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Year: 1878

beauty of the star-lit night, the ceaseless actiy-
ity in the boundless waters the fascinating
approach to the green English shores. A lit
tie book might be written about this unevent-
full Journey of ten days, book full OF cheer
fulness and vivacity, calling up hundred dear
"reminiscences and reviving hundred neetlng
delights. With many of us the best OF gong
to Europe is the getting there. There Is nOth-
ing in the splendOrs of dancing Paris, or the
majesty of Alpine mountains, that fingers so
fondly in the memory as the sunny days ana
calm nights on the Ocean-days that are never
sultry and nights that are never chill, when even
the busy mind is forced to rcpOse, and the
anxious man of business, for once beyond the
reach of telegrams and newspapers, forgets his
worries and cOmposes himself to healing resC
There is an influence in the overpowerng sea
which makes even the brIskest OF Americans
take kindly to Idleness.


We certainly are not among the discontented
critics who complain of the folly and extrava-
gance of their countTymen in rushing every
Summer across the ocean and spending among
the English lakes and the Scottish Highlands
the time and money which might be lald out
in forming a better acquaintance with the
American continent. On the contrary, we De-
lieve that the whole nation is the better Tor
this habit, which has taken so strong hoid
upon all who can command few weeks hoh-
day and a modest purse. Most of us bring
back some knowledge that is worth having; +;
one picks up little geography ana
history; another enlarges his comprehen-
sion of philosophy a third only learns
how to mix salad. But the aggre-
gate of information imported by the returning
voyagers and discharged upon the community
is something enormous; and all American
society feels the benefit of it. The average
of general intelligence and culture Is senslbly
increased. And who shall say that the aver
age of American longevity is not also affected by
these annual thousands of voyages which make
such a blessed break into the racket ana
hurry of our daily lives
Year: 1878

II is in these burning days Of July that our
minds turn with the most affectiOnate and
enyious interest to the absent friends who are
speeding gayly over the cool and placid sea,
and breathing in health and refreshment with
the pure salt air. -Four hundred and fifty first
cabin passengers sailed on Saturday. The time
for the annual exodus 10 reach its height has
passed, but still the tide flows outward, and
every desirable steamer is full. Thousands
stand longing and regretful at the pier-heads,
and watch the fast vanishing faces, as with
flags flying and handkerchieis waving the
great ships push out into the stream and
hurry down the bay. A sudden quiet ON
board succeeds the hustle of parting. The
passengers gather at the bulwarks, and
look out upon the wharVes and spires, and try
to identify familiar objects which in some way
seem strangely altered. The islands and forts
glide past. The cool breeze rises. Sandy
Hook is reached all too soon; little boat
puts off from trim schooner, whose clean
sails are tapping just beyond the bar; the
pilot goes over the side and is cheered as he
takes his leave; we feel the ocean swell al
last the engines settle to that steady beat
which they are to keep up day and night for
5000 miles and we are ut sea.


A pen which the readers of THE TRIBUNE
have long known touches gracefully upon the
delights of Summer Atlantic vOyage--the
idle and delicious days on deck, the mystic
Year: 1878

The English Liberals seem to have sue
ceeded in pulling themselves together SO lar
as to challenge the Government to debate
on the Asiatic Protectorate. Lord Harrington
has given notice of q comprehensive resolution
in the House of Commons, and Mr.. Gladstone
has made furious attack upon the Govern
ment, denOuncing its secret treaty with Iur-
kew as an insane covenant. The strongest point
of the resolution, as well as of the speech,
is one on which we laid special stress
when the terms of that treaty were
first announced. 1t is this: MOmentOus re-
sponsibilities have been incurred without the
knowledge or the consent of Parliament and
the country. Mr.. Gladstone goes so far as to
say that no despOic government IN Europe
would have dared to do what Lord BeacOns-
fields Cabinet hes done. His speech may be
digbty in other respects-indeed, from the alb
stract of it now before us We judge that tits so
but in laying bare the dangerous tendencies of
an administration that is practically autocratic,
be is rlght-absOlutely and unequivOcaly right.
Lord BeacOns6cld has restored the supremacy
of England in European councils, and that is
a great gain to the world. He has made Eng
land responsible. in the sight of Europe,
for the regeneration OF the UNANIMOUSLY
governed country which has been placed
under the protection of the Crown, and
that is also a great gain to the world. But be
has taken it upon himself to decide off-hand
more momentous questions than were ever
discussed in Parliament lie has dragged the
country into a position from which it cannot
honorably withdraw; he has committed Eng
land to a most complex and Onerous
policy in the East and he has done
this himself, without allowing anybody out
side his Cabinet to know what he was about.
Parliament has been dumb and the nation
powerless to make known its wishes while the
destiny Of the Empire was being shaped by a
single hand and that has not been gain to
tine world
Year: 1878

insisted that he was IN search of the Erie
Canal in the hope Of being allowed to super
intend some Of the mules that are found In
a wild state along that peaceful stream. 1t
must have been the ARRIVAL of this boy that
suddenly cooled the thermometer.
Year: 1878

In explaining the principles of the new party to a
reporter, the other day, General Butler is repre-
sented to have laid it down one of the fundamen-
tai doctrines of the National creed that every one
has a right to his own" But this is to be taken
with many qualifications. People who have any
thing have not a right to their own but everybody
who has not anything has right to all that he has
bimself and to all that his neghbOr has too. That
is the Butler platform.
Year: 1878




With a comfortable change in the tempera-
ture the heated term came to an end,
even more quickly than 1t began, and far
more quietly, for the approach of the
hot-air wave was heTalded with all the
pomp which telegraphic prOclamatiOns could
give. There has been fall of twelve
degrees in two days, and if this tor
rid spell of weather ever had backbone,
it is most effectunly broken. This sudden
change was attended with considerable atmos-
pheric commOtiOn, heavy rainstOrms occurring
in the Middle and Eastern States, which had
at several points almost the violence of huT1-
canes. Now that this solar panic is over, ii
is easy to see that the attack was by
no means as severe as the dismal dispatches
from the West may have led our people to
expect, and that while the heat seemed to be
of d peculiarly exhausting quality, it did not,
in its visible results, equal former oppressive
seasons which came unannOunced ana were
taken almost as u matter of course. In the
three cities of New-YOrk, Brooklyn and Jer-
sey City, the whole number of sun
trokes, as shown by table given on
another page, was but 139, and of
these but 20 were fatal. There have
been Summers when The statistics of exhaus-
ton and death were on a considerable larger
scale, and yet did not produce the alarm
that was felt here last week. The warn
ings that were received of the progress OF the
area of heat served a most excellent purpose
in insuring precautions that have no doubt
saved many lives But it is a question, on the
other hand, whether New-YOrk, in her sympa-
thy with st. Louis, didn't fancy that she was
hotter than she really was.
Year: 1878

Here is the Boy Of the Period in a new
phase-a boy shrewd enough to know how bad
no is and anxious to throw the discredit of
his premature viciOusness upon the most
cherished Institutions Of modern society. He
is eleven years of age, of eourse-the age at
which our Juvenile incendiaries and burglars
usually attain enough professional distinction
10 attract the attention Of the police. Full Of
lies and Wlckedness, this young man insists
that his mental diet has been restricted to
Sunday school books; be was lately peddling
ellromOs in an Ostentatious and fagrant manner,
evidently maliciousIy intended to bring high
art iuto general contempt; and when be was
brought TO a halt By the police In this city, he
Year: 1878

The action of the proprietor of the notorious
Buckingham Palace in getting out warrant for
the arrest of Mr. S. Conant Foster on charge of
false imprisonment is one of the most impudent
outrages ever perDetrated in city where Outrages
by the class to which this dance-house keeper be-
longs are, alas but too common. There is no doubt
at all about the character of the establishment,
and it was a disgrace to the administration of our
laws that the attempt to close it should have been
left to private citizen. II this citizen is to be
punished for his failure Mr. Foster is quite right in
believing that public opinion will make itself mani
fest in a manner the police will be likely to re-
member-and the proprietor of the buckingham
Palace too.
Year: 1878

Indications are not wanting that tO-mOrrOw's
convention of the Nationals at Syracuse viii
convince such respectable persons as may have
been drawn into that organization that they
have got into very bad company. 1t may be
difficult to believe, after the disgraceful brawl-
ing of the party in this city, that any man
with reasonable self-respect and moderate
allowance of brains would remain in it; but
Mr.. George Blair, who has given his name to
one of the factions, talks elsewhere like a
sane and straightforward man. He does not
say much. but what he does say is sound
enough. Probably the opinions which he has
but does not express are just the reverse, but
no seems, in any event, to be too good man
for the crOwd he is in.
Year: 1878

The steamship Adriatic has Just sunk her third
vessel escaping an her custom Is, without injury to
herself When she ran down the ship Harvest
Queen in the Irish Channel in December, 1875, the
disaster was so sudden and complete that the ship
went right to the bottom with all hands and the
steamer did not even know what she had done until
longafterward The newest accident occurred in the
same water, and only one of the crew Of the sunk
schooner was saved. 1t is doubtless owing to an
unlucky coincidence, rather than to any fault OF
Captain Jennings that the Adriatic has been in 80
many of these unpleasant adventures-indeed we
believe that one of the three accidents we have
mentioned occurred under another commander
Passengers may take comfort in observing that the
fast and powerful steamship carries her own peo-
pie in perfect safety; but sailing vessels in the
Irish Channel will perhaps set extra watch when
it is known that she is coming out.
Year: 1878

The Boy Orator.-rhe Baptist church
was crowded Thursday night at the exhibit
ton given by Master Ralph Bingham for the
benefit OF the poor OF Manchester. Master
Ralph fully justified the expectations that
had been formed of him. His voice is rich
and strong, his intonatlon perfect, his ges-
ticuIation very beautiful, and he is graceful
in all OF his movements. All who attended
felt that they had not only aided a good
cause, but been amply compensated for the
amount expended. Due notice will be given
of the repetition OF the entertainment. The
thanks of the public are due the pastor and
officers OF the Baptist church, and to Cap
tain James A. Lipscombe and Sidney W..
Blankenship for their efforts in behalf OF
this deserving charity.
Year: 1878

SAD AccIDENT.-The little daughter Of
Mr.. John Smith, aged twelve months, who
lives on Twenty-frst street between Main
and Franklin, met with very painful acci-
dent on yesterday morning. hilesltting on
the floor near the stove large tub of boil
ing water was accidently overturned and the
little one deluged. She was badly burned
all over the body, and it is feared that she
cannot recover.
Year: 1878

steam nearly across the street. There are very
few horses, even the most gentle. that will
pass through this steam. Which is the best
calculated to scare horses, the boys riding
on Yeiocipedes or this column Of steam
going across the street? My horse has been
frightened very often by the steam, but
never has yet moved 4 muscle when the We
locipedes pass. PRIVATE CITIZEN.
Year: 1878

Editors Dispatch: AS you are SO kind as
to make mention OF nuisances about the
city beg leave to call the attention OF the
proper authorities to one that is, in my
opinion, OF the greatest in the city to those
who ride horseback or drive through the
streets. AT several points on some OF the
most frequented thoroughiates the waste.
pipes from steam-enaines come under the
pavement into the cutters and throw the
Year: 1878

THE LEE MoNUMENT.-The Board Of Man
ayers to-day approach the people of this
city in direct manner for 4 contribution to
the proposed monument to General Lee.
We understand that at every house has been
left an envelope endorsed with an appeal by
the Board, and request that the contribu-
ton Of the family shall be enclosed. Rich
mond owes q debt Of love aud gratitude 10
General Lee wich cannot be ignored, and to
this family, we were going to say personal,
appeal her people cannot safely turn deaf
ear.


The arrangement by which it was in
tended the envelopes shall be called in to-
day by collectors failing to be perfected, the
Board OF Managers request that those who
shall receive shall return them, with such
contribution as they may feel willing TO
give, to this office, or that OF the Wing or
State, or to their respective pastors, if incon-
venient to deliver them at the. office of the
Board in the Capitol.


On this anniversary OF the birth Of Gen
eral Lee let every man in Richmond give ac-
cording to his ability.
Year: 1878

Oh Paddy, dear, did you hear
What things are comeing to?
TIE men upon their bosoms wear
y silken strip of blue;
Oh, brother, say what can it mean
This foolish fashion new,
That some who always wore the
green,
Replace it with the blue.
Yes, brother, the blue badges mean
The freedom of the soul
OF him who in the best has been
The slave of "alcohol;"
False friends may chide and turn


aside,


But friendships new and true
VIII great the hero tried ana true,
Who deiQns to wear the blue.
That strip of blue means a happy


home,


Fair name and length of days,
And hopes and joys of lif to come
A thousand different ways,
And when his corpse is meath the


sou,


His friends will call him true
To home; to country and to God,
Because he wore the blue.
Think not the blue means aught of


wrong


To wearers of the green,
1t labors hard to keep them strong
And keep their senses keen.
Nor need our colors be apart,


If each to each be true,
Wen bear the green within the heart,
And shield it with the blue.-Pal-
myra Spectator.
Year: 1878

The spoony editor who wrote the
word sslead" across the upper right
hand corner of letter to his sweet
heart was only a little bit absent
minded. He thought he was fixing
up copy.-ELowell Courier. If he
was solid with his girl it's all right.
Year: 1878

DIR. Willard Parker. in a recent
lecture. denied the common impress
sion that alcohol is stimulant. He
said, "It is SIMPLY an irritant, like
grain of sand in the eye. 1t may act
as a stimulant in this way, but only
by overtaxing the nervous system
and proving waste instead of = help
in the end" IS
Year: 1878

| noticed a recipe for making q cheap tele-
phone, given by Prof. Barrett in a recent lee
ture ON that instrument. In making his in
strument you use bar magnet, and have TO
go to considerable trouble for all of which
you can only talk distance of about hum
dred yards. Now l can give recipe much
more simple and when the instrument is fin
ished you can converse at n distance Of near
ly five hundred yards. Take two half gallon
Cor quartz tin fruit cans and take the bottoms
out of them Now take a couple Of half cigar
boxes, tack down the lids and cut hole
through the bottom and lid of each, so you
can fit in your cans, first bringing the ends
level with the lid or bottom. Now stretch
wet rawhide, parchment or bladder over the
other end and tie tight and let it dry, and
your speaking tubes are finished. Now take
two-ply of shoe thread and wax it well. max
ing it as long as you wish it. Punch a hole
in the centre of the parchment head, poke
the end of the string through and put knot
on it to keep it from pulling back Then put
up your string like a telegraph wire, but
don't let it touch wood. Where you wish to
support it or make a turn, run it through a
loop of the same kind of string, but don't put
the supporting loops closer together than is
necessary to keep it up and leave the string
pretty loose TO allow for contraction when
wet Fasten up your speaking tubes at each
end Of the route, and you are ready to gabble
away. You can bore large gimlet holes in
your window sash to run the line out through


keeping it from touching the sash with a
loop, as described. The signal call is to drum
on the parchment end of the can with your
fingers, or better, pick the string like a harp
about foot from the head. They are very
useful and interesting. detroit Free Press.
Year: 1878

A STORY OF VIcToR EMANUEL. time
ago Victor Emanuel and a citizen of Rome
happened outside the gates of the Eternal
City, to simultaneously shoot at and kill a
hare. Naturally each sportsman claimed poor
puss's corpse, and, losing their tempers over
the question, resorted, manlike, to fisticuffs.
The Fates, being evidently of an aristocratic
turn of mind, decided the combat in favor of
royalty and the plebian adversary, suddenly
remembering that discretion is the better part
of valor, retreated hastily from the field. The
King sent secretly to ascertain the beaten
mans address, when it was discovered that he
was a cabinet maker, who lived near the Por-
to del Popolo. One day, soon after the fight
over the hare, n royal carriage drew up at the
worthy citizens door, and he was informed
that his attendance Mt the Quirinal was desir-
ed. He went, wondering what on earth he
could be wanted for, and upon being ushered
into the royal presence recognized in the
King the rival with whom he had had the un-
pleasant encounter. Thereupon the poor cab
met maker felt highly uncomfortable, but the
bluff soldier King by his cordial manner, i'm
mediately put the other at his ease, and fur
ther said that, as he had found in the hare
some strange shot, he had in consequence ar
rived at the conclusion that the only fair thing
to be done was to send for his brother sports
man in order that they might eat the meal be-
tween them. Cabinet maker and King ac-
cordingly dined together quite jollily.
Year: 1878

LUNAcY LEGIsLATIoN.-The great difficulty
of the whole question of lunacy legislation
arises from the endeavor rightly TO distinguish
between and care for two rival interests. So
ciety has its rights; the insane have theirs.
Families and the public generally must be
guarded against the discomfort, misery or
actual violence caused by lunatics. Force,
deprival of liberty, sequestration, loss of civil
rights, follow as inevitable consequences.
Then comes the danger of the improper inva-
sion on individual liberty, and the necessity
of legislation to prevent the abuse of legti-
mate power of coercing and confning the per-
son. In the interests of the patient every
sufficient means ought to be taken to prevent
improper committal to an asylum, and to in
sure prompt discharge when recovery has
taken place. In the interests of the public,
such tests of confinable insanity ought not to
be required as to make it so difficult to procure
restraint that the misery of household from
an insane member goes on from month to
month and year to year unrelieyed, involving
domestic feuds and loss of property; or, that
the safety of the community is endangered by
the elimination of mental unsoundness in n
fit of homicidal mania.
Year: 1878

HUXLEY on COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS. .-
Above all things, let my imaginary pupil have
preserved the freshness and vigor of youth in
his mind as well as his body. The education
al abomination of desolation of the present
day is the stimulation of young people TO
work at high pressure by incessant cOmpeti-
tive examinations Some wise man (who was
probably not an early riser) has said of early
rsers in general that they are conceited all
the forenoon and stupid all the afternoon.
Now whether this is true of early risers in
the common acceptation of the word or not
will not pretend to say but it is too often
true OF the unhappy children who are forced
to rise too early in their classes. They are
conceited AL the forenoon of life and stupid
all its afternoon. The vigor and freshness
which should have been stored up for the pur-
poses of the hard struggle for existence in
practical life, have been washed out of them
by precocious mental debauchery-by book
gluttony and lesson-bibbing. Their faculties
are worn out by the strain put upon their
callow brains, and they are demoralized by
worthless childish triumphs before the real
work of life begins l have no compassion
for sloth but youth has more need for intel
lectual rest than age and the cheerfulness,
the tenacity of purpose the power of work,
which make many successful man what he
is. must often be placed TO the credit, not of
his hours of industry, but to that Of his hours
of idleness, in boyhood. Even the hardest
worker of us ALL if he has to deal with any
thing above mere details, will do well, now
and again, TO let his brain lie fallow for h
space The next crop of thought will certain
ly be all the fuller in the ear and the weeds
fewer I PODuL1T Science MORthlg.
Year: 1878

More than few distinguished men in the
world owe much of their success in life to
their wives. Mrs. Ben Wade was her busy
husbands secretary, assistant, reader, and II
may almost be said right hand Mr.. Wade
had an almost invincible antipathy to putting
pen TO paper He had an almost equal dis
inclination to search books. This drudgery
Mrs Wade cheerfully assumed. When her
husband had speech in hand it was his wife
who furnished him with the materials, which
he afterward arranged, assmilated and sys-
tematized. Great things are told of her skill
in this respect-of her tact, industry and pa
tience.
Year: 1878

Everything conductive to the better condition of
the baby assure TO attract attentions and hence is
that Dr. Bulls Baby Syrup is becoming more and
more appreciated its wonderful influence In sub
DUNG the diseases of babyhood becomes recognized
Price 25 cents.
Year: 1878

Vicious Cow AT LARGE.-Great excite
ment was produced in the neighborhood OF
the Seventh-Street bridge Oh yesterday
about noon by fine cow which broke
away from the men having her in charge.
She ran down Seventh street from Cary,
causing the persons who happened to be
passing to scamper in every direction, sew
eral OF them narrowly escaping serious in
jury. When in front OF the office OF Will
liam i. Tanner & Co. the vicious animal
made frantic charge upon the cast-iron
negro boy which has so long and patiently
served rs q householder. He, unlike the
other persons attacked, manfully stood his
ground, and the cow broke one OF her
horns into three pieces against his sto-
mach. The progress Of. the animal was
temporarily arrested at the bridge by the
police and others, when she returned, and
as soon as she saw the boy 'went for him
again." but luckily for the cow missed
him. When last seen by the representative
Of this paper the insane beast was cavorting
up Cary street, pursued by large con-
course OF men and boys.
Year: 1878

STATE PRINTING. SG.-Superintendent Frayser
received the bids for the public printing
yesterday, and opened them in the presence
of Secretary -of-the- Commonwealth McDon-
aid and Treasurer Hunter. The awards
will be made to-day. In the mean time
nearly all the Job printers Of the city will
be kept on the ragged edge Of expectation.
The number Of bidders is unusually large,
and the sharp contest for the work is a
guarantee that the State will get it done at
very low rates.