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Year: 1874

A Berlin correspondent of the Lon
don Telegraph remarks that the En-
peror William no longer rides on horse
back. but has to review his troops from
his carriage. He is now i'll his 18th
year. '.It is true,n adds this writer,


THAT Count Wrangel, who is nearly
thirteen years his senior, may still be
seen from time to time threading the
paths of the Thiergarten upon a steady
going hack, to the saddle of which he
is carefully strapped; and that the
grandfather of the PrusSian army
promenades the Linden with feeble
jauntiness, chucking servant-girls under
the chin, returning eagerly all the salu


tatiOns paid to him, and distributing
new silbergroschen to the little boys
and girls who follow him in gleeful
groups, and look upon 'Papachen'


Wrangel as a certain, though irregular
source of revenue. This lively and
simple-hearted old gentleman has trag-
ical past behind him, too, and was
very terrible fellow in his day; besides
which, he has been wounded dozen
timeS-more than once severely-and
has achieved as many victories in the
boudOir as in the field; yet he bears
himself as though the idea of death
never crossed his mind, and even defied
the laws of nature So utterly as to re-
cover entirely from sharp stroke of
paralysis at lightweight years of age.
But the cares and responsibilities that
Oppress crowned heads has been un-
known to him. He has ever been a SOL
dier, pure and unadulterate; TO poll
tics, literature, or other puzZling matter
of that sort has he ever allowed to
bother his brains. As subordinate, to
carry ont to the letter his Orders-aS a
chief, to see that his own commands
were accurately fulfilled-these have
been the sole cares and preoccupatiOns
of his public life. Private griefs of the
most tremendous and crushing nature
he has met with the stOical courage of
a hero, and has dealt with them invari-
ably in manner dictated by the honor
of soldier-mOre than once with the
most tragical results. but in such sort
that ones admiration for him, though a
slight shudder may permeate it, can
never for moment be qualified by the
remembrance of any word or action of
his in the least out of keeping with the
maintenance in unsullied brightness of
his personal and professional honor; a
regimental cadet when King William
was born; decore, for valor in the
field, Of the first days of the present
century; colonel at Waterloo, and
general tifty-One years ago, it is very
possible that this extraordinary veteran,
of whom the Berliners say that he has
forgotten the way how To die may out
live his sovereign, whom he little less
than worships has already outliyed
four PruSsian Kings -
Year: 1874

This is the beautiful heritage of the
well-born man and the gentle woman.
They may be poor or rich to-day, they
may be living life of leisure or toiling
for their bread-all the same they carry
with them the grace, the care, the gen
tleness, the consideration, the knowl.
edge which we call intuition or instinct,
which comes from generations of cul-
ture and a thousand qualities of mind
and heart which win social recogni-
ton and bring happiness to the pos
SCISSOR.


The accumulation of more money as
an inheritance for children is often
worse than nothing in their hands; it
sonal effort and unfrequently proves
the means by which they ride fast to
destruction. Money is worse than
nothing if the lives of the past and
associations of the present have not
taught US how to put it to its noblest
uses.


But the order, the training, the expe-
rience of a life are invaluable. They
form, with education, key that un-
locks the recesses of the world, and be-
comes power that no loss in stocks or
bonds or houses or lands can deprive
the fortunate possessor of. They make
him the equal of the best, and there
fore at ease with all men. Deprived of
leisure and of resources which he would
know how TO appreciate, he still finds
within himself more than others find
outside of themselves. Outwardly, his
life is isolated; inwardly, he holds COM
munion with all that is best and finest
in art and society and literature. His
gracious and kindly manners, which he
retains in spite of poverty or wealth,
show that he consorts only with the
noblest. whether his dwelling here be
a hut or palace.
Year: 1874

The Springfield Republican tells a
curious story of the way in which A. 3.
Leonard, dumb man, at Southbridge,
Massachusetts, recently recovered his
voice, which he lost about year ago,
after an attack of cerebro-spinal meni-
sitis. A few mornings ago he was
awakened about four o'clock by sense
of oppression and faintness. He be-
came conscious enough to understand
that gas was escaping from coal stove,
and that he would soon die unless he
could get to fresh air; so, after many
falls and tumbles he gained the outside
door, when he tainted, but was soon
aroused by the tapping and tugging of
faithful Newfoundland dog. Then
the thought came to him that his wife
and child were in the house and though
he had not spoken for months he called
loudly for help, his cries, united with
the howls of the dog, soon rousing a
neighbor. to whom he told his troubles,
and again tainted and was insensible for
two hours. On recovering he was un-
able to talk, but the doctor, on hearing
the case ordered him to visit the gas
house and breathe the air in the puri-
flying room. After spending an hour
and half there he could talk in a
whisper, and since then has gained the
perfect use of his voice.
Year: 1874

Some people estimate the ability OF
newspaper and the talent of its editor
by the quantity of original matter. 1t
is comparatively an easy task for a
frothy writer to pour cut daily acolumn
of wOrds-words upon any and all sub
iects. His ideas may flow In one weak.
washy, everlasting flood, and the COM
mand of his language may enable Mm
to string them together like punches of
onions and yet his paper may be mea-
ere and poor concern. Indeed the mere
writing part of editing paper Is but a
small portion of the work. The care.
the time employed in selecting. is far
more important, and the tact of good
editor is better shown by his selections
than anything else; and that, we know,
is half the battle. But, as we have
said, an editor ought to be estimated,
and his labor understood and appre-
,,ated by the general conduct OF his
paper-its tone, its uniform, consistent
course, its aims, its management, Its
dignity, and its propriety. Topreserye
these as they should be preserved Is
enough to occupy fully the time and
attention of any man. If to this be
added the general supervision OF the
newspaper establishment, which most
editors have to encounter, the wonder
il how they find time to write at al:
Year: 1874

When catching the ephemeridm that
play above the water, the tail is not ex-
panded: it is reserved for times of
courtship. / have seen the female sit
ting quietly on a branch, and two males
displaying their charms in front of her.
One would shoot up, then suddenly
expanding the snow-white tail like an
inverted parachute, slowly descend in
front of her, turning round gradually
to show off both back and front. The
effect was heightened by the wings
being invisible from distance of few
yards, both from their great velocity of
movement and from not having the
metallic lustre of the rest of the body.
The expanded white tail covered more
space than all the rest of the bird, and
was evidently the grand feature in the
performance. While one was descend
ing the other would shoot up and come
slowly down expanded The entertain
ment would end in fight between tine
two performers; but whether the most
beautiful or the most pugnacious wss
the accepted suitor, know not.-7nc
Naturalist in Nicaragua.
Year: 1874




There are many cases published in
the medical journals, relating to insan-
ity, says DR.. Brown-Sequard, showing
that large number of patients have
been cured suddenly by means of irri-
tation of the skin, that was either acci-
dental or employed by a physician.
There are other means more curious
and equally effective, as in the case l
am about to mention. A patient in a
lunatic asylum met another one who
struck his head and broke the Uranium
on the right side. The brain oozed
ont; a good deal of it was lost, and the
patient was cured of his insanity and
epilepsy. This is rather a dangerous
means of treatment, however, and of
course L speak of il only to show thai
an irritation brought to the brain may
often cure. 1t is in that way that bold
sugeons-as many there were in this
country in the period from 1926 to 1859
who have brought their instruments
to the cranium and made an opening
there, in cases of epilepsy. in search of
e disease at that place that did not ex-
Ist, have very frequently cured their
patients. But not because they have
taken away the disease that they sup
posed existed there, but because they
lave produced an irritation which has
done 1t. But / may add that it is not
necessary to open the cranium, though
it has been done, to nv knowledge.
more than fifty times in this country
All that is called for is an irritation of
the skin of the Uranium and of the
fiJrous band that covers the bone be-
tween the skin and brain. Irritation
there has a very good chance of curing
epilepsy in many very obstinate cases.
There are many cases on record show
ing that an Inflammation in almost any
of the organs of the body is sufficient to
check insanity. In the same way other
affections of the brain, such as amau-
rosis or paralysis, may be cured sud
denly sometimes without any cause that
We can find, but with good ground GER
tainly to believe that irritation has
acted which has produced a change in
the cells of the brain and diminished
their morbid activity. For there are
clear cases in which those affections
have been cured by such irritation.
Those alterations of cells that were pro-
ducing an arrest OF the power of sight
or paralysis have been submitted to an
irritation of parts of the skin or OF
some viscus, and this irritation going
10 the morbid part and producing a
change IT the activity of those cells, has
cured the disease. So that q double
mechanism of arrest may take place In
all these cases. There is In the brain
an irritation starting from the place
where there is a disease. That we can
see after death. That irritation goes to
parts at distance and acts on cells to
stop their activity; but another irrita-
ton starting from some parts of the
body goes to the parts that are diseased
aud there acts on the morbidly active
cells and stops their activity, so that
the effect that resulted from the disease
ceased. So one phenomenon of arrest
produced the cessation of another.
Year: 1874

The honli or ecclesiastical residence


of the chief priest of the Nichiren sect


in Echizen was a temple-like structure


of the kind peculiar to japan, and SO


well fitted for country in which the


chief concern is rather about subter-


ranean "probabilities" than those in


regard to the weather. The first duty


of a good house in japan is not so much


to look beautiful as to keep on its legs.


/ have seen some poorly-built houses


made giddy, reel, and fall into fiat


ness that makes founder round by


comparison. In well built japanese


house, however, one is as safe during


an earthquake as on Cunarder in an


Atlantic gale. My clerical friends


house was evidently earthquake-proof.
From one massive crest swept down on
either side the heavy roof of black tiles,


making two colossal gables on each


side. To support this awful weight of


tiles, the roof timbers are whole trunks
of trees, so Joined together as to rock


easily in an earthquake. The uprights
rest in sockets in boulders set in the
earth, so that when an earthquake
comes, the continuity of the shock is
broken by the joints and not too tight
transOms, while the inertia of the heavy
roof preserves stability until the shock
has passed. That the Japanese under
stand the science of earthquake proof
architecture is most evident, since
scores of their pagodas, temples, and
towers have withstood the shocks of
hundreds of years. Any one knows
how he can balance gold headed cane
on his finger-tip, and move the base
foot or more from the perpendicular


while the heavy head scarcely changes
position. The supports of japanese
house seem frail and the roof danger
ously heavy, but the house is gold
headed cane, and the earth the moving


hands. In the earthquakes which we


have IN Yeddo about twice or oftener a


month, the foreigner prefers to be in a
Japanese house.


Our host meets us in the soft-matted
room, with glistening skull freshly
shaven, and clad in new robes of finest
Quaker-colored silk and gorgeous collar
of gold-embroidered brocade, but
having bare feet. The mutual saluta-
tions consume several minutes. An
acolyte brings us cups of tea, then con-
versation for an hour or more ensues.
during which the dinner is served.
Though in priests and abbot's dwell
ing, it was no anchorite's fare that was
set before us. 1 would not insinuate
that all Japanese BONES live as luxu-
riantly as his Reverence Kun, but l
doubt whether any class of men in
Japan will average heavier in the scales,
or illustrate better the laws of gravity
if they should happen to fall outside a
vacuum. Fasting is, of course, often
practised, and some of the young BONES
look as pale and spiritual as those
among our own students of theology
who cultivate dyspepsia as means of
grace. Indeed, there is very pale and


handsome, dark-eyed young bOnze, who
performs the part of warden to the
tombs of the taikuns at Uyeno in Yed-
do, and acts as cicerone to visitors, of
whom one of party of young mission
ary ladies that visited the.tombs a short
time ago naively remarked, "What a
splendid convert he would make p
LippincOtfs Magazine.
Year: 1874

Debt is a word of Latin origin, with
a aperfectly well defined meaning, though
ali sorts Of expedients have been started
for Disgusting its meaning. Debt is
what one owes. What one owes one
ought to pay. This is plain and well
settled. Doubt only seems to mean
with some men the amount they have
had the luck to be able to borrow.
Year: 1874

Do be grumbler. Some people
contrive to get hold of the prickly side
of everything, to run against all the
sharp corners, and find out all the dis
agreeable things. Half the strength
spent in growing would often set things
right. You may as we'll make MP your
mind, to begin with, that no one ever
found the world quite as he would like
it; but you are to take your share of
the troubles, and bear it bravely. You
will be very sure to have burdens laid
upon you that belong to other people,
unless you are a shirk yourself; but
DO mt grumble. If the work needs do
ing, and you can DO it, never mind
about the other boy who ought to have
done it and didn't. Those workers who
fill up the gaps, and smooth away the
rough spots, and finish up the Job that
others leave undone, they are the true
peace-makers, and worth whole regi-
ment of GROWERS.
Year: 1874

A TRUE SToRY.-Some time ago a
child ill with hip disease was brought
into certain asylum in New York-a
little girl of five years old, who, from
fright or weakness, cried bitterly on
her admission. Another girl, a little
Swede of about nine, heard her. SIS
she crying because she has left her
mother ?" she asked the matron. No.
She has no mother; she is an orphan. "
"Her friends then, may be?" "She has
no friends. She has nobody in the
world to take care of her, unless she
finds one here" Jennie, the little
Swede, stood for a minute or two
soberly looking at the stranger. She
was not a pretty child, nor attractive
in any way, being homely, diseased and
il.tempered. ~ think will take care
of her" said Jennie, gravely. "I'll be
a friend to her." and she went over to
the stranger, then and there, and began
to soothe and humor her. The matron,
thinking it only passing childish out
burst, paid no attention to it, even
when she found that Jennie had secured
a seat at table next to the child, and
had managed to have her placed in the
bed next her own in the dormitory.
But when the story was told to us, a
year afterwards, the little girl had
never failed once In her self-imposed
trust. As far as was practicable she
took the place of mother or elder
sister to the child who, still lame and
suffering, needed a constant attention
and care which the matron and nurses
could not give. She cut and prepared
her food at meals, humOred her peevish
fancies during the day, and at night
was in the habit of lying down half
dressed, to be ready to spring up at a
moments warning, and she passed many
a night, it was discovered, holding the
chlld's head In her arms or soothing
her. On any holiday or when visitors
came, Jenny's first anxiety was to make
her little charge presentable, Just as a
fond mother would do and when the
children were once given an excursion,
or au afternoons romp in the grounds,
Jenny had an excuse to account for her
not going, and actually, although her
tears choked her, she being a child,
would have stayed, patient and cheer
ful, beside the lame child, VINO could
not go, if her deception had not been
found out. The singular part of the
story was, too, that the child was not a
lovable nor grateful one but peevish,
jealous and tyrannical towards her poor
little nurse, who apologized for and
made the best OF her to others, after
the habit of mothers. There were many
other children In the asylum prettler
ana mOTe winning but jenny was true
to the one whose only recommendation
was that "she nad no friends"
Year: 1874

G. Ru8seI& Canton,


Gentemenn 9arg shod Swan agents at








low The
Buckeye Dodge Russell
all of dandw
did all could his machine do the best the sale Of two machines
the
farm have had considerable expeBoe with and
music
vantage noticed the Russell hanging the weight of the cutter bar and plat
in
others will down high stand enabling the rake to into the grain



the platform rake to leave good bundle when it
is the
The gearing the center and covered that dirt
Russell the ghtest machine
Year: 1874

In THIS world it Is not the most potent
forces that are are accompanied by the
most neise.1 Some OF the mighhest of Ma
ture's processes are the quietest, There is
silent power welded by q dead rat in
the wall which drives all befofe it, like an
army with banners In such an invisible
presence even q newspaper itemizer is SO
impressed that he can generally eentrive
to Sense the precise thing.
Year: 1874

The old gray mill is yet murmurng on,
The brook brawls down through the limestone


street,
The girls that blossOmed around the deor
And hid and sought till the grist-snoTed hoSr
Was printed off with their merry feet
Like notes of music-the girls are gone
The mill IT said that he alway1 heard
The slender song of the outside bird
Through the grumbling roll of the whirling mill,
He never heard when the wheels were still.
Perhap s-why not Through the anthem grand
He helps to chat in the Better Land,
The mills old murmuring monotone
May now steal up to his ear alone,
Bringing a breath of the SaviOr's Prayer
DroninS the base to the angels air
| Hum of the Mil in the golden choir.
Year: 1874

The roar came up in misty cloak
Whose skirt was trimmed with the swan S-down


foam,
Beside the mill with its windOwd wall
OF rusty red as it lOOmed so tall
The wheel was still in its dark, aim room,
The air as whist as a wreath of smoke,
The tangled light through the eObwebs fell,
The mill was as dumb a heather-bell
The dusty miller was leaning DER
The lower half of the battered door,
Thinking the things be allCGyS thought,
Tolling the grists no man had brought,
Counting the dreams that came to ought
Year: 1874

the trial that and notice that machine did not cut off the the
wheat and leave them others did ran Lighter and easily nanage
say that all did well the Russell (Which Of them did, con
dollars than
SRake and cut myself sonnlaw 70 and
whatever
decided success and recommend


Yours JOHN T. BLACK.
Year: 1874

He saw four butterflies winged in white,
That fiuttered over the wayside pool,
They looked like bits of an old lOye-note
To Lucy Jones, and the first he wrote
But never sent to the Flower Of lhe school
"What if he had - and "Perhaps she might"
he saw four butterflies wing'd in gold,
And thought of what things the "perhaps" might


fold


A woman's foot on the powdered sill
With arch enough for running rilt,
To walk his world and-he thought again
How the blossoms show in the route of rain
Make summer time till the first snowfall,
Perhaps and Might How they puzzle all
Jogging along horse came slow,
Boy Was alOft and bag below,
Caliper legs and head of tow.
Year: 1874

A London letter to the Cincinnati
Commercial says


" II is very plain that the English peo.
pie are more ashamed than cheerful ct
the outcome of the Ashantee EXPEDITION.
No conquering ero ever returned to
have so little ado made over him as Sir
Garnet Wolseley. He comes to find
that while he was burning the town of
Coomassie, which will be rebuilt in a
month or two, all his own most valuable
treasures have been burned in the Pan
technicon and are not to be replaced.
The people are glad that the thing is
over, but it is amusing to witness how
quiet everybody is about the treaty with
which the war is terminated. The treaty
comedies to the Ashantees right of free
trade with and access to the coast. 1t
was the denial Of that to them which
made them assume hostile attitude to
the tribes under English protection. SO
England goes, fights them, burns their
capital, and then-acknowledge that
they were right from the first. You
may fancy from the magnificent way in
which some of the journals declare that


the great object Of the war has
been attained, the name of Eng
land is respected throughout Africa,
that this nation has suddenly be.
come fatuous But | assure you
and there are multitudes here who would
gladly give up any respect their country
has won in Africa to recover the respect
it has lost at home by this contemplate
little invasion. We are Just now feeling
sadly bereft of the great humorists and
satirists. Today the papers inform us
grandly that her Majesty, the Queen,
has been graciously pleased to direct
that the State Umbrella of the King of
Ashantee shall be exhibited in the South
Kensington Museum. Oh, for one hour
of Charles Lamb, of Jerrold of Thack-
cray, to do justice to Victoria and the
Umbrellal Do not imagine this is a
small trophy; it is six feet long. 1t is of
red serge, lined with what seems to the
Daily News man black petticoat. A
correspondent of the Daily Telegraph
affirms that it would fetch in a brokers'
shop five or six shillings. Nobody after
this will grudge Sir Garnet the rank of
Major General about to be bestowed
upon him, and his annuity of el500 a
year. There is to be great review of
the troops which have been out to
Africa, and no doubt the uplifted um-
brella will be borne at their head. 1t
must console the hundreds of English
families newly draped in mourning to
know that while King Koffee has all he
fought for, the English troops bring back
thousand ounces of gold, silver cup
and sundry English guns that had been
supplied to Ashantee troops"
Year: 1874

Agreeable to notices and invita-.
tions extended few days previous
to the people along the river, Of an
excursion to be had on the steamer
West Wind, under the management
of that agreeable officer, Captain
Thomas Sexton, said steamer made
her appearance at this place on
Thursday evening when goodly
number of Osccola's fairest bellies
with their escorts wont on board,
and added to the host of merry
makers. On board we were pleas
ed to meet bevy of beauties es-
cortcd by tho stern man
hood Of the wer part
of the county, who mad boarded tho
steamer at the various landings on