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Year: 1869

One of the most interesting fruits OF
the attention now paid to the velocipedc
is q new invention just made by two In
genius mechanics of this city, of which
we yesterday examined model. 1t is o
monocyclc, or single machine, consisting
OF a wheel eight feet in diameter, with a
tire some six inches wide, or two narrow
tires on its outer edges, with two sets of
spokes connecting with double center
which fills the place of hub, the two
sides of which arc some two feet and n
half apart. The operator is in the mid
die, and propels the wheel by simple,
yet curious apparatus in which both his
weight and his muscle are brought into
play. Any more precise description
would manifestly be out of place until
the patent has been issued. The inven-
tors anticipate that their machine will ex-
coed in swiftness every other device of
the kind. They do not think that sixty
miles an hour on smooth road will bc
Y. Sun.
Year: 1869

SENSIBLE YOUNG MAN.-In the great
ship.yard of Webb, the famous master
builder, there works young man whose
father, one Of these days, in the course Of
nature, will leave fortune SO large that
it would turn the brain of an ordinary
man to think of. This young apprentice
to the shipbuilding trade is the only heir
He might wear fine clothes now, and
have his stable of fine horses, and go all
the round of elegant pleasures, if he
would. But every morning he leaves his
fathers splendid mansion on Twentieth
street, bright aud early and joins the
throng of hurrying mechanics bound to
their work. When night comes he wash
es off the traces of work, and takes his
position in society. Why he does it is
this: He wants trade, SO certain, so
we'll learned, that if the fine fortune of
the father should ever take to itself wings,
his own living in the world would be Sc.
cared beyond question of doubt.
Year: 1869

A STRANGE SToRY-Thc London
Herald tells the following singular and
touching story:


Not many years since certain miners,
working far underground, came upon the
body of poor fellow who had perished
in the suffocating pit forty years before.
Some chemical agent to which the body
had been subjected-an agent prepared
in the laboratory Of naturc-had cffectu.
ally arrested the process of decay. They
brought it up to the surface, aud for .
while, till il crumbled through exposure
to the atmosphere, il lay there the image
of fine, sturdy young man. No eonvul.
sions had passed over the face Of death
the features we're tranquil; the hair was
black as jet. No ono recognized the
face-a generation had grown since the
miner went down his shaft for the last
time. But tottering old woman, who
had hurried from her cottage at hearing
the news, came up, and she knew again
the face which through all these long
years she had not quite forgotten. The
poor miner was to have been her husband
on the day after that on which he died.
They were rough people, OF course. who
were looking on; liberal education and
refined feelings are not deemed essential
to the man whose work is TO get out Goals,
or even tin; but there were no dry eyes
when the gray headed pilgrim cast her
self upon the youthful corpse and poured
into its deaf ear many words of endear.
ment unusual for forty-six years. Il was
touching contrast; the one SO old, the
other SO young. They had both been
young those long years, but time had
gone on with the living and stood still
with the dead
Year: 1869

CLEAR LoG1c.--A man who was up to
q thing or two, once offered to bet that
he could prove that this side of the river
was the other side. His challenge was
soon accepted, and bet of ten dollars
made; when, pointing to the opposite
shore of the river, he shrcwdly asked
"Is not that one side Of the river n
"Yes," was the immediate answer
agreed" said the man Hand is not
this the other side 2" "Then," said the
man, sspay me ten dollars, for by your
own confession I have proved that this
side of the river is the other side" The
dumbfounded antagonist, overcome by
this logic, Immediately paid the money,
Year: 1869

A prominent lawyer was counsel in
case involving some feeling. He placed


his client in position to be seen by the
jury, and instructed him at peculiar
point in his argument to she'd tears. The
client obeyed. Under tho eloquence of
the counsel and the weeping of the party
the jury rendered verdict giving dam
ages. Next day Mr.. G., q member
of tho bar, in the presence of his breth-
rem, thus addressed the learned counsel !:
ct, watched you in that CASE
When your client wept at the trial those
were theatrical tears. This morning,
when saw you take him out and make
him assign the verdict for your fee, it
brought the genuine article abundantlyp
Year: 1869

any son." said the veteran at the foot
Of the stairs, arise and see tho newly
risen luminary of day, and hear the sweet
birds singing their matin song of praise
to their great Creator, come, while the
dew is on the grass and tender lambs are
bleating on the hill side come, say, or
I'll be up there with switch, and give
you the cussedest licking that you ever
had.n
Year: 1869

CUP CAKE. One cup of butter two cups of SUI
gar mixed with butter, four eggs beaten separately
mix the yolks in with the butter and sugar, three
cups of -four one teaspoOnfnl of soda dissolved in
half cup Of sour milk, half nutmeg. teaspoon
ful of rose water brandy stir in the flour until
you think the batter is sufficiently thick. If toe
thick the cake will not be good With all cakes
take two table-spoonfuls of the batter, bake i'll 4
small pam when done if il fails you can add more
four and in this way test the cake, before spelling
the mixture. Ruraiist
Year: 1869

former 1T time. Suddenly fashion took
freak, turned her back on flats, and ordered
the adoption of swan bills, and since that
time-half dozen years ago-it has been a.
impossible to sell flats to a dealer as it would
be to sell a pair Of pants to a ballet dancer
Every concern who had flats on hand at the
time of fashions decree, no doubt have them
to this day, and are waiting hopefully anoth-
er turn of the whirligig which will give swan
bills c0Nlc. and rcinstate the flats.
Year: 1869

PERE HYAcINTHE lectured in the Academy of
Music, New York, on the evening of the 9th in
slant, to a crowded and brilliant audience His
theme was religious union of all sects on the
principles taught by Jesus Christ, and recon-
ciliation between the church and the spirit of
the nineteenth century. He took occasion to
pay very high compliment to the United
States, whose people he said teach Europe that
civil liberty Is perfectly compatible with the
Christian faith.
Year: 1869

THE ECUMENIAL CoUSCIL.-The Council was
opened on the Sth instant with great ceremony.
Seven hundred Bishops attended the Pope to the
council hall in the Vatican. An allocution was
delivered by the Pope before the Council on the
9th. The Council then adjourned till after
Epiphany. The majority of the French and Ger
man Bishops in the Council are thought to be
opposed to the dogma of the Popes nfallibility.
France protests against the dogma of the in
liability of the Pope, as virtually releasing that
nation from its obligation Of the concordat
Year: 1869

PROJECT is on foot to dam and bridge Los
Angeles river above the city. 1t will cost sew
eral hundred thousand dollars By this means
large amount of land would be furnished water
for irrigation, and be brought into cultivation.
Year: 1869

An abstract of the reports of the different de-
partments is given, showing the state of affairs
in each Some recommendations are made
Herewith, among others the abolition of the
franking privilege. Taken altogether the mes
sage is an able, concise document, and has been
generally received with marked appreciation.
Year: 1869

A CHICAGO NOTABLE IN SAN FRANCISCO.
San Francisco correspondent gives an account
of Mollie Trussell, who shot and killed her para
mour in Chicago few years ago, and was tried
for his murder, and who narrowly escaped mer-


tied hanging because jurors had some squemish-
ness about hanging q woman. The writer says


She was sentenced to imprisonment in the
State prison for life, and after she had remained
there she experienced change of heart-e1pe-
rienced religion-or rather convinced her keep
ers that she had; sympathy was awakened, and
plea for her pardon circulated and signed by
ever so many persons. She was pardoned and
Immediately disappeared from the vision Of the
Cbicagoans, and turned up in San Francisco,
where she soon became the proprietress OF
house of ill-fame. The fact that she was the
famous Mollie Trussel attracted great many
visitors to her house, and she became quite a
lion among a certain class. Since her advent
there she had been twice before the police court
for assaulting persons with bowie-knife, and
now she has come before the public again in the
character of a procuress. The daughter of a
well-known merchant was missed from her home,
and search resulted in her being found in Molle 8
bsgnio As her father is desirous of keeping the
matter from becoming public, for the sake of his
Young and beautiful daughter, the matter will
be hushed up and Mollie will escape merited
punishment.
Year: 1869

Use OF LEMoSs.-When persons are feTerish
and thirsty beyond what is natural, indicated in
some cases by a metallic taste in the mouth, es-
pecially after drinking water, or by whitish
appearance of the greater par: of the surface OF
the tongue, one of the best coolers" is to take
a lemon, cut off the top, sprinkle over it some
loaf sugar, working it down in the lemon with
spoon, and then sucking it slowly, squeezing the
lemon and adding more sugar, as the acidity in
creases from being brought up at a lower point.
Invalids with feverishness may take two or
three lemons, day in this manner with the
most marked benefit, manifested by sense of
GOODNESS, comfort and inyigoration. lemon or
two thus taken at tea time" an entire
substitute for the ordinary supper of summer,
would give many man a comfortable night
sleep, and an appetite for breakfast to which
they are strangers who will have their cup of tea
or supper of "relish," and cake, and berries,
and peaches, and cream.-HaH's Journal Of
Health.
Year: 1869

This Postponement has SS:en ren-
dered necessary by reason Of the
extreme bad weather for the last
ten days, which has prevented the
Company owning the Land from
completing the Improvements which
we're contemplated before the day
Of sale, viz: The finishing Of the
Dummy Track, The Grading Of
Streets, Bnildlng Sidewalks, &c. By
that time We hope to have all these
Improvements either completed or
well under way, so that We can Land
the buyers upon the very land we
wish to sell. This tract Of land is
beyond question the most e1igibly
located and most beautifully wooded,
as we'll as the very highest and
hea1thiest location for a flne town,
Of any land In Cook County. Taken
all In all, 1t is the best diversified
and most easily converted into
Choice and Elegant Homesteads Of
any Land within. so miles Of Chi
cage, the following being some Of
its
Year: 1869

Blessed be the little children who make
up SO unconsciously our life disappoint
ments.l How many couples, mutually
unable to bear each others faults, or to
furbear' the causes of irritation find So
lace for their pain in these golden links
which still continue to unite them. On
that they are one. There they can real
ly iepose. Those fragile props keep
them from quite sinking disheartened
by life's roadside. How often has a lit
tie hand drawn amicably together two
eise4unwilling ones, and made them see
how brightaiid blessed earth may be-
Come apronouncing that little word
I'sforgive.p fiF
Year: 1869

Some one says that nobody enters
a second marriage with the same rever-
erence or earnestness ofardor with which
he contracted the first. lie is older and
colderi familiarity with the estate has
bred indifference; the being at his side
is not a trembling, pure little SOUL
whom all his strong chivalrous nature
rushes forth to protect, but Il nice sort of
person, who is going to look after his
servants and see that his linen is kept in
good order.
Year: 1869

NOTHING ever grows old in memo
ry; the little boy that died, so long ago,
is an eternal child, and even as he crept
over the threshold of Gods gates ajar, at
the beckoning of the Lord, so everin the
heart his parting look, with heaven shin
ing full upon his brow: the beauty that
the heart grew warm beholding, in life's
forenoon, when dews were on the world,
and played the truant with some angel,
remains untouched by time even as the
unrent sky that let the wanderer in.
Year: 1869

Our dates from the Plata valley, via Lisbon,
to the sturdy defence which the Paraguayans
are making Of their country. We find now
that they have simply retired from the river
bank and are strongly fortifying themselves in
the interior upon their first inner line. Owing
to the peculiar topography Of the country
there are very many strong positions which
will tax all the allied power to attack with any
hope OF success. The allies can no longer
make their iron-clads available; and in the
entire history Of their efforts on the Para
quay river they have depended as much, II
not more, upon these as they have upon the
army proper. We again unhesitatingly state
what we stated when the accounts reached us
Of the allied success at Angostura, that
Lopez is stronger to-day than when he occu-
pied the river line. The allies, once they ad-
vance towards the interior, viii divide their
strength and the terms upon which the Para
guayans will fight them in the future will be
nearer upon an equality than heretofore.


The dissensions breaking out between the
allied forces are strongly confirming our prog
nostication of trouble between the Argentine
Republic and Brazil. year ago the troops of
the two countries were indulging in mutual
recriminations, and the officers were constantly
engaged In duelling The volunteers were
recruited by claiming them in pairs and driving
them to the slaughter. This was the case in Bra
zi, the Argentine Republic and Uruguay. Since
that period the war in all these countries has
been growing more unpopular. Especially is
this true in the Argentine Republic, where,
from President down, the people only await
decent pretext to slip from the bonds of the
barbarous treaty which they signed with Brazil
Tor the destruction Of progress In La Plata
valley. We now have the resignation of Mar
shall Caxias, the aged Brazilian commander.
General Gelly Obes, the Argentine com
mander, still sticks to his post but there is
every indication that his services in the direc-
ton OF Paraguay will not be needed much
longer.


In the new phase Of the Paraguayan struggle
nis hard question for Brazil to tell what should
be done next. The Emperor. Dom Pedro II.
Is In reality the only man who wishes TO con-
tinue the struggle, and will probably resign II
bis empire fails to support him with the mecca
sary means. How can Brazil do thisg She
Is almost financially exhausted, and the only
thing that keeps up her credit in Europe is the
fact that she is the sole aristocratic element on
this Continent upon which the monarchists can
depend in their endless crusade against repub-
| lican institutions.


The Brazilian-Pa Paraguay question Il one we'll
worthy the attention Of our government. We
arc nationally interested In IT, II should no
be so studously neglected.
Year: 1869

BLAZE AwAY-THE MORE You BURN THE
LESS You PAY.-The testimony of Mr.. Samuel
N. Pike before the legislative committee on the
management Of the gas companies is very re-
markable, or we might say that 1t would be il
a thousand other consumers Of gas could not
testify to the same fact. Mr.. Pike swears that
when his opera house was closed in the sum-
mer time his gas bills were higher than when
the house was in full blast in the winter sea-
son and the gas was burning from footlights to
dome. Mr.. Pixies experience is not singular.
Thousands Of gas consumers have the same
story to tell. There are many besides Pike
using gas, some Of them in their private
houses, who can assert that when they con-
sumo the least quantity Of gas their bills mount
up to the highest figure. The deduction from
the testimony produced before the gas investi-
eating committee is, therefore, that the more
gas you burn the smaller will be your bills
Is it not economy, then, to blaze away and
burn all the gas you can in order to keep your
gas bills within reasonable limit?
Year: 1869

n Religious View.


The various religious denominations of the
United States, and especially the members of
the powerful Methodist Episcopal Church,
have great faith in General Grant and in the
prosperity Of the Gospel under his adminstra-
ton. The Generals father is Methodist, his
mother is Methodist, his wife is Methodist,
and through these channels the General him
self is well seasoned with wholesome religious
convictions. We believe he has not been con-
verted according to the Methodist ritual-he
has not passed through the ordeal of mourning
for his sins and that joyous sense of forgiveness
andthat change ofheart through the Holy Ghost
which casts off the old man Adam and makes
the believer happy in the faith; but he is still
in the way Of salvation, and that 3 great deal
in these days Of scepticism, materialism and
unbelief. Thus, although the General likes to
ride behind Bonner's fast horses and goes to
balls, and although in Swinging round the
circle Of our institutions he may drop in for
an hour or so at the ''Black Crook" the opera
and the opera bouGe, he still likes mother.
church and all the churches, and sets a good
example as an honorary member by availinp
himself of every opportunity to 20 to church
He attended the other day the conservation in
Washington Of new Methodist church. and
his presence was hailed as a good sign for the
prosperity Of that church and all the churches
under his administration.


Secondly. This idea has been and will be
strengthened in every praying household circle
in the nation, by the closing request Of the
Generals inaugural, In which he asks the
efforts of every citizen in the work Of cement
ing happy Union, and ''the prayers Of the
nation to Almighty God in behalf Of this happy
contamination. General Grant is believer
in prayer. lie recalls an incident said to be
connected with critical period in the conven-
ton OF the fathers engaged In framing the con-
stitution. We think IL was on the everlasting
nigger question that the convention was
brought to deadlock They knew not what
TO do, when good old Ben Franklin, as the
tradition goes, proposed the last resort oi
prayer. II was tried, and the convention re-
turned 10 Its work and q compromise was
erected, including the continuance of the Afri-
can slave trade for twenty years, which
restored peace in The convention and estab-
lished the Union. As we look al Il now that
compromise was an awful mistake; but union
was the tirss essential, and as they were stu.
ated an adjustment casting The deadweighs ol
/ slavery upon Sambo including the African
slave trade-a New England plum-was the
Year: 1869

for one dollar month.


The postage being only thirty-fve cents a
quarter, country subscribers by this arrangement
can receive the HERALD at the same price ii is
furnished in the city.
Year: 1869

From the Fort Wayne Gazette, 2eth


Until quite recently an old and respecta-
bic citizen of Fort Wayne, residing on
Lewis street, east of Calhoun, had buxom
wife, fair, fat and forty. She had been Wild
ow, and had three children by her former
marriage. He was well to do. She had a
comfortable home, and apparently all the
happiness that mortal woman could desire.


The city has also besn honorea for two
or three years past with the presence OF a
hansome and dashing young man by the
name Of Carter. who worked for while
at spoke factory south of the railroad,
and who was gay. gallant and special IA
vorite among the ladies'. Rumor has it that
he has left wife and two children at some
point in the distant east, but of this We
are not certain.


Carter and the aforesaid lady became &C
quainted, and one of the consequences was
that Carter took up his residence at the
lady's home, On Lewis stree, ;s boarder.
This was perhaps six weeks ago He was
very gentee boarder, at least in the opin
ion of the lady. ami was ever ready to
escort her to church, and to such other
places as it is customary for ladies to 20
under escort. His pleasing manners. siyl
ish clothes, and genteel appearance, made
him desirable company at any time, es-
pecially among the fair sex.


Soon after the appearance of Garter at
the house on Lewis street, people began to
talk. People will talk, you koow. "
The talk was that Carter and his land
lady were a little too intimate, and pre-
dlctions became general that mo good
would come of it.'' The husband, even,
became suspicious, and watched the case
closely; but if he discovered anything
wrong he kept the discovery to himself.


Some time last week Carter left. One
day this week the lady received letter
from him, from Sandusky, we cant say.
But she got the letter, and its contents
were so satisfactory that she at once con
cluded to pack up her clothes and 60 to the
writer Making her intentions known to
her husband, he gave her $500 or $4O0
and his blessing, and allowed her to de,
part. She took two of ker children with
her. The philosophical coolnsss Of the
husband is admirable. -. .-.-


That's about all there is of the story 1t
present. 1t is told more in detail and with
greater embellishments at the tea parties
and sewing circles in the East end, /" but
we amt good at embellishments, and We
don't like to go deeper into particulars,
even if it were necessary. Where the fu
gitive couple are now, how they are en-
joying themselves, and how the man will
abandon the silly woman when he tires OF
her, and leave her prey OF misery, shame
and remorse, the reader may imagine. -
The times afford too many instances of the
kind.
Year: 1869

Editor Ndnito,coc Plot:


SIR Your issue OF June 25th contains
ed a notice of John Conner, saying that
his wife Margaret has left his bed and
board, and cautioning the public from
trusting her on his account.


Now will you let that same Margaret"
have chance in your paper to vindicate
her own cause, by giving the public. a
statement of the facts in the case.


| did not leave has bed, but took my
own, when | left / married him three
and one half years ago, and this bed, l
took to bis house. when went there, and
| it is the only bed worthy the name, that he
ever slept upon.


3D. Left his board He never had any
thing in his house while lived with hi N
fit to eat, except what bought with my
own money. / bought with my own mon.
ey all the clothes l had while living with
him. / took my own COW with me when
l went to live with him, and when left,
he followed me up, and forcibly took said
COW from me-


I My daughter worked for him all the
time lived with him, and he wanted me
to pay him one dollar per week for hel
board. had considerable money when ]
went to live with him, and because ]
wanted to save this for myself and daugh.
ter, and wonld not let him have it, is the
cause of our trouble. am able to take
care of myself and child, and shall not
have to work SO hard to do so, as did
while living with him. In conclusion,
warn all persons from trusting him ON my
account. will pay my own debts, bul
not his MARGREr CoMER.
Year: 1869

HARBoR AFFAIRs.-We notice that two
more cribs have been sunk on the North
Side pier, and two on the South, and i; is
reported that it is all that is TO be sunk,
although We have heard no confirmation OF
the report.


The dredge is at present at work in the
river. They have about fourteen feet Of
water on the north side of the harbor, and
will continue until there is that amount all
over.
Year: 1869

POLICE CoURT. Shove informs
US that only one case was up before him
during the past week. He vas a young
man Of pugilistic proclivities, and with the
teer he had in him, had the idea 10 his
head that he could clean out" all the peo-
pie who were at the German Gardens on
the South Side, last Sunday. For his little
fun, he walked up to His Honor's desk and
''forked over five dollars and costs.