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Year: 1879

Editor StdT:-The Grafton OF Colonel Inger-
soil over the body OF his brother recalls to
memory an incident In the life OF Volta1re. The
''great 1nndeP' was receiving in the city OF
Paris OvatiOns from all classes of people. The
saloons OF the most distinguished gladly and
proudly welcomed his presence, and his writ
1ngs were the most prominent, and frequently
the only subject Of conversation. One evening
he met Madame de Talmond, and In the course
OF their conversation she said to him: "M.
Voltaire you are q philosopher, and write for
the people. Their happiness, presume, is your
object" Certainly, Madame" he replied.
"Then why" asked Madame de Talmond, "do
you empty your talents to bring into contempt
that religion which is alone able to restrain
wickedness, and TO afford US consolation under
that question, and with confusion, replied: That
he only wrote for those who were Of the same
opinion with himself. That simple question
struck at the root of the subtle and pernicious
doctrines taught by the gifted Frenchman who
employed "the power OF thought the magic OF
the mind" In vain effort to destroy the faith
upon which alone the happiness of man de-
pends. No one can read Col. IngersOll's eulOgy
OF his brother without thrill OF admiration.
His words express the holy feelings Of affection,
which bound them together in life, but looking
beyond the tomb "al is darkness and gloom"
and the heart saddenS in the reflection whilst
reading his eloquent language, that the man
who can write and utter words that stir the
noblest emotions Of the soul to their profound
est depths, has employed his transcendent
talents in efforts to bring into contempt that
religion which Is alone able to restrain wicked.
ness, and to afford consolation under miSfOr-
tune" HORATIO n. EAsBY
Year: 1879

FIREWORKS LEAD TO BOYS ARREsT.-Last
night, as the Alexandria Light Infantry en-
Pennsylvania avenue, there was display OF
fireworks. Some OF the explosives got into the
hands OF some cOlored boys, who went into
jackson hall alley and asking an old colored
water, he went into the house for it. While he
was thus engaged, pyrotechnic piece was set
n front Of the house and fired on just as
Tucker appeared making an explosion, and
throwing a red glow over the whole alley.
Tucker gave one one jump and shouted " "Dar
now! De house done gone up!" And without
waiting to investigate, he ran to the police sta
tion and informed the officers that Eddie White
Lad set fire to his house. White hearing that
the complaint had been made went to the sta
lion this morning, and was taken into custody.
At the Police Court the case was dismissed
Judge Smell advising White to be careful how
he set of fireworks.
Year: 1879

The work OF strengthening the foundation Of
the Washington monument is temporarily sus-
pended, to await the arrival of an additional
supply of cement. now on its way here. Twenty
nine Of the narrow trenches, previously de-
scribed In THE STAR, have been dug under the
monument and filled with cement. Thirty
nine more will need to be made and filled. The
placing of the large blocks of cement at the
corners and the buttresses Will complete the
work OF STRENGTHENING. Unless authority is
for this purpose more Of the appropriation, at
The disposal of the monument commission. for
completing the monument, than the $36, 900
provided, this fund will be exhausted, it is
thought, within two months. Work Of pre-
paration for continuing the upper work on the
monument, such as building staircase, cutting
stone, etc., WILL In this case, need to be carried
on until authority is given at the regular ses-
sion to use some Of the money appropriated for
completing the monument In the work OF
strengthening its foundation. II the idea would
seize Congress to give this authority, it does
not need to make an appropriation. at the
present session, the work could 90 on untnter-
ruptedly and In its natural order
Year: 1879

Miss Cathsrinc Hamilton. residing in Washington
avenue. between 164th and 165th streets, passed
through an unpleasant experience on Friday. She
accompanied q party of friends on an excursion to
High Bridge. and late in the afternoon. straying
from the latter, she found herself in thick wood
bordering the Harlem River. While there a man
sprang from behind tree and roughly demanded
her business there. Miss hamilton made reply
and attempted to retrace her steps, when her inter
viewer. according to her story. knocked her down
and tried to force gag into her mouth She made
u brave resistance and screamed so loudly
that her prosecutor. after making dire threats,
released Miss Hamilton. who got out of the wood
as soon as possible and meeting Officer Slott, of the
Carmansvile police told the latter OF the outrage
which she had been subjected. Officer Slott went
into the woods and seeing u there arrested him
Miss Hamilton subsequently identified him as her
assaant, and yesterday in the Harlem Police Court
Justice Wheeler committed him to await examina
ton The prisoner said that he could prove that he
not in the wood Mt the time of tho assault and
had never met Miss Hamilton until after his arrest
He is recorded on the Court register David Duane
twentyone years old. residence l65th street. near
Tenth avenue.
Year: 1879

OWING TO THE REVOLUTION in Venezuela the
New York, English French and German steam
ers were not permitted by the government to
enter Puerto CabellO, of which port the rebels
have possession. All have to land their cargoeS
at La Guavra
Year: 1879

This girl was standing at the front door,
pale, excited and almost motionless;
The night was dark and gloomy, rain
was pouring down in torrents, thunders
roared and lishtnings flashed, yet she
stood peering through the darkness.
"Will he never return" she sighed Her
heart was heavy and her thoughts were
Of her mother. who lay in 4 room close
by, prostrated with chronic female
complaint and had been despaired of by
all Some one said that English Female
Bitters would cure her mother, and this
girl had dispatched some one to the drug
store for bottle. 1t came, her mother
used it and rapid cure was the result
That girl is worth marrying. All sickly
females, married or single. can be cured
by using the same medicine.
Year: 1879

Having sold out my interest as agent
for 5. ii. Harrison, in the livery stable
business, | desire to wind up all my
business. Those indebted to me as
as such, will please call and settle up
without further notice or delay, and
oblige. A wink is as good as nod
to a blind horse. j. Z. YAGER.
Year: 1879

We are just in receipt of q nice line
of new job type, and are now better
than ever, prepared to do nice job work
of any kind, at prices too, as low as
any office in this part of the world.
Year: 1879

Troy: About O'Clock last evening q
man and woman were struck by train
on the Troy & Boston railroad, and both
were killed. They were supposed to
have been intoxicated. Their names
were not learned.
Year: 1879

The best administrative officers are
those who make their authority felt
with as few words as possible, and never
display it unnecessarily Men who are
to command" born leaders"
as they are called-have no occasion to
exact obedience from subordinates, for
no one ever thinks of disobeying them,
while those who do not possess the
faculty only display their weakness in
their efforts to appear important and
impressive. The story is told of man
who had large number of pigs in a pen
near his house, and made 1t his practice
to 60 out every evening and .'stir them
upn with club, to the great annoyance
of the pigs and the disturbance OF the
neighbors. One of these demonstrated
with him one morning. asking him why
he treated his pigs in such a cruel man
ner. liecause," he answered, /" want
them to know / am boss" There are


too many men in every community


whose idea of executive ability is ex-


actly on a par with this. They bluster


and splurge and ' stir things up" gcner-


ally, convinced that such foolish parade


of authority will convince those un-


fortunate enough to be under them that


they are boss" whereas the fact is that
il serves to convince all concerned tn II
they are fools. And the time comes st
length when those who are ever them
ind it out. and they are dropped Inc
quiet way is the best. after an--Bosso''
transcript. s.-.ss -
Year: 1879

"Well, yes. Yes, it did. ] never
knew my mother to get into real rage
till then. She was mad! She told me
to go right off and get young wife-the
younger the better! Then 1 got mad! /!
stormed away. at all my old ladies to-
gether; threatened to break up house
keeping and turn them out upon the
world, away from the pleasant home
which they had enjoyed SO long that they
really believed to be theirs. Finally /
declared 1 would have them in it, to
fight like Kilkenny cats, while would
live at a hotel in the city. And 1 kept
my word. lived at one hotel after an
other, but always went home on Satur-
day nights to go to church the next
morning as usual, and take my old
ladies for a drive in the afternoon as
usual, so that the neighbors should not
be gossiping about us.


How good they were to me, then!
They lived together like a nest of kit
tens! But my mother assured me that
peace would not last long if lived at
home without wife; so when 1 met a
pretty little orphan girl who had not
relative in the world told her all about
my affairs, and the sweet creature with
tears of pity in her eyes consented to
marry me and be good to my old ladies.
And she has kept her word. both letter
and spirit, and l am thankful that life
has given me so manyl ylblessingsr'


Just then young Mrs. B. returned,
and though observed through the ever
ing that her manner towards her hus-
band was more that of beloved and
loving daughter than of a wife. yet she
appeared more serenely happy than any
woman / remember ever to have seen.


This story is from life excepting that
[ have changed all the names. Sol
B has been dead some years; the will
he LETT was as Just and manly as his other
acts.-Neao York Mail.
Year: 1879

Most husbands and wives, if we may
credit all they say, find it difficult to live
in the same house with a mother-in-law,
but Old Sol b" Gas he was coln-
monty called) of Boston, dwelt in peace
and comfort for several years with five
ladies bearing that relation to him.


When I first knew the old gentleman
he appeared to be about fifty, but was
reality about sixty weight, and had a
harming wife who was then twenty
six and two lovely children, a boy and a
girl, one seven the other FIVE. His chill
dren by his first wife were all married,
and some ofhis grandchildren were also
married and, themselves, had children
older than Mr.. B Us two youngest.


On the first day ofmy visit at his pleas
ant home not many miles from Boston,
as / took my place at the dinner liable
with Mrs. B., I was surprised to see
five old ladies come into the room to-
Year: 1879

TIE best known time made by
skater is mile in 1:56.


A SURE cure for sleeplessness is to
imagine you have got to get up.
WHEN a cobbler beats his wife, he
does it with shoemaker's whacks.


To THE Return home and
all viii be forgiven.-Albany EUeaing
Journal


The servant-girl that bloweth down
the crystal chimney is like unto an eel,
in that she is lamp-prey-
| WHEN the schoolmaster reduced the
boy to submission it was an unfair con-
test, because it was tutor won.


WHY does the new moon remind one
of a giddy girla Because she is too
young TO show much reflection.


FLIES are waiting for the approach
of the soda season. The soda counter
is the true home of the happy, buzzing
fly.


SOLILooUY by a tippler: Z" The pub
lie always notices when you have been
tippling, but never when you are
thirsty"


THE individual who called tight boots
comfortable defended his position by
saying they made man forget all his
other miseries.


THERE are not enough lawyers in the
lower house of the General Assembly Of
North Carolina to make Judiciary
Committee of lawyers.


"OH! isn't it just glorious?" was
Princess Louise's exclamation on see
ing Niagara. Lorne didn't say much,
but kept thinking about the hack fare.
-NeaO HaUeg Register.


The long lives of Richard Henry
Dana and William Cullen Bryant go to
prove that the pursuit of literature, ac-
companied by temperance, is conducive
to health and length of days.


A LITTLE Milwaukee lad lately drank
a pint of red paint while his mothers s
back was turned. It is evident that he
had caught the interior decoration
feYer.-AIbany Evening Journal.


WHEN you see young woman skur-
rying through the rain, with a new
bonnet on her head and no umbrella in.
her hand, it is no misaPpIicatiOn of the
term to style her "an unpEOtec-ed fe-
male"


The s iSpe
cr,~
Year: 1879

OFFICIALS Of the Treasury deny the
newspaper reports of any extensive ele.


ment Of bogus coin in our metallic cir
culating medium. The amount has


been reported to be as much as 90, 0OO,-
900, but the Treasury officials believe
that IS, ,0O0 is more than the reality.
They do not deny, however, that the
resumption of specie payments has
given new life to the almost obsolete
industry in this country-namely, the
counterfeiting of coin. 1t is a curl
Gus fact that the imitation of coin
currency is more extensively practiced
by dishonest men than that of paper
circulation, especially of late years,
when the engraving of paper money
has become so elaborate as to be work
of art which the counterfeiter can hope
to simulate only ly the acquisition of
the skill of lifetime and considera-
bic amount Of capital. 1t is estimated,
for instance, that the set of plates from
which Tom Ballard printed his famous
counterfeits necessitated an expendi-
ture of from S4, 200 to 5000 for their
engraving and preparation. On gen.
eral principles this sum of money
would usually satisfy the average man
of Ballard's rank in life by buying him
3 house and home, and make him con-
tent to live out his life in honest and
simple labor. Put the counte.feiting
Of coin requires no such elaborate OF
costly outfit. A supply Of plaster of
Paris and set of the coins to be imi-
tated are about all that is needed. The
character of thework turned out under
such circumstances is, of course, quite
various, and depends upon the skill
or address of the artisan. In
this simple way are made most of
the bogus nickles and subsidiary silver
coins which occasionally trouble the
public.


The genuine coin is fixed carefully
in the pulp or plaster and an everything
surface is then pressed down upon It
and the whole left to dry. When hard
the two parts of the mold are sepa-
rated, the coin taken out and hole or
t'gate," as the eounterfeiter terms it,
drilled to the edge of the hollow space.
The base metal is poured through this
''gate,n and entering the mold takes
the shape and form of the genuine
original But the form is slightly de-
AoAOuI IL Sl1cJ AOE IH6 ESdSOu LQdb El6
genuine coin is cut from cold strips of
metal, whereas the counterfeit is made
Of molten metal which shrinks slightly
as it cools, leaving it measurably
smaller than the limits of the mold.
This defect can nearly always be de-
tected in counterfeit coins which are
made by molds. Hence there are
several patent devices giving the exact
size OF the genuine pieces, which at
once betray the counterfeit when
the latter are subjected to test with
them. There are counterfeits, too,
which, like Government work, are
made with stamp and die, but in these,
there Is some imperfection in color,
luster, weight, sound or general ap-
pearance which Betrays them.


The counterfeiber of coinis the most
tr0ublesome to the police and detT
dves. His name is Legion.


cheapness of the outlay tempt


constantly to undertake the NJ


bad money He can work y


'-1rena in an ordinary
Year: 1879

grow Sleepy. To keep me awake


cooked bear meat and eat it until
couldn't swallow q morsel more. I


found it was almost impossible for me


to keep awake. Maybe it was the cold


that vas benumbing me. I rubbed to-


baceo in my eyes 10 keep them open.
! But il was of no use. Do what could
I went to sleep, and when awoke nv


fire was nearly out and the pack Of


wolves not more than three rods from


me, their tongues a lolling out and


their green eyes blinking at me. l saw


my danger and seized my wooden poker


in one hand and a limb of the tree in


the other, expecting to draw mEseh up


the tree il the wolves triad 70 lay hold


of me- My IRE, luckily, began burn
ing, and no sooner was it in 9 blaze
than away scurried the wolves, making


a terrible snarling and bowling. The
chances would have been dead against
me if I had been asleep five minutes
longer! Then, perhaps, soIqebody else
IN another country would have done
the fish-hatehing. You may bet I


didn't go to sleep any more that night,
Tor it was nigh on to morning before
'aAAOSS " O4h SADaAA O0b-


1 started again for the clearing, which
expected to reach By that night, but I
was mistaken Now, hsdn't single
drop Of water since the morning of the
day before, save the little had licked
of the leaves gof the trees, when
slight rain had fallen. My tongue Just
stuck in my mouth, and was as dry as
my hand. / travelled along until three
o'clock, when struck little stream
of pure, cold wster. never was more
tickled IN my life. l was very much
Pleased when I saw my first shad wrig-
gle in the eggs, and hatch out, at Holy
eke, on the Co1necdeut River, but it
was OF small account when compared
with the sight of that pretty stream. /
thought, when lay down to drink, I
would fill my mouth with water and
just spit it out butt could not, it went
down too quiols9 l took & dozen great
gulps before I was through Then ]
made the woods Just ring with my
laughter. Then tried the water again,
and must have kept up drinking for
about an hour.


After that started on, and had not
gone far before killed yearling buck.
1 cut off as large piece as thought
would last me to eat while was in the
woods. 1t was big chunk of venison
you may be surs of that. Soon it
was tight again ! built me another
fire, turned ID had a good sleep, with
nothing to disturb me. Next day
Travelled until three o'clock, when /
heard the sound of an ak. followed
that sound and found man cutting
wood, to burn and make ashes. The
man told me 1 was nine miles from
the road. HO started me right, and I
lfoundit atlfVs twas night then. and
raining. rolled myself in my bear
skin, and went to sleep. About three
q 'clock il the morning thought I
heard 9 wagon cCming along, and so it
turned out. 1 did not see anybody in
the wagon guiding the horses, so I
stopped the team, and, as it was going
my way, got, in. To my surprise, in
the bottom lof the wagon lay big man,
sound asleep. The large man was fun I
of some kind q LIQUOR. and as be was !
liable 20 sleep some time, took the
lines and kept the horses going. Ihad
as much IS sixteen miles to 60 ret.
Now, thought Z L ean . 10 1pE.
journeys end ~ -


wskse~jb-FV
Year: 1879

leave her berth. 81 knew what was
the matter with her. She was swel lied
up to nearly twice her natural size and
was as red as q beet. She was in the
first stage of yellow fever. l did not
frighten her by telling her what was the
matter, but l told her she was very SICK
| sent for tumbler even full OF castor
oil and told her she must drink it. She
made wry faces over it, but at last she
got it down. The result was she was on
deck again before we reached Vera
Cruz. 1t was all because she got the
medicine in time. If she had been SIX
hours longer without it she would very
likely have died. Castor-oil is the best
thing l know of for it in its early stages,
not so much on account of its Laxative
properties as its soothing effect"
Year: 1879

years ago, fell. She gave him a date
and asked him on what day it fell. He
promptly informed her. She locked at
the almanac for that year, month and
day. Alas for Charlie! thought she, as
his answer did not agree with the clma-
nae. Charlie wouldn't give up, howeV-
er, but declared that he knew the alma
nae was wrong. Haven't you another
almanac of that yearp" inquired one OF
Charles confidential friends. g
have,n replied the lady, and produced
it. On comparing the two almanacs 1t
was discovered that the first one was
wrong, and that Charlie was right,
mistake having been made by the party
who compiled the almanac.


His habits are peculiar. He never
plays with other boys, but is continual
" busy in reading. Oftentimes he takes
an unabridged dictionary and studies it
hour after hour, never seeming to con-
slider it any thing but pleasure to DO
it. In fact, he takes no comfort unless
busying his brains about something. II
there IS any thing he does not under
stand he keeps at it till he does under
stand it; then it is next to impossible
for him to forget it. One would natural
" suppose that a child with such unusu-
al powers would gradually fail and fade
away, but, singularly enough, he is con-
stantly growing stronger and more
healthy.


Very many will think, perhaps, that
his ability in giving the day OF the
week, etc., on which date falls, is an
act of memory merely, and that he has
learned what day of the week each date
for several years past has fallen on.
This is not so, however. He does it by
some mathematical process, as he as
readily answers about dates the days OF
the week of which he has never seen.
What this process is he himself can not
explain.


Scarcely any of the above will seem
credible, but we assure the readers OF
the Commercial that it is true in every
particular, as scores of those acquainted
with the circumstances can testify. The
lad is, we repeat, one of the most Won
derful in the world, and his career will
be watched with interest.
Year: 1879

"A correspondent of the Chicago
Inter Ocean says in reply to the query
"What is the sure cure if severely poi
soned by the sting or bite of rattle
snakesp" Drink whisky til you become
slightly intoxicated, which will take sev-
eral pints likely; you can drink it like
water till the poison is all absorbed from
the system, then it will begin to act the
usual way, that is to intoxicate. When
you begin to feel that, you are very sure
that you are past all danger. l know
OF its trial and cure in number of cases.
1t never fails, but you must never drink
the whisky till you are bitten.