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Year: 1878

1t is when a man is carrying a
pound OF honey on one arm, and a
bag OF eggs on the other, and lead
ing bulldog by string, and at
tempts to brush fly off his ear, that
he feels no man can be an expert in
all things.-Erchange.
Year: 1878

show the "blarsted" Britlshers what
manner of man it is to whom we trust
great commercial mission. All these
aud . score or more of lesser lights who
were in the great steal are either in dig
nifed and profitable exile or kindly shell
tered from the storm at home. Nobody
hears any of these fellows threaten to
take hand in an investigatIon-they are
too well satisfied with their share Of the
booty. The threats and promises come
from men who have got little or nothing
from the administration, and yet they
dare not move. The most confding Dem
ocrst ought to know that no Republican
of any party standing can afford to set his
party up for slaughter, and everybody
knows that the Republican party could
not survive a full exposure of its crime
against constitutional government If
the Democrats do not now push their op-
p portunity 10 the last extremity, their
ch hance will be gone, and the country
will laugh at them for crowd Of goOdy-
good 'grandmothers, of whom Samuel j.
Tilden, with all his yielding spine, is q
good enough exemplar and leader.
Year: 1878

EFFECT or THE DISCLOSURES on MIR. TILDRN's


PROSPECTS.


Mayor Ely was fOund last night at the Man
haitian Club He talked freely about the Florida cipher
tele grams published in The TRIBUNE. Referring TO the
effect OF the disclosure he said:


II think that ths public generally apt to believe evil
reports Of public men, and the pubic win generally
think that the FLORIDA teegrams show that there was
corrupt intrigue TO influence the electoral vote by the
use of money"


When asked how the exposure would affect those who
Year: 1878

| In the island of Rio there are wild men


who live in trees, and have no language but


cries; and, in Sumatra, the residents of Pa


lembang said there were men who lived in
the forests, with whom not only the Euro


peans but the Malays could have no inter-
course. He himself had never seen one.
Yet, strange to say, they have petty traf-
fc with the outer world, yet not through
the medium of speech. Their home is in
the woods, and they live by the chase.
They hunt tigers, not with the gun, but
with arrows, which they blow out of tube
with such force, and which are so keen of
point, and touched with such deadly poison,
that wound is almost Immediately fatal.


These tiger skins or elephant tusks they
bring for barter not for sale. They never
sell anything, as money is about the most
useless thing they can have. They cannot
eat it, or drink it, or wear it. But as they
have wants they exchange; yet they them
selves are never seen. They bring to the
edge of the forest what they have, and
leave it there, and the Malays come and
place what they have to dispose of and
retire. If the offer is satisfactory, they
find, when they return, that what they
brought has gone, and they take what is
left and depart. If not, they add few
more trifes, to tempt the eyes of these wild
men of the woods and so at last the ex-
change is effected; yet all the while the
sellers keep themselves invisible.
Year: 1878

She will vote, will be of some use
in the world, will cook her own food,
will earn her own living, aud will not
die an old maid. The coming girl will
not wear the Grecian bend, dance the
German, ignore all possibilities. OF
knowing how to work, will not en-
deavor to break the hearts of unsOphis-
ticated young men, will spell correct-
ly, understand English before che af-
fects French, will preside with equal
grace at the piano and at the wash
board, will spin more yarn for the
house than the street, will not despise
her plainly clad mother, her poor re-
lations, OF the hand of an honest work
er; will wear bonnet, speak good.
plain, unlisping English. will darn her
old stockings, will know how to make
loughnHts, aud will not read the
Ledger oftener than she does tho
Bible.


The coming girl will walk five miles
day, if need be. to keep her cheeks
IN glow; will mind her health, her
physical development, aud her mother /;
will adopt costume both sensible and
conducive to comfort and health will
not confound hypocrisy with polite
ness will not place lying to please in-
stead of ffrankness will have the cour-
age to cut an unweicome acquaintance
will not think that refinement is
French duplicity, that assumed hospi-
,ality where hate dwells in the heart
is better than outspoken condemna-
tion ;will not confound grace Of move
ment with silly affeetation; will not
regard the end of her being to have .
beau we'll not smile and be . villain
still.


The coming girl will not look to
Paris, but to reason for her fashions
will not aim to follow foolish fashion
because milliners and dress-makers
have decreed it; will not torture her
body, shrivel her soul with impurities
or ruin it with wine aud pleasure. In
short, the coming girl will seek to glo-
rify her Maker and to enjoy mentally
his works. Duty will be her aim and
| her lite living reality.-[E Exchange.
Year: 1878

The physical superiority of the ante
Alexandrian Greeks to the hardest and
most robust nations of modern timea
is perhaps best illustrated by the mil
itary statistics of Nenophon. Accord
ing to the author of sAnabasie,' tie
soldier, in what we would call heavy
marching order, weighed scventy.five
pounds, exclusive OF the camp, mining
and bodybuilding tools, and tho ra-
tions of bread and dried. fruit which
were issned in weekly miscellaneous,
and increased the burden Of the in-
fantry soldier to ninety, ninety-five or
even TO q full one hundred pounds.
This load was often carried at the rate
of four English miles an hour per
diem, day after day j; and only in the
burning deserts of Syria the COM
mander of the Grecian auxiliaries
thought it prudent to shorten the usu-
al length of days march by one.
fourth. The gymnastic tests applied
by the systdnchus or recruiting oAlcer
of picked corps, would appear more
preposterous to the uniformed exquis-
ties of a modern crack regiment
Even tall, well-shaped men of the
soundest constitution could not pass
the preliminary examination unless
they were able to jump their own
height vertically and thrice their own
length horizontally, and two-thirls of
those distances in full armor pitch
weight equal to one third of their own
to q distance of twenty yarde, and
throw javelin with such dexterity
that they would not miss mark of
the size of a mans head more than
four out of ten times at distance of
fifty yards. beside other tests referring
to their expertness in the use of the
bow and broadsWord.
Year: 1878

BYJ u.s.. cRoCxRR.
The tale was told for granted
To the children far and near,
OF certain dell enchaated,


Where fairy would appear.
And give to the kindest hearted
a treasure rare and bright.
Ere from the dell she departed
And vanished mid shades of night.
And the children oft at twilight
Went forth to that charmed spot,
And watched meath the fading skylight
But fairy saw they not,
Only Il beggar resting,


On the stone by the wayside well,
And the children laughing anu jesting
Turned homcward and left the dell
Between the dusk and the daylight
At the close of a summer day,
just at the hour OF fay-light


When the shadows begin to play.
just at the hour when fay land
Is merry with dance and song,
When the merry laughing. gay band
Unite in u happy throng.
A little maidnen wandered


With her cup to ths wayside well,
And stop'l where she OIL had squander' d
Long hours in the launted dell
a beggar, tired and weary,


Was resting there in the shade,
And looking so sad and dreary
That it touched the little maid.
She filed her cup with water.
And gave il the weary one,
And berries too sho brought her,
That had ripened meath the sun:
When loi n burst OF splendor-
The begger could not he seen,
And tanning the w,,rm light tender
Stood a beautiful fairy queen.
'Bchold. / am queen OF the fairies!'
She said to the little maid.
But longer cannot tarry.
must seek the deepest shatie''
g Here is the long sought treasure;
Take it and ho o.leward fiee:
Your kindness has caused much pleasure
To 4 beggar as well as me -
And SO for every kindness


A reward will to us be given,
Although we work in blindness
We Will gain n crown in heaven.


-AAegdn, Nay 22nd, 1873.
Year: 1878

faced about and joined the Repub-
licans. Now that he is elected, he
openly proclaims in favor of the
payment by the United States of
every form of rebel claim for dam
ages sustained during the war, and
of pensions for the late Confederate
soldiers equal to those awarded TO
the Union soldiers. In short, he
repudiates the fourth section of the
Fourteenth Amendment, which
fully explains that he is knave as
we'll as a fool, for no act Of Congress
such as he favors would be worth
the paper on which it should be
printed. 1t is tbisstyle of man in
office which has brought the Re.
publican party at the South be-
meath contempt; and it is no won
der that the colored party are quit
ting that party in disgust.
Year: 1878

covery of the wooden telephone,
which is simply a solid block of
wood in which cup or funnel is
turned in such manner that the
bottom of the cup forms the tym-
panum of the instrument, to which
the line or vocal cord is attached,
connecting with a similar instru-
ment at distant Office. The cup
gathers and magnifies the acoustic
wave, not only from the tympan-
um, but also from the surface of its
own walls.


The instrument works perfectly
always and gives entire satisfac-
tion. 1t is made of ash and walnut.
Year: 1878

The Herald steam Printing House is
not surpassed by any Job Printing office
on the Pacific Coast, outside of San Fran
clsco, in facilities for doing Job work,
Low prices, good work and expedition
may be relied upon at this Office
Year: 1878

WITH greenbacks closing at par
in New York yesterday, for the
first time in seventeen years, we
ought to be, if we safely pass the
ordeal of the first days of January,
on the high road to au enduring
and universal prosperity.
Year: 1878

A splendid item about a man be
ing kicked all to pieces by horse
yesterday, wasptterly spoiled by the
carelessness oWhe man himself, who
climbed into the hay-mow and staid
there until horse quit kicking, And
yet cold world may blame the re
porter for this.
Year: 1878

SMALL THINGs.-In order to make farm.
ing decided success in the South we must
educate ourselves in the way of giving more
attention to the small things connected with
the business. In other words, we must
bring ourselves into the habit of ssmakinr
every edge cut" and saving every thing
no matter how in significant, that comes WITH.
IN our reach. A strict adherence to this
rule is what makes it pay at the North
the main profit coming to the Northern
farmer grows out Of his savings of small
things--a cent here and cent there. Ono
hundred OF these cents make a dollar, YOU
see, and very often We might save hun
drcd, and not unfrequcntly several hundred
OF them in single day, where we now per-
NIT them to go to loss. One hundred dav
would be s365 added 10 your year by profits,
which would be no Insignificant affair, es
pecially to the person running his business
on somewhat small scale.


In times past, when everything was flush.
we were able to get along reasonably we'll
without concerning ourselves about small
things, SO we allowed them to go by the
board, as beneath our notice. Finally this
became habit with us, and we took upon
ourselves kind of false dignity relative to
small things-thought it uadignified to give
them the least attention. But those flush
times are not lowering. over this section of
country now, and hence change must be
made, and the sooner made the better for
us aud for the South in general. To make
it will be no easy task, however. 1t cannot
be inaugurated by one fell swoop, as it
were-the individuals making up our farm
ing population must bring it on gradually,
by commencing to practice it themselves,
each throwing off his false dignity without
regard to what shall be said by this ':digni-
tary' or that. Each for himself alone most
adapt and live up to that adage which teach
es us that if We "take care Of the dimes
the dollars will take care of themselves. -
Mobile Tribune.
Year: 1878

glon,, and has production Of more than
ao4ble that u any other corporation. They
other way than BY reducing the price below
that charged by other companies. Leading
coal dealers view this more as a sure indica-
t!on OF @ coming 5reak in the coal connbna-
tion which has been in existence now over a
able advance in the market value Of coal
Year: 1878

PoTTsv1LbEfPa. Aug. 5-After a weeks
suspension there was g. general resumption of
mining in the Schuylkiil regions this morn
ing. The Philadelphia and Reading Company
in quota to mine and ship. It is thought this
will give steady employment to all Interested
in the coal trade in this region for the balance
of this MONTH
Year: 1878

LoNDoN, Aug. "a correspondent Of the
putty Ne1gs IN Cyprus island reports that
fever is prevalent on the northern side Of the
island. Seventeen men and two officers out of
q detachment OF 12O have died since they have
been there
Year: 1878

Not Our FIGHT. Church Dignitarics
just now are engaged in an animated dis
cussion relative TO the correctness Of the
doctrine Of eternal punishment in the
" sweet by-ond-by," as held by the or
ihodox clergy. The question doubtless
Possesses much Of personal interest to the
worthy diyines, but what we cannot un-
.derstand is why the subject should be
taken up by any portion Of the press
Editors, you know, all go to Heaven
anyway.
Year: 1878

SILVER CRYsTAL.-The Tuscarora Re
UieV thus tells Of some Of the wonders Of
that district In the Grand Prize lode
at the fourth level, there is a spot in the
ledge having about the diameter Of an or
dinary whisky barrel, which comes pret-
ty near beng II bur Of solid silver. At
tins point in the mine, specimens Of sill
yer Of surprizing value and rare beauty
are being daily extracted. The spcci-
mems are usually punches Of white wire
silver, rich sulphurets tinted with ruby,
or myaragerite, and splendid arborescept
crystals Of stephanite. or the wire silver
deposit, it is not necessary to say any
thing here, for all mining men know that
white wire specimens are simply pure sill
yer. The ruby and stephanite, howev er
are rich ores Of silver which, at the Grand
Prize, reach an average assay value OF
from 70 to SO per cent
Year: 1878

A DOWN country paper suggests that
the names of those entitled to vote be
published ten or twenty days before cleo
ton and that the ballot paper be pure
white paper. So say we, and we would
add, let the Great Register be made and
kept in the Clerks Office as it is now, and
the name ofthose shown by the said Great
Register to be entitled to vote published
in paper of the county, emitting all 9TH
er matter contained in the Register. The
expense of publication will be much less
than the expense of printing the Great
Register entire, and in our opinion serve
the purpose better.-PcOOIe's CdnSe.
Year: 1878

OK beirg asked by a reporter Of the
Washington Post what became of man
after death, Bob. Ingersoll replied to the
effect that the similarity between himself
and Chr istians on that point was that
neither knew anything about it, and the
difference was that he was honest about
it and admitted his ignorance, while they
were not and claimed to have the subject
at their fingers ends. Heaps of plain
truth in that.
Year: 1878

IT is said that seedless apples can be
obtained in this way. The young sprout
of the first years. growth is bent over and
the tops bent in the ground and made to
take root. The shoot springing from this
is again bent and buried in this manner,
and so on to the fourth and fifth operation +,
when tree is obtained whose apples are
scedless.
Year: 1878

The National Labor party have issued
an appeal to the industrial classes of the
Pacific coast for support. The document
holds that any other than peaceful solu-
ton of labor and Chinese questions will
leave the working classes ia worse con-
diton than at present.
Year: 1878

THE Cincinnati MQHirer says: The
gold bugs arc willing TO have silver
legal tender for small amounts. They
are willing that the mechanic should be
compelled to receive his daily wages and
the servant girl her weekly stipend in
silver, but Wall street must be fed on
virgin gold.
Year: 1878

JUDGE WHEELER has decided that the
amount Of money which the Trustees Of
the Lick estate have offered John Ii. Lick
as II compromise must be paid out Of the
residuary amount left TO the Society of
Pioneers and Academy of Natural Scien-
Year: 1878

A LETTER from Denver gives the silver
and gold yield of Colorado for the past
year at seven million dollars coin value.
The grain yield is valued at about three
millions; coal nearly one million.
Year: 1878

The Lives insured by the Society are carefully
selected in different parts OF North America an
Europe, furnishing, by this broad field OF opera
ions, an additional and exceptional safety to th
Policy'bolders. The assurances are made only or
the Mutual Premiums Principle. Th Surplus Ut
returned annually to the Ilsuredl
Year: 1878

where are the friends of nv
youth ?" sang a wretched vocalist
at a Boston concert. As he came
off the stage into the green room
the manager remarked to him j:
"lt is very evident they are not
here; | will give you the rest Of
the season in which to go and
look them up"
Year: 1878

There have been few criminal
trials in modern times Of so great
significance as that which has just
been concluded at New Orleans.
Gen. Anderson was indicted for
forging returns at the last Presi'
Dental election. He has been
convicted. The figures for the
Democratic candidates were di
minished, and those for the Repub.
lican candidates correspondingly
augmented. This fact has now
been judicially determined by a
court and jury.


The testimony in the case was
overwhelmingly strong for the
prosecution; and yet from the cir
cumtance that there were two
colored men on the jury some per-
sons apprehended a mistrial. But
after an absence from the court
room Of only forty minutes the
jury returned, having agreed in
that short space Of time, end on
being polled they all stood by
their verdict. They United in a
recommendation of the prisoner
to mercy, which shows how free
they were from prejudice or ILL
feeling against him.


The conviction of this misera-
BILE man is not in itself matter
of national moment. nor is it Of
great Importance to any one but
himself and his unhappy family
and friends. But when we con-
slider that he was one of the con-
spirators who defeated the choice
Of the people at the last election,
his crime looms up into vast pro-
portions. It is not this compare
lively obscure individual in Lou
isiana alone who has fallen by
this verdict. Rutherford B. Hayes
has fallen with him. To what
ever steps he descends he drags
Rutherford B. Hayes down in his
company. When he puts on the
parti.colored prison suit, it will
require but a slight effort of the
imagination of a just man to see
Rutherford B. Hayes enveloped
in similar garb.


How long shall Mr.. Hayes be
permitted to hold the highest Of.
fee under our Government by a
title which cannot stand in a court
of justice one hour after being
committed for decision by an hon.
est jury?


Anderson has gone /; Hayes
must follow
Year: 1878

bI For the benefit Of that
misguided business class who dis.
figure their shop fronts with ineli.
gible placards and rely on their
long established and well-known
regulations" to attract custom, we
repeat this little story that is now
making the rounds of the press :


"The late A. T. Stewart once
came to the conclusion that al.
though advertising was a good
thing as a ladder, it was of no
great benefit to him, as his name
sold his goods. To test it, one
department only of his establish
ment was advertised. Its busi-
ness overtopped that of all others
SO Immediately and so largely
that Mr.. S. concluded that to get
the full power Of his name it must
appear in printers ink. His ad.
vertlsing manager says, from that
time he advertised more largely
than ever in the leading papers,"
From the Easton Free Press
We don't want a Moore town.
ship girl for a lung-tester. At a
singing school up there the other
night a young man was Dragging
about the strength of his lungs,
and invited a girl in the company
to hit him in the breast. She said
she was Nt-handed; had been
washing that day, and was tired,
and didn't feel very active, but at
his urgent request she let go at
him. When his friends went to
pick him up he said he would die
easier lying down. He had lost
all recollection Of having any
lungs but the young woman con-
soled by him admitting that she
didn't hit him as hard as she might
have done, because she rather
liked him.
Year: 1878

A man saw a physician once
and hid behind a stone WALL
"Why did you hide 2" asked a
friend. For the simple reason
that it's so long since l was sick
I'm ashamed to meet a doctor
face to face.
Year: 1878

A MILLIONAIRE SwINDLE Err sSENTENCE.--The sentence
of John s. Morton the president of the Philadelphia
Street Railway Company, who pleaded guilty to the
charge of fraudulent overissue of stock to a ten
that in the Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsylvania,
strike every instance of strict justice
the word implies. rather severe. MortOn'S opera
tiOns" resulted in loss to the company which conf
ded its affairs TO his custody of two millions of dollars
His plea of guilty was doubtless made not from any
feeling of cOntrton but with the object of procuring


mitigation of his sentence. and this the court seems
to have understood and appreciated In the OF
his ten years confinement Mr.. Morton will have full
opportunity to reflect upon the errors of his ways
and to bring forth fruits meet for repentance In the
meantime the example will be salutary, and that
after ALL is the principle matter which society should
take into consideration.
Year: 1878

He had returned to New York with his wife from
summer vacation at the seaside and he stood in front
of the house giving friend graphic account of the
seasons pleasures. "Went in bathing every day p
he exclaimed, enthusiastically. "AhW responded
the friend. wife go in tOo?" "Oh, yes every day p
said the returned vacatonist Can she swim ?'
queried the friend. with some interest Moo she
can't" the reply. She tried and tried to learn,
but somehow she didn't get the hang of it, She said
she couldn't get the right kick, and let her think
that the reason, but the fact was and here he
looked up at the house and sunk his voice to hoare
whisper-"she couldn't keep her mouth shut long
enough to take four strokes before shed have some
silly remark to make. when kerwash !-shed swallow
q whole wave and go plump to the bottom!'-Fronh
Lesiie's Ladies' Journal
Year: 1878

young New York man. travelling in Kansas, re-
Gently received the DESPATCH Return Immediately
you are a father" on the eve of his return his
friends determined to play joke on him. They pro
cured from the neghbOrhOOd three other babies
placed all four in a row on bed in an adjoining
apartment and covered them up. When he arrived
he embraced his wife in great delight, and was then
led forth to behold his tirst-born When the cover
was raised indescrbe look of surprise overspread
his countenance, and he exclaimed: Gracious! DID
any of them get awayY'
Year: 1878

PORK.-The price of pork has never been so low as
nOw the for which is that the hog crop in the
West is simply immense. The present seasons sup
ply is estimated at 100000 and it may be greater
The Chicago Tribune asserts that it is not likely that
the price of live hogs in the West will be above three
cents per pound for long time and that ii is prOba
BILE that the low prices will discourage many farmers
and that in couple of years there will be large
falling off in numbers