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Year: 1878

New York Times.


The following circular has been is
sued by the Board of Health:


"Sunstroke is caused by excessive
heat, and especially If the weather is
'muggy.' 1t is more apt to occur on
the second, third or fourth day of a
heated term than on the first. Loss OF
sleep, worry, excitement, close sleep
ing rooms, debility, abuse of stimu-
lants predispose to 1t. 1t is more apt
to attack those working in the sun,
and especially between the hours of
eleven o'clock in the morning and
four o'clock In the afternoon. On hot
days wear thin clothing. Have as
cool sleeping-rooms as possible.
Avoid loss of sleep and all unnecessa-
ry fatigue. If working indoors, and
where there is artificial heat-laund-
ries, &c.-see that the room Is well
ventilated. If working In the sun wear
light hat (not black, as 1t absorbs
heat) straw, &C., and put inside of it
on the head a wet cloth on q large
green leaf; frequently lift the hat
from the head and see that the cloth
is wet. Do not check Precipitation,
but drink what water you n eed to keep
1t up, as perspiration prevents the
body from being overheated. Have
whenever possible, an additional
shade, as thin umbrella when walk
ing, canvass or board cover when
working In the sun. When much fa-
tigued do not go to work, especially
after eleven o'clock in the morning
on very hot days, If the work is In
the sun. If feeling of fatigue, diz-
illness, headache or exhaustion occurs
cease work Immediately, lie down In
shady and cool place; apply cold
cloths to and pour cold water over
head and neck. If any one is over
come by the heat, send Immediately
for the nearest good physician. While
waiting for the physician, give the
person cool drinks of water or cold
black tea, or cold coffee, if able to
If the skin is hot and dry,
sponge with, or pour cold water over
the body and limbs. and apply to the
head pounded ice wrapped In a towl
or other cloth. II there Is no ice at
hand, keep a cold cloth on the head,
and pour cold water on it as we'll as
on the body. If the person is pale
very faint and pulse feeble. let him
inhale ammonia a few seconds,
Year: 1878

AS the investigation of the Presi-
Dental election proceeds, the complete
nastiness of the whole affair becomes
more and more apparent. The Flori-
da end of the business gave out the
first week. All there was In 1t was
that McLin, acting as aIetuFning off,
Ger, made a return which gave the
State to Hayes, but now, after think
ing 1t over for year and half, says,
with his present feelings or light or
whatever 1t may be called, he would
make a return for Tilden. The Pres
idency happily does not change every
time a man of that stamp changes his
mind, but he and the country are
bound by his official act duly perform
ed according to the light he enjoyed
when making it. AS witness, he
pans out too much like Mrs. Tilton


who was quite sure at the chuxch in
vestigation that Beecher was innocent
and now is equally sure he was guilty.
Year: 1878

The Potter committee have shown
an immense anxiety to find whether
John Sherman wrote q letter to James
Anderson and d. A. Weber, and ap-
pear to have closed their eyes to every
thing else. 1t was shown in evidence
that Judge Levisee had been ap-
preached with $1OO, 900 bribe, but 1t
seems to concern these managers very
little to find the source from whence
the money was to come. Had any
Republican made such an offer Potter
would have stood on his head in his
frantic efforts to hunt down the vii
lain. It was shown in evidence that
Manton Marble told Dennis that "he
need not die a poor man." and he
meant something. Had Manton
Marble been a Republican Potter
would have hunted him down with
the ferocity of bloodhound. Tilden
and Marble, and Watterson and Hew-
lit all have interesting relics of the
campaign. Why is there no noanxfety
on the part of the committee to hear
from them? Is it one-sided inquisi-
ton or Is it q search for the truth :?
That the truth is not what is sought
by the leaders of the Democracy is
more apparent at every stage OF the
proceedings Inter Ocean.
Year: 1878

A sensible writer In the July mum
Der of Scribner's Monthly says some
sensible things regarding the mania
for making big papers that affects GER
tain journalists. He says:


mo one who can read one of oul
great daiIies through and digest its
contents, and have time or strength
left for other duties. He can only
pass his eyes over and very nidistin Ct
~ gather and remember the leading
matters of news. 1t is huge jum-
BILE, In the main, of unimportant facts
facts that have no relation to his
life. Now, any newspaper man
knows that the essential matters In
his columns can be crowded into one
tenth the space that they occupy, and
that he fills his columns with materi-
al that 1t Is waste of any mans time
to read. He must compete with his
neighbor, therefore he must give
acres OF space to trash. Few can
read it, and nobody would miss it, or
be poorer or worse for losing It. One
page of small paper Is enough to
furnish the record Of any days news
of every thing that is desirable to
see or remember"
Year: 1878

Unselfish people are always polite,
because good manners are only the
absence of selfishness. They are do
ing unto others as we would wish to
be done unto. A thoughtfulness for
the comfort of those about us, a pleas
smile, q kind word-these are the in
gradients of which good manners are
chiefly com posed.
Year: 1878

His wife caught him with his arms
around the hired girls neck. but his
courage even in this trying extremity
never forsook him. II suspected
some one of stealing the whiskey on
the preserves, Jane, for some tim g,
and of course you know her breath
would have told if she was the guilty
nartY ."-RaLtin1ore Sun.
Year: 1878

Peaches are in the market, but they
do not sell by the bushel, and they
are so small that when you eat one at
fashionable restaurant you must use
a spoon with telescope sights.-Nea0
York Herald.
Year: 1878

There is perhaps. no article of do
mestic food which contains less nutri-
tious matter than crackers, and the
idea that they are particularly whole
some for children is most absurdly
wrong. Crackers are far from being
either economical or desirable as food
Year: 1878

RESULTS OF THE RAILROAD CONFERENCE.
FURTHER WORK NECESSARY BEFORE AN EAST


BOUND POOL is MADE-INCREAsE OF RATES.


The conference of railroad managers was
concluded on Saturday after brief session. No definite
plan OF pooling Eas;bOund freight was adopted all the
information necessary justly to appOrtion the percent
ages among the members Of the pool not having
beeu furnished them requested In the circular OF
commissioner Fink. While the managers generally
cIamed 10 be confident the final adjustment of exist
ing differences the distribution Of the business and
admitted that GppOrtiOnment OF the traho that
should be satisfactory 10 all was matter OF great am
Guilty and that large concessions would have 10 be made
by some OF the roads.


A resolution was adopted Saturday providing for
the appOlntmeut committee to arrange the general
Fastbound Lusnessand to assist in fixing the percent
ages to be adopted by the pool The determination OF
'be hnsiness done by the pooling roads and OF the
diyson OF the common earnings left III effect with
Commissioner Fink to whom the roads VIII
Teport the actual Eastern business done by
them This will form the basis OF the appOrtiOnment OF
The common earnings and will be considered at future
conference, the time OF which not fixed. The ar
cnnat were not completed the Chicago roads not being
able 10 agree to the division of the business,
and sOmo Of the Cincinnati roads not being
represented at tho convention. Mr.. GuilfOrd
Western commissioner under the former pool, was
selected assist collecting the statistics by which 10
fix the division OF the business. meeting OF the
Western roads will be held soon.


general advance on East-bOund freight, based on an
advance OF cents fourhcass freight from Chicago
was decided by the conference on the suggestion OF
the Chicago roads Tie new schedule Will take effect
MI NOVCmber %
Year: 1878

HOLINESS TINE Lock Is superior in every
respect TO other lock made and has an electric atae
mcnt for opening should the movements rom breakago
other cause stop VIII be shown anywhere recept Of
postal card
Year: 1878




To the Editor of the Argus;


In the last number of the Rock Islander
the veteran seems considerably agitated in
reference to the openiog Of Mr.. Harper's
Opera House and asks. What is to be
done?" It is a question very easily
answered, and lays only 10 Mr.. Harper's
power to solve. and that is to engage a
company and open it. lie built 1t to open
1t, not to keep 1t shat, and the citizens
stand ready and willing TO patronize him to
the entire capacity of his theatre at any
reasonable price he may ask, What more
can he ask or expect? We certainly can
not expect the people to do any more than
they have done. When a new enterprise
is started it usually requires considerable
effort On the part Of the originator to make
it successful But in Mr.. Harpers case
the people who indulge 10 amusements have
been anxiously waiting for weeks for him
to give them an opportunity to show their
appreciation of his enterprise.


"TRANA
Year: 1878

OUR DISPLAY THIS YEAR sURPAssEs ALL OUR
FORMER EFFORTS AS THOUSANDS OF DELIGHTED
VISITORS CAN TESTIFY TO- WE WOULD HARDLY
NEED TO ADVERTISE FOR MORE TRADE IN THIS
LINE. But DO so TO CALL THE ATTENTION or
OUR PATRONS TO SOME OF OUR sPEcIALTIEs.
WHICH OTHERWISE MAY BE OVERLOOKED,
OWING TO THE THRoNGs OF CUSTOMERS AT OUR
COUNTERS, AND THE REALLY WONDERFUL AND
ALMOST BEwILDERING ASSORTMENT WE ARE
DISPLAYING
Year: 1878

I


Sam Green owel his friend Bill
Smith, grudge. Bill had often played
jokes upon him much to Sans disgust,
and the merriment of the other boarders
in the house. Sam and Bill occupied
the same room together, and the last
joke that Bill played upon him was after
this fashion Sam perceived a shadowy
figure approaching him one night after
he lad. retired, having in its hand a
hugegcarving knife. which glittered in
the uncertain light as the figure"
swung it wildly over his head this
proved too much for Sans nerves-he
gave yell that would have done honor
to a Modoc, and sank to the floor, call
ing piteously for help. This brought
the whole household speedily to the
scene, and they assisted the poor fellow
to his feet, and then, of course, demand.
ed to know what the uproar was all
about. He was OH the point Of telling
them all about the horrible spectre that
had menaced him, when he looked up
and beheld Bill Smith, with broad grin
on his face, holding the same carving
knife (Which. by.the-by, was only an
imitation one, made of tin foil) that he
had seen In the shad0wy hand. Sam
sawat once that joke had been played
upon him, and so got rid of the aston
ished boarders the best he could, at the
same time vowing vengeance on that
rascal, Bill Smith. The next morning
he fixed cigar, with fire cracker in
side of it, SO that it would explode
when about half smoked. This he
placed in his pocket with another one,
and went down stairs, where he found
his tormentor sitting on the back stoop,
reading the morning paper.


"Hillo, Bill - said he, as though
nothing had happened.


Hillo, Sam !" said he, as though he
had never played joke upon anybody
in the world.


Have cigar, Bill?" he asked,
handing him one.


"Ah, thanks |" said Bill, taking the
cigar and lighting it, while Sam did the
same.


{" He won't be thankful after he has
smoked awhile" thought Sam.


Bill continued to read and smoke,
and in about ten minutes something
went off with bang. Bill looked up
from his paper only to sec Sam holding
his face in both of his hands, and hop.
ping about like a crazy man. Alas
Sam had kept the wrong cigar himself
and given his tormentor the innocent
one.


"Sold, by thunder!" he growled, as
he started up stairs, thinking how the
bitter Lad got bitten.
Year: 1878

States assay office In the city of New York,
and receive In return therefor the full com
mercial value of said bullion In standard sill
yer erdollars. And from and after the passage Of
this act, the said silver dollars and the stand.
ard gold coinage shall jointly be full legal
tender, each TO the extent of fifty per cent,
and no more, of all debts public and private,
except as otherwise provided by the law or
express contract.


This measure, though exceedingly sue
cinct in terms, seems TO cover the financial
question with ample length and breadth.
II may be in some respects objectionable
and will no doubt be met with as stern hos
tiity on the part of the gold-mongers rs is
arrayed against the BLAND silver bill 4; but
it strikes us as the most efficient measure
yet presented to the public mind as an
agent in behalf of early and certain resump-
tion. In that view of the case, II is the
measure of the period and the desideratum
of the hour In one sense ii is q compro-
mise, and in another the bold assertion Of
a principle which meets with great favor in
the average American mind. Its passage
will at once put gold, silver, and greenbacks
on par, and resumption will, on its passage,
become an accomplished fact. 1t at
once places gold and silver on an equal
plane, and appreciates our paper money
to more than an equality with the other
class of currency. When the coin factors of
both silver and gold combined form but
fifty per cent. of the amounts needed to
pay our obligations, public and private,
and greenbacks supply the balance, salu-
tary relief will, in our judgment, come TO
the people and the Government, and con-
traction Of paper currency and the hoard
ing of gold will cease. The dread OF n
financial convulsion under resumption will
pass by and business will assume more
healthy aspect. These are desirable ends
to be reached, and the shortest constitu-
tional road leading thereto should be
sought by the Government. If it lies in
this measure, let it take the place of all
others and be pushed forward to = statu-
tory law. lfsound in principle and practical
in adaptation as the means of escape
from the financial ills that now besct the
business interests of the country, then it is
the Eureka of the occasion. The advocate
Of silver reconciliation has no occasion to
object to it, except perhaps, to the Emit
placed upon its use in the payment of debts
for the reason that it fully recognizes the
principle of remonetizing that metal as
money. The greenbacker may have like
objection to the limit placed upon paper
money in the payment of debts but the
principle for which they contend is recog-
nized, and hence their objection would b,
based upon so slight foundation that il
could not stand


The gold-mongers and bondholders will
no doubt array themselves against thi'
measure with as relentless bittcrncssas they
have brought to bear upon the BLAND bill
for the reason that it will, if it becomes ;
law, break the back of the gold power ant
set the business interests of the countr,


free. When this shall come the people viii
| reinipe
Year: 1878

GOVERNOR BISHOP, of Ohio, has bounced"
every official under his administration who
is suspected of even voting the Republican
ticket He is fully pacifed after such
action. Such an example is worthy the
consideration of his illustrious predeces-
eorn
Year: 1878

We would again call the attention OF
business men and others to the fact that we
have connected with our Office one of the
most complete job printing Offices in the
country, which is prepared at all times to
do all kinds of printing in the best of style
and at the most reasonable prices. Espe-
eially is this true of legal printing, briefs,
arguments, speeches, etc.
Year: 1878

ONE of the Sunday papers says that there
Ia an immense number of counterfeit plates
in existence, and takes the Secret Service to
task iOl permitting this. We have good
authority for saying that there is but one
fye-dOllar and one tifty-dOllar counterfeit
plate in existence. The fve-dollar plate is
the one which was frst made for the Tama-
qua Bank, and is now on the Hanover Bank.
IL has been said that there are millions of
counterfeit money now in charge of the Sc
eret service. This is not true, as any one
can find by inquiry at the office. When
ever any counterfeit money is captured by
the secret service il is inventoried, sealed
up, and kept so until needed for evidence,
when it is taken out and used. Whenever
the Secretary directs, q committee is ap-
pointed, and all the counterfeit money that
is through with is destroyed. The last
batch thus treated was in December, 1876,
and since that time between three and four
hundred thousand dollars have been aCcu-
mulated 1t may be that the secret service
does things that are improper and unusti-
fable, but it should not be attacked for do
ing its duty.
Year: 1878

Several influential papers have suggested that at the Congressional election ''the voter shall put on his ticket his choice for Senator. Tc this the Gazette objects, and enters into an elaborate editorial of over 8 column in length, to prove that the government would be in peril to place so much power in the hands of the people. We have been taught that all power, in our form of govern ment, resides with the people, and the candidate for any office who is afraid to trust them is unfit to serve or present them. If it was favor able to Col. Johnsod, the Gazette would zealously favor the plan; but it would be "blue ruin" to Col "Bob," hence the Gazette's opposi tion. Exchange.
Year: 1878

There has been talk different times of holding national news paper paragraphists' convention in some of the Eastern cities, and it is quite probable that some such meet ing vii! be had next spring or sum mer. While we are not averse to the plan of a coming together of the paragraphists--on the contrary high ly approve the scheme-we have just the strongest suspicion in the world that q formal convention of so-called "funny-meh" of the press would be the most melancholy occasion possi- ble to imagine. Editorial conven- tions in themselves are very stupid affairs. Aside from tho regular pro gramme of prepared orations and essays there is seldom anything in them to commend. Editors are not takers, ane it is talk that makes conventions endurable. And glib talk at that. The paragraphist and average humorist is less of a talker than others in the profession. It IS his business to think and grind slowly, indeed, but so as to give tEe impression at least of having re- markedly quick wit; it is his busi- ness to sit for long, weary hours, proned out in his chair, staring up at the ghastly ceiling ard wrestling out of unfathomable space grim and gaunt puns, awful jokes and metri- calls that defy the rules of rhyme and set at naught the license of poesy. Imagine such a mental ma chine in formal convenuon-he has been used to thinking, but al- ways in lazy, recumbent position, and never on his feet or out aloud. It is one thing to think and write, and another to think and talk. There are few men who can do both successfully. That's why we say q convention of newspaper humorists would be melancholy and sad and gloomy and funereaL.-St Louis Times.
Year: 1878

THE MAN WHO WAS ONCE A CONSUL


GENERAL AND is NOW IN THE WORK


HOUSE.


The following despatch is sent from
Washington -


Colonel George III. Butler, the nephew
of General Butler and former Consul
General TO Egypt, is now undergoing a
sentence Of thirty days in the Washington
Workhouse, in lieu Of fine which he
was unable to pay in the police court.
During the past year Butler has been OF
dissipated habits, and has been either in
Jail, the hospital, or the workhouse one
half of the time. His relatives, friends,
and wife have done everything 10 induce
him 10 reform, but without success. and
they have all abandoned him to his fate
not one coming forward to pay the small
fine for the ofiense for which he was com
mltted, which was that of being drunk il
the street and being vagrant. His mine
is so affected that at one time he was fo
months in the insane asylum here.
Year: 1878

PRESIDENT HAYES gave written or
ders to the U. S. District Attorney at In
dianapoiis not to prosecute certain par
ty for an alleged embezzlement in the
First National Bank of Indiana. Blu
the Grand Jury, appealing to the cour
for information as to their duty, tn,
Judge instructed them that the Presiden
had no more power to prevent their dis
charging their sworn duty than the Ca
of Russia. This was a pretty bolt
stretch of authority on the part of hi
Fraudulency.
Year: 1878

THE railroad war in the West has
about ended, and thousands who came
East on flying trips at dollar each, will
have to pay the regular rates when they
again turn their faces Westward.
Year: 1878

II our temperament does not make Us
naturally cheerful, we must cultivate those
habits of mind and body that seem most fa-
voiable to the growth OF this happy state OF
feeling. We must keep our minis. open to
cheerful impressions and close it to thoss
that are gloomy We must avoid solitude
and keep with our kind and he sOcisbie.
We must not give ourselves up 10 gloomy
thoughts of the future and draw picture Of
up hearts of grace and go about our daily
task rejoicing. Burton gives Rs)p's old IA
BILE: The hares once, tired of living ever in
fear OF the huntsman and hounds. went in
body 10 a pond to drown themselves, but a
host OF frogs showed such terror AZ the
sight of these novel visitors, that the ksres
seeing there were creatures more timid ard
wretched than themsslves felt their spirits
revive aud went home rejoicing"
Year: 1878

rather than stint the family in the necessi-
ties. Buy cheaper clothing, but let it be
good, seasonable and neatly made. Be econ
omical with the fuel, but don't burn cigars
and let wife and children shiver with cold.
Be as hOspitable as ever, bu: do not run in
debt to make q show for guests. BE honest
in all the home expenditures, spend nothing
for sham, not one cent for show, but buy
the best you possibly can for your money.
Keep out of debt, though you are soreiy
pinched to do it. When the troubles are too
great to meet single handed, have
another consultation. Do not talk "hard
times till everybody is dispirited, but so
unite the family that all will pull together
in one grand effort to better them. Keep
home as CHEEKY as you can, and make the
men OF the circle seek it every possible
moment. Let it be the one place where
they are sure of love and confidence and
sympathy. You need not, because you are
poor, go untidy and ragged, but as far as
possible be as dainty and fresh about your
personal apparel as you can. Let the food,
though coarse, be nicely cooked and served ;
le5 the hearth be bright, and, better than all
made the place veritable home.


In richer homes there will be trouble OF
which the poor have no conception-the
anxiety of the father, the fashionable ideas
of the women, the struggle between pride
and financial embarrassment In just these
homes the wife and daughter can do much.
Let the new dresses go; let the latest style
in ornament or trinket remain in the
jewelers. window, and be rewarded in the
| look of relief that will come TO the face oil
the business man when he realizes that he is
sure of home aid. Forego a fashionable ball
and have a pleasant home evening. GiyeuI
an expensive dissipation for the sake or him
who, for your welfare and happiness, j!
sorely grieved. Be anxious to talk with hin
about mis- business, lead him to tell you OF
| his affairs, and make HIM know that he hal
a confidant who will do all in her power tC
aid him. Let there be no fetters of mar
riage-let them be the bonds of love. B'
proud enough OF your husband or you


father to be willing to economize for hi


sake-to work and think and, if need be
suffer that he may lean upon you, that h'
may be sure of your aid and love.