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Year: 1879

There is nothing in India that is so
constant surprise as nature. Your
eyes are accustomed to your own flowers
and forms of forest and garden growths
the oak, the ash. the sycamore, the
modest daisy, the wholesome, virtuous
clover that blossoms over meadow and
valleys. You look In vain for the old
forms that were so pleasant to you in
childhood-that were always friends
when the world grew dark and sorrows
swept over your young aud trembling
life. The trees are new. You have
heard of them in poems.in ghost stories.
in Arabian tales, but IN India they are
around you. Here is the mango.
noble tree, that gives a pleasant fruit;
Indian residence-but which we shall
not see leaving Hindoostan before it
ripens. Every one has been telling US
of the comfort we shall find IN the
mango. and that, although we come
from the land OF fruits, we shall sur
render our peaches, pears and Newtown
pippins to the mango. All we have
| seen of it has been some candIed mango,
SO killed by the sugar that it might as
well have been pumpkin or melon rind,
|
| We have also had it as curry; but the
spices reduced it into such condition
that it might have passed for radish or
celery AS tree it is royal and green
and rich Here we see the tamarind,
under which you are forbidden to pitch
your tents becadse of its unwholesome
exhalations. Here is the pipel, and the
japanese acacia; the banana. with its
hospitable leaves; bamboos; the orange
and the lemon; cactus until you are
weary of cactus; a very world of ferns,
and the rose in endless profusion.
Animal life has freedom that is un-
usual to our rapacious eyes. accustomed,
as we are, to look upon everything that
God has made as something tor man to
kill. Here the religion of the natives,
which throws over all animal nature
protection, has its influence. AS you
stroll out over the walks of an Indian
forest, you see animal lie in all its
forms. The monkey Is more common
than squirrels at home, and over your
table, ;,s you gather about it, the birds
OF prey assemble and circle around and
around until your meal is done and il
comes their turn to take your place.
Year: 1879

OF course the Democratic leaders will take no
step backward, for they themselves have SAID 1t.
The new bills so their trainers and ndor5ers insist.
embody all the aggressive demands of the partisans
of State Rights and will embarrass, cripple, and hui
initiate the Executive quite as thoroughly and salts
factory the original riders would have DONE The
supremacy OF the late the Nation will be just
as emphatcally asserted, but it will be asserted IN
different language. so that the President will be
estOpped from inteFpOsing any objection III the
shape OF veto Now il is possible Ihat somebody will
be disappointed before this little plan is carried
out according to the advertisement. The vetoes of
Mr.. Hayes were not directed solely or mainly
against the manner in which the Federal authority
was weakened. Ills objections were deeper and
fundamental. He insisted that the National
authority should remain supreme in Ma
tionaI matters. If, then, when the DEM
ocratic plan comes TO be fully unfoded, it
should appear that the new move is only the old
one under different guise, il Will be liable to meet
another veto as prompt and determined as its pre-
decessOrs.


There is plainly but way for the
Congressional majority TO fulfil the promise
of their prOclamations, and that Is to
frame bills which will sweep away the Federal Flee


ton laws and at the same time do 1t so slyly that
the President will not find it out. This would be
dscOuragng task Tor less sangnlne statesmen tnan
the Democratic managers in Washington Recent
experience to prove that Mr. Hayes scrutinzes
with considerable caution documents which are
presented TO him for his signature, and it is prob
able that he will try to instruct himself pretty
thoroughly as to the scope aud intent of the new
bills before he subscrbes his name to them.
Under the circumstances the cheerful con-
fidence of the Democrats in their ability to
catch the President asleep and swindle everybody
else is altogether surprising, especially Since they
have taken pains to publish their intentions, and
have started out with an unusually loud brass band
at their head
Year: 1879

The bank has lost $110 100000 of its gold
reserve, not because its notes have been dis
trusted as yet, but because the policy OF France
has made the Bank of France the public sink
for the surplus silver of all nations, and that
metal has steadily poured in to the exclusion
of gold. In less degree the United States
Treasury has been in like manner overloaded
with the unavailable metal. 1t cannot force
silver upon creditors in the payment OF com
obligations without seriously impaiIing Its
credit. Nobody takes the metal of his own
accord Everybody pays it into the Treasury
in preference to gold or legal-tenders Ill order
to get rid of 1t. Thus, without any formal
depreciation IN nominal value of the coins,
but simply because they are incOnvenient and
people will not carry nor keep them, the
Treasury is steadily increasing its hoard OF use
less silver.


The proposal to consider the matter maturey
before taking another and more dangerous
step IN the same direction, is wise one. How
ever strongly a man may desire ultimate
restoration of the double standard, 1t is by no
means within the power of any man to say
confidently that the present attitude OF the
United States tends to that end. The ablest
advocates of Di-metalism believe that the chief
obstacle to a revolution in the policy of Great
Britain and Germany is the fact that this
country talks of opening its mints to the
unlimited coinage of silver.
Year: 1879

Senator Coke's resolution to discharge the
Finance Committee Of the Senate from con-
sideration of the Silver bill, III order that the
bill NAV be taken up at once, was postponed
in the Senate until to-day, on motion OF Mr..
Voorhees,. Apparently the advocates OF the 81
cent dollar were not ready for a vote. The
Senate has not yet fallen into the rough meth
DDS of the House, and there Is still maintained
some respect for the Committees OF the Sem
ate. The proposed resolution, as an act OF
discOurtesy to an important committee, may
meet with opposition from some members VINO
would favor the Silver bill itself. Political
reasons may exist, also, for such opposition III
some instances. The Democrats who are not
ouite prepared to abandon all hope OF sue
ceeding in either of the Eastern States, and who
know that the passage of the Warner
hill wonid be fatal to such hopes,
have whispered 10 their party associates from
the West that further action on the measure
Is undesirable. The records OF the House,
they say, can be quoted by Democrats at the
West TO prove that the Democratic party Is
fully committed 10 the unlimited coinage OF
cheap dollars. But, if the business goes no
further ut this session, the fact that Demo-
cratic Senate refused to act on the bill can be
quoted at the East with equal effect Those
Senators who want TO keep favor with both
sections and both sides, i'll this matter, VIII
be willing to see a direct vote prevented. by
the vote of Senator Ferry the committee
passed resolution to defer further consider
alton of the subject until next winter, ana
there are probably other Republicans who
Year: 1879

The hysterical Democracy were badly
fustered III the House yesterday. They
framed and submitted the new Army
Appropriation bill in the expectation
that the Republicans would oppose it.
When, therefore, Mr.. Ryan, OF Kansas, Re-
publican member, rose yesterday. aud moved
that the rules be suspended and the bill
passed, there was a yeritable panic among
the Democracy. 1t was evident that the Re-
publicans meant to vote for the bill, and if
they voted for it, it would be passed.
WHY tins should have stricken the Dem
ocratic hosts with CONSERVATION only
those who have made a psychological study
of that organization can say. But 1t did /;
there was a huddling together of disconnected
leaders, and a successful motion to adjourn
relieved them from the OveTpOwering danger
that their own bill would succeed. SO tar as
Yesterdays vote can be sad TO have any
direct significance, it is certainly vote Ill favor
of the use of the United States Army "as
"police force to keep the peace at the polls"
When the Democracy come to appreciate that
fact their pitiaby nervous condition is not
likely to be much altered for the better.
Year: 1879

1t is stated ON excellent authority that
good preacher once paused after reading the
Psalmist's declaratlOn-" said in my haste,
call men are liars n-and remarked that il the
Psalmist had lived in that parish he might
have said it at his leisure. If this worthy man
still lives, he should be sent to Louisiana as
missionary.
Year: 1879

Our staff correspondent at Leadvile gives,
in the. letter printed on another page, what
may be called an elementary survey of the
region, showing the relative situation of the
more famous mines, and something of the
geological formations in the silver hills. The
important conclusion is drawn that the Lead
Year: 1879

The Government survey of the Everglades
of Florida, in order to determine the validity
of the claim of that State TO the lands, re-
wives the question of the future availability
of these millions of acres of swamp land for
agricultural purposes. A letter, printed on
another page, states that this region can be
drained, and transformed into a vast sugar
plantation. No such change can be hoped for,
however, until the State is invigorated with
a new and more energetic population.
Year: 1879

The name of Robert COlyer has been so long
associated with the city of Chicago that it is
a little difficult to realize that this famous
preacher has been practically naturalized as
New-Yorker. But such is the fact Mr.. Coll
yer has promised to accept a call from the
Church of the Messiah, if it should be given,
and last night the call was formally made and
the salary was Professionally fixed. TO less
able man this termination of the ties and asso-
Citations of twenty years, and the beginning
anew in middle life, might prove a serious
ordeal. But If Mr. COllyer suffers at all by the
change, it will be only because his great repu-
tatiOn may cause greater expectations to be
raised than even a preacher of his eloquence
can satisfy. He is probably, however, one OF
the last men in the American pulpit of whom
such q fear need be entertained. The general
interest attached to this step on Mr. Collyers
part will attract much attention TO bis pleas
ant autobiographical talk reported on another
page, in which be describes, with much famil-
lar detail, his transformation from a Method
ist into a Unitarian, and from a believer in
gradual emancipation into a Garrison Abo-
litionist.
Year: 1879

A correspondent writes from Vera Cruz as follows The harbor may be us smooth as glass, as 1t very often is the guards asleep against the gate-posts l; everything burning up under the sun. In considerably less than 10 minutes everything is changed. A whiff of cool air strikes the soldiers and wakes them up. and they see the storm coming-a little black cloud, growing larger every minute. Almost before they have time to slam the Custom House gates the wind is blowing furiously, and the air is full of sand, most of which goes into peoples eyes. The harbor is soon full of big waves, and the ships are tossing around as if they were in mid-ocean. Every steamer gets up a full head of steam so that she can put to sea in case of her cables breaking, as they sometimes do. Small fishing vessels within sight of land do not dare try to get in, but put out into the Gulf.

 The water becomes almost as white os milk, from the stirring of the coral So l on the bottom, and in a few minutes th waves are breaking over the top of tht Custom House, 50 feet high, washing it's roof. Sometimes they come with such force that when they strike the solid wall of the Custom House, they shoot up into the air hundred feet or more and the Vera Cruzans, instead of getting into the strongest draught they can find and enjoying good breeze from our Northern country, like sensible people, wiring their hands in dismay and say, Y" What wretched weather" Cor Spanish words to that effect). The northers often last three or four days, and cool off the whole country, even up on the table-lands and all the way over to the Pacific coast. While they last, business in all Mexico is suspended only along the coast, where the natives seem to consider themselves in great danger of freezing to death, but in the noun tain-side cities and up on the high table ands
Year: 1879

John Hulsoff is a farmer who lives near Coleville, McKean county, Pa. When the Bradford oil excitement arose he sold portion of his farm for con- siderable sum, and since then has kept large amounts of money in his house, although he is living alone. Yesterday two men came to the house and asked for drink of water. He got up from the table where he was eating his dinner and went to the cupboard for glass. As soon as his back was turned the men garroted him and beat him about the head with club until he was insensible. He was then gagged and his hands and feet tied with clothes line. The rob- bers then began to search for the cid mans hidden cash. They could not find it, although they spent considerable time in the search. While they were thus engaged Halsoff regained consciousness. By working energetically he contrived to loosen his hands, although he fairly peeled the skin off from them in the effort. He then unfastened the other cords and went out of the house to the wood pile, where he got keen edged axe.

 With undaunted courage, although he was bleeding from his wounds and in great pain, Hulsof, who is over sixty five years of age, entered the room where the robbers were and attacked them. A desperate fight ensued in which the old man was victorious. He cut all the fin gers off the right hand of one man and chopped lump of flesh from the leg and arm of the other, aad hit him on the head with the back of the axe. The men then retreated in bad order, and Hulsof went to neighbours house and gave the alarm.

 That night the man who had lost his fingers went to doctor to have his hand dressed and was arrested. The other man has not been found. Both robbers were woodchoppers, whose desire for wealth had been aroused by the stories of Hulsoff's hoarded cash. It is feared that the plucky old man will not recover from his injuries.
Year: 1879

The following IS the translation of 8 prayer written by the late Prince, and found among the papers in his dosk:

 My God: I give to Thee my heart, but give to me faith. Without faith there is no strong prayer, and to pray is longing of my soul. I pray, not that Thou shouldest take away the obsta- cles on my path, but that Thou mayest permit me to overcome them. I pray. not that Thou shouldest disarm my ene- mics, but that Thou shouldest aid me to conquer myself. Hear, O God, my prayer. Preserve to my affection those who are dear to me. Grant them happy days. If Thou only givest on this earth certain sum of joy, take, O God, my share, and bestow it on the most worthy, and may the most worthy be my friends. If Thou seekest vengeance upon man. strike me. Misfortune is converted in- to happiness by the sweet thought that those whom we love are happy. Hap piness is poisoned by the bitter thought; while I rejoice, those whom I love a thousand times better than myself are suffering. For me, O God! no more happiness. Take it from my path. I can only find joy in forgetting the past. If forget those who are no more shall be forgotten in my turn; and how sad the thought which makes one say, ssTime effaces all!' The only satisfaction I seek, is that which lasts forever, that which is given by tranquil conscience. O, my God! show me ever where my duty lies, and give me strength to &C., complish it always. Arrived at the term of my life, I shall turn my looks fear lessly to the past. Remembrance will not be for me a long remorse. Then shall be happy. Grant, O God! that my heart may be penetrated with the conviction that those whom love and who are dead shall see all my actions. My life shall be worthy of their witness, and my innermost thought shall never make them blush.
Year: 1879

The Detroit Free Press has the fol- lowing hints on the game now so fascin- ating with the ladies. It says:

 Hundreds and thousands of young ladies in Detroit have set up target and drawn the bow, and dozens and scores of doctors have pulled down their signs and moved to Toledo since this healthier outdoor amusement was inaugurated. Here and there an archer or an archer ess obtained printed rules and instruc- tions to guide the game, but the great majority string up the bow, hang up the target, and whang away without in- telligence. The following rules will apply to all and every locality:

 Don't attempt to hold the bow in both hands when you shoot.

 If you shoot over the target, lower it. If you shoot under, have it elevated.

 When you miss the target and blow furrow along bays scalp, tally two one for the scalp and one for the boy.

 Either close both eyes or keep both open when you shoot. Some favor one method and some the other, but odds is the difference as long as your father employs glazier by the month. Don't attempt curve shot; tha arrow is as apt to come down on the baby's head as elsewhere.

 Some girls squint up one eye and hang out their tongue when they pull the bow. This is not absolutely necessary to line shot, though it does look TO- mantic.

 There is no particular distance to be observed, but the nearer the target you stand the more chance you have of hit ting some one across the street in the eye.

 A center shot is called 'duffer ; missing the the target is termed done hand ; hitting the horse barn is known as 'phoopee; missing the barn and shooting your aunt's spectacles off hel nose is called 'tom-tom ; shooting across young mans shoulder is known as 'snuffies ; sitting down and shooting backwards over your head is known as 'blufing the game,' and holding 8 spy. glass up to get line shot is called 'mashing the mark
Year: 1879

In the stomach and bowels may announce the

 existence either of dyspepsia in the first or an

 obstruction in the second, or the approach of

 some cholsraic complaint, or simple diarfhea.

 Collie, bitter or sour eructations, a pressing down of the bowels, feeling of oppression or fiuttel ing at the pit of the stomach, arc among these unpleasant symptoms. They and their cause are speedily remedied by Hostet- ter's Stomach Bitters. a single wineglassful often causing an immediate cessation of pain. When the difficulty continues, it is only neces- sary to pursue the use of this standard car and anti-dyspeptic medicine to obtain entire and permanent relief. Nothing in the or flavor of the Bitters is in the slightest degree objectionable. Medical men pronounce it emnently pure.
Year: 1879

A committee of the Keystone Council of Engineers of Philadelphia submitted report on the recent boiler explosion at Front and Brown streets which has some edifying streaks of good sense in it. This report starts out by exploding the mystery notion, with a statement that "there is no mystery attached to steam boiler explosions with the exec ption of one-ignorance," and then it goes on to suggest, in about the same terms used by us few days ago in discussing the disaster that "the engineer may be ig- norant, the boiler may not be constructed properly, or it may be run at pressure in excess of safe working pressure" This about covers the whole ground, and it leaves little room for the development of theories about electricity, gaseous conditions or odic force, and brings the whole thing down to the one pertinent and understandable fact that boiler bursts because there is too much steam pressure, which pressure may be due to an innocent misunderstanding on the part of the engineer in charge as to the amount of steam which he may safely carry, or it may be due to his criminal negligence or recklessness. Let US SUD- pose case, and the case which we SUD- pose is a very probable one. An en- gineer has charge of boiler which runs the machinery of mill or other large manufacturing establishment. As we said the other day, and as the commit tee of engineers who made their report say substantially in that report, there are few things easier than the manage ment of steam boiler. Our suppositi- ous engineer, simply because he has an easy job on hand, after time forgets how dangerous an element he is super vising, and grows careless. Some day about dinner time he has some little personal business to attend to-maybe it is to get glass of beer at the shop around the corner. He stays rather longer than he originally intended, and on hurrying back for the purpose of getting his machinery in motion for the afternoons work he finds that his water is below his gauges. Then, he has two alternatives before him-to draw his fires, and by putting stop to further proceedings in the mill, cause great deal of inconvenience as we'll as pecuni- ary loss, as we'll as to make an exposi tion of his own carelessness or, to put on his pumps and take the risk. The chances are that he will take the risk rather than expose himself and run the chances of losing his situation. If the water is only just below the gauges, he probably succeeds in getting things in condition again without trouble, ani thus not only saves himself from ex posture and loss of situation, but receive, encouragement to try the same experi ment again. If the water, however

 happens to be below the Rues, h. promptly blows himself and his mill tt kingdom come, and provides abundan material for speculat ion about the mys tery of boiler explosions.-Philadezph5e

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