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Year: 1879

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a National bank or two, but when so
much money was Withdrawn from the
channels Of circulation, the country
became a dead sea, instead of a run
ming stream, carrying fructifyins
power over the land. Ifbusiness had
been prosperous, this money would
not have been found seeking invest
ment at four per cent. In time of
peace, the spirit of avarice seeks op-
portunity to hold more of the public
debt, while people are hungry, owing
to the Withdrawal of capital from
trade, and unable TO obtain the labor
which they seek.
Year: 1879

Upon each of the tables ranging
along the walls in Hunts dining-room
there sits a sugar-bowl. 1t is placed
upon the end of the table remotest from
the wall, and when q waiter takes an
order he shoves the bowl across the
table to the other end. This signifies
that customer occupying seat at
that particular table has given his or
der, and by this simple plan the other
walters are kept informed as to who is
waited upon and who is not. One day
an honest farmer, who was innocent of
the tricks of city restaurants, entered
the place, took a seat, and, pulling the
sugar-bowl on his table back toward the
wall. proceeded to help himself to q
pinch. He was not noticed by any of
the busy walters who were hurrying
back and forth filling orders and clear
ing away dishes. The old fellow re-
manned in his seat for fifteen minutes,
patiently expecting some one to offer
to take his order; but, no one appear
ing to see him, he got mad at the ap-
parent neglect and tried to hail three
or four passing walters, who failed to
grasp the situation. After half dozen
Sights, as he thought, the honest farmer
stretched forth his mighty paw and
gathered a waiter by the nape of the
neck. Squarely imprisoning the startled
hash collector, the yeoman addressed
him thus. .-. .-... ..-..


"See hyar, young feller, you needn't
think cos don't put on style and wear
store clothes when / come to town, that
1 amt just as able to pay for what
chuck eat as any dressed-up galoot in
this country. Why, I'll buy yer burned
old shop and burn it down. Now l
want you to fetch me a great big four
cornered meal-the best in the place,
and lots of it, dye hear meP"


The young man, as soon as released,
started to fill the commission of the
muscular Granger, and the customer
took his seat once more, but this time
further away from the wall. Reaching
back he pulled the sugar-bowl to the
outer end of the table and dug out an
other handful to stay his hunger until
the big meal should arrive. The sugar.
bowl was now on the end of the table
which signified that the old farmer was
not waited upon, and in an instant
young fellow stepped up to him and
asked what he would have.


81 sent feller after my grub" re-
piled the man from the country.


The waiter pushed the sugar-bowl to
the rear and walked off. The farmer
again pulled the bowl out and went ex-
ploring it. Another waiter, spying the
bowl on the outer end of the table,
Year: 1879

In penguin rookeries the grass COW


ers wide tracts with dense growth,


like that of field of standing corn,


but denser and higher, the grass reach


ing high over ones head.


Most of the droves of penguins made


for one landing place, where the beach


surface was covered with a coating of


dirt from their feet, forming broad


track leading to lane in the tall grass


about a yard wide at the bottom. and


quite bare with smoothly beaten road


way; this was the entrance to the main


street of this art of the ''rookery."


Various lateral streets lead off on


each side from the main road. and are


often at their mouths as big as it; more
over, the road sometimes divides for a
little and joins again; hence it is the
easiest thing in the world to lose ones
way. 1t is impossible to con-
ceive the discomfort of making ones
way through a big rookery. haphazard,
or ''across country" as one may say.


You plunge into one of the lanes in the
tall grass, which at once shuts out the
surroundings from your view. You
tread on q Shiny, black, damp soil
composed of the birds dung. The
stencil is overpowering, the yelling of
the birds perfectly terrifying; I can call
it nothing else. You lose the path, or
perhaps are bent from the first in max
ing direct for some spot on the other
side of the roOkery. Now you
are, the instant you leave the road, on
the actual breeding-grounds. The
nests are placed so thickly that you can
not help treading on eggs and young
birds at almost every step. A parent
bird sits on each nest, with its sharp
beak erect and open ready to bite, yell
ing, savagely, .Caa, caa, urr, urr," its
red eye cleaning and its plumes at
and quivering with rage. No
sooner are your legs within reach than
they are furiously bitten, often by two
or three at once-that is if you have not
got on strong leather CATERS, as on the
first occasion of visiting rookery you
probably have not. At flrst you try to
avoid the nests, but soon find that i'm
then, maddened almost by the
pain, stencil and noise, you have re-
goes your stick, and at each blow down
goes bird. Thud, thud, you hear
from the men behind. as they kick the
birds off the nests, and SO you go on for
q bit, thump and smash, whack, thud,
"caa, caa, urr, urr," and the path be-
hind you is strewed with the dead, dy-
ing and bleeding. But you
make miserable slow progress, and,
worried to death, at last resort to the
expedient of stampeding as far as your
breath will carry you. You put down
your head and make q rush through
the grass treading on old and young
and rushing on before they
have time to bite,-MOselu.
Year: 1879

formers Progress says there are
women who make a business of going
from watering place to watering place,
at the close of the season, and buying
at less than half cost the cast off cloth
ing of the bellies Of society. This they
take TO the great cities and easily sell -
q good prohts
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON, May II.


Attention was called by Mr.. Cox,
of New York, to the petition pre-
sented by Mr.. McCord, of Iowa,
last Saturday and printed in yester-.
days Record, stating that a longer
continuance of the session is fraught
with danger to the peace, and with
disaster to the financial, commercial
an other interests of the country;
that the measures inaugurated by
Congress threaten revolution and
strike down all safeguards to free
and unintimidated elections, and
that this Improbable session
should be speedily terminated.
Mr.. Cox characterized the petit
ton as an insult to Congress, and
said that he had objected to it at the
time and therefore it should not
have been printed. A long discus
sion ensued, Mr.. Cox insisting that
the petition should be struck out OF
the Record, and Mr.. Conger taking
the ground that that would be i'm
proper, and that the only proper
remedy was an expunging of the
petition by action of the House,
and in order to have that action, he
insisted that the petition should be
read so that he could know what
he was voting on. The
Speaker (after quoting precedentS
in support of his position.
stated that the House had contro


over the journal, and that he would
submit the question to the House


He intimated that if he had his own
will about it he would let the petit


ton stay in the Record for wha
it is worth. If the objection to the
petition had been noted by the re
porter and inserted in the report
the petition could not have been
printed in the face of that objection


therefore correction of the Rocort


by inserting the objection woul'
= necessarily exclude the petition
Finally the question was submit
ted as to whether the Rec0T'
should be corrected by the inser
ton of the objection (the Speake
) stating that such correction woul
: necessarily exclude the petition
= and the correction was ordered
The Speaker therefore congratu
lated the minority on the result, a
it was d great protection to the mi


nority.


The introduction and reference
!, bills was then proceeded with.
Year: 1879

SUNSET Cox has come to The front
In a new role. A few days since he
introduced q resolution into the House
OF Representatives that the United
States shall insist on the abolition of
slavery in Cuba. This is the best joke
Sunset Cox ever did perpetrate. The
idea Of Democratic politician want
Ing slavery abolished! After doing all
he can to take away every vestige Of
restraint from the Rifle Clubs OF the
South, he then turns his attention to
the poor slaves OF Cuba. He thinks
that a shot gun is worth a half dozen
Constitutions, and hence would trans,
plant peculiarly American institu.
tion beneath the tropical sun of that
little island
Year: 1879

HENRY KIBBLE Superintendent Of
Public Schools in New York, has
written a letter to the Times, in which
he tries to reconcile his reputation for
intelligence with his belief in Spirit
uslism-a rather difficult task.
Year: 1879

This queen, in spite of the representa-
tions of so many historians, was wanton in
morals, heartless in the cruelty of her dispo-
sition, and ugly in person. In her sixty
first year she was thus described -" Her
face oblong, fair, but wrinkled her eyes
small, but black and pleasant her nose a
little hooked her lips narrow and her teeth
black she wore false hair and that red
her bosom uncovered yet was this prin-
cess vain to the last degree, and as accessi-
BILE to fattery as any ever heard of, as the
following instance may show When the
States of Holland sent a splendid embassy
to her, at the first audience one of the en-
bassador's suite said to an English gentle
mann that he did not know why they should
speak with such indifference of the queens
beauty that they did her great injury that
he thought her very charming, and should
be happy IN having SO fine woman for his
wife. The queen, who had her eyes fixed
upon the whole saite of foreigners, when
the audience was over, sent for the English
gent eman and commanded him, under pain
of displeasure, to tell her what the Dutch
man had said to him. The gentleman ex-


cused himself a long time, pretending the
conversation was nothing but trif1e; the
queen, however, was determined to know
what the discourse was, upon which he told
Her Majesty the whole of what had been
said. The conclusion of the matter was
that the ambassadors were presented each
with chain of gold of eight hundred
crowns each but the gallant Dutchman,


who had found the queen SO very handsome


had chain of sixteen hundred crowns val


ue, which, it is said, Meynheer wore to the
| day of his death.
Year: 1879

The thick, soft. translucent material call
ed Chinese rice-paper, is commonly supposed
to be made of rice, or some sort of fibre OBJ
tanned from the rice plant A recent writer
says that it is not so made, but is the pith
of Fatsia papyrifera, sliced thin. The
tree grows about twenty feet high. and it's
pith is an extensive article of commerce
in China. for it is used in the manufacture of
many articles, especially toys and artificial
flowers. The cylinders of pith exposed on
removing the bark and woody fibre are rare
ly an inch and half in diameter, and as
the substance is delicate and tender, rare
skill and practice are required to cut the
whole stick from the circumference to center
into one continuous sheet. A long, thin,
very sharp knife is used for this operation.
The largest sheets that can be obtained in
this way are about fifteen inches long by ten
wide. As soon as the sheets are cut they are
spread out, all little holes carefully mended,
and then they are pressed under heavy
weights until dry. The refuse scraps, etc. +,
go to make pillows the ordinary sheets are
dried brilliantly and sold to the flower max
ers, while the largest sheets are destined for
the foreign markets after being carefully
printed by skillful native artists. There is
no substance yet discovered thatso well rep
resents the delicate texture of the petals of
flowers as this paper of pith, and it is ex-
ported to some extent by artificial flower
manufacturers. The tree no doubt could be
grown here as our climate is much like that
of Scientific american.
Year: 1879

LOVE AND A, GINGHAM UMBRELLA-There
was comical scene at railway station in
Birmingham a short time ago. A young
English couple had been in the habit OF
meeting together on one of the platforms,
in order to exchange words of tender import.
They met, some young ladies and geutle-
men have a way of doing, without the
knowledge of parents or guardians, and an
,irrascible aunt of the dansel, hearing of the
elandestine courtship, went down to the sta
tion in a towering rage, determined to ferrit
out the whole matter and chastise the Of
tenders in manner that they would not
forget. The fond lovers came together as
usual and promenaded over the weii-known
and to them almost sacred ground But
just when the young man was apparently
breathing his tenderest sentiments into the
willing ear of the blushing maid, whack
came a gingham umbrella on the top of his
head, and the ardent swain had a narrow es-
cape from measuring his length upon the
pavement. The old lady, not content with
assaulting the lover, turned upon her niece
and served her in similar manner, the
gingham being fourished for several minutes,
to the intense amusement of a crowd of spec
tators.
Year: 1879

SAD END OF CLANDEsTINE WEDDING
A love story with tragic ending is reported
from Cincinnati. For over year young
law student there has been paying attention
to young woman, whose parents at last
looked upon him as an aspirant for her hand,
and were quite willing to give their consent.
The young persons, for some reason best
known to themselves, while taking drive
last April, decided to go to a justice of the
peace and get married. During the follow
ing months they kept their marriage so well
concealed that none of their friends suspect
ed it, but recently they agreed that conceal
ment was no longer necessary, and the hus-
band informed his wife that he would 60 to
the Justices Office for the marriage certifi-
cate and would then claim her from her
parents He left her in the best of spirits,
but the hour for his return passed, and he
did not come. At about midnight messen-
ger arrived with the announcement thst he
was dead. In driving under a railroad
bridge passing train of cars frightened his
horse, which ran away, and he was thrown
out and killed. Secret marriages almost
always have some unhappy ending, but few
of them terminate in SO sad fashion as this
one.
Year: 1879

And when from necessity, in time of war, debts
have been created, they have been paid off
on the return of peace as rapidly as possi-
BILE. With this view, and for this purpose, it
is recommended that the existing laws for the
accumulation of Sinking Fund sufficient to
extinguish the public debt within a limited
period be maintained.
Year: 1879

Some months ago Charles Norman
moved his family from the town Of
Flowery Branch to Elberton, more thar
100 miles distant. But in the hurry of
moving Mr.. Norman forgot to let his
dog, Watch, out of the kennel or dog,
house, and did not think of it until he
and all the family were in the cars
bound for Elberton. Little Willie Nor
man was very sorry, for he and Watch
we're particular friends, and, though the
Gazette doesn't say so, it is likely that
Willie cried over leaving Watch. One
week went by, and the Normans had
nearly forgotten Watch, when the dog
suddenly appeared while the family
were at dinner at EIberton. Watch en-
tered the room with an air of injured
innocence and was soon welcomed by
all hands. The strange thing about il
is how in the world Watch could have
found the family. He probably fol
lowed the trail to the depot and into
the same car, and then rode in the car
under the same seats that had been oc-
cupied by the family, until the train
stopped at Elberton.-Elberto71 (GG.
Gazette,
Year: 1879

partially improving the channel at the
mouth of the river, saved the country
$1,6OO,000 during the year ending
Sept. l, 1878, by areduction in freights
on cotton alone.


It must be borne in mind that the
channel through the ietties is only just
obtained. The changes that will take
place in the production and shipments
of cereals and cotton will come slowly,
but in a few years we will see one OF
the greatest revolutions of the century
in agriculture and commerce.
Year: 1879

The business of the Supreme Court is at
present largely in arrears. 1t can not be ex-
pected that more cases can be decided than are
now disposed of in its annual session, or that
by any assiduity the distinguished Magistrates
who compose the Court can accomplish more
than is now done. In the Courts of many Of
the Circuits, also, the business has increased
to such an extent that the delay of justice
will call the attention of Congress to an ap-
propriate remedy. 1t is believed that all is
done in each Circuit which can fairly be ex-
pected from its judicial force.


The remedy suggested by the Attorney
General is the appointment of additional Cir
cult Judges and the creation of an intermediate
Court of Errors and Appeals, which shall re-
lieve the Supreme Cour. of a part of its juris-
diction, while larger force is also obtained fol
the performance of Circuit duties. commend
this suggestion to the consideration of Con-
gress. It would involve, if ten additional
Circuit Judges are appointed, an expenditure
of not more than $50 900 year.


THE PosToFPIcE DEPARTMENT.


The report of the Postmaster-General bear
testimony to the general revival of business
Year: 1879

The SOD of rich man was placed in
a bankers office to learn the business.
His first task was to reckon up bill,
and he made a mistake of Is cents.
The head of the house called his atten
ton to the fact, whereupon the youth
indignantly produced his wallet, say
ing, Here are your 10 cents; you don't
eaton me staying in q concern where
they make such fuss about q mean
little sum like thatl" He then took his
hat and left.
Year: 1879

MEETING had gone in. Parson
lVl Holbrook was in his seat in the
high, ugly pulpit, with the sounding
board overheard; the singers, in the
singing seats in the gallery, had taken
their pitch from Uncle Jethuron's tun-
ing fork, and were fuguing " And on the
wings of mighty winds came flying all
abroad )" the first families of Pilgrim
Vale were seated in the square pews,
each furnished according to the taste or
the means of its owners and the little
boys, perched upon the high wooden
seats, with no foot-stools near enough
for their little dangling feet to reach,
had begun their two hours fidget-
when the door, just closed by black
Pompey, the sexton, opened slowly, and
Major Catheart walked up the broad
aisle in his usual dignified and deliber-
ate manner. Every head was turned to
gaze upon him, every face wore an ex-
preston of astonishment and disap-
proval; the singers, finishing their hymn
with hasty quavers of discontinue,
leaned over the front of the gallery and
gazed down upon him, and even Parson
Holbrook bent his powdered head side
wise to look sternly at the great square
pew where his wealthiest parishioner
was uncomfortably seating himself with
an attempt at unconscious dignity.


A moment of silence fell upon the
place = that awful, pregnant silence
which speaks as no words can-and then
Martin Merivale, the man whom Pill
grim Vale always sent to General Court
when he would go, and who led public
opinion as he willed in the town where
his honorable, steadfast life had thus far
passed, rose in his place, deliberately put
on his heavy cloak, took his hat in his
hand, cast one meaning glance across
the aisle into the questioning eyes of
Major Catheart, his old associate and
neighbor, and then walked slowly down
the aisle.


He had not reached the door before
DIR. Holcom rose to follow his example,
and then Squire Vale, and then the
Oldfelds, father and son, and finally
every man in the congregation who
counted himself a person of the least
consequence, or able to set an example,
until, when black Pompey at last
closed the door, and with a joyous grin
sat down beside 1t, the church, SO lately
filled with the .pith and sinew of the
stanch old cslony town, was empty,
save of women, children, and Major
Reginald Catheart, whose ashen-gray
face had never moved after the first from
its stern straightforward gaze, or his
dark eyes blanched, or his heavy eye-
brows unbent from the frown of defiant
endurance which with some men is the
only sign Of agony.


And agony 1t could not fail to be; for
this man, to-day SO openly and deliber-
ately thrust from their midst by his fell
Year: 1879

9Y An infidel passing through the
shadows that hang around the close of
life, and finding himself adrift amid the
surges of doubt and uncertainty with
out anchor or harbor in view, was urg-
ed by his friends to g hold on" He an
swered:


81 have no objections to holding on,
but will you tell me what to hold on
by 2"


Here is question which men do well
to consider before they reach the closing
scene. If they are to hold on what are
they to hold on byY Where is their
trust Where is their confidence p
What certainty have they in going
down into the shadowsY Surely man
who comes to his dying hour needs
something better than infidelity can give
him; he needs the guiding hand of
Him who is the resurrection and the
life, who has conquered death and tri-
umphed over the grave, and who is able
to bring us safely off at last. He needs
that hope which is "as an anchor to the
soul, both sure and steadfast, and which
entereth into that within the vail.'
Year: 1879

A bashful lover tried to WOO


A maiden fair and slender;
She triaed at the interview,


And scorned his accents tender.
Said he aside, "I will invent


A little necromancy;
I'll launch at her compliment
To try and catch her fancy"
Quoth she; with careless unconcern
"Your words they may be true,sir;
Iwish that could make return,
And say the same of you, sir"
20, you can do that very we'll,
And do it now-provided
That you make up your mind to tell
AS big lie as 1 did,"
Year: 1879

ITO THE CITIZENS OF FMINNEAPOLIs-TFrom
i the Tribune, Feb. 10th lin publishing the
following strong card it is our aim to ad
here strictly to the truth and the very fact that We
publish such strong card overour own signatures
ought to convince the most skeptical that We mean
just what we say, and that is this: We want every
man, woman and child in this city to know that DE-.
tire satisfaction the most wonderful blood medicine
that has ever been sold in this city, We are utterly
astonished at its results. We could fill column after
this most wonderful blood remedy, as hun
dreds and hundreds Of our citizens, from
the common laborer to the man Of wealth,
are enthusiastic in their endorsement of this valuable
remedy. We are selling daily more Of DR.. HalIday's
Blood Purifier than all of the other popular blood
remedies combined. For catsrrh, female weakness,
urinary diseases and general debility it has no equal
in the civilized world In fact it builds you right up
and makes life worth the living Don't fail to try it.
CROSSMAN & PLUMMER, City Hall Drug Store


67-sat-sun&w
Year: 1879

THERE WILL BE an interesting night
in Congress in few days over The repeal
of the Federal election laws. They
were made to help the Radical carpet
baggers carry the South and keep Grant
and the whskey ring in power. Now is
the time to repeal them. If tie Demo-
Gratis mean to fight the battle of economy
and reform for the people, let them now
spike the enemys guns if they can, by
the repeal OF these odious laws. 1t is
not worth while to tell us that we may
use the same weapons on the enemy
aIer we secure the Presidency. We
despse this Federal influence. 1t is sure
to lead to difficulty and bloodshed, or
make towards Of the people.
Year: 1879

The Philadelphia Record says num-
Der of members Of the Reformed Episco-
pal Church in that city propose to dis
continue the observance of Lent as a
season of fasting. They urge that the
indulgence in worldly pleasure before
and after Lent is incre. s. d BY way OF
compensation for enforced absten-
tion during the season of fasting, while
they also urge that uniform moder-
alton of life is the Church's great need
and that tn S may be better secured with
out Lerten observdnces than with them.