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Year: 1875




Hair is not less useful than ornamental.
1t Is a bad conductor of heat, and keeps
the head warm in winter and cold in
summer. 1t wards off the effects of the
sun; and we find negroes exposing them.
selves without head covering to its burn
ing rays in tropical climate without the
slightest injury, and some tribes OF wild
Arabs, who wear neither tarboosh nor
turban, are said to rely solely ON their
'bushy heads of hairas protection against
sunsIroke.


1t may not be generally known that
the state of the hair depends much ON
that of the general health. In perfect
health the hair is full, glossy and rich in
Its hues, in consequence Of the absorp.
Mon from the blood OF nutrltive juice
containing its proper proportion. OF oily
and albuminous elements.


In persons out OF health it may lose its
.brilliancy of hue, and become lank and
straight, from the presence of imperfect
juices; in others, again, there may be a
total absence of such nutritiye elements,
and the hair consequently looks faded
and dead. Climate exercises great in
huence ON the curIiness of the hair, as
may be illustrated in the difference in
this respect between the native OF the
North and Of the South.
Year: 1875

There is a happy couple out on Court
about week. They commenced house.
Keeping yesterday, and had roast turkey
lor dinner. 1t was the first she ever
roasted in her life, and she took great
pride in having it all ready when John
came home. John came, and shortly
after the young husband, with a very
pale expression of countenance, was
seen to stride across the back yard and
throw a whole turkey over the fence.
The inexperienced housewife had roasted
it without removing the interior works,
and it was altogether too much turkey
for him,
Year: 1875

Spirits Of turpentine is sovereign
remedy for Group. Saturate piece OF
flannel with it and place it on the throat
and chest and send for your family ply
sician. If the case be very urgent, and
The child in great distress, and the dis
tance to the doctors residence be very
great, drop three drops Of the turpentine
on alump Of sugar and give it internally
Or good emetic of tincture of blood.
root. or lobelia, or both combined, should
be given. Every family should keep a
bottle of spirits OF turpentine in the
house,
Year: 1875

SHE CURED HIM.-At last she COM
pletely cured him. For months she
had patiently endured the pangs which
so many thousands of young wives are
compelled to suffer. Almost every
morning at breakfast the heartless hus-
band expressed the hope that he might
live to see the day when he should get
such coffee as ne used to have at home;
or such corn bread as his mother was
wont to make and bake. At dinner, the
meat was Overbaked in the range. To
be sure, his mother used to roast the
meat in an old-fashioned Dutch tin oven,
and the piece was always done to a turn
the last turn of a revolving spit.
Those days were forever gone, but he
might and ought to get such green
apple pie with new cheese as his
mother used to give him. At length,
the long-suffering wife arose in her
wrath, upset the table, sending the
dishes and their contents crashing to
the carpet, strided over to her astonished
husband, gave him q box on the ear
which knocked him off his chair, and
remarked: "There's clip over the head
for you, such as your mother used to
give you when you was boy" There
after, there was domestic peace and
quiet in that house, with never an allu-
sion to the maternal cookery and COM
forts of the by-gone days.
Year: 1875

firmly refuse. Therefore, with one hand
she makes, or allows to be made, a
drunkard or a pauper, and with the
other, she feeds and clothes him and his
children.


I do not like this left-handed work.
She should be willing to combat the
evils of society, even if unpopular to do
so, and save poor children from such
utter poverty and destitutiOn.


The poor we have ever with US, and
whenever we will we may do them
good; but even pecuniary aid is not all
that should be rendered. The blessed
Master went about doing good, but he
also had another mission. That mis-
sion was to establish the kingdom of
heaven in the hearts of the people-es-
tablish it there so securely that the life
and deeds would be pure and holy.


"This kingdom is within yOu," he
said to his followers, and when we have
this true heart-cOnsecration, no danger
but the life will be in accordance with
His divine will.


If we have money, we should remem-
ber that we are only entrusted with it
as stewards, and we will be careful to
use it for the good of humanity and the
glory of God. If we have no money,
but instead, have talents and fame, let
US still remember that for these, too, we
are responsible.


Women should help one another. I
do not think it the wisest use of money
to educate fiippant young men for min
listers, who, when settled over parishes
of their own, preach shallow sermons,
deriding the noble women who would
gladly make the world better, the hem
of whose garments would be desecrated
by touch of their unhallOwed fingers.


Colleges for boys have been in exist
ence 800 years. Colleges for girls, about
thirty years. Ought we not then to
help found schools for women, instead
of helping those who do not need it?


Rich women have a responsibility
here. Boys do not need your help as do
the girls. Think how many thousands
of poor girls there are, toilirg for the
most scanty pittance, who would gladly
be in school preparing for the higher
fields of usefulness. No friends to assist
them; none but God knows the bitter
ness of their lives.
Year: 1875

The only fair way for parents to bring
up their children is to give the girls an
equal chance with the boys. We mean
to educate them as they do the boys,
and prepare them in like manner in all
respects to rely upon and support them
selves. This is the only true solution OF
the much-veXed question of woman's
rights. The strong tendency of the age
is to remove all the disabilities, social
as well as legal, which have heretofore
prevented women from competing sue
cessfully with men in all the different
professions and industries. A girl,
therefore, should be brought up in ac-
cordance with this spirit, taught that
tits upon herself she thould learn to rely
on reaching that age at which boys
strike out into the world; and not to
lean helplessly upon father or brother,
waiting for that future model husband
who is to come some day to provide heI
with Han establishment"


A woman must make, in our opinion,
better wife and better mother for be-
ing educated to. be self-reliant and self
dependent. Then, parents, look to it
that your girls are so educated; and
then, when you are forced to leave
them, you will feel the comforting as
surance that whatever happens, mar
ried or single, they have the ability to
support themselves, and are not liable
to be thrown on the charity of a cold
world. We have always at our college
quite number of young ladies prepar.
pairing themselves for commercial life
but we want to see more of them, fol
they do not bear the proportion to the
boys which we are so anxious to see
We treat the young ladies with the ut.
most impartiality, and pay to theil
training the same attention we give tt
the young men, and they reward US by
proving the theory we advance, thai
women can successfully compete with
men in mercantile pursuits.-HeaIdi
College Journal.
Year: 1875

The School Board of Chicago, n short
time ago, quietly and without any ado,
suspended the reading of the Bible in
the schools, just as they would vote to
omit any other study or exercise. This
action was taken unanimously, and is
now supported by some of the ablest
clergy in the city, including Robert
Collyer, Professor Swing, and Rev. G..
L. Thompson, of the Fifth Presbyterian.
The city is to be congratulated on hav-
ing taken wise step with so little fuss.
No sect can now allege against the pub
lie school system of that city any un-
fairness or partiality in religious in
structiOn.
Year: 1875

THE HEROINE OF NEWPORT.-Ida
Lewis latest exploit in pulling out
from Lime Rock Lighthouse in the
lower Newport harbOr, and rescuing a
man from drowning, recalls the earlier
achievements, which have given her
the title of "the Grace Darling of Amer
ica.n She first came into prominence
in 1866, when, on one of the coolest and
most clustering days ever known in
that latitude, she saved the life of a SOL
dier who had started for sail on the
harbor in a light skiff. One day, in
the autumn of 1867, while terrible gale
was raging, two men set out to cross
the harbor with several sheep, and, in
trying to rescue one that had fallen
overheard, came near swamping their
boat. Seeing their peril from the win
dow of her fathers lighthouse, Miss
Lewis went to their aid, and, after land
ing them safely, went back and rescued
the sheep. But her greatest exploit
was performed on the 29th of March,
1869, when boat containing two young
sailors and boy was struck by squall
on the harbOr, and overturned. Though
i'll at the time, Ida rushed out of the
house, launched her life-boat, sprang in,
with neither hat on her head nor shoes
on her feet, and reached the wreck just
in time to save the two sailors as they
were about losing their hold from eX-
haustion, the boy having meanwhile
perished, and rowed them to the light
house. Miss Lewis should be among
the first to receive the new decoration
to be bestowed by Congress for heroic
deeds in saving life.-Springfeld Re
publican.
Year: 1875

An Oregon exchange lately came out
with the assertion that all the ladies in
that town were wearing government
socks" The agonized editor tore all
the hair out of his head, shot seventeen
holes in his compositor, and chased the
prOof-reader into the mountains with q
shotgun. He then slipped back in the
night and barricaded himself in his of
flee, where he spent three days iu talk
ing through the keyhole to enraged fe-
males, trying to convince them that he
wrote "Garibaldi sacks. s.n-Ldranlie
,CenfiueL
Year: 1875

CHINESE VoTERs.-Inquiries have
been made as to whether Chinese born in
this country will be voters when they
reach the proper age. The Fifteenth
Amendment to the Constitution of the
United States certainly provides for this
case. They are native born, and race,
color, or previous condition of servitude
can not keep them from exercising
their rights at the ballot-bOx.
Year: 1875

"The long day wanes." But the sun,
away in the northwest, is still shining
brightly. 1t is eleven o'clock by our
Geneva watch Is the sun really going
to sit up all night? He seems more than
an hour high. He pours universal
flood of what seems to be light without
heat-or at least but little heat-a gen
ial warmth, like that of midwinter sun
at home, shining through south window
ON day when the mercury out of doors
stands at zero at noon Everything is
bright, however; like home landscape
IN Connecticut on some waning but clear
October afternoon, an hour before sun
set, The light of day illuminates the
ragged cliffs of the wild North cape and
the desolate shores of the Arctic ocean
Everything is still, save the solemn
plash of the waves, far below, upon the
rocks. The sun swings still farther into
the north, and sinks little lower. The
time is 11.40. We wait to see the king
OF day shining serenely at midnight
and we have not long to wait. Slowly
he dips down towards the ocean waves,
now due north, as if he were sinking in
to the ocean, on the eastern shore of re-
mote, invisible, and unvisited Spitzber-
gen. But the hour of twelve is here,
and the sun does not set. His entire
disk rests broadly over the northern sea
as we sometimes see it at home few
minutes before he touches the horizon at
sunset. We find he has still a good deal
OF heat-enough to burn hole in our
dresses with the aid of sun glass. That
is the proper thing to do, for all ladies
who go to the North cape. An hour
later and the sun has very perceptibly
risen again. He has set into sunrise, :"
and he now swings slowly upward as ii
rising out of point east of north and
north of east. There is fresh breath
of air


For breeze of the morning moves"


and ere long we feel it to be really morn
ing--but how, we cannot quite under
stand, for there has been no night, no
loss of the sun for mon ent. 1t is al
together a queer sensation, and an ex-
perience worth having We found that
wholly disregarding the sun the hens all
went to roost in Norway just about seven
o'clock P. NJ. all through June, though
the sun was five hours high, and the
world was Gas light as cork, and the
people followed their example. They
have no curtains to their windows (I
suppose such thing as burglar, or ev-
en- vulgar intruder, is unknown among
those Norway hills and vales), odd
enough it seemed to us, riding by at nine
o'clockP. M, to see, through the windows,
the people all abed and fast asleep and
the sun shining brightly, more than two
hours before his time to set.-Letteq 10
the Hartford Times.
Year: 1875

A b 9 combine their means and cred
its to make corner in July. They
therefore quietly begin in May to buy
corn to be delivered in July. They
gradually buy all the corn in the mar
ket, and, of necessity, must buy all that
arrives, paying for the latter whatever
is demanded. When purchase is thus
made seller and buyer put up margin,
either in cash, or certificate, or deposit.
As soon as the corner becomes known.
there is an effort made to break it.
The settlement takes place at 8 P. NJ.
on the last day of the month. Those
who have sold corn to the corner and
have no corn to deliver, pay the differ
ence between the price at which they
sold, and the ruling price at the close of
business on the last day. As the corner
has thus purchased sometimes five times
as much corn as there is to be had,
amounting to millions of bushels, and
the price has advanced ten cents bush
ell, the profit is enormous. AS the prices
advance, additional margin is required.
Those failing to put up the additional
margins, lose what they had already
put up. The anti-corner factions seek
to so crowd sales on the corner as to

exhaust its capital and credits, and rem
der it unable to buy at the advance
prices. Thus, the corner is compelled
to send out in the country and buy for
cash all the corn in sight, to prevent
having it rushed into Chicago at the last
moment. These are exciting times.
Corn at such moment may be pur-
chased of the corner for shipment, from
six to fifteen cents bushel less than it
is selling for on Change for delivery
during the month. Each time there is
a corner, there is crash, sometimes of
the corner men and other times of the
anti-corner men. The whole proceedings
are of such questionable honesty, that
the Legislat ure of Illinois has declared
the operation of corner to be a felony.
1t is nevertheless still practiced. Corn
ers are attempted in wheat. oats, barley,
pork, and lard, and some Of them have
been quite successful in pecuniary way.
1t requires nerve, audacity, and money,
or credit. Recently bank here went
into corner, issuing its certificates of
deposit for margins; the corner failed


and so did the bank, and the &c rtificates
have never been paid. W. Shsahan
on " Chicago; " lScribner for September
Year: 1875

A DOC SToRY.-It is said that mon
keys dislike to be laughed at and dogs
sometimes evince the same aversion to
serving as the butt of human ridicule.
A writer gives the following instance /;
A dog of his acquaintance had a fond
ness for catching flies on the window
panes but if rallied, when unsuccessful
in the effort, betrayed the greatest an
noyance. On one occasion the writer
purposely laughed immoderately each
time the dog failed to catch his game
and it so happened that he failed several
times in succession, being as the writer
believes, disconnected by the derision his
i'll success called forth. Finally, he be-
came so distressed that he actually
feigned to catch the fly, going through
all the appropriate actions with his lips
and tongue, and afterward rubbing the
floor with his neck as if. to kill his vic
tim.


When the performance was concluded
he looked up at the writer with trium-
phant air of success. So well did the dog
simulate the entire process, that had not
the fly remained on the window to con.
vict him of deceit, his ruse would have
been undiscovered. When, however, his
attention was called to the fly, as well as
to the absence of any remnants of one
upon the floor, he saw that his hypocrisy
was understood, and skunk away under
some furniture as if exceedingly asham-
ed of himself.
Year: 1875

Uranium discovered to the surprise of the
operators and spectators suffusion of
blood in the organ and all unequivocal
marks of apoplexy, while the stomach
and other digestive organs were found
to exhibit not the slightest indication of
any poisonous substance. The surprise
and probably, in their excited state of
mind against the supposed criminal, the
disappointment of the spectators was ex-
treme. The result Of the examination
was irresistible in proof that the death
was occasioned by apoplexy and not by
poison, and the mans life was saved, for
it is scarcely to be doubted that jury
would have convicted him upon the
evidence of the circumstances enumera-
ted.


1t will probably be asked, How is
the circumstance of the sickness of the
wife's relation to be accounted for ?" 1t
is explained by singular fact, of which
one or two other instances are known to
have occurred. The beans of which the
meal was principally composed had been
baked in earthen vessels and were al
lowed to grow cold. They had been
kept long enough to have turned acid to
a slight degree and when they were
placed in the oven to be reheated the ac.
ton of the acid in the sides of the Jar
decomposed the glazing with which the
interior Of the jar was coated, and Of
which sulphuret of lead is the chief in.
gredient. A poisonous substance was
thus developed and infused into the con-
tents of the jar, and those symptoms Of
sickness more or less severe according to
the part of the jar from which the beans
were taken of which they eat. After
this it was not difficult to admit that the
arsenic found in the mans possession
might have been purchased for the de-
struction of rats, as he had constantly
averred was the case.
Year: 1875

LovE1Ess MARRIAGES is better


to love a man that YOU can never mar
~ than to marry man that you can
never love. This is short text for n
long sermon" says some wise man or
woman. 4 lovclcss marriage is much
worse for q woman in every way than
for a man. In the first place woman
has the credit whether she deserves it
or not, Of being much more refined, of
possessing much more delicacy and
sensibility than the Stronger SEX"
Being thus higher, her degradation,
when it comes. is much more thorough
and terrible. Few things can con-
ducc to this result in greater degree
than the constant and intimate rcla-
ton of married life with man whom
she does not love. We have heard re-
fined young women speak with dis
oust Of the coarsencss shown in the
conversation of a class OF their mar
ricd lady acquaintanccs, and in many
cases have traced this disagrceable
trait back to its causc-a well-known
lovclcss welded life. Then, again,
ncrhaps the woman who marrics for
supnort. for home, an "establlsh-
mentr or because she has never loved
anv one and fears that the present will
be her last chance, dreadful thought),
afterward meets some one whom she
can and does love. The result is easl
" forescen, either life spent IN the
terrible effort to subdue an unhappy
passion or the divorce court Alter
all, the good old Quaker custom is
best. due deliberation and reflection
before "entering into the married
state" Marrying in haste to repent
at leisure is very fashionable nova
davs but it is a fashion which can be
profitable or pleasant only to the law
yers. and not to them if they have any
nity for the unhappy victims OF ante,
nnntial foolishness and post-nuptlal
misery.
Year: 1875

en- walls, and with our consent they
never shall.


Reporters it true that gypsies
never marry except with their own
people?


Gypsy-Yes, sir.


The rudely prepared meal was now
ready, and old and young partook of
it with zest which many an epicure
in the palaces of the wealthy might
have envied.
Year: 1875

IMPORTANT ACTION OF THE BOARD YESTERDAY
MR.. BABcocK ORDERED TO APPEAR BEFORE
THE BoARD-DIvIsIoN ENGINEER YATES sUs-
PENDED-FURTHER EXPENDITURE REDUCED.


ALBANY August II, 1875
at special meeting Of the Canal Board to-day rcso-
luton adopted requesting the Attorney General TO
examine and report TO the Canal Board TO the validity
Of the contracts named in the published proceedings Of
the Governors Canal investigating Commission and
further TO examine the testimony and facts in rela-
tion thereto in the possession of the Commission and
in the meantime to make no further payments under
these contracts until the Board has determined
their validity or passed upon the question of their
abandonment taken such steps in relation thereto
as may be necessary protect the interests of the
State letter was received from s. E. Babcock, Resi-
dent Engineer, asking the Board to investigate the
charges made against him by the Canal Commission OF
making overestimates while assistant engineer.


MR.. BABcocK wANrRD


On motion of Attorney General Pratt Mr. Babcock was
notified appear before the Canal Board at its
meeting and show why he should not be removed
from the Office OF Resident Engineer Of the Eastern
Division of the New York State canals and In the
time he suspended


MR. YATES SUSPENDED


On motion of Treasurer Raines John B. Yates no.
titled appear before the Canal Board its
ing and show cause why he should be removed from
the office of Division Engineer of the Eastern Division OF
the New York State canals and in the meantime he
suspended.


REDUCING THE APPROPRIATIONS


The following resolution, offered by Lieutenant Gov
ernor Dorsheimer, was adopted


Whereas it appears that the appropriations for the
ordinary repairs of the Eastern and Western divisions
for the current fiscal year have been exhausted,


Resolved That the Canal Commissioners in charge be
directed TO make such further expenditures for ordinary
repairs upon such divisions as may be necessary to
maintain navigation, not exceeding the of $40 900
upon the Eastern Division and the sum of $40 900
upon the Western Division.


Mr.. Wllers offered resolution looking TO reduction
of the forces in the Engineering Department of the
Canal, which adopted.
Year: 1875

DETROIT, Mich, August II, 1875
The body OF Grmwood, who assembled in the balloon
with Donaldson from Chicago July was this morn
Ing found on the beach of Lake Michigan twelve miles
north of Montagu in this State 1t was


FULLY IDENTIFIED
by tho clothing watch letter book and other papers
of the unfortunate reporter In his book the
Introductory paragraphs


GIVING ACCOUNT OF THE ASCENT
They are OF acetious nature and refer 70 hts pre-
sentiment that he should in the world and while
complimenting his companion the aeronaut Donaldson
regrets that there not more than two, as he
would like 10 belong TO the Upper Ten The notes. after
describing an hour in the air, conclude with the
words


THE CONCLUDING WORDS
'lf we fall, fall like Lucifcr out Of tho heavens
and that upon arrival upon earth or rather upon
water-as we are in the middle of Lake Michigan
we would be literally dead"
Year: 1875

through High, Franklin, Hope and High streets and
Ferry road back 10 General Burnside's residence
where His Excelency escorted into the dining
room, and stationed himself midway between Two
doors The members Of The Grand Army passed
through and each of the ''Vets grasped the hand OF
their old chief A number of citizens and ladies' also
received by the President the tntroducOns being
made by General Burnside The reception lasted about
hour Al two o'clock the gates leading to the
grounds were closed, and but the intimate
friends of General Burnside admitted The re-
mainder of the day spent fanpiLe no public din
taking place was anticipated


II understood that President Grant will leave Brs
tol tomorrow evening for New York but If the pro
gramme is changed he will hold reception at the resi-
dence OF Mrs. Colt