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Year: 1879

CURIOUS 1MPosTUREs.-Whe Moore
Carew, thu" king of the beggars," among
his numerous impostures had well
peppered raw beefsteak placed around his
leg to simulute disease, he only used one
of many clever dodges to impose on the
charitable. Fever has been initiated by
swallowing tobacco, the tongue whltened
by chalk and the cheeks heated by rub
bing. The appearance of ulcers is OBJ
tanned by gluing bit of spleen or the
skin OF frog to the parts supposed to be
affected and keeping them moist with
blood and water. They are created by the
use of corrosives, and their healing pre-
vented by the application of irritants. An
obstinate sore limb has before now been
cured by locking it up in a box. Pricking
the gums to show actual splitting of blood,
eating roughly powdered glass to produce
internal hemorrhage, making soap pills
for epileptic frothing at the mouth, feign-
ing insanity, and lying rigid to simulate
catalepsy, are all tricks familiar to prison
officials. Even doctors may sometimes
be deceived by impostors who display so
much ingenuity in the art of deception.
Those who gorge shell fish for the sake of
getting nettle rash, who put lime in their
eyes to inhame them, and even thrust a
needle down to the lens of the eye to get
cataract, furnish few of the forms of
imposition resorted to at times either to
evade punishment or escape military
service.
Year: 1879

1st. The law requires it; law to that
effect having been on the statute books for
many years, without receiving proper at
tention.


Cd. There is need of particular atten-
ton being paid to the manners of our
school children in order to aid the laws
against the constant tendency of liberty to
run into license.


Sd. Good behavior is self-government,
which ought to be the first lesson taught
in a selfgoverning country.


4th. The same general system of good
behavior should be taught in all our dis
trict schools alike, both of the village or
town, and country; and the system should
be that which is approved by the usages of
the best society throughout Chrstendom.


5th. Little or nothing should be left to
the discretion of teachers; but everything
should be referred, as far as possible, to
the system adopted, and to the reflections
of the pupil.


9th. The system proposed is to use a
small reader, which shall contain the we'll
established rules of good behavior as OBJ
served at the present day in the polite So
cety of Europe and America. 1t is the
design that the pupil, while learning the
practice Of reading, in his classes at
school, shall read through this reader once
in each term, which will occupy probably
two or three weeks. All in school, includ-
ing the teacher, will thus hear it read, and
will thus gradually and insensibly come to
have their manners toned to the highest
and best standard.


7th. This exercise is designed to be as
constant during the early school days of
each pupil as tho exercises in any other
kind of reading, in writing, in geography,
in arithmetic, or in any other branch of
learning.


9Th. Good behavior is not to be taught
by questions and answers; it is not to be
dinned into the child; nor is the child to
be supposed capable of acquiring a
knowledge of it in few lessons; or in a
few months; or ina year, or two or three
but it is n matter that should be begun
early, and be allowed to grow up with its
growth, naturally, with as little constraint
as possible. 1t should be left to be appro-
priated by the child's intelligence, as the
food which it eats is left to be assimilated
by the digestive organs.


Such is the system proposed; and until
better one is suggested, it would be well
Year: 1879

How TO PROTECT CARPETS FROM
WoRMs.-In the course of an interview
with DR.. Hagen, that distinguished scientist
remarked to representative of the Boston
Journal that new carpets should be treated
at the outset US though infested. If they
are well beaten and left in the sun two or
three days, being turned several times,
they will be freed from every vestige of
the pest, although after they are put down,
there should be frequent examinations OF
the edges if the bugs have ever been in
the house. Closely laid floors are in them
selves safeguard, and the filing of any
of the crevces with soft tallow will give
additional security against invasion. The
tallow can be worked in we'll, and then
the floors might be covered with heavy
paper so that the carpets shall not be
creased. The larvae could not possibly
travel where tallow is placed. Insect
powder is useless, and kerosene or benzlne
has vile odor, which makes the remedy
nearly us bad as the disease. In reply to
statement that in the writer's home the
experiment had been tried ofputting strips
of cotton cloth over crevices in the floor,
DR.. Hagen said: THAT is an excellent


idea. The larvae do not eat cotton, and
probably could not work their way through
it. You will find, l think, that you are
very well protected. Still it would be just
as well to give the carpets thorough
outdoor treatment as / have suggested"
Year: 1879

Did you ever stand in the crowded street,
In the glare OF the city lamp.
And list to the tread of the million feet
In their quantity musical tramp?
As this surging crowd go to and fro
'ris pleasant sight, ween,
To mark the figures that come and go
In the exchanging scene.
Here the publican walks with the sinner proud
And the priest in his gloomy cowl,
Aud Dives walks in the motley crowd
With Lazarus, cheek by jowl,
And the daughter of toll with her fresh young heart
As pure as her spotless anne,
Keeps step with the woman who makes her mart
In the haunts Of sin and shame.
How lightly trips the country lass


In the midst of the cty's ills!
As freshly pure as the daisied grass


That grows on her native hills.
And the beggar, too. with his hungry eye
Aud his lean, wan face aud crutch,
Gives blessing the same to the passer-by,
As he gives him little or much.
When time has beaten the worlds tattoo,
And in dusky armor Digit
Is treading with echoless footsteps through
The gloom of the silent night,
How many of these shall be daintily fed


And shall sink to slumbers sweet
While many will 90 to a seepless bed


With never a crumb to eat!
All me when the hours go joyful by,


How little we stop to heed
Our brothers and sisters despairing cry


In their and their bitter need
Yet such a world as the angels sought


This world of ours we'd call,
If the brotherly love that the Father taught


Was felt by each for all.
Yet in few short years and this motley throng
Will all have passed away.
And the rich and the poor and the old and the young
Will be undistinguished clay,
And lips that laugh and lips that moan


Shall in silence alike be sealed.
And some will lie under stately stone


And some in the Potters Field
But the sun will be shining Just as bright,


And so will the silver moon,
And just such crowd will be here at night.


And Just such crowd at noon.
And men will be wicked and women will sin,


AS ever since Adqm's fall,
With the same old world to labor in,


And thu same God over all.


"A. Il. DVett, in Nep York Erening Post
Year: 1879

A SAFE MAN.-That man who Is scru-
pulously polite and respectful to all
women in public, but habitually saves
coarse manners and vulgar language for
his own wife and daughters, is no gentle
man. He is only an impostor. The young
man who oils his hair, puts sweet odors
upon his pocket handkerchief, and bows
with charming elegance to Miss Arabella
Spriggins and her lady friends, and goes
home to sneer at his mother, disobey her
wishes, and treat her with familiar dis
courtesy, is pinchback imitation only OF
4 gentleman. Genuine good manners and
gentle breeding should begin at home.
AS rule the men in q community who
are the most trusted are the best men at
home. When man opens his front gate,
only to meet his wife's face at the door
radiant with pleasure, and hear the shout
from the eager children papa is coming" r."
it is safe as II rule to lend that man money.
He is honest and will repay it if he can.
Year: 1879

There is good deal fsuggestion in this
paragraph: A state superintendent who
had made, during a long term of Office,
hundreds of visits TO ungraded country
schools, declared that he never once saw a
teacher conducting recitation without !,
text book in her hand; that he seldom
saw either teacher or pupils at the black
board that he never saw school globe
actually in use; that he never saw a
teacher give an object lesson; that he
never heard a lesson on morals or man
ners; that he never saw but one school
cabinet; that he never saw reading class
trained to stand erect and hold u book
properly; that he never heard teacher
give lesson in local geography; that
classes, when asked to point north, uni
formly pointed upward to the zenith; that
he never heard spelling lesson dictated
in which the teacher did not mispronounce
one or more words; and that he never
found school where the pupils had been
trained to write letter, either business or
friendship"
Year: 1879

ADJUSTMENTS AT SEA.-All the Cunard
and other large steamships possess good
library for light reading, besides there are
usually many little solacements for Ie-
lieving the tedium Of the tirst-cass passen-
gers. When the weather is fine there are
games of shuf1leboard on the deck that
draw number of players and on-lookers.
The pieces of wood are flat disks, easily
handled in showing them along to Il goal,
as in the case of bowls. This forms an
agreeable recreation and affords good eX-
ercse. When out door amusement is
impracticable the saloon has its cluster of
passengers busy at something or other.
One party will be playing whist; another
is eagerly watching game at chess; n
third party will be listening to thrilling
tale of the sea by an old SALT Il fourth
party is attending to a game of backgam-
mon. In the evening, when lamps are
lighted, there is sometimes kind Of
musical concert, for which an obliging
young lady, or perhaps muscally in
clined purser, presides at the piano. Often


in ships of this description there is a
good deal of heavy betting. The bets
will be as to the day and hour Of arrival
at port, what will be the number of the
first pilot boat that presents itself, and so
on; some of the bets being sufficiently
ridiculous and the cause of much fun, but
also the loss of good deal Of money. In
all the well regulated vessels the ship
officers are strictly excluded from bet
ting The youngsters who happen to
be on board have their own amusements
in The games and sports of children. To
these Juveniles the COW is an object of
REQUIRED for the sake of its milk, occupies
(as we have iO booth at the corner of
one of the paddle boxes. There. well
bedded and tied up COW fashion, it is OBJ
served munching its food with the most
perfect placidity, although thousand
miles from home and the sea all around
with long sweeping waves, might be sup
posed to disturb its equanimity. For air
it has a door, with the upper part LEFT
open. Stretching over the lower half
door, the children look in and make their
comments on the comfortable quarters,
speak of the nice smell of the hay and
wonder if the COW is ever seasick. We
have seldom seen II fractions child in arms
who has not been soothed by being treated
to look at the COW. This practice of
taking cows to sea is one of the luxuries
of modern travelling. A concern such as
the Cunard has an establishment of COWS
at Liverpool and New York, and there is
change of animals each voyage. A
curious life that for COW. Twelve days
browsing in field and stretching its legs
and the next twelve crossing the Atlantic.
If one of these cows could write the story
of its life, it might tell of having crossed
the Atlantic one hundred and fifty times
and seen good deal of the world.-Frone


Good NeaOS.
Year: 1879

A few days ago Wombwell's menagerie
visited Tenbury in England. Among the
animals is very fine elephant, Lizzie" )"
This animal was attacked with u violent
fit of collie. A local apothecary of con-
siderable skill AS an animal doctor was
called into the menagerie when the life Of
the animal was despaired oil. BY his Wig
orous efforts and skillful treatment the life
of the animal was saved. The elephant,
" Lizzie" did not forget her doctor, for
on the procession coming down Seine
street three days later she Immediately
recognized the chemist at the door of his
shop, and going to him. gracefully placed
her trunk il his hand. The chemist visited
the exhibition at night, and met with an
unexpected reception from his former
patient. Gently seizing the "doctor y
with her trunk, the elephant encircled him
with it to the terror of the audience. who
expected to see him crushed to death. 1t
was some time before the animal could be
induced to go away from the doctor,
Year: 1879

WANTED SOMETHING USELEss.-Gentle-
men whose wives. sisters, cousins and
aunts are strongly addicted to the practice
of making six or eight Christmases year
by fanatical celebration of Birthdays, ami
versares of weddings, and other nota-
BILE domestic events, have been known,
under financial pressure. to resort to the
contemplate subLerfuge of offering
presents Of various useful articles for
household, table, or personal use which
would naturally come of themselves if
there were no gift.offerings thought Of
Sometimes the family unanimously prac-
tice this little game, and actually feel
that common necessities are somehow in
vested with new value by the operation,
But there are others, doubtless, who look
at the practice in another light, and like
the little French girl would like a change
occasionally. This young lady. it is re.
lated, was in the habit of receiving from
the prudent father every holiday useful
gift, like dress, or hat, or pair of fine
boots. Papa" finally said the little one
my birthday comes next week. If you
love me and think have been real goot
girl, you might give me something that
useless"
Year: 1879

A SOAP MINE.-A natural soap mine
has been struck in Elko county, New. 1t
is remarkable stratum, that rests hori-
zontally in steep bluff of volcanic matter
which fanks the eastern side of Smiths
Creek Valley. The stratum of steatite is
from three to ten feet in diameter. 1t is
easily worked, and the farmers. cattle
men and sheep herders in that region all
use the natural article for washing pup
poses. Chemically considered, this pecu-
liar clay is q hydrated silicate of alumna,
magnesa, potash and lime. When the
steatite is first dug from the stratum it
looks like immense masses of mottled
CASTLE soap, the mottling element being
small percentage of iron oxide. A few
days ago Professor Stewart, of Virginia
City, received sample of the soap, pre-
pared by firm in Elko, who have under
taken to introduce it into the market. II
is similar in appearance to the CASTLE
soap sold in large bars, Nothing is added
to the mineral but trife more alkali and
some seeming extracts. Its detersive
qualities are as powerful as those of any
manufactured soap.
Year: 1879

POWER OF MUSIC.-Many Of US, most
of us, have aspirations and emotions for
the expression of which in words it is as
if we were voiceless and dumb, but which
find full and ready expression in music !;
even though, | have sometimes thought,
the words which we freight with them
might be mere jargon. Under the right
circumstances, and given only q touch, a
tone, II sudden remembrance, anything to
unlock the emotions, and the song goes
forth, telling for every individual singer q
different story. Perhaps this is most
noticeable in the midst of sympathetic
numbers, as in the crowds who used to
meet together and sing out all their secret
feeling in the strange, unreal light of the
Chicago tabernacle. | shall never forget
q face which | saw there one stormy
winter afternoon; one which touched me
more than any other of the many express
sive faces which | used to see there full OF
emotion day after day. 1t was only an
every day face, that of worn old woman
dressed in deep mourning; and, with
family and friendly groups on every side
of her, seeming so alone in her Loneliness
and old age. Was there anything in the
words of the song, in the singing of which
she joined with her tremulous tones, which
could fifty express the emotion that filled
face and voice? p The song was only one ol
the many changes rung on the dear old
themes, yet the words came to my ear
freighted with her loneliness and yearn-
ing until l longed to place gently my own
in her poor, tired, empty hands, if haply
mine could in any measure fill their
emptiness; to say word which might
brighten the poor, withcred, old face, SC
utterly pathetic in its far-of look of long
ing. Such a strangely far-away look il
was, as if the yearuing eyes had sent theil
gaze over the ocean in search of the lost
ones, to where, mayhap, their graves
were made in 4" the old country" and
failing to find them there had gone
straight on into the heavenly land.


Did she find them? Who knows? Bu
the song whose musical strains gave
voice that day to her longing for the dear
dead faces, will always be to her in very
truth " sacred song" To one heart. a
least, cool, critical analysis of its com
position would be sacrilege. To one Of
another of us perhaps this would be tru,
in regard to every one of the familiar ole
songs. 1t is too late; we could no
criticise them if we would. Love is blind
and we love them every one!-Sundal
| Afternoon,
Year: 1879

PROFANITY all who are afflicted
with the habit of profanity, and who are
desirous of curing themselves of it the
Louisville Courier-JourtaL suggests that,
as beginning, they resolve and rigidly
adhere to the resolution, that whenever
they feel disposition to swear they will
take no other name in vain except that
of the Aztec god of war, Huitzilopochtli.
That will give their anger q chance to
cool and to disappear before they get to
the other end of the word, and they will
not thus be guilty of a complete oath.
And if Huitzilopochtli wont break them,
their cases are no peless.
Year: 1879

By THE SAD SEA WAvEs.-A gaunt
young man, with long dark hair and a
look of yearning after the unknowable, was
standing on Coney Island beach on Satur-
day, and by his side woman whom he
addressed as "My love-" He was watch
ing the white caps far from shore, and she
seemed to be looking at the bathers.


Without removing his gaze from the
wrinkled surface of the distant water, he
exclaimed, Z" Oh, that great day when the
boundless sea shall give up its secrets3'


Yes" the woman said with languid
interest; II wonder ifthat dumpy woman's
hair is her own"


A look of extreme sadness came over
his face like the shadow of an umbrella,
and he involuntarily drew back single
step. In so doing he stepped into a hole
dug by golden haired little fairy of four
or five summers, and turned back somer.
sault.


My love" looked at him reproachfully
and said: &" Leonidas, am ashamed of
you"


He murmured something about the mis-.
chievous boys that "put holes behind
people for them TO tumble over" and then
sat down in the sand to take off his shoes
and empty the ballast out of them. He
had one shoe off and was dusting his in
step; just then the largest wave of the
afternoon came up and obliterated all the
prints in the sand around him-but one.
His wife had retreated, and the appealing
look that he cast at her while the waves
were receding, threw gloom over al
| the CAV throng on the beach.


Leonidas," she said. in voice chokeG
with emotion, you had better find a
seat on the sunny side of the next train ant
keep it."


Toward sundown the pair were seen
strolling on the asphalt near Cables
The warm sun and drying wind had done
much to repair the mans misfortune, an'
my love " was evidently regarding hin
more hopefully; for she was telling him
that one of the pony carriages was -" thu
Midgett's coach" and the urchin drive
was Tom Thumb.
Year: 1879

A brother of Mrs. Dorsey, who left
fortune to JEFF Davis in her will, says her
enthusiasm in the cause of southern indie
pendence amounted to a mania, and she
believed no reward too great for the head
rebels "great work" But it must be
admitted that she was no more crazy than
lots of living southern women on that
subject.
Year: 1879

AUSTRALIAN VENGEANCE.-A writer on
Australian life relates the following story
in the Boston Commercial Bulletin: One
evening on the return of the miners to
camp there was a terrible outcry from one
of the tents. Scores of miners rushed in
a body to the place whence the cry issued,
and found miner bending over his mate,
who had been sick and not gone out that
day. The sick man was dead with dag
ger in his heart, and the box on which he
lay for a bed showed evidence of having
been broken open and rifled of its contents
The body was still warm, showing that the
deel had but recently been perpetrated
The miners Immediately scattered in pur-
suit of murderer or murderers. An hour
after man was brought in-one of the
most villainous looking characters l ever
beheld. His pockets were filled with gold
which was identified by the surviving mate
as the property of himself and his dead
comrade.


There was no mistake about the matter
The bags in which the dust was contained
were marked with the joint names of the
mates, and the identity of the nuggets the
surviving mate swore to. This was sufli-
cient to establish the guilt of the accused.
Some were for hanging him on the spot,
but tho law-abiding portion of the commu-
nifty, being in the majority, insisted upon
his having fair trial. He was remanded
for the night and guard placed over him.


Next morning he was missing. How he
had eluded the guards they knew not, but
that he had escaped there could be no
doubt. What was worst, he carried off the
gold with him, which had been placed in
safe-keeping in the prison with him, to be
used as testimony against him,


1t was deemed idle to persue him, but
description of the murderer was drawn
up and circulated, and a reward offered for
his capture dead Or alive. A week passed
away without any tidings being heard OF
the fugitive. AT the end of that time a
native came into camp, and leaving let
ter for the presiding magistrate, disap-
peared as suddenly rs he came. The letter
was curt, but it was to the point:


Mr.. MAGISTRATE: :-Jem Bell 0he
murdered MANI was once matey of mine
He was a good man. You will find Bill
Grimes (his murderer) at the head Of
Dead Horse Gully. have kept the gold
for the reward.
Year: 1879

A WASHINGTON special says the candi-
dates for places about the Capitol, especially
those OF the senate wing, are already appear
ing In shoals. 1t is estimate ed that there will


be between five and ten thousand candidates
for the positions on the House and Senate
rolls by the time Congress meets, and the
number will undoubtedly be nearer the latter
figure than the former. Aside from the
question of spoils, a strong feeling is already
beginning to manifest itself over the sharp
antagonisms, which are inevitably to exist be-


tween the Democrats in the Senate and
many of those in the House. 1t is accepted
as certain that the Senate finance committee
will be under the lead of Mr.. Bayard as
chairman, and that it will be decidedly a
hard-money committee. The House, on the
other hand, will contain large soft-money
element, Independent of the more extreme
greenback men. 1t is admitted by many
Democrats that the two houses will differ
quite as sharply on the money issue as the
Republicans and Democrats have differed on


the general issues between the parties. The
hard-money element in the Senate among
outside Democrats will support Mr.. Randall
for Speaker. The greenback men are max
ing great display of confidence. They talk
as if both the other parties were in minori-
ty, and assume that they will organize the
House as matter of course. They do not
as yet receive credit for having any of that
courage and endurance which cause men of
deep conviction to stand together for princi-
ple's sake against all opposition. In fact, a
number of them are already regarded as quite
open to available trades. General Butler,
W.D. Kelley and General Ewing are among
their volunteer guardians. Butler is bent on


holding them together. Kelley thinks he, as
a Republican, can secure their votes, and


Ewing is credited with believing he can pre-
vail upon them to act with the Democrats.