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Year: 1879

IN the House, April 96th, Hoar, of Michigan, told the Southern Demo crats that what their section wanted was more corn and cotton and less |" cussedneSs," and wound up by sug- gesting that one of the best things that could happen the country would be the turning on of the yellow fever in Congress; only he would want the Divinity to use great discrimination in making his selections.
Year: 1879

AGENT HART has returned to San Carlos and from all we can learn. will doubtless remain in charge of that agency for considerable time 10 come, unless he himself should insist upon a successor being named
Year: 1879

A BILL is being urged in the New York legislature to authorize the con- structiOn of tunnel under the Hud- son river from Jersey City to New York in order that the heavy railroad freights may be landed directly in the heart of the great city. The length of the tunnel is to be 12,4OO feet.
Year: 1879

RESUMED. We suppose it is proper
to mention the fact that on the End
inst, the United States treasury re
sumed specie payments. But with
cotton averaging cents, and bacon
the same, there is no occasion for get
ting up any enthusiasm over it. Pad
dys horse would have been taught to
live without food if only he hadn't
wasted away and died of starvatio on
before he learned how to do it.
Year: 1879

 Always p.ck up a poker by the cold end.

 Never spend your money when you can get things for nothing. Do not dispise 20-cent cigar or a S2 dinner because another man pays for 1t.

 Remember that it costs more to go to high-priced theatre than 1t does to take oack pew in free church. Nothing is troublesome to you that other people do for you willingly. Never pay to-day the man you can put of till to morrow.

 Never trouble yourself to do for aI other what he can do for himself. Never buy what you don't want simply because the man says he Is just out of it.

 Do not poultiee your elbow for g boil on another mans neck.

 When angry be sure that you can hsrdle your man before you call him a liar.-Boy Burdette.
Year: 1879

l. Let every youth be taught some useful art and be trained to industry and thrift.

 ?. Let every young man lay aside and keep sscredly intact . certain proportion of his earnings.

 8. Let every youth set out in life with fixed determination to engage in business for himself, and let him put his determination into practice as early in life as possible.

 4. Begin ip a small safe way and extend your busin .ss as experience shall teach you ia advantageous.

 5. Keep your own books and know constantly what you are earning and just where you stand.

 6. Do not marry until in receipt oi 8 tolerably certain income-snf1lcient to live on comfortably.

 z. Never get into debt. A man who owes nothing can never fail.

 8. Let every man who is able to buy a farm upon which to bring up his sons, do so. It is on the farm that the best men, morally and intel leetuslly, are tured out.

 g, Bear in mind that your business cannot be permanently prosperous unless you share it's advantages equ- ally with your customers. An sli-tur' key, all ,buzzard system of business can never succeed in the long run. Both parties to transaction must be mutually benefited if tine trade is to ke D up.

 10. Experience has shown that a scrimping policy with employees is not the most profitable for the employer. Live and let live is the better theory.

 II. Never get your business to much extended that you are driven to take in partner If you engage in partnerallD at all. let It not bt forced upon you.

 12. If you find yorr self incompe tent to manage business successful lv, settle down contentedly to work for wages, do your best for your em blower, make his interest your inter est, and shape your expenditures SC as to live within your income. Eve " one is not qualified by nature t' manage successfully, but as mucl real happiness is enjoyed in a salarieo position as any other, if the indiyid ua be only frugal and content.

 13 Don't seek for political office.

 IA. Aim to be just and fair in al your dealings, and cultivate gooC reputation for paying promptly.

 If these rules were generally obser ved, we should hear but little com plsint of hard times,
Year: 1879

history of the south can be easily obtained We must not look alone for national Legislation to retrieve our lost fortunes, but to diversity of crops, and change of our labor system. Then the day will soon dawn when we will no longer be serfs, but happy, prosperous ahd independent people.

 w. R. VIvRETT.
Year: 1879

It is proposed in South Carolina that every citizen who now has the right to vote shall be enrolled, but that hereafter nobody shall be put on the list unless he can write his name in the register in a legible hand. If Gen. Spinner lived in South Caro- lima this plan would deprive him of his vote.
Year: 1879

There is a general disposition to gather to together all our wild and semi civilized Indians, and place them on a reservation where they can be civilized. It is proposed by some to transport them to the Indian Territory but the Indians there strenuously object to It, and give the best of reasons for their objections.
Year: 1879

For kicking horse, fill an old sack
with hay and suspend /: from the loft by
means Of rope, in such manner that
the horse will be able to kick it every
time it swings against MIN. Let him
kick until he stops fhis own accord. and
In that way.
Year: 1879

without its bottle OF SoZ0DoNT. AS q
mouth wash it is most sanatiye; as toilet
article luxury, and its regular use from
early youth to old age, would tend to Sc
cure and maintain beautiful and healthy
teeth. 1t is also most economical, as
few drops upon the brush is Rll that is
needed for efficacy aud pleasure.
Year: 1879

A Southern correspondent of the
Philadelphia Times writes:


The edge of winter has Tapped over
and covered the hills, lagoons, and pine
barrens of the "Sunny South" with a
mantle of snow, and for the first time in
a generation the natives of the Gulf States
have enjoyed the luxury and novelty of
a snow-balling bout. It's impossible to
present an adequate description of the
excitement produced in South Georgia
and Upper Florida when Sunday morn
ing revealed the unwonted scene.


At Jacksonville and along the St.
Johns River the storm took the form of
sleet, covering every exposed object
with strong coating of ice and render
ing the streets impossible. The hotel
men viewed the scene with alarm, and
the invalid guests gazed from their win
dows despairingly, for their fancied Sc
curity from chill blasts was gone. Those
interested in orange culture at all points
north of Pilatka have grave and well
founded fears for the safety of not only
the fruit now on the trees, but for young
groves planted within three or four
years. Time can only demonstrate the
havoc wrought in :his direction. The
hotel men have, at least the consolation
of knowing that the intense cold
at the North will force an unusually
large number of people to seek
the milder States, and thus compensate
them for the present dispiriting effect
the present weather must have upon
their guests. The latter generally take
the infliction good-naturedly, and admit
that according to the rules of chance a
repetition of this experience is hardly
likely to occur again this winter. Many
ludicrous stories are told of the effect of
the snowy visitation upon the people
and animals of these regions.


Denizens of the woodlands came into
the towns by scores to report the won
derful sight, only to find the panic uni
versal. In the language of citizen
"It only needed bob-sled and fur cap
on the street to clean out a town and
convince the natives that the day OF
judgment had Gomez


One old lady is credited with having
filed trunk with the ''stuff " to keep as
a curiosity, and an aged negro awOke
the sojourners at favorite hotel with
appeals to them to "Look outen de
winder an see de dreff1 heaby frost
comm down in chunks.'


Horses generally refused to step from
their stables. The weather to-day is
somewhat milder, and the overcoats ef
antique and curious pattern which the
emergency has called into service are
again relegated to the limbo of things
that were.
Year: 1879

There was fight advertised to come
off at the Alhambra Theater Sunday
afternoon between an Eastern fighting
bulldog name Turk and forty-two
pound wild cat, vicious brute, for 500
a side-that is, the cat and dog were to
fight for their lives, and men bet 800
a side on the result. The fight was to
be followed by grand olio on the stage.
1t was an immense bill and it drew. In
due time the cat was introduced upon
the stage and was Immediately followed
by Turk; but at the first kiss of the
dog the cat took to the audience, and
the olio instead of being performed by
the troupe was done by the spectators,
tooth and toenail accompaniment. The
first bound of the cat took it upon the
piano of the orchestra. The pawer of
ivory left the swelling strain unfinished
and turned a back handspring over
among the audience. The Eext leap of
the " varmint y was at the contrabass,
and both player and instrument went
down instanter with broken heads. The
cat fingered lovingly moment among
the strings as if to test their quality,
and then sprang out among the audience.
Then began an olio in dead earnest, but
not the one advertised, although the
fight was over. 1t consisted of ground
and lofty tumbling, leap-frog and such
like feats of dexterity, all having a single
object-to amuse the audience by a
glimpse of sunlight out of doors and
under the free light Of heaven once more.
1t was perfectly satisfactory as whole,
and each player did his best. Time
shortest on record 80. Every thing
went off well, especially the audience.
The cat was found few moments later
looking out of one of the boxes and
waiting for an audience.-Gold Hi1
(Nep. NeaCs.
Year: 1879

They are made of long and thin boards
or pieces OF bark, bent up at one end
and prevented from splitting by cross
pieces on the upper side. Their seating
capacity varies from two to ten persons.
If ladies ride, they are placed in front.
The vehicle is guided by the gentleman
at the rear, with stick, or less grace
fully, with the feet. A toboggan runs
easily and rapidly down any hillside
which is covered with thin snow-crust,
and the effect of a 'sbump'' at such time
can not be easily described


If you are piscatorially inclined, you
can spend night on the St. Lawrence,
and screen yourself from the severity of
the weather within one of the Temporal
ry houses upon the ice. Comfortably
seated in chair and warmed by stove,
you almost lose sight of the fact that a
splendid fish is nibbling at your hook.
You pull him up through hole in the
ice, light fresh pipe, and drop your
hook for the next favor.


Then we might walk to the St. Louis
Gate-or rather to the gap where the
gate once was-whence Montcalm
marched forth to give up his life, and
the French supremacy in America as
well.


Just outside the walls we might enter
the Glaciarum, or rink, and enjoy some
of the numerous contests. There will
be races of all kinds-snow-shoes, three
legged, hurdle, and fiat, but most anus
ing of all the wheelbarrow and barrel
races. The human wheelbarrow is
made by one skater sitting upon his left
foot, then extending the right foot for
ward, and finally turning the arms up
ward for handles. In this position he
is trundled off by companion. When
the barrel race opens the contestants
skate at full speed across the rink to-
ward a number of headless barrels. Par
TALLY sliding for the last twenty feet,
they endeavor to dart through, but the
refractory barrels persist in rolling over
and over the mirror-like surface, while
the display of anatomical extremities is
something remarkable le.-Frederick G..
Mather, IN Harper's Magazine for Feb
ruGru.
Year: 1879

will give an idea of the magnitude of
this structure. In thickness It is prob
ably about sixty feet, while the surface
of the ice is at least half that distance
from the surface of the water. There
are crevasses twenty-five or thirty feet
in depth, and yet they show no signs of
water. As we have said before, the sur
face of the ice bridge or ice field (for it
is really that is exceedingly rough, and
the work of crossing it is very fatiguing.
Before long, however, a road will be
constructed from the American to the
Canadian shore, and it will be quite an
easy matter to cross.


The ice formation of the bridge is Gu
riously dissimilar on the different sides
of the river. On the American side it is
composed of snow ice, formed into
rounded boulder shapes, and looking
exactly like white coral. As you near
the center of the river, the ice fragments
grow larger, and when you near the
Canadian shore you find huge cakes of
water ice amalgamated into solid mass.
The surface of the bridge is toughest
upon the American side, and it would
seem as if the greatest pressure was here
exerted, though the widest disturbance
evidently took place at the lower end of
the bridge, for the hummocks are very
large and frequent here.


The first man that crossed was Mr..
Tom. sConroy, the well-known guide,
who saved man from the rapids year
or two ago. AS Mr.. Conroy weighs
about two hundred pounds, he demon
strated the entire safety of the bridge
for purposes of locomotion.
Year: 1879

But few people realize to what extent
fashionable poisoning is carried at the
present day in the use of various stimu-,
lants for which the wretched suicides
have acquired fondness. Liquor in its
various forms was for long time the,
great bane of society. But that is fast
being supplemented by potions if not so
stimulating and exciting, far more
deadly in their effects. Opium eating
and laudanum drinking is greatly on the
increase, and more than half of the
deaths that are attributed to heart dis,
ease are compassed by these habits.
Morphine is but another form for the
drug, and this is also being used to ex-,.
cess by thousands of people in this coun-
try. Chloral is fast growing into ofapars
and is laring its victims down, to death
by the hundreds and thousands. II is
time this matter was taxed hold of in
earest by some of the jealous reformers
of the day, for there is hardly a day
passes but counts its victim to one Or
the tther of these pernicious drugs. 1t is
the gifted of the land, too, who are most
easily led to destruction by means of
these narcotic poisons. The habit is
formed by taking small doses to rest the
overtaxed mind and brain, and the dose
increases from day to day, until mini
and bI ain are stilled and at rest in the


quiet sleep of death. The ,newsreaches


US this morning of another victim to the
use of chloral i. the person of C.aancey


K. Williams, of Rutland, W., who was


one of the first scholars of his, native


State, and a man of unusual moral ex-
cellence except in this one respect. He
took chloral to induce sleep and rest
yesterday morning. The sleep came to


his eyelids speedily, but it was the sleep
from which there is no awakening.


Where is the Francis Murphy who will
organize crusade against the growing
habit Of fashionable poisoning Troy


Press. -,
Year: 1879

1t has been observed by some natural
lists that if we withhold water from
snakes when about to shed their epi-
dcrmis, they are thereby prevented from
divesting themselves entirely of the old
skin. Ialways kept small birds bath
ing-cup, filled with clean water once a
day, in the case containing my crotalus.
The first skin he cast off, in July, was
entire and without blemish. At the
second change, however, about the last
of September, removed the cup one
night, intending to replace it shortly
afterward, but forgot to do So, The
next morning I found portions OF loose
skin all over the floor of the case, and
much more hanging in shreds from
various parts of the body of the snake


Other parts seemed not to be detached
yet. had not supposed that the ophid-
ian was quite ready for change. He
was over two months in dlvesting him.
self of his torn trousers. Was it due to
the fact that water had been withheld at
the last time? Both changes occurred
in the night, and failed to observe the
interesting process of divestment. 10
test the question of so-called blindness
occurring during the time when the pupil
is covered by Il whitish film or thin mem
brane becoming detached. and occlud-
ing the sight Of the eye, placed some
very active mice repeatedly in the case,
during the period OF change of epider-
mis-. The ophidian attacked the mice
in quick turn, without ever missing his
first victim. On other occasions. how
ever, when his sight was unobstructed,
have seen him strike at it and miss the
mark repeatedly. After making a few
misses he would then strike about with
intensified fury. The snake never ate
without first striking his victim. He
did not eat more than two mice Mt a
meal, and sometimes an hour lapsed be-
fore eating the second one. He never
killed his prey wantonly; on the con-
trary, he permitted mice to keep his conf
pany so long as his appetite was ap-
peased.-1He Science NeaOS.
Year: 1879

Prof. r.. L. harrington, OF tlllS clty,
says the Detroit p st, has invented
completed and tried satisfactorily ma
chine which is certainly n novelty in the
way of locomotion. In appearance on a
side view it presents considerable re-
scmblance to bicycle, but it is intended
to run on the water instead of on land.
The wheel is four feet in diameter and
seven inches through. Near the outer
rim are sixteen paddles similar to those
used on the paddle-wheel of a steamer.
The interior of the wheel is supplied
with air chambers for buoyancy and
with water chambers for balance. The
saddle is placed further back and lower
than in the improved land bicycle.
Treadles for the feet are provided, and
these are connected with gearing at
tached to a crank turned by hand, so
that in propelling the machine either
the hands or feet, or both together may
lie used. The buoyancy of the wheel is
about 400 pounds. Running back of the
wheel are shafts, connecting. not as in
the bicycle with smaller wheel, but
with two artificial fish of cedar resting
ON the water side by side. These fish
serve the same purpose in balancing the
machine as the small wheel does in the
bicycle and also serve as Il rudder
to guide the direction of the machine.
The whole weight of this novel ap-
paratus is about seventy pounds. Mr..
Harrington has tried it successfully and
finds no difficult, in propelling it or in
keeping it balanced in the water, though
its possibilities as regards speed have not
' CT been fairly tested.
Year: 1879

While Mr.. w. H. Higgins, living
about two and half miles from Re-
novo, on the dividing lidge between
Paddy's and Drury's runs, was working
in his field making hay, he saw an ami
NAL in distant part of the field making
off with hen. He thought it a fox,


and called the attention of his son
George, lad of fourteen, to it. George
is fond of hunting, and getting his gun
he started of for the fox, accompanied
Ivy his five-year-old brother and a
hound. They had not been gone long
when Mr.. Higgins heard several con-
tinuous yells of the most terrible kind.
The animal had been treed by the dog,
and it's half-human shrieks rent the air
with terrible distinctness, like the shrill
agonized voice of q woman in dire dis
tress. The excited father and his field
hands atonce made for the point whence
came these foreboding sounds. and ere
they had reached the spot they met
George dragging huge female panther
measuring five feet one inch In length
and standing two feet high. The boys
had followed the dog to a big tree, up
which the panther had gone about
lceI. w uCIl Attu
saw the animal, crouched and glaring
above, he felt that it was either to be
Il dead panther or death struggle be-
tween it and himself and little brother.
lie was good shot generally. but here
was to be the severest test his young eye
and nerves had ever been put to, and one
that might we'll have tried an older
and stouter hunter. He drew the bead
md fred, fee.ing'as he did so, he says, rs
if he had been lifted clear off his feet.
But there was the hungry brute yet,
crouching on the limb, its eyes fairly fit
to burst in their malignant glare. Bang
went the gun Of our brave young hunter,
Just rs the panther sprang. 1t seemed,
said the lad, as though the animal
sprang out from the tree about twenty
five feet. then came straight down, light
ing on the dog about sixteen feet from
the boys. The young hunter again
thought he had Missed. Clubbing his
gun he advanced upon the brute to strike
it, but it rolled over dead before he
could do so. Examination proved that
his first shot had struck about four
inches back of the heart, the last one in
the heart. It was bravely and well
done, and but for the steady nerve and
true aim of the lad he and his little
brother would doubtless have fallen
victims to the animals ravenous hun
ger.-LockhaUem (Pa.) Democrat.
Year: 1879

Some people entertain an idea that
watermelons are unwholesome. Yet
hcse same persons, perhaps. will stuff
themselves in hot weather with hot bis
cult, ham, beef, rancid butter and fried
bacon, diet suited to the latitude of
Lapland. If the fruits of theearth and
of the tree, in this Southern climate,
were consumed more literally there
would be less sickness. If the Southern
citizen would jump from the frying-pan
into a watermelon patch, he would be
less liable to catch the yellow fever. Of
all the fruits OF the earth there is none
more wholesome than good water
melon. 1t is composed of nothing more
than water. This water acts as r gentle
diuretic, without leaving any acid upon
the stomach, as is the case in other
diuretics. A good thing in yellow fever
lines. The creole of Louisiana lives to a
marvellous age. He lives so long that lie
forgets his age. But he lives princi-
pally on the fruits and vegetables that
grow around him, and he is especially
fond of a good wa ermelon.-Memphss
AUalnnche.
Year: 1879

In London-in St. James park-there
once lived crane. BY some accident
he broke one of his long legs, and a
kind doctor who saw him in pain cut it
off above the knee. The bird got well,
but how was he to get about in the
world? He couldn't use q crutch, as a
man with one leg can, nor had he any
friends to wheel him about in an invalid
chair, as some sick people have when
they can't walk. :,


l don't what thep bird would
have done; but a soldier, who knew how
to do g good many things, saw the
cranes trouble, took pity on him, and
went to work to help him. He made q
wooden leg, with a joint for a knee, and
he managed to fasten it to the.poor Grip,
ple, so That he could walk about and
take care of himself. 1t was not a
pretty leg, like his other, but it was use
full, and he was satisfied with it. For a
long time this wooden-legged bird was
one of the sights of the park, and very
proudly he bore himself before the
crowds of curious boys and girls WHO
came to see him.-&. Nicholas.
Year: 1879

marry you or work. When you asked
me to take you for better or worse, I
was afraid it was pity instead of love
because people were cool to me alter our
journey to Bagdad, and I hadn't time to
confess my secret. I went down next
morning to surprise you with it, but you
had left without n word. l supposed
you had been amusing yourself, as your
cousins said; that you could never have
loved me under any circumstances; and
then l decided you should never know
that Miss Lowell was Miss Cavendisn,
disguised by seven years of Europe and
an aquiline nose. So wrote that letter
ofdismissal, if you please"


"And, after all, we lose our hearts
and keep our commandments, my dear
Julictte! What will Cousin Essie say
when she hears that Miss Lowell and I
have been destined for each other from
the beginning g.-Harper's Bazar.
Year: 1879

The following is statement showing
tlle. annual wheat and corn production
of the United States for the past sixteen
years, together with the annual exports
and home consumption for the same
period. These figures are correct, being
officially reported from the Department
of Agriculture. The estimate for this
year IS calculated from the reports Of ex-
tended correspondence throughout the
United States, and is probably as correct
as estimates of this nature can be made: