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Year: 1874

body deny that it is the agitation which
has done it-the agitation whether wise
or foolish, whether tasteful or ridiculous 7
There has been plenty Of inconsequence
and sophistry and absurdity. But if the
world is saved by preaching, and all
preaching must be wise to be successful,


what a lost world it would be! Certainly
it is not the folly which has done the
work it has been wrought by the pro-
found consciousness of that misery which


has driven the women in these last
months to pray in the streets, and which
no folly of the prayer could conceal. The
same consciousness, will carry on the work,
now under one form, now under another.
Each like the crusade" or prayer, will
still ask, q" What is the truth 2" But un.
der all the forms the work will continue
public opinion will be stronger /; and only
those who do not believe in human pro-
gress at all will doubt that the power OF
that opinion will be as beneficial in this
movement as it has been in 80 many 9TH
ers.--Harper's Monthly 5teur.l F
Year: 1874

WATER IN THE HousE.-A prominent
writer -" Let nobody be deferred
from bringing water into the house by any
fears of failure or perplexity. You might
just as well stop the circulation Of blood
in the body because it is subject to de-
rangement, as to refuse the circulation of
water in the house because now and then
pipe overfows and your frescoes are
ruined. Good workmen will prevent any
such accident, but if they cannot, give up
your frescoes; do not give up your life.
blood. When / see the farm.houses, the
dairies, the kitchen, whose only source Of
supply is the well in the yard or the hogs
head at the back door, how life would be
heightened and sweetened if all this heavy
and hard and slow water-bringing could
be supplantcd by turn Of screw, won-
der that we do net manage to introduce it,
somehow, into our marriage contracts.
What an increase of vital force would en-.
sue; what diminished demand for d.
vorce; what Strengthening and upbuild-
ing of the family bond, if the girl should
refuse to marry until there was an inex.
haustible supply of water, at least in the
kitchen A house without water-works
ought to be considered as incomplete as a
house without doors, and as incomplete in


the country as in the city"
Year: 1874

we nave auHocateu cntlfe aDStluence /,
We have urged men to let liquor alone /;
but We must add something to that there
must BIZ more knowledge in respect to
wholesome food. and in respect to the best
mode Of preparing it.


There is great deal of prejudice
against luxurious tables. The devil is
supposed TO reside and preside where lux
ury spreads its dainties fine food, del
icately served, is considered to belong to
the last stages of effeminacy; but there
are more devils in indigestlble food than in
all the luxuries on earth. The evils aris.
ing from eating improper food exist very
widely among our people. ..l..


Take for instance. the article of butter.
Where there is one pound of butter that
any Christian man ought to cat, there is
a ton that ought to be thrown overheard
into perdition. One Of the total deprav-
tiles in diet consists in the eating Of bad
butter.


When spring comes, redolent of pas
lures, we enjoy butter. In the summer
We 60 on eating butter, but it is not SO
good as it was in the spring. 10 the au-
tumn butter becomes more aud more de-
tcstible; but still we cat it, Nobody
seems to know enough to stop eating it
when it does not taste good; so we 60 on
damaging continually the conditions of
our health. But no man can be healthy
who does net have some regard for the
stomach. and avoid eating those things
which clog the liver and destroy the pur-
i.y of the blood. One of the greatest
causes of uuhealth is injudicious eating.
The great majority Of blue devils with
which men have to contend come from the
morbid appetites and denres which spring
from want of regulation in their tables.
One of the greatest blessings that could
be bestowed upon mon would be knowl-
edge Of how to cook food SO that it should
be healthful. u.s. a an taa


A woman may pray at home and
abroad, and read as many tracts as she
pleases: but diet Of apple-dumpliugs,
and upleavened short.cake. and thousand
other things which are supposed to be SIM
pie, and harmless, uncooked or badly
cooked, will be match for all her tracts
and prayers. Reform the table, and
give pure health. so that men shall feel
sweet and buovaut and sonefnl when they
wake up in the morning, and they will
scarcely be tempted to drink; but give
them heavy stomach after each meal,
and let them go gulping and flatulent, and
suffering from heartburn. and depressed.
not knowing what ails them, and you may
be sure that they will be tempted.more
from that cause than from any other.
There is great temptation to drink. in
wrong dietetic habits. Much Of the in
temperance in communities has its rise in
such habits. The oven as well as the
hE4.ar . -
shop needs to be looked after Henry
Ward Beecher. fsm ii. auo, ,lera.
Year: 1874

KLEPToMANIA IN A NER FORM.
"Wednesday afternoon a very
good-looking young lady called
into a dry goods store on Wood
ward avenue and made a purchase
of a silk dress and trimmings. the
whole amounting TO over $50. She
asked that the bill and parcel be
sent to a certain number on Co
lumbia street, at three o'clock, and
they were so sent. She met the
boy within half block of the house
and took the parcel, saying, Go
right in and mother will pay the
BILL He went right in and he
was not long in ascertaining that
mother didn't live there and didn't
know anything about the bill. He
rushed out and cantered up and
down the street, but neither the
young lady nor the silk dress have
been found yet. She was seen
walking up and down Columbia
street for half an hour previous to
the boys arrival, and the game she
played is considered pretty smart
for Detroit, which doesn't take
naturally to sin and iuiqulty like
Chicago.
Year: 1874

The tomb of the Bonaparte fami-
ly at Napoleon st. Leu will now
have a curious interest for travel
lers, and it is interesting to specu-
late as to whether Napoleon Ill.
will ever rest there. Should his
son ever succeed in reaching the
throne, there will be a formal
translation of the remains from
Chiselhurst TO France. Even should
the Bourbons triumph it is not like
ly that they would refuse to per
nit the body of the dead Emperor
to repose in the soil of France
Louis Philippe accorded this grace
to the mortal remains of Napoleon
l., and his example will probably
be followed IN the case of the
nephew of his uncle Even the re-
public could scarce refuse this boon,
which will probably be sought as
soon as France has a stable govern
ment.
Year: 1874

which is this: That you do not do
with other young men as you have
done with me. Oh, it is cruel, Jen-
ME, it is cruel Good-bye Remem-
ber ERNEST.


After all that pOmp, andpoetry, and
passion, a few last words and a cup Of
cold poison. And young Wiley was
the only support of his widowed
mother, who was away on a visit
East. He remembered her, too, IN
his great agony, but his sealed letter
to her was held sacred by the death
bed inquisition and left unopened.
Year: 1874

A negro philosopher discussing
the relations of the races said:-
you know de turkey, be roost on
de fence, and de goose he roost on
de ground. You pull de turkey off
de fence ana he will get up again.
You crap his wings, but somehow
or nudder he gwine TO get back on
de fence. Now you put de goose
on dc fence an he will fall off; he
don't belong dar. De turkey am de
white man. He's down now, but is
gwine to get up again. De nigger
is de goose. He better stay whar
he b'longs.'
Year: 1874

4 Cincinnati reporter says that
there is something grand 10 the
sight of pair of runaway horses,
but the Detroit Free Press believes
that a good deal depends on
whether a man is on fence or try
inc to climb over the end-board of
the wagon.
Year: 1874

A Hartford man keeps a spade close
by his kitchen door, and whenever a
tramp comes along aud begs for din
ner he is requested to earn ii by dig
ging four feet square in the garden,
but the tramp invariably refuses to
paw this price.
Year: 1874

Avon SMOKING CARs.-The
Troy Times tells this for fact:
A ludicrous scene was witnessed on
a Rensselaer, and Saratoga train the
other day. A newly-married
couple entered the car and took a
seat. The husband, wanting to
smoke, left his wife and went into
the smoking car. The bride tegan
to doze, and while she slept a
stranger entered the car, and as it
was crowded quietly took a seat
beside the young wife. Shortly
she began to nod, and doubtless i'm
agining that her husband was still
in the scat, gently reclined towards
the stranger, and soon her head
fondly nestled on his breast. At
this juncture the husband returned.
He stood in mute astOnishment in
the aisle until the lady awOke, and
realizing the situation drew back
in amazement, suifused with blush
es. Stranger explained, husband
was satisfied, and wife tried hard to
appear unconcerned.'
Year: 1874

ONE of the best ways to test q
spiders ability to get out of a scrape
is to take an ordinary wash-bowl
filled with water and take stick
and place it it the centre OF the
bowl, and reaching some little dis
tance above the water, and then put
the spider on top of the stick. We
will wager almost anything that the
insect gets himself away from his
isolated quarters in less then ten
minutes, and he won't wet his feet
in his transit. Try and see how he
does it.
Year: 1874

MORNING dresses Of white fine
barred nainsook muslin are among
the fresh and pretty availables for
summer wearing. Such costumes
are supplied with sets Of ribbon
bows to be worn as fancy may sug-
gest; the set, including bows for
the entire front of a dress, and rib
bon to be worn around the waist
and tied at the left side front, with
long ends hanging.
Year: 1874

A BIT OF WISDOM. "Let me tell
you," said Izaak Walton to his
scholar, 81 have a rich neighbor that
is always so busy that he has no
leisure to laugh the whole bust


ness of his life is to get money, and
more money, that he may still get
more and more money. He is still


drudging on, and says that Solomon
says, the diligent hand maketh
rich : and it is true indeed, but he
considers not that it is not in the
power Of riches to make a man hap.
py. 1t was wisely said by a man of
great observation, 'that there be as
many miseries beyond riches as on
this side of them : and yet God de-
liver us from pinching poverty, and
grant that, having a competency,
we may be content and thankful.
Let us not repine, or so much as
think the gifts Of God unequally
dealt, if we see another abound with
riches, when, as God knows, the
cares that are the keys that keep
those riches, hang often so heavily
at the rich mans girdle, that they
clog him with weary days and rest
less nights when others sleep quiet
ly. Let us, therefore, be thankful
for health and competence, and
above all, for quiet conscience"
Year: 1874

Is always supplied with an ample variety Of Well-cOoked food. No eXaggeration in this. Stage passengers and travellers by there understand It, and to them all un- acquainted with the fact are respectfully referred for information.
Year: 1874

"WE will have to sit close together to keep warm, as Pa scolds so about the coal bill," is what she said to him last night. And yet they say our girls are not consid- crate and economical.
Year: 1874

Frank Buckland, the English naturalist,
writes as follows: A lObSteris much more
particular fellow i'll his food. L have
been watching one in my large marine
aquarium at Receivers. If a portion OF
food be thrown down to him, he immedi-
ateIy sets his long horns at work to aScer-
tain the whereabouts of his dinner. If he
does not like it, he at once pushes it away
from him with the attitude Of an epicure
who bids the waiter take away plate OF
meat he does not fancy. If the food is
agreeable to him, he munches it up, mOv-
ing his Jaws in peculiar way, like weav-
er making blanket. He tears his food
into large pieces, leaving the actual pound
ing work 20 he done by the very peculiar
internal teeth, which are to be found in
the lining of the stomach, and which my
reader can easily examine, if he will take
the trouble. When the lobster goes out
for 9 constitutional" and is not in par
ticular hurry, he carries his great claws in
front of him, well away from the ground,
like the big flags we sometimes see head
ing street professions. He ''Wa-lS upon
the little legs which are underneath his
body while he keeps his horns moving in
front of his nose. like blind man tap
pine the flags with his stick as he plOds





the lobster is shOrt-Sghted. If the least
thing alarms him he scuttleS backward on
his hind legs, which move with the rapid
ity of the legs of a centipede. If he does
not 90 fast enough in this way, he sud
denly snaps his tail toward him like man
suddenly closing his hand, and flies back
ward with jerk like an India-rubber band
snappedin half. He always goes into his
cave tail foremost, and he takes the most
wonderfully good shots at the entrance.
1t has been said by friend of mine that
fly fisherman will never be perfect until
he has got an eye at the back of the head
so as to prevent his drop-fly from getting
hitched up in the tree behind him. | real
ly think the lobster must have an eye in
his tail somewhere. Our pet lobster is
not willing that the secrets of her toilet
should be exposed to vulgar gaze, so the
first night she was in the tank she artfully
collected cookie and oyster shells and
made a trench round herself after the
fashion of the Romans when they took
possession of a hilltop. y branch of sea-
weed forms canopy overhead. and there
she is at this minute, in a house OF her
own making, a regular compound house
hOldprn with no taxes to nav.
Year: 1874

A BROOKLYN woman has made a ma
chine by which mixed hair can he separa-
ted and turned so that the roots will all lie
one way. The machine also makes it easy
to smooth and arrange and cleanse the hair
that is found in hair stores. What Is to be
the result of this invention, it is not diff
cult to predict So much hair viii be
made available that all sorts Of hirsute ex-
travagance will follow. Head-dresses that
look ike church steeples will tower on all
hands, absorbing the floating tobacco
smoke. and making a sort of little bar
room for every woman TO take home with
her. Hair pulling, if there is such thing
among the fair sex, will lo;e halt its az
fractions. In case of fright on the street
there will be no turning of the hair 10
white or gray. There will at all times be
plenty of hair. In fact, hair will be
within the reach of everybody. The ma
chine will be welcomed. In fact, it ought
TO have been invented long ago. All that
she needs now TO insure her fortune IS a
contract with some tribe Of wild Indians
operating ON the frontier.
Year: 1874

these good, honest, cOnfiding people more
than to discover. as they do now every few
months, that the thieves and despoilers
! make use of the very organizations TO which
they themselves belong.


The part PLAYED by the President in the
appointment of Simmons seems TO have
excited as much hostility and display of
astonishment as that of Butler himself.
But we may observe that this is not the
first appointment of this kind he has made.
After sending Sickles to Spain, and reap
pointing Casey in New Orleans. and with
drawing the name of Benedict, and letting
Mr.. Curtis be driven out of the Civll-Serv-
ice Commission. there seems to be no par
ticular reason why Simmons should not be
put over the Boston merchants, the ''brOod
OfimpOrters" as Jayne calls them. Indeed,
the Presidents amusing offer TO nominate
some one else if the Massachusetts dele
CATION can agree on any other nominee, he
knowing very well they cannot, and if
they could the principles of civil-service
reform - demand imperatively that their
wishes should be no more regarded than
those of any other well-meaning citizens
this offer seems. here in New York, where
weunderstandt the system administration
at Washington pretty well, to be very
lldlilldl anu tbNiOuH way VI
things.


The attempt to organize an honest mans
party was made in earnest some three
years ago, and, had the plans of those who
had the matter really at heart been carried
out, we should now have either President
of undoubted character and intelligence,
and got rid of the Butterflies at one blow,
or, the attempt falling, the nucleus of
a reform party would have been left with
which to begin another campaign. There
were plenty of SimmOnses to be seen in
various offices of trust and profit, all over
the United States, even in 1872; and Grant
had the same sort of belief in reform that
he has now. If it was only necessary then
to have confidence in Grant, and a few
wel-known principles which were settled
and enacted into law some ten years since,
it is equally unnecessary now TO take any
active steps. If, on the contrary, it is
necessary to be very active now, and make
a stand in such cases as that of Simmons,
those people seem to be in the right who
have always maintained that the creation
of an active and earnest and persistent OPP
position is the crying need of the country.
Year: 1874

THE Saturday Rsriel7 thinks that the
old proverb, that obeying is the best school
for commanding. is merely a pleasant
platitude. People act rather from inn
pulse than principle, and therefore a man
Of strong will is apt TO be insubordinate in
youth and imperious when he IS grown
up. In spite of all sound reasoning, we
suspect that the best commanders have
often been unruly school boys. Whatever
may be the case In matters Of practice, this
is certainly true in matters of opinion.
The young man who most readily receives
the teachings of his masters is not des-
tined to originality in later life"
Year: 1874

Nomatter how great the esteem in which
ne is held by his townsmen. no matter
how many nor how exalted have been
the positions of honor and trust which he
has filled with credit, we cannot but dis
trust that man who keeps his tobacco
cut up into chews IN his pocket and jug
gles it INTO his mouth underline pretence Of
stroking his chin.-BTookiyg argus.
Year: 1874

The very name of such place as Oshkosh
is phonetically fatal to anything like romantic
association, and something of its possible effect
may, perhaps, be recognized 10 the character
istic termination of little story of sentiment
having certain of its latest scenes in the Wis
consin town thus denominated. Many years
ago two brothers named Durand, resident on
the Atlantic side of the continent fell in love
with the same lady. AS only one could win
her, the elder generously withdrew from the
suit and to conceal from the brother what
the sacrifice cost him, no less than to avoid the
torture of scenes associated with the magnani-
nous remuneration, betook himself to life in
the distant West. Time healed the self inflicted
wound sufficiently to allow the voluntary exile
to love again at last, and marry happily. He
prospered, too, in business, became wealthy
citizen of Oshkosh, and could ultimately visit
his brother and his sisterin-law in New York,
and be visited by them without bitterness of
"reminiscences. The brother dying, and the
widow remarrying to u Mr.. Howard, the Wis
consin merchant knew little thereafter of the
sweetheart of his YOUTH but as appears from
the following circumstances, he had never for
got how he had once loved her. When he
died not long ago, leaving son nineteen years
old, it was at first presumed that he had de-
parted lutestate, as no will could be found.
One day, still later, however, a workman, re.
pairing a wall of the Durand mansion in Osh-
kosh, found concealed paper, which upOr
examination, proved to be nothing less than
the duly signed and attested will of the lat
/ master of the house. By this document the
testator's whole fortune was equally divided
between his son and the ouly daughter of his
New York sweetheart, upon the condition thai
the young people should Immediately marry
each other


| And now comes the unromantic conclusion
Of an otherwise rather tender narrative. The
young gentleman of Oshkosh and the young
lady of New York declare positively that they
will not wed aud the will SO sentimentally
suggestive and dramatically discovered is t
come into the Wisconsin courts, uEder contes


by son who evidently inherits very little o


his dead fathers chivalry.
Year: 1874

PAY OF EnITORs.-In New York saws
James Parton, the editorial force of daily
paper, fully equipped, consists OF about fifty
individuals of whom at least twelve receive
compensation which approaches that of the
lower grades Of the other liberal professions
The press has advanced so far in this one city
of the western continent that a competent and
we'll trained journalist receives as large a com
pensation as q lawyer, doctor, or clergyman of
the fourth rank, and nearly enough to pay the
rent OF a small house in a second rate neigh
borhood. This is considerable advance from
the time when Horace Greeley let Mr.. Ray
mond leave the Tribune rather than add five
dollars to his weekly stipend of twenty The
editor-in-chief of New York daily paper of
the first rank receives from four to eight thou
sand dollars year, with the assistance OF a
short haud reporter and the use OF cab. His
leading assistants receive about half as much.
In London, as Mr.. James Grant informs us,
the established salary of the editor of morn
ing paper-always excepting the princey
7imes-is thousand guiueas year. There
is not likely to be for some time to come more
than one newspaper in any country that can
safely go much beyond this scale of compensa
ton. And, indeed, it is almost high enough
to admit of the gradual formation of corps
capable of holding its own against the dense
swarm of lies always struggling or ssheming
for admittance into the press In every ser
vice under the sun the rank and file must O
necessity work hard for little psy. It is only
necessary to have a few great prizes to stimu
late the whole body by rewarding the excel
lent few.
Year: 1874

The Troy Times says: Recently, at a
church fair on Ida Hill, large and frosted
cake was offered to the person who should
guess nearest to the correct weight, at ten
cents guess The pastor urged young law
yer to invest dime. The practitioner replied:
IL play you game of euchre to see who
gets the cake, but don't understand the other
game.
Year: 1874

The only man in Chicago who really appre-
ciate8 the power of the press is that member
OF the Scotch Presbyterian Church who, at a
meeting of the congregation last night, remark
ed that would as soon see my name in Il q
bottom less pit as in the public prints of Chica-
CO. What terribly wicked man must he be
who would rather have his tombstone in he'll
than his biography in Chicago paper.
Year: 1874

A Hartford man keeps a spade close by his
kitchen door, and whenever tramp comes
along and begs for dinner, he is requested to
earn it by digging four feet square in the gar
den, but the tramp invariably refuses to pay
this price.
Year: 1874

The observations of married man have led
to the conclusion that money put into mirrors
Is good investment, as it affords a marvellous
amount of comfort and qualification 10 a wo-
man. lie says his wife thinks just as much of
consulting ber glass when she ties on her
apron as when she ties on her bonnet, and
while he goes to the door at once when there
is a rap, she exclaims Mercy Joseph, who
is that? 2" and dashes for the looking glass.