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Year: 1878

After hundred years or so moro of crazy
money getting, perhaps the nation Will be
rich enough or wise enough to intermit the
ceascless struggle after wealth, and take time
to enjoy itself. Our standards have been so
faulty that we have not enough appreciated
the course of those whose philosophy of life
consists in getting all the pure enjoyment
possible ont of it, with ms little work as is
compatible with independence. We have
learned to wrest from life its uses, but not to
gather from life its beauty. We have done
many wonderful works but have not master
ed the art of taking things easy.


In the main work of life this is still imprac-
ticable. There are no air-brakes on the car
of American progress" and the train can't
be slowed up suddenly. But in many little
things improvement is possible. Why need
people rush from and crowd into railroad
trains as they do? Why should they not so
'organize their time" as never to need to
hurry when the dog star RACES? Trains do
not start ahead of tme-alow enough, and
take it easy. Why walk the streets as though
d p,destrianizing on wager, or as if five or ten
minutes time would bankrupt you? Seek
the shady side, and saunter. Leave the
weather to do all the heating, without setting
your blood to boiling. Why study the ther-
mometer, mop your brow and talk to every
body whom you meet about the internal not
weather. "Stewng' is at the bottom of half
the discomforts in life. Skip the weather re-
ports, ignore the thermometer, quit tanning
and fuming, and see now much more tolerable
the weather becomes.


The "thoughtful person, whom preachers
of a certain class are fond of referring to, long
ago learned that in hot weather it is hot pret-
ty much everywhere, and that not giving one +
mind TO it is a good part of hot-weather wis
dom And so naturally he refuses to recog-
nize the temporary state of the mercury as
the chief fact of existence-he avoids fretting
and shuns frctters-es eschews fans and is tenn
peratc in iced drinks-works as little and as
slowly as possible, and when he can't be easy,
acts on Patrick's advice to "be as aisy as ye
can" Thus is life made tolerable, when it
can't be entirely comfortable. Golden Rute.
Year: 1878

arose how to reach the top to make good con-
nection for hosting up the necessary tackle.
One of the riggers, after putting the old rope
to what he considered satisfactory tests, un-
dertook to climb it, carrying new one with
him. His companions stood from under, and
he commenced what afterwards proved to
have been a most perilous ascent. Reaching
the top in safety, he waved his hat and cut
the old rope down. The surprise of those on
the ground can be imagined when the old
rope on striking the ground fell into a thous-
and pieces. 1t was found to be completely
rotted through, and crumbled to small pieces
on being handled. The wonder is that it sus-
tained its own weight, much less that of the
venturesome rigger and his load of rope.
Year: 1878

NOVEL Uses OF THE TELErHoNE.- Various
are the surprises which blossom out of that
wonderful instrument, the telephone. In
France they have applied it for marine pur-
poses. The French war steamer Dossaix
had to row out from Toulon the old ship Ar
gonante. A conducting wire was rolled round
one of the towing cables with an end on
board each vessel. The electric current was
formed by the action of the sea on the copper
sheathing of the ships. telephone was in
troduced in the circuit on each, and commun-
ication established between them. During
the whole time of the navigation, convorsa-
ton could be carried on as easily between
the officers of the two vessels as if they had
been seated in the same cabin. The next
step was to apply the telephone to the work of
the diver. One of the glasses of the helmet is
replaced by a copper plate, in which is insert
ed telephone so that the man has only a
slight movement of the head to make in or
der to receive communications or report OBJ
servations. The advantages of such an ar
rangement are obvious. Frequently at sea
the necessity arises of examining the keel or
bottom of ship. The diver descends, and
is able to give an account of all he sees and
does and receive instructions without having
to be brought TO the surface to give eXplana-
tions as has hitherto been the case. BY the
use of the telephone n man at the bottom of
the sea can remain in constant verbal COM
munication with those at the surface. But
the most singular application of the telephone
comes from New South Wales where Mr..
Severn, an enthusiastic cXperinenter, claims
that he has made the deaf to hear with it,
After describing a very simple telephone
which he constructed out of tin pot, the
closed end of which lie opened and tied over
it piece of parchment, passing fine string
through the center and making the knot in
side, Mr.. Severn says Make a loop in the
string some three feet long, put this loop
over the forehead of the listener (the deaf
man, cause him to place the palms of his
hands fiat and hard against the ears, let the
loop pass over the hands, and now this lis
tener will hear the smallest whisper, let him
be deaf or not. This fact may appear extra
ordinary it is, nevertheless, true that deaf
man may thus be made to hear the voice,
| music etc"
Year: 1878

THE MURDER OF THE EARL OF LEITRlM.
DETAILS OF THE CRIME-GREAT HORROR MANI


TESTED IN ENGLAND.


LONDON Wednesday, April 3, 1873.
Further details of the assassination of the
Earl OF Letrm and his clerk driver have been tel
egraphed from Dublin The Earl OF Leitrm, it appears
left his residence Milford shortly before O'clock
yesterday morning accompanied by his clerk and drove
outside toward Derby, where he TO meet
his solicitor. He always carried 1t is supposed
that the assassns concealed themselves behind low
embankment between the road aud plantation, and that
having first shot the Earl OF Leitrm, they shot the
clerk and driver that there might be no witnesses
The driver shot In the mouth, the ball ranging up
ward, and the clerk behind the ear bOth probably at
close quarters The Earl's valet driving about q
mile behind. and on coming up found his master and
the clerk lying dead the road. The driver still
alive. The assassins meanwhile escaped in a boat
across Mulroy Bay. The valet drove back to Milford
and alarmed the police who, coming to the place, found
the driver unconscious lie died shortly afterward


There Is doubt that the murder was agrarian. The
relations between the Earl of Lerim and his tenants
were unfrcndy. lie was kind and literal to the poor,
but was very particular and cxactng In his dealings
with his tenatry, visiting with unsparing severity the
slightest nractiOn OF the rules OF the estate. The R
bon Society have strong hold upon the country, owing,
I'm great measure, to his harshness He had iron
will, which disrcgarded alike appeals or menaces and
possessed extraordinary courage and perseverance
IN the pursuit Of his purposes


The Times, in editorial the assassination, says
II is eXaggeraton to that the news Of the MUIR
der OF the Earl of Leitrin, which caused profound
sensation the House OF Commons, yesterday, when
confirmed by the Irish Secretary has struck this coun-
try with much pain aud amdZemeIt rs an unprO-
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, April 3.-The Wood Tariff
Bill has been made the special order in the House
for tomorrow after the morning hour The debate
will be opened by Mr.. Wood, who has prepared
careful speech. 1t is reported that be will be fol-
lowed by General Banks in opposition to the
bill The discussion Of this measure in Committee
of the Whole is likely TO cont inue long time and
while it is yet too early 10 make any confident pre-
of its final defeat.
Year: 1878

A SEVERE ATTACK OF VERTIGO AFTER SPEECH.


GENERAL PRESS DIsPATCHi


WASHINGTON, April s. Senator Booth, at the
conclusion of his speech on the sinking fund. the
Senate to-day was seized with an attack of vertigo,
accompanled with sick headache, which compelled
him TO retire to a sofa in the cloak ROOM and soon
afterwards 10 his apartments He has long been
subject to such attacks hut has now almost entirely
recovered from the effects of his illness
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, April 5.-There will be no publlc
reception given in honor of the President during his
visit to Chester on Saturday to witness the launch
of the steamship City of Para. The President has
indicated his desire to spend the time in seeing as
much as possible of the manufacturing industries OF
Chester and the working people there


A committee of the Union League OF Pennsyi-
vania called at the White House this morning ana
invited the President to attend reception 70 pe
given IN bis honor at the club house IN Philadei-
pha on the 24th of April. The invitation VIII PROB
ably be accepted and the President viii be accom- ~
the Cabinet and by the Republican members OF the
PENNSYLVANIA delegation.
Year: 1878

A general press dispatch says that although
Montgomery Blair expresses himself enthusiaS-
tically as to the practical effect OF MS resoiu-
tions recently passed by the Maryland Legislature
nrominent Democrats in Congress say they do not
belevo there are ten men in the House, and not a
single Democratic Senator, in favor OF the resolu-
tions further, that these resolutions have not been
even privately discussed by Democrats ana that
were it possible to pass bill TO regulate the mode
of procedure before the Supreme Court as
required, the President would, of course, veto
it. Judge Blair thinks it would require
only sixty days to oust Mr.. Hayes and place I1lden
An the Presidency and that such proceeding
,Sould create no more emotion in the country than
change lin any petty office He has industriOusy
begun work to securel friends TO his Presidential
mo
Year: 1878

With corn at fifty cents per bushel no.
body ought to be permitted to so to bed
hungry in this country, and yet a good
many inmates Of the House of Correction
prefer to do without their suppes rather
than eat mush and milk. 1t deserves to
be mentioned in this connection that a
bushel of corn, in point of nulrilive value,
it is equal to two bushels of potatoes and
costs only fourth as much.


Young ladies who desire to become
plump, rosy and strong, will find in In
dian meal the very material to bring
about such conditions. Mush and milk
is dish, wonderfully promotlve of health,
strength and roseate compilations.
Year: 1878

A valued correspondent sends us the
following ,..


My stable was infested with cock
reaches ahd 1 got rid of them in rather
novel way, and | will tell you how IL was
done: / opened the meal chest to get
meal for feeding my horse, and on rails
ing the Id saw that one end OF the
chest was almost compile ely covered
with reaches, and, having no way of kill
ing so many of them, at time, con-
sented myself by throwing shovel
fun of meal on them, which forced them
down from their roosting place and
covered them with meal. Next morning
| saw where they had made their way
out. But l have not seen as much as
one roach about the stable since the night
of the onslaught.
Year: 1878

The Paris Exhibition was final ly clos
ed yesterday afternoon. and the sum to-
tai of the receipts since the opening
makes the handsome figure of $3.50, ,749.
This is thirteen hundred thousand dollars
less than the receipts of our. Centennial
Exhibition, but it is four hundred thou
sand dollars more than the total receipts
OF the Exposition of 1867, which was one
of the most successful of the seven great
Worlds Fairs. The exact figures of the
receipts OF these seven Exhibitions are as
I..ll
Year: 1878

Every balky horse, unless it inherits the
habit, is living witness against some owner
or driver. The difficulty is not physical but
a moral one, and in most cases is acquired
by the animal being overloaded. A horse
generally has pretty definite idea of how
much it ought to draw. and if this amount is
exceeded, baking is the very natural result.
We once knew an uncommonly intelligent
pony which was employed in drawing bark
In cart up an inclined plane to a tannery.
The little brute would be patient and appar-
emily unconcrned while the load was going
into the cart until it had reached a certain
amount. Then, if the loading continued, it
would turn its head and watch with evident
interest and anxiety every piece that was
added to the load, until finally, without wait
ing for the word Of command, it would start
off at brisk pace, showing by the position
OF its ears, and in other ways, its irritation
and displeasure at what it seemed to consider
an attempted imposition.


1t is far more easy to prevent than to cure
the habit of baking when once acquired; no
harsh treatment will ever break it. Firmness
and kindness alone will avail anything.
Never apply whip to horse when it is
baking, nor after it starts. Success in train
ing and governing animals lies in ones abil-
ity to make them uncomfortable when diso-
bedient, and comfortable when they obey.
And yet how often do we see foolish drivers,
when horse has stopped and refused to
start for while, when it does start make
it uncomfortable by laying on the whip
while it is doing what they want it to do. 1t
is whipped when it stands, and whipped
when it goes. This foolish practice has grown
from the foolish idea that punishment must
be given for what has been done, and the
horse has no opportunity to learn that it is
better for it to obey, consequently it cannot
learn to obey.-Boston Transcript.
Year: 1878

That the seat of government shall be estab-
lished at the city of Baton Rouge or at the
city of New Orleans, as the majority of the
voters of the State may determine at the next
ensuing election; those voting to locate the
state capital at Baton Rouge shall indprse on
their tickets, " For State Capital, Baton Rouge
those voting to locate the capital at New Or
leans shall indorse on their tickets, For State
Capital, New Orleans


Strike out article one hundred and thirty
one1
Year: 1878

than this one-in places almost ankle-deep in boggy mud the heavy rain plotted out the hills, and the wind sent it in slaps against my face, and countermanded the use of an umbrel- la. Kenneth met me close to the burn, with the intelligence that the poor old woman had slept away peacefully; and we were talking together, looking at the torrent of water pour ing down. when we saw the bank underneath the little plank bridge beloNthe house suddon- ly give way The plank remained treacher- ously in it's place, supported by sod of earth only A few inches thick. ''This is terrible" said Kenneth. as he started off and ran up to- ward it. He was still on his way,G Git all passed in a very few minutes) when the door of the cottage opened, and his wife, girlsh-looking creature, with lint-white hair, ran down, and stepped on the plank, just as her husband reached it. He was too late to save her and with shrill scream 1 never shall forget, she fell with the plank, into the foaming stream

 I can give no clear or connected account of that dreadful night. l remember seeing Jean. with resolute face, wade in from below and reach her; and the memory still hauntsme of the two figures struggling in the water and Ken neth's face as he tried to breast the torrent and go to their assistance. l hurried for help, and help came. I saw Kenneth carrying one figure home, and others tended one lying on the bank, and in the still white, upturned face, l recog- nized Jean.

 Though I was shivering from head to foot, partly with excitement and partly with cold, did not leave till saw that her eyes uncloscd and knew that Jean lived

 paid the penalty of having been so long ex- posed to the damp, and was in bed for several weeks with rheumatic fever. When recover ed, heard that Jean was witha neighbor, and that she and Kenneth had been almost daily to ask for me.

 x

 Two Summers came and went, and once more 1 was in that lovely Highland place. The coi- tage at Burnside was deserted, and the primro- ses and foxgloves realized the poets idea

 ''Fu'l many flower Is born to blush unseen,

 And waste it's sweetness the desert air" But some miles away there is a comfortable farm house, where flowers also bloom and lin- en lies bleaching in the sun. It is essentially home of peace and kindness is spread round, and is made to reach many far beyond it's boundaries. Here Kenneth and his dark-cyed wife live, their happiness tempered by remem- brance and her welcome is as kind and her smile far sweeter and brighter, than it used to be in the days when Iknew heras 'only Jean" -BLGcIaD0Ods MG1dzine
Year: 1878

Clearly, cremation would never do. Sup pose man came home little late on lodge nights and while rummaging in the pantry knocked over shelf full of his relatives put up in glass? Or that he had dispute with his second wife, and injudiciously reminded her of the virtues and culinary ability of her predecessor ?-an insult to which, as a wo- man of spirit, she could only reply by hurling the little brown jug containing that sainted predecessors residuum at his head. It would sound odd to hear him say to the servant,

 Mria, get the broom and sweep up my poor first wife; put her in the cracked sugar bowl on the top shelf till bring home an Etruscan cinerary urn this evening.
Year: 1878

had gone to bed late, and, as usual, had left my window open, watching as long as I could most unusual sunset, when I was awakened by a noise that in my half dreamy state seemed as though the sea had burst it's bonds and was rushing over everything. never remember seeing such heavy rain. It came down in torrents, bending down the
Year: 1878

WHILE the row is going on over the national
banks not a single banker has taken the
trouble to make any special deicnse OF those
Institutions irretdHd Hrruld.


The national banks need no defense.
They have performed their mission well,
having proved a very help in time of need.
And now it is not SO much question of rc-
form that relates to these institutions as ol
expediency. The question is, is it better
for the Government TO issue all the paper
money, rs it does all the coin, instead OF
having the currency mixed between the
Government and the banks? This change
involves no feeling OF hostility, but desir'
for uniformity.
Year: 1878

THE silk-stockinged Democracy of Massa-
chusetts have begun to encamp in and
around and about Faneuil Hall preparatory
to the assembling of their convention to.
morrow. That brutal Old Republican,
who captured their hired hall at Worcester
has put them in the attitude of seccder,
from the regular convention, and they ar,
now afraid he will capture their bolting or
pnnization.
Year: 1878

IT Is said that, with his peculiar faculty
of looking two ways at once, General BUT
LER keeps one eye on the campaign in Mas
sachusctts while doing little stumping for
the Grcenback cause in the West, and that
in exchange for his labors there he expects
to secure an Endorsement from Senator DA-
vID DAVIS, who is to be brought forward as
n candidate for the Presidency by the Green
hackers. Senator DAVIS Presidential aspi-
rations are well known, and it is not at all
improbable that he may lend his aid to
General BUTLER in his present struggle
Whether BUTLER would be largely benefit
ed by such an Endorsement with the people
of Massachusetts remains to he seen.
Year: 1878

Henceforth we will give column daily
to correspondence upon any proper subject
for discussion. 1t is expected that c,mmu


nications will be written on, one Side only
of the paper, and accompanied with the
pame3of the writer. The HERALD~is not to
be considered as endorsing or being In any
way responsible for The opinion of CORES
ponden.s In this column. fl
Year: 1878

and vegetables, the making Of soups,
cakes and pastry, and sicL-room cook
ing. The girls were left to themselves
and had to draw upon their recollection
of the lessons they had received. When
the results of their labors we're placed
upon the table for inspection the work
proved, naturally enough, to be very
unequal in point of merit. Altogether,
however, it was worthy of ligh praise,
and whatever there was in The way of
failure was in very large degree attrib-
uted to the nervousness caused by hav-
ing to work in the presence Of public


gathering.
Year: 1878

Some men are always looking for
something pointed in newspap9, and
yet if their names are used to shirpen
the points they are too dull to see There
the fun comes in.-rDetroit Free rresS.
Year: 1878

She had with her her little girl, her on


ly daughter Fanny, who was afterwards


married to Louis Bonaparte, and became
Queen of Holland.


The trial and execution of Louis, the
war with England and the troubles and
disorders in France, the Queens execu-
ton, etc., are all matters of history with
which Mime. Tussaud was only too ter
ribly familiar. Many were executed
whose heads were cast by this lady.
Among the latter ones was tho cruel
Robespierre. whose mutilated head
was brought to her uncle's establish
ment.


A few months after the execution of
Robespierre, Nine. Tussaud had the
misfortune to lose her uncle, who to the
very last persisted that he way royal
ist at heart, but that it was only the very
polite conduct which he had pursued
that had saved their lives and property.
A medical examination proved that his
death had been occasioned by poison.


At the commencement of the Napo-
leonic times and the Consulate, Madame
Tussaud was sent for to the Tuileries
to take the likeness of Napoleon as First
Consul, and was desired to be there at
six O'Clock in the morning. According
ly she repaired to the place at the time
stated, and was at once ushered into
room where she found Bonaparte with
his wife and Mime. Grand -Maison, whose
was deputy and partisan of
She was treated with great
kindness by Josephine, who conversed
freely and with extreme affability with
her, and when she put the liquid plaster
Year: 1878

Arrangements have been perfected, machinery and timber purchased to sink shaft one thousand feet deep on the Silver King mine The shaft is to be perfect working shaft after the style of those on the great Coms;ock mines.
Year: 1878

National Associated Press to the Star.


New York, Oct. 3.-Edward OMeagher
Condor yesterday evening called upon
President Hayes for the purpose of person
ally thanking him for the warm interest he
had taken in his case.


The President received him very cordially
and congratulated him upon his release,
saying he was very sorry Mr.. Condons
father had not lived long enough to see his
happiness.


Mr. Condor said he did not consider the
action taken by the administration and by
Congress was in consequence of any indi-
vidual merits of his own, but because of the
principle involved.


The President assured him of his best
wishes for his success in his new start in
life and expressed the hope that his long
course of suffering had not permanently in
jured his constitution.


Condor will start tomorrow for Clncin-
natl, where the City Council is preparing a
reception for him.
Year: 1878

Com FRAUDs.-The largest coin at
tempted by the counterfeter is double.
eagle. AS this coin is 500, and as the count
erfeit only costs So, it pays a handsome
profit, the exterior is genuine, the coin be-
ing split and two thirgs the gold removed.
The space is filed with platinum, and the
sides are then joind. Frosh milling the
edges concludes the job, which is done
with such neatness ss to readily deceive
some of the best judges. The weight is
precisely the same % the genuine. and
the work upon the whole is a remarkable
specimen OF ingenuity. Eagles and half
eagles ara also frequently counterfeited,
and the later (of 1879 are so perfect IN
appearance that they are considered the
most dan gorous. Their real value is
abou: go per cent, and it is thought that
the profit of making them was SO light that
the issue was very limited.