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Year: 1879

pray that my blood may never fall up
on France and you" Then the drums
were beat and drowned the last words.
The blameless king was seized and laid
beneath the axe, and, amid the prayers
of many a one concealed and the awe
of the vast multitude, the blow fell.
The kings lifeless body was taken to a
dishOnored burial, while he himself
went to meet the loving countenance
and the glorious welcome of the King
of kings.
Year: 1879

There was once young man resid-
ing in Gold Hill who was known as an
inveterate gambler. For ten years
ne had worked steadily at his trade,
and at the end of each month had lost
his wages. Finally, becoming desper-
ate he had married bright young lady
who had some knowledge of wOldly af-
fairs and human nature. Knowing her
husbands weakness, she determined to
turn it to good account for the adyan-
tage of the family. Her plan was to
start a faro bank. Accordingly she
procured a layout, box, case-keeper
and necessary checks. At this point
her greatest difficulty was encountered.
She had no capital. Going to an ex-
perienced gambler and stating the case
to him, she was able to borrow 5000,
the gambler well knowing that he had
a dead thing on getting his money
back. The preliminaries being ar
ranged, the husband readily agreed to
play against his wife provided she
would agree to "ring the bell" for the
drinks once in a while. The fair
dealer acquiesoei and the game COM
menced. At the end of an hour and a
halt the female portion of the company
had possession of the months wages.
The next month the same experience
was repeated. In short time the 500
had been repaid the gambler, and fine
embroidered layout was made by the
thrifty wife. Soon after she began to
buy diamonds and invest in stocks. Her
next stroke was to build an elegant
mansion; then she kept her own car
riage, and finally made tour OF the
world, accompanied by her husband
and three children, and prosperity
thus began has never decreased. The
family now live on 3 street, Virginia.
and is reconed among the high-toned
class.
Year: 1879

Imagine yourself at the Tuolumne
Soda Springs on the bank of the river,
a davis Journey above Yosemite Valley.
You set off northward through forest
that stretches away indefinitely before
you, seemingly unbroken by openings
of any kind. As soon as you are fairly
into the woods, the gray mountain-peaks,
with their snowy gOrges and hollows,
are lost to view. The ground is Uttered
with fallen trunks that lie crossed and
re-crossed like storm-lodged wheat;
and besides this close growth OF pines,
the rich moraine soil supports luxu-
RANT growth of ribbon-leaved grasses,
chiefly bromus, triticum and agrostis,
which rear their handsome spikes and
panicles above your waist. Making your
way through this fertile wilderness
finding lively bits of interest now and
then in the squirrels and Clark crows,
and perchance in deer or bear-after
the lapse of an hour or two vertical bars
of sunshine are seen ahead between the
brown shafts of the pines, and then you
suddenly emerge from the forest
shadows upon a delightful purple lawn
living smoth and free in the light
like lake. This is a glacier
meadow. 1t is about mile and
half long by a quarter OF mile
wide. The trees come pressing forward
all around in close, serried ranks,plant-
inc their feet exactly OF its margin, and
holding themselves erect, strict and or
derly like soldiers on parade; thus
bounding the meadow with exquisite
precision, yet with free curving lines
such as nature alone can draw. With
inexpressible delight you wade out into
the grassy sun-lake, feeling yourself
contained in one of natures most sacred
chambers, withdrawn from the sterner
influences of the mountains, secure from
all intrusion, secure from yourself, free
in the universal beauty. And notwlth-
standing the scene is so impressively
spiritual, and you seem dissolved in 1t,
yet every thing about you is beating with
warm, terrestrial, human love, delight
fully substantial and familiar. The ros-
my pines are types of health and stead
fastness; the robins feeding on the sod
belong to the same species you have
known since childhood; and surely these
are the very friend-howers of the old
home garden. Bees hum as in a harvest
noon, butterflies waver above the flow
erS, and like them you lave in the vital
sunshine, too richly and homogeneously
joy-flled to be capable of partial thought;
You are all eye, sifted through and
through with light and beauty.-John
Muir, IN February SCribner.
Year: 1879

One of the recent developments of
the city on the social side are quiet re-
ceptions by people of literary, dramatic,
and artistic taste on Sunday evenings.
Cultivated people who are engaged in
their pursuits but are cut off by their
professional engagements from the en-
ioyment of social meetings during the
working days of the week, long for the
gatherings in the parlors of their friends
from which their duties exclude them.
The social longings of many artists have
been gratifed in measure for several
years by the holding irregular afternoon
receptions on particular days OF the
week at the homes of several OF the
most cultivated people of the city.
These receptions are generally made at
tractive, not only by the presence OF
many of the best ladies of the city, but
also by the presence of distinguished
singers and musicians, and there is al
ways great deal of music at them.
The parlors of the people who give these
charming receptions are havens OF rest
to professional people. But the AFTER
noon gathering does not fully satisfy
the demand for this sort of thing, and
the Sunday evening receptions have
been initiated, and are rapidly becom-
ing popular. They are very quiet. There
is no rush of carriages to the door, as at
a kettledrum or afternoon receptions on
week days. Those who have them leave
them behind. The company gathers
without ostentation, and enjoys an even
ing of sober, but delightful sociabillty.
There is often music. The receptions
are frequented by persons like Mrs.
Florence Rice Knox, Remenyl, and 9th
er persons of fame, and there is great
rush of those who have the privilege OF
attending to meet and lionize the emil
nent artist who is the guest of the even
ing. There are not many houses IN
town open on Sunday evening, but
there are few, and of good position in
society, and the literary and art world
here could not do without them. Happy
is the hostess who can get these people
to like to come toi her drawing-room.-
NeW York Letter.
Year: 1879

At about II O'Clock on Saturday
evening, an aged woman, thinly clad,
waited at the Grove Street crossing OF
the Pennsylvania Railroad in Jersey
City, and as the train approached and
the gate was lowered, she drew close up
to the gate, and as the gate was thrown
up she gave sharp shrek and plucked
something from the gate. Then she
hurried up Newark Avenue toward the
Heights. When asked for an explana-
ton of her behavior, she reluctantly
said that she had tied a string around
an ulcerating tooth and attached the
string to the gate, so that when iC was
raised it might extract the tooth. She
had not 80 cents to pay for its pulling
NeW York Sun.
Year: 1879

A correspondent of the Washington Sar
VINO mas h2d a bath in the Dead Sea, de-
SchOes his experience as follows The
water, which is quite clear, and nearly the
color of the Niagara river below the falls
seemed to me little more bitter and salt
than that Of Salt Lake although brighter and
more attractive than when close at hand Its
supporting power struck me as little great
er, also, than that of Salt Lake, as the BODY
h0aed more easily and the difficulty of
swimming was greater on account of the ina
olllty to keep ones feet under water. So
large quantity of salt is held in solution
that the water has what is called, believe
'ropy appearance, much like that of n
plate of well made tapioca soup. observed
however, that when we came out of the
water there was not so large a deposit of salt
crystals on the body as after bath in Salt
Lake, and the feeling OF the skin, instead Of
being dry and pricky, as | expected WAS
rather oily and sticky. Our dinner that
night was seasoned with salt made from,
Dead Sea water by Solar evaporation. 1t
was little lighter in color than the best
brown sugar. Its crystals were large and
hard, and though foreign substances were
evidently present in considerable quantity.
1t was not unpleasant to the taste. WAS
toid that two quarts of the water will pro-
duce one quart Of salt, but this is probably an
exaggeration. To complete the statistics of
this remarkable body of water, NAV add
what many Of my readers may already know
that there is no living thing of any kind
in it ; that even the driftwood brought down
by the floods in the Jordan is speedily cast
upon Its shores that its length is about for
ty-hve and its greatest width about ten miles.
that 1t is over 300 feet deep at the deepest
place; and that the immense quantity of
fresh water poured into it daily is undoubt.
edly taken up by evaporation as its great
depth below the basin of the Mediterranean
must preclude the idea of a subterranean
outlet
Year: 1879

The mouth is the gateway of the stomach,
ana unless this gateway is well fashioned
and well guarded the field beyond is subject
to continued invasion. Weknow how little
the masticating pswer of the teeth is
brought into use in preparing the food for
the stomach, as it is now served to us
Both jaws and teeth need hard, firm pres.
sure, to force the blood to the respective
parts, and thereby produce nulritive pabu


um; and in this it seems is the explanation,
in part at least, of the fact that it is mpossi
Bile for dentists to make bricks without clay.
In other words, to make good teeth of those
That were poor from the beginning-poor
Tor lack OF proper nutritive material. The
primary cause of dyspepsia is not so much
what we eat as the manner in which we eat.
II the people would eat with less haste, and
discard the use OF liquids while eating. we
should have much less of dyspepsia. Chew
ing vigorously stimulates the salivary glands
to action, and furnishes to the stomach one
of the best possible aids to digestion. Chew
| ing piece Of pine stick is an excellent thing
tor giving exercise to the jaws, as well AS
cleaning the teeth; but If pine stick is
| Objectionable let the patient chew gum,
taking care, however, to swallow the saliva.
1t is rather an unfortunate thing thing to be
| obliged to advise the children of good society
to chew gum, but if the parents will persist
in feeding them on such food as they do.
something must be done to enable them both
to clean their teeth and at the same time to
assist digestion, 1t is very difficult matt, r
to cleanse the teeth by brushing alone
Brushing is good, and should be scrupulous.


y attended to at least three times day.
The majority of deptifrices found in the drug
stores b IN letter remain there. Warm wa
ter an soap are the best articles for Cleans
ing he teeth. A piece of fae, white Cas-
Ii soap, and a moderately stiff brush, are
'dispensable. Wood and quill toothpicks
al excellent but metallic pins should never
be u cd. The best thing for the removal of
particles Of food from between the teeth is
untwisted or floss silk it will go where a
pick cannot reach, and no teeth are so close
ly Joined but what it can be readily made
made to pass between. The chemical theory
of decay is that acid secretions are found in
the saliva. Ifthe decayed portions of ones
teeth presents dense, black appearance, it
is very likely due to sulphuric acid secre.
tion if it be dark brown, and soft in struc-
ture, it is probably due to a muriatic acid
secretion and if ii appears yellow or white,
the test will most likely to reveal nitric acid
or Tactic. Decay almost invariably begins
at the point of contact, that is, where the
teeth touch each other, and in the fissures or
dePressions of the bicuspids and molar. This
shows that the saliva and debris of the
mouth, being held in position at these points
are largely, if not wholly, responsible for
the mischief.
Year: 1879

Next year will be the eighteenth centena-
ry of the great eruption of Vesuvius, which
resulted in the total destruction of Hercu-
laneum and Pompeii, and a proposal has
been made in Italy to celebrate the event in
some suitable manner. The people, howev-
er, seem to have been too busy with their
demonstrations in honor of Italia Irredenta
to have given, as yet, any practical shape
to the idea, but it now appears that it will
be carried out in manner totally unexpect.
ed and rather premature, but probably more
appropriate than even The ingenuity of tete
loving Italiaus could suggest Whatever
form the uniqe commemoration might take,
it could hardly be more grandly accompa-
MED than by the smoke and thunder and
cascades of liquid fire produced by the vol
c&nO itself, which is already in what ap-
pears to tie the preliminary stages of anoth.
er great eruption. For two or three years
the mountain has given signs of returning
animation, and the representations of an
extensive outburst have taken thousands of
expectant visitors, doomed however to dis
appointment, from all parts of the continent
to witness the awful and splendid spectacle.
This year the disappointment of tourists
will not be so great. Cascades of lava, thrown
up to height of 800 feet, with their accom-.
panying showers Of ashes, and the mighty
column of smoke curling high in the air
and carried gently away in long trailing
mass far across the deep blue sky with patch
es here and there of lighter colored vspors
expanding in the air aud mingling with the
clouds these are features in the fair scenery
OF Naples and Castellamare which are re-
served only for the favored few among the
visitors to the sunny south. Even if the
eruption does not attain more majestic pro.
portions, aud if its full force IS to be reserv-
ed for next year, the sight of Vesuvius in its
present state is worth long journey to see !;
bat should the gathering volcanic forces, of
the activity of which Central Europe was
but recently witness in the series of earth.
quake extending from Belgium to Piedmont
and from Elbe to the Loire, gain strength,
and seek an outlet in the safety valve of
Nesuvius the fu event which decided the
fate of the burning cities may receive still
more significant commemoration.
Year: 1879

As family composed of three persons,
father mother and little son, bright little
fellOw, were taking trip on one of the rail
roaks, a little accident occurred which is
worth relating. The day was balmy one,
and the window was raised to admit fresh
air Little Fred, like all children, insisted
on putting his head out Of the open window
to see what was going on outside of the
train. The father, somewhat alarmed at
the conduct of his son, tried various plans
without resorting to force, to keep him with
in bounds, but without success, until a
bright idea came up to his mind. Fred,
Fred' said the f9ther, keep your head in or
the wind will take your hat and in order
to frighten this hopeful, he slyly slipped the
hat off the little ones head and concealed
it. As soon as this had been done, the
child began crying and could not be appeas.
ed. Finally pater familias told him to look
an opposite direction and he would whistle
the hat back again, all of which was yery
neatly done, and the happy parents settled
back in their seats and began to converse
very pleasantly, thinking that they had
cured their Freddie but not so, for in A
very short time he seemed to brighten I'M
suddenly, aud away he sent his little hat
through the car window, shouting as it dis.
appeared then, Papa, whistle again Moral!
Never deceive your children,
Year: 1879

An Albany doctor, who is winterng in
Colorado, was reported dead, and he is very
indignant over it, for he says; There are
three undertakers in town, and as soon as
they saw the notice they all waited upon
me, and were extremely indignant to find
me alive, One OF them was vey boisterous
in his indignation, and insisted that | was
tritlng with the finer and more sacred feel.
ings of his profession, and had particular.
ly outraged his feelings, he being the father
OF large family, and he absolutely declin-
ed to leave the house without an order to be
used upon future occasion. His terms
were half cash, | will say nothing of a
dlslraceiul fight between the supeyinteni-
en- of the two rival cemeteries on my ac-
count and of the flowers had to pay for
because they would not keep
Year: 1879

The other day an old and respected citizen
came into our Office, and after paying his last
years subscription, took seat and remark
ed


Il guess you needn't send me the paper
any longer | have just subscribed for a
Philadelphia paper which suits me pretty
well, and doesn't cost as much as the OJser.
ver.'


Here he handed us the paper for inspec-
ton. We found it to be neat looking
sheet handsomely printed with a large en-.
graved head, and containing forty eight col
umns of miscellaneous reading matter.


Fair looking paper, we remarked as we
handed it back TO him but did you ever
see anything in it concerning our county p


We'll, | don't know as ever have


Anything in regard to the State p


Nothing


And yet you give up paper that contains
the local market reports, the state of the
crops, the deaths and marriages, and the
thousand and one happenings from week to
week which 60 to make up the history of
the region in which you are most interested,
aud which you can get from no other source,
and take instead city paper, simply because
it comes little cheaper.


Yes, and it contains more reading mat.
ter he added.


Certainly we remarked, but what is the
character Of the matter? Nothing in regard
to your own village-your schools, your
churches, your local improvements and the
thousand and one thirgs that happen in your
county. There is nothing in it that helps to
build up your county aud support home in
stitutions. 1t is as foreign to you as the
city in which it is published. 1t may cou-
tain more reading matter but your neighbor-
hood is not represented in its columns


But why can't you furnish your paper
cheaper if they can afford much larger one
in the city at a low price 2? he queried. La
Dor is certainly cheaper here


For the reason that a country paper has
a small circulation compared with city pa
per, and the labor expended upon 900 pa
pers is about the same a. $4,000, especially
when it is taken into consideration that the
city weekly which is furnished for dollar
year is made up of the type set for the
daily


That's enough exclaimed the old gentle.
man, as he pulled out his wallet, Just send
me the Observer for another year


A. he bade US good morning. and passed
through the sanctum door, we head him
remark: It's my belief that a man who
stops or refuses to subscribe to his local pa
per simply because it doesn't contain rs
much reading matter as one made up from
daily and published in the city should be
supplied with medical almanacs at the pub
lie exnense - lInterLnn " W Ohaerrer
Year: 1879

Good, well-grown radishes, tender, juicy
and crisp are delicious in the spring and
summer. The kind we generally have are
long, tough, stringy and sharp enough to
the taste to make us wish that we never
touched the blamed mean, red, rooty-look
ing object dignifed with the name of radsh
A correspondent of Pick's Monthly writes
after having rather a horror of the ordinary
radish and becoming well acquainted with
true, well crowned radish at the World's
Fair at Paris: TO obtain early radishes,
make slight hot-bed SOW the seed in drills,
then thin out as soon as they appear above
ground, so that the plants will stand an inch
apart in the rows, and then give them plen-
ty of air and light. II kept too close they
will grow all tops. A little later make q
cold frame, using a light, sandy soil, and al
ways succeed if | can give the plants plenty
ofair and light. Sometimes, when the wea.
ther is darkened and stormy and it is moi
possible to give air, the plants become
drawn that is, having long slender top.
ana no DulOs OF any consequence. foi
open'air culture the same writer obtains the
best mold from the woods ,oDe load of which
is worth three of posed-manure for
growing radishes, which is used as a top
dressing to the depth of an inch or two, il
possible. The kinds grown are the white
and red turnip, and the long scarlet. he
also considers a white kind, the Long White
Naples, as the best late variety he has ever
tried. Everybody thinks it is easy to grow
radishes, and they grow them or think
they do; and it is pity that these growers
do not have to eat them. A piece of well.
tarred marlne, fresh from Detroit fishing.
boat, would be about as tender and agree
able. Let US have rest for while from
this kind of vegetable excruciatioD.--Nelc
York Mdependent.
Year: 1879

| Up to three evenings ago such thing a
a checker board was never known in Mr.
Grattan's house. He and his aged partne
have managed to pass the long evening
very pleasantly. and he supposed they wer,
happy enough until friend from the Eas
paid them flying visit and asserted ove
and over again that the game of checker,
was not only all the rage there but that il
served to quicken the perceptve faculties
enlarge the mind and render the brain more
active. After giving the subject due thought
Mr.. Grattan walked down town and pur
chased a checker board, and when evening
came he surprised his good wife by bring.
ing it from the wood.sbed, and saying


well, Martha, we II have game or two
before we go over to the social. expect
to beat you all to flinders, but you won
care?


'Ofcourse not, and if beat you why you
won't care, she replied.
They sat down, and he claimed the first
move. She at once objected, but when he
began to grow red in the face she yielded
and he led of. At the fourth move she took
a man, chuckling as she raked him in.


l don't see anything to grin at, he sneer.
ed as he moved man backward


Here you can't move that way - she
called out.


4 can't eh? Perhaps never played
checkers before you we're born


She saw a chance to jump two more men
and gave in the point, but as she moved he
cried out


Put them men right back there I've
concluded not to move move backward, even
if Hoyle does permit itH


She gave in again, but when he Jump
ed man her nose grew red and she cried
out {:
4 didn't mean to move there, I was think
ing of the social =
Can't help the social, Martha we must
go by Hoyle.'


In about two minutes she jumped two
men and went into the king row, shout
ing:


Grown him! crown him ! I've got a
king =


'One would think by your childish actions
that you never played game BEFORE, he
growed out.


Il know enough to beat you =


You do, eh? Some people are awful
smart.


And some folks aint she snapped as the
king captured another man.


What in thunder are you jumping that
way for?


A king can jump any way =
NO he call'


Yes he can =
Don't talk back to me, Martha Grattan
l was playing checkers when you were in
the cradle


| don't care can jump two men which
ever way you move


He looked down on the board, saw that
such was the case, and roared out:


You've moved twice to my once ?


4 haven't.


I'll take my oath you have 7 can't
play against such blackleg practcesr


Who's a blackleg? You not only cheat
ed but you tried to lie out of itn


Board and checkers fell between them.
He could get on his hat quicker than she
could find her bonnet, and that was the on
y reason why he got out ofthe house first. A
Woodward avenue grocer found him sitting
on a basket of cranberries at the door as he
was closing up for the night, and asked
him if he was not waiting for his wife to
ocme along.


well, not exactly; stopped here to feel
in my pocket for the key of the barn.
shall sleep on the hay tonight, and see if
it won't cure this cold in my head De
trOH Free Press.