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Year: 1878

OUE BEEF AND DAIRY PRoDUcTs.-Tbe
Philadelphia Ledger, says Since cotton was
dethroned corn has become king. but the cow
IS after the corn and may yet have to be made
queen, since the COW now furnishes, in butter
and cheese alone, products second in value
only to the corn crop of the country. The
International Dairy Fair, which is to omen in
New York next week, has called attention to
the statistics of the butter and cheese manu-
iaeture, from which it appears that there are
thirteen million cows in the United States. or
more than there is in a number of European
nations having more than four times the non
sIlatIon of the United States. The value Of
butter and cheese products is fifty million
dollars more than the value of the wheat crop,
aud IS second only to that of corn. The i'm
portanee of the industry is further shown by
the fact that over six million dollars is paid
annually for the transportation ofbutter and
cheese to consumers, one million dollars being
paid as ocean freight. The exports have
been steadily increasing, and this year will
amount to one hundred and thirty million
pounds of cheese and twenty-five million
pounds of butter.
Year: 1878

The second session of the 18th Con-
gress commences on Monday next, and as
it must close on the Sd of March its at
tention should be given strictly to matters
of business. It has been asserted by the
Washington correspondents that it will be
devoted TO business rather than buncombe,
but we fear that it viii be occupied with
political questions and tumultuous scenes
result, just as in the closing session of the
43d Congress, when the Republicans for
the last time ruled tie House of Repre-
sentatiyes. This session will witness for
the last time for some years Republican
supremacy in the Senate, and it is more
than likely they will make good use of
their power, just as the same party did
when relinquishing control of the House.
Year: 1878

The Democratic House has again distln-
guished itself. It rejects manned Union
soldier in favor of man who fought in the
Confederate army, was so "unreconciled"
that he lived abroad for years in voluntary
exile, and whose political disabilities have
but recently been removed. You can trust
the Democratic House to give the preference
to rebel every time.
Year: 1878

SOME of the Democratic correspondents
are saying that the Presidential campaign of
1915 cost Mr.. Tilden $4,000. That is why
he could not pay his income tax. BE was
saving money to buy the Presidency.
Year: 1878

Every club is invited to send delegates, and it is
earnestly hoped that large number will be present.
as it desired to make this one Of the most benefit
cent mass meetings ever held in the State, and give
new impetus to the reform work in Brunswick.


The usual reduction on the railroads will be made.
Year: 1878

We do not read anonymous letters and communi
cations The name and address Of the writer are in
alcases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as q guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
municatons that are not used.
Year: 1878

Golden Medical Discovery
Is Alternative, or blood cleansing.
Golden Medical Discovery


Is Pee ctoral.
Golden Medical Discovery
Is IL CholaEogue, or Liver Stimulant
Golden Medical Discovery


Is Tonic.
Golden Medical Discovery
Year: 1878

REGISTRATION OF MAIL PACKAGES.-
We read that the postmaster general will
probably recommend to congress the fol
lowing method for registration of mail
packages. He proposes that the govern
ment shall Issue printed forms OF receipts
for letters, about three inches long and
two inches wide; that they be put up in
the form of books, perforated at one end
so that they may be easily removed, and
gummed on the back of one end ST. that
they may be reatrached either 10 the origi-
nal book or 10 the pages. he suggests, can
be sold by the postotiice department. at
the rate Of two cents When any person
makes up his mail 10 be sent 70 the post
office, the plan is that a copy Of the adj
dress OF the letter shall be written upon
one Of these blanks and sent 10 the post
Office with the letter itself. When these
are HANDED TO the postofiice clerk he would
be required 10 stamp the receipt and re-
turn it, hut would make no mark from
the letter itself not now required for can
collation. and date The receipts. with
the post"ffice stamp, could he preserved.
and would be evidence that the letters or
packages with which they corresponded
had been deposited in the postoffice.
Year: 1878

MOTHERS As DoCToRs Practical moth
ers learn much by their experience with
the little bodies intrusted To their care.
Some of the most common scn5c facts Ill
the physical culture Of these little ones
known to the more experienced mothers
NAV not come amiss to those who have
had but little care Of children The foun
dation must ha well laid to insure healthy
and happy children. The child must be
well slept, We'll aired, well feI and well
bathed Ey thorough understanding
and practice Of thess four simple rules,
much Of the physical. mental and moral
suffering in life would be avoided by par


ents rs well as child Ii a healthy child
land delicate one proanrtionately) is reg
ularly put to bed :.b"~t dark, III Il quiet,
wei-ventiIated, or even cold room, after
a supper Of plain food, 1t will naturally
awake at daybreal; good-uatured, with Il
keen appetite for a wholesome breakfast.
Nutritious, PLAIN food, at regular hours,
and no candy or stimu!autS, and free bath


ing, help the system 10 ward off many
prevalent children ailments. and To bear
with much less danger the few that must
necessarily come to the majority Of little
ones The child that Is just gwen little
confectionery, or any unsuitable food. and
then rocked to sleep, should cause no sur
prise at waking peevish and feverish. 1t
is simply the result Of imaginary affection
ana want of knowledge on the part of the
one in charge, 1t viii certainly pay in
the end to search diligently for the cause
when a little child is Proverbially cross.
Year: 1878

To STRENGTHEN the Republican party
throughout the country, Hayes Cabinet
officers have resolved to make war on
South Carolina; and the notorious Judge
Bond is to be ordered to that State at
once to put the matter i'll due COURSE
The conduct Of affairs at Washington is
SO extrayagant and scandalously corrupt
that there are more States than South
Carolina that feels disgust for the gov
ernment and orits officials as the tools Of
oppression and fraud. These junketing
Cabinets and Presidential parties are the
outcome of high salaries. They have nc
feeling in common with the people.
Year: 1878

WHY SHOULDN'T we have bell-puncl
in Delaware, it would do away with this
everlasting quarrel over the license sys-
TEN and help us to pay our debts Be
sides making this more equal, as it would
break up all unlicensed grogseries; and
the Clayton House as well as the smallest
shop would be kno"n if they sold with
out punch. to be violators of the law.
Year: 1878

THE DELAWARE DEMOCRACY care
very little now for platforms The last
has been so utterly disregarded, that they
have feeling approaching disgust when
the name is mentioned. All that is cared
for is the reduction Of expenditures
Economy, Retrenchment and Reform, as
an addenda to the platform of 1874 will
serve the peoples interests as well as a
score of well drawn resolutions.
Year: 1878

WE DON'T believe it would hurt the
people very much if few more bonds
were paid off with greenbacks, now that
the mints are grinding out silver and
gold dollars by the million. We all like
greenbacks, and hope to see them as ac-
ceptable to the bondholders as they are to
common taxpayer, who receive them for
payment of interest.
Year: 1878

Now for another spicy chapter in the
Sheridan-Schurz debate. The general
has forwarded his reply to the doughty
secretary Of the interior, and obliges
that gentleman with the specifications
Of wrongs on which the general rallied.
1t Is no doubt an incisive and complete
document, just in Sheridan's style.
But we venture the opinion that the
honorable secretary will come back on
him and ask why tho derelictions and
wrongs mentioned were not transmit
ted through the proper channel to him,
that he might correct the abuses, all
Of which was plainly the duty Of an
officer high in the military branch of
the government, and who is supposed
to have ut least a modicum Of interest
in the we'll being Of that government.
Year: 1878

1T Is as pleasant to Q a member of
the commissions which are organizing
Eastern Roumenia as it is to be a
king or emperor. Threatened assassi-
nation is the daily bill of fare In both
cases.
Year: 1878

For the sake of growing civilization
1t is to be hoped that the newly invent
ed German drum will not gain recogni-
tion in the United States. 1t is made
of sheet steel and is vibrated with iron
drumsticks.
Year: 1878

A DISPATCH from Washington says
that Gen. Sherman and the other off,
GERS high in rank in the army, who are
not In danger Of decapitation by the
enactment Of the new army bill, but
who, on the contrary, would have
greatly aggrandized powers in that
event, are working hard for the passage
OF the bill. Those officers are infiu-
encing congressman individually while
they are feeding the public mind,
through the press, with favorable liter
ature. Upon the subordinate line off,
Gers must fall the burden Of the oppo-
sition, and unless they take active meas
ures, and move soon, they will find the
die cast against them.
Year: 1878

A LETTER written by the pope to the
archbishop OF Cologne is published.
Speaking Of his efforts to harmonize
affairs In Germany, Leo concludes:
"We must pray God to lead the noble
and powerful emperor of Germany and
his advisors to show more disposition
towards good will.'' It will be OBJ
served that his holiness does not speak
OF the emperor's advisers as being
either noble or powerful, but while
they may not be noble they are certain
ly powerful.
Year: 1878

The woman was old and ragged and gray,
And bent with the chill of winters day;
The street was wet with a recent snow,
And The Woman's feet were aged and slow.
She stood at the crossing and waited long,
Alone, uncared for, amid the throng
Ofhuman beings who passed her by,
Nor Needed the glance of her anxious eye.
Down the street, with laughter and shout.
Glad in the freedom Of "school let out.
Came the boys like flock of sheep,
Hailing the snow piled white and deep.
Past the woman SO old and gray,
Hasted the children on their way,
Nor offered helping hand to her,
So meek, so timid, afraid to stir
Lest the carriage wheels or the horses feet
Should crowd her down in the slippery street
At last came one of the merry troupe
The gayest laddie of all the group;
He paused beside her, and whispered low,
"Tll help you across if you wish to 60"
Her aged hand on his strong young arm
She placed, and so, without hurt or harm,
He guided her trembling feet along,
Proud that his own were firm and strong
Then back again 10 his friends he went,
His young heart happy and well content;
'She's somebody's mother, boys, you know,
For all she's aged, and poor and slow,
And | hope some fellow will lend hand
To help my mother, you understand,
If ever she's poor and old and gray,
When her own dear boy is far away"
And somebody's mother" bowed low her


head


In her home that night, and the prayer she


said


Was-"God be kind to the noble boy,
Who is somebody's son and pride and joy"
Year: 1878

The4time when a pious editor is ex-
cusable for knocking splinters from the
the third commandment is when he
jabs the wrong end of his penholder
in bis inkstand and hastily shoves it
behind his ear without wiping it off,
Year: 1878

sPrDERs.-Only the female spiders
spin webs. They own all the real es-
tate, and the males have to live a
vagabond life under stones and other
obscure hiding places. If they come
about the house so often as to bore the
ruling sex, they are mercilessly killed
and eaten. The spiders skin is as
unyielding as the skin of Holsters and
crabs, and is shed from time to time
in the same way to accommodate the
insects growth. If you poke ever
the rubbish in the female spiders back
yard, among the cast-off corsets, you
will find the jackets of the males who
have paid for their socially with their
lives-trophies of her barbarism as
truly as scalps show the savage nature
Of the red man.
Year: 1878

As good joke on the inland Secre-
tary Of the Navy, the papers are tell
ing that, when he was inspecting a
warship at the Philadelphia Navy
Yard, it was thought proper to show
him the depth of the vessel by remov-
ing one of the matches; when, to the
astonishment of all present, he ex-
claimed @Why, the old thing is hol-
low p
Year: 1878

"One Don Cossack is so like another
that the idea is difficult to get rid of
that they have all been made to order
in one mould, and that In case Of acci-
dent their heads, arms or legs are inter-
changeable. The Cossack is not a very
savory gentleman, but Galatz is fine
place for taking the edge off ones sem
sibilltles regarding smells; and we can
get to windward of the Cossack we wish
to inspect, which is more than we can
do In regard to the Galatz drains.
Friend Cossack is little chap, about
FIVE feet five, even on his high heels,
but at once sturdy and wiry. His
eather-beaten face is shrewd, knowing
aud merry. His eyes are small, but
keen; his mouth large, and between it
rand his pug nose rather redder than
the rest of his face--if tult or wlsp
of straw -colored mustache. His long,
thick, straight, hair matches his
moustaehe in color, and Is cut sheer
round by the nape Of his neck. He
wears a round oilskin peakless shake
with knowing cock to the right, to
maintain which angle there is strap
round his chubby chin. Below the
neck the Cossack is all boots and
greatcoat exteriorly. The greatcoat,
which is of thick gray blanketlng comes
down below his knees; his boots come
up to them. He is more armed than
any man of his inches in Europe, is
Year: 1878

WE hear a good report from the
canvass being made by Msj. Ken.
Wheeler in the Third District. He is
a gentleman of ability, and is thor
oughIy posted in political matters,
though he has never actively engaged
in politics. He is entirely worthy OF
the support of the people of his Dis
trict and deserves to be elected.
Year: 1878

Special TO the star.


SENATOR PATTERsoN's CONDITION.


WASHINGTON, Jan. Ex-senator Patter-
sons condition is more critical than has
been stated in the papers. For some
time the only nourisbment he has been
able to keep on his stomach is some raw
meat taken in balls three times day.
No one is allowed to see him, for fear Of
exciting him unduly. Yesterday he sat
up an hour or two, and was supposed to
be better, but last evening he had are
lapse. His trouble IL severe nervous
pros tration. He has been treated with
anodynes and cupping. It is obvious
that bis recovery will be slow, and is
only to be hoped for as the result of
skilltul treatment.
Year: 1878

give snipe q minute, which is about
equal to the hog killing operations OF the
great siaughter-hOusss OF Chicago. Be-
sides the pleasure and pride Of such an
achievement, the robust appearance Of
the gentleman by whom It was per-
formed, when we met him yesterday on
our streetsu nttests the happy effects
upon his physical condition Of the exer-
cise and excitement Of his Nimrodian
enterprise. He will return to his enjoy
ment OF the luNuries and pleasures Of
his family residence at Biaritz, France,


with a keen and invigorated relish ana
capacity OF enjoyment"
Year: 1878

BEFORE parliament adjourned last
night, the home secretary said, in
answer to inquiry, that although dis
tress was widespread in England, the
present means. of relief were sufficient
for the suffering poor.
Year: 1878

A NUMBER of prominent business
men of New York met at private
residence last night and advocated Gre
ating q large temperance association,
and raising funds to carry on Murphy's
work.
Year: 1878

MANY things occurred during
our tornado storm that have not yet
been noted. For instance, while
Mr.. WIN Cooking, the gentleman
whose property was SO badly derol-
ished, was proceeding to the house
to seek shelter from the storm, there
dropped from the heavens. close in
front of him, q large cake of ice Of
immense proportions, and its likely
that had the same struck him on the
head he would have been killed in
stantly.
Year: 1878

NEW AND BEACTIFUL.-This is
properly speaking of Bishop & Nam
colas' hew hsarse. In each upper
corner of the body is represented
the welcoming angel in white grace
fully lowering oyer the mammoth
oval glass. On top, instead Of the
feather ornamentation, is on urn tip
ped with an gold imitation Of white
drapery hanging at the sides, and on
the inside hang beautiful satin cur
tains. The proprietors have secured
this hearse at considerable expense,
and it is without doubt the finest in
the county.
Year: 1878

Mn. SAM'L FITzsIMoNs, who spent
some three weeks in Nebraska, re-
turned home last week favorably
impressed with that part of the
western country. He met several
parties who formerly resided in and
about Mineral Point, and they were
all industrious in their efforts to
cultivate the wild prairies ard secure
for themselves new and pleasant
homes. Good farming lands can be
bought there for from S. to SO per
per acre, and it is being taken up
rapidly at these figures. The crop
prospects have never been more
tiattering IN the history of the State
which causes every farmer to wear
a smiling countenance. Mr.. +. re.
ports water and wood, at some points
very scarce. The former requires
considerable toiling and expense to
insure a sufficient quantity for farm
stock, and the latter is at such 8
distance that eye cannot observe the
least sign of timber Loo what way
you may. And so it is, no matter
what country or CLINE one seek
there's always faults and disadvan'
tages connected with it.
Year: 1878

A RATHER serious runaway took
place early yesterday morning on
High street A farmers team had


been taken to Bohan's livery stable
for carriage with which to go to
the k.jgeway picnic. The horses
took fright st the covered vehicle to
which they were being attached and
despite the efforts Of the boy hold
ing the reins, dashed madly down
street, striking the pile Of lumber
10 front Of the City Hall, breaking
one of the wheels, throwing the
Year: 1878

Mr.. Shylay is as awkward as new
umbrella, and as timid as sore thumb.
He mustered up courage the other even
ing-on q bet-to call upon young
lady whose brother was an intimate ac-
quaintance. He had planned it all out
beforehand how he would make her be-
ieve he had just dropped IN to see Tom,
who was ont of town at that time, as he
very well knew.


As the servant ushered him into the
parlor, he saw the young lady sitting
upon the other side of the room, and
from that moment he was demoralized
man, and as much bewildered in his
head as though he had dropped in through
the roof from balloon two miles high.
The young lady rose with a smile to
greet him, and, in trying to make bow
in return that should show her how per-
fectly at ease he was, he got tangled up
in two chairs and stepped on the cats
tail, which objected in such decidedly
vociferous manner, with its most e1-
pressive yowhng accompaniment, tha
he opened his mouth like iewelry case
to join in, and spilled his new teeth over
the floor. In making a spring to regain
them, the center table stepped to one
side to make room for him, and nice
lot of valuable ornaments got INTO the
right place at the proper time to get
wrecked and ruined.


After falling over pretty much every
thing in the room he made q desperate
dash for the door, and encountered the
girls mother, who was coming in to as
certain the cause of the hubbub. Her
eye obtained such o close view of his
elbow that it went at once into mourn
ing, and she went spinning out into the
hall, trying to waltz with the hat-rack,
and banging her nose up so that it
wouldn't stand it, and sent an ambassa-
dor in crimson to protest. By this time
her voice was made to understand that
it had work to do, and well it did it.
Shrieks of all sizes chased each other all
over the house, but, before they could
bring the coachman from his nap in the
stable, poor Shylay had managed to get
into the street and far from the scene of
trouble.


He can never go into that mansion
again, he says, and feels that hencefortl
a cloud as thick as brick house will
darken his pathway.


"Horridly, awfully drunk y was the
unanimous verdict of the old lady and
her daughter. Cincinnati Breakfast
Table,
Year: 1878

They had been out to the graveyard
to bury Mrs. Pidgeon, and were riding
home in the carriage with the bereaved
widower. While he sopped his eyes
with his handkerchief he told about her:


sIn one respect 1 never saw her equal.
She was a manager. I've knowed that
woman that's lying out there in the tomb
to take an old pair of my trousers and
cut them up for the boys. She'd make
a splendid suit of clothes for both. Of
them out of them old pants, and aocss1s
for Johnny, and have some left over for
a rag-carpet, besides naking handker-
chiefs out of the pockets, and hustle
for herself out of the other Innings. Give
her any old garment and it was as good
as a gold mine. Why, she'd take
WORKOUT sock and make good overcoat
out OF it, I believe. She had a turn for
that kind Of economy. There's one OF
nv shirts that I bought in 1847 still go
ing about making itself useful as window
curtains and plenty of other things;
Only last July our gridlron gave out, ana
she took it apart, and In two hours
it was rugged on the side Of the house
as splendid hghtning-rod, all except
what she had made into poker and an
ice-pick. Ingenious? Why, she kept
her family IN buttons ana Whistles out
of the ham bones she saved, and she


made fifteen princely chicken coops from
her old hoop skirts, and q pig pen out OF
her used-up corset bones. She never
wasted solitary thing. Let cat die
around our house, and the first thing
you knew Mary Jane'd have muf and
a set Of furs, and I'd begin to find rnince
pies on the dinner-table. She'd stuff a
feather bed with the feathers she'd got
off one little bit Of a rooster, and she'd
even utilize the reaches in the kitchen
SOS they'd run the churn-had ma
chine she invented for the purpose. I've
seen her COOK potato paring5 SOS you q
tfiEk they were canvas back duck, and
sLa hsd way of doctorinS up shavlngs
that tie pig'd eat 'enn Rad grow fat on
'en. / believe that woman could build
four-story hotel if you'd give her a
single pine board; or a steamboat out OF


a rash biler; and the very last thing she
said to me vas to bury her in the gar
,len. SOS she'd be useful down below


there, helping to shove up the cabbages.
I'll never see her like again"
Year: 1878

A sense of the 1udicrous is very en-
ioyable thing, but it may be too highly
developed occasionally. This seems to
be the case with an English farmer who
has recently appeared before the courts.
He was sitting in the parlor of an inn,
one evening, reading the news, when his
eye CHANGED to fall on the sleeping form
of man with long beard. He went
to the fire, and, lighting piece of paper,
deliberately applied it to the sleeping
mans beard. There was bright, rush
ing flame for second or two; the man
spr-ng to his feet in agony; the joke
was complete, and the farmer roared in
ecstasy. The unfortunate sufferer, who
happened to be the village tailor, knew
that the farmer was man of substantial
means, and sued him for damages. Dur
ing the entire trial the farmer fostered
his sense of humor, and laughed up
roariously when it was stated that the
plaintiffs beard was originally eighteen
inches long. He did not laugh SO heart
lily when he was called upon to pay 81. ZOO
and costs.