFn their
scalps as being no trophy worth the TAX
ing off
This contemptuous treatment of the
black man by the red man is nor to be
borne.
| Senator Sumner must attend to this.
He must illuminate speeches against the
noble red man of the forest, who. when
on the war path, dares 10 show savage
disrespect to WOOL


He has abolished the word "wLite" In
the District OF Columbia, let him abolish
the word "black" on the plains.


Let him cause it to be enacted that
when the untaxed red skin says


"Ugh. big Indian no scalp nigger "-
somebody shall shoot him on the spot.


It is not because of the dif6cnlty Of tax
ing off the colored mans scalp.


No such thing.


Indians scalp very short haired, white
soldiers.


1t is their contempt for the negro -
an inferior race.


They must be taught better.


Here is missionary work to do.
And new stipulation should be made
| in all Indian treaties, that no distinction
of race or color shall be made With the
scalping knife.
The insult is too cutting.
Year: 1869

You never can forget her. She was
so very young and innocent, and pretty.
She had such way Of looking a. you
over her hymn book 10 church. She
alone, of all the world, did not think you
n boy at eighteen, bat wondered at your
size and your learning, and your faint
ioreshudowing Of a sandy mousiachc. and
believed you every inch man. When
at these stupid evening parties, when
boys should have been in the nursery,
and the girls, who should have eaten sup.
per of bread and milk, and gore TO sleep
hours before. walfzcd aud 1lrtcd, and
made themselves i'll over oysters and
champagne, you were favored hya glance
from her eye or a whisper from her lips,
you asccndcd to the seventh heaven i'm.
mcdiateIy. When once. upon memora.
bic eve, she pokcd with the druggist
clerk, and never even looked at you, how
miserable you were. 1t is funny to think
OF now, but it was not funny then, for
you were awfulIy in earnest.


Once, ut picnic, she wore a white
dress, and had roses twined ia her golden
hair, and she looked SO like a bride that
you fairly tremblcd. Sometimes you
thought, in just such snowy costume
with just such blossoms in her hair, she
might stand beside the altar, aud
you, most blessed Of all mortals, might
place golden ring upon her finger and
when you were left aIonc with her for Q
moment, some of your thoughts would
force themselves into words, and though
she blushed and ran away, and would mol
let you kiss her. she did not seem angry
And then you were somehow parted for q
little while, and when you met again she
was walking with another gentleman. Q
large, wcll-whiskcred man of twenty-cighI
or thirty, and had neither word or smile
for you and some weIl.meaning GOSSIP
informed you shortly after that she wa:
"engagcd" to the tall gentleman with
black whiskers, aud that sit was splen
did match" 1t was terrible news to you
then, and sent you off too some great city
far from your native place, where, after 0
good deal of youthful gri'f, and many
resolutions to die and haunt her, you re
covered your equanimity, and began tc
make money and to call love stuff and
nonsense.


You have rich wife of your own now
and grown up chIdren-aye, even two OF
three grandchildren, about your hearth
your hair is gray, and you lock your
heart up in tho fre.pFoof safe at your
counting house when you go home a,
night And you thought that you had
forgotten that little episode of your nino
teenth year, until the other day. wher
you read of her death in the papers. Yor
know she was stout lady. who wore
glasses, and had daughters older than she
was in that oldcn time, but your hear
went back and you saw her smiling ant
blushng, with her golden hair about hcl
face, and yourself boy again, dreaming
of wedding rings, and you laid your gra,
old head upon your Office desk and wen
for the memory of your first sweetheart
Year: 1869

PARTIcULAR.-Afe few weeks since, in
a Boston eating house, man discovered
u cockroach in his pudding. He turned
the insect over, examined it closely, and
finally remarked to person who was sit
ting near him s'That amt right.
don't like it, and if find another won'l
eat the pudding"
Year: 1869

a Southern paper is, opposed to the
education of women as surgeons. Itsays
that, suppose that one werc put under
the influence of chloroform by such q
Doctor, swhat is to prevent the woman
from kissing you R"
Year: 1869

The 1%nssS S%Sc1 AsTSc


The public has been made aware OF the sailing OF
what was termed the Fernando Po expedition from
Havana. The monstrous outrages that were perpe-
mented upon at the time, and now certain Matters
de allied by one Of the physicians on board the vessel
are enough OF themselves to show the world the
mean, yindctive spirit OF the oppressors of people
who are struggling TO be free. Hear Dr. Moreno:-


Az the time when the banshed were going on the
vessel Francisco de Bora, the physicians (hmself
and ancther) knew nothing OF their number their
sanitary state but when the second detachment got
on the vessel their attention was called to the Sckly
appearance of some and the advanced age Of Others
They were determined upon making some rehec-
tons at this moment to the commander of the ship
but rCfaned because OF the rot at this time shore
When the vessel had sailed the necessity of taking out
OF their lodgingplaces some OF the passengers was
mamie T. These presented symptoms Of asphyXa,and
re, by permission of the commander, carried
upon OK, where were to be found those who
su ering from chronic pulmonic affections. short
time afterwards there was noticed such a consider
able number of sick, OF different diseases (frOm
W ich they suffered at the time of embarkaton),
IN t it was found necessary to enlarge the nfrmary.
Other prisoners were sent up on deck, there
b ing left various old valetudnarians in the in
mary below. Soon after this, and because of the
reaktng Of q screw in the machinery, 10 was neces-
sary to spread sail. This damage having been reme-
died, another displacement OF machinery took place
before arriving at Bermud T. and the sails had to be
huated another time. When near these islands the
commander OF the ship called a council of officers
and it was determined to make for Porto Rico.
Up to this moment nothing in particular in the mat
ter Of the health of the passengers or crew was to





heat and nauseatng smell in the prisons each
lodging prison y and single of dysentery
in view of which the order was given that the pr-
soners should go up on deck during the day, that
everything might be ventilated, that they might air
themselves and that their cabins (or rather prsOns)
might be cleaned. There was Immediately recog-
nized a case of scurvy in volunteer, and the
physicians began to fear that OF the terrible
maadies OF the sea might present itself, especially
as the passengers had to go down much lower in
latitude where the heat must necessarily be suffo-
eating These fears were strengthened by the APP
pearance OF another case OF scurvy and case also
of smallpox


During the interval the Home Government, for
very shame, ordered the cOnvicts to he carried to
point in the Canaries DR.. Moreno further, in
clusion, justies himself and his colleague in this
way, and satisfactorily TO every one, except perhaps
la POz de Cuba and its bloody hackers.
Year: 1869

The steamship Perit has established precedent
for legally furnishing material aid to Cuba; and her
return to this port after having landed hundreds of
veterans and large quantity Of materials OF war in
the Bay Of Nipe, en- route for the headquarters of
Cespedes is regarded by the Spanish agents in this
city as proof OF the important fact that the neutrality
laws do not provide for such cases.


Before the vessel was chartered to take arms to
Cuba, her owners consulted the best legal advisers
in the country in relation to their right TO permit
guns rifles powder, and passengers to be shipped
on their steamer for Cuba, and they were informed
that such shipments would not constitute violation
of the neutrality laws of 1915 but that the shipper
would send his goods at the risk of having the cargo
captured In other words, that the shipment OF
arms to Cuba was a commercial venture subject to
success or failure without the ordinary prospect of
indemnity for seizure or loss


The counsel who were consulted held that the old
decision of the United States Supreme Court, in the
case Of the Santssma Trnidada, shows that arms,
passengers and munitions Of war may be shipped
anywhere, and at any time, without subiecting the
vessel so engaged TO seizure and condemnation by
the United States.


The Spanish Consul in this city and Secretary Fish
have been made aware OF this fact, and hence the
steamer Pert permitted 10 remain quietly at her
dock at Red HoOk.-M Y. Sun Of Wednesday.
Year: 1869

When Senator Ross had the '1ttle onpeasantnesso
with the President just before the extra session OF
the Senate closed, he threatened that he would not
visit the White House again, adding that he had no
fayors to ask. IL seems, however, that he recon-
sdered his determination after he got home to Kan
sas and found his constituents camoring for several
little matters to be fixed at Washington On Tues
day he made his appearance at the White House
and intimated 20 Mr.. Card Receiver Dent that he
would like to see the President. Dent unusually
polte and ushered the Kansas Senator at once into
the Presidential presence. Ross showed a little
trepidation. He didn't know whether Grant had


forgotten the last interview they had so he felt his
Way cautiously 'Let us have peace was plainly
visible i'm Grants cOuntenance and Ross felt encouT-
aged, though he looked penitent. The interview
was brief one and purely Official Grant did not
prOffeT his visitor cigar, and Ross abstalned from
making any allusion TO "Iell" any other place OF
an uncomfortable hot character. The Senator pre-
sented some little matters that he wanted attended
to- The President promised to look into them and
Ross said good day and left.
Year: 1869

A CURIOUS CEREMoNY.-The London
correspondent he Chicago Journalw writes ::


Il witnessed one day last week curious
ceremony at one of the churches in my
neighborhood. In theyea 1894 an old lady
died and was buried in one of the vaults of
that church. When her will was read, it
was found that she had bequeathed a con-
siderable sum to the church, the proceeds
of which were to be annually distributed to
the poor of the parish on the 2Sth of Janu-
ary, her own birthday. The condition at
tached to the bequest was that her coffin
should be carefully busted every year on the
day in question. In case this operation
should be omitted on single occasion, the
entire principal of the bequest was to pass
to the authorities of the adjoining parish.
OF course the officials of the church have
always been careful to perform this inter-
esting ceremony. and it was done this year
for the seventy fifth time, by the sexton, in
presence of the vicar church wardens, and
numerous spectators, among whom was
probably some interested party from the ad


Joining parish to watch the proceedings.
Year: 1869

CHURCH SINGING-A correspondent of
the Syracuse journal writes; "a line of a
hymn given out at prayer meeting so ex-
cited the curiosity of my little girl, that on
returning home she repeated it with a re-
quest for an explanation. The line, as she
heard it, was Mike Rime's bird and long
has been At the cost of much time devot-
ed to researches in an old hymn book, and
the exercise of patient ingenuity, the sat
isfactory discovery was made of the original
of the above translation, to wit: My crimes
burden long have been In entering upon
this search had, to be sure, the advantage
accruing from a recent solution of another
enigma of hers, involving Who Is Peterlf'
Peteri was found located in the lines
False to thee, like Peter, | would tain like
Peter weep.
Year: 1869

least, we shall save in the new house You
can readily borrow on the security you will
have the remaining $500, and by little
economy we shall be out of debt In fifteen
months from March next, save the 5000 on
the lot"


Yes, yes" said 1, ''and such house as
we shall have-oh dear


Well, | was influenced by NY good wife.
We went down one sunshiny day and look
ed at the lots and closed bargain and in
the spring our house was commenced and
ready for occupancy by the first of May. 1t
was not SO large a cottage as the one we had
left; there was no gas, and [ had myself
| helped to dig we'll; but somehow there
was strange exhilaration of feeling on get
ting settled in our new abode. The affair
too, had cost more than we had anticipated
| by $500, so we were in debt on the house
alone 500 on moving in. | felt uneasy
over this debt the first night. This feeling
| quickly passed off, and as we began to put
out trees, make garden, and prepare for a
family of children, our estate seemed so
immense that the debt therein was tri1ing.
| cannot stop to tell you of the joy of that
summer. Away from the roar and dust of
the city among large trees and growing
| shrubs and flowers, our moonlight nights
were blissful, and the little cottage was a
palace. Two years passed, and 50 much
| cheaper had we found it, living in this style
that We had not only paid the debt on the
| house, but on the lot also We wanted to
remain there and never leave it. But we
could not. Property had advanced in price
to such an extent that the half of our lot
brought So. 900. This | put into business
and on this venture fortune smiled We
stayed in the little cottage another year,
sold it, and built large and elegant house
out of the proceeds of our first investment.
Years have passed since then. / own
number of houses, and have been success
ful in trade, and now occupy marble front
on fine avenue; but we have never been
happier than when living in thousand
dollar cottage, and my wife's advice was the
| foundation of our fortune
Year: 1869

wy ESTERN HOTEL, CIearfeld, Pa This
w well known hotel. near the Court House, is
worthy the patronage of the public The table
will be supplied with the best in the market. The
best of liquors kept JOHN DoUGHERTf-
Year: 1869

QUARRELLINe.-It anything in the
world will make q man feel badly, ex-
cept pinching his fingers in the crack
of door, it is unquestionably quarrel
No man ever fails to think less of him
self after it than before. 1t degrades
him in the eyes of others, and, what is
worse, blunts his sensibilsties on the
one hand, and increases the power of
passionate irritability on the other
The truth is, the more peacefully and
quietly we get on, the better for our
nrighbors. In nine cases out of ten,
the better course is, if q man cheats you,
cease to deal with him if he is abusive,
quit his company, and if he ISLANDERS
you. take care to live so that nobody
will believe him. No matter who he
is, or how he misuses you, the wisest
way is 10 lei him alone; for there is
nothing better than this cool, calm, and
quiet way of dealing with the wrongs
we meet with.
Year: 1869

THE GUILD OF THE Holy Cross.
"A very extraordinary ceremony was
performed yesterday morning at Christ


Church Fifth Avenue. The occasion was
the commemoration ofan association call
ed the "Guild of the Holy Cross" on the
altar was a cross, on each side of which
was tall wax candle, and two candles
were on the altar; following little boy,
carrying a cross, came the choir and
CLERGY, then the officers and fellows of
the guild, dressed in robes Of gorgeous
colors. Passing down the side and up
the middle aisle to the altar, the guild
occupied the pews in the body of the
church. The service was the regular
Episcopal accompanied by the ferns
and ceremonies of the Roman Catholic
Church. At the conclusion of the


morning service another procession
came from the vcstry, consisting Of one
boy carrying cross, followed by two
others With long lighted wax candles,
and these again we're followed by three
priests in rich vestments, with black
berettas on their heads. After making
numerous genuaexions before the cross,
q book was presented to the chief
Year: 1869

A recent contributor to the Herald OF
Health considers the practice of drinking
during meals an Injurious Ole, and ar
CUES his cause thus:


Whoever, contrary to his usual Gus
tom, will turn down his glass at the be-
ginning of meal, and not make use OF
it till the close. may perceive that a
great many consequences flow from so
simple an action. In the first place, the
only aid to mastication and deglutition,
apart from the teeth and tongue, will
be the saliva, of which, from long disuse,
there probably will not be the desired
abundance. The time occupied liz dis
posing of a mouthful of food will thus
be prolonged, and the character of the
food make a greater impression on the
palate.


The stomach will not be treated to a
cataract of half-drowned morsels, but
at proper intervals to weil-prepared
material for digestion. There Will be
no haste, no bolting; the tendency to
stuff and overload the stomach will be
checked or fairly overcome--at least
there will be leisure to consider wheth-
er one is eating too much. 1t is need
less to add thas these changes would be
in the interest of good breeding at the
table, there being few things more re-
pulsive than the sight of a person who
darts at his food, gulps it down in an
instant, and, before it is fairly Deposit
ed in his mouth, has caught up more
with which TO pursue it,
Year: 1869

ly about it-a regretful disappointment


that is pleasant.


How interesting it Is when YOU have
| dropped the last one off, and YOU get


another bite to make up your mind to
| get this one anyhow, and then coneen-


trate all your strength and pull up with
a Violent jerk and sling your line hack
on to tree, and have it wind around
the branches as tight as ii it had been
| pulled by steam engine. and in such a
bewilderlng condition that you can't
| get it loose in week.


This /, calculated to make you use
hard expressions, but not any more so
than it is to have your cork drawn TN
der gently and steadily, and go down,
down; down until 1t Is out of sight.


"a catfish, most probably - you say;
.they always pull in this manner. -
You draw your line in gently, ard the
catty tugs at the other end. "They al
ways do this,' you Observe.


You pull up slowly, so as to keep him
on the nook, and when you get your
line out you most probably find an old
snag with more branches than the
pennsylvania railroad, and covered
with mud, and not sc litary fish in the
neighborhOod, while all the time there
is boy with pin hook and an old hank
OF twne who is catching them so
fast that he can't bait his hook, and the
ground is white with them all around
him.


/ don't advocate violent language:
but ifthere ever is an occasion when the
commandments are temporarily sus-
pended, this is it.


A man is legally entitled to relieve
his pent up feelings, and the more so
because when he gets up to go home he
finds that his fish hook has caught him
by the shirt, and that there is puddle
deep enough to float Il canal-boat Just
where he has been sitting.


OF course you can't go home without
fish TO be laughed at; so you go over
and try to buy them of the bow, who
tries to insult you by asking you ifyou
"ketclled any?" but feels that he has
you in his power, and makes you pay
more money than you could buy out |
whole oyster sloop for.


No, don't see any sport IN it, and if |
l wanted to make man utterly wretch |
ed-if wanted to hurt his feelings and |
break down his spirits and ruin his
morals, would get him to go fishing
about once week. | approve of abolA
lshing penitentiaries and jails, and
making convicts fish for the benefit OF |
the State.