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Year: 1877

EVEN if. English capitalists were not the creditors of the porte, i. is easy to discern wh,, if her majesty abandon the position of neutrality which is not very firmly taken, her sword and her in her Indian dominions she is the sov- ereign of more Mussulmen than are found in all Turkey, and the interest she has in siding with the spiritual leader of 50 many millions of her subjects is obvi ous. Though head of a branch of the Christian church and hereditary de- fender of the faith the Queen of Eng land has fewer Christian than Mohamme- dan followers, and should the sultan choose to make the current war one of religion, her majesty might be compelled to choose between the loss of portion of her Indian empire and an active sup port of the Crescent against the Gross. As Turk, the sultan could not shake the loyalty of the Mussulmen of Hin dostan, but should he take the field as commander of the faithful and unfurl the Saniak-Sheriff, it would be notice to the adherents the world over O the most fanatical of all forms of religion that Allah called upon them to strike down the Christian dogs and die, if need be, to save the temporal power of the Mahom- medan pope.

 The efforts of the English diplomatic agent at Constantinople are directed to- ward the localizing of the war, but more especially to the prevention ot an ac ceptance of the Russian invitation to enter upon war ot religion. England fears to see the banner of the prophet unfurled. In n crusade against the Christian emblem she dare. not take a part, yet would she be able to keep down Mussulman instruction in India ? Fighting the Crescent, Russia must have the sympathy oi Christian people; but can England endure the canture of Con stantinople by Russia, even ii it be iol- lowed by the planting upon St. Sophia of the Cross, tho emblem of that faith which the Queen is sworn to defend ! The English Government, then, is deeply interested in giving to the sultan's atti- tude that of sovereign fighting for his empire, not that of pontiff warning ior the supremacy of his church and anima- ting his followers by every art of the bigot and the ecclesiastical demagogue against the followers of Jesus.
Year: 1877

4 pleasant writer gives expression to the following; "The first recollection of early lie is amid the shrubbery of my mothers garden. To me Eden was just such a place. I have carried the picture through long years since, and in town or country, at home and abroad, my one desire has been to possess just such spot. The future culture and en- ioyment in this country is to be upon the iarm. Not the dreary, slovenly, un- cultivated farm, but the improved farm, the art garden, the landscape and the orchard. X possessor of a farm and q director of any of the many operations of n neat, handsome, thoroughly titled and embellished homestead is to be among the most elevated and respected
Year: 1877

Ten years since the wedding day. Mrs Rowland was alone. She had left her husband in the little room where they usually sat together through the evening, while she put the children to bed.

 Mrs. Rowland did not feel inclined to return to the family sitting room, where she had left her husband, but remained within the chamber with her sleeping little ones, in a musing, breeding, un- happy state of mind. Something of cold ness and alienation had been growing up between her and her husband for long time past. The old tenderness of manner which had been so sweet was all gone He was kind, thoughtful in regard to her comfort, honorable and true, but getting more formal and less afiectionate in man. per every day. His wife, who had loved him very tenderly and still loved him, had failed to give her life adequate re- sponses to his; had, in the fret and fever of disciplinary existence, suffered herself to work amid dirturbing clements in stead of taking her place serenely by his side. And so, harmonious things had been permitted to jar, where all might have been peace.

 is was pressing upon the mlnu or MITE Rowland that her husband had ceased to love her, and this conviction was taking all the sweetness out of her life. It did not once occur to her that she was herself growing unlovely, that she had laid aside nearly all the external things by which, when maiden, she had sought to win him. the sunny countenance, the alluring voice and manner, the scrupulous attire, the deference to his taste and opinions, the guard upon her temper. the womanly elevation of character that made her seem as one who ruled in the kingdom Jf her own soul. This was the being he had loved, this was the woman he had taken to walk with him through life. Alas, for the fading ideal He had found, instead, one who made scarcely an effort at self- government, whose feelings and impulses weie not springs of actions. Deeply, pas. sionately she loved him, but not wisely selfabnegating love pleases both itself and the object of it's devotion. Without some change on the part oi Mrs Rowland 1t was impossible for them to grow to- gether again,
Year: 1877

positions in the nation. The future of the nation is in the farm and the fruit, art and landscape garden. Wed yourseli to piece of land and make it an Eden, and hold to 1t in spite of all the tempta- tions of the world"
Year: 1877

HE ELECTRIC PEN TIE electric pen
invented by Thomas A Edison, of New
Jersey. consists OF a metallic tube, in th-
centre of which fine needle is recipro-
Gated by means of small electro mag
netic engine placed on the top of the
pen. The pen being held in au upright
position and moved over paper, the rap
idly succeeding thrusts of the II edle
cause the surface OF the paper to become
penetrated with the characters which
the hand has traced After the writing
Is finished nothing but a faint line ap-
pears on the surface of the paper, but on
holding 1t up to the light the writing is
clearly visible. This sheet, which is
called tho stencil, is then placed over a
sheet of plain paper in a frame, and an
inked roller pressed over it; the ink
Penetrating the holes in the stencil
transmits the written matter to the clean
sheet In this way five hundred fac
slmile copies Of the original writing can
% taken, each copy being very clear and


distinct.
Year: 1877

THE, grand jury at Pittsburg, in their
presentment to the court are strong in
condemning the action of the railroad
officials and troops during the July riot,
and reflect severely on the refusal of
the State officials to testify. They at
tributed the cause and effect of the
strike to the railroad company, and the
sheriff in neglecting to exhaust his
power before calling military aid.
Year: 1877

THE LEADER earnestly requests its
friends in all parts of the country to
send in the news. Write often, give
us all the news and keep us posted in
all matters of progress and develop
ment. When in the city our friends
are invited to call at this office and fur.
nish us with any information they may
possess.
Year: 1877

There is man on West hill who
hasn't solitary hair on his head,
and bis wife makes him sit in the
blue glass rays five hours a day.
She says if Pleasonton isn't the
worst liar in the universe, she is
going to have something to catch
hold Of the next time that man Of
hers comes home at three o'clock In
the morning from a Presidential
torehlight procession.-Havkeye.
Year: 1877

The fern mania is spreading so that
one woman in reach of New York has
a fern farm, and makes good income,
sending both fresh and pressed ferns
by mail. The little baskets of leaves
and grass with dead butterfly poised
on the picture that ladies like to hang
in their private rooms, require both
taste and some knowledge of natural
history to combine the materials, and
their sale is one in the way by which
some reduced in circumstances try to
earn a few shillings. 1t is hard work
making a profit, for the fashionable
florist expects to buy them for fifty
cents apiece or less, even though he
sells them for So in holidays. - IN. Y
Letter.
Year: 1877

Men len 10 themselves are apt to
lapse into imprudences, to say the
least. In our late war. n soldier, pass
ing over bridge, observed n young
girl lading water from the river. In
the spirit al frolie and mis,hiei, he
threw large Stone, intending it should
startle her by making sudden splash.
But IL struck her on the head, and
made hideous wound. She fell into
The river. The soldier, with an in.
stinctivc care for consequences which
owes its origin To the masculine sex,
galloped on, feeling that he had been
guilty of a wanton murder. The I'm.
known consequences Of his folly prey
ell upon his mind. His conscience
was always upbraiding him. Years
after, when discharged from the army,
he settled down in Derby. He took a
public house in Bridge Gate. and af.
ter short acquaintance with II wo-
man OF suitable age, got married. We
ry soon after their wedding he saw
his wife conbing her hair, and inquir-
ed how she got the great scar which
di.fgured one side Of her head. She
replied, "Some wretch of a soldier
had once nearly killed her with a
stone, hut il ever she caught that man
she would pay him of for it, 1t is
not recorded how she punished her
husband when he confessed being her
assailani, or how great was his relief
when the haunting thought OF a wan
ton murder was removed from his
mind.
Year: 1877

1t is very general supposition,
though a mistaken one, that coral,
when first taken from lis watery bed,
is soft, and hardens through exposure.
The fresh or live coral may feel some.
what Shiny in the fingers, but if the
animal matter is washed away it is
found to be quite hard-a little above
that Of common limestone or marble,
giving out ringing sound when
struck with a hammer. Chemically,
the chief constituent of all is carbon.
ate of lime, in the proportion of nine.
five to ninety-eight parts in one hun.
dred, with one and a half parts to
four parts of organic matter, and some
earthly ingredients, such as phosphate
Of lime, with trace of spica, amount


ing usually to less than one per cent.
Year: 1877

A jeweled gold ring has been iol
many years the sign and symbol of be
trothal, but at present a plain gold
circlet, with the date Of the engage
ment inscribed within, is generally
preferred. This ring is removed by
the groom at the altar, passed to the
clergyman, and used at the ceremony,
A jeweled ring is placed upon heI
hand by the groom on the way home
from church, or as soon after the ser
vice as is convenient. IL stands guard
over lis precious fellow. and is coniir'
nation Of the first promise.
Year: 1877

leave to society a ruined charac.
ter, wrecked example, and memory
that will soon rot.


leave to my parents, during the
rest of their lives, as much sorrow as
humanity in decrepit and feeble
state can sustain.


leave my brothers and sisters as
much modification and injury as
could conveniently bring upon them.


Leave my wife broken heart, Il
life Of wretchedness and shame, tC
weep over me and my premature
death.


give and bequeath to each of my
children poverty, ignorance, low
character and the remembrance that
their father was n drunkard.
Year: 1877

The japanese have the story of Rip
Van Winkle in another form. A
young man fishing in his boat on the
ocean was invited by the goddess OF
the sea to her home beneath the waves.
After three days he desired to sec his
old father and mother, On parting
she gave him a golden casket aud n
key, hut begged him never to open il.
At the village where he lived all was
changed, and he could get no trace of
his parents until an aged woman re.
collected having heard of the IL nanrs.
lie found their graves II hundred years
old. Thinking that three days could
not have made such a change. aud
that he was under spell, he opened
the caskst. A white vapOr rose, and
under lis influence the young man
fell TO the ground. His hair turned
gray, his form lost its youth, and in a
few moments he died oi old age.
Year: 1877

The latest sensation in Louisville is
the acquisition of female operator to
the ,onsorial profession. She wields
the brush and the razor at the barber
shop of the New Era Hotel, corner Of
Ninth and Broadway. She performs
the operation of shaving man with
surprising dexterity, and with deli
cacy of touch that is not surpassed.
The sight Of a woman in Louisville
barber shop is u novelty indeed, but
she seems as much IN her element
there as in any of the public callings
for her sex, and is kept constantly bu.
sy with her numerous customers.
Year: 1877

A New York paper, in speaking of
the temperance insanity which lately
overspread the country, says: The
truth is, that the temperance leaders
are a pack of ianatical fools, stupid
enough to ruin any cause unfortunate
enough TO be champiOned by them"
Year: 1877

When bashful young man under
takes to carve turkey at Il table
where there are several strange young
ladies, il is only question OF time
and very short time at that-which
lady gets leg of the fowl in her lap,
and which of the guests gets dab of
''stufiing' in the eye.
Year: 1877

The competition between the Amer.
lean manufacturers of gold watch cas-
es has been so sharp that these arti-
cles are sold for the bare value of the
gold and the cost of manufacture. The
only profit is in the spring that throws
the watch open. This is weighed
with the case, and the makers
get its value in gold.
Year: 1877

Frank Safer, q German, of Fulton,
No., was bound to make an end OF him.
self, and this is how he proceeded to do
it: Going into a portion of the kiln
where he worked and where he would
not be interrupted, he took off his apron,
folded it up neatly, and then removing
his hat, laid both aside. With a stone
hammer he commenced striking himself
on the head, fracttlring the bone and
inhicting CHASTITY wound. But this
process was too tedious and painful, so,
iaying aside the hammer, he drew a
knife and endeavored to cut into the
wound and force the blade into the brain.
Failing in this, he stabbed himself sew
eral times. But fate seemed against
him, for at every stroke the blade was
stopped by rib. Death seemed to
avoid him. His patience was exhausted,
and he gave up the attempt and came
out of the kiln. Then fellow-workman
saw him all mutilated and bloody.
Others we're called and the would-be
dead man was conveyed to his room.
The patient appeared to be perfectly
rational, and said that everybody was
down on him and that he was tired OF
living. He survived few days and then
died.
Year: 1877

The Constantinople correspondent OF
the Political Correspondence relates
that many of the Bulgarians taken red
handed in acts of violence and con-
demned to death, when they see that
there is no longer any hope or chance OF
escape, produce from hidden pockets
large sums of money, which they pre-
sent to one or other of the zaptiehs who
may perhaps have treated them with
kindness. Lately, five Bulgarians were
sentenced to death in Mustapha. When
it came to the turn Of one Of them to be
led forth, he requested the non-commis-
stoned officer commanding the party IN
charge of him to wait a moment. With
some trouble he then extricated from
the folds OF his garments a handful OF
gold Iras, and these he presented to the
sergeant. This latter, moved by the
generosity of his prisoner, tapped the
latter on the shoulder, exclalmlng ::
"As you are such q good fellow, you
shall be hanged in the shade and,
keeping his promise, he selected a shady
and pleasant spot, and there the Bull
garian was executed.
Year: 1877

In drear and wintry prairie opening
called Summit Park" Oregon Bill has
established his hermit home. His cabin
is visible mile down the meadow and
a tin corkscrew Of smoke was curling
above it's dirty roof when we passed.


The other day whilst O. Bill was away
thirty or forty miles at his next neigh


boris, rebuilding q dilapidated leg or
something, another fellow who wanted
to be hermit came along and jumped
into Bills possessions. BY and by Bill


came lmping back home on crutches
and the jumper met him at the door with
his gun. Bill let go one crutch, held
up his game leg, whipped out his re:
volver and blazed away. Then he walked
off down to Saguache, sixty or seventy
miles, told the story and gave himself
up. An examination was had and he
was discharged; fatigue party was sent
up to plant the other fellow and s now y, of
Bills fright there is none to dispute. "---'
Year: 1877

In the center of the amphitheatre a
mound has been raised on which ring
has been formed by banking up the earth
to the height of a few inches. Two
grave-looking elderly men, apparently
the Judges, now seat themselves upon
mats on the mound, and unfurling their
paper umbrellas, light their pipes, and
commence smoking in dignifed COM
posure, while the two wrestlers doff
their kinaonos (robes) and enter the
ring. They are very far removed from
our idea of what an athlete ought to be,
for though muscular they have an un-
gainly heaviness of figure. Weight is
indeed thought of such Importance in
these contests that men are fattened for
them like prize cattle, under the mis-
taken belief that sach size is an advantage
to the fortunate. A tedious preliminary
performance has to be gone through be-
fore the actual business of wrestling


commences. Each men comes to the
center of the ring, and squatting down
in front of his antagonist, raises each leg
in turn, and then brings it down heavily
on the ground, at the same time striking
his body smartly with his open hand.
7 suppose this is meant as a sort of
challenge; but it has an extremely
ludicrous effect, at least to foreigners, to
see two very fat men 30 employing them
selves. Both men now quit the ring and
take draught of water and pinch OF
salt, while they rub their arms and
hands with mud, in order that they may
get q better hold of each others body.
At length they re-enter the ring, and
the real struggle now begins. They
squat in front of each other like two
huge frogs and strike their heads to-
gether, at the same time uttering curl
ous kissing noise, which gets louder and
louder, till they suddenly fly at each
other like angry cats. Heavy blows and
slaps are exchanged freely in the effort
to close, but umpires are behind each
shouting out cautions at any attempted
infringement of the rules on either side.
When they have fairly got hold of each
other many a cunning feint and twist is
shown, and the struggling bodies and
limbs entwine so rapidly that the pair
look like one gigantic octopus. At
length the bout is concluded by oneman
being hurled bodily out of the ring into
the crowd outside, and the cheering from
the excited spectators is absolutely deaf
ening. The victor stalks about the ring
for some time in great dignity, receiving
the congratulations of his friends, and
then repeats his former challenge, strik-
ing his body heavily and growing like o
bantam cock. Another wrestler, moth
ing daunted, at once comes forward 70
try his fortune while the vanquished
combatant, who has picked himself up
amid a running fire of chaff from the
unsympathizing crowd, resumes his
kinaono with an assumed air of indiher.
ence and vanishes behind the spectators.
Year: 1877

A Now York letter has this: The fern
mania is spreading so that one woman in
reach OF New York has fern farm, and
makes a good income, sending both
fresh and pressed ferns by mails. The
little baskets of leaves and grasses with
dead butterfly poised on the picture,
that ladies like to hang in their private
rooms, require both taste and some
knowledge of natural history to combine
the materials, and their sale is one Of
the ways by which some in reduced cir
cumstances try to earn few shillings.
It is hard work making a profit, for the
fashionable florist expects to buy them
for fifty cents apiece or less, even though
he sells them for So in holidays.
Year: 1877

But the indignant collector snatched
the bill, and calculating" Why didn't
you tell me this before ?" started out
the door, leaving the entertaining trades
man to wonder what in the name of sense
allied the man, and if anybody was fool
ish enough to suppose that he was going
to pay all of Tom Marmot's old bills just
because he moved into his old stand.-
Burlington Ha,okeye.
Year: 1877

Statistics kept by oculists emp
in infrmaries for eye diseases
shown that the habit of some pei
in facing window from which the
falls directly in the eyes as well 4
the work, Injuries their eyes in the
The best way is to work with 4
light, or, if the work needs strOl
Elimination, so that it is necesS1
have the working-table before the
dow, the lower portion of the
should be covered with a screen,
to have top light alone, which
not shine in the eyes when the ha
slightly bent over and downwarl
ward the work. In the schools Of
many this matter has already beef
tended to, and the rule adopted tOI
all the seats and tables so arrange
the pupils never face the Windows
only have the side lights from the
and as light simultaneously th1
from two sides gives an interfere
shadows, it has been strictly forb1
to build school-rooms with windOT
both sides, such illumination havl7
so proved injurious to the eyes,
pupils. We may add to this the 4
not to place the lamp in front Of
when at work in the evening, butS
on one side; and never to neglec,
use of a shade, so as to prevent
strong light shining in the eyes
is especially to be considered ..
present time, when kerosene Dl
with their intensely luminous flame
come more and more common
cal Journal.
Year: 1877

phia. where he has a mother and sister,
With regard to his attempt to kill Pack
ard, he says four others were to assist him
in the undertaking, but upon reaching the
door of the State House they refused to go
in, and left him to carry out the intended
plan of assassination alone. Weldon is
not very seriously hurt. The ball struck
him in the left arm just below the shoulder.
and seems to have come out at the elbow
i was thought at first he was killed, but
it seems, was only stunned and faint from
the loss Of blood
Year: 1877

1,bev may talk of love in cottage


And bowers of trellised vine
Of nature bewitchingly simple,


And milkmaids half devine;
They may talk Of the pleasure OF sleeping
In the shade Of a spreading tree,
And a walk in the fields at morning


By the side Of fOOtstep free.
But give me a sly Irritation


By the light of chandelier
With music to play in the pauses


And nobody very near;
Or a seat on a silken sofa,


With a glass Of pure-ice cream,
And mama too blind to discover


The small white hand in mine.
Your love in a cottage is hungry,


Your vine is a nest Of flies
Your milkmEid shocks the Graces,


And simplicity talks Of pies!
You lie down to YOUR shady sIumoer,


And wake with fly in your ear,
And your damsel that walks IN the morning


Is shod like mOuntaIneer.
True love is at home on a carpet,
And nightly likes his ease
And true love has an eye for dinner,


And starves beneath shady trees.
His wing is the fan of lady,


His f00t's an invisible thing,
And his arrow is tipp'd with jewel


And shot from silver string.
Year: 1877

The Emperor of Brazil spent the
early part of February in Naples,
where he was as rapid in his move
ments and indefatigsble in his labors
as during his visit to this country.
On one day he began his work at 8
in the morning by giving an audi
enoe TO the son of a deceased soulp-
tor formerly resident of Brazil.
After breakfast he visited three stu
dios. the Botanical Gardens, and the
University. Thence he went 70 the
meeting Of the Alpine Club, finish.
ing the evening by seeing Hamlet
performed at the theater. His wife,
a aNeapolitan princess by birth, spent
the greater part of the same day IN
praying at the tomb of her Bourbon
ancestors. Dom Pedro is indeed q
wonder. None of his ancestors for
some generations back were noted
for talent, while he exeels IN many
departments of science and htera-
ture. and has practical common sense
as well as learning.