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Year: 1878

1t is not an easy matter to make SEN
sible speech about female education, but
Earl Granville succeeded in doing it two
weeks ago at the annual distribution Of
prizes in a North London school for
girls. lie remarked that objections
were very often made against giving a
high-cl education to women. 1t was
said that it might turn young ladies into
pedants an d into blue-stockings He
would certainly admit that he had met
some very disagreeable specimens of
womankind, who readily deserved those
terms, but they were ladies who had
some slight smattering knowledge, and
who had not really received sound and
first rate education. Had not young
men, however, occasionally been found
to be pedantic and conceited in the ex-
RENE? Anolher objection was that
women were being taken out Of their
sphere; but was it perfectly clear that a
thorough moral, intellectual and relig-
ious education must spoil women for
their own peculiar sphere, for their du-
ties as daughters, wives, mothers, and
members of the community? The times
were past when a great literary charac-
ter could assert that it was easier for a
coquette to marry than highly in
structed woman, would know how to
appreciate those members of the oppo-
site sex who fitted themselves by study
and industry to become really useful
members of the community 10 which
they belong.
Year: 1878

All the evidence goes TO show that
death By hanging is painless, and there
is positively no fact or well founded
opinion to the contrary. If this be the
case, then, what is the explana ion Of it?
Simply this: That in every form Of
strangulation the blood vessels of the
neck are compressed, as well as the air
passages. A large part of the blood is
returned from the head by the external
jugular veins, which are very near the
surface, and in which the current can be
checked by slight pressure. Most of the
blood from the brain itself comes back
through the internal jugulars, which lie
near. but a little outside of the carotid
arteries. The walls of veins are lax and
Welding, so as to be easily compressed,
while those of the arteries are firm and
elastic, and it requires considerable
force to approximate them. Pressure,
then, which is sufficient to close the
jugular veins only crowds the carotids
a little farther inward, and the blood is
still poured through them into the brain,
whence it cannot escape. When this
pumping process is going on at the rate
of seventy strokes minute, it is easy to
understand how the engagement ofthe
vessels of the brain in very brief time
reaches degree which causes insensi-
biIity. To explain why this congestion
causes inconsistencies would involve
technical discussion which would
here be out of place. 1t must suffice to
saw that it does; so that, as the cerebral
congestion in hanged person brings on
insensibility within minute, while the
physical agony of suffering does not
begin until later, it follows that the vic
tim does not feel any of the pangs OF
asphyxia. He first becomes insensible,
with accompanying pleasurable feelings


from cerebral congestion, and then is
choked to death while unconscious


DR. Traep, in Popular Science Monthly.
Year: 1878

Fair Eve knelt close by the guarde;
gate, in the glow of the Eastern spring
She saw the flash Of the angels swort


and the sheen of the angels wing;
She thought, as she held her sobbinl


breath, she could hear the happy sigh
OF the tiny riyulets that fed the moses


Of Paradise;


She knew how the birds we're fluttering
among the clustered flowers
And gorgeous blooms and arching tree:


that shadowed Eden's bowers,
And she cried aloud in an agony Of wild


remorseful prayer:
"Give me one bud, but one, but one from
the thousand that blossom there!"
He turned as he heard her piteous voice
in his grave, angelic grace,
And he looked with a wistful tenderness:
on the beautiful woman's face;
And because it was so beautiful and
because she could not see
How fair were the pure white cyclamen
crushed dying at her knee;
And because he knew this punishment
through the weary years must burn,
That through all things weetand good on
earth her heart would forEden yearn.
He gathered a rich, red rose, that grew
where the four great rivers met,
And flung it TO the frail, fatal hands that
clasped imploring yet.
And though for many cycle past that
rose in dust has lain,
With her who bore it on her breast,
when she passed from life and pain,
There is never a daughter of Eve but
once, ere the tale of her days is done,
She will know the scent of the Eden
rose, Just once, beneath the sun.
And whatever else she may win or lose,
endure or do, or dare,
She will never forget the enchantment
it gave to the common air;
For the world may give her content or
joy, fame, sorrow or sacrifice,
But the hour that brought the scent Of
the rose, she lived it in Paradise.


-AUthe Year Round.
Year: 1878

As this subject has attracted some
attention lately in this column, we give
below the experience of "Aqucoln"
correspondent in the Ohio Farmer. He
saws:


To a crop of turnips the ground
ue-1s to be only moderately rich, but
it nust be rery fine. You can not do
too much in the way of rolling, bar
rowing and dragging, and the more
compact the soil is the better, so you
have two inches of fine, mellow soil
for the turnip to start in. I have
grown good crop by burning of wheat
stubble, and eultivating and harrow
ing the surface until mellow, and
prefer this to plowing the land. Ihave
never tried superphosphate or bone
dust for turnips, but / should think
that these manures would be exactly
suited to the crop, and l expect to try
them this year. In pu,verizing land
for tnrnips, and to cover the seed, there
is nothing so good as a plank drag; is
grinds up the clods and leaves a mel
low surface, and in covering the seed
it presses the earth on it so as to make
it germinats readily.


it requires considerable care to SOW
;urnip seed just right; nearly every
oI.e puts it on too thick. Some mix
with ashes or dust, but can SOW bet
ter oIear. use only the thumb and
fore finger, and SOW about six feet wide
cast to every other step. The best
time 20 SOW is the first ten days in Au-
gust, bat if / have large crop to SOW,
begin as early as the middle of July;
these early sown turnips, however, are
nat 20 sweet and nice for the table as
the later crop. There is one rule Of
the utmost Importance in sowing tnr-
nips. and attribute my success to its
observance more than to all other
eau-es. and that is-al'cays soa0 as SO0l
gtter rain ds.the ground cIn be aCorked.
F.on long experience | am sure that
there are more failures in turnip grow
img frou the almost universal practice
of sowing just before rain than from
all c Cther causes combined. On sandy
soils this may be different. as all my
experience has been on a clay soil.


A ,uruip must start to grow at once,
or It will either be destroyed by the
garden flea or choked with weeds.


When we SOW before q rain a crust
forms, or If the rain is a heavy one the
IaI d runs together and settles down
hard and compact, and invariably .
crop of weeds will start with the tur-
nips; but if the seed is sown after .
rain the weeds do not start with the
turnips, and the plants gro " SO rapidly
as to escape the fly. / have tried drill
ling turnips and can grow a larger crop
than by broadcasting, but they must
be thinned and cultivated, and l can
grow them cheaper to broadcast them
/ do not know how large a crop oftur-
nips could be grown on an acre, but ]
believe that with every foot of soil oe-
cupied, and the fall good one, on
thousand bushels could be grown
I have grown five hundred bushels, and
have for years averaged three hundred
bushels to the acre. There Is no var
iety better than the purple top strap
leaf, it is Of quick growth, very hardy,
and will outsell any other in the mar
ket.
Year: 1878

Between the dusk and the day light,
When the shadows longest grow,
There comes a silence on all things
It's the hour when one speaks low
We sit in the parlor together,


And heavily ON the air
Floats the familiar fragrance.
OF the heliotrope in your hair.
And in the kindly twilight


l see your dark eyes shine;
l feel the touch Of your garments,
Ofyour soft white hand in mine.
And one might see in the parlor,
When the day is almost done,
On the wall two tremulous shadows
Of faces melt into one.


-NetU York UOrld.
Year: 1878

original color, agith the gloss and
freshness Of youth. Thin hair is
thickened, falling hair checked, and
badness often, though not always,
cured by its use. Nothing can re-
store the hair where the follicles are
destroyed, or the glands atrophied
and decayed. But such as remain
can be saved for usefulness by this
application. Instead of fouling the
hair with a pasty sediment, it will
keep it clean and vigorous. Its
occasional use will prevent the hair
from turning gray or falling of,
and consequently prevent badness.
Free from those deleterious sub
stances which make some prepara-
tions dangerous and injurious to
the hair, the Vigor can only benefit
but not harm it. If wanted merely
for q
Year: 1878

excess OF postage local matter the cost Of the
service-due mainly 10 the carriers delivery wise
LIONS TOR the purpose suggested above and also Tor
extension OF the service TO other cities having the
population t30eo0 entling them 10 it under the law


In regard to pay of carriers the Postmaster Cen
erai, without repeating the argument. rcnews his
recommendation of last year for material increase
in their compensation. He again invites attention TO
the subject of the service rendered by railway
panies in carrying the mails between stations and
post Offices. and says it should either be made ele
ment of the basis OF compensation to be paid for
according to the work done each route. or the
railway companies should be relieved from this duty,
unpaid service being slwsys a of dissatis-
faction.


Attention is again called to the insuficency of the
compensation allowed under law for service many
short routes During the last session Of Congress
bills were presented to amend the law regulating the
compensation TO railroad companies for carrying the
mails base the rates Of pay upon the items of
space, speed and frequency" 1t is suggested that
the space to be paid for each route should be
limited to a specified amount certain weight of
mails. Otherwise the compensation OF all railroads.
and consequently the expenditure of more than
s9o0oooo annually would be left to tho discretion Of
of the Postmaster General and he thinks it is clear
this should not be done.


RECOMMENDATIONS.


The other recommendations OF general interest
made by the Postmaster General are, in brief that
Congress should authorize temporary contracts for
"star mail service, to be made for year in case
OF need without advertisement. instead Of the six
months period to which. by the amended law. the
department is limited, and that he be authorized TO
prescribe uniform to be worn by all employees OF
the postal service with view to preventing their per-
sonation by unauthorized individuals He also rec
om1nends the erection OF new post Office building
for San Francisco and urges that accommodations be
provided for the Washington City Post Office outside
of the department buildings. where all the space is
greatly needed for general purposes, including the
storage of valuable records. which arc now exposed
to danger from fire.
Year: 1878

THE House Committee on Public Lands
has decided to report bill forfeiting all
land grants to railroad companies which
have not complied with their charters in
curtailing their roads. There are twen-
ty-two of these land grant companies in
the West and South, and the effect OF
the law will be to cause to revert to the
United States seven hundred million acres
of public lands. But it is doubtful if the
bill will pass with the corporate inhu-
ence that will be arrayed against it.
Year: 1878

The Republican members of the House
at Columbus seem to be after that Grip
pied soldier 0'Connor, member from
Montgomery county. They tried to get
him out on the charge of being deserter,
but failed. Nevertheless the radical pa.
pers howl on at him, still charging he
deserted the flag.
Year: 1878

WILL the Repository or Buckeye State
inform us whether there is a Columbiana
ring running the Children's Homer A
little light in that direction might be
profitable. especially in buying old wag-
ons for the Home farm and paying there
for more than new wagon would cost.
Year: 1878

AS the Penitentiary bill is a law, the
appointment of Directors therefor will
hs-in order. We understand Governor
Bishop is now making up his roster
And after that new Warden will be in
order, and change in the employees
Change is the order of nature.
Year: 1878

THAT small "Cave of the Winds" the
Repository, still claims that all is wrong
in our county afairs-but it is now care
not to specify or particularize. The ad-
Vance is more slow and cautious.
Year: 1878

THE Buckeye State and Repository do
not talk about that steam heating at the
Children's Home that has cost the two
counties over nine thousand dollars, and
is not good for much at that.
Year: 1878

The Legislative Investigating Committee
examined Governor Bishop on Saturday,
developing the fact that $4,000 was paid to
a failing firm on the Kings Mountain Tun-
mel to which the firm was not entitled
Governor Bishop refused to state the rea-
son, as did also Secretary Tatem.


The testimony thus far has redeveloped
the statement that Mr.. Ephraim Morgan
said he had the names of six members of
the Legislature who were bought for the
Six Millions Bill; that some $500 of the
peoples money was spent in lobbying for
the bill and against the clause submitting
it to the people; that clause was inserted
therein making the city liable for all con-
tracts then made, whether the citizens voted
for or against the BILL although some of
these were such as to involve loss to the
city of nearly half million dollars, and
might have been allowed to lapse at the ex-
haustion of the ten millions fund.


The Board of Transportation holds pub
lie meeting at its rooms No. 5 Burnet House
Block, on Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock
to consider the best means of completing
the Southern Railroad. The public are
cordially invited to be present.
Year: 1878

The committee appointed on Change last
Saturday to devise ways and means for rails
ing money to complete the Southern Rail-
road met in the committee rooms this after
noon.


A motion to accept Mr.. Springers resig-
nation was adopted, and itw ordered that
his letter be placed on file. Mr. David Sin
ton was unanimously elected to serve in
Mr.. Springers stead.


Mr. Shoemaker presented the following


"Ask for the passage of a law reorganiz-
ing the Board of Trustees, and authorize the
city to issue 100000 of seven per
cent. bonds to be used in COM
pleting the Southern Railway. Let
the new Board of Trustees consist OF
Board of Public Works of Cincinnati, to
hold their office for three years, one Of
whom shall be an experienced railroad
builder; two to be appointed by the Supe'
rior Court, to hold their trust for two years
one of whom shall be an experienced rail
road manager; and one to be appointed by
the Mayor to hold his office for one year
and, after the first term appointments 10 be
made in the same way for three years
each The duties and powers of said
Trustees to be the same as now
required by law for the present Trustees
and the same as a Board of Directors of
ordinary railroad companies. The Board
thus constituted to elect one of their mem
bers President, and the compensation of the
President to be $500 per year, and
that of the other members to be SIS fol
attendance at each meeting Of the Board
and not to exceed $500 per year to each
member; the Board to meet once every
week, and as much oftener as they shall
deem best in the faithful performance Of
their trust"
Year: 1878

from Late Dublin and Cork EXchanges.l


The Pope and the Dublin Council-ln the
Dublin Town Council, on Monday, letter
was read from Cardinal Cullen, stating that
he had presented to the Pope the address
adopted by the Council congratulating him
on his accession. The Pope had expressed
qualification at such an address coming
from city remarkable for its attachment
to religion and its distinguished works OF
charity.
Year: 1878

HsW q small Spectator Gss Ahead


q the National sseanship Csn-


Pany.


New YORK, February 2S.-Charles H.
Lagman engaged TIE National Steamship
Company To carry 1000 tons of freight for
him from New York to Liverpool at q fixed
rate per ton. He. then sold this right Of
transportation, in parcels, to several ship
pers in Chicago at rates which would give
him profit of about 100 per cent.


The goods were taken at Chicago by the
Erie and Pacific Dispatch Company, which,
under general authority from the steam
ship company gave to individual shippers
through bills Of lading from New York to
Liverpool. The goods were brought to
New York, charged with lien for through
freight, where the steamship company paid
the inland charges, took the goods to Liver
pool, collected the whole freight, and


REFUSED T0PAY LAGMAN
anything, contending that his contract only
covered such good a he should himself
ship from New York. He Instituted suit
against the company, and, on reference,
obtained judgment for the freight received
BY the company, less the price which he
had agreed to pay and what had been ad
vanced to the Erie and Pacific Despatch
Company.


Defendant appealed and the judgment
has just been sustained BY the Supreme
Court in the general term, which pronoun-
ces the contract valid and the plaintiffs
use Of it legitimate.
Year: 1878

How the PresIdens's Action IL Re.
garded In the West.
CHICAGO, Febru 'ry 23.-The Tribune
says the faction in Congress which demands
this veto is not composed of those who have
heretofore or who will hereafter afford the
President the least sympathy or support in
his policies In fact, it may be said that
the men who compose the anti-silver fac
ton in Congress are the men who have alone
threatened the administration with ven
geance, have endeavored to defeat its policy.
and have made the only war that has been
made against the President personally. and
against the measures he has proposed. Be
tween


THE ASSAULTS OF THIS FACTION
and the President the country at large has
interposed for his defense and support. and
now the President, by this veto, abandons
the cause Of the people, treats with contempt
the almost unanimous appeals Of the coun-
try, and disregards the emphatic declara-
tions of Congress, for what? That he NAV
air little impotent rhetoric in behalf Of
the cent percent gentry who claim that all
government derives its Just powers from
the consent of Wall street. IL the veto
shall be barren of results in the way Of de-
feating the silver bill, this very class will
care very little for what


THE PRESIDENT


says in his message, and may express a won
der why he committed such an act, know
ing it could do no good


The President, and the Secretary Of the
Treasury, and the anti silver faction may a.
well understand at once and forever that
the sceptre has departed from Wall street
forever. The power that produced the leg
islation that in 1869 made the paper obi
cations of the country payable in coin
which in 1873 demonetized silver and made
them payable in gold; that in 1875


FIXED AN ARBITRARY DATE
in 1879 for the payment Of all debes, public
and private, in gold coin, has ceased 70 eov.
an. There 70 national revolt, and that
Year: 1878

An error occurred in yesterdays paper by
reason of q misunderstanding of the reporter
in reference TO the estate OF F-P. Fitzwilliam.
II ia but Just TO the administration Of said
estate TO say that no question as TO the COR
recfness of any account was made and nothing
Was done but suggestion made As TO formal
tiles in the accountins. The statement In
ysstsrdayb paper was an error.


NJ whoss diAculty arose nom changing
Year: 1878

The Lyon County Times says: John
DonHhue had very narrow escape
from death yesterday morning. He
was working Mt the bottom Of the Me-
Laughlin shaft, when the heavy bucket
became detached from the rope and
fell a distance Of seventy-fve feet, just
touching one shoulder and partially
Paralyzing his arm for Il time. One OF
the picks in tho bucket when it fell
passed through the rim OF his hat like
n musket ball. His escape from in
slant death was almost miraculous.
Year: 1878

Z. n. RIorrE, another Of our old Aus
tin acquantances has also just got him
self into trouble, having been arrested
in San Prancicso on a charge Of embez-
element in appropriating to his own use
some mining stock belonging to one
Nora Callaghan whose broker he was.
We can scarcely believe that gentle
man OF his standing could have been
guilty OF such IN offense.
Year: 1878

The controversy between Comptroller
KELLY and Gov. RoBINsuS over the Bonded
Indebtedness Bill has been brought to a dis
tinct issue 10y the introduction into the As
sembly of new bill embodying the Govern
or's views " the proper legislation to I've
had upon the subject. The chief points iu-
volycd i'm the dispute secm tobc whcthcr the
existing Sinking Fund shall bo continued
and applied to the indebtedness OF the city
besides that for which il was originally pro-
vidcd. and whether the amount To hc raised
10y taxation for the payment of the principal
of that indebtedness shall hc one million Of
dollars annually on two millions.


The debt of the city payable from the
Sinking Fund is s2l $4,000, whereas the Sc
curlticS already held on account of tine fund
amount to 3l,Osu,0lO, and this amount will
necessarily Increase as time rolls ON. The
permanent debt not payable from the Sinking
Fund, but which, il no legislation is had re-
specting il. must he met by taxation. Is about
one hundred millions, and there are, besides,
twcnty-onc millions Of bonds issued in an
ticipation Of the collection Of assessments
for local improvements of which some four
teen millions. owing to the vacation of as
scssmcnts and the depreciation in real estate,
will have to be paid by tho city at large. In
addition, there is one million of debt of the
recently annexed district, which the city has
assumed. '$s


This being the state Of the case, Comptrgl-
Ter KELLY proposes that tho existing Sinking
Fund shall be continued, and its surplus APP
piled to the debt of the city now payable
from taxation; that il the fund be INSULT
cient to take care OF the bonds maturing in
any one year, the deficiency shall bc made
up by taxation in that year not To exceed
one million of dollars, and that il this be not
enough. new bonds for the deficiency shall
hc issued. The Governor, on the other hand,
proposes that the Sinking Fund shall be-
left untouched: that two millions Of dollar
shall hc raised every year by taxation for
the payment of the bonds not protected by
that fund and that if this shall not hc
enough, the deficiency shall be met 10y new
bonds, for which II special sinking fund
shall he provided


On those broad issues we are inclined to
side with the Comptroller We think that


in the present depression of business and
Of real estate II million year is enough to
raise by taxation to pay off the principal o
our debt, and that it Is simpler and NOR,
economical to continue the present Sinking
Fund and apply it To the general debt thar
to create n new one. But the Comptroller
bill, as it stands, Is doubtless susceptible %
improvement, and rigorous scrutiny OF il
will be beneficial.