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Year: 1878

New York City eats 7O,OOO,00O of eggs per year, and several millions more are consumed in morning drinks.

 An apiarian in Utah estimates that one acre of mignonette will fur nish sufficient pasture for one hun dred stocks of bees.

 Some S1O,0O0 worth of mules have recently died on the ranch of Joseph Cone, in Tehama county, from the glanders, which seems to have attacked all the stock on bis extensive ranch. This epidemic seems to be prevalent at various points of the State, anc most serious in its results.

 The comb is the hens pulse. If that be strong and bright, and of a good color and full of blood, shaking with every quick movement of the bird in the combcd varieties, the bird is in normal health, and ill a a laying condition. When the rim of the comb and wattles have pur- plish tinge, the bird is not well.

 Owing to the unusual fall of snow on the grazing lands in western Ne braska vast herds of cattle are sui. fcring greatly for want of food. One report says that between 35,00O and 10000 head of cattle arc in a starv. ing condition between Sidney and the north Platte. They come up to the Union Pacific railroad track in great numbers, and frequently i'm. pede the progress of trains, which are obliged on this account to move slowly and cautiously through this section. Cattle arc often found ly ing benumbed and hungry on the track, and have to be forcibly driver off.
Year: 1878

The following are some extracts from a speech delivered by Col. Rob- ert Ingersoll, recently, at the Central Illinois Fair:

 It is not necessary in this age of the world for the farmer to rise in the middle of the night to begin his work. This getting up SO early in the morning is relic of barbarian. It has made hundreds of young men curse the business. There is no need of getting up at three or four o'clock in the winter morning. The farmer who presists in doing it, and presists in dragging his wife and children from their beds, ought to be visited by a missionary. It is time enough to rise after the sun has set the eI- ample. For what purpose do 70 get up? To feed the cattle? Why not feed them more the night before. It is a waste of life. In the old times they used to get up about three o'clock in the morning. and go to work long before the sun had risen with healing upon his wings" and as a just punishment they all had the ague; and they ought to have it now.

 Own land if possible. Do not rent an acre if you can avoid it. There can be no such a thing as home unless you own it. There must be an incentive to plant trees, beauti- fly the grounds. To own home tends to elevate the owner. It gives certain independence, a certain force of character that is obtained in no other way.

 Let every farmer treat his wife and children with kindness. Give them every advantage for culture, They will grow about you like flow CTS; they will fill your life with joy and perfume; they will fill your homes with sunshine, and your lives with happiness. See to it that they have all the comforts and all the con- veniences of life that you can possibly give them. Give them the advantage of every i'm provement as soon as you can. Try ard make life a perpetual delight. Make your homes pleasant. Have your houses warm and comfortable for the winter. Do not build story and half house. The half story is an oven, in which during the summer you will bake every night, and feel in the morning as though only the rind of youself was left. Decorate your rooms, even if you do so with cheap engravings; they arc better than none. Have books; have pa- pers; read them. You have more leisure than the dwelers in cities Bcautify your ground with plants; with flowers. Have good gardens, and recollect that everything of beuty- ty tends to your elevation. Every little morning-glory whose purple heart is thrilled with the light of the morning sun tends to put a blossom in your heart.

 Remember that you arc in partnership with all other labor, and be ready at all times to join hands with all other laborers for the protection of honest industry. As for myself, l envy the man who has lived upon the same broad acres from his boyhood, who has been fa- miliar with the game scenes year af ter year, who now lives upon the same farm on which he was born and occupies the home of his fathers. l can imagine no happier way to end ones life than in the quiet of the country. far from the demands of bus mess, out of the mad race for place and money and power.
Year: 1878

THE Victoria Regia is native of Bo-
livia, and was first discovered by Dor
bgny, the traveller 1t belongs to the
family of the NymphedcOe, and bears II
strong resemblance to the water-lily with
which we are all familiar The same
plant was also discovered by Scour-
bourgk in British Guiana. If any one
will pay visit to a river or pond in his
vicinity during the summer and take Il
look at the water-llies there growing;
if he will exercise his Imagination until
by its aid the leaves of that plant broaden
to a width Of from three to six feet, and
the flowers, sometimes white, sometimes
yellow, and again violet, become magni.
fed tu foot in diameter aud height, he
will have tOlerable accurate idea Of the
appearance of this wonderful plant. Its
perfume is delicious. The leaves are
smooth aud green above, while on the
under side they are reddish, and divided
into great number of compartments by
the veins which project, leaving between
them spaces which are filled with airand
by means of which the leaves are sup.
ported on the surface of the water. There
is a rim around the edge Of the plant
about two inches high, which makes it
appear like a large circular tray. So well
/, the leaf buoyed up upon the surface OF
the water and So strOug are its libres, that
large birds stand and walk upon it while
seeking their prey in the water below.
Year: 1878

Undoubtedly the human conscience,
and especially the boyish article, recog-
nizes a broad difference between the
theft Of growing crops-of apples on The
trees, for instance, or corn on the stalk,
II melons in the feld-and that of other
species Of property. The surreptitious
appropriation of the former class o. chat
tells is known in common pariance as
hooking, while the gr3syer term steal
ing describes the same process in other
cases. The distinction may arise from
feeling that, so long as crops remain
rooted to the ground, they are nature S,
not mans, and that nature can't be re-
gardcd as forming business contracts
with some individuals to the exclusion
of others, or in fact as aceediug to any
of our human distinctions Of mclHR and
tlal7l, however useful we find them.
Ethical philosophers may refuse to con-
cede the sanction of the popular dis
tinCtion here alluded to between hook
ing and stealing; but, after all, ethics
is not 4 deductive but an empirical sci
ence, and what are morals butt a COllec-
ton of usagcs, like photography and
OrthOepy? However that may be, it is
the duty of the writer in this instance
merely to call attention to the prevalent
popular sentiment on the subject, With
out any attempt to Justify it.-ScriJner
Year: 1878

The efforts of the n. Y. Board Of
Health have pretty well broken up the
swilI-milk traffic and checked, in some
degree, the sale of milk diluted with
water. The records show that, from
the time the board began its operations,
in 1867 to 1875, the death rate among
children under years of age was de
creased from 50 to little more than As
per cent Of the total mortality in the
city; and it is probt BILE that much of
this decrease in the death rate may be
credited to the improved quality of the
food given 10 children Of that tender
age. For most of these were children
Of the poor. The rich were supplied by
better class of dealers, are more intel
ligent in inspecting their milk, can
afford to pay the highest prices, and
buy pleAty of it. 1t is the poor child of
the tenement, whose mother can buy
only pint of milk Where she ought to
have Il quart, that suffers from fraudu-
lent milk.
Year: 1878

On the road leading from the Whit
man mine to the oil town of Como,
New, there is arock The profile Of which
has so singular Il resemblance to the
profile of Washington that, from a GER
tJin point Of view, the most careless
observer cannot fail to note the like
ness.
Year: 1878

In the Palmer House, Chic go, a
beat who had been living lavishly
there for week, was compelled to stand
at the entrance to the dining while
q clerk explained his case TO the guests
Year: 1878

Bearded women hive been known in
every age. One was seen at the court
Of the Gar Peter l., in 1924, with a
beard SO long as to reach nearly to her
waist Margaret, of the Netherlands,
is known to have long beard.
Year: 1878

Cath Geo. Alfred Townsend interviewed Benny
Biggs at Long Branch in relation to Delaware politics.
and among other things given his opinions why
Senator Bayard favored Comegys instead of WOoten
for the succession to the Chief Justiceship.


In discussing this subject the Erery EUening says
That there were abundant reasons for not appoint
ing Judge Wooten chief justice, every wellinformed
person who knows him will admit, and the physical
inrmity of deafness is the least of them, though in
itself sufficient If the Judge has any intimate friends
who for him he will ask them to stop converSa
ton as speedily possible on all matters likely to
direct attention to his personal character and
duct and there is reason for this this summer
than there has been before The air Of Sussex is
fairly thick with and stories about him, which,
if true, make it sufficiently scandal for him to re-
main the bench, to say nothing of complaining Of
not receiving promotion. We say this with regret but
it is high time it was said. If Mr. Bggs any
thing about the man he processes to champion he had
better go to Georgetown and talk with the leading
of that town and then say whether he thinks it
safe subject to yentate.


BE- For additional County amt State Hens sec second
1lOOp
Year: 1878

Deep down beside the tangled sedge
The meadow lark sings all the day,
And bursts at times from out the hedge
The mimic chattering of the jay;
And here and there a wandering note,
\ cricket'S chirp, comes sweet and clear
Where dreamy mists of summer float
At noon upon the grassy mere.
Aiar away below the hill


see the noisy mill wheel go,
The smooth, broad lake above the mill,
The flash of foam that roars below;
And on the even slopes that rise


So gently toward the mountains brow,
The cattle watch with sleepy eyes


The lazy plowbOw at the plow.
My soul is sleeping, and its dreams


All sad and sweet that dreaming thrills
For there are other wales and streams,


And other flOcks on other hills
The hills whereOn climbed to pull


The golden rods and weeds of May,
When all the world was beautiful,


And all my life summer day.
Year: 1878

There are thousands in need to be pitied,
because they cannot find employment; !;
there are thousands who have all the
means they require, and yet are miserable
because they cannot employ themselves.
Year: 1878

For PoOR FoLKs.-Some young men,
wishing to quiz an old colored woman who
wore brass chain around her neck on
which her front door key was suspended,
asked her the time of the day, to which
she replied: " Look at de town clock,
chl'en, look at de town clock. OATS built
for po' folks"
Year: 1878

The bears in wheat in Chicago have come
to grief. The news has come in from the
West that the grain crops will pan out, and
that wheat will command higher than the
ruling prices. Farmers, do not let the
millers get your wheat at the present fig
uTes.
Year: 1878

The effort of the Democrats of Ohio to
capture the Nationals has failed. They
went it pretty strong for a repeal of the
Resumption Law, and more greenbacks,
but not enough to prevent the Nationals
from making a ticket. The contempt with
which the new party spurns all efforts ol
combination with other parties shows that
they mean to have new party out and out
Year: 1878

SCARLET FEVER EPIDEMIC-There were one
hundred and eighty deaths from scarlet fever in
New YORK the past week, an increase OF so over
the week previous. The increase Is so marked
that the board OF health win meet to-day to ia se
action ' w AS
Year: 1878

TO OCCUR WHEN GRANT is IN CHICAGo-It is
understood that General Sherman will cali the
next reunion OF the Army Of the Tennessee in
Chicago, November 1879, and make it cOincident
with the arrival Of General Grant In that CITY
Year: 1878

OPPONENTS OF TIE BILL for the reorganiza-
ton OF the army say that General sherman has
received quite as many letters from army OFF,
GERS opposing the bill as fayoTing it. The
general Is accused OF only causing those letters
10 be published which favor the measure.
Year: 1878

THE BLAINE COMNITTEE.-It is said that the
motive which induced the Blaine committee to
begin its investigation in Louisiana before send
ing q subcommittee to South Carolina IS TO
delay the jnquil in the latter state until after
the meeting OF the United States Circuit Court.
when number OF offenders against the ele;-
tiOn laws Will be tried. Chief Justice Waite
viii preside at these trials. When they are
concluded the committee may enter the field
ara use the testimony taken by the court On
the Subiec OF election OutrageS
Year: 1878

SENATOR THURMAN is preparing his letter in
reply TO the request Of the Blaine committee
tnat he furnish it with evidence in his posses
sion on which he based his amendment to the
original Blaine resolution. The letter will be
completed this week, and it is probable that it
VIII DC or about the same character as Blaine'S
letter to the committee on the same subject
Year: 1878

TEE CITY Posi- OFFICE SITE.-A proposition
was presented TO Postmaster General Key to-
d&y by the owners TO sell the site OF the Old
Canterbury South side of Louisiana ave, east
or 9th Street) as q site for the City Post ONCE
This location being near the Court House and
easy OF access by the railroads-only one sauar3
mthe main Jhoroughfares-it is claimed by
many TO be the best yet proposed.
Year: 1878

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address Of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve CON-
munications that are not uBod.
Year: 1878

IT is surmised that the re-imposition Of the
income tax is move in behalf of Tilden, his
friends believing that the sympathies of all
those who evade the tax will be aroused in
his behalf
Year: 1878

Prisoners in the Connecticut State prison get
reduction in time of two months from each
year Of their term, by good behavior. This to
man serving a life sentence must amount to
considerable at the end of his time.-Ddn5ury
Ne,Us.
Year: 1878

Mr.. Diffenerfer joined the blus-ribbop bri-
gade week or two ago, being reluctantly COM
PEELED thereto by the persussions of his wife.
The other night however, he fell sufficiently
from grace to participate in wins supper at
the poodle Dog. As the party passed out of
that capital restaurant in q decidedly hilarious
condition, one of it slyly took a live frog from
the vase in the window and slipped it into Mr..
DIS pocket. The next morning he was awak-
ened by a loud shrek from Mrs. D., who had
discovered said frog beside her on the bed. The
unworthy disciple of Murphy gszed at the in
truder solemnly momear, aud said You


see what comes of drinking that beastly Spring
Valley stuff Hope you are satisfied now
San Francisco Neaus Letter
Year: 1878

Hunter, who had long striven to catch
Weasel asleep, was unsuccessful until 1t
occurred to him to invite the Watchful Vermin
to attend Sermon on Biology by popular
Clergyman from Boston. The Unsuspectiog
Animal gratefully accepted the invitation, but
Death did not End All, az he entered upon
Higher Plane of Existence as a Tobacco Pouch


Moral-Thus we see that neither the Preacher
nor the Auditor is Justified in turning the
House of Prayer into Den OF Sleep.-"World"
Fable
Year: 1878

A CHANCE FOR EVERY ONE.-We often
come across people who have been unfor-
tunate for life. They have lost property


They have lost standing in community.
They have lost their earthly loves Some
of them have lost even faith and hope.
Many of them have lost what would have
made them happy. by their own foolish
ness. Their troubles all run back to u
wrong decision,-to one fatal hour. In
that hour they did what they should not
have done; and all their troubles are trace
able to that one event. These people write
to us for advice, for sympathy.-some of
them from feeling that they must tell
somebody. What shall we say to themp


The past bunders do not kill. Past fol
lies do not forfeit future opportunities.
God is always ready to give one another
chance. Heaven is never hopeless. 1t
never despairs rs to those who are cast
down. God seems to feel sure that everV
prodigal will one day or another come
back; and is more anxious to get the best
robe on his back than to give Him lee
ture. God never scolds. He forgives, and
that is the end OF it. 1t would not hurt a
good many to initiate him in that respect,
There is such Il way for the parent to for.
give child that 1t would have been no.
bier TO have thrashed him on the spot.


If you have failed, then, in any respect,
Year: 1878

COURTESY TO INFERIoRs.-We were all
ut breakfast in pleasant city house situl-
ted on busy lhoroughf.re. You, happy
readers. who live in the country, know
comparatively little of the persistent an
noyances which city folks undergo from
The continual rappings and ringings and
shoutlngs and screenings of people who
90 from door 10 door to buy, to sell, or to
beg. On this particular morning the in
terruptions were many. First came the
rag man; then a little beggar boy for
" cold victuas," afterwards, an Irish
woman with clothes-pins; and again a
man with prize packets of stationery. Pa
ter familias lost his temper at the fourth
invasion of his privacy, and ordered the
man IF the premises. His wife remon
strated with her usual sweet manner.
" My dear. do wish you would not be ST.
impolite in your manner to tramps and
ped,llers. 1t is their only way of earning
livelihood, and | think we ought to be
kind to them. believe in being courteous
TO everybody Afterward, in thinking the
matter over, | come to the conclusion that
this courtesy is word of very wide mean
ing. 1t is an index finger to character
You observe true lady. II true gentleman.
anywhere. They cannot commit rude
ness. 1t would hurt them and jar them
to wound the feelings of the lowest and
farthest below them. To be truly polite
implies that one shall be thoughtful Of the
feelings of everybody. and of interiors
most Of all. Let US remember that in the
future
Year: 1878

1t is very general supposition. though
a mistaken one, that coral, when first
taken from its watery he'd, is soft. and
hardens through exposure. The fresh or
live coral may feel somewhat Shiny in the
fingers, but. if the animal matter be wash
ed away. it is found to be quite hard-a
little above that of common limestone or
marble, giving out a ringing sound when
struck with hammer Chemically. the
chief constituent of all is carbonate of
lime, in the proportion of ninety five to
ninety-eight parts in one hundred, with
one and half parts to four parts of or
ganic matter, and some earthly ingredients,
such as phosphate of limo, with trace of
silica, amounting usually to less than one
per cent.
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE greater part of
the morning hour was taken up with the
presentation Of petitions from all parts of
the country, most of them demonstrating
against changes i'll the present tariff duties,
aud the restoration of the tax on tea and
coffee. All were referred to the Committee
on Finance. Other petitions favoring the
organization of a Department of Industry
the mead thereof to be a Cabinet officer, were
presented and referred to the Committee on
Finance.
Year: 1878

Now that the Mineral Resources of Arizona are being rapidly developed, agricultural products will be in great demand and the Farmer will quickly find himself King, and while enjoying home comforts will reap largely of the golden harvest of the hardy minor. Prospectors who are searching the moun- tains for hidden treasures it may be poor as Jobs turkey-will in a moment find themselves Bonanza Kings and be able to revel in luxury the rest of their days: but all men cannot become owners of rich minesl All men cannot become wealthy farmers! To the great mass of man. kind the price of pork and beans will still be an object.
Year: 1878

adjustment proves painful to all who depend
on prices. If the people Of tue United states
can get good price for their spare products


on condition of taking silver in payment ac-
cording to this view they ought to accept 1t.
A currency out of harmony with that OF Europe
has no inconvenience to which Americans are
not accustomed, and whatever disadvantages
may at the outset attend the adoption OF sii-
yer are certain to disappear as soon as the East
exhausts the surplus of the West, and sooner
yet if France returns to silver money.


The letter deserves fair consideration, al
though its conclusions respecting the supply
and the value of silver seem to be based IN
part upon mistaken premises. Its radical error
is in presuming. as so many writer's nave DONE
that prices throughout the Western World are
controlled by the amount of gold and silver
in circulation. This may be true, but 1t ls not
yet proved, and there are many facts which
tend to disprove it. The supply of credit cur
rency, for example, has enormously increased
within few years, and seems capable OF in
definite expansion. II is not shown that such
substitutes for money do not have an effect
upon prices; indeed, the ablest economists
concede that they have. How great an effect,
it is hard to say. But the paper currency
brought into use, and the employment of Gov
ernment bonds to a vast amount in place OF
money in international transactions, have un-
questionably altered very greatly the eondi-
tions of dependence Of prices upon the guam
tity of gold and silver in use. 1t is emphatl-
cally not proven that reduction In the amount
of coin in use necessarily causes decline OF
prices, and there are very satisfactory expla-
nations of the decline of prices in the Western
World, apart from any change in the quantity
of coin in use. As Mr.. Wells pointed out,
more than year ago, the enormous increase
of labor-saving machinery has had an impor-
tant effect.


1t does not appear, therefore, that the West
em World will have any occasion to get back
any part of the silver absorbed by the East.
In place of coin shipped eastward, large In
crease of paper or credit currency may appear,
without any such change in prices as to draw
back the silver from the East, or materially
affect the prices of Western or Eastern pro-
ducts. Neither is it clear that " "Oyer-importa-
"tonD in England is an evidence of exhaustion
of national resources. In commenting upon the
recent letter of Mr.. RathbOne, The Economist
properly remarked that its speculations were
rather fanciful, aud afforded no solid basis for
definite conclusions as to the increase or de-
crease of wealth.


There is really nothing to prove that the
of silver has materially affected
prices or prosperity in the Western countries.
This idea may be honestly and nationally en-
tertained, but it does not rest upon demon
stration, and it may be true or false. Until II
can be sustained by proof, the argument OF
"T. W." for reconciliation of silver must be
considered inconclusive. He may be right but
IL is not proven MeanBhile the objections to
a variable double standard have yet TO be met.