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Year: 1874

A young lady in Waco, Texas, who lost
the power of speech two years ago from an
attack of the measles, attended picnic,
and while enjoying swing the excitement
brought return of speech. She was con-
graduated by everybody present but one;
he was the fellow who took her to the pic
mic, and had got her consent by mods and
squeezing Of hands, and the day was set.
He went around the picnic swearing he
would put head on the man who proposed
the swing. The peace and quiet of his flu
ture life had been blasted by that swing.
Year: 1874

An Irishman, newly engaged, presented
to his master one morning pair of boots,
the leg Of one Of which was much longer
than the other. Chow comes it, you rascal,
that these boots are not of the same length -?
81 really don't know, sir; but what bothers
me most is that the pair down stairs are in
the same fix.
Year: 1874

There are times when life seems of little
value, and one of these seasons came to
John last Sunday. He went to church
with new beaver and a young woman.
He was happy. He seated the damsel at
his right hand and placed his hat upon the
left. They rose to sing, but during the
singing one Or two strangers were usnered
into the seat, and this necessitated change
of position. The hymn over, John pre-
pared to seat himself, but, forgetful of the
change, sat down deliberately and decidedly
upon the crown of his new hat. There was
report like that of a young cannon, the
near audience snickered, and John, with
one look at his young lady, took the rem
nants of that hat in bis hand and walked
meekly out of church.
Year: 1874

The Democrats assert that the Republi-
can party has "outlived its usefulness" as
the ends for which it was created have
been gained Now. If they can prove
that the Democratic party is entirely
extinct, and is powerless to make an
other attempt upon the life of the gov
eminent, we shall not feel like making
any serious objections to the re-construc
ton of parties. In the light of recer.
events, there is yet lively work tor the
Republican party to do.
Year: 1874

Bors NoTE TINS Don't forget to take
Off your hat when you enter the house
Gentlemen never keep their hats on, in
the presence Of ladies', and if you always
take yours OIL when mamma and the girls
are by, you will not forget yourselfor be
mortified when guest or stranger
happens TO be in the parlor Habit is
stronger than anything else, and you will
always find that the easiest way to make
sure Of doing right on all occasions is to
get in the habit of doing right Coed
manners cannot be put on at moments
warning.
Year: 1874

To CLEANSE CARPETS One teaspoon.
full of liquid ammonia in one gallon OF
warm water will often restore the color
of carpets, even il produced BY acid or
alkali II ceiling has been whitewashed'
and the carpet disfgured BY drops OF the
mixture. this will remove it; or, after the
Garnet is well beaten and brushed, scour
with OK gall which will not extract
grease, bu, freshen the colors. One pins
of call in three gallons Of warm water
will do large carpet Table hoor.cleths
may be thus washed. The suds left from
a wash where ammonia is used, even II
almost cold cleanses these foor.cloths
we'll
Year: 1874

ES- SO long as God holds you up by
the will and determination to serve Him
with which He inspires you, go on bold
ly and do not be frightened at your little
checks and falls, so long as you can
throw yourself into II arms in trusting
love. Go there with an open, joyful
heart as often as possible; if not always
joyful, at least 60 with brave and faith
ful heart
Year: 1874

DEATH t. REACHES Take two ouacss
OF lard and rub in with stick one ounce
or less of phosphorus, Spread on tnln
pioccs of bread; put round the room
over night, and open an account WIN
fertilizing company in the morning TOT
the purchase Of the corpses
Year: 1874

CLEANING CANE SEArs--Turn up the
chair bottom aud with hot water ana
sponge wash the cane-work SO 'hat J.
NAV lie thoroughly soaked. Should It
be dirty, use little soap Let it dry IN
The air, aud ii will he as dry and urn As
when new, provided the cane is not
broken
Year: 1874

commercial world is therefore at the mercy OF
a child with any number of loaded muskets I'D
hand or within reach.


But how much better will it be if Congress
undertakes the management of the currency
From the nature of our paper system immense
powers for good or evil must be vested either
in Congress-, or in the Administration, or III
both. The limit of the grcenback circulation
was supposed to be fixed. Every Ope sup
posed it was $356000,0O0 until Boutwell, ana
Richardson made their grand discovery OF the
forty four million reserve. COncede the exist
ence of this unlawful, unconstitutional re-
serve forthwith there is an agitation for Tree
banking and equal rights to put forth neon
vertible notes. and fifty or hundred millions
are added to the National Bank circulation.
We know that a majority in both Houses Oh
the present Congress are in favor OF a mou-
crate imitation, but who can tell what they
will be in favor of when they meet next
December, after the elections have been heid
If they are now approached with concessions
and compromises, what prophet can foreteii
the amount of currency which year hence
they will think the country requires 10 do
business in a style becoming this great anu
growing hepuDHci Ihe cNh VI "ho'i Wv
merchants complain is in the paper money
system, and can be eradicated only with the
system. Let Congress once vote to enlarge
the paper circulation in order to revive busi-
ness. and no business is safe. The structure
of mercantile credit will have received q
wound which the highest courage and
wisest craftsmanship will find it diff
cult task to cure. The only safety
consists in fixing the legal-tender limit
at $356,OOO,OOO or less. Place it at
3Sa,OOO,OOO or s4OO,OOOOOO, and we have
launched our boat into stream which Will
carry it to bankruptcy. If the merchants and
business men are willing to compromise ON this
question; if they are now ready to yield
twenty-six millions or forty-four millions to
initiation, they must expect to see, and they
will see, more initiation, and perhaps at tho
next session of this very Congress.
Year: 1874

the nerves were discussed at the expense OF
tho frogs, there was nothing particularly
alarming about them, at least to the human
race. But these professors of science never
seem to know where to stop. Dogs have SUI
fered; "Give me black dogs" says the cruel
old alchemst; ".the white ones whine" Rats
and cats without number have walked into
the glass bells of the chemist to test
the power of bis new-found vapors.
There are monographs enough concern
ing expiring rabbits to make library
There are many volumes of experiments
ON pigeons-whch is the more credible
when we have permitted ourselves to believe
that the creatures lived for months and some
times quite recovered their senses, after their
brains were pumped out. Then there is
the guinea-pig, an animal of such delicate
nerves that you can give him epilepsy by ap-
plying a current of cold air to the back OF MS
neck; and the monkey that ate comfortable
meal after the English experimenter had sawed
off most of his skull and taken out a large
part of his brain.


Man was no longer safe when the monkey
suffered. And when we read DR.. Brown
SGauard's lectures we may ask, indeed, where





formances that may lead TO no end of trouble.
Think of his advising the bald-headed and
spectacled doctors who were listening to HIM
to stand on one foot with the eyes closed as a
test of the soundness of their brains! The
probability being, if they were well III years,
that they would feel as if they were drunk.
Of course they couldn't do it then and there ;
but imagine them trying it, on the domestic
| hearth, in these days of Temperance reform
Sad hours there must have been IN Boston
households when the members of the family
who attended those lectures proceeded to test
the experiments upon those who remained at
home. There was the nice little notion OF
checking undue excitement-as perhaps In
the opening sentences of curtain lecture
by suddenly applying chunk of ice to the
small of the back of the excited person or
pinching her foot or pulling her great
toe, to prevent possible fits. Then
there was the nose to be squeezed or the upper
| lip or pressure to be applied behind the ears,
in case there was undue sneezing or cough
ing. Very probably some Boston fathers whose
daughters are given to attacks of the nerves,
have long ere this been leading their offspring
with trembling steps, blindf0lded, along the
balustrade. We cannot doubt that innumera-
bic children, with much weeping and many
blots, are practicing in their copy books with
their left hands, to save the other half of their
tender brains. We trust it may go no further,
| and yet we may shudder as we think ont.
For the Doctor has assured us that by proper
manipulation, an arm that was cut of exhlb-
tied greater muscular power than when it
formed part of its original owner. The notion
is enough to fire the breast of some hardy ex-
perimenter. Before this sort of thing ends
there may be manning in Boston, solely in the
interests OF science
Year: 1874

Ever since the skinned legs of an unhappy
frog quivered on a nail while hanging in Cal
wants laboratory, that cOld-blOoded amphib-
ian has been considered fair game by the
students of science. 1t would trouble the
Bureau of Statistics to calculate how many of
those unfortunates, whether as the transparent
egg, tho sportive tadpOle, or the solemn bull
frog with sense of family responsibilities
resting upon him, have yielded up their high
strung susceptbilites as martyrs to the dis
secting- knife and passed into the region of the
unknown. To the callow aspirant for scien-
tifc knowledge just entering that new
appendage of Yale which suggests spec
trum analysis in the variegated bricks
Of its portal, and already embraces
within its walls innumerable mOnstrOsitles of
fish, flesh, and fowl, the first instructions are
If natural history be his end and aim" Dis
"sect frog" And more than one student has
declared, after weeks of careful work with
microscope and scalpel, that there was more
in frog than he had ever imagined. But
judging from recent scientific exploits the frogs
that utter their final crOak on the borders of
New-Haven marshes never rise to the full
significance of their being. 1t is reserved for
IuOsC VI W iOSo tucl COuoCiouo-
ness under the influence of chloroform and
have it restored after they are dipped in
freezing or boiling mixtures, or when they
have been fayed alive. We are posi-
lively assured by the skillful performers
of these experiments, however, that the
least pain possible to successful investigation
is inflicted, and that the knowledge gained is
likely to be of service, some time or other, in
saving our own lives. Does not even Izaak
Walton tell us, in sewing q frog on a fish


hook. to treat him az il we loved hmi


SO lQpg W tho great questions respecting
Year: 1874

For young writer. Mr.. Robert Buchanan is about
as audacious. as dictatorial self-assertve, and
sometimes as ill-bred it is possible for poet and
acultivated man to be. There is tendency in
modern literature to be 4" smart and authoritative
on insufficient grounds Of knowledge and ex-
perience the popular essay is perhaps the chief
cause of this. The successful author who writes
constantly for nourishng periodicals doesn't always
sift his Judgment OF his expressions. But We sub
NIT that in deliberate publication in book form Of
collected essays the roughness and the rawness and
the bad taste might be omitted In his new critical
volume just published Mr.. Buchanan speaks Of Car
lyle his venerable and brilliant countryman. with
violent and vulgar acerbity which inspires only dis
gust in the reader He declares that the old man
has "a heart so obtuse as in the long course OF
sixty years to baye felt one single pang for the dis
Year: 1874

Seven Young ladies were graduated last
Tuesday evening from the New-Iork Medical
College for Women. The number is scarcely
encouraging to those friends of medi-
cal education for woman who would
like to see New-York made the CEN
trail point for facilities for such education
Eighteen young ladies were graduated on
last Friday from the Woman's Medical College
in PHILADELPHIA. There has been a steady in
crease in the number of students in this in
stitution since its foundation. Owing to the
fact, probably, that it has been largely under
Quaker influence, it has gained its present posi-
ton quietly and surely, making haste slowly
without any of the fierce warfare which marks
the progress of Miss Jex-Blake and her COM
peers in Edinburgh, or the other bands of
women in Europe who are determined not only
to enter the medical profession, but to hold a
respectable grade in it. Both the Pennsylvania
State Medical Society and the Philadelphia
Association arrayed themselves at first against
the admission of the women doctors to equal
privileges with q devotion to precedent and
ancient landmarks which belongs especially to
the land of Penn.


But they could not ignore the stubborn fact
that already three of the most respected ply
sicians in Philadelphia were grave, skillful
Quaker ladies, that they already were in the
habit of meeting them in consultation, and
that their annual income from practice was
enviaby large. Success here, as usual, was
successful. One of these ladies at that time
was President of this Medical School. Why
should not Ann Preston's pupils be made
ready to take Ann PrestOn's place? Hence it
was with very little difficulty or noisy dis
cussion Except that made one day by some
bellgerent boys at one of the clinics), that
the College was ceded the place it occupies
to-day. Its weekly clinics are attended during
the year by hundreds of poor women and
children, to whom they have become great
and helpful charity. The practice of its pro-
fessors is, we believe, almost wholly limited
to patients of their own sex, as we hope,
and indeed think that it is probable, that of
their graduates will be. Among these gradu-
ates have been numbered earnest, hard work
ing students from every part of our own coun-
try, beside those who come from Europe to
secure the diploma which at home was
so difficult to obtain without humili
ating restrictions. We commend this and
the New-York College to all women desir-
Gus of studying medicine according to the
Allopathic system. There is invariably COM
plaint from female students in medical schools
intended for men that the professors are not
as thorough in their discipline or lectures with
them as with the men students; at the best
they are too apt to treat the whole matter as
incredulous polite men usually do any feminine
whim, with a gOod-humored indifferent indul-
oence. Here, however, where the Dean and
majority of the faculty are women, their own
sex can assuredly hope to be secure from any
injustice or neglect.
Year: 1874

NO COMPROMISE WITH PAPER MONEY.


We hope for some good from the proposed
public meeting to urge Congress to fix the
volume of our currency at once. But we must
be careful not to expect too much of it. The
events of the last twelve months demonstrate
the badness OF our paper money system with
sufficient clearness to make every sensible per-
son in the land an advocate for the restOra-
ton of the gold standard. Let Congress legis-
late as it may, so long as the present system
is continued the Secretary of the Treasury is
a power in the money market and in bank
parlOrs, and, consequently, In every sort of
business which is carried on in the country.
Suppose the limit of the legal-tender circula-
ton is fixed at $3S2, 900, 900; is Congress also
20 enact that not than ten mil


lion dollars in Z currency are to be
in the various treasures Of the United
States at onceq If Congress does mot place
any limit to the currency which may be accu-
mulated in the Treasury, there is nothing to
prevent the Secretary from storing away green
backs and selling gold as he did last Summer
just before the panic. But even limit to the
amount of currency which may be held on
balance would be Intellectual without limit
to the gold which may be kept or sold. The
value of our paper money from day to day,
for periods of considerable length, depends
upon the relation between the quantities of
gold and paper money in the NewYork market


At present both gold and paper are very
plenty, but even with the revenue crippled as
it is, it lies within the power of the Secretary
of the Treasury to make either scarce within
six months. Nor do we see how the Secretary
is to be deprived of this power without danger
to the National finances. The Office of Secre-
tary of the Treasury has become one of i'm
mense responsibility, demanding the highest
integrity and the utmost ability. No one


whatever views he may entertain of contrac-
ton or initiation. will pretend that Mr.. Richard
con u statesman or fnancier, The whole
Year: 1874

Why do merchants, accused of defrauding
the revenue, consent to COMPROMISED ms
question is lucidly answered in review Oh
the case which is printed on our eighth page.
THE TRIBUNE has repeatedly shown that the
mass of laws under which the administration
of the Customs service is conducted Is the
source of all the woes of merchants. These
laws. the undigested accumulation of many
years, are purposey designed To bNifle tho
importer and aid the Government agent and
spy. They are full of intricacies and pitfalls; !;
they form the evil net in which the merchant
is sure to be caught when once the Custom
house prowler marks him for his prey. Until
the laws are cOdifed and simplifed, technical
violations are inevitable. So long as there are
technical violations and etyhunters, there
will DO oppression and robbery by act OF
Congress.
Year: 1874

Quick transit for this city is looking up IN
the Legislature. 1t was said, the other day, that
the Vanderbilt interest and the Third Avenue
Railroad Company would use plenty of money
to secure favorable action on their bills. How
the money was to be used is not declared. The
Senate Committee on Railroads have reported
favoraby on both the bills above mentioned
This will give two elevated railroads on the
east side of the city-both occupying the same
avenue for a great part of the way. Several
deserving schemes for rapid transit have all
Winter vainly begged for recognition from the
Legislature. The facility with which these
great companies have each secured ready hear
ing to say the least. does not speak well for the
fairness and Spartan virtue of some OF the leg
islatOrs.
Year: 1874

DAVID Kalakaua has been chosen King of
the Sandwich Islands. This fact will not
materially affect the peace of other nations
but in Hawaii it seems to have created no
little commotiOn. A mob was said to be i'm
minent when the news was made public it
was quelled by party of marines who were
landed from the United States frigate Tus
carora. Oar gallant sea-soldiers preserved
the peace of the toy kingdom without blood
she'd and we may now expect to hear of the
tranquil beginning of the reign of Kamehameba
VI, as it is supposed that Prince David will
assume that title. The disturbance was
excited by the adherents of Queen Emma,
who, headed by Bishop Staley, made brisk
canvass for the vacant throne, with the inten-
ton of building up a kingdom which should
have a Church to its State, and regular
titled nobility, prmogeniture, and other "semi-
"lunar fardels." The new King is a gentle
manly person, of good family, friendly to the
United States but, like all true Kanakas, BIT
terly opposed to any form Of annexation.
Year: 1874

In another column we print the brief state
Ment of the facts concerning three deadly
assaults made upon innocent people by police
men. 1t would be unjust to argue that the
syhOle force is largely made up of such men
as Lahey, Doyle, Tuohey, and Fitzpatrick
but when such Outrages as those committed
by these men are hurried along in the space
of month, it need not be said that there
ia something radically wrong in the police
system.


There is something pathetic in the we'll
bred moan with which the Boston dele
cation of merchants formally report their
failure to defeat SimmOns's appointment and
confirmation. 1t is all owing to Gen. Butter,
1hey say; if it had not been for his impudence
and duplicity all might have been well. The
trouble was wholly with the Essex Repre-
sentative. The President, according to these
Highly respectable gentlemen, maintained a
masterly inactivity in the matter; or else the
Boston merchants are reaching around Butler
q strike at Grant.


Mayor Havemeyer decidedly opposes the
transfer of the Riverside Park contracts from
the Department of Parks to that of Public
Works. His letter, printed in THE TRIBUNE
yesterday, seems TO have walked up Mr.. Mar
tin, President of the West Side Association.
This gentleman advances four formal objec-
tions to the continuance of the work in the
Department of Parks; but all may be summed
up in his assertion that Mr.. Green is an
Constructive" This is rather weak. The
Mayor is right in this case, as The TRIBUNE
bss heretofore maintained in the controversy.



The launch of the iron steamship City of
Geking. at Chester, Penn, is undoubtedly a
>lotable event in the history of American ship
building. The size of the vessel, her material.
machinery, and great carrying capacity, are
4,ll designed TO attract the attention of mar
Slime people, and to make her future voyages
of much moment. We publish as full de-
Scription OF tile great ship and of the launch
ns the circumstances seem TO deserve. We
<wish it were not necessary to add that the
occasion, interesting as it was, did not seem
Year: 1874

From Washington we have the extraordinary
statement that it has been discovered that
Secretary Richardson has withheld from the
House all information relative to an early appli-
cation for a contract under what is known as
the Sanborn- contract law. We say this is ex-
traordinary; yet it is exactly in cOnsonance
with all of the nefarious proceedings under
the law of May g. 1872. 1t is clear that the
act was passed for the benefit of the Butler
Sanborn Ring Mr.. Butler was then the advO-
cate as he is now the defender of that fruit
full scheme; SanbOrn was the only man who
made much out Of the jobs-except those with
whom he divided. Now it is asserted that the
first applicant for a contract under the law of
1872 was put off until the SanbOrn party were
given the contracts and then the legal limit
of the number of contractors had been reached.
The Secretary said, few weeks ago, that he
had sent to Congress all documents bearing
on this business. But he did not send the
papers in the case of the first application
under the law. Why nOtf