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Year: 1874

THE WHEAT MARKET.


The spectators, and the newspapers
which represent them, are terribly dis
tressed because western farmers are not
rushing their wheat into market 71oso-
at once-at sixty to eighty cents per
bushel; and they are afraid that it will
fall still lower that the Russians will
supply all Of England's requirements
and that there will he no market for
our wheat next spring. Says the N.
Y. Herald:


To sacrifice the opportunity thus afforded
to occupy the Liverpool market, while it is
still open, for the trivial satisfaction Of COR
rsering the Chicago specuLator, is suici-
dal.


But suppose the Chicago speculator
has helped depress the price Of wheat
by telegraphing lies to Europe about
the wheat yield of the United States
as, for instance, that the yield in Min
nesota was only tvo per cent (0 less
than last year, would it not be doing
God and man service to squelch the
whole pestiferous brood? Says the
Herald:


1t is of course annoying to the toiling
farmer that he should he cheated Of full
price for his 1vheat by the idle Spectator, but
he cannot remedy that state of things by
holding back his produce; he simply loses
his market altogether


If he can't raise the price of his
wheat he can at least punish his ene-
mics. Let US try the experiment and
take our chances. The only pity is
that we have no Oranges in Russia to
cooperate with us. If we had, we could
grind the enemies of the farmer be-
tween the upper and the neither mill
stones.


If no wheat goes forward from Amer
ica, and we arc not selling enough now
to supply home consumption, Russian
wheat will rise in price in Liverpool and
that will be reflected back upon our
market and raise the price of our wheat.
But if we food Liverpool now with
wheat at these low prices, the bottom
will come out of everything. and wheat
next spring would not be worth fifty
cents in Minnesota. And if the supply
in Russia has been overstated, as the
supply in Minnesota has been, the next
few months will develop that fact, and
wheat will rise. IF on the contrary
they do not need our wheat then let us
hold on until next harvest. If there
are short crops in Europe wheat will
rise.


In other words, in any contingency,
wheat at sixty and eighty cents pei
bushel is good property to hold. 1t has
not been so low as now in New York fol
fourteen years. It must rise or the
world is to have new experience.
Year: 1874

In Physiology for Practical Use," I'd
Appleton & Co.. we find the following:
"There are several things very common
ly done which are extremely injurious to
the ear, and ought to be carefully avoided.
y = And first children's ears should
never be boxed. We have seen that the
passage of the ear is closed by thin
membrane, especially that adopted to be
Influenced by every impulse Of the air,
and with nothing but the air to support
it internally. What then, can be more
likely to injure this membrane than sud-
den and forciable compression of the air
in front Of it? IF any one designed to
break or overstrech the membrane he
could scarcely devise more efficient means
than to bring the hand suddenly and for
cibly down upon the passage of the ear,
thus driving the air violently before it,
with no possibility for its escape but by
the membrane giving way. Many chill
dren have been made deaf by boxing on
the ears in this way"
Year: 1874

The Keoluk Constitution thinks THE
REGISTER is riding the Civil Rights Bill
as hobby. If it will make the Constttu-
tion any happier we are glad to say that
we are. And for fear it may not know
our real opinion on the question, we will
do, like the Philadelphia Bulletin did, the
other day, make our position clear enous b
tor tender-skinned Republicans and
tough-skinned Democrats both to under
stand it. There is some prospect that
there will be some faltering by some of
the Republicans in Congress in dealing
with this question. Already we hear of
expedients and compromises. Among
other make-shifts, it is proposed to ar
range a compromise by which the clause
which authorizes mixed schools shall be
stricken out. IF this is DONE we say with
the Bulletin, of Philadelphia, the entire
bill had better be kicked overheard. If a
black man has right to ride on a rail
road car or stop at hotel, for the main
tenance of neither of which he is taxed,
he certainly has right to send his child
rem to schools which are supported in
part by the money which is taken from
his pocket by the State. To deny him
this right, and to accord him the others
for which the bill provides, would be not
only ridiculous but in the grossest sense
cowardly and unjust. The present Con-
gress has the power to place the Repub-
lican party upon record as having an earn
est desire to do justice in this matter. 1t
can complete the work that was begun by
the party with emancipation, by placing
upon it this cap-stone, and if it is recreant
to its duty it will deserve popular shame
and contempt The Democrats may re-
peal the law next year, but we can well
afford to place upon them the burden
OF that responsibility Our obligation is
clear, and we need not avoid it because
our opponents will probably deprive the
act of its full value. AS proof of the
fact that the Civil Rights Bill as it now
stands is needed in the interests of right
we may point to the fact that the Su-
preme Court of Indiana has just decided
that tax paying negroes in that State
cannot be permitted to send their children
to the public schools. They may have
separate public schools if the State
chooses to provide them, but if the State
does not do so the negroes will be COM
PEELED to pay for the education of white
children, while their own little ones are
either forced to remain ;gnorant or to be
educated at additional expense in private
schools. If there is any more scandalous
injustice than this in Turkey or Poland,
we have yet to hear Of it.
Year: 1874

The following resolution was adopted
at the National Anti Masonic Convention
at Chicago last Friday:


Resolved, That while Christians pray,
"Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on
earth as it is in heaven" and yet suffer
their individual vote at the ballot box to
promote Free Masons to Office either in
Church or State, they contradict their
own prayers and mock God.
Year: 1874

The anti-secret society agitators, in con-
ventlon at Chicago the past week, resolv-
ed to ruin any newspaper which should
refuse to lend them the gratuity of it's
columns for the spread of their cause.
Suppose now they resolve to ruin the
grocer who objects to donate them each
sack OF flour when they are hungry?
Year: 1874

the most exciting campaign ever known In Iowa
politics The reinspired Democracy will make
powor in Iowa, preparatory to the great Presi-
Dental struggle In the year following. This
and the fact that a Governor, a Legislature and
n United States Senator are to be chosen will
make the ensuing contest one of such interest
and moment that every intelligent man in the
State viii need general State paper to the end
of keeping himself fully posted. THE REGIS
TER will supply this news better and more fully
than any other paper.


To Republican committees and Republican
clubs TIE REGISTER will make special rates
making it possible for them toput Republican
paper, during the campaign, in the hands of
every voter.
Year: 1874

Is a mammoth forty column sheet, containing
for the general reader, in every issue. as


much reading as a book OF 100 pages
For farmers 1t is also an agricultural, as well
as a news and literary journal. as it has
Year: 1874

The city council of Houston have
decided that in consequence of small
pox in that city, they will not per-
init the Great Eastern circus to ex-
hibit there, though they have issued
license. They propose to withdraw
the same, in view of the danger OF
thus spreading tho disease to other
points in the State.
Year: 1874

The opposition to the proposed IN,
crease in the volume of currency is
becoming daily more strong and de
termined. Schurz made strong
speech In Congress en- the cath
against ssInfiation
Year: 1874

We have daintily written, daint-
lily gotten up letter on dalntily tint
ed paper; evidently from the per-
fumed fingers of some dainty lady o
our capital city, showing up the pei
rigrinations of our amiable senior,
among the wiles and saares, OF metro
politan life; which we would be more
than glad to publish, but for the un-
accountable absence of monogram or
name. We are nightly tempted to
dsviate from the rule in this instance,
and but for wholesome dread of a
certain gold headed piece of black
thorn that forms the ever present
shadow of the stalwart individual in


question, we wonld do it. Our phys,
ical health is now in condition that


would make pummeling with that
same stick, in the hands OF our irate
chief, just about the last thiug in the
world at all desirable. We hope our
fair correspondent will excuse us, or
place herselfin condition to substi-
tute her shoulders for ours, in the set
Element, by sending full name, etc.
Year: 1874

The State Gazette has an article on
"Rotation in Office" Now we cannot
see how the Governor can consider
any other question, in regard TO the
appointment Of superintendent for
the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, than
that of fitness. If the present Super
inteldent is an able man, has had long
experience with the management ana
education Of these poor unforiunates,
We say perish his politics. Who care.
for them? Or whose business is it
to meddle with them? If not, let
the Governor remove him at one,
and find man either In the North
or the South, who is competent, and
let him disregard his politics, lookin z
only to his ability and adAptability
for properly discharglDg the delicate
duties Of the place, and no other, and
such action on the part OF his Excel
lency will be sustained by every mar
in the State, whose good o. n on vii
be worth having. We do not know
Nr. Van Nostrand, and care nothing
for HIM outside cf his connection will
the unfortunate, of our State, b,t W,
blush to see Democratic paper urg,
his removal for no better than mer,
partizan reason.
Year: 1874

A BACHELOR says if you hand lady a
newspaper with paragraph cut out of it,
not a line of it will be read, but every bit
of interest felt in the paper by the lady
will center in finding out what the mis-
sing paragraph contained,
Year: 1874


night by lecture by the great temperance orator,
John Is. Cough. Tue lecture was given for the
benefit OF the Young Mems Free Library. Mr..
Cough looks much older than he did when last
here but seems to have lost none of the eloquence
and great power he has always been known to
exert before an audience. HIS theme last night
was his new lecture, entitled. "Now AND THEN; :"
and without any exception we believe II to be the
best OF the many excellent lectures he has ever
delivered in this city. II did not embrace many
new ideas, or enlighten his audience any great
deal to be sure. Tney were conversant with near
ly all the matters OF his lecture. His comparison
OF the times hundred years ago with the present.
and the facilities ose and then did not furnish
much that was new but therein Is the genius OF
the lecturer displayed. BY the excellent arrange
ment and forcible recitation of just what his att
dience knew to be true, with here and there an
anecdote TO illustrate the subject, told bis inim
liable style he managed to delight. entertain and


instruct one Of the most fashionable and intelli-
gent audiences for full hour and hall, conclu-
ding with peroration in which he showed the
terrible wreck and wretchedness which was made
by strong drink of one of the most favored of
men, which drew tears from nearly every eye.
Mr. Cough is us great an actor rs an orator. and
those who think he cannot entertain an audience
on any other theme than temperance will find
themselves very much mistaken nfter listening
to "Now and Then" The lecture was o com
plete success and 1t is hoped will be the means OF
sowing good seed where ii will produce abund-
antly.
Year: 1874

CDDKRZooK-IRtsrUielV tgiM HIS Kgutsr.-Th.
West Chester News says that after the ordea
receiving the intelligence of the action OF n
board Of pardons, Udderzook became much ex
ercised in mind, and gave way to deep, solemn
brooding over his terrible situation, and ad is :


I" In the afternoon succeeding the interview
with his counsel, Mr.. Perdue, his aged mother
appeared at the prison, and upon her solicitation
was shown up to the cell Of her unhappy son
The interview was quite a protracted one, and
was characterized with such outbursts of grie.
and sorrow on the part of both as to spread a
pallor Of gloom over the entire population peo
pling the confined limits OF the prison The
poor heart broken mother plead earnestly with
the Giver of every blessing for him to look with
pity and commiseratlon upon her son in the
remaining hours allotted TO him on earth. The
scene is said 10 have been most pathetic, and g.
exhausted did the mother become - 70 REQUIRE
the aid OF two men TO conduct her to her present
home, a few yards from the Jail. After so much
has been said and written Of UdderZook's greaf
nerve power, il sounds strangely to hear of hin,
being bowed down with grief, weeping like a
child In the arms Of his best, most enduring o.
al earthly friends-his mother.


"Since we have CLEANED the tidings OF this
interview, we have also been m ade acq tainted
with facts showing tnat this exhibition of grief
is not by any means the first to which he has
given vent since his incarceration. He has ad
hIs bright and gloomy hours, but he always has
shown q cheerfulness far exceeding that which
most men could summon to their relief, under
such trying and torboding circumstances"
Year: 1874

A TRICK UPON THB IGNoRANT.-The new
one dollar legal tender note has upon its back
two large cross lines, which form almost the
Roman figure ten. To the unpractised handler
OF money mere glance at the reverse side
would indicate that 1t represented on its back
ten times the value of its face. In the South the
colOred people In many instances have received
them for ten dollar bills, and the Treasury Is
advised that quite profitable business has been
Carried on by some scamps in this way. These
reports are supported by tbs collateral evidence
which is furnished throus IA the large number Of
bills OF large denomination which baye been
changed with ones at the request of Southern
correspondents by the United States Treasur,
In Canada, 1t is said, the note, for this reason
daily received at the Treasury fer exchange into
other notes.
Year: 1874

REVIVAL OF THE ROMAN SPoRTs.-A
spectacle was witnessed on Brannan
Street Tuesday forenoon calculated to
convey a lofty impression ofthe civiliza-
ton of the land, and excite the mad en-
thusiasm and admiration Of human cour-
age supposed to have attended the noble
sports Of the Coliseum in the good old
days of Nero. A Chinese fish peddler
was travelling his round on the thorough
fare mentioned, anticipating nothing
more than the customary pelting with
stones from the sportive gamin of that
vicinity, when some jocular person, brim-
full Of glee, just emerged from corner
grocery, thought to vary the monotony
of the everyday diversions by setting a
vicious bulldog upon the Mengol.- The
brute readily took its prey, and the first
intimation the Chinaman had Of an at
tack was the closing of pair of savage
jaws upon one Of his wrists. A rafting
combat ensued, and for moment it was
doubtful which would gain the mastery,
until presently the blade of an eighteen
inch knife CLEANED for an instant, and
then was buried in the body of the dog,
producing breach that permitted the
canine vitality to subside as with breath.
AT the very moment of this sanguinary
work, another huge dog Of the New
foundland breed came dashing up, and

made spring at the Chinaman's throat.
The gladiator stood ready for the attack,
and caught the second foe by the throat.
In moment more the Newfoundland
dog had received his death wound, and
fell off in a partly disemboweled condi
ton. The victorious Chinaman, reeking
with gore and painting with the exertion
of mortal combat, then shouldered his
basket and shambled away without solic-
iting any more patronage in that neigh
borhood. To the credit of the spectat-
ors be it said that, after vanquishing the
dogs, he was nobly granted the boon of
life, and departed without molestation.-
s. +. Bulletin.
Year: 1874

The illustrations of THE ALDINE have
centers of Europe it is an admitted fact that
its wood-cuts are examples of the highest per-
fection ever attained. The common prejudice
in favor of steel plates is rapidly yielding to
more educated and discriminating taste which
recognizes the advantages of superior artistic
quality with greater facility of production
The wOodcuts Of THE ALDINE possess all
the delicacy and elaborate finish Of the most
costly steelplate, while they afford better
rendering of the artists original


The popular feature of a copously illus
trated Christmas number of THE ALDINE
will be continued
Year: 1874

THE Worst feature of the cremation
business is that some Winter morning,
in fit of philanthrophy. your widows
second husband may empty your ashes
on the icy pavement for the benefit of pc
destrians.
Year: 1874

Did you hear of the curate who mounted his mare,
And merriIy trotted along to the fair
of creature more tractable none ever heard
In the height of her speed she would stop at word
And again with word, when the curate said
She would put forth her mettle and gallop away.
AS near to the gates of city he rode,
While the glorious all brilliantly glowed,
The good man discovered, with eyes OF des1res
A mulberry tree in a hedge of wild briar;
High up on q bough, might have tempted brute,
Large glossy and black, hung the beautiful fruit
The curate was hungry, and thirsty to boot;
He shrank from the thorns, though he longed for


the fruit;


With word he arrested his courseris keen speed,
Then stood up erect on the back Of his steed;
On the saddle he stood, while the creature kept


still,


And he gathered the fruit till he'd taken his fill.
" Sure never" he said, 90 was creature so rare
How docile, how true, is this excellent mare
:" As safe aud as steady as if on the ground;
Yet how had il been, if some fellow this way
Had, dreaming mischief but chanced to say


fHeyH"


He stood With his head in the mulberry tree,
And he spoke out aloud in the height of his giee;
At the sound of his "a hey !" the mare made push,
And down went the priest in the wild briar bush;
He remembered too late, on h thorny green bed,
1' Much that well may be thought cannot wisely be
Year: 1874

The celebrated bOx-and- bag mystery,


which has bewildered all London, put


New York in fever of excitement, and


for few days puzzled the knowing ones


of San Francisco, has by accident come


to an untimely end. The cat was let out


of the bag recently at the California


thcater, in San Francisco. The trick is


to overcome an apparent impossibility.


A person securely tied in a sack is 10


pass from that confinement to the in


side of locked box, additionally Sc


cured by strong cords wound around,


and the knots of the cords tied and


sealed. The bag is similarly secured


by the mouth being tied with ropes,


and the knot of the rope sealed with


wax. How, then, is it possible to effect


an exchange from a secure bag to n still


more secure box? That is what the
professor does-in the dark-and leaves
for the audience to bring TO light if they
can. Some of them did so on Monday
night. Those who were seated on the
right-hand side of the parquette, neaf
the stage, saw the vigorous investigas
ton made by one of the inspectors-he
wore number mines, double soled, and
investigated W tn his foot-disturbed it
IN such fashion that the beholders drop
ped on the little trick. How? Why, the
solid piece of wood at the end, securely
nailed and screwed, was bogus as to
size and securing; instead of taking up
the whole space at the end, and appar-
emily held by strong screws, it was in
two parts, with a space of an inch be-
tween, and this vacant space hid by the
broad iron bands securing ii /; the screws
are only heads and do not penetrate by
lifting this board it comes out of a sock
ct IN which it fits snugly, and in which
swings like a gate, pushing TO the inside
of the box. Now, with this aperture
discovered, it is only necessary to find
the person who can push aside the ropes,
crawl in, and replace the ropes and push
the wood back into place, making it APP
pear like the solid end again. The seals
have not been disturbed, nor the rope
cut, nor the knots united nor tie locks
picked. Granted. Now, how does the
person escape from the sack, leave the
knots undisturbed, the sack uncut, and
take advantage of even the simple plan
of getting into the solid wooden box p?
Not very easily, even by the plan sug-
gested in the New York papers, but with
very little difficulty, if the person hass
concealed in the Turkish costume du-
plicate bag, with duplicate knots, and
duplicate seal then it is only necessary
to cut asu1der the confning sack, hide
it in the recesses of the garment from
which the other one is taken, crawl into
the box and await the result. This lat
ter discovery was made at the previous
when the bag was returned
from the audience-a careless throw
sent it Just to the foot-lights, and before
it could be rescued was slightly scorched
by the gas flames. When the trick was
the bag remaining was not
at all scorched. And thus is exploded
a mystery that was incomprehensible
until a kick of number-nine' brogan
it Alta- Californian.
Year: 1874




The golden age has come at last.
Bliss turks in the deadly razor and
danceN in the romantic lather-cup.
The cSning woman is to shave-not
herself, but man. Indeed she has
already come, and she shaveth in West
Fourth street. New York. a reporter
of the New York Sun. in the pursuit of
his calling called in upon the fair en-
shaver, and laid his reportorial head
upon the block. He described with
imaginative grace and with the soap
suds of eloquent establishment, the
beauty Of her hair, which was the color
OF Messlna lemon, and rose, terrace
upon terrace, from frowsy little hedge
to mountain. Need we say she was
twenty-five and pretty? "Will you haf
re shave, or re hair cut?" said she,
with bewitching smile. "Shave," said
he, with that delicate grace that sits
upon the reportorial cheek. She laid
his massive brow softly on the guillo-
tine, took up the razor, and began to
stir up the lather in fancy cup. She
bent over him; her breath, and the
soap-suds fell softly npon his face, and
she said not word upon the weather
Still ske smiled, and he stammered
forth s6mething about the atmosphere.
" Excooze me, said the barberess; q
am so sorry (suds in MOUTH, "but,
vat for you open your mouth ?" Her
hand was plump and smooth, and fell
upon his birsute stubble like the pol
ish of nutmeg crater, with a satin
ring. He felt that he could lie there
and be lathered for the rest of his life,
which is scarcely to be wondered at
when one considers the disagreeable
things a Sun reporter has generally to
he upon. But the largest face viii too
soon be lathered, and the hair viii van
ish from the most colossal of chins
1t was finished, and with a sigh the Sun
reporter voHed he would come in there
twice day long as he lived It was
a dream of bliss cut off too soon
soup "erific whose Joy was all too sud
denly brushed away.
Year: 1874

Mrs JONES always believed her
Frederick when he told her that the
"club" W. S for the social intercourse
and discussion of professional topics,
until the other night, when he came
into the hall with rush and evinced a
desire to sleep on the front stairs.
g Mary" said he, his voice broken with
emotion, g Mary, you have been partak-
ing Of the Intoxicating sledge, you
have broken the cup. Itsh no ush
d'nying it, Mary. I shee it in your
breath and smell it in your eye. Oh,
Mary p With some difficulty he was
put to bed, but since that night he has
Lot visited the club.
Year: 1874

An INFERIOR quality of soap is soft
and spongy when fresh and wastes away rap
idly when put in water, or should you keep it
till it becomes hard it shrinks half its original
size. Proctor CANDLES Extra Olive Soap
does not shrink nor waste, but wears well, yet
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