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Year: 1878

STAMMERING. - Advising about the
treatment of little girl who stammers,
the New York Tribune says:


Teach her to speak slowly, deliberate
ly and very distinctly, and take as little
notice as possible of her stammering.
We know little girl of nine years who
has been so carefully trained to read with
distinctness and precision, that though
she stammers sometimes in conversation,
she rarely hesitates in reading. This lit
tie girl sfather stammered badly in his
boyhood, but cured himself by persistent
elocutiOnary exercise, and in manhood
was fluent public speaker, with no trace
Of the indrmity. Habitually speaking
from full lungs is said to be a permanent
cure of stammering in grown people.
Year: 1878

HARD TO DIGEsT.-At u certain board
ing house in this city is young man
whose occupation is the "art preserva-
tive and whose labors occupy him dur
ing those hours when the majority of
mankind is asleep. Of course he gets
hungry and is accustomed to get a lunch
when he starts out for his nightly toll
This lunch is done up in paper and
placed on a table in the hall of the board
ing house, from which the young man
takes it when he goes out. One evening
this week, as he went out, he saw two
bundles lying upon the table and un-
thinkingly took the one nearest and car
ried it away. About midnight that un-
failing monitor, an empty stomach,
warned him that lunch time had arrived,
and with high hopes and keen appetite
he took out his bundle and opened it, but
was struck all aback to find instead of
his coveted food small package ofneatly
folded handkerchiefs, which had been
placed upon the table by the laundryman
for one Of the other boarders Language
fails to do justice to the denouement, and
we draw the curtain.
Year: 1878

TIE great secrets Of making good but
ter are cleanliness and attention. Let
cleanliness be applied first to the COW
barn see that it is kept clean, so that no
foul odors shall be absorbed by the new
milk that the animals be kept healthy,
so as to yield pure, wholesome milk; see
to the udder that no scabs or filth be
rubbed off into the pail while milking;
to the hands, that they shall not defle the
milk; to the spring-house or milk room,
that the cream may be kept pure; to the
milk-pail, pans, skinner, cream. pot and
churn, so that no cheesy taint or foul
Odors be communicated to the cream, and
finally, apply scrupulous cleanliness to
the butterwOrker and market tubs.
Year: 1878

up, and the closer you press the
girl, the higher estimate she will
place on your good taste, common
sense and experience.


kissing married ladies is a sepa-
rate branch of the art, and requires
constant practice. Where tender
ness and a little hesitation and
bashfulness, if well put on, will go
long way with a young girl, such
nonsense is not swallowed by a
married woman to any considerable
extent. Be warm, vigorous, and
hearty, and above all things be fire.
quent. One of the prime requisites
on such an occasion is quick ear
for the footstep in the hall, and a
nice calculation as to how long the
husband will take to reach the head
of the stairs. A house carpeted
with brussels requires eternal vigi-
lance, and some times rare presence
of mind. BY the time the worser
half of the family gets his hand on
the door-knob you must be seated
in far corner of the room intently
perusing the stock quotations. A
kiss can sometimes be snatched
when the husband is in the room,
but this requires an expert, and is
risky. Only the other day a mar
ried lady asked her husband to
wind up the clock, and a young
man in the room thought he saw a
golden opportunity, and went for
1t. If that clock hadn't had a mir
ror just below the face that young
man would have been all right, but
now he's going about with a black
eye and nose badly out Of joint.
This is one of the vicisitudes Of
kissing from mere impulse.
Year: 1878

years before extensive forest fires
have destroyed the original trees
and much down timberis the result.
Here they finish up the summer
tearing rotten logs to pieces for the
ants and grubS they can find, until
berries begin to ripen.


"The cry Of the bear varies ac-
cording to the circumstances which
occasion it. If in a trap, the adult
will make a grunt, squeal or coarse
noise, very loud and long; if call
ing their cubs from some distant
point where they have left them,
the sound is like the voice of wo-
man calling loudly, and if they are
merely giving notice to each other
while feeding or in company and
not far apart, they whistle quite
sharp and loud, and if suddenly
startled by man or beast, they usu-
ally make a loud snort, which is
like three or four coarse whistles
together"
Year: 1878

AuAShd htpubiAVdHsl


An individual having proclaimed him.
self blooded gambler in Main street
saloon this mernipg, he called upon
himself the following, to show that be
lied.


Charles Pryor-You get up too early
in the morning for good gambler;
these hard times you ought to sleep all
day aud save board, and stay up all
night and save lodgings.


Purdy-Your belt is not broad enough,
nor has not enough holes in it to pinch
up tight to keep your bowels from squeal.
ing.


Dick Guiberson-Your teeth are too
good, and you mastcate your food too
mach, and do not allow it to stay long
enodgb on your stomach for one Of the
bloods


Gus Hintz Your legs are not hollow,
and consequently cannot stow away any
reserves wuen you get half,


Nat Furst-You do not know how to
treat workingman with due respect.


Maxey-Your girl is too far away.


The individual--Geutlsmen, | believe
l will 90 down to the Consolidated and
ask for a job.
Year: 1878

Many years ago the Rev. Mr.. n.
held a small living in the widest
part Of West Somerset. The parish
church stood on bleak hillside,
and Mr.. NJ, who was bachelor,
lodged in the farmhouse close to it.
Among his flock there was no one
in whom the clergyman took more
interest than in Mary, the pretty
daughter Of the farmer, his land
lord. When Mary was about twen-
ty, Mr.. N. was much troubled by
finding she had formed an attach
ment with Jack Townsend, the
cleverest workman and the most
worthless fellow on the farm.


One autumn night the clergyman
dreamt that Mary stood at his bed
side and cried out in an imploring
voice, "Come out on to the hill
side" The impression left on his
mind on waking was so distinct
that, if he had not known his door
was locked, so that no one could
enter the room, he would have
thought Mary must have in reality
been there. Feeling, however, sure
that it was only dream he com
posed himself once more to sleep,
Gut scarcely had he closed his eyes
when Mary was again there, calling
to him to come out on the hillside.
Seven several times he tried to sleep,
and seven times the phantom came
back, always with the same cry. At
length, mastered by an almost ire.
sistible impulse, he rose, dressed
himself, and wentouton the hill. He
walked some distance, but could
see nothing except the heather
bells waving in the moonlight !;
could hear nothing but u distant
sheep-bell tinkling softly, and the
stream warbling below the valley.


He was just going back, when
suddenly a small cry reached him,
seeming to come from a neighbor-
ing combe. Hurrylug in that d.
rection, he saw at the bottom of
the combe two figures, those of
man and a woman, apparently
struggling with each other. AS he
drew near, the man ran away and
the woman fell to the ground.
When he came up he found it was
Mary. She had only tainted, ana
he soon brought her to herself.
Then by degrees she confessed to
him that her lover had persuaded
her to meet him that night in the
combe, bringing with her a small
sum of money which she had saved
from early childhood by laying by
little gifts of friends and rela-
tions, and which according to
custom common among her class
in that day, she had kept in an old
stocking instead of in the bank.
Townsend had promised to elope
with her, and marry her, and as
she loved him, and her father would
not allow the match, she had con-
sented to go. But when he met
her, Townsend, instead of going
away with her, had tried to rob her
of her money. She had resisted,
and struggled with him, and just
then the clergyman had come up
and the villain had run away. Af-
ter that night Mr., N. was a be-
lever in the providential nature of
dreams.
Year: 1878

A letter dated Bethel, Me-, March
II, printed in Forest and Stream,
gives the writer's personal observa.
tons of the habits of the black
bear as follows;


"These hot days remind old
hunters that the bears are about
awakening out of their long win
ter sleep. They go into den at diff
ferent times in different years, ac-
cording to the abundance or scar
city Of berries. In years of plenty
they prowl about until the last Of
December, and even the first OF
January; at other times they have
been known to den up in Novem-
Der. Sometimes they make their
quarters in nice, snug room in a
ledge; at others, in hollow logs, in
hollow standing trees, under the
bottom of trees partly turned up by
the roots, and even under large
brush heaps, after the snow gets
deep. They often come out in mid
winter, in a heavy thaw, and take a
round turn of a mile or more and
return to their old quarters again,
thus showing that it is the warm
weather which brings them out and
not because they get their nap out.
| have often seen where the bear
has camped on the snow crust by
breaking boughs of evergreen or
tearing dry rotten logs to pieces for
nice, warm bed. They sometimes
leave their winter quarters early in
March, and make some other place
a temporary abode until spring
opens. l have known them to Law
themselves away for six months at
time in cave in a ledge in the
deep recesses of the forest, in utter
solitude, where the dampness of the
rocks only addedto the dismal sur
roundings. They are supposed by
many to suck their paws during
their long isolation, but they do
not neither do they require any
nourishment, for the exhaustion Of
the system is so little that they
usually come out in the spring in
as good condition as they enter
their dens in the fall-generally fat.


Before going into the den they
eat but very little for some time,
and so prepare themselves by de-
grees for their long fasting; and,
when they come out in the spring,
they are very dainty for long time.
They first eat spears of green grass,
then frogs and fish as soon as the
little brooklets open.


"After the snow is gone and the
fish work up the little streams in
the woods and herbage begins to
spring up, the bears begin to follow
the shore Of ponds and streams in
search of food and ether bears. At
this season they rub their feet deep
in the ground and make deep step
pings, and all other bears that hap
pen along in these paths will step
in the same foot marks. So hun
ters set their traps in one of these
deep tracks and cover it so they all
look alike, and they are sure of the
first bear that comes along. AT
this time, which is about the first
Of June in Northern Maine, the
bears will stretch up against a fir
tree and bite large strips of bark
and wood from the tree. Some
people suppose this is to obtain bal
sam to heal their toes which they
have suckedall winter, and so made
tender. suppose it is done be-
cause they feel savage and want to
try their teeth. Others suppose it
is done to let other bears know that
they have been there. The next
move they make, after a week or
two of this tramping, is to traverse
eaoond r,rotvth land or uhara a Tav
Year: 1878

We find the following worldly
and trappy article in the Portland
Sunday Times, a paper which is
deemed the best authority in the
State on the subject discussed:


Never kiss a young girl if she
don't want you to. The main in
gredient that makes kissing endur-
able is a willingness on the part of
the female. If it deepens into
anxiety so much the better. When
a girl claws mans hair and
scratches his face drop her at once.
She is destitute of good taste and
natural affection, and the sooner
you make love to her sister the bet
ter. AS long as a girl don't claw,
and yell, and struggle like a pan.
ther it is perfectly safe to continue
prospecting, Get o little behind
her, pass the right arm around the
waist in front, take her hand, and
if you don't know what to do next,
go associate with the boys in the
First ward. If you are beginning
to teach a shy young girl who has,
heretofore, only been kissed by
her brothers and father, touch your
lips gently to ber forehead. She
will take this for an exhibition of
profound respect. When that posi-
tion has been gained, working the
way down to the lips is as natural
and easy as the course Of a dog
sliding down wood-hume. Never
sit down to kiss; it looks awkward
in case anybody islooking, and
seems awkward, anyhow. Stand
Year: 1878

NHE Executive Board of the Executive
i Committee Of the Democratic and Conser-
vative party OF Shelby county, hereby call
convention. to meet in the city of Memphis.
at the Exposition Building, on
Year: 1878

Editor Of the TRlBUNE.-I am in
formed that Alderman T. Scott An
sley has not for some time past, and
from the nature of his private busi-
ness, cannot in future, give any at
tention to the duties of his office.
This being true, it seems to me to
be in order for Mr.. A. to resign, or
for the Office to be declared vacant,
that tho people may choose at the
approaching election, some one who
can give more time to the interests
of tho city. TAX PAYER.
Year: 1878

common council does not see fit to
act in accordance Herewith the vote
will have no force. We fail to see
why the people Of towns and villages
may be trusted to regulate the liqu-
or traffic for themselves, while the
people of cities are denied the same
privilege.
Year: 1878

AGEoRaIA negro carried three two hundred
pound sacks distance Of l0O yards He took
q sack in each hand and took the third sack
between his teeth The same negro can hold
any mule in tho county by the hind legs.


Forey thought himself muscular,
and 90 did o constable think the
same Of our cullud citizen, but he
will have to take . back seat, now
another county is heard from. The
fifteenth amendment is one Of great
strength.
Year: 1878

LOCAL OPTION LAw.-Among the
most important measures passed by
the Legislature this winter is bill
providing that on the petition Of 25
voters the Board of any town or
incorporated village shall submit at
the annual election the question OF
"license" or "nO license" aud if a
majority of votes cast at such cleo
ton are against license, then no
license for the sale Of liquor shall be
granted in such town for the space
of one year. In its inscrutable wis


dom the Legislature omitted cities


from the operation of the law, so
that Mineral Point is not effected by


it. Our people may vote against
license ever so strongly, yet, if the
Year: 1878

party had his leg sprainod and head
bruised, while the other was let off
with o few scratches. No doubt
this method to give bullies chance
to prove what they are actually
good for is the best way, for . large
majority of those who indulge in
rowing and threatening do it be-
cause they know that constable,
marshal or some such officer is likely
to interfere before any blood is
split. Let such characters know
that q chance to fight it out will be
given them, and they will entertain
more fear of the result.
Year: 1878

Our city treasurer has turned his
books for 1877 over to the county
treasurer. The total amount of the tax
roll is S21,79S.5S; amount returned
as delinquent, 81,90S.90; amount
collected, sl9,8S9.6S. This is not q
bad showing considering the depres-
sion of the "times"-much better in
proportion to the grand total than
that Of any other town yet returned
to the county treasurer.
Year: 1878

On last Thursday evening the par
lors of the elegant residence of Mrs.
Strachan were thrown open for the
first receipt ion given by the M. P
H. c. The reception and collation.
were pronounced by all present and
participating to have been the finest
without exception during the season.
These chops" are to be continued
every two weeks during lent, aud
the club expect san invitation from the
Darlington club sometime within q
few days. The Darlington party
will wind up with . pleasant boat
excursion.
Year: 1878

"An Old Subscriber" sends us
the following account of "a new
way to pay old debts" We have a
customer in Missouri who makes
his settlements to US in notes,
which, when due, we forward to
our Western correspondent to col
lect. He is generally successful,
but times have been pretty hard
of late and a settlement was ap
parently impossible. However,
greatly to our surprise, few days
ago we received settlement for
the note with a letter from the
maker of it, of which the follow
ing is an exact copy:


.sGENTLEMEN - Your favor Of
the 9th instant, as well as sev
eral written previous to that time,
have all been received and filed
away where future generations can
see them aud understand how
awful hard up | was in 1878, and
now, as that DRAFT is paid, | cam
not resist telling you how man.
aged to do it. You remember the
old adage: 'It's an i'll wind that
blows no good Well, yesterday
there was first class hanging at
Warrensburg, thirty miles west of
here, and the better class of S.
dalia were anxious to see it, so my
natural desire to please the god
people prompted me to charter a
train for the occasion, which | did,
and the resvlt is that / made
enough TO pay off your deb; but
| | don't think another hanging a.
round here just now would pay,a
many who went to my entertain
ment would not have money e.
uopgh to pay their way, and be
sides it would work a great hard
ship 10 their f1milies, IS most Of
them r quire wood and sundfy
other necessities. Hoping to be
more prompt next time, etc, etc.
Year: 1878

A person who was looking at g
house the other day. said he
couldn't afford to pay such rent
"Well, look at the neigborhood,
replied the woman, ''you can Dor
row fat-lrons next door, coffee
and tea across the street, -four
and sugar on the corner, and
there's a big pile of wood belong
ing to the school house right a.
cross the alley
Year: 1878

a mans wedding day resolu-
tions of reform are never trust
worthy, because for a time the
wings Of his great happiness
carry him high above all vicious
Influences. The hour of trial
comes later.
Year: 1878

GAS amber attracts a straw,
so does beauty attract admira-
tion." Quite true; but the
strAins Of brass band will pull
a sick woman out Of bed, and
take the census of all the chill
dren on a street before the base
drummer strikes his first rest.
Year: 1878

The deacon of a Washington
church, while recently counting
over the collection money, found
an old and faded piece of paper,
which proved to be his own near
ly outlawed note for $50, which
the holder, unable to collect. had
turned into the treasury OF the
Lord.
Year: 1878

An apology is evidence of a
great mind sometimes When a
certain gentleman called his friend
liar and a fool he Immediately
offered his regrets and then ad
ded, 81 want you to forgive me
for what have said, but the fact
| is you talked so much like a jack.
ass that ! couldn't help it, Even
honey becomes vinegar in some
people s mouths.
Year: 1878

1t was a long time ago that
wearing hair in top knots was run
into extremes and excited as much
ridicule as hoop skirls, waterfalls,
stand up collars and cheap jewel.
ry did in our day. A minister of


the gospel thought the top-knot
fashion irreligious, and announced
that he would preach against it


and from a text direct to the
point. He announced as his text
the words, Top knot Come
down." which was the latter
clause OF the verse in the New
Testament which reads, Sand let
him that is on the house top not
come down." And with this as bis
basis be went for the sacrilegious
top knots like savage for scalp
Year: 1878

Talk about female curosity--it's 8
all one sided. Let one man stop
on the street to spell out a sign
on the top of a high building, and
every other mothers son that
goes by will stand and stare for
ten minutes trying to make out
what the first IDIOT is looking at,
Year: 1878

The New Orleans committee which, In Oc-
tober, requested me to retire from the can
vass as a candidate for Congress on party
grounds did so, as they state, after an exam
ination of charges against me from political
standpoint only. Ideclined to retire, and my
constituents sustained me; was reelected
by ma iority tenfold that OF 1876


AS this committee did not pass upon the
only question about which | care, and which
affects me socially, namely: the charge OF
seduction, | felt quite at liberty to submit
that social question to a committee in Wash
ington, whose finding in the case print be-
low. This latter committee had before them
d mass Of evidence which the New Orleans
committee never saw. could readily print
this to sustain their decision and entirely dis
prove the charge of seduction, but it is Of
such a character that a just sense of modesty
induces me to withhold it from the public
prints.


AS the New Orleans committee did not pass
upon the social question and the Washington
committee did, and declared me innocent OF
the charge, now if they or any of them hold
that the finding Of the Washington committee
was incorrect in fact, then | demand that the
New Orleans committee shall also examine
the social queStion-the charge of seduction
have summoned all the witnesses they or
desire, apply all the forms Of a judicial in
quiry to the case and render their decision as
to whether | am guilty or innocent of this
charge OF seduction. They formerly ignored
the social question entirely. and as it is now
revived am prepared to prove my innocence
socially as | did my strength politically.


Gov. Penn evidently misconStrued my mo-
tive in submitting the case to the Washing
ton committee, which was social and not a
political one, or he would not have done me
the injustice of publishing such statement as
he had in his hands without first giving me
the opportunity OF furnishing further testi-
mony on the social question. This has a
tendency to affect me socially, and hereafter
l desire the committee to publish testi-
Year: 1878

not do her work. She was accordingly sent
to her room and told to go 10 bed, with the
privilege Of sending word 10 the matron
whenever she was willing TO perform her task.


A little before s .. IN, one of the under
matrona went 10 her room with her supper.
When che opened tho door, the dead body of
the girl swung out, suspended by the neck
with strip evidently torn from tho sheet
Matron Perry was at once told of the suicide.
The body was cut down but life had beon ex-
tnct for some tima.