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Year: 1874

ONE OF the most remarkable instances
OF sagacity and animal reasoning-fOr it
is more than instinct-that we have ever
yet heard of took place yesterday after
noon at the residence Of Whitfield Craw-
ford, southeast corner of Seventh and
Madison streets, in this city. The prin-
clpal actors in the case were large dog
belonging to Mr. Crawford, of the St.
Bernardine and Newfoundland breed,
about two years old, who readily an
swers to the name Of Carlo, and an ordi-
nary domestic house-cat named Dick
BetWeen the two a strong feeling of
friendship has always existed, each shar-
ing the others meals, and at night Dick,
appreciating soft bed, always found it
by lying upon the top of his good
naturea friend Carlo.


On Wednesday last, on Mr.. Crawford's
return from market, he cut a piece of
fresh meat into small pieces for Dick,
but accidentally needle and thread
lying close by got mixed up with the
meat. This poor Dick swallowed or at
tempted to swallow with the meat, but
not succeeding, the needle stuck in his
throat, from which cause he of course
suffered intensely, and in his suffering
he had the entire Sympathies of his
friend Carlo. Like skillful physician
Carlo set about discovering the scat of
the disease, which he found existed in
Dicks neck


After an apparent consultation be-
tween the two, one as patient, the other
as doctor, Carlo commenced operations
by licking Dicks neck, the cat holding e
its head to one side to give Carlo a fair
chance. The licking operation con-
tinued all day Thursday, and at inter-
walls during the night, Carlo occasionally
pausing to press his tongue against the
neck of his feline friend, as if trying to
force some sharp pointed instrument on
the inside through the cats neck to the
outside. Yesterday the same operation
was continued by Carlo until about four
o'clock, when he was seen with his whole
body quivering with excitement, trying
to catch something with his teeth, in
which he succeeded, and, giving sud
den jerk, he pulled the needle through
the hide of the cat, where it hung by the
thread, which still held it from the in
side. The remainder of the operation
was performed by a daughter of Mr.
Crawford, who pulled the thread through,
and stuck the needle in the fence close
by. The JOY of Carlo knew no bounds,
and, frisking his bushy tail about and
rubbing his shaggy sides against his
master, he showed his full knowledge of
what he had done by going to the cat
and licking the wound in the neck, and
then to the needle in the fence, which he
examined very minutcly, saying in ac-
tions almost as plain as words: "Sec
what [ did" A son of Mr.. Crawford
coming home from his labor, was met by
Carlo, who turned and ran to where the
needle was, and smelled it as if to cx-
plain the case more fully to the new
conner. We need only say that those
who doubt the truth of this statement
should call at the place designated,
where the dog, the cat, the needle and
the wound in the cats neck can all be
seen. The dog himself will point out the
needle and give evidence of the truth of
the foregoing facts as -narrated.-1V W.
naington (Del) Commercial.
Year: 1874

The other day young man came into
our office and said to the editor: " Yes
terday l was released from the Eastern
Penitentiary. l had two months taken
off from my time for good behavior. |
was put in for larceny. want to turn
over new leaf and be an honest man.
But find it almost impossible to find
work. l have been reading your paper
in the Penitentiary, and thought would
call in and see if you could not help me
in regard to employment" In reply to
the questions, "What work can you do?
what trade are you master off," he
answered: "Therc is just the trouble.
l never learned to do anything. When [
was lad l idled away my time. And
now there is nothing that am master Of
except seating cane-seat chairs, which /
learned in prison; and that business is
al done in the Pcnitentiary; so that
there is no demand for it outside. If I
only had trade l could get place. A
gentleman wanted man to-day to take
care of his garden; if I had understood
the business of a gardener I could have
had place at good wages right away"


We have in mind, at this moment,
another person who is struggling labori-
ously and honestly to support his family
But he is in the same condition He has
never learned any business; he is master
OF nothing, except indeed those branches
OF industry that require no experience
or apprenticeship, and that can he picked
up at days notice, and hence they are
overstocked. He is willing; he would
be glad to learn a trade; but it is not
so easy for man with family on his
hands to do that.


Within a few daVs we fell in with a
friend OF about forty years Of age, who
has had more than usual advantages of
education, having graduated at college
and also studied abroad. He was heir
to moderate property, which relieved
him, apparently, from the need of aC-
quiring profession or calling But in
time his property melted away, and
now, when approaching middle life,
with wife and several children, in a
world and in a country where
all is push, and hurry, and COM
petition, and where the demand is
made of every man, "What can you
do?" he finds himself without any
trade or calling of which he is master,
compelled to do the easiest, most rudi-
mentary, the poorest paid work. So, as
the result, he is really unable by his ut
most exertions to support his family in
anything like comfort.


And if one turns to the other, the fair
er portion of humanity, it is the same
story. Ask the next person, be it man
or woman, who comes to you for char
ity, or for work, or help of any kind:
"What can you do?" and the answer
will be: "Anything;" which means, of
course, "Nothing."


If every person were master Of some
thing, knew how to do something that is
useful, and that is in demand, and if the
plague spots of dissipation and vice that
infest the land were dried up, nine-tenths
Of the poverty would be annihilated.
The poor-house and Jail would be "To
Let. ."-National Baptist.


THE poor immigrants day, as regards
for the present, the officials of the COM
netinp lines havipr h,1riod tho ho+oho+
Year: 1874

AN interesting account of the capture
Geological Gardens at Dublin from Cal
pendix to the report of the Science and
Art Department just issued. 1t seems
that in January, 1878, the python was
seen on mango tree overhanging a tank
in garden belonging to native gentle
man in the suburbs of Calcutta. On an
attempt being made to dislodge him he
suddenly uncoiled himself from the
branch on which he was resting and
flung himself into the tank, disappearing
beneath the water and remaining in
strict seclusion for some time, for he
was not seen again for a month, when he
was again observed on another mango
tree on the edge Of the same tank. His
temperance having been reported to
DR.. Dobson by Mr.. Oscar Fraser, of the
Indian Museum, that gentleman proceed
cd to the garden with Photographic ap-
paratus and succeeded in obtaining Il
portrait Of the animal coiled up in the
tree. The gardener was then bribcd to
"protcct" the python until the next
morning, when his capture was to be at
tempted. On the following day, accord
ingly, a snake clarmer and several
coolies with some nets proceeded to the
garden to seize the python. They were
only just in time, for in the meantime
the gardener had received a second
bribe from some other persons who were
also anxious to possess the snake. These
persons had gone to the city for another
snakc-charmcr and more coolies, and
were momentarily expected on the spot.
The gardener however, with singular
prudence, secured third bribe by giving
notice of their intentions, and thus Dr.
Dobson's party were first in the field.
The operations commenced by the snake
charmcr ascending the tree and being
bitten severely in the hand by the
python, who failed to appreciate his
charms. The python, then, as on the
former occasion, made hurried retreat
toward the tank but was ncttcd by the
coolies, who carried him off in triumph,
to the great disgust of the other party,
who, with their snake -charmer and their
coolies, we're "just in time to be too
latc' Some difficulty was experienced
in procuring passage for the python to
this country, but this was happily over
come and he arrived safely at the Dublin
Geological Gardens, where he was re-
ceivcd with the welcome due to Pc
culiarly ]oathsomc and dangerous reptile.
Pail Mall Gazette. Il:
Year: 1874

PENNSYLVANIA young lady recently
placed a piece Of wedding cake under
her pillow, and went to bed with the
happy belief that she would dream of
seeing her future husband. That even
ing, however, she had eaten two plates
Of ice-cream, about pint of strawber-
ries, several sweet cakes and two large
pickles; and she now says she would
rather remain single all her life than
marry the man she saw in her dream,
Year: 1874

gratefully that Smyrna Seminary is doing
good work let those of us who have the op.
portunity of knowing, proclaim that Smyrna
Seminary is doing thorough work and that the
pupils whom che sends away, take high rank
among their comrades, yet let US not forget
that in the very nature of things, this Semi
nary is committed to co-education: only thus
could private enterprise, with the means at its
command make it pecuniary success Its
curriculum is adapted to the boys of Smyrna,
but the girls may come and partake aud be
thankful.


Is this either just or generous? Men and
fathers of Smyrna, is it not time that you
thought of the best educational interests Of
your dauglsers9 Is it not time that co edu-
cation, which is being discussed and rejected
by the most advanced educators of the country,
should be laid aside by us2
Year: 1874

AN ATTEMPT TO OUTRAGE TWO GIRLs.--On
Thursday evening last as two servant girls in
the employ of DR.. Henry Pepper, were re-
turning to their home on West Seventh street,
just as they entered the enclosure of the Doc
tors residence an unknown man sprang from
under the shrubbery, and caught one of the
girls around the waist and threw her upon the
ground, the other made good her escape, and
per and hired man, but the villain seeing
that he was about to be caught let go the girl
and ran off, Though the scoundrel did not ac-
complish his purpose, she was considerably
bruised and frightend to such an extent that il
was necessary to place her under medical care
-DelaUdre Republican.
Year: 1874

/ saw my wife pull out the bottom
drawer of the old family bureau this
evening, and went softly out, and wan
dered up and down, until l knew that
she had shut it up and gone to her sew
ing. We have some things laid away
in that drawer which the gold Of kings
could not buy, and yet they are relics
which grieve US until both our hearts
are sore. haven't dared look at them
for year, but 1 remember each article.
There are two worn shoes, little chip
hat with part of the brim gone, some
stockings, pants, a coat, two or three
spools, bits of broken crockery, whip,
and several toys. Wife-poor thing
goes to that drawer every day of her
life and prays over it, and lets the tears
fall upon the precious articles, but l
dare not go! Sometimes we speak of
little Jack but not often. 1t has been
a long time, but somehow we can't get
over grieving. He was such a burst of
sunshine into our lives that his going
away has been like covering our every
day existence with pail. Sometimes,
when we sit alone of an evening, I writ
ing and she sewing, a child on the street
will call out as our boy used to. and We
will both start up with beating hearts
and wild hope, only to find the dark
ness more of burden than ever. 1t Is
still and quiet now. l look up at the
window where his blue eyes used to
sparkle at my coming, but he is not
there | listen for his pattering feet,
his merry shout and his ringing laugh,
but there is no sound. There is no one
to climb over my knee, no one to search
my pockets and tease for presents, and /
never find the chairs turned over, the
broom down or ropes tied to the door
knobs. / want some one to tease me
for my knife; to ride on my shoulder; to
lose my ak; to follow me to the gate
when : go, and be there to meet me
when l come; to call ''good night" from
the little bed, now empty. And wife,
she misses him still more; there are no
little feet to wash, no prayers to say; no
voice teasting for Jumps of sugar or
sobbing with the pain of hurt toe; and
she would give her own life, to awake
at midnight and look across to the crib
and see our boy there as he used to be.
So, we preserve our relics, and when we
are dead we hope that strangers will
handle them tenderly, even if they shed
no tears over them.-[ Chicago Fireside
| Friend.
Year: 1874

GUSHING THE WORCESTERSHIRE
Grangers are determined to oust the
middlemen. At meeting in New York
it was stated that flour costing in the
market eleven dollars a barrel was
bought direct for the Grangers for sew
en-. On butter the saving was ten cents
pound; on clothing, from ten to fifteen
per cent, and sewing machines, which
retailed seventy-fve dollars, were OBJ
tanned at from thirty-five to forty-fve.
An attempt to get coal at one dollar and
fifty cents a ton deducted from the mar
ket rate was defeated. The price was
agreed on, but subsequently the dealer
said he was satisfied, was making money


but he added that he had received
warning from the coal combination o


New York not to sell the organization
any more coal, or they would not sci


him any. He must either break with
the combination or break his contract.
Year: 1874

From Mrs swissheln's letter In Chicago Trib-


Ny carryall is a substitute for the
corset-a cross between it and q close
fitting low necked, sleeveless basque. 1t
is made of drilling, single for
summer, lined for winter; is supported
on the shoulders by straps of double
muslin or drilling, four inches wide,
which come within two inches of meet
ing on the back, and are divided in
front, one half coming forward to the
centre, the other running down just in
front of the arm. They should be
made to fit like glove, without whale
bones or steels, and buttoned up in
front. On this garment hang your
stockings, outside drawers, and skirt.
Make it an inch or two wider around
the waist than the corset you have been
wearing. Take this off before going to
bed; have yourself well sponged with
alcohol and water-a tablespoonful of
alcohol to half teecupful of water
and be well rubbed. If you wear net
compress all night, SO much the better.
Be sponged in the morning with alcohol
and water, and rubbed again. Then
dress in your new garment, having all
your bands and dress waist adjusted to
the inward size. Avoid extra exertion
for few days, and continue the spong-
ing and friction night and morning.
Stand up often in pure air; throw back
your shoulders; and for ten times try
how large breath you can take, draw
ing the air through your nostrils slowly;
and it will be strange if, in one month,
you are not ten yearsy y ounger than when
you began. When your chest fills you
carry all so that it begins to cramp you
when you take a long breath, make a
larger one, and let out dresses and bands.
Cultivate the waist as diligently as you
have hitherto repressed its growth, and
if the result is not degree of health
and happiness, of frightened eyes and
rounded cheeks, at present unknown to
you, nature has made a mistake, in put
ting you together, or you have sinned
away your day of grace in outraging
her laws until you are beyond pardon.
Year: 1874

THE HIGHER MATHEMATICs.-Civ
Engineer Thomas G. Clarke states a fact
that has long been apparent to practical
men, when he says that much time is
wasted in our colleges and chronological
schools over the higher mathematics.
EVERY engineer" he adds, "will agree
with me that the cases where the high
er calculus is indispensable are so few
in our practice that its study is not
worth the time expended upon it. I'm
less the student possesses an extraordi-
nary genies for mathematics, would
limit the study to the ordinary analysis.
The time saved ] would devote to the
study of natural science in some of its
branches"
Year: 1874

The Postmaster General did not find
the little feeler thrown out the other
day, suggesting an increase in the rates
of postage, 80 as to make the postal ser
vice self sustaining, at all acceptable 10
the public. He now announces that il
is no part of the plan Of retrenohment
he proposes 20 ask an increase OF the
rates of postage, but he will make such
accommodation to Congress az will
enable him 10 reduce expenses. lie
does not expect to fully pay the expenses
of the department, but there are sources
Of expenditure which can be regulated
and controlled by the legislation which
will be asked. This is all right, and
Governor Jewell is first class man TO
instute a system Of rigid economy with
out impairing the efficiency Of the mail
service. After the first Of January all
newspapers and periodicals going
through the postofice viii have to be
prepaid, and this will add largely 10 the
revenue Of the department.
Year: 1874

In an Illinois town, not long ago, one
of the attractions of an evening enter
tainment was to be tableau of the Pro-
digal Son, after Dubufe's painting. But
the best looking young man in the place
had been selected for the prodigal, and
every one of the girls wanted to be the
woman who should hang on his shoulder
and look lovingly at him, and that broke
up the business.
Year: 1874

LFrom Swings last Sermon.


Religion is not simple consciousness
of God, but it is that consciousness af-
ter it has moulded life and made the
spirit great in its impulses, great in its
duties, great even in its pleasures. God is
the initial point of great life, but from
that gateway the life flows out and wi
dens to the breadth of the world. When
you hold a creed in your hand and read
and re-read it, you are, perhaps, up at
the springs of river, but you can float
no ship there, and can found no nation
or city in that dreamy place. Follow
the grand teachings of Jesus and his
saints, and strike religion far away from
his first definition. Seek the Amazon not
up.in obscure..mountain springs, but down
toward the sea, where the ships of all the
world may move and rock upon its bos-
ON, and where not far away the great
ocean rolls, with its music and mystery,
a sublime reminder of the Foul and its
God on both sides Of the tomb.
Year: 1874

A spread-eagle orator wanted the
wings of bird to fly to every village
and hamlet in the broad land, but he
wilted when a naughty boy in the crowd
sang out, You'd be shot for goose be-
fore YOU had flied mile"
Year: 1874

are brought down to what We are striving to get
at, that this plaintiff has no knowledge and NO
facts that will prove adulter0us connection except
~ the times and places named. We'll, that ought
to be certainly . very gratifying thing to him. We
have had vague notions OF long continued adu-
ferrous connection. bur now we are told there Is
no evidence, there Is no knowledge con-
cerning the time and place. concerning the
range OF guilt, that goes beyond tue
reasonable embrace Of these periods. We have
no desire to have any unreasonable limitations
placed upon them. But when ,his has been
acknowledged by the plaintin then to be met with
the charge OF adultery from the year 1858 10 1862
Is simply an Introduction into the trial of TACT
that is not within the cause OF ac'lon as now
proposed and now exposed by q bill OF paruculars.
Now. submit that IN that judicial discretion that
Your Honor Is to exercise the case ls such that
q bill OF particulars ia proper. That 1t has been
contested In this case makes It more proper, ana
IL IS only for Your Honor to say that 1t IS reason
able provision that its limitation be provided as
not to be construed as suppressing any evidence
bearing upon that point.


Mr.. MOrrls-That Is just what we are claiming
here We claim that we may be permitted TO 20
to trial, governed by the relations OF evidence
and The general principles OF law, and 1t ls just
what they are trying to prevent US rom having.
They are trying TO propose restrictions.


Mr.. Evarts-I must object to this. l rest the
case.


Judge McCue then took the papers and reserved
his decision.
Year: 1874

DoN'T put up with poor washing. A linen
collar will only last one day in this hot wealth
er. and will not keep it, shape even that long.
The Elmwood Collar never loses it, shape
and always looks well.
Year: 1874

1t can not be that the earth
is mans only abiding place.
Else why is it the high and gIo-
rious aspirations which leap
like angels from the temples OF
our heartsgare forever wander
ing about unsalisfied? Why is
It that the rainbow and the
cloud come over US with a
beauty lhat7is not of earth, and
then pass off and leave US to
muse upon their faded ,lovell
nesss Why is IL that the stars
which "hold their festival
around the midnight throne,' y
are set above limited faculties
forever mocklng Us with their
unap9roacliable glurls And
finally, why Is 1t that bright
!orms oil human beauty rare
presented TO our view, and then
taken from us, leaving the
thousand streams of our affec
ton TO flow back in Alpine tor
rents from our hearlss We are
born for a higher destlnyrtha
that OF earth. There is a realm
where the rainbow never fades
where the stars will be
spread ont before US like the
islands that slumber on the
ocean, and where the beautiful
beings, which here pass before
US like shadows, will stay in our
presence forever.
Year: 1874

No deduction will be made for absence the first
last week of the term, for absence during the
term in any excepting that OF protracted sick
ness.


Students will furnish their quilts, sheets, pill
low-cases towels and toilet soap. All articles need
Year: 1874

The Indications are that the rush for
Panamint will commence early in the
Spring and continue until that section
of the country is alive with miners.
All our reports from that locality are
of the most flattering character and it
is the opinion of old miners that Pan
amint will prove a second Comstock.
A large quantity of freight is going
forward and men of experience in sill
Yer mining are investing immense
sums in machinery intended to reduce
the ore from the hundreds of rich
ledges already discovered and many of
them partially developed. Yesterday
a number of gentlemen left this
city for Panamint, where they will
court the tickle goddess, Fortune.
There is no doubt but that Panamint
will become great mining center and
what is better still, it's mines will be
the inducement that will bring the
energy and money that will discover
and develop hundreds of lodges now
unknown.
Year: 1874

We regret to see the Express losing
its temper. Its editorial columns of
last evening were filled with personal
assaults upon Mr.. BEAUDRY and vitu-
perative articles on the HERALD. In
our allusion to the circumstance
that after a conversation in the
Supervisors room between one of the
publishers of the cypress and a couple
OF Democrats, the professed Republi-
can organ, with suddenness almost
amounting to indecent haste, became
the enthusiastic supporter of Demo-
cratic candidate, we merely reverted
to fact well known by the leaders of
all parties in this city, and in 80 doing
we did not for moment suppose that
we were uncOvering a ghost which
would throw our little contemporary
into spasms. We have in our possess
ion the details of that transaction-the
incidents of the treachery and amount
of argument that brought it about
and we did propose to lay the
whole matter before the HERALD's
readers, but~since bare allusion to
the cirumstanee produces such strong
symptoms of rabies, we dread the
effect that full recital will have on
the ex-gauger's organ. It is fact
well understood in this city that Mr..
TIFFANY is the chosen candidate of
the ring for Mayor, and all understand
that the personal attacks on Mr..
BEAUDRY which fill the columns of
the Express are prompted by the zeal
OF that paper to serve the ring to
which, 1T to all intents a nd purposes.
belongs. We do not know that the
little sheet should be blamed for obev-
ing the command of its purchasers; it
could not do otherwise and live: hnt
it should not whine and whimper
when kicked for its masters sake
When the Express commenced its
personal warfare we warned it that
there would be blows to receive as well
as to give.