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Year: 1878

A sharp little girl in Chicago got
out of patience with her bashful lov-
er's backwardness, and so brought
matters to favorable climax by say
ing to him, CT really believe you
are afraid to ask me to marry you.
fer you know / would say yes
Year: 1878

AS the night air is so unwhole-
some, do not sit on the front stoop
without putting something around
your GIRL Hackensack Republican.
That's so. We always go armed for
an emergency of that kind.
Year: 1878

A man whose knowledge is based
on actual experience. says that when
calling on their sweethearts young
men should carry affection in their
hearts, perfection in their manners,
and confection in their pockets.
Year: 1878

A GREAT misfortune has bsfallen the Cam
adams. They will be all scorched and with
cred up when they read the following from
the Nation:


A court in the backwoods, where neither the
manners nor traditions nor social ideas have
made place for it, must of necessity be good
deal of sham and the loyalty which it will
call forth will necessarily find expression in
mere imitation of forms borrowed from another
country and wholly different society. A
court. to be court, too. must have court
circle''-or, in other words, draw the line
somewhere as to the people it receives. 1t
must set in motion a thousand mean jealousies
and passions and competitions which are only
tolerable in England because time has given
them an air OF fitness and dignity, and created
q climate that quits them. Transferred to a
community like Canada they are likely to raw
age it with vulgar pretence and coarse humbug,
and destroy the simplicity which was or ought
to have been its best possession.


The idea has been prevalent that there was
some good old English blood in Canada, and
many families of honorable descent.
Year: 1878

THE World is not enthusiastic over Tai
mage's Thanksgiving sermon, mentioning il
and him thus: that delirious jackanapes,
Talmage, who swung and chartered from the
topmost boughs of the tree of knowledge of
good and evil, yesterday, in manner at
once more ridiculous and more lamentable
than usual.
Year: 1878

The fallen Angel made bad blunder
when he went to Portugal. Had he gone to
any country with which we have an extradi-
ton treaty he would not have been surren-
dered, for no treatv mentions the offence
with which he is charged. But Portugal is
bound by no extradition treaty, and surren-
ders Angel as matter of international COM
Year: 1878

CHICAGO has man who can uDjoint him
self at pleasure, expand and contract his
chest far more than other men, and twist
himself into all sorts of shapes. What a
capital Greenback candidate he would m axe.
Year: 1878

"The sneak-thief came down like a wolf on the
fold,
While the folks in the basement were dining,
And took from the rack coat scarce three days
old,


Quite resplendent with fine satin lniDg"-
Utterly ignoring the one left over from last
Year: 1878

We do not read anonymous letters and commun'
cations. The anne and address Of the writer are In
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1878

SOUTH CAROLINA is the only state in the
Union that did not observe the National
Thanksgiving. She was too busy explaining
how those ballot-boxes were stuffed to spend
time stuffiug turkey.
Year: 1878

A room will hold nearly twice as many peO-
pie when the light is dim as when it is bright;
at least we have noticed that when the gas Is
low in the parlor, young man and a young
woman can both sit in the same space which
either one OF them took up when the full head
was on.-Cincinnat Breakfast Table.
Year: 1878

MAKING IcE.-Cieveland, O.. has
an ice making establishment, and the


Herald gives the following description


Of the process Of manufacture: The


process consists in the liquifaction and
subsequent vaporlzation of pure am


monlacal gas, and is based upon the


well-known law that liquids under
pressure, being allowed to expand or
volatilize, absorb large quantity of
heat. At one portion of the opera
tion pump Of ingenious construction
passes these ammoniacal vapors to
condenser, where the latent heat is
converted into sensible heat by com.
preston. Water passing over the
outside of this condenser carries
this heat away as fast as it is genera
Tae result is that the gas is reduced
to very small portion of the Original
area it occupied and is condensed into
a liquid under pressures varying with
the amount Of heat through which the
gas current passes. The result is, as
soon as this liquid ammoniacal gas is
allowed to expand in pipes iucased in
the sides of the tank containing the
water to be frozen, it rapidly absorbs
the latent and specific heat of the
water, and while the water is rapidly
converted into ice the liquid gas is as
rapidly volatilized by the addition Of
this heat which is absorbed. The act
ion of the pump being continuous, this
gas is then repassed to the condenser,
there to part with its heat under com.
preston, and is again liquifed, to be
reused in the freezing tanks, the act
ion being continuous and. without loss
to the gas, which is used over and
over again.
Year: 1878

AN ANACONDA IN TRINITY CHURCH
YARD -Passers-by on Church street,
in the rear Of Trinity Church, were at :
tracted at :945 o'clock this morning by
a peculiar sound in the bushes of the
church yard. Gazing upward they
were astonished and somewhat terrified
by seeing fiat, long snake-hea pro.
truding over the wall La second
more the head darted forward over the
fifteen foot wall with lightning rapidity
unfolding to view the long 1.-the body
of an anaconda. The snake evidently
had miscalculated the distance, for it
fell to the sidewalk and lay stunned.
1t did not take the astonished gazers
long to dispatch him. He measured
Z feet from tip to tip and l l inches in
circumference at the widest (middle)
part, showing him to be young snake
as a full grown anaconda measures
from sixteen to 20 feet. Passengers
from the Long Branch boat stopped to
view the strange customer, and many
we're the explanations devised for his
presence. The police knew nothing
about the snake, and at the station
house, two blocks away, the story was
received with discredit. One old pol
iceman with book in his hand survey
ed his snakeship indifferently, but
made no inquiries. The theory which
is open to the easiest belief is that
some sailor arriving from South Amer
lea came ashore last week, bringing
the reptile with him, aud deposited it
in the church-yard, no doubt partly
for the sake of a joke and partly for
the sake of ridding himself of it.
Year: 1878

A writer in a London paper suggests that a collection be made of the letters received by the late Charles Dickens, and the following it. lustration of how amusing volume it would be: "I was riding with him one day when he suddenly woke the echoes with one of his bursts of laughter. On my asking with the smile of anticipation what the joke was, he took from his pocket a letter just received from Harriet Martineau who was staying at Tynemouth for her health, and who had noted the following incident of life in lodgings: In the same house with the authoreSs were sO- journing good-natured woman, comfortable in person and in circumstances and not little vulgar, and on the floor above, lady in deli cate health, of strengthened income, but of distinguished connections, as she proclaimed to the Tynemouth world. As Mrs. A. below was sitting flown one day all alone to her mid day dinner of roast goose, it seemed to the good soul that her enjoyment of so excellent bird would be increased by participation with the solitary, sickly and ill-fed Mrs. B. above

 she therefore cut some delicate slices from the breast and sent them up between two hot plates accompanied by sage and onions and gravy and her compliments, by the hands of Betty the maid. There was an ominOus, an awful pause of some duration, and then Betty came down again, paler, with the luncheon untouched between the two hot plates, and on the top of them note which was to the effect verbatim: Mrs. B. will thank Mrs A. to disseminate her goose in her own sphere"
Year: 1878

who think it right that Senator should fight his opponents with the patronage. The Pres idents course would be in strict accordance with his convictions, and he could not be &C., cused of self seeking for he has declined upon principle reelection. Revenge is plainly not consOnant with his character or conduct, and the most creditable explanation of his re- cent action is the most 0bvions-that he means what he says, Those who think the party ought not to be disturbed by this question of reform will not agree with us. Those who think that it is political question as impor- tant as any that engages public attention will hope with us that the work begun in the New York Custom House will be pushed with the force of conviction and of an earnest purpose -H09.pe7'S WeekLey,
Year: 1878

It is said that the finest ducks for table use are the canvas back, the red-head and the but ter-ball probably because they feed on wild celery, while others generally feed on fish. The canvas-back is an innocent-loolling fowl, industrious, and depends alone upon his own labor for all the sweets of life, thus: The can- vas-back dives under the water. and tolls about the bottom till he makes choice of a bunch of celery, which he takes in his bill an inch or two from the root and hastens to the surface to enjoy the fruits of his labor, while the other two lie in watchful idleness, ready for the plunder. The read head, seizing the large portion of the celery close to the bill of the canvas back, makes away with it, while the butter-ball gobbles down the other end, leaving nothing for the laborer except that small portion which he held on to like grim Death In this wise the poor canvass back tolls all the day long, from early dawn till dark. He could enjoy part of the day in rest and perfect happiness but for those who seek every opportunity to eat up his very life sub stance. = WesterN Rural
Year: 1878

DR. Price has been years perfecdng
these exquisite odors. They are not given
a title that does not belong to them but
called Just what they are-Unique Per
fumes, and the makers are not ashamed
of their name or afraid to allow them to
stand on their own merits.
Year: 1878

We want our readers to stop lust for
one moment and look at this matter.
These nurses who have gone out of the
pure air of their homes to the plague
stricken towns, to handle and tenderly
care for dead and dying men who are ut
ter strangers to them, need a higher cour-
age than a soldier marching into the
thick of battle. They gain nothing,
neither pay nor glory. Their victories
are not watched by proud country, for
whose honor they give their lives. : If
they die no weeping nati0n will, year by
year, hang laurels on their graves. The
Howard nurse is only mentioned in the
papers as % one of twenty who are
dead. His name nobody knows. If he
falls, his friends only learn OF it because
he fails to return. There is no. battle
cry ormartial music to cheer his soul in
its last struggle with death; in the fu-
ture there is to be no roll-call of a vic
torious army, with the proud answer to
name, "Dead upon the field of honor" ."
He gives his life for some poor plague
stricken wretch, probably OF less value
to the world than himself, in the pois-
oned air of a solitary chamber, where
there is none but God to know. He is
buried hastily in nameless grave, with
shuddering and fear, and quick-lime is
thrown upon his body. This sacrifice
he makes out of pure love for God and
humanity, and this sacrifice is now max.
ing, not by one man. but by every one
of the hundreds of nurses sent out by the


Howard Association. Every one oi
them carries his life in his hand as he
pOps
Year: 1878

Some time ago Mollie Sullivan and
Tom O'Brien were married at Saginaw.
During the past four or five weeks Mollie
has had suspicious that woman few
doors north of their saloon on Beaubien-
street had been weaving the affections
of her husband from her, and last even
ing she broached the subject to him.
Tom Immediately became very angry,
and pitched into Mollie, beating her
severely, and securing a visit from Off
Central Police-station. Mollie was very
mad over the beating her husband gave
her, and determined to satisfy herself
as to whether she was in the right or
wrong. Accordingly she engaged boy,
and by him sent the following note to
her rival: d" l am in trouble and out of
money, Will you come and see me? ?
Tom.n In few minutes an answer was
returned by the boy as follows: "Where
shall come, and what is the trouble
Lizzie Riley" Mrs. Sullivan, who had
until then been ignorant as to the last
name of her rival, saw chance to con-
vince her husband that she knew what
she was talking about when she accused
him of being inconstant, and at the same
time do him service. Accordingly,
she sent the following note: az am ar
rested. My fine will be between ten
and twenty dollars. Come to the Cen
trail Police-station at eight o'clock to-
morrow morning. Tom" In a few
minutes the answer came: "Tom, will
be there at eight with the money.
Lizzie" Mollie is now congratulating
herself on her sharp trick, which secured
the payment of Toms fine without de-
pleting her own purse.
Year: 1878

: In Paris a correspondent of the Balti-
more american got up early in the
morning, and rode about the city on the
top Of street car in order to see how
they kept Paris 80 clean. He writes:
1..The housekeepers. bring out all their
rubbish and pile it up in the street, one
pile for every four or five houses. It is
no sooner emptied than the rag pickers,
who swarm the streets with their bags
and buckets and hand carts, pounce
upon it and gather up all the fragments
Of paper, rags, or metal to be found in
the piles. They seem to take away one
third of the rubbish. Servants are
everywhere to be seen with broom and
bucket in hand cleaning off the fronts.
The streets are being sprinkled with
hose, and an army of men and women
with birch brooms are sweeping the
streets. On the boulevards, horse.
brushing machines are in motion, and
the garbage carts are removing the
piles thrown out by the housekeepers
Men with hose are watering all the
roots of all the hundreds of thousands
of trees on the boulevards, and taking
up the gratings SO as to loosen the earth
around them"
Year: 1878

JOE JEFFERSON, while playing rip
Van Wrinkle" at Chicago last spring,
spent day in fishing, and went to the
theater in the evening very tired. The
curtain rose for the third act, disclosing
Rip" in his twenty years nap; but
instead of waking at the proper mo-
ment he kept on sleeping. The audience
became impatient, the prompter uneasy.
Finally the gallery became uproarious.
and voice inquired if there was go
ing to be nineteen years more of this
snooze business" Then the prompter
tried to start the actor, and at last prod
ded him with pin through a trap in
the stage, and Rip" started up with a
howl
Year: 1878

coming a serious one The Citizens Re-
lief Committee has employed a burial
corps of thirty negroes to assist the county
undertaken and his men, and it has even
been suggested to burn the dead if they can
not be buried more promptly, as corpses
are known to have laid unburied for forty
eight hours, burdening the air with foul
odor, and becoming SO revolving that peo-
pie have fed to the neighborhoods, and it
is with difficulty that men can be hired to
haul them to Potter's Field.
Year: 1878

THE Stockton California; Lndepen-
dent vouches for one grasshopper that
might be almost burden to man
In a very literal sense. The most mon
strous grasshopper we have ever seen is
on exhibition at the Office of F. M. West,
County Treasurer. 1t is preserved in
alcohol, and was captured some time ago
near Copperopolis. It is nearly six
inches long, and its body is an inch and
a quarter in depth, while its head is as
big as mans thumb. The wings when
spread must have measured ten inches
from tip to tip. The legs are as large az
a lead pencil at the body, and about four
or five inches long. The enormous body
Is quite translucent, and its ribs can be
distinctly seen. An army of that spe.
cies would eat mp quarter section oi
wheat az slick as a whistle in about five
minutes, q
Year: 1878

lPittsburS Commercial Gazette.1


The good people of Cincinnati seem de-
termined to make their city the Dresden,
if not the Paris of the Western CONT
nent-at any rate, of the Mississippi
Valley. And to that extent we can not
see that their ambition is at all extrava-
CANT. Even New York can not offer
musical students such advantages as
will soon be provided in Cincinnati. As
the fine arts usually all move together,
the probability is that in the course of
a Few years the city so celebrated for
its connection with the pork trade will
be even more widely known as the
favorite abode of all the muses.. In
truth, however, this musical school in
dicates no fresh departure or novel en-
thusiasm in the Queen City. Fifty years
ago there were good many persons
there who took a genuine, intelligent
interest in both sculpture and painting,
and not many years later Professor
Mitchell found it easy there to awaken
80 lively an interest in astronomy that
the people by their contributions estab-
lished the first observatory west of the
Allegheny Mountains. Their enthusiasm
on the subject awakened in nJohn Quincy
ADAMS really profound interest. II
appeared to him significant of noble
promise, and, as we learn from his diary,
he determined, at whatever sacrifice of
comfort and health, to comply with the
invitation he received to lay the corner.
stone of the edifce, and to use the oc-
casion as an opportunity to encourage
and stimulate SO fine a tendency. In
spite of advanced age and many infrmi-
ties he made the long and in those days
tedious journey, laid the cornerstone
and delivered his discourse on the study
of the heavens. It seems at least curl.
GUS, if not noteworthy, that the CITY
! which afforded Mrs. Trollope the mate.
rials for her malignant book has taken
so prominent and influential a part in
the development of America civiliza
tion.


--S-~0-s---.-
Year: 1878

He who told the story of the prodigal
was One who bore the cross in His heart
before the mob laid it on His shoulders.
The only place where a man is free is
with God. With him is freedom
without Him is slavery. To be
without Christ is to be without
God, without hope, and without
home. 1t is to be an orphan in the
world. Many men sorrow over the eff.
fects of sin who care nothing for the sin
itself. Before man returns to God
he must return to himself C. E.
Allison.
Year: 1878

And the sexton tolled the bell,"
no one has made wittier pun than the
following: I" / wish you wouldn't give
me such short weight for my money!"
said customer to grocer who had a
long standing account against him.
Sand l wish you would not give me such
long wait for mime" was the quiet re-
joinder.
Year: 1878

A COMPLETE TRIUMPH AT THE
CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION! The
Weber Pianos received the highest award
at the Centennial Exposition. Beware Of
other manufacturers claiming Centennial
award, as it is false. The Weber Piano
has also the best references Of any piano
in the world. Send for a catalogue con-
tanning account of factory prices, and the
judges report at the Centennial, &c.
Year: 1878

Although IL has been said that every
farmer should not try to be geolooist.
meteorologist, chemist, etc, or stnds
medicine to be his own doctor, or law
TO make it unnecessary TO employ, .
lawyer, or theology with the sole view
Of doing his own preaching, still there
IS little doubt that all general inforna-
ton, and the more exact the better.
has tendency, if well applied, to b.,
useful to the farmers best interests.
Every ctiltiyator desires to gather from
the soil, at small expense, large crops.
with as little injury rs possible TO the
source Of production He cannot do
this without being familiar with th.
general principles in the various de-
partmcnte of his profession and under
standing most thoroughly the art OF
agriculture The men who grow crops
well must nnderstand the nature of
coils, whichincluies more research than
would enable him to arrive at the CON
clusion that one is sandy and another
clayey, etc. Also, if be would market
his crops to best advantage, and proper
ly attend to the multitude Of affairs
that accumulate about the farmer Of
to-day, he must possess some knowledge
beyond the common branches OF read
ing, writing and arethmetic. What
kind Of an education, then should the
farmer baVe4 Whatever oihersopiniops
they may entertain in regard TO the
famers education, all will agree that
one Of the most essential branches of
tliat education shall be thorough train
ing in business affairs. This. more
than any other one thing will lit him
for the various and many-side, tranac.
tons Of his busy life. II is necessary
that be should be man Of business
as we'll as producer. It is, then, to
be regarded a. a hopeful sign of the
times that 50 many Of our farmers sons
are educating themselves thoroughly in
business affairs. IL is a guarantee
that in future they will take a higher
standing. and t,e more independent and
self-reliant 4z1 IS .3f rs5f sg.-ss
Year: 1878




Before the days Of the grange, far
Iners knew but little concerning the
first cost Of the most common articles
they use. The difference between buy
ing for cash or credit is one of the
things we ara beginning to learn. So,
TOO, Of large quantities or small. Ger.
tain manufacturers would not sell a
dozen plow points at a time for cash.
for any less than single one on credit.
Shrewd but honest dealers are not
backward about seeking the grange
trade and making il an object for far
'rners to buy for cash, and in large
quantities. Lifeand fire insurance asso.
Citations, on some plan that will keen
their highest officers out of the peni-
tentiaries, and their patrons out O.
poor houses, have also become neces-
sary. The difference between paying
actual losses, and necessary expenses.
is getting to .be understood. These as.
sociations are already among the most
successful and practical grange enter.
prises. A little effort is all that is
necessary TO increase their usefulness
many fold. While It would be irnpos.
sible to predict the future Of our order
too much attention cannot be given tc
the performance of its present REQUIRE.
ments.-FdTBier's Friend.