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Year: 1878

extinguish him forever. This can be accom-
plished with certainty only by union, and
we expect both of the old parties to join
hands to put this unquiet, daredevil poll
tician in position where he can give no
further trouble to either of the regular or
QanizationS.
Year: 1878

IL THE Police COMMISSIONERS continue
many days in their present frame of mind it is
very probable that there will be a good many
vacancies on the force. This, according TO the
report of their proceedings yesterday, is the
present outlook
Year: 1878

A vapor bath may be easily prepared by
taxing pail about half full of hot but not
boiling water, which may be placed under a
cane bottom chair, if one is at hand, or, If
not, a narrow piece of wood may be placed
across the pail, and the patient should sit on
it for about half an hour, with blanket over
his shoulders, reaching to the floor to keep in
the steam. Should any faintness be felt, it
is sign that the water is too hot, and the
blanket may be laid open for short time to
allow the steam to escape These simple
remedies are within the reach of every one,
and if promptly resorted to Oh the first ap-
pearance of a cold, will save many dollar
in doctors bills
Year: 1878

l. O. Eldridge, in the Territorial Enter
prise, says: A gentleman called my atten-
ton to an item in your paper regarding lad
whose arm had been amputated, and what he
had suffered at the removing of the same and
its results. Fifteen years ago l lost leg,
and it was closely packed in casket, causing
ME constant terrible pain. A good wife, un-
known to me, sent faithful servant to ar
range the amputated limb comfortably in a
new and larger casket The moment the leg
was handled knew it, and the comfort be-
gan then and has never ceased, and could
tell the position precisely in which the miss
ing member was placed. / am glad to know
my experience is gratified; but just how to
account for this, let the wise men tell. This
is the first time any allusion was ever made
to this matter by myself, and l only allude to
it now to add my testimony to that of the
little lad, that missing members do in some
mysterious way convey to US the sense of
feeling. l am we'll known in your commun-
ity, and the peculiar circumstances attending
my loss, if you desire you can publish.
Year: 1878

the junction Of the Little BIackfoot and
Deer Lodge rivers. / will relate little
incident that occurred at this place, Of
which aIr. Hauser was the hero and which
he used to take great delight il reciting
to bis friends. Flour bacon and molasses
syrup formed the staple articles Of pro
visions III those days, and the miners con
sidered themselves fortunate when they
had full supply Of these, as the stock
was always limited and hard to obtain a.
any price. Sam Hauser evidently had q
sweet tooth in his head and was exceeding
liz fond Of molasses. One day, on finding
that the stock Of syrup was running low,
he put up job on the boys to prevent
them from using the article too freely


Taking dead mouse, recently caught, he
placed it in spoonful Of the syrap, and
when the boys returned from their work


showed them what he bad fshed cut fthe


moIasses. They were Of course disSusted,
and fer g long time Sam bad all the syrup
for his own use.


Discoveries of gold in what is now cal
led Montana soon followed in quick sue
cession. Cold creek was afterwards cal
led Pioneer, and bears the Dame to this


LAY. Boulder Bar was the next discovery,
following which the Grasshopper or Ban
mack diggings we're discovered BY the
Dorsey & White party, who fol owed Men
denhall's trail to Leuhi and afterwards
crossed the mountains by different route
to the one we had taken. Alder Gulch
was found BY Fairweather i Hughes, and
from that time out, the wealth of the eoun-
try having been fully established, parties
from all sections began to pour IN until
what is now called the Territory Of Mon
tana contained a population Of over
twenty-five thousand white persons.
Year: 1878

Lady Cork was a person Of extraorai.
nary power for making herself comfort
table She vas il the habit Of thinking
she might Do anything that it pleased her
to do, She would invite a number 81
guests to dinner at friend 5 house before
telling her friend Of the pleasure IN store
for him, and she would make use Of a
friends carriage without even asking for
permission. One day, on leaving d break
fast party, she claimed carriage in this
way, told the footman that she took II By
his mistress orders, kept it out all the
afternoon. and then on meeting the owner,
who had been put to great inconvenience
by The loss Of her carriage aud footman,
exclaimed !: . wish you would haze the
steps Of your carriage altered. It's most
comfortable carriage, except thas those
high steps don't at AL suit my short LEGS.
Year: 1878

Prosperity into4ieates most men, TURNS
their heads, and throws them off their
balance. Others cannot Lear diversity.
They have no Iortitude, 10 courage; NJ
hope. They are not like the old s1i. 81 who
said he always felt happiest in the height
Of q storm, because he knew then that the
next change that took place, whatever il
might be, must necessarily be for the bet
ter. They cannot realize that there viii
ae any change. When the sky is once
clouded and overcast they will not believe
that the sun viii eyer shine az in. Young
men should make il d point to keep their
heads cool under all changes and circum-
stances, to preserve their equanimity, and
not to be uadely elated By success, or too
much cast down w disappointment.
Year: 1878

The promised reforms in Cuba are being
carried out. Suffrage has been extended
SO that every man who pays a tax Of S.
may vote. The island will be divided into
five provinces with q governor for each.
Year: 1878

THE air-brake has been successfully
tried on freight train at the Veta Pass,
on the Denver and Rio Grande railroad.
On a down grade of 211 feet to the mile
the experiment was made with train
OF twelve fiat cars loaded with green
lumber and weighing nearly two hun
dred tons. The train was running at a
good rate of speed, but by the applica-
ton Of the brake was stopped short in
distance of 40 feet in twenty-five sec
onds, and with the throttle of the engine
wide open. The air at Veta Pass only
sustains column of mercury of twenty
one inches, so that the pumps of the
brake had to compress the air through
nine-thirtieths of the strike 10 get air oi
the same density as the pumps take in
at the sea level.
Year: 1878

Idfls LeIIer from MISS hooper


Queen Isabella and her son have been
exchanging some warmly afectionate
letters since the deth of poor little Queen
Mercedes. They read very well in the
papers, Nevertheless it is a well un-
derstood fact that the recent visits of
the kings young sisters there are three
of them) to Spain was arranged to get
them away from their royal mamma.
King Alfonso highly disapproves of the
style of carrying on adopted by Her
Most Christian majesty, and so, having
once got his sisters into Spain he persist
emily refused to let them return to the
maternal abode in Paris. And in so
doing he shows himself to be very
sensible young man, for Queen Isabel
Is not exactly the style of person that
one would choose to train up young
lady In the way that she should 60
These royal damsels are not at all
pretty, being thin and exceedingly sal
low, and their mother used to delight
in dressing them in pale blues and
greens, which certainly did not make
them look any better.
Year: 1878

THE bankrupt act is no more but
the memory ofits substantial advantages
will linger in the minds of the assignees
foryears. Though cut short, the har-
vest was so plenty that the bankrupt
officers will have their hands full for a
long fine.
Year: 1878

THE Nation thinks that part of the
drill Of every girls school ought to be the
reception by wife in an old gown to Il
dinner of corned beef and cabbage, of
IN unlooked-fcr guest, thoughtlessly
brought home by reckless husband.
Year: 1878

TINS is the recipe used by the ser
wants travelling with the Chinese en-
bassy for making tea: Carefully bruise
the dry tea, pour on boiling water in
its most steaming state, muddle all and
strain through a small cambria bag.
Then sip and be happy.
Year: 1878

has been compelled to look to his laurels by the
recent appearance Of old Mad. Wells as the
champion backguard OF North America. and
has written another letterewhich some of the
press will probably publish to morrow. 1t is
not as sensational as his first letter was and is
miserably faint and feeble when compared with
the Wells letter.
Year: 1878

Secretary Sherman is one of the best
witnesses against the ruinous policy he
is pursuing. He was formerly labor
ing in the interest of the people. while
now he is filling his pockets by serv-
ing the money power. In 1868, In a
speech in Congress he depicted the re-
suit of contraction and forced resump-
tion in glowing colors, and every
word then spsken has since been prov
en- TO be the truth. He said:


s'It is impossible to take this
voyage without the sorest distress to
every person except capitalist out of
debt, of a salaried officer or annultant.
1t is a period of loss, danger, lassitude
of trade, fall of wages, suspension of
enterprise, bankruptcy and disaster.
To every railroad it Is the addition of
one-third to the burden of it's debts,
and more than that deduction of the
value of stock.


the ruin of all dealers whose debts be-
come twice their (business) capital
though one-third less their actual
property. 1t means the fall of all ag-
ricultural products, without any great
reduction of taxes. What prudent man
would dare to build house, railroad
factory or q barn, with the certain
fact before him that the greenbacks he
puts into his improvement will in two
years be worth 35 per cent. more than
his improvement is worth =
When that day comes, all enterprises
will be suspended, every bank will
have contracted it's currency to the
lowest limit, and the debtor compelled
to meet in coin a debt contracted in
currency he will find the coin hoard
ed in the Treasury, no adequate repre-
sentatiOn of coin in circulation, his
property shrunk not only to the ex.
tent of the appreciation of the cur
rency, but still more by the artificial
scarcity made by the holders of gold.
y To attempt
this task ny surprise On our people
by arresting them in the midst of their
lawful business, and applying new
standard of value to their property
without any reduction to their debts j;
or giving them an opportunity to COM
pound with their creditors, or dis
tribute their losses, would be an act
of folly without an example of evil in
modern times."
Year: 1878

San Puel war dance are indeed terrible
to contemplate and hearken unto-much
more to participate in


PheliX will not forget that night-not
the inky blackness of the terrible night,
which the titful flash Of the campfire
distorted into hidcous shapes--not the
horrid, painted, naked demons with
whom he danced the fantastic figures and
sang the tiendsh intouations Of the saw
age Song OF Death not the thrill of
horror that almost congealed his life
blood its veins when he saw flung in
demvniac glee to the polluted air Of
heaven the scalps OF his countrymen
despolled in former wars, Nhere were
wavy ringlets of gold, cut from the in
nocent maiden's head, and as well the
snowy locks of venerable age) not these
horrors alone


For the noble braves 20 on,


Turning to blood fountain and rill


"But o, for the touch of II vanished hand,


And the sound Of voice that is still"


Poor Evan, since that night of terror,
met a courageous death, the details of
which Phelix promises to write for the
STAR at an early day.
Year: 1878

Is to get all he can a nd keep all he gets.
There are certain things he would 10 more
think Of doing than cutting his own throat
with the grooms razor on the cook $
hearth.rug. He would die IN the ball
rather than open the door, even if his
n mstress was fainting on the steps IN the
rain outside. He would no more think Of


handing dish to you, even if you gasped
tor it, than he would refuse a tradesman's
bribe or "tep." The footman and waiter
he delegates to these duties, while he


majestically looks on like 4 magnificent
Apollo. So, also, from the head to the
second butler, and down to the kitchen
maid, they rule sublimely and imperiously
rule each other. and all rule the mistress


Of the house-their house. They are masters
Of the situation in every sense Of the word.
Year: 1878

ARRANGEMENTS are being made by
Admiral Rogers, superintendent of the
Observatory at Washington, for obser-
vations of the transit Of Mercury over
the SUMS disc, which will take place
on the 9th of May. The transit will be
visible from 10 O'Clock in the morning
till G in the evening, and can be seen
here very well, but by far the best point
of observation will be on the Pacific
coast. A party will accordingly be
stationed at San Francisco to make
careful observations.
Year: 1878

Fire IN the Summit iilI Mine.


Pottsville, Jan. THE fire in the
mine at Summit Hill still burns fiercely.
The ground continues to give way, and
in addition to the engine house, with
its valuable machinery, that went down
yesterday, it is now feared that the fan
house, used for purifying air in the
mines, will soon fall in. Five men who
were working at the burning mine
were overcome by sulphur, but it is
thought they will recover. The loss
thus far will probably reach Sc, 900.
Year: 1878

KING Victor EMANUEL on Satur-
day was attacked with violent fever,
which produced pleurisy in the right
lung. The fever continued Sunday and
Monday, and it is feared that it may
prove complicated case of miasmatic
fever
Year: 1878

The sons of st. Crispin, at Lynn,
Mass, one of the grand centres Of the
shoe trade, have been notified that If
they desire further employment they will
have to sever their connections with the
labor organizations. This Is coming
down to hard pan. The wcrkmen swear
they will not comply and the employers
swear they will not yield their demand
and in that awkward position the matter
at present remains. One or the other
must yield or store shoes will rise In
price
Year: 1878

CHATTER ANll.

 An act in addition to an Act entitled " An Act

 toestablish Board of Harbor Commissioners for New Haven Harbor."

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House Of Rep resentatiyes in General Assembly convened,

 Section l. Any party who shall feel aggricvea by any act of the board of harbor commsslOh- CTS for New Haven harbor in reference to the building over said harbor and the tide waters thereof any bridge, wharf, pier or dam, or the filling any flats or driving any piles below hlgh water mark, or in reference to the making o1 compensation for the displacement of the ude water of said harbor, may make written appn1 cation for relief to the superior court to be held in and for New Haven county at its regular term next after the doing of the act by which he claims to be aggrieved; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that he shall give notice to said board oi harDor commissioners of his said application, by ca!ts- ing a copy of said application to be left with the clerk of said board of harbor commissioners or at his usual place of Tbode, before the con meneement of said term of satd superior court, and within thirty days after the doing of the act by which he claims 10 be aggrieyed.

 Said superior court may, by committee or otherwise, inquire into the allegations of sueh application duly mode as aforesaid, and may confirm, annul, or modify the action Of sald hoard of harbor commissioners, or make such order fin the premises as equity may require, and may award costs to either or neither party at its discretion.

 Approved. March 18th, lsis.
Year: 1878

Don't think when you have won a
wife that you have won also slave.


Don't think that your wife has less
feeling than your sweetheart. Her re-
lationship to you is simply changed, not
her nature.


Don't think you can dispense with all
the little civilities of life toward her on
marrying. She appreciates those things
quite as other women.


Don't be gruff and rude at home. Had
you been that sort of fellow before
marriage, the probabilities are that you
would be sewing on your buttons still.


Don't make your wife feel that she is
an incumbrance on you by giving grudg-
ingly. What she needs give cheerfully
as if it were pleasure to do so. She
will feel better, and SO will you.


Don't meddle in the affairs of the
house under her charge. You have no
more right to be poking your nose into
the kitchen than she has to walk into
your place of business and give direc-
tions to your employees.


Don't find fault with her extravaganza
in ribbons, ETC., until you have shut
down on cigars, tobacco, whisky, etc.


Don't leave your wife at home to
nurse the children, on the score of econ
omy, while you bolt down town at night
to see the show or spend dollar on bill
liards.


Don't bolt your supper and hurry off
to spend your evenings lounging around
away from your wife. Before marriage
you couldn't spend your evenings enough
with her.


Don't prowl in the loa6ng resorts till
midnight, wasting your time in culpable
idleness, leaving your wife lonely at
home to brood over your neglect and her
disappointment. eaFss


Don't think the woman you promised
to '.love, cherish and protect" becomes
your servant as her part of the contract.


Don't think that board and clothes is
sufficient return for all that a wife
does for you.


Don't expect your wife to love and
honor you if you prove brute, unwor-
thy of love or honor.


Don't caress your wife in public, and
snarl and growl at her in private. This
proves you both hypocrite and dog.


Don't wonder that your wife is not as
cheerful as she used to be, when she Ia
bors from early morn till late at night
to pander to the comfort and caprice of
selfish being, who has not soul enough
to appreciate her.
Year: 1878

Every community is cursed by the
presence of a class of people who make
it their business to attend to everybody's
business but their own. Such people
are the meanesu specimens of depraved
humanity which an all-wise Providence
permits to exist on this earth. It we'll
known that almost every person is dis
posed to speak evil of others. and tat
tling is sin from which very few can
claim to be entirely exempt


But the object of our present article
is to speak of that distinct class of tat
tiers who make tale-bearing the constant
business of their lives. They pry into
the private affairs of every family in the
neighborhood; they know the exact
state of ones neighbor's feelings toward
another; they understand everybody's
faults, and no little blunder or misde-
meanor ever escapes their yigilant watch
fulness. They are particularly we'll
posted upon everything connected with
courtship and matrimony. know who are
going to marry whom, and can guess the
exact time when it will take place. They
watch every movement of parties sus-
pected of matrimonial intentions, and if
there is the slightest chance to create a
disturbance, excite jealousy or "break
up" match, they take immediate ad-
vantage of it, and do all in their power
to keep people in constant state of
vexation. They glide quietly from gen.
tleman to lady. from mother to daugh-
ter, from father to son and in the ears
of all they pour their dark, bitter whis-
pers of slander and abuse, and at the
same time pretend to be the most sincere
friend of those they talk to. Their black
and nauseous pills of malicious slander
are sugar-coated with smiles and honey.
Year: 1878

Very few of the sudden deaths which
are said to arise from diseases of the
heart do really arise from that cause.
TO ascertain the real origin of sudden
deaths experiments have been tried IN
Europe and reported to scientific con-
gress held at Strasburg. Sizty-seven
cases of sudden death were made the
subject of a thorough post mortem exam
ination. In these only two were found
who had died from disease of the heart.
Nine out of sixty-six had died of apo
plexy, while there were forty-six cases
of congestion of the lungs-that is, the
lungs were so full of blood that they
could not work, there not being room
enough for quantity of air to enter to
support life. The causes that produce
congestion of the lungs are cold feet,
tight clothing, costive bowels, sitting
still, chilled after being warmed with
labor or rapid walking, going too sud-
denly from close, heated rooms into the
cold air, especially after speaking, and
sudden depressing news operating on the
blood The causes of sudden death be-
ing known, an avoidance of them may
serve to lengthen many valuable lives
which would otherwise be lost under the
verdict "heart complaint. This disease
is supposed to be inevitable and incura-
BILE; hence many do not take the pains
they would do to avoid sudden death if
they knew it lay in their power.
Year: 1878

u


Tattlers are confined to no particular
class of society. They belong to all
classes and operate in all. We find them
among the rich and the poor-"upper
ten" and GLOVER million" Pin the church
and out Of it. They are people who have
no higher ambition than to be well-in-
formed in regard to other peoples pri-
vate business, to retail scandal to their
neig hbor, and to exult in fendish tri-
umph over the wounded feelings and
bruised hearts of their innocent victims.
Beauless old maids and chlldless mat
rons make the most accomplished scan-
dal-mongers in the world. They seem
to take to tattling from the prompting
of a natural instinct, and they prosecute
it with an energy that would do Internal
honor to their great leader-the prince
of darkness himself Our contempt for
such graceless creatures knows no
bounds, and we can find no words in
which to express its infamy. i
Year: 1878

The grass, the grass. the beautiful grass,
That brghtens this land OF ours.
Oh, why do we let it rudely pass


And only praise the flowers?
The blossoms Of spring small joy would bring,
And the summers bloom look sad.
Were the earth not green and the distant scene
In it's eternal robe not clad.
Then sing the grass, the beautiful grass.
That brighteDs this land Of ours
For there is not blade by Nature made


Less perfect than the flowers
Year: 1878

Girls is queer animal. Girls is the
only thing that has their own way every
time. Girls are several thousand kinds,
and sometimes one girl can be several
thousand other girls, if she wants you
to do anything. Girls is all alike one
way they are all like cats.


If you rub 'em the right way on the
hair they'll purr and look sweet on you,
if you rub 'em the wrong way or step on
their toes. they'll claw you.


So long as you let girl have her
own way she's nice and sweet, but just
cross her, and she will spit at you worse
than cat.


Girls is also like mules; they are
headstrong.


If girl don't want to believe any
thing you can't make her.


If she knows it's SO she wont say so.


Girls is little women if they're good,
and if they amt good then, nor when
they get big. they're she demons.


That's what father said mamma was
once when she fixed hot fat-iron in
the chair so he'd sit down on it because
she was mad at him.


Brother Joe says he don't like big
girls, but he does like little ones and,
when | saw him kiss Jennie Jones last
Sunday and told him what he had said,
he said he was biting her cause he
didn't like her.


This is all | know about girls, and
father says the less / know about 'em
the better off l am.-Teddy.