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Year: 1874

TIE confirmation OF Attorney Gener-
al WILLIAMS as Chief Justice grows
more doubtful every day, and it is now
stated that even such subservient heuch.
men as Senator CANsRoN have urged
upon the President the withdrawal OF
the nomination, in order to avoid the
modification Of a positive rejection.
GRANTS blood is up, however, and he
refuses to sacrifice his favorite and the
indications are that the Senators who
refuse to vote for confirmation will in
aict upon the President an affront which
ne will not be slow to resent. 1t is
very pretty quarrel as it stands and pro.
misses to become even more interesting A
hereafter.
Year: 1874

Ir is ssid that o new Polar Expedi-
ton is contemplated, at government
expense. IfAdmiral Robson, the Jolly
Jack Tar of the Navy Department,
will assume command in person and
search for the North Pole. the expense
OF the expedition will be cheerfully
borne.
Year: 1874

THERE is still fair probability that
the country may be spared the shame
Of having Attorney General WILLIAMS
confirmed as Chief Justice of the Su-
preme Court. The determined stand
which has been made by some OF the
Republican Senator'S in opposition to
this crownipg disgrace will cover a
multitude OF sins.
Year: 1874

TIE Boy AND THE NUTs.-A boy
once found some nuts in a jar
Like all boys, he was fond of nuts,
and was glad to hear that he might
put his hand once in the jar, and
have all the nuts he could then take
out. He thrust his hand down. the
neck of the jar, and took hold. q
all the nuts he could. When his
hand was quite full, he did his best
to draw it out of the jar.


But the neck of the iarw was small
and his hand was so full of nuts,
that he could not draw It out. lie
felt so sad, that tears fell from his
ewes. His friend who stood near
told him to let go half the nuts
lie did so and then drew out his
hand with ease.


We shall find it so in life men
lose all, ifthey trY, ,tb,get tao much.
What a lesson lbs teaca.as lis,
Year: 1874

There is no change in the condition of the money
market, and call borrowers are still paying q and
per cent time loans being reported at and g. and
prime mercantile paper at 5. tot. The Treasurer at
Washington received S4l5 900 in National bank notes
for redemption to-day.
Year: 1874

-
l fill this cup to one made up


OF lOveliness alone,
A woman of her gentle sex


The seeming paragon
To whom the better elements


And kindly stars have given
A form so fair, that, like the air,


'Tis l-ss Of earth than Heaven.
Her every tone is magies own,


Like those of morning birds,
And something more than melody


Dwells ever in her words
The coinage of heart are they, M


And from her lips each flows,
As one may see the burdened bee


Fourth issue from the rose.
Affections are as thoughts to her,


The measures of the hours
Her breathing has the fragrancy,


The freshness Of young flowers
And lovely passions. changing oft,
So fill her she appears
The image of themselves by turns,
The idol Of past years.
OF her bright face one glance will trace
A picture on the brain, ~
And of her voice in aching hearts


A song must long remain;
But memory such as mine or her
So very much endears,
When death is nigh, the latest sigh
Will net be life's but hers. les
fill this cup to one made Up


Of loveliness alone,
A woman of her gentle sex


The seeming paragon
Her health and would on earth there stood
Some more of such a frame,
That life might be all poetry,


And weariness n name.
Year: 1874

A COMPARISON OF THE PROTESTANT EfISCOPAL AND


REFORMED EPISCOPAL PRAYER-BOOKs-DIFFER-


ENCEs IN TIE RITUAL AND IN IHE WORDING OF


PRAYERS.


A pamphlet containing an account of the
chef points Of difference between the Book of Common
PRAYER OF Reformed Episcopal Church and the Cook
OF Prayer Of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the
United has just been issued by Presbyter" OF
the former Church. Tie aahor states that the Commit
tee who had charge the work OF revision before
them the successive turges of the Church OF England,
the PRAYER Book OF 1885, the Lturges Of the Reformed
Churches the Continent, aud various proposed re-
visions that have appeared during the present century
The result OF their aOOrs the author claims. is book
OF worship whichpreservng the attractive aud orderly
features OF the old Lturgesis scrptura Protes
tant, liberal, and flexible" catechism Is also
being prepared that will not contain "objeclnabie
statements found in the Protestant
Episcopal Catechsm." Among these Objectionable
statements" is which leads children " 10 suppose
that the condition Of those baptized In infancy is
necessarily OF spiritual life" In the commands Of
the churches the of their respective
PrayerBooks, there is much difference. The Reformed
Episcopal. it is claimed, gives reasonable liberty
and the Protestant Episcopal " no option whatever TO
those who desire to have hexbility in the service At
other times than Sunday morning the minister OF the
former church can use 1t not he chooses In the
Eighth Article Of the Constitution OF the Reformed
Church there Is also this declaraOn "No canon shall
make its use imperative oil OCCASIONS forbid
Of extempore other prayer suitable times"
To guard against this liberty being seized upon
by any Ritualsts the Ninth Article Of the same Con-
stution declares that nothing calculated to teach
either directly symboicay that the Christian minis
try possesses saceTdota character that the Lords
supper il sacrifice shalt be allowed in the worship
Of this church; shall any communion table be-
structed in the form OF altar"


The contrast between the Prayer Books is clearly
when the wording Of tie prayers 10 compared In
Year: 1874

ATTRACTIONS FOR THE LADIEs-ThOse liking


sAcQuE shou examine KNoxs superb variety Of Brown
Otter shetland Seal Alaska At the time they can
anime his costly FURs OF his 2l2
BroaigGy, or IN the Fifth Avenue Hotel
Year: 1874

A friend writes from Europe ::
What an amount Of discomfor. wet
boots entail, to be sure; and how
we'll we all recall the fretful efforts
we have now and then made to
draw on a pair hard baked ones
which were put by the FIRE over
night to dry. Damp and adhesive
within, they are without stiff and
unyielding as horn. Once on, they
are a sort of modern stocks, des-
tructive of all comfort, and entirely
demoralizing to the tender. The
following simple device will rob the
cold, wet barn~yard of slushy
winter or spring evening half its
Pre- mise of discomfort for the next
morning.


When the boots arc taken off, fill
them quite full of dry oats. This
grain has a great fondness for damp
and will rapidly absorb the last ves~
tige of it from the wet leather. AS
it takns up the moisture it swells
and fills the boot with tightly fit
ting last, keeping its form good,
and drying the leather without
hardening it. In the morning,
shake out the oats and hang them
in a bag near the fire to dry, ready
for the next wet night, draw on the
boots, and 60 happily about the days
work.
Year: 1874

The Journal of Chemistry warns
the drinkers of the water of wells
that are near dwellings to beware of
the typhoid poison sure to be found,
sooner or later, in those reservoirs,
if any of the house drainage can
percoIate them. The gelatinous
matter often found upon the stones
of a we'll is poison to the human
system, probably causing, by it's
spores, fermentation of the blood,
with abnormal heat or fever.
Wholesome, untainted water is
always free from all color and odor.
To tes: it thoroughly, place half a
pint in clear bottle, with a few
grains of lunp>sugar and expose it.,
stoppered, to sunlight in a window.
If even after an exposure of eight
or ten days, the water becomes tur-
bid, he sure that it has been con-
taminated by sewage of some kind.
If it remains perfectly clear, it is
pure and safe.
Year: 1874

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY.
In speaking of persons faults,


Pray don't forget your own;
Remember those with houses Of glass


Should never throw a stone.
If we have nothing else to do.


But talk of those who sin,
IT'S better we commence at home,


And from that point begin.
We have no right to judge a man,


Until he is fairly tried,
Should we not like his company,


We know the world is vide.
Some may have faults-and who has not ?


The old as well as young.
Perhaps for aught we know,


Have fifty 10 their one.
III tell you of better plan,
And find it works full we'll;
To try my own defects to cure,
Before of others tell;
And though sometimes hope 20 be
No worse than some know,
Ny own short comings bid me let
The faults of others go.
| Then let us all when we commence
To SANDER friend or foe,
Think of the harm one word may do


To those We little know;
| Remember curses sometimes like
| Our chickens roost at home )"
Don't speak of others faults until
We have none of our own.
Year: 1874

A LabOring Man Suddenly Stricken


Down-No Apparent Origin OF the


Disease.


The disease OF locked jaw is common enough in
the practice OF nearly every physician, but the
following case Is so peculiar IN its main features
that recital OF the circumstances Will be found of
more than ordinary interest:-On Thursday last
Heinrich Eenberger, carpenter by trade, while
at home for his dinner at noon, noticed that it was
only with difficulty he could open his mouth to
masricate his iood. He thought nothing of
it at the time and finished the meal. In
the evening, after the conclusion of his days
labor, he tried to eat some soup. but found it
impossible to insert the spoon in his mouth.
The soup was poured into cup finally,
and he succeeded In swallowing 1t, but he was un-
able to eat meat or any solid food. All night long
he sunered from shooting pains and occasional
convulslons, but 1t was not thought necessary to
summon physician. BY noon or Friday the pain
and the difficulty in eating had increased to such
an extent that ne was sent 10 st. Francis Hospital
in Filth street, between avenues b and G. During
all OF this time he had not lost consciousness and
on his arrival at the hospital he stated to the ply
having been cut or hurt at any time not even in
the slightest degree. careful examination was
made ,iS put not S marx Of any kind could be found
be traced. This TACT, as well as the acute
and sudden manner OF the attack, with
Constitute the peculiar features Of the case.
PirOg0G, the eminent Russian surgeon who ac-
cOmpanied the Russian army through the Crimean
war; mentions only eight cases in all his practice.
Larrey, surgeon to Napoleon l., who accompanied
the Emperor throughout all OF the NapOleonic
campaigns, mentions several cases parallel to the
above, but they did not all come under his per-
sonal observation. Indeed. so rarely does case
OF this kind occur that in all the hospitals OF New
York. where thousands OF patients are constantly
being treated, 1t Is not once IN year that q case
ike the above Is developed. When the reporter
visited the hospital yesterday the patient was
lying on his cot, his wife being in attendance.
The muscles OF his face, particularly those
used in masticating food, were stiff and hard,
as were also the muscles Ol the back and alb
domen. At the request Of the physician he en-.
deavored to open his mouth, but the effort caused
q spasm which seemed 70 make his whole frame
vibrate His body and limbs were rigid, so much
SO that in lifting him 1t was like raising log OF
wood One or two Of his lower teeth have been
fractured, and through this Orince tube is in
serted and liquid nourishment administered. The
treatment adopted is warm baths, IN which the
patient remains an hour Chlor0lorm is then ad.
ministered, and under its influence the muscles
relax. His condition Ia considered dangerous, but
not hopeless. The unfortunate man mas wife
and five children dependent upon him. He is said
to be strictly sober and Industrious and has always
eniOVeO the best OF health.
Year: 1874

Nearly every month the Judge OF the Criminal
Court sends to the State Penitentary at Joliet
about twenty young men convicted OF different
branches OF stealing. II brought before him and
the charge proved, this railroad directors son
would now be suffering the same punishment thar
Is meted out to


THE POOR AND HUNGRY DEVILS
who are sent up with machine-like pr0mptitpde.
IL Is a question which the people have right 70
know the answer of-"Why aid Justice Scully dis
charge that prisoner 2"
Year: 1874

ranged on extreme quotations during the week.
between 1925 and ITO, opening at the higher
figure and leaving Off at 109X. The short interest
in the market has been the principal sustaining
influence, q consideration being at times during
the week paid for the use OF gold.


Foreign exchange was dull and weak, anticipat-
ing the early presence OF commercial bills drawn
against the new crops. The specie movement
hence appears to have stopped, the shipments
last week, although small, being mostly OF foreign
specie in tronsitu. The recent shipments OF specie
are stated to have paid but mere trine, and in
some cases scarcely that, leaving the question OF
profit In doubt. This confident expectation OF the
foreign exchange and gold markets concerning
future crop movements should be warning to
some Of the prevalent croakers who ruin in
cheap food. The subjoined table gives the nuctua-
LIONS in the gold market for the week.
Year: 1874

ing 80 far to western sentiment as to select fts
next Presidential candidate from that ection, is
still 80 thoroughly under the control OF the
national banking interest that 1t win he compelled
to make the campaign on that issue, and the
opposition on


THE PLATFORM OF GREENBACK


currency Will sweep the country ike an avalanche
OF which last Tuesday was but an initial warning.
Locally the democrats made the worst possible
selection in the nomination OF Hon. Asher r.
Nichols for Congress. and this nomination carried
with II one, II not two, OF the Assembly districts.
gentleman OF unquest0ned ability and tried
rectltude, his financial opinions were announced
with candor, and his well known innexioillty OF
purpose was accepted BY the people as evidence
that IN Congress he would stand with their ene-
mics, no matter what toe force OF opinion or argu-
Mr.. BASS, on the other hand, has judicially
refrained from discussing this question
more than was absolutely necessary, ana it
was known tnat, although nominally OF the same
opinion az MS opponent on this subject,
he was OF more flexible material and therefore,
more likely 10 bend to the coming storms and
respond TO the demands OF his constituents IN
this respect should events shape themselves so as
to permit them an opportunity Tor a fair express


In CITY matters exposures OF "Rng'' paving Jobs,
the ''gas'' outrage and other municipal jObbery,
which, although OF comparatively limited extent,
considering the importance OF the CITY, was VET
sufficiently manifest, and change in compile xion
or Council and administration was quietly deter
mined upon and carried out. Rei0rhl in all public
Off1ces and adoption OF reform measures In the
protection against m0nopoies and rings is the gen.
eral Interpretation OF this victory, and no lover or
his country but mast wish the movement the
greatest success.
Year: 1874

The following statements OF the views OF Con-
gressmen elect upon the meaning and effect OF the
political revolution evidenced in this weeks elec-
tions win be found OF interest to all citizens.
They carry out in the main the views
expressed in the interviews with men,
bers elect since the great battle OF ballots.
and show that the alarm sounded to the nation
through the HERALD during the two years past OF
the danger that an occasion might arise when
our beloved Republic would drift into an empire
through the supineness OF the people and the am
bition OF selwilled chieitain, has largely infu-
enced the popular verdict which points to com.
plete ana radical change in the complexion OF our
federal administration as rapidly as 1t can be done
by constituted authority. They also fairly in
dicate the dominant tone OF sentiment in the
headers OF the successful party on many topics,
which will enter largely into the work OF the next
Congress-.
Year: 1874

An immense crowd OF people was collected last
night In Mulberry street, near Prince. and great
excitement created in the neighborhood by an as
sault committed on Oficer Hogan, OF .he Four.
teenth precinct, by three young men. He had ar.
rested one OF their number for disorderly cOnducr


in the streets and was on the way to
the station house with his prisoner when
the three others, who were with the prisoner
az the time OF the arrest set upon the of1cer and
raped Tor assistance, and the oficers who went
to his aid succeeded in arresting the rescuers ON
one OF them was found large sum OF money, and
the police were led 10 the belief or suspicion thas
they mad not come by IL honestly. All were locked
up and VIII be taken TO Court this morning.
Year: 1874

SUNSHINE AT HOME. Many child
goes astray, not because there is IL
want of prayer or virtue at home, but
because home lacks sunshine. A child
needs smiles as much as flower needs
sunbeams. If thing pleases they
are apt to seek it; if it displeases they
are apt to avoid it. If home is the
place where faces are sour, aud words
are harsh, and fault-inding is ever in
the ascendant, they will spend as many
hours as possible elsewhere.
Year: 1874

bdr A youth who was taking an air.
ing in the country, tried to amuse HIM
self by quizzing an old farmer about
his bald head, but was extinguished by
the old man, who solemnly remarked,
Young man, when my head gets as
soft as yours, I can rase hair to SELL"
Year: 1874

SPIDERS AND AERoNAUTs. The idea OF
spiders travelling in a balloon is nov
ell, yet the fact is well attested. Some
men were recently crossing Seneca
lake in boat, when their attention
was attracted by small wake in the
water, and on approaching they saw
some spiders walking upon its surface.
Each was attached by single thread
to web of considerable size, which
was floating in the air some thirty feet
above the water. At the first signal of
danger the spiders began to ascend, one
staying upon the surface until the rest
had risen some distance, when he, too;
let go his hold, and rapidly wound up
his slender coil. At the same time the
balloon rose rapidly, and the last spi-
der was only reached with an oar by q
man standing UP in the boat. The
others reached the frail balloon in
safety and soon foated out of sight. 1t
is reasonable to suppose that when out
of danger, one spider let himself down
until he obtained footing, and thus
held the balloon at proper distance,
while his comrades descended. All
this exhibits high intelligence, or some
thing closely resembling it, for which
we have no name. We lost ourselves
in conjecture rs to whether this was q
party travelling for pleasure party en-
israting across the lake, or party out
fishing for the flies and mosquitoes
which are always seen in swarms from
fifteen to twenty feet above the water.
AS the fact was we'll authenticated, we
offer it to Mr.. Darwin for o note for
the second edition of his last work.
Year: 1874

eay- A citizen of Rutland, VT, has
given 81 900 to Bates College for the
endowment of q scholarship for the
benefit of female student through all
the successive classes perpetually. This
is said to be the first endowment of q
female scholarship in any American
COLLEGE.
Year: 1874

@A topper the other night got at
the yeast jug and took a swig. Putting
it down he called out to his wife
&" Say, Jane, l wish you wouldn't mix
that chicken feed over the cider Jug, it s
nuff to make a hog sick The yeast
made him hop soon after.
Year: 1874

= The power of love receives a
striking illustration in the case of the
milwaukee girl who knocked her lover
heels over head down q flight of stairs
because he wanted to stop kissing long
enough to get good long breath.
Year: 1874

INSECTS IN MEDICINE. had a
prominent place in the materia medica
of former days, and were administered
with as much confidence in their eff
cacy as if now given to the medicinal
plants of the garden or the tinctures of
the apothecary. They were generally
given in the form of pills. Five gnats
were equal to three grains of calomel.
A lady-bird was sovereign remedy for
collie and measles, and a cockchafer for
hydrophobia, and the plague. Ants
were considered invaluable against lop-
rosy, and Of great efficacy in strength
ening the memory and giving wonder
full vigor to the frame. An Italian
professor declared that the finger i'm
bued with the juice of little insect
having the pretty name of rhinobatus
antiodontalgicus, will retain the power
Of curing the toothache for a year,
Journal Of Chemistry.
Year: 1874

There are always two parties in the
case of bargains. The gamer, and
the loser. And while one is delighted
at the advantage he has obtained, he
thinks nothing of the necessities which
have forced the other party to accept
the highest offer. But few buyers of
bargains think or care about taking this
view of the subject.
Year: 1874

WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT FARMING.
Now the Winter is here, i: would per-
haps be as well to discontinue haying,
and turn your attention to getting in
your fall saw logs. No farmer can con-
slider his fall crop complete until he has
his cellar supplied with saw logs. Seated
around the blazing hearth of Winters's
night, there is no fruit more delicious.


a correspondent asks us what we think
of late plowing. Flowing should not be
continued later than ten or eleven O'Clock
at night. 1t gets horses in the habit Of
staying out late and unduly exposes the
pillow. We have known plows to acquire
the Spring halt and inaammatory rheu-
matism from late plowing. Don't Go it.


To another correspondent who wants
us to suggest a good drain upon a farm,
we would say, a heavy mortgage at ten
per cent. will drain it about as rapidly as
anything we know Of.


When you make cider select nothing
but the soundest turnips, chopping them
into sled-lengths before grading them.


In boiling your cider use plenty of ice
and when boiled hang it up in the sun to
dry.


a pickax should never be used in pick
ing apples. 1t has tendency to break
down the vines and damage the hive.


In sowing your Winter apple-jack a
horse will be found preferable to a step
ladder; step-;adders are liable to freeze
up, and are hardly palatablc unless boiled
with sugar.


In cutting down hemlock trees for can
ming, select the largest. Don't throw
away the chips, as they make fine parlor
ornaments, incased in rustic frames. Add
a little salt and vinegar.


The present cold weather should sug-
gest to the. humane farmer the necessity
for a good cow-shed. The following is a
good receipt for making COW shed
Pour pail full Of boiling hot water on
her back, and if that don't make good
cow-shed-her hair-we are no prophet
to any body.


Now is the time for planting your
Winter hay. The pink-eyed South
down is probably the best variety, as it
don't need polling, and begins to lay
early BeVerly Weekly visitor.
Year: 1874

THE Boy WHO WANTED TO KNow.-
The following is strictly true. A lady
coming to this State recently stopped at
one Of the Chicago hotels with her little
son. The boy was not perfectly satisfied
with matters and things at the dinner
table, and expressed himself frequently
to that effect. The mother finally arose,
and remarked in an undertone to the
youthful offender: Come with me up
stairs and | will attend to your case"
The lad understood at once what "at-
tending to his case" meant but there
was an important matter Of detail which
he was painfully anxious to have more
fully explained; so, pulling backwards
on the hands of his mother, he blubbercd
out in voice loud enough to be heard
over the well-tiled dining-room Say,
mother, are you going to take your hand
or your slipper?" The enthusiasm with
which this brief address was received was
unbounded. Poor, little fellow how
often have we wanted to knew that same
thing ourself. With brief season OF
waiting we generally found out, as he
undoubtedly did.