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Year: 1879

In the first place, her furniture was
this woven willow basket work, and that
costs good deal, but it was the only
expensive thing she had. She had her.
self wound it in and out with narrow
blue ribbon wherever an opening offered
the square low bed, the armchair, the
small rocker, the work-stand, the little
bureau, the waste basket. Her curtains
were light-blue lambrequins she made
and put up with her own hands, a good
quality of Nottingham lace looped over
them. In the bay-window chirped her
canary, his cage draped with white
tarlatan, gathered underneath and tied
with blue ribbons. The pillow-shams
and coverlet were of run lace over blue
silesia, the coverlet made in two pieces,
so that frill of edging ran across the
bed so as to simulate a sheet-sham. A
horseshoe of gilt with blue lines dangled
from the chandelier for luck. The pic
lures were not many, and they were
simple and inexpensive, but common
blue fans at cents apiece were grouped
on the walls, sometimes three or four
running obliquely up the wall, or three
to form rosette or one wide spread up
on the curtains. A towel, brown linen
towel, was fringed and hemstitched at
the ends, butterflies appliqued and blue
bows placed helter-skelter on it, and this
was put on the wall slantwise as a work
of art. You'll laugh, suppose, but il
was such an odd little quirk of an idea
that it quite struck me. She had other
odd things. A couple of clay pipes with
stems crossed and tied with blue


fastened up, couple of powder-horn:
ornamented and slung from hooks, ard
oh, me! two pigs tails, from two pig
friends slaughtered up the country


decorated also in blue and placed either
side window. Once in n while there
was a carelessly tied bow of ribbor
about two inches wide, with long stream


ers floating about on the walls, ant
sprays of trailing fern, of which you caI
get ever so much in a package by send
ing to firm in. the East, wound abou
Year: 1879

ELECTRICITY AND BEE-KEEPING.-
The danger of handling bees has been
met by giving them an electric shock,
when they are stunned and fall notion
less. They can be sorted, and will re-
cover, according to the power OF the
shock; in from one to eight hours, all
will come out of their trance safe
and sound. Some good apparatus could
be invented for this purpose, to secure
the honey and collect swarms, and as
there is no patent on the subject an
opening for inventors is presented.
Year: 1879

VINES may be taken down from the
stakes or trellises and pruned. But if
thus treated, the canes should be laid
down on the ground and covered with
leaves, pine, or hemlock brush, or straw.
This is the safest plan with all. But
care must be taken not to cover them
until the ground is frozen, and to re-
move the covering early in the spring,
lest the buds may start too soon and be
injured by cold snap.
Year: 1879

THE London Neae Quarterly RecieaO
has discovered that in the United States
the degeneration of the wisdom teeth
has gone further than in any European
country; that the jaws are almost abb
normally short; that the lower jaw is
apt to be rather UNDERLYING, and
that it is becoming a common practice to
remove some of the molar teeth Of chill
dren, as the jaw does not grow large
enough to hold the proper number.
Year: 1879

PIcKPoCKETs frequent all funeral ins
New York, and are only captured by
detectives shrewd enough to keep their
eyes on the members of the cortege who
seem to be the most deeply and solemn
" affected.
Year: 1879

water, acting rs a perpetual battering-
ram on the walls of each side OF it, will
soon detach other portions of them, and
thus alter the whole form and character
of the famous Horseshoe Falls.
Year: 1879

New YORK, March l3.-SeoretarySher-
mau has wrlttea tae following letter to
Assistant Treasurer HillhOuse:


SIR:-I have received q number Of let
ters from bankers and dealers in govern
meEt securities representing apprehen-
sions that this department will call upon
national bank repositories for very large
sums to meet calls of SIX per cent. bonds
maturing in April and May, in advance of
their actual presentation for payment, thus
producing at busy season Of the year
the boarding OF money into the treasury in
advance Of its need for such payment. The
| fear is expressed that such boarding will
| interfere with the current business of the
country, and l am appealed to relieve the
public from this apprehension. It is Dot
the purpose of the department to call
money deposited with public New York
| Ideposltorles into the treasury except as it
is needed for the payment OF called bonds
The great body Of these bonds is now in
the possession Of the government, and
their payment will be made by simple
credit. The apprehensions are. therefore,
10 great measure, grouDdiess, but you
may give assurance to all Interested that
the proceeds OF four per cent. bonds will


not be called into the treasury until neces


sary to make payment of called bonds


and that business will be so conducted AZ


not unnecessarily to interfere with the


money market. As public officer can


not waive the right and duty to judge o


the time aud amount OF money to b.


drawn, but the government is interested


with all citizens in completing refundini


operations by making exchange of 4 pc


cent. bonds for six per cents. with as littl
disturbance as possible.
Year: 1879

IMPORTANT TO PERSONS VISITING NEW
YoRK.-One of the best kept and most
convenient Hotels for Merchants and others
to stop at when in New York is the Grand
Union Hotel, pearly opposite the Grand
Central Depot, kept Oh the European plan
you therefore only pay for what you get,
Everything is first class, and prices mod
crate, adapted to the stringepcy of the
times You save the expense of carriage
hire, and by leaving your baggage check
on the counter of the Hotel, your baggage
Year: 1879

but also real ornament TO the farm
W lich is about one mile from this place
and very pleasantly located on the Au-
sable river


Planting potatoes is now in order,
and probably will be until the middle
of June. Some are planting and some
have not yet commenced. Potatoes
should be covered with not less than
four inches of soil, while the weather
holds as dry as at present.


Il. A. DEAN.
Year: 1879

The only large Clothing
House down town where
nearly all the money received
is paid out again among the
people Of Chicago, instead Of
being sent in a lump to New
York Or Boston,


Is tho House Of WILLoUGHBY,


HILL & CO.,
Cor. Madison and Clark.Sts.
Year: 1879

A correspondent says in brief that
each fowl ought to produce l60
eggs a year; that in winter warmth
is indispensable; that the fowls
must have some of the iood they
find at other seasons when at large !;
that they must have plenty Of room
in their house, and il and the laying
boxes kept clean that they must be
fed corn, barley, oats, have box of
sand, oyster or clam shells pounded
up, or old mortar. or bones dried
and pounded fine; that mashed
boiled potatoes and corn meal are
excellent; that fatty matter of any
kind, fresh beef, or pork scraps, &c,
must form a portion OF their diet
that hens are fond of vegetable
matter during winter and will eat
cabbage, &c and that they must be
kept free from vermin, which nearly
always follows entire cleanliness.
In case, however, vermin should
still make their appearance, there is
nothing so effective in removing
them as rubbing the top Of the head,
under the wings and upon the backs,
with lard. These suggestions we
have made time and again; and
have only to add now, that all who
desire complete success, and of
course satisfactory profit from
poultry raising, must adopt Mem.--
EXCHANGE.
Year: 1879

Ii is highly improbable that such
an individual as perfectly satisfied,
contented woman exists. II there
be one whose position in society
and general surroundings are entire
ly i'm accord with her ambition and
desires, the happy creature has not
yet been discovered, and her pleas
ing and beneficial example has been
lost upon her disconiented sisters.
I'm whatever condition or circum-
stances she may be placed, there is
invariably something beyond her
reach that is essential to her hsppi-
ness. This condition of affairs has
existed throughout all time. We
are told that the garden of Eden
possessed every possible condition
requisite for the complete happiness
OF its occupants. There is no doubt
that their condition was infinitely
better than that of any inhsb-
itants of this mundane sphere to-
day, and that they should have been
supremely happy and contented,
but whether il was from the lack
ofdressmakers or other causes which
history does not record, our fair
mother Eve would not rest satisfied,
but must needs seek for something
more. Thus il has been ever since,
and the constant, restless striving
after objects which she does not
possess has been the cause of much
Of woman's unhsppiness.-Al6any
Times.
Year: 1879

The true girl has to be sought for.
She does not parade herself as show
goods. She is not fashionable.
Generally, she is not rich. But, oh
what a heart she has when you find
her! So large and pure and wo-
manly. When you see it you won
der if those snowy things outside
were women. If you gain her love
your two thousand are millions.
She'll not ask you for u carriage or
a first-class house. She'll wear SIM
pie dresses and turn them when
necessary, with no vulgar magnificat
to frown upon her economy. She'll
keep everything neat and nice in
your sky parlor, and give you such
a welcome when you come home
that you'll think your parlor higher
than ever. She'll entertain true
friends with dollar, and astOnish
you with the new thought how little
depends upon money. She'll make
you love home Gf you don't you're
a brute), and teach you how to pity,
while you scorn poor, fashionable
society that thinks itself rich, and
vainly tries to think itself happy.


Now. do not, l pray you, say any
more, al can't afford to marry"
Go find the true woman and you
can. Throw away that cigar, burn
up that switch-cane, be sensible
yourself, and seek your wife in a
sensible way.-LOLIvER WENDELL
HOLMES.
Year: 1879

81 want to find out who is the
master of this house," said the man
with a book under his arm to the
vinegary looking woman with a
pointed nose and very small top
knot, who opened the door for him.
Well, stranger" she said, with
arms akimbo, "you just walk around
into the backyard and ask a little
spindle-shanked deacon you'll find
there fixin' up the grape-arbor, and
he'll tell you if l don't boss this
rancho he don't know who does.
Now, what do you want with me ?"
Year: 1879

The first element of true culture
is utility. The homely uses of life
are the strong body, without which
accomplishments have nothing 10
adorn but themselves, and are
thrown away. In the swift fluctu-
alton of business, and the terrible
reverses which so often sweep away
the best founded fortunes, none are
safe. 1t is folly for any family to
rear girl in the lap of indulgence
for a life of luxury, when a single
wave of misfortune may sweep the
Castle Beautiful away and leave its
inmates at the mercy of the pitiess
elements. Every girl should be so
educated that, should adversely
throw her upon the world, she will
fall, like the cat, on her feet, ready
for run on her own account. A
lady of culture is one who can use
her knowledge ana accomplish
ments for her own support in case
of need, and does not feel that any
useful industry is demeaning. The
practical must precede and support
the ornamental, and even the orna-
mental should be so thoroughly in
grained that it can be made use of
in case of need. The worst evils of
modern society will not be got rid
of till every woman is able to earn
an honest livelihood, aud respects
every other woman who earns one,
whether she is lady of culture"
or not.-Leslie'S Illustrated News-
DdDer.
Year: 1879

We entertain the opinion that the
following article should be read by
Republi' ans as well as Democrats,
and that one party has no right to
monopolise all the good political
literature:


Let no Democrat be troubled by
the Radical outcry over the solid
South. II is a legitimate political
product. 1t represents one hundred
and thirty-eight votes in the elec-
toral college, ninety-six votes in the
Federal House, and thirty in the
Senate. With this compact. reliable
power at its command the Demo-
cratic party needs only the exercise
of common sagacity and honesty in
the adm inistration of public and
party affairs TO triumphantly rule
this country for the next two gen.
erations.


The great problem with the Radi-
cal party was 10 prevent the forma-
tion of q solid Democratic South.
In this they have most signally fall
ed. Hence they naturally think "the
fruits of the war" have been lost TO
them. That they howl, gnash their
teeth and threaten dreadful conse-
quences is an exhibition Of impotent
rage. They did their worst years
ago, when the South was PROSTATE
aud out of all political relations
with the Democracy of the North.
Now the tables are reversed. The
solid South is i'm full communion
with the Union and the Democratic
party. This party is once again a
Gibraltar of strength, both for de-
fence and assault. Strong as il was
in the first eighty years of the
Union, and in its sixty years of
political domination in Federal af-
fairs, it is physically and potentially
stronger to-day. Ii is the greatest
political force in the world. Taken
for all purposes, its equal in politi-
cal power has never existed.


1t owes its reinvigoration and re-
newed powerfulness TO the seuti
ment and causes which have solidi-
fed the Southern states. But, turn
ing from this point of observation,
from its compact one hundred and
thirty-eight electoral votes, look at
it's strength in the north. 1t divides
nearly equally the governments of
the Northern states, and, with the
exception of four or five, every
Northern state is battle ground,
where a change of one per cent. of
the popular vote decides which of
the two master parties shall control
it.
Ii is to this all potential party that
all men with popular ideas and in-
stincts will eventually rally. Those
who have gone into Independent or
third party movements have met
only disappointments. Their move
ments have not only come 10 the
grief Of defeat, but TO that of utter
dissolution. Repeated effort has
ended only in repeating warning
against the folly OF such blunders.
The popular leaning and instincts of
the Democratic party are too strong
and earnest for any third party sue
cess that looks TO socialistic or
democratic sentiment. All that is
practical in that direction can be,
and will be, accomplished in and
through the organized Democracy.
Recognition OF this existing force |
and fact will hasten the day Of
Democratic control in the Federal
affairs. But that is not all. The |
cooperation of the socialistic forces !
will Ieaven the Democratic party |
and carry it boldly along in the i'm /
mense work of undoing the results |
summed up in the term "new ma
tion."-LOuiSUGUe Democrat.
Year: 1879

lie had broken his promises 10
marry the girl, and her father want
ed money consideration to help
heal a wounded heart. The young
man said he would consider a reas-
enable proposition. "Well, them"
said the irate father, who was seek
ing justice for his daughter, young
man, how does a dollar and half
strike yeu!'
Year: 1879


Kind reporter, I've important information,
Sing hey, the kind reporter that you are,
About a certain dry goods inundation,
Sing hey, the cheapest goods in town by far.


BOTH.
The very cheapest goods in town by far.


REPORTER.
Good fellow, in conundrums you are speaking,
Sing hey, the mystic merchant that you are;
The answer to them vanly am seeking,
Sing hey, the cheapest goods in town by lar.


BOTH.
The very cheapest goods in town by Tar.


MERCHANT.
Kind reporter, on tomorrow I'll be going,
Sing hey, the boss reporter that you are,
To New York and soon then I'll be showing
The biggest stock-but take you this cigar.


BOTH.
The very cheapest goods in town by far.


REPORTER.
Good fellow, you have given timely warning,
Sing hey, the thoughtful merchant that you
are;
I'll whoop you up lively in the morning,
Sing hey, the merry ifteen-cent cigar.


BOTH
The merry, merry fifteen cent cigar.
p SIT was the reporter that got the puff


Cincinnati Enquirer.
Year: 1879

A very remarkable circumstance, and
an important point of analogy, is to be
found in the extreme rapidity with which
the mental operations are performed, or
rather with which the material changes
on which the ideas depend are excited in
hemispherical ganglia. 1t would appear
as if whole series Of acts, that would
really occupy a long lapse of time, pass
ideally through the mind in one instant.
We have in dreams no true perception of
the lapse of time-a strange property of
mind! for if such be also its property
when entered into the eternal disem-
bodied state, time will appear to us eter-
nifty. The relations Of space as well as
time are also annihilated, so that almost
while an eternity is compressed into a
moment, infinite space is traversed more
swiftly than by real thought. There are
numerous illustrations of this on record.
A gentleman dreamed that he enlisted
as a soldier, joined his regiment, desert
ed, was apprehended, carried back, tried,
condemned to be shot, ard al last led out
for execution. After the usual prepara-
tions, a gun was fired; re awobe with


the repsrt, and found tha, noise - the
adjoining room had al the same moment
produced the dream and awakened him
| A friend of DR.. AJercrom Die dreamed


he crossed the Atlantic and spent a fort
| night in America. IN embarking, on hii


return, he fell into the sea, and awakinl


in the fright, found hat he had not beer


in bed ten minutes.
Year: 1879

grounds, and will penetrate TO the track,
branching toward the Club-l ouse on the
north and the grand stand on the south,
leading among the cluster of buildings in
the vicinity of the grand stand Other
drives will be constructed through the
grounds, encircling the entire track.


These improvements are being pushed
with all possible dispatch, under the ener-
getic management of President GAIT and
Engineer TwINING. There are at present
employed on the work 100 men, 100 horses,
lis carts and % double teams engaged in
hauling lumber aud other material for the
prosecution of the work


There are two carriage routes now lead
ing to the grounds-onc out New York
avenue to Boundary street northeast, and
thence through Second street east 10 the
Brentwood road; and the other out the Bla-
dcnsburg turnpike to Mount Olivct cemc-
terry, and along the west line of that to Ivy
City. These roads are to he improved inn
mcdiately and made commodious as drives
to and from the National Fair Grounds.
The locality in time will be among the most
delightful resorts in the enyirons of the
National Capital.
Year: 1879

TT is safe assertion that two-thirds of
the newspaper readers of the country have
expressed the wish within the past two or
three days that HART, the colorcd lcggist,
may win the pedestrian match now in prog
rcss in New York. This wish does not
spring so much from n love of the race he
represents as from u disgust of the race he
is running. The truth is that pcdcstrianism,
like baseball and other kindred profess
sional muscular pests, is only popular in
this country through the obstinate pervcr-
sity of the average American mind which
invariably blecds the pocket for the sup
port of such exhibitions even while ii con-
demns them. The fact that the receipts of
gate-money during the contest in question
have averaged more than $1,000 day does
not show, however, that very large num-
Der of the people of New York are over
whelmingly interested in il, for that sum
represents in round numbers about 10000
daily sight-secrs, among whom several
thousand strangers are included. But some-
how or another all the newspapers of the
land are compelled to print the news" of
this great slow, even when they know it
should be captioned "uuimportant il true"
Year: 1879

THE progress Of TTLDEN's campaign in
Pennsylvania must be very discouraging TO
Senator WALLACE, and by the same token
very cheering tO SAM RANDALL. Lebanon
County in that State has now come for
ward to declare that the old Cipher Ogre is
worthy of denomination next year In fact
the only indications the keystone Demo-
cracy have given in the premises are in
favor of TILDEN, fact which shows that
the idea Of a ticket composed of TuDEN
and RANDALL is among the reasonable
possibilities of the future.
Year: 1879

IF there is anything that brings gricfjust
now TO the aged heart of the editor Of THE
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN it is that his ec-
centric and itincrant cotcmporory Of the
Post should he so oppressed with anxiety
oyer the safety Of the funds Of the Emil
grant Aid Society and the New York Re-
publican Campaign committee, with which
we have some slight connection. Now, in
return for what the editor of the Post suffers
on this account, we are disposed to render
him little service by letting him into u
secret Ifhewill secure some guarantee that
life will he youGAsaled to him until some
respectable society or organization shall
make him the custodian Of one dollar of
lis funds, it will tend largely to longevity
m his case
Year: 1879

From the lily of love that uncloses
In the glow of a festival kiss,
On the wind that is heavy with roses
And shrill with the buges of bliss.
Let 1t foat Ger the mystical ocean
That breaks On the kingdom of night
Our oath of eternal devotion


To the heroes who died for the right
TfRf5 Prom 1nE4 III that n HIS lQsf Yet they parted
Left woman and child hrokesl-haarted,
Staring up to the pitiless skies:
Left the tumult of youth, the sweet guerdon
Hope promised to conquer from Fate
Gave all for the agonized burden


Of death for the Flag and the State
Where the, roam on the slopes of the mountain
That only by angels are trod,
Where they muse by the crystalline fountain
That springs in the garden Of God.
Are they lost in nnapeakable splendors
Do they never look back and regret7
All, the valiant are constant and tender,
And Honor can never forget
Divine in their plying sadness


They grieve for their comrades CT earth;
They win hear us, and start into gladness,





They will lift their white HAMS in blessing
We shall know BY the tear that it brings
The rapture of friendship confeesing


With harps and the wayings of wings.
In that Grim and relentless upheaval


Which blesses the world through curse,
Still bringing the good out of evil


The garlands of peacs on the hearsel-
They were shattered, consumed and torsaken.
Like the shadows that fly from the dawn
We may never know why they were taken.
But we always shall feel they are gone.
II the wind that slghs over our prairies
No longer 10 solemn with hnells-
But lovely with flowers and fairies,
And sweet with the calm Sabbath bells;
If Virtue. in cottage and palace,
Leads Love to the bridal Of Pride,
'Tis because out of wars bitter chalice


Orr heroes drank deeply-and died
All, grander in doom-strieken glory,


Than the greatest that linger behind,
They shall live In perpetual story, ue. zs v
Who saved the last hspe of mankind!
For their cause was the cause of the races
That langul shed in slavery's night: Gs4#
And the death that was pale on their faces ~
Has filed the whole world with its light
To the clouds and the mountaine we breathe 1t,
To the freedom of planet and star;
Let the tempests of ocean enwreathe it.
Let the winds of the night bear it far
Our oath, that. till manhood shall perish,
And honor and virtue are sped.
We are true TO the cause that they cherish,
And eternally true to the dead. s i...s


Ws. Wsatsr at A~gsy Of Potomac Bdn9ue
Year: 1879

DR.. Minor this afternoon detailed sanitary off
GERS to the various Southern railroad depots, tc
examine all passengers, baggage and freight ar
irving that may In any way be infected with yel
low fever or coming from u district where the
dreadful disease is prevalent