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Year: 1878

Chinese elopements are well managed.
None but the lazy deserve the fair ;
there is neither ladder nor trellis to be
scaled and the old gentleman is easily
persuaded that whatever is, is right.
There was Ho, the LATEST wight Of Hang
chow, who lived by odd jobs, and never
could get regular employment. One
night, while he was drinking tea at a
wayside inn, he boasted that he would
never do another days work unless he
could find a rich employer with pretty
daughters. An old fellow named Tsiang,
who overheard the remark, was so en-
ragged by it that he engaged all the
laborers who were present except Ho,
and refused to give him nights lodg-
ing. Poor Ho went to sleep in Tsiang's 3
back yard, and very mournful was he.
Suddenly a great bundle of cloths was
thrown out OF a window. Thinking
there were thieves in the house, and not
being in mood to protect the farmers
household, he put the bundle on his
back, and trudged down the road with
it. Soon he heard steps behind him..
The infuriated farmer? Not 80. 1t was
only a pretty girl. She joined him, and
walked by his side without saying a
word or looking at him. On they went
through the dark night, mile upon mile,
and Just as the day was breaking they
reached the village inn. Then she
looked at him, and shrieked. 1t was
not the young cousin who had wooed
her to pack up her clothes and meet him
at midnight. It was only poor lazy Ho.
well, well," she said Il" there is nc
help for it. We must get married as
soon as possible.


Married they we're the old gentleman
behaved nicely ; dowly, immense.
Year: 1878

then we were married, and went away
from this part of the country for several
months, till we heard that Davis had
gone away, when we returned. But I
kept close, and let no one but my own
folks know I was alive, for was deter
mined that Davis should be punished in
some manner. So I never went out
without a thick double veil over my
face, for I was afraid of DAVIS yet.


"Then. one evening, I was riding
along in carriage, with my husband,
when saw Mr.. Sharpe sitting at win
dow. He was disguised, but I recog
nized him, and I remembered that lie
had once promised to help me if ever
needed his services. So went up to the
window quietly, and spoke to him, and
told him about Davis, and that is all. I
didn't want the man hung, of course;
but I hope he won't be allowed to muir
der me, as I am sure he will want to
when he finds I am not dead"


But Davis was past doing any one any
further injury. The wretch went from
one ft into another, and finally died,
literally frightened to death. And so
his sin had certainly fonnd him ont.
Year: 1878

the world ls beautiful, bright and falr
And q merry laugh rang out on the air,
As the little one tumbled the new-mown hay,
Chasing the butterflies, bright and gay;
But the sun went down, and he dropped his


head,


For the pretty things in his hand lay dead.
"Oh, the world is beautiful, bright and fair"
And the maiden shook her golden hair,
And she swoetly smiled, as the lily and rose
Mid the shining trcsses she deftly wove;
But the lover came not 10 claim his bride,
And the thorns remained, and the roses died.
"Oh, the world is beautiful, bright and fair !!
And the young mother softly breathed prayer
As she nestled her baby close to her breast,
And it's murmurings gently soothed to rest;
But the Father had need Of one angel more,
And he opened for it the heavenly door.
"Oh, the world is beautiful, bright and fair y
Sighed the aged one with silvery lair,


"But over it all is the serpent's trsil-
With the merry laugh comes the mournful wall
but tarry awhile till the summons come
To join my beloved in our heavenly home"
Year: 1878

True hospitality is thing that touch
es the heart and never goes beyond the
circle of generous impulses. Entertain
ment with the true hospitable man
means more than the mere feeding OF
the body; it means an interchange OF
soul gifts. Still it should have it's laws,
as all things good must have laws to
govern them.


The obligation to be hospitable is Q
sacred one, emphasized by every moral
code known to the world, and practical
outcome of the second great command
ment.


There should never be guest in the
house whose presence requires any
considerable change in the domestic
economy.


However much the circumstances OF
business or mutual interests may de-
mand in entertaining stranger, ne
should never be taken into the family
circle unless he is known to be wholly
worthy of that 8anctu11 sdnctoratna OF
social life but when once man ls ad-
mitted to the home fireside he should
be treated as if the place had been his
always. -,


Tie fact of an invitation gives neither
host nor guest the right to be master OF
the others time, and does not require
even temporary sacrifice OF ones en-
tire individuality or pursuits.


A man should never be 30 much him.
self as when he entertains friend.


To stay at friends house beyond the
time for which one is invited is to per-
petrate social robbery.


To abide unlimited in friends house
is as much misdemeanor as borrowing
his coat without his permission. -lt ls
debasing the coin of friendship to mere
dross when a man attempts to make it
pay his hotel bills. ;,


The fact of two men having the same
occupation and interest in life gives TO
neither social right to the others bed
and board.


They who go into the country in sum-
mer as uninvited guests of their farmer
friends should be rated as social brig
ands. and treated accordingly.


These few social maxims are by no
means to be taken as a complete code OF
laws. Others quite as important will
spring up out of the personal experience
of every reader of this article, and the
iustice and equity Of all may be tested
hv that lnfallible standard of society y
tie Golden rule. There can be no true
hospitality that in practice is violation
Of this rule; and you may safely rest
assured that you have given the fullest
md most perfect measure OF entertain
ment to your neighbors if you have done
exactly as you would be done by.-S~n-
l3oy A fiernOOfa.
Year: 1878

A remarkable piece OF coral, taken off
the submarine cable near Port Darwin,
is spoken of in Melbourne paper. It
is Of the ordinary species, about five
inches in height, six inches in diameter
at the top and about two inches at the
base. It is perfectly formed, and the
base bears the distinct impression of the
cable and few tibres of the coil rope
used as q sheath for the telegraphic
wires still adhering to it. As the cable
has been laid only four years, it is evi'
dent that this specimen must have
grown to it's present height in that time,
which seems to prove that the growth
of coral is much moro rapid than has
been supposed.
Year: 1878

The crime generally characterized as
shop.lifting," says Paris letter
writer, is very common here, the great
shops and bazars offering exceptional
temptations. Every week we hear OF
arrests for petit larcenies, and in many
cases the criminals are ladies of family
and position. am sorry to say that a
number of American ladies have been
arrested here, and I remember two
which required all the influence that
Mr.. Washburne had to get them of.
They finally compromised by paying for
the goods and by giving 800 to the
poor. Kleptomania seems to be on the
increase. During tho past week we
have had three cases that were very
sad. One French lady stole an article
worth fifty cents, although possessing a
large fortune; another, the wife OF q
rich merchant, had at least 100000
francs year to spend. The third case
is that of German countess, and the
wife of distinguished general. Some
time ago she took apartments IN the
Rue Lafayette, and soon won the favor
of everybody. She lived regular lite
had plenty of money, and seemed to
spend her time in shopping. Every
day she came in with numerous bundles.
Yesterday she was detected stealing
some small articles in the Magazine de
Louvre, and on searching her other
things we're found upon her. She con-
fessed that her mania for pocketing
small things was so strong that she was
unable to resist it, and she offered to
pay any sum not to be exposed. The
proprietors said that they had tried the
compromise system with ladies so long
and vainly, that they now had to try
severity, and they felt bound to pros
ecute the countess as an example.
The poor creature is in pitiful condi-
tion to-day, and her appeals for mercy
are heartrendiug. All the great shops
have to employ special detectives, and
men are kept watching the counters
through holes in the ceiling.
Year: 1878

DR.. Crosby of the Bellevue Hospital
pronounces milk an article of diet which
all persons may use, under nearly all con-
ditions. There are those who say they
cannot take milk, that it makes them bill
hous, etc, but he declares that this is not
true. A person who is sick may take
milk with the greatest possible advant-
age, because it contains in form easy of
assimilation all the elements essential for
maintaing nutrition. 1t is the natura'
aliment of the young animal, and certain
ly answers good purpose for the old an
imal, provided it is used properly, and
not poured into the stomach already over
filed, as though it had in itself no sub
stance or richness. New milk, he does
lot hesitate to say, may be taken, as far
as disease is concerned, in nearly every
condition.


Perhaps it will require the addition of
a spoonful or two of lime water. The ad-
dition of little salt will often prevent
the after-feeling of fullness and ''wind in
the stomach, which some complain of.
If marked acidity of the stomach is pres
ent, then perhaps little gentian may be
requisite to stimulate the stomach some
what; and it may be necessary to give it
in small quantities and repeat it often;
but ice cold milk can be put into a very
irritable stomach, if given in small guam
titles and at short intervals, with the hap
piest effects. 1t is used in cases of fever.
which it formerly was thought to ''feed,"
and when scalded it has desirable effect
In summer complaints.


Bot it is an article of diet for people
in health, and who wish to remain in that
happy condition, that milk should be
most appreciated. For the midday lunch
of those whose hearty meal comes at nj ght
or for the supper of those who dine at
noon, nothing is SO good. The great va
riety and excellent quality OF prepared
cereals gives wide choice Of food to use
with milk. Bread with berries, in their
season, or baked sweet apples,) boiled
rice, cracked wheat, oatmeal, hulled corn,
or hominy, taken with generous bowl
of pure cold milk, makes the best posi-
bic light meal in warm weather for chill
dren. and for adults who have not some
positive physical idiosyrcracy that pre-
vents them from digesting it. The men
of firmest health and longest life are the
the nen of regular and simple habits,
and milk is standard article in such a
diet, .-,s..tt4
Year: 1878

Never use your pans for anything but
milk; wash well in two waters, scald and
wipe well with clean towel; never allow
your milk to stand over forty eight hours;
set your milk in cupboard or safe, with
papers pinned over the wires to prevent
the air from drying the cream, else there
will be white specks in the butter; when
you skim, loosen the cream from the pan
with the finger; what adheres to the pan
will not make butter if scraped off with
the cream; keep the cream jar in as cool
an atmosphere as the milk; never allow
either to freeze. Churn 90 often as every
fourth day. When the cream is ready,
stand near the stove, turning the churp,
and churning TO stir the cream while
warming; take ont the butter and place it
in cold water, rinse well, salt, cover we'll
from the air, and set away; let 1t stand
twenty-four hours, then work over; press
the butter while working, instead of
smoothing, as pulling tho lRdle over it
makes the butter oily. If these direc-
tions are observed with Gaze, you will be
repaid by sweet, yellow butter.
Year: 1878

"Wind," saws an old horseman, 'is the
grand secret OF a fast horse. Good lungs
will cover multitude of faults; whilst
on the other hand, perfection of shape
and form are useless when the wind Is
out" The chest, therefore. ii all cases,
should be large and capacious. In shape
it may vary somewhat, according to the
service to which the horse is to be put.
If he is kept for slow work and heavy
drawing, the chest may be nearly circu-
lar in form, because this shape is the one
for strengtl and bulk, to receive and
bear up against the pressure OF the collar;
while at the same time sufficient room is
secured for that expansion of the lungs
caused by slow and regular work. But If
the chest is circular, let it be at the sama
time deep, or else the lungs may be
cramped. A horse with shallow chest
is worthless for any purpose. The rule,
then, is this: For draft-horse, 8 circuler
but deep chest; but as you pass through
the different degrees of speed, up to the
racer and trotter, the chest must increase
in depth, compared to its roundness, un-
til for the highest rate of speed, you
must have achest as deep as greyhound,
and at the same time not lacking In
breadth Every breeder should keep this
rule in mind when selecting his brood
mares and stallion for he may be sure
that shallow chested parents never beget
deep-chested colts.
Year: 1878

Among the pretty thine~ foi tne parlor
Whiah ..aay-cas1ly be made at home are
lamp shades and window transparencies
cut from bristol board. For lamp
shade, take five pieces of bristol board,
three inches wide at tcp and five at the
bottom sGa sloped like a dress gore on
both sides. On each of these sketches
lightly in pencil (or, if your skill is not
equal to this, trace with impression paper)
any simple picture you please. Flowers,
leaves, q spray of anv sort. vine with
i've and pleasing patterns. After tl,e pat
tern is traced, take a sharp penknite and
cut through each line, taking care to
leave enough of the board intact at the
base of each, 50 as 10 prevent. any part
from being wholly detached and so fall
ing out. The design may be colored on
the reverse if desired, and for this no skill
is necessary; bold strokes and dashes Of
color answer perfectly, provided there is
no blurring of the lines.


We have seen soin5 such shades where,
instead OF using a knife, the designs
were pricked with pin or with q large
needle. When the parts of the shade are
all done hind them with narrow or gilt
paper, pasted on, and join them together.
lhls may be done by making hole at
each corner of each gore and tying them
together by means of narrow ribbon pass
ed through the holes. If larger shade
is desired, six pieces may be made, but
five will be sufficient for the ordinary
size The effect of such shade will,
when the lamp is lighted, be found equal
to the finest bisque or porcelain transpar-
encies. For windows, cut the board in
rectangular shape and proceed in the
same manner with your picture. We
have seen head of Christ and a Madonna
and Child beautifully executed IN this
easy art work. Your knife must be sharp
and your hand steady. 1t is we'll to fast


en- the work TO drawing board, as art


lists do their drawing paper, to hold it in


place while doing this, since this inSurcs
| more regularity in the strokes
Year: 1878

succeeded in making the electro magnet
telephone, Mr.. Bell hit it and brought it
! out at the Centennial. Mr.. Edison ac-
knowledged himself fairly anticipated,
and began to experiment with view to
finding a substance that would be elastic,
50 to speak, to the passage of a current of
electricity--that is, whose resistance to a
current would vary with pressure. He
began at one end Of his stock of chemicals
and tried every one Of them-some two
thousand-but met with no satisfactory
result. Finally, when everything was ex-
hausted, and he was looking around for
what next TO try, an assistant brought
him piece Of broken lamp chimney with
an incrustation of lampblack; this was
scraped OF, f"asael into = LITTLE cake. and
tried He had at last discovered what he
was in search of. BY placing it between
two plates OF metal connected with the
opposite poles of the battery, and making
one of the plates large, to receive the force
of sOund-waves, this varying pressure
would make the carbon cake more or less
elastic to the passage Of the current OF
electricity, and the invention of the trans
mitting part of new telephone-all his
own-was complete. For the receiving
part nothing was necessary but an ordl-
nary electro magnet with q diaphragm.
Experiments with this carbon telephone"
as it is called, are unfolding every day its
marvellous sensitiveness, as shown in its
microphonic manifestations, which have
been exciting so much wonder. No less
successfully is it being brought to meas
ure the pressure caused by intinitesimal
heat-tor instance, that received by us
from the stars.


Coming lastly to the phonograph: while
experimenting on an automatic transmit
ter in the early part of last winter, Alr.
Edison tried tin-foil, instead of paper, 10
receive the indcntations of the Morse re-
corder, and was surprised to see how
readily it received them. These indenta-
tons, passing under another needle, were
20 repeat the message automatically TO
another wire. 4 few days after, while
handling telephone, the fancy seized
him TO fix a needle-point to diaphragm
and see whether the vibration Of the liza
phragm when spoken against would cause
the needle to prick his finger. 1t did.
Then he wondered what sort of an inden-
tation this would make in slip of paper,
lie tried ii, and, spre enough, there was
the semblance of an indented track!
What would be the effect Of drawing this
slip under the point again, following the
working of the automatic transmittera
He tried that, and the result was one
which almost made him wild. A sound
Ike the stihed cry # words seeking birth
came from the diaphragm. No sleep CT
food until he had made grooYed cylin-
der, put piece of tin-foil instead of paper
on it, attached the diaphragm, and shout
ed into it, when, upon turning the crank,
the words came back with marvellous
elocution, and the phonograph was sue
cess.


We are indebted to the Popular Science
Monthly for the above sketch
Year: 1878

THE Salt River valley is going to have a Democratic paper, in addition to the Herald. A build ing has been rented for it and the rent has been paid in advance. A party is now in San Francesca buying the material. Maricopa county may feel it a load to carry two local papers, but either one of them will be of more than $100, ,000 worth of benefit to her in less than five years.
Year: 1878

At intervals during the past year exchanges have come to us

 with a prophetic vail over the de- parture forever of the glory of

 Yuma as a center of business: the Southern Pacific railroad was be- ing rlshed through into Arizona, and Yuma was to exist only for railroad convenience as a meal station. Some of our citizens got timid and feared to improve pro- perty in an expiring town. But we still exist, and are likely to remain, as THE TERMINUS of the Southern Pacific Railroad for years to come, if not forever. Big reports are published Of the acti- witty of that road and of its being pushed across the continent, with or without subsidy. Its locomo- tives first crossed the Colorado river and landed in Arizona on the 30 of September last-nearly four months ago. Since that time the road has been "pushed across the continent" to the extent of some 1500 yards; just far enough through the town of Yuma to get room for turntable, engine house, coal platforms and other para. phernalia of a railroad TERMINUS.

 There is no present indication around here of intention to push another foot "across the contin- ent," except in the fact that there are not yet provided even the shadows of accommodation for pas sengerS nor for delivering freight to wagons. A terminus usually has both: way-stations very rarely have neither.

 But this is a weak argument compared with the entire absence here even of material necessary to proper repair of the road, to say nothing of no accumulations of ties or rails for driving the work ahead whenever Congress may give the right of way. The press Some portions of it-assures us that everything is in readiness for building at least 14O miles of road into Arizona this year. The as- surance was as positive last sum- mer as it is now; yet for four months we have looked in vain | for any indication of its being realized. On the contrary, every thing now indicates that Yuma will remain the terminus. !
Year: 1878



 Two men last week came ill to Desert Sta tion and by their conduct gave rise to sus- picions that they were the parties who robbed the stage near that place few weeks ago. 4 report was current that they had used violence at the station, but it was incorrect When Labaree and the cook went out to look at the horses the men got suspicious and rode off without finishing the meal they had ordered. A description of them was sent to Tucson and deputy sheriff A. G. Buttner came out on the stage. On Monday description of them was received at Maricopa Wells, but they had avoided the station, passing south of it. The men struck across the desert to Happy Camp, but on arriving there they found It. Winchester and detachment of recruits. Seeing the soldiers they put spurs to their horses and dashed past without stopping for water. Nothing was seen of them at Gila Bend. They took dinner at Kenyons and were at Oatman Flat when the Tucson stage got there on Tuesday. Judge Porter was on board and on reaching Burke's telegraphed that he had passed two men answering the des- cription given him at Maricopa. At Oat- man one of their horses gave out and they sold it, saddle and all, for SIP; one of them walking from there to Burkes, where they sold the other horse and outfit for S10 eX- pecting to continue their journey by stage. Before reaching Burke's they must have changed their clothing, which did not cor respond with that hitherto ascribed to them. When the Tucson stage arrived there on Wednesday Bultner was on board and saw two men sitting in front of the house. He went in, eat dinner, came back to the stage, got his shot gun and quietly stepped past the men into the house. There he turned, cooked his gun and told 1 the men to put up their hands, which they did-like they were trying to scratch the roof of the piazza. The stage was too full for Buttner to bring the men down here and so was the stage passing there on Thursday. We have not yet learned what | he has done with them. If they are the ! right men Buttner can put big feather in his official cap. If he has got the wrong ones, the joke will not be so cunnin'
Year: 1878

Ex-Governor Seymour of New York,
the President of The American Dairy
mems Association" lately and well said,
that ''in relation 10 political matters there
is great confusion now. l do not think
any harm will come out of this state of
things. The American people have gone
into a committee of the whole on the state
of the Union where every man can have
his say, and where every one can bring out
his plans. These will knock each other in
the head, and when we get through all will
go back to the rules of common sense.
The men who work will thrive. Those
who are idle will starve. There is no fear
that Gods wise and kind law that men
must earn their bread by the sweat of their
brow will be set aside"
Year: 1878

"A pleasant little anecdote of the Crown
Prince of Germany is told by Mrs Hoop
er. 1t was at the beginning of the Franco
Prussian war that the king and prince
passed through Homburg on their way to
the field. A young American girl, stay
ing with her parents at one of the hotels,
hung large ATerican flag from her bal
cony, and as the royal couple passed waved
an enthusiastic handkerchief. The king
and his son looked up and bowed, and,
like the courteous gentleman he is, the
prince summoned an aide-de-camp and
! gave an order which was passed down the
| liue-sn order TOR each regiment O. It went
| BY to salute the Stars and Stripes,