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Year: 1878

THE VALUE OF A MINUTE.-A small
vessel was nearing the Steep Holmes in
the Bristo! Channel. The captain stood
on the deck, his watch in his hand, his
eye fixed on it.


A terrible tempest had driven them on
ward, and the vessel was scene Of de-
vastation. No one dared to ask, SIS
there any hope ?" Silent CONSERVATION
filled every heart, made every face pale.
The wind and the tide drove the shatter-
cd bark iercely forward. Every moment
they were hurried nearer the sullen rock
which knew no mercy-on which many
ill-fated vessels had foundered, all the
crew perishing.


Still the captain stood, motionless,
epeechless, his watch in his hand. 1--WE
are lost I" was the conviction of many
around him.


Suddenly his eye glanced across the
sea he stood erect another moment,
and he cried out, "Thank God we are
saved, the tide has turned in one min
ute more we should have been on the
rocks I" He returned his chronometer,
by which he had thus measured the race
between time and tide, TO his pocket /;
and if they never felt it before, assuredly
both he and his crew were on that day
powerfully taught the value of minute.
ChiLdren' s Hour.
Year: 1878

BEGINNING LIFE.-When two young
people start out in life together with moth
ing but a determination to succeed,
avoiding the invasion of each others di-
esyncrasies, not carrying the candle near
the gunpowder, sympathetic with each
others employment, willing to live on
small means until they get large facili-
ties, paying as they go, taking life here as
adiscipline, with four eyes watching its
perils and for hands fighting its battles
whatever other may say or do, that is
royal marriage. 1t is SO set down in the
heavenly archives, and the orange-5 bios
SONS shall wither on neither side of the
grave.
Year: 1878

A PROMINENT lawyer recently gave
the following definition Of the law at
is simply an effort TO shift the response
bility of the decision. The jury of lay
men, befogged by the pleading, make up
their verdict with the understanding that
if there is anything wrong about it, the
Supreme Court, composed of lawyers,
will make it all right. The Supreme
Court settles it according to law, with the
understanding that the laymen of the
Court of Appeals will adjust the equity.
The Court Of Errors orders a new trial
and it begins with the jury Of laymen.-
1t is simply mill that goes round, and
round and grinds the property of FOOLS"
Year: 1878

A LOVE CHARM.-Roses are admitted
ly the embiems of love. An old tradition
says that a rose gathered upon Midsum-
mer eve and kept in clean sheet of pa
per till Christmas Day, will be fresh
enough for maiden to wear in her bo-
som, when he who is to be her husband
will come and take it out. In Thuringia
the rose holds a similar position as love-
charm: maid who has several lovers
will name a rose leaf after each, and
then scatter them upon the water, that
which sinks the last representing the fu-
ture husband. In some parts of Germany
it is customary TO throw rose leaves or a
coal fire as means of insuring good luck.
Year: 1878

THE BARoN's RUsE.-Among the
bravest and most energetic Of the Slesian
noblemen who gave trouble to Frederick
the Great of Prussia was Baron Lieben.
Once upon time crowd of riotous
peasants came to the Barons castle of
Falconberg, making the most outrageous
demands, threatening to burn, kill and
lay waste if their demands were not com
| piled with. The nobeman retired 10 his
armorial chamber. and directed that the
deputation be admitted. The aggressive
| peasants to the number of fifty or more,
well heated with liquor, entered the room,
and when they were all in the Baron shut
the heavy oaken door and locked it and
threw the key out through the open win
dow then he sat down upon his sofa ;
with powder-barre at his elbow, and
taking from his mouth n wel-lighted eli
gar which he had been smoking, he ex-
claimed, in tones Of dire and dreadful
wrath


Mscreants, if you don't Immediate
ly go down upon your knees and ask my
pardon. and then go out at yonder win
dow, | will apply my cigar to this barrel
ofpowder, and we will all 60 to destruc-
ton together !"


The effect was magical. The peasants
knew the old warrior too well to think of
doubling the truth Of his diabolcal threat.
Down they went upon their knees, sober
ed enough to ask his pardon, and then
they went cut at the window, after the
key, much preferring the risk of injury
from the lean to remaining in the neigh
5orhoo o. that dreadful magaz ne with the
lighted cigar Of the Baron Lieben in such
terrible Juxtaposition.
Year: 1878

AN Eastern paper, in answering ques-
ton on etiquette, says: "When a gentle
man and lady are walking upon the street,
the lady should walk inside Of the gentle.
man" This may be etiquette, but we
should think it would be somewhat un
comfortable for the gentleman as well as
very inconvenient for tho lady Vallejo
ChrOncle.
Year: 1878

Too SHARP FOR HER.--A Minneapolis
boy was sent by his teacher, woman, to
the superintendent TO be whipped. The
lad suspected the contents Of the note and
hired boy he met on the street 10 de.
liver it, giving him ten cents. The su-
perintendent didn't discover till after the
castigation was over that the boy he had
logged had not seen the inside ofa school
house for q month.
Year: 1878

A JAPAN correspondent says that he
saw wrought in inlad wood on door
several hundred years old in the temple
Of lgmoto, a fceno showing first monkey,
then an ape, then n gorilla, and so on Up
by gradual development until the final
one of the series was a perfect man, sur
rounded by elephants and curious birds.
Year: 1878

WHEN well-known Omaha thief meets
policeman and hands him five dollars,
it is the duty of the officer to go and sit
down in an alley and see nothing for the
next hour-nothing but the five dollars.
Year: 1878

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The Virginia City a(Nev.) Enterprise
says: At the Grand G. shaft there is
large room in which the miners change
their clothing on going into and COM
ing out of the lower levels. On coming
out of the mine their clothes, a wooden
shirt and pair of vwoolen. drawers, or
cotton 'overalls, are reeking with per-
spiration and are more or less soiled by
the dust that has settled upon them. In
the changing room is a large trough
with supply of hot and neold water
Here the miners wash the clothes. they
have worn in the mines before leaving
for their homes, hanging themnupon
racks to dry. in order that they may have
clean clothes when they next go down
into the lower levels, In this tank or
trough some 600 men daily wash their
clothing when going off shift and in its
bottom there collects about fifty pounds
per day of sand and clay Yesterday
Colonel Fair had the curiosity to nave
heAssayer of the Conso idated Virginia
Assay Office, Henry G. Elder, make an
assay of the sediment deposited in the
washing tank, and the following Isl the
result, =, Gold per ton,, $128. Co. silver,
'S130.50, making total Of S259.1 10 per
ton for the dirt washed out of the shirts
and overalls of the miners. Hereto
fore the washings of this trough have
not been saved, but they will now prob
ably be taken care of by some one, as in
the course of year they would amount
to quite snug little sum.
Year: 1878

In the large jewelry manufactures
the world over, where the workmen
handle and file and burnish gold and
silver, they are required to wash their
hands in marble tank, and the amount
of the precious metals saved in this way
in the course of year is something as
tonlshlng.s xAF asai .g9s SD y.yg8sj


We are now able to see that since the
opening OF The mines Of the Comstock
half q dozen large fortunes must have
been sowa broadcast over the country
by the winds. The amount of ore that
would stick upon the clothing of the
miners is as nothing compared with
that blown off wagons and cars by the
winds. The NJ fine "a wore g5 thus
blown away is generally of
the richest character. From train of
forty cars in going from this place. to
the mills on the Carson River through a
"Washoe zephyr" the loss would prob
ably not fall short ola ton. OF late,
however, the precaution has been taken
of securing the fine ore by wetting down
the loaded cars before the departure of
the, trains from the ore houses.


In the early days, when hundreds Of
teams Were engaged in hauling the rich
ores of the Ophir to Washoe Valley, the
wagons being all day on the road, inn
mense amounts must have blown away,
as in crossing the mountain and wind
ing around the points of the hills the
wind often blew hard enough to scatter
not only the fine particles of ore, but
also humps Of considerable size from the
wagons, piled and rounded up as they
generally were. ro
1t could hardly be expected, however,
that in those days any one would think
of the fine ore blown off the loaded
wagons when no one paid any attention
to the Jumps that were rolling of, and
when it was not unusual for teamsters
to stop and fill up chuck holes with the
rich ore upon their wagons Asmen at
that time did not think of saving the
tailings running to waste from the mills,
and almost as rich as the ores that went
under the stamps, we. can hardly find
fault of them for paying no attention to
the ore blown from the wagons and
scattered along the roads by the team
sters. Now, however, although late in
the day,Fwe are becoming wiser, and
find that even in the washings- of the
dirty clothing of the employees Of one
mine there is little bonanza of about
Sz,000 per annum. ka asa ter "a
Year: 1878

Though it is hard and cruel thing to
say, would urge you to beware of taxi
ing pleasant fellows for your friends.
Choose good, disagreeable friend. if
you are wise a surly, steady, econom-
ical, rigid fellow. All jolly fellows, all
delights of billiard-rooms, all. fellows
who sing a capital song, and the like,
are sure to be poor. They will borrow
your money, and their very generosity
and goodness OF disposition will prevent
them from having the means of paying
you back. They lend their money to
some other jolly fellow They accom-
modate each other by putting their jolly
names to the back OF jolly bills. Their
tradesmen are on the lookout for them.
1t is hard times with a gentleman when
he has to walk round street for fear of
meeting a creditor there, and for a man
of courage when he can't look tailor in
the -Thocke,
Year: 1878

Nothing tends SO to destroy ones
confidence in paragraph as to show it
to wooden-headed man, and have him
return it after inspection, without a
comment or a smile. You know that he
is about as well qualified to judge of q
joke as horse is to express an opinion
regarding the set Of a claw-ham-
mer coat; but your confidence in that
paragraph is all shaken to pieces, just
the same
Year: 1878

THE BLAEEs are preparing to
make their appearance again OF
Thanksgiving evening They viii
appear before the audience on that
occasion in the famous Drama, Lady
AUdLey's Secret" " and conclude with
the popular eomedietts. Lend ne
Fire ShilLjHgs' We will await the
time with all the patience possible,
and expect to see tile Hall crowded on
that night by BrOwnviIIe's most in
telligent citizens. for q most pIeasur-
able entertainment, and as deserved
compliment to our home dramatic
company.
Year: 1878

We claim to be excellent
judges of Clothes, and we
can put you into a suit of


Clothes that for comfort
cannot be surpassed. You
Will LOOK GOOD. you viii
FEEL GOOD in them; why.
you Will smile on your
mother-in-iaw every time
you put on the suit, treat
every one pleasantly all
day. Oursa1esmen auwear
these suits, and have a way
Of making a man FEEL
GOOD toward his fellows.
MCGEE & MOORE viii
meet you three-fourths of
thewayin all dealings with
them. and are bound to suit
you if any one in this world
can,
Year: 1878

posed to Chinamen as rule. but he was
opposed to the importation of Chinese or
any other labor. Under suehsystem he
did not care how many Cinnamon came to
this country or what wages they would
work for, provided they were not imported
as coolies. he was opposed to the impor-
tatlon of all labor by contract,


There were other and uninteresting ad-
dresses, and the committee adjourned till
Tomorrow
Year: 1878

Fox LAKE JUNCTION, Wis, Aug. s.
A severe storm of rain and wind occurred
this evening. Two inches of water fell in
thirty minutes. Grain will be damaged
considerably by wind and water. Farmers
cannot stack for two or three days. Grain
is all cut Wheat on the prairie is one
third of crop and of very poor quality
A good deal of it had to be moved. In
the openings there is about an average
crop of fair quality. No threshing has
been done vet,
Year: 1878

CHICAGO. Aug. Six hundred jour-
noyman shoemakers Of this city struck this
morning for an advance of wages from nine
to twelve dollars per week. They have
refused the offer of the employers to COM
promise ou $l0.50 per week; the employ
ers declare that is a liberal price and the
best they can offer, and that if it is moi
accepted they can, and will, get theiI
work done in the east at less price. There
are 900 shoemakers of this class in Chi
cago. and those who have not already
struck threaten to do so; the strike in
cludes all leading wholesale houses.
Year: 1878

BULGARIA is in sad plight finan-
cially. Her paper money deprecated
to one e-third of its nominal value, and
within the last week fell an additional
seven per cent. Distress is widespread
and the future is filled with alarms.


In consequence then, Of this state of
affairs, the Russian governor thereof
refuses to recognize the international
financial commission which was provid-
ed for by the Berlin treaty. He fears
that the commission may still further
disarrange matters. However, it will
be Of interest to know what the powers
win do about this plain abrogation of
that sacred illumination. a
Year: 1878

This truly unrivalled baking powder
stands on its merit alone; and because
of its perfect purity and excellence, and
from the fact that every package is
strictly full weight, the people have
adopted it in their households, and have
the utmost confidence in it. 1t always
does the work effectually, goes much
further in use, and makes better and
more wholesome and nutritious biscuits,
bread, rolls, mullins, cakes and pastry
than any other in the country.
Year: 1878

The secretary of the treasury and
the attorney general have had lengthy
correspondence about government em-
ployes and the subsidiary silver coin.
When boiled down it amounts to this:
The treasury may pay its employees Hye
dollars worth Of subsidiary silver coin
In every payment made, provided, the
sum due amounts to over five dollars.
Year: 1878

There is no greater fallacy than the
opinion of many, particularly the young
and strong and vigorous, that winter
especially sharp, frosty one. with plenty
of snow-is the most healthy season of


the year. Very few persons seem to re


alize the fact that cold is the condition
of death, and that in both warm and cold
climates it is our unconscious effort to


maintain our bodily heat at tempera


ture of ninety eight degrees that wears
us out To this temperature, called
blood heat" every cubic inch OF oxygen


that serves to vitalize our blood must be
raised by our own bodily heat. or life
ceases. Since in cold weather the main
tenance OF sufficiently elevated bodily
temperature becomes very often a diff


Guilty too great for our strength, the ad-
vent OF severe winter is really more to
be dreaded than visitation of pesti-
lence. The saying, Heat is llfe-cold is
death" has a striking illustration and
confirmation in the reports now regularly
submitted by DR. Russell to the Glasgow
Sanitary Committee. The death rate
rises and falls with the regularity of the
thermometer. So many degrees less
heat, so many more deaths, and vace UerSa.
In one OF his fortnightly reports DR. Rus
sell says: The death rate in the first
week of the fortnight was twenty one.
and in the second week twenty five The
mean temperature in the former week
was 40 degrees Fahrenheit, in the lat
ter 80 degrees Ii attributes the low
rate OF the first week to the high mean
temperature OF the preceding fortnight.
which At O3 degrees, and adds: This
is good illustration OF law which we
frequently observe in these reports OF
i


week of low temperature produces rise
In mortality the week following ln
our climate it would probably be difficult
to find more frequent cause of serious
ailments than taking cold Whatever
weak place we have, whatever constitu
tional disorder we be subject to- cold will
surely discover We take colds because
our vitality is too low to ward off the
effects of the reduced temperature around
US. As a matter of first Importance then,
TO resist cold and the various derange
ments OF the system consequent, 1t is
necessary by proper nutrition to main
tain our natural animal heat second. to
retain the heat by a sufficient quantity
oil clothing; third to regulate with care
the temperature of the air we breathe -
Contrary to the opinion current among
lovers of cold weather, fire in bedroom
in the winter is cheaper and better than
a doctors bill for, owing to our inactive
condition during sleep, the circulation of
the vitalizing blood is both slow and i'm
perfect, and hence the danger of taking
cold by breathing cold air is greatly in
creased A cold is the beginning of ev
-rything that is bad If any one con
scious of having caught one feels cold
chiIs creeping up the back, let him ap
ply mustard plaster to the bottom of the
spine and lower part of the back at once;
and by so doing he may avert danger
Gus illness before it is too late and medi
Cal advice can be procured 1t should
never be forgotten that heat is life
cold is h. Scientific American.
Year: 1878

Wage slavery" is one of the favorte
catch phrases OF the Socialists When
this sort Of slavery shall be abolished,
then, as they claim the millennium will
have come, and all men will be happy,
since all will stand at the same econom


cal level and be equally rich and equally
poor 1t will take less labor to live and
its product will be equally divided There
will be no masters and no slaves; no EN-
ploye:s and no employees; no buye.s and
no sellers Of labor The wage system by
which workingnen are now ensleved
will come to a perpetual end. Govern
melt will take charge of all the indus
trial machinery of society and see to it
that every nIan has his proper place in
it, does his share Of the work, and gets
his full proportion, and no more, of the
benefits And this will be universal
emancipation from wage slavery.


There is, OF course, no objection to
that v0lamtaTy co operation by which
workingmen become joint capitalists
supplying both the capital and the labor
and sharing in proper proportions the
profits thereof Nor is there any objec
tion to that voluntary union between the
capitalist and the workin gman which, in
addition to wages, gives to the latter a
certain percentage of the profits realized
from the business. Co operation in both
OF these forms, when voluntarily entered
into by all the parties and wisely and
honestly conducted, has worked good re-
suits. The experiment in this country
and III Europe has been successful. and
the principle upon which it is founded
admits Of much broader application -
Society would not be harmed thereby
We believe in such cooperation, as one
of the ways by which the condition OF
the working classes may be improved
But when the Socialists talk about
wage slavery" and propose politically
| and legally to reorganlze society, as the
means of removing it, we think them i'm
mensely wide OF the facts and OF tn
remedy for admitted evils. The phrase
| wage slavery starts with an untruth.-
| 1t Is not true that the man who sells his
| labor for wages Is anyhodys slave He
is voluntary in the sale and consults or
supposes that he consults his own inter
rsts in making it The law as perfectly
protects him as it does his employer -
There Is nothing in their nature why ser
services to be rendered and paid for
should not be subject 10 the law Of bar
gain and SALE ust as well as tangible and
material commodities He who sells the
one is no more a slave and no more a
victim of oppression and injustice than
! he who sells the other.


1t being a fact that multitudes of men
must sell their services in order to obtain
the means of living, then wages are pre-
cisely what they want They have moth
ing else to sell. labor, whether OF mus.
Gle or brain or BOTH is their only
exchangeable commodity. What they
most need 10 find is some one who has
something else besides labor to SELL who
wants their labor, and will accept it and
pay them tor il; not as charity, but AS
an exchange OF equivalents. Fact it is
and TACT 1t always has been, in anything
Year: 1878

Nowhere do we witness more visible
change than is now exhibited between


city and country life. The dwellers in


the country are rejoicing over good crops
and partaking of the choice products OF


the soil with cheerful faces and healthy
appetites. In the city we are met with
grave countenances, and it would appear
as if ones friends had barely escaped
some dreadful calamity. The conversa-
ton is not of mercy but Of trials Bro
ken banks, broken spectators, forfeited
trade, failure OF large manufacturing cor
porations with widespread ruin, sus-
pended payments, fortunes sunk unex
pectedly, and train of forebodings yet
to ensue, meet us on every hand.


To what shall we trace this disorgan,
lied state? Had people lived contented,
ly upon honest gains slowly acquired,
would these events have happened2 Ask
the speculator, ruined by the decline in
prices of the common necessaries of lite,
why he kept his storehouse sealed? Be-
cause he expected further rise in prices,
he will honestly answer So of manufac-
lures, and banks, and railroads. All have
been living upon extended credit, and
scarcely knowing how they lived, and not
daring to face the future, until in an
hour the crash came Somebody failed
whose paper affected yet another, and
the first stone which rolled loosened the
whole edge of the precipice, and the vast
heap tumbled together in one confused
mass.


Now it behooves US to take salutary
warming Man is doomed 20 labor 1t
is an old con- mand, but true one to day
In no other way can we attain true indie
pendence, and in no other way can we
ward off present disastrous consequences.
We must arouse to action; not suffer
ourselves to become hypochondriac in
panic, Review and improve upon the
past is the only way OF escape Above
all, we must learn how to spend rs well as
how to get money. This is the want OF
our times. Young men must be educated
to labor and feel their responsibility
There is far too much sham. Now we
must have the substance. Learning to
provide for ones wants is not so hard
lot as it may appear to many. Let us
not go on croaking over ruin, but put
our energies and shoulders to the task of
redeeming the past, and the present de
preston and panic will pass away and
leave US all the stronger wiser, and, in
time, richer than before.


In these days OF financial embarrass
ment it is somewhat gratifying to note so
few failures among our firms of printers
While the daily papers are filled with
announcements of the suspension OF large
m uIacturing firms and corporations, it
is seldom that we see recorded firm
connected with printing, or trades with
which printing is allied. This speaks
well for our profession, and leads US to
think that with a determination to push
matters, We shall have revival of busi
ness.-[ Newspaper Reporter.