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Year: 1878

No doubt man is a magnificent creature
when he fills the chair of state or glitters in
gold lace and cocks feathers as a representa-
tive OF military power, but it is a consolation
to know he is a very weak creature in some
respects. He likes to be petted and coddled
and fed tigTratively land literally too, some
times) on sugar plums. Notwithstanding
his grandeur and greatness, his talk about
intellectual superiority, ETC., he can not alto
gether do without feminine petting. He
bankers after womanly apron upon
which to lay his magnificent head, and to
have his hair combed and threaded by slen-
der white fingers. He wants a soft arm
placed around his neck a lip pressed to his
contracted brow, and a sweet voice to say,
Tell me what has happened, love-" when
he returns home, burdened with the cares of
the day. He wants somebody to fuss around
him little when he is sick: to hover about
the bed softly, as though she were stepping
on water lilies, and adjust the coverlet and
smooth the pillow and ask Are you doing
nicely now, dear, or shall bathe your head,
or would you like warm cup of teaY'


Oh, in spite of all the nonsense they talk
ABOUT the ''bothering women" how they do
like such as this! And they will have it too
II there Is no mother or sister to diffuse an
atmosphere of roses around their daily life,
they will look around for some one nearer
and dearer, to add the harmonizing treble to
the bass of their existence, and they will
get her-if they can.


Then, when the household divinity is
placed in its accustomed niche by the fire.
side, how her sweet ministrations are missed
when they are deprived of them for a brief
period How everything goes wrong in her
absence, and the cloud she would have chased
away darkens into a storm, and the news.
paper is out of place, the slippers not to be
found, the tea tasteless, the toast burnt and
the servants unbearable-all for want of the
gentle magnetism of a soft hand, of a sweet
voice or loving smile.
Year: 1878




1t is a curious fact that the only instances
of heroism given in the account OF the
wreck of the Metropolis were of the courage
of two boys. When the ship. bound for the
far. off BraZils, with its crew of 300 laborers,
was about 10 leave the docks at Philadelphia
little fellow Of eight ran along the wharf
crying


20, father father"


His father leaped on shore and caught him
in his arms. LET me take him. for Gods
sakel" he begged of the agent. HE shan't
be in the way"


"Impossiblen' was the reply. go
aboard


NO, Pl throw up the chance. can't
lave thin all behinti''


But Jimmy knew that this chance of work
at the other side of the world was all that
stood between "thim all' and starvation.


He wiped his eyes and tried to laugh. go
on pap; you'll soon be back. I'll be good
boy and take care of mother"


And as the great ship swung from her
moorlngs many wet eye turned on the
sturdy little fellow standing erect and tear
less, watching her go.


Another man, named Kellaher, was more
fortunate. and had secured permission to
take his son, a child of seven, with him. The
boys mother was dead, and his father had
reared him since he was a baby. The two
were quite alone in the world. Kellaher
was stVut, CuccIlul, lHuuolIlUuS lellOW, anu
the agent had relaxed the rules in order to
secure him. In the brief voyage of two
days both he and little Charley made many
friends


When the ship struck, and was going down
in the awful storm, Kellaher was helpless
not being able to swim. BE was looking for
something to which be and his boy could
cling, when one of the sailors brought spar
and began to tie the boy to it. Charley
pushed it away.


Papa has no board" he SAID. 81 don't
want to live without my papal" and ran to
him, elinging about his neck.


The next moment both were washed into
the sea. They were found afterwards In
each others arms dead on the beach,
and Jimmy's father near them, dead also
but alone. Jimmy yet lives to be, let US
hope, "a good boy, and TO take care of
mother" 1t is easier TO die heroic death
sometimes that to live heroic life.
Year: 1878

1t is an exquisite and beautiful thing in
our nature that when the heart is touched
and softened by some tranquil happiness
or affectionate feeling, the memory of the


dead comes over it most powerfully and ire
sistibly. 1t would seem almost as though
our better thoughts and sympathies were
charms, in virtue of which the soul is en-
abled to hold some vauge and mysterious
intercourse with the spirits of those whom
we. dearly. loved in lifel Alas, how often
and how long may those patient angels
hover above us, watching for the spell which
is so seldom uttered and so soon forgotten.
Year: 1878

There are many ways to color and
paint grasses. Coloring soon fades, is
brittle, and at the same time stiff and
ungraceful. AS the grasses are gath
cred. they should be placed in an old
pail or box of sand in a dark place, and
stick the stems-a few in a place-in
an upright position in the sand. In
this way they do not dry too fast, and
are more pliable and graceful. When
ready for painting, procure five cents
worth each of chrome green, Paris
green, Chinese or California vermili0n,
yellow ochre; mix equal parts of linseed
oil and turpentine, say one gill each, in
q wide-mouth basin; make little sieve
of two thicknesses of tarlatan sewed on
piece of wire bent in circular form,
little loose or bagging in the middle;
take one or two pieces of grass, lay the
parts to be painted on an old plate.
Brush gently with the oil and turpen-
tine, using a clean paint or varnish
brush. Do not get too much on, but
touch all. Then, with the little sieve.
sift on the desired color. Lay it on
paper while busting the color on, so as
to prevent waste. All know the nature
of Paris green, and that it must be used
with care. Have the sand ready again
to stick the painted grasses in until
dry. Don't let the different colors touch
until dry. Arrange with crystallized
grasses and grain"
Year: 1878

There are other ministers of love
more conspicuous than a good daugh-
ter, but none in which gentler, love-
lier spirit dwells, and none to which the
hearts warm acquitals more joyfully
respond. She is the steady light of hes
fathers house. Her idea is indissolu-
bly, connected with that of his happy
fireside. She is his morning sun and
evening star. The grace, vivacity and
tenderness of her sex have their place
In the mighty sway which she holds
over his spirit. The lessons of record
ed wisdom which he reads with her
eyes come to his mind with a new
charm, as blended with the beloved
melody Of her voice. He scarcely
knows WEAKNESS which her song does
not make him forget, or gloom which is
proof against the young brightness of
her smile. She is the pride and orna-
ment of his hospitality and the gentle
nurse of his sickness, and the constant
agent of those nameless, numberless
acts of kindness which one chiefly cares
to have rendered because they are un-
pretending but expressive proofs Of
of love.
Year: 1878




The origin of the stamp had a tinge
OF romance in il. II was thirty-seyen
years ago that Rowland Hill, while
crossing a district in the north of Eng
land, arrived at the door of an inn
where a postman had stopped to de-
liver letter. A young girl came out
to receive it; she turned it over and
over in her hand and asked the price
OF postage. This was large sum and
evidently the girl was poor, for the
postman demanded shilling. She
sighed sadly, and said the letter was
from her brother, but that she had no
money; and so sne returned the letter
to the postman. Touched with pity,
Mr.. Hill paid The postage and gave the
letter to the girl, who seemed very
much embarrassed. Scarcely had the
postman turned bis back when the
young innkeeper's daughter confessed
that 1t was trick between her and her
brother. Some signs on the envelope
told her all she wanted to know, but
the letter contained no writing. I'VE
are both poor" she added, ''that we in
vented this mode of correspondence
without paying for our letters.n Th>
traveller, contin uing his road. asked
himself if a system giving place to such
frauds was not vicious one. Before
sunset Rowland had planned to organ
ize the postal service on new ba-
sis-with what success Is known to the
world. - f ~
Year: 1878

The New York Tribune says that In
passing through train on the New
York Central Railroad to collect tick
cts, the conductor encountered, eastof
Utica, a colored man who had neither
ticket nor medium of exchange, and af-
ter a desultory discussion stopped the
cars and kicked him of the platform.
A few weeks afterward, the conductor
took chair i'm barber-shop in Alba
ny, under the ministration of colored
man. The barber covered his custom
er's face with lather, whipped out q
glittering razor and while ne was i'm
proving its edge by means Of a strop
that dangled from the wall, remarked
to the gentleman in the chair: ''Say,
boss, you doesn't know me, does you?
Does you remember the fellah you
damned from your train up at Tribes
Hill? Dat was bad thing for you to
do, sab, an / remembers it well.D
Right here the conductor Bounded from
his chair and danced around the room
with the lather dropping from his chin,
and his hair standing on end. he was
finally induced to resume his seat, on
the barber's pledging himself to do no
mischief, but he did not enjoy the
shave, and breathed more freely when
he was outside the shop.
Year: 1878

Reader. do you know the dulcet
strength, the animating blandness of
tea, sufficiently blended with real
cream2 No, most likely you are a town.
bred reader who thinks of cream as a
thinnish white fluid, delivered in PEN
ny-worths down area steps; you have q
vague idea Of a mich COW. as probably
a white plaster animal. but you know
nothing of the history OF genuine
cream; how it fell into Bettys pail,
how it was carried into temple of
moist cleanliness, where it quietly Sc
parated itself from the meaner ele-
ments of milk, and lay in mellow white
ness ready for the glass cream jug.


If am right in my conjecture, you
Ue unacquainted with the highest pos
sibilities of tea; and the one who is
holding the seasoned cup in his hand,
has an idea beyond you.
Year: 1878

When the daily occupation is monot-
onous and unengrossing. a full supply
CT excitement for the leisure hours
may be desirable: but where the men
tai powers have been taxed to their ut
most through the hours or labor, it is
absolutely necessary to health and hap
piness that they be entirely released
for at least aportion of the time that
is left. 1t is not enough that the usual
amount of time be spent ini the fsbso-
Lutte rest of sleep, if every waking hour
be filled to the brim with eager serious
occupation. 1t is not enough that GER
tain hours be secured, free from abso-
Lutte work, if they are still -permeated
with energetic thought. intense feeling
or exciting pleasures. The mind needs
rest from effort in its waking hours, q
time when it may rightly lay aside its
activity and enjoy being acted upon
by calm and gentle Influences. 7'H'i'
Year: 1878

Reputation and character arc two
things which must never be confound-
ed. The one is eternal the other is iu-
ternal. The one is determined by what
other people say of us; the other is our
inmost and real self. The one may vary
with the caprice of the people; the other
remains unaffected by the breath of ap-
plause or the mask of hypocrisy. Some
times a man, from certain circum-
stances may have very good reputa-
tion though his character is radically
bad; and there have been cases in
which the noblest men in point of
character have been, just because they
were acting out ttheir principles, in very
poor repute.
Year: 1878

Some of the prayers Of eccentric men
have been worth repeating. Adam
Scott had a boy Rob who was great ter
ror TO him. He prayed very earnestly for
him. and once in this wise: 20, Lord,
haze mercy on Rob. Ye ken yoursel
he is wild Gallant, and thinks nae
mair o. committing sin than a
dog does of licking dish; put thy
hook in his nose and thy bride in his
CAB, and gar him come back to thee
wi a jerk that he'll not forget the long
est day he has to live.n
Year: 1878

CUSTOM DEPARTMENT.


This portion Of our business is so well
known that passing notice will be suf>
flcient. We have built up large business
In this department by studious care to
give strictly what we promised, viz A
Arst class job for fair price. This has
been our custom and rule In EVERY case,
and whereby any oversight on our part. or
by the carelessness of our employees this
rule should have failed we hrve been and
are prompt to make it good. The cheap
trash 80 openly palmed off on cur unsus-
pecting public as custom work, will surely
work out the destruction of those who
make 1t q business and bring to the light
with more credit good workmanship and
fine stock. The public will tear in mind
that our reputation as fair dealers Is at
stake In any statement we make that fails
of fulfillmeRt. Our case is stated. The
styles we offer this season are the finest the
market afford. Our stock is comprised in
part of Cheviots, iE stripes and plain colors,
fancy Cassimeres, English and French
Worsteds, Pique Cloth, Granite face, also
black Thibets, Tricot longs, and Diagonal
crosses, Drap de Etre for summer wear, In
fact the most complete stock of custom
goods in this city. Our patrons of this de-
partment Gas we'll as in our Ready-made)
will receive the best attention, and with the
assistance of our present cutter, Mr.. J. 8.
Shinn, we know satisfaction will be given.
A sure fit guaranteed in every instance or
no sale. Remember none but honest work.
msnship and first class is done in this de-
partment. Bear these facts In mind. Call
and examine our stock and satisfy yourself
We advertise only what we can fulfill.


V. E. HOLMES, Proprietor.
Year: 1878

Postmaster General Key has received a
letter from one of the new postmasters
which reads: Il Made a Mistake Last
quarter. sint The Whole amount That
Made During the quarter. l Did Not
Keepe annsyhing for Ny solf SO ! Hope
That you sir Will Have No objections to
Ne Pay This Time and Next Time un Til
Take it awl."
Year: 1878

There comes a voice from Ohio praying
that there be no more quarrels over patron.
age at Washington, and that the President
and the Republican leaders of the two
houses, by wise concert of action, make it
possible for the Republicans Of Ohio to fight
their next campaign for honest money, as
they have done before, and to leave the
Democratic party alone on the side of
silver repudition. 1t may be a question
whether this can be done even by herculean
effort when half Of the Republican papers
of that State now either advocate silver or
do not oppose it; but Ohio fights the first
campaign of next Fall, and with Ohio cured
of the mania, the silver craze would have
seen its widest days.
Year: 1878

The Coal CoMBINATIoN.-Ad dispatch from
EaSton, Pa, Jan. %, says: There is an i'm
preston among railroad men here that the
coal combination will be of short duration.
The Central railroad of New Jersey and the
Lehigh and SuSquehanna road have not made
full stop, but continue to run four through
coal trains daily from the mines to tidewater.
Many persons have an idea that this is the first
step toward breaking the combination i'm this
section The Lehigh Valley road still adheres
to the compact and is transporting only few
cars daily 10 the general furnaces along their
line. Their cars are consigned as freight, and
it is not considered that their transp0rtatiOn
conflicts with the rule governing the combi-
nation. The retail dealers have taken advan-
tage OF the situation and advanced the price
OF coal fifty cents on the TOM
Year: 1878

PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 25-JOhn McD0nough
the actor, who was accidentally shot yeSter-
passed a very uneasy and painful night. al,
though his physicians say that the wound he
received in the breast is by no means fatal
After probing for the ball yesterday two or
the skin behind the left shoulder, wherefrOm
it was extracted this morning Mr. McDon-
ough still remains in his library, where the
accident occurred. fear of hemorrhage oDer
ating against his removal to his bed Chamber
Year: 1878

NEW CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY BUILDING
WANTED.-A meeting OF the iGint cOm.nistee
on library was held to-day to give Mr.. Spof
ford, the Congressional librarian, an oppor
tunlty to present his annual report. Mr.. Spot
lord urged upon the committee the pressing
necessity for the construction of a new library
longing TO the Congressional library. 1t is
said that Senators Howe and Ransom favor an
appropriation for the erection of a new build
ing. Senator EdmundS believes that an add-
ton of one hundred feet can be put upon the
present library. avoiding thereby the expense
OF erecting new building. The library com
mittee will meet in three four days tOtake into
consideration the whole subject of Il provision
for the library.
Year: 1878

ADVERSE REPORT.-The Senate committee
on commerce, at its meeting yesterday, agreed
10 report adversely on the nomination of
George Williamson to be collector of the port
OF New Orleans. Both of the Louisiana Sen
ators opposed WilliamSon's appointment, and
have done their best TO secure his defeat in
the Senate.
Year: 1878

An ACTOR ACCIDENTALLY SHOOTS HIM
sELF.-JOhn +. McDonough, the wellknOWn
actor, accidentally shot himself at his resi-
dence in Philadelphia yesterday morning
while removing a loaded revolver from case
in which he kept if. The ball entered the left
breast lust above the heart, but fortunately
did not touch any vital part Mr.. McDonOugh
ti0n was much improved last evening. His
physician stated that the bullet struck one of
Mr.. McD0nough's ribs and glanced around
the left side of the chest. The wound is an
outside one The only apprehension is from
the effects of Inflammation. If the bullet had
entered the body very slightly below where it
did death would have been instantaneous.
Year: 1878

THE MUSEUM under the charge OF the Smith
sonian Institution has lately been the recipi-
ent of the valuable steel exhibit of Sweden at
the Centennial exposition. This important
gift, now in Philadelphia, will shortly arrive
here TO swell the immense collection in the
ArmOry which awaits a new building for its
proper exhibit. In the chronological depart
ment of the museum the arrangement of an
interesting collection of Nicaraguan ceramics
is absorbing the attention of those in charge.
Year: 1878

THE REPORT that there is a new five dollar
counterfeit note on the Farmers Bank of Vir-
gina, H., is incorrect. The note is made
simply by change in the Old counterfeit on
the Traders Bank of Chicago, and is easily
detected. 1t is thought that there are but few
in existence.
Year: 1878

Hiram Breer, former citizen of this
place, but who removed over a year ago
to Flushing. Long Island, ded at his
residence III that city on Saturday last.
He was member of Hope Lodge T. o.
o. F.. of this city,who will take charge
the body upon its arrival here to- lay
The funeral will take place tomorrow
He was machnist by trade, and leaves
a wife and small family.
Year: 1878

you select good and healthy food for
your family you should also look to the
welfare of your baby. For all troubles
of early childhood, nothingis better than
pr Bulls baby syrup. % cents bot
Year: 1878

dyspepsia and prepares theijntestines ior
cholera morbus or kindred epidemics. Sys77
TENS which seemed heretofore proof
against everything are suddenly deranged
BY little fruit or even simple food, and


we can hardly account for the attack.


Men, women and children are surprised
in the midst Of apparent health with VIC"


lent pains, which frequently leave them


prroostrated for months, They blame the
apparent cause, while the actual cause has


been doing its work for some tine, and the


violent attack is but the eliminating pro-
test of debilitated digestion. We guzzle
ice water with our meals and thus send
fresh food upon chilled and inactive Or
gans. Wekeep pouring iu cold draughts
between meals not allowing what we have
eaten to digest but hold it in the stomach
to decay and destroy. Let families recog-
nize the truth and be wise. Drink as
little as possible in hot weather and let
what Ia drank be not iunnaturall = cold.
Prudence in this respect will do much to
assure the general health and all will feel
the better for their moderation We are
on The eve of the hottest and most debihta-
ting season and they will be wise who heed
the warning in time,-Baltimore Daily
Nowu ...-. r, An
Year: 1878

The New York elevated railway has
proved a great success, Notwithstanding the
opposition first manifested towards il. One
advantage the passengers on an elevated
railroad will have is that they will be out
Of the region of dust, and the company
will have the advantage of not being COM
PEELED to clean their tracks OF snow OF
keep the paving in oder .,ta1 olsu
Year: 1878

| The trouble 10, a large part Of the money
| ia not spent for legitimate school PURPOSES,
| bat to furnish training in Latin aud Greek,
| the calculus, and fancy accomplishments,
| to lot of young men aud women ho wish
an elegant education. Their desire for
eelfimprovement is doubtless laudable,


but ii ia plain enough that it ekould not


he gratified at the expense of the School
Fund, which is tax en- from the taxpayers,


and set apart for the elementary instruc-


ton of the children of the city. whole


primary class might be taught their A, b. Co


for what it costs to give a single youth in


the SO called College of the City of New


York q smattering of Greek and Latin. 1t


is of little or no Importance to the taxpay-
ers whether the young man in Lexington
avenue reads Virgil and Homer or not, or
even whether he can talk about the inte-
grail and differential calculus, quaternions,
and the fourth dimension with President
Barnard and Prof. Sylvester but it is
very important to the morals and order of
the city that the youDRsters who thropg
the Seventeenth and Nineteenth Wards
shall be taught their alphabet and kept out
Of the streets.


There are also favored girls schools in
the city which consume a great deal of
money in teaching fancy branches, while
the children in the ordinary grammar
schools gasp for breath and tread on each
others heels. They are pretty show
establishments, but the people do not pay
for snow. They wish their boys and girls
to learn to read and write and cipher, and
for that the schools were established.


Confine the expenditure of the School
Fund to it's proper and legitimate purposes,
and the Board of Education will be able to |
give every child in the city who seeks in
struction sufficient school room, and have |
money to spare.
Year: 1878

cation. He was the first cash subscriber


for the exploration of a route for the Pacific


Railroad, and was the first to urge the con-
struction of telegraph line over the
Sierras. At the close of his official term


he drew a check for the entire amount of
his salary as Mayor and divided it equally
between the Catholic and Protestant or
phan asylums. On his return to New
York he became at once known as a bold
and successful fnancier, and to day be is
one of the leading steamship proprietors of
the United States. During the war Com
modore Garrison fitted out at his own ex
pense the Butler Ship Island expedition.
and received the thanks of President Lin
coin and Secretary Seward for his patriotic
services. His business interests to day are
not at all confiued to New York he still
holds large properties in California, and
there are enterprises in various parts of
the country in which be owns heavy
interests.