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Year: 1877

OF Cleopatra's Needles, a recent
editorial in the London Times says:


The history of our needle is some
what singular one, and its latest chap
ter is the most singular of all 1t may
be 5000 years, or as Professor Eras-
mus Wilson thinks, $500 years, since
the needle first took its present form.
We know more certainly that it is just
l,9OO years since it was conveyed from
its original site at Heliopolis, and set
up with It's brother ooelisk, at Alex
andria. Whatever it has gone through
in its earlier days, the drifting sand
storms that have beaten upon it and
worn down its surface, the catastrophe
which overturned it and left it half.
buried and safe against further injury,
are not now the strangest part of it's
long experience. The wonder of its
adventures by land is as nothing COM
pared with its adventures by water. To
have been flung about hither and thither
on the broad sea, with no human eye
to look after it, and no human hand to
rescue it, and to have passed securely
through ALL is more indeed, than any
other member of it's famous family can
find to vaunt about.
Year: 1877

General Sherman has issued gen.
eral order from headquarters of the
army in which he says the presiden
is much concerned To fiud before him
for action proceedings, of court mar
tials in several cases where officers
have been tried for violation of the
thirty-eighth article of war, which
provides that an officer found drunk
on duty shall be dismissed from the
Seryira- abe pre-idsnt desires it To
be known TO the army that he cannot
be led to underrate the magnitude OF
the evil of which the crime alluded to
is likely to produce in the public SER
vice. No person addicted to il can
expect to be entrusted with any re-
sponsible duty. as person who can
not be trusted had better not be con-
tinued in office. 1t must therefore be
understood that any clemency which
may have been heretofore extended
by mitigation or Communication OF sem
tence cannot hereafter be relied upon
as basis of hope for like favorable
action. After this solemn warning a
vigorous execution of sentences i'm
posed in due course by court martial
may be ex xpected.
Year: 1877

One of the greatest trials of the
newspaper profession is that its mem
bers are compelled to see more of the
shame of the world than any other
profession. Through every newspa-
per office, day after day, go all the
weaknesses of the world all the van
tiles that want to be putfed all the
revenges that want to be resped (; all
the mistakes that want to be correct
ed all the dull speakers who want 70
be thought eloquent all the mean
ness that wants to get its wares no.
ticed gratis in the editorial column,
in order to save the tax in the adver-
tisiDg columns; all the men who
want to be set right who were never
right; all the crackbrained philoso-
pliers with stories as long as their
hair, and as gloomy as their finger
nails in mourning because bereft of
soap; all the bores who come to stay
five minutes, but talk five hours.
Through the editorial an reportorial
rooms all the follies and shams OF the
world are seen. day after day; and
the temptation is to believe in neith-
er God, man, nor woman. It is no
surprise to me that in this profession
there are some skepticsl men; l only
wonder that journalists believe any
thiDg.-Idinadge.
Year: 1877

The times not only seem hard. but
they are. Yet in comparison with
previous experience many "a farmer
unjustly complains. In many parts
of the country. less than twenty-five
years ago, the farmer was compelled
to spend a week in getting load OF
grain to market. and when he got
there. he was paid in money that was
worthless by the time be got home.
These are better times than those
times were Western Rural.
Year: 1877

AT an election in South Carolina
last week to fill vacancies occasioned
- by the resignation of two Republican
State Senators, one district. in which
the Republican majority a year ago
was over one thousand, only tIOenty-
.FUe Republican votes were polled.
The Democracy ought to be greatly
modified" at such a result as that.
Year: 1877

The Repu6Hcdn'S estimate a week
or two before the election of Lakes
majority is more than verified. We
claimed for him from eight to ten
thousand majority he received over
all scattering included) 13, 1919 major
ity. We congratulate the republican
party on victory so pronounced and
decisive, in the face of independent
and democratic opposition and of
bolting factionism within our ranks.
Thirteen thousand majority will do
for such an awful off-year as this year
of Disgrace Eighteen Hundred and
Seventy-seven. What do the Lincoln
Journal and Globe and the Omaha Bee
think OF the result? We pause for a
reply.-Onldha Republican.
Year: 1877

borrow money in their business Nearly
all of them borrow. If there be those
who employ their own capital exclusive
ly, they expect a return for it like that
which hose get who lend to their bOr
rowing competitors.


What portion of the money used in
manufacturing is borrowed at bank and
elsewhere, il is not easy to conjecture.
But very much the larger part Of it no
doubt is borrowed. The annual value
Of manufactured products in the United
States as shown by the census of 1870
exceeded 81 200, 900, 900. Assume that
one-half of this amount be borrowed for
the usual period elapsiDg between pur-
chase Of raw materials and consumption
Of the finished product, with interest at
rates prevailing at the census date, the
annual disbursement for interest would
be $84 100000


Thus our industries have been and
still are loaded by prevailing methods
Of finance. These it is but reasonable
to ask cur Legislators to investigate. and
to mend them, if they be found faulty
and remediable
Year: 1877

bows at the top Garlands Of flowers
are to be very much worn on party
dresses.


Bustles, if worn at all, are SO entirely
fiat at the top, as not to be observed


The cuirass is often fastened at the
back, this style being considered more
becoming to the figure Ecru is
thing of the past Silver flagree jew
elry, such as was sold in large quanti-
ties from the Italian department Of the
Centennial is much worn and very
tasteful.
Year: 1877

Been in general for twenty years Everywhere
proved the most SAFE, SIMPLE, ECONOMICAL and
EFFICIENT medicines known. They are just what
the people want, saving time and money averting
sickness and suffering. Each single specific the well
tried prescription of an eminent physician.
Year: 1877

FILLING IN.-We notice with pleasure,
the prompt and effective manner in which
our city fathers went to work filling in
Ill unsightly depression in Water Street
after the last heavy rain. There are yet
other places in this street which must be
raised before it will become credit to our
town.
Year: 1877

The Hartford Times has discovered q
polite Chinaman. As street car was
making its way along Asylum-ave, lady
after lady entered and seat after seat was
resigned by gentlemen, until Chinaman
was the only representative of his sex who
was not hanging on to the straps. Soon
the car stopped again, and the Oriental,
who had been expressing by his looks a
profound contempt for the chivalry of the
Americans, yielded his scat to a simpering
schoolgirl. The Celestial clung to the
strap with frightened grip until he reach
cd his destination, when, reaching the
sidewalk and meeting an acquaintance, he
exploded, "Too muchee she"
Year: 1877

We notice that the Board Of Mayor
and Aldermen have volsd 10 change
the arithmetic in our city public schools
for one by . different author. This
changing Of school books ls quite ex.
psnsivs, and We hope that the change
we allude to above will not be made,
unless there is ample cause for It. The
arithmelics Of the present day are got.
ten up in three or four different series,
and nearly all the students in the
schOOlS have one Of some one Of the
series, and II Is 3 tax on each one 10
make the change, which is generally
done for the benefit Of some book con.
Germ. If the book in present use is
clearly defective, then Q committee Of
the School Trustees should 90 report,
and the teachers would undoubtedly
furnish the evidence necessary to such
q proceeding, but no such report has
been made, and the whole proceeding
looks like "jOb." If this is the case,
the Board Of Mayor aud Aldermen
should at once withdraw the support
they have been induced to lend to It.
Year: 1877

IT is reported in this city that with.
in few weeks there are TO be eight
marriages here In one day. While we
like to sec the good work 60 on we
earnestly protest against so much Of II
in one day. As Artemus Ward said


this is too much. We would like ia
see these weddings spread out over q
space of two or three weeks or more


We like cake and wine, etc, but We
don't want II to come by the cart load
Year: 1877

The recent rains in New Orleans
were 50 heavy and continuous that the
city was flooded, and at one time there
were grave fears that the Easements Of
the principal stores would be deluged.
There was g much heavier fall of rain
there than In this city.
Year: 1877

THERE is a negro up In Ohio whose
head is decidedly level. He has made
a speech In which he said that the free
dom of the negroes Of the South came
by au accident" Of the war. He
chsrges that the Northern Democrats
and Republicans went into the war 10
fight for the Union, and not for the
negro, and that President Lincoln only
wrote the emancipation proclamation
after be found II was impossible to con-
quer the Confederaies without The aid
Of the negroes. The colored gentle
mau's name is Willlams-the Rev.
Williams.
Year: 1877

The contractors for the completion of
the Cool Spring Reservoir, Messrs. Col
Inns and Kennedy, completed their work
upon the north basin this morning, and
on Tuesday the water will be turned
i'll. BY orders of the Water Commits
sioners work on the south basin will not
be commenced until next spring and
the contractors state that they hope 10
complete it in less time than they have
the present one. The contractors say
that the work would have been complet-
ed six weeks ago if it had not have been
for orders over which they had no con-
troll
Year: 1877

MORE ABOUT OIL. 1t is the current
belief that oil and water will not unite,
but that water and whisky viii. SO when
the lights of saloon were burning SO
dimly as to only render darkness visi
bic one OF those present cruelty sug
gested that the proprietor had made a
mistake when he went to water his whis
ky and poured it into the oil can instead
This Presidential muddle is distracting
everybody.
Year: 1877

A New YEAR NIP.-It had been the
old gentlemun's boast that he had had II
great many good times on Christmas and
New \ ear. But the season OF 1876 n
proved very dry one, and the Old gem
teman himself felt dry rs he saw Christ
mas and New Year pass by and bring no
liquid comfort to his thirsty soul. On
the day after New Year, going from his
work to his dinner be passed by where II
couple Of patriots were at work saving
blocks, and had stopped for the noon tide
meal. On the ground near their dinner
stood bottle half-Gled with coal-oil
which they used to keep the saw from
cumming" 1t was aged and had the
color Of poteen. He took a seat near it,
and began To lament the strngency Of
the times. Never, in the long years dur
ing which he had been among these
mountains had he seen New Year with
out snow on Bally," or when he didn't
get sup " to gladden. his heart. Then,
with a smile stealing across and widen
ing his face he reached for the bottle
lie are having good time, and won't
i, too?'' he said, as he placed it to his
lips. And before the Mortified sawyers
could shrek, ITS coal oil - he had
swallowed enough to keep the saw free
OF gum for the next week. He dropped
the bottle and rushed for the water buck
ct, but alas, it was empty. The talk now
is Of sending him over to light up Tam
many.
Year: 1877

New YEAR DANcE.-The Ball at
Thomas Theater, on New Year night
was largely attended, over 40 couples be
ing present. The festivities were kept
alive until late (or early hour on the
morning Of the End. The supper at the
New York Hotel was one of the best we
have ever sit down to, and was fully ap-
preciated by all present.
Year: 1877

OUR CALENDAR.-A neat Calendar
for 1877 has been issued from this office
and furnished to each subscriber within
the county. If any such have failed to
receive copy they will be supplied on
application at this office.
Year: 1877

To TIKI EDITOR TIE HERALD:-


wish 10 inquire why IL Is that the services Of our
National Guard not recognized credtably by the
proper authorities of this city. We have certainly
every reason feel thankful them for the manner
In which they assisted keeping tho peace during
the late labor strikes, and however economical tho
Board of Aldermen and Comptroller may have felt
previously IT. should certainly behoovc them now to
retrench in other quarters and not IN the
matter OF providing suitable ccommodations for our
cizen sodiery Tho drill season Is now at hand and


It ia becomes the authorities TO keep men in quarters
not suitable for the purpose OF instruction, as in
the case OF tho Filth regiment infantry, or not
Quartered al all, as battery artillery. Taxpayers
10 not grumble al a judicious expenditure oil their
money, tney do when they SEQ false economy prac
ticed. FAIR PLAY.
Year: 1877

fNorE. Letters intended for this column must be
accompanied by the writer's full name and address to
Insure attention. Compainants who are unwilling to
comply with this rule simply waste time In writing
Write only side OF the paper.-Eo HERALpI
Year: 1877

TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


Please call the attention oi the Mayor TO the way In
which the poor swndled by nearly all the fruit
venders. In Weighing grapes and other fruit they
have ounces o. putty on the bottom of the
SCOOP and the weight Is several ounces Short Cannot
the law be eniorcecs !. y. B.
Year: 1877

To THE EDITOR OF HERALD:-


The curpstono at the crossing on tho northeast
corner Twenty third street and Seventh avenue 10
SO high ha, almost hourly persons trip against and
tumue over ON the sidewalk. Now and again lady
with child IN her arms falls victim to this trap.
The police are often OF scenes and yet
nothing Is done 70 remedy Inc NUISANCE.


PEDESTRIAN
Year: 1877

Bailey Il Steele who have opend
new butcher shap under the Saw
ings Bank have oar thanks for q
fine roast. Mr.. Bailey 10 an old
and experienced butcher and both
be and Mr.. Bob Steele are well
known to our citizens. They pro.
pose TO Sell better meat for less
money than any ether house in the
city.
Year: 1877

The following is the experience of a
thorough farmer, one who farms to profit.
He says, ~ have farmed thirty years,
and always had large family, and kept
a large stock, but | never yet bought a
bushel of corn, except for seed, and but
one barrel of flour. Possibly at some
times would have made money by doing
so, but you see when fall comes | have
forty bushels of wheat in my bins and
two hundred bushels of corn in my corn
barn, and then l haven't got to keep
looking around all winter to see where
| am going to get the money to
paw my meal and flour bills with; and,
furthermore, feel better to be independ.
ent. can show you neighbor who
thinks he can't afford to raise wheat or
corn, and who has not now bushel of
either. He will tell you that he raised
other crops in the place of them, but be-
fore he gets through will probably groan
over the war in Europe, which has lifted
the price Of grain; and doubt nightly
whether he don't owe at the store for all
the -four his family has eaten this winter
and know he hasn't wintered any hogs,
because ne raised no corn and couldn't
afford to buy. l tell you this talk that
farmers can't afford to raise corn and
wheat, pork and beef, is very much like
mans talking that he had better do
nothing than work for seventy-fve cents
day. 1t amounts to the same thing. /
can have some patience with man who
argues that we cannot afford to raise
grain to sell, but one who says he can't
afford to raise it to eat | set down as Il
shiftless fellow, whose farm will shortly
be owned by somebody else" There is
much solid sense in this talk. A farmer
of course, should figure to make his crops
pay, and there are some who are engaged
in specialties who can make money by
buying their grain, but the corner stone
of farming in times like these is its inde-
pendence; its certainty to give man
enough to eat and drink and wear; and
he who plans his operations with this
view is quite as likely to make something
in addition as anybody. The farmer who
raises a years stock of corn and wheat
and potatoes, which includes also a stock
of beef, pork, butter and poultry, is sure
of having enough to eat next winter, and
he who don't raise them is not sure Of it,
The one is independent. There may be
European wars, hard times, bankruptcy
and ruin generally, but you can't starve
him out. The other is dependent on the
market, on prices, on all sorts of things
and contingencies.
Year: 1877

EGGs-How INCREAsED.-If an in.
crease Of eggs be desired in the poultry
yard, before large sums of money are ex.
pended in the purchase of everlasting lay
ers, we would recommend the system OF
keeping no hens after the first, or at the
most, their second year. Early pullets
give the increase, and the only wonder is
that people persist, as they do, in keeping
up stock Of old hens, which lay one day
and stopping one. In some parts of Eu.
rope it is the invariable rule to keep the
pullets only one year. Feeding will dc
great deal-a surprising work indeed
in the production of eggs, but not when
old hens are concerned; they may put on
fat, but they cannot put down eggs. TheiI
tale is told, their work is over; nothing
remains to be done with them but to give
them smell of the kitchen fire, and the
sooner they get that the better. OF
course, there are some odd varieties
whose lives ought to be spared as long as
they can send forth their representatives
Judicious mating-by which we mean
the advantage Of a comparatively youth
ful cockerel-may be the means of even
exhibition poultry making their appear
ance from the eggs of the good old hen,
and here we have the exception to the
rule upon which we insist.--London Ag'
ricuLturaL Gazette.
Year: 1877

THE KERRY COw.-This description
of the above breed is from the London
Lice Stock Journal.


The Kerry cow is remarkably CRATE
full feeder, or in other words, will live on
the commonest and scantiest diet, and
when her lot falls into pleasant places
will yield bountiful lacteal return for
the generous keep. Everywhere and un-
der all circumstances she has the reputa-
tion of being an excellent milker. The
average yield Of milk produced by aKerry
cow belonging to a gentleman who for
many years has paid great attention to
his breeds, says r. o. Pringle, in his re-
view on Irish agriculture, is twelve
quarts daily, and the average yield of but
ter from six to eight pounds per week.
Some of the cows have produced more,
but the quantities stated have been above
the average. Pringle considers this to be
large yield, considering the size of the
animal and the small amount they con-
sumo. a Kerry COW was known to have
been kept for five years in stable in
Dublin, which had only two calves dur
ing the period, yet was scarcely ever dry,
and kept up full supply of milk for a
large family.
Year: 1877

The rhinoceros was an ugly and enOr-
nous creature. His body is nearly as big
as that of an elephant, though he is not
so tall, for his legs are very short. He
is of muddy mouse. color, and his skin
seems as thick as board floor. He has
very small eyes, a big head and nose, and
one of the most dreadful mouths you
ever looked into. happened to look
into it, for he yawned just as l stopped
in front of him, and assure you that
that mouth would hold bushel of po-
tatoes. may slightly overrate its capaC-
ity, but will not take back more than two
or three Of the largest potatoes.


There is an inclosure for camels, where
these ugly creatures can wander about
all day and never feel obliged to kneel
down to have a load packed on their
backs. BY the way, camel is never so
ugly as he is when he is very young.
One of the ugliest infants on earth is a
baby camel.


The kangaroos have several long yards,
with little house at one end and plenty of
room in front to skip and play. never
thought the kangaroo was funny ami
nal until saw these fellows. In cage
they have no chance to show what com
ical way they have of getting over the
ground. Of course knew that when they
are pursued they bound away with great
leaps, but did not know how queerly
they bounce themselves along when they
are 1ot in hurry.


One big fellow, who was sitting near
his house on his hind-legs and his tail
(you know they use their tails to prop
themselves up with, took it into his
head to come down to the front fence
where a group of visitors were standing.
So he Strengthened himself up, with his
head high in the air; held up his little fore
paws under his chin, and came down the
yard in series of funny hops that made
everybody roar out laughing. | never
saw an animal act so comically-though
he.did not intend it--and am sure that
there is not church in the world where
all the congregation-even the oldest
bald-headed members and the Sunday
school teachers would not burst out laugh
ing if big kangaroo came gravely hop
ping down the middle aisle.--St. Nicholas.


"Too MUCHEE SHE."-One day last
week one of the Asylum avenue cars was
making its slow way outward, well filled
with gentlemen and ladies. The seats being
all occupied, as lady after lady entered
they were invited to sit by gentlemen,
who in succession arose and politely gave
their seats to the ladies, until, finally, the
only representative of the sterner sex who
retained a seat was portly Chinese COM
missioner. Soon the car stopped again,
and the Oriental, who had all along been
expressing by his looks profound con-
tempt for this silly chivalry of the Amer
leans, felt the pressure of public opinion
too strong to resist longer, and, rising,
yielded his seat TO simpering school
girl, who took it as if it belonged OF
right to her ladyship. The celestial coun-
tenance grew darker, and its owner clung
to the strap with tightened grip until
he reached his destination, the corner Of
Sumner street, when, reaching the side.
walk and meeting an acquaintance, he
exclaimed-"Too muchee she!"--Hart-
ford Times.
Year: 1877

AN AWFUL STRUGGLE.-A stranger
with weak back walked into drug
store the other day, and said he wanted
the strongest kind of mustard plaster
With fendish grin the clerk built up a
terrible mixture and passed it out. That
night the inmates Of the hotel were
startled from their slumberS by loud
cries in room fifty.seven. When the
door was burst open they found the
stranger wrestling with that mustard
plaster in Greco-Roman style. But the
plaster had thrown him twice. and was
now humping him against the wall
preparatory to drawing him through the
transom. 1t took two policemen to sep
arate the two.-0R CITY Call.