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Year: 1877



 There is probably no question which causes more disquictude and discomfort between husband and wife than the ques- ton how the husband should spend his evenings.

 Every woman has an ideal husband and it is very easy to describe how he would solve this question.

 He would spend his evening with his wife invariably.

 Sometimes, after dinner or tea, he would sit and read to or converse with her until early bed time, and then go quietly to his peaceful couch. Some times he would take her out for walk, or call upon some friend, or to the theatre. or to a concert; but he would always be with her, he would always come home with her to an early bed.

 The real husband is not at all like the ideal--as girls soon find out Gfter mar riage.

 Why they do not find it out before is a mystery to me. There are plenty of husbands in the world for girls to look at and study. The breed is not rare, not difficult 10 investigate. But, somehow, every girl seems to think that her hus baud will be different from every other husband, whereas most men are very much alike all the world over.

 The real husband, then, does not care to sit and read to his wife Nor is he overfond of social conversation with her

 Sometimes he goes to sleep after din- ner or tea Sometimes he reads awhile to himself. Sometimes he goes out to bis club or his tavern. Sometimes he calls upon his friends,or plays at billiards or cards, or visits the theatre.

 But, as general thing, he prefers to do this unaccompanied by the wife of his bosom.

 In fact, il appears that he would pre- fer almost any other woman or man.

 What causes this distinction between the ideal and the real husbands mode of spending his evenings ?

 One reason of it is, that women seldom make careful study of their husbands. If two men are partners, you shall see them try to understand each others characters: do this. and refrain from doing that, in order to get along well to- gether use every effort to make things easy and pleasant; bring judgment. tact and self-denial to bear upon their com mon affairs. But with married couple this seems to be considered superfiuous.

 Before marriage, man will make any sacrifice to secure an evening with the woman he loves. After marriage, he ap pears to do everything to escape from her society.

 This cannot be all the fault of the man. Men are never all bad, nor altogether to blame.

 It is more necessary for woman to make herself agreeable after marriage than before marriage If she sees her husband getting tired of her--or what is the same thing, preferring other peoples society to hers--she may know that she has herself to blame. Either she is a mere surface woman, and he has had enough of her, or else she has carelessly thrown aside some of the Vaccinations with which she used to win him to her side.

 Men are mortal As the wise Ameri-
Year: 1877

We beg every woman who reads this
10 believe that that quintessence of III. IL
hess and yulgarity, the bustle, is out Of
fashion. and if any one is still deluded
enough on this point to believe the ad-
Htrtisements OF the firms that are unwil-
ling to torego the profit OF manufacturing
them, let her take 4 series OF fashion
Journals or magazines for two months
and see ii she can find any indication
whatever in the plates that hustles are
yet Worn. No thanks TO that oblivion
which sooner or later awaits all vile
u ngs, the hustle, which never ought to
haze been Worn, and which was discard
- by the leaders OF fashion more than
two years ago, now is not WON even by
the rank and file thereof; and the best
thing anybody can do with any hustle,
whatever II may be, in her POSSESSION, is
quietly 10 drop 1T mo the ash barrel and
resolve that hereafter size will mod fy
the form that nature gave her with moth
ing more artificial Than the folds of her
urtpegy.
Year: 1877

SAND FOR A AFoUNDArfoN.-This age OF
enlightenment is gradually xpOsing the


modern inapplicability, if not the fallacG
of many ancient proverbs. Millions


have been wasted in San francisco Ia
city of sand) in costly piling, and in


various costly devices to get better


foundation than sand. It's new, capa-


cious and truly beautiful city hall is


built on a sand hill. It cost a million to
euperstruct on the sand foundation of


grouted macadam. Now we find that


French architects prefer sand to all oth>
er foundations. Sand when damp is


most incompressible, therefore to build
on sand is as secure as to set your house
upon rock. Marine breakwaters are
no longer of natural stone. Sand COM
pressed and treated with hydraulic ce-
ment is moulded into twenty ton blocks.
Thus better sea-wall is made at less
than half the cost. AT Cnerbourg, on
the northwest coast of France, Is much
ex posed sea~wall of this material, two
miles long; and at the Mediterra mean
entr Ance to the Suez canal are two sand
jetties made from beach sand on the
spot three miles long. A score of like
letties and break waters in Europe attest
the durability of this sand material.
Many good narbor may be cheaply cor
structed on the Pacific coast with sand
from the shore, when even, as at Che
bourg there is no natural harl'or of any
sort.-No doubt the harbor of Baltimore
may be enlarged and improved other
wise in the same way.
Year: 1877

NHshlHgIon Dlspatch 10 HE North Ameri-


can.


Secretary Evarts remarked last
night to a friend 'FI have been COM
PEELED to change my opinion of the
pennsylvania Republican delegation
IN Congress. | was very much mis-
taken IN them when asked them to
select a man from their State for the
English Mission, l had no idea
that they would go into the grave
yard and resurrect man who was
not only dead, but who had been
dead go long that his heir was actual
ly In possession and enjoyment of the
estate" q
Year: 1877

Superintendent Vail, of the railway
mail service, says of the difficulties that
beset the postal department in getting a
satisfactory fast mail arrangement:


''The government now pays the Penn
sylvania railroad company twenty-five
dollars per ton per mile per year for car
rying the United States mails over its
lines, without reference to the number
of trains upon which mail matter is to be
carried or the speed at which it shall be
transported. OF course it thus is clearly
for the interest of the company to carry
mail upon as few trains per day as pos
sible, and certainly to dispatch no special
fast trains for the use of the government
if it can possibly be avoided. 1t makes
a vast difference whether the agent Of
the government can go to the railroad
companies, and, in a businesslike way,
request greater accommodations in one
wav or auother, with such and such
COMPENSATION therefor, or whether he Is
forced actually to beg for the increased
facilities he desires. Our postal laws
were enacted long before the United
States mail had grown to such vast pro-
portions, and have for long time needed
remodeling. II is TO be hoped that the
present congress can give this matter the
attention it deserves"
Year: 1877

Inc EDITOR OF PhlIadeIphia paper
vent to convention and left a new silk
hat, worth seven dollars, hanging on the
rack in the cloak-roor1, and when he
came out to go home he found it had
gone, and an old, greasy, ragged, sun
burned old rag of hat, with a chalk
scrawl on the brim, "please ex."
Year: 1877

In every family that is much of a
family there is favorite child, which
does pretty mnch as it pleases, and gets
the bulk of all the goodies; but over in
Europe the affectionate parent rather
overdoes herself The foreign items tell
OF French mother who has strangled
three of her children that the fourth
might have full marriage portion.
Year: 1877

THERE isin Washington some talk of
increasing the value of gold coinage to
what it was before the last reduction. so
:- as to rake the coinage rates between
gold and silver five and half. This will
restore both the gold and silver dollars of
our fathers. There are intimations of a |
report from the silver commission favor
ing such an increase in the weight of the
gold coins.
Year: 1877

OF women in the Washington depart
ment, letter in the Pittsburg Chronicle
says: Allowing that their qualifications
are on par with those of the other sex,
the association in a business capacity is
no benefit TO either, if for no other reason
than that when the. two sexes are brought
in 10 business association there is certain
to ensue an amount of Irritation, idleness,
nonsense, ,sand more and worse, the head
ofa bureau is bewitched by some irresis-
tible feminine solicitor for place, which
she gets. A whole school of ladies' make
themselves attractive to an appointment
clerk, or a head of "a division, with a view
TO their permanency to being employed
IN pleasant room, and to having nice
work Public officers and subordinates
are made fools of, women are scandalized
by the familiar contact that is the in
evitable result of the present system, and
the demoralization is not limited to the
departments, but it extends to the rep
resentative power that demands en-
ployment"
Year: 1877

OF the fifteen thousand men who are
wearing away their dreary lives in the
mines of the Schuylkill coal region, ten
thousand at least are unmarried, and five
thousand live in miners boarding houses.
They call them all men, these gnomes,
but many of them are boys. Not less
than five thousand are boys, little fell
lows, who in any other community would
be in school, but who here are kept day
after day in filthy, black kennels, muffled
up in old coats and scarfs to shut the
cold out, till all the young life is worn
out of them, and they are dwarfed little
men before the first signs of beard
break through the black crust on their
faces Philadelphia TINES.
Year: 1877

the Hayes electors. Those who disturb
that fat and attempt to set it or
like decisions aside by trick, will be
considered law breakers, and it does not
look now as if there was lack of courage
in the Republican ranks in Congress to
make this fact clear to every one. The
spirit Of "bulldozing" has pervaded the
Democratic tactics in the committee rooms
of Congress, but it is believed that in the
House proper there are Republicans who
will see to it in the case that the spirit is
conspicuous by its absence. Before the
Electoral Commission in the case of Louis
lana an attempt will be made by Demo
cratic counsel to get decision disfran-
chisiug the State of Louisiana. The legality
of its Returning Board will be attacked,
and numerous other equally reprehensible
pleas will be inteIposed to set aside the will
of the people of that State. The Repub-
licaus are not AFRAID to meet their Oppu-
nents upon such an issue. They are not
advanced in the Democratic Gaze with any
sincerity in the interests of justice; they
are put out to consume time. They are
part and parcel of project to stay all pro-
ceedings whereby Mr.. Hayes can secure his
rightful title TO the chef executive of the
nation, and for these reasons the Repub-
lieans will argue for their non-admissl0n
into the record which will be considered by
the commission in its final judgment Of the


Louisiana case.
Year: 1877

. The incompressibility of sand is men,
toned in the Journal Of Industry as a cheap
and ready means of making supporting
columns and bases for anvils or for
blocks designed to support heavy weights.
Sand enclosed in thin wooden or iron walls,
if thoroughly shaken down, may be made
to sustain much greater weight than the
walls or cylinders alone, by placing all the
weight directly on the sand and quite free
from the walls that retain it. Wooden
boxes filed with sand thus make excellent
supports for anvils or tables for laboratory
work. So long as the pressure is vertical,
the sand will sustain far greater weights and
resist heavier Flows than could be borne by
solid blocks OF wood Of the same size.
Year: 1877

IT IS asserted by an English engineer that


really first-class leather belt will do three
or four times the service of the best rubber
belt now produced, and that there is actu-


ally no economy in usinga rubber belt at
any price, unless it be where there is great
heat or dampness. Thorough oiling, he


says, is necessary for leather belts before
using, good way of applying the oil,
where there is much betting to be thus
treated, being to have the betting run off
from one reel to another through a pot Of
oil, with suitable rubbers to wipe of the
super-abundance of the liquid. Another
very good method of applying the oil, one
which perhaps would be preferable in a
majority of cases, is by means Of an ordi-
nary paint brush, the operation to be per,
formed on both sides, and with no sparine
hand A belt thus oiled will not require d
second application under ten years, unless
there be much dust to absorb the oil, and
then it may bs put on very sparingly com
pared with the first application. The adj


vantages that an oiled belt has over dry
one are various and important, among then
being the following: It lasts longer; it re
quires less power to drive the machinery


and it may be run much more slack, which


Of course, makes the bearings less liable
to heat, requiring less oil and less atten
u ton.
Year: 1877

Among the Seminole ,,Flori]a) Indians
there is singular tradition regarding the
white mans origin and superiority. They
say that when the Great Spirit nade the
earth he also made three men. all Of whom
were of fair complexion and that after
making them he led them to the margin Of
a small lake aud bade them leap therein.
One Immediately obeyed. aud came out Of
the water plrer than before be bathed the
second did not leap in until the water be-
came slightly muddy. and when lie bathed
he came up copper>colored the third did
not leap in until the water became black
with mud, and came out with its own CO.
lOr. Then the Great Spirit laid before
them three packages Of bark. and babe them
choose. and out Of pity for his misfortune
Of color, be gave the black man ais frst
choice. lie took bold Of each or the pack
ages. and having lifted them chose the bea-
West; the copper colored one then chose the
second heaviest, leaving the white man the
lightest. When the packages we're opened
the first was found to contain spades. hoes,
and all the implements of LABOR the second
ensrapPed hunting, fishing and warlike APP
paratus; the third gave the white man pens,
ink and paper. the engines Of the mind. the
mutual. mental Improvement. tho seeial
link Of humanity, the foundation Of tho
white mans superiority.
Year: 1877

New YORK. Nov. 12.-Reports thht the law and
order league would begin this morning to arrest
liquor dealers do ing busi mess without q license
chused increased attendance before the Board
of Excise and q rush for licenses
Year: 1877

EBBgTr HOUSE, Washington. Now.
The following is copy of part Of


A LETTER
recently received by me from an estimable citi-
zen Of Louisiana. whose personal acquaintance
I have not the honor to enjoy: but whose moral
character and intellectual standing are amply
avouched to me by his statement that no is "a
regular subscriber TO the daily DEMOCRAT.
Year: 1877

the connecting rods base was pressed
back by the lower brick and fragments
OF mortar I knew by the coincidence
Of the cleW and results that was on the
eve OF fortune, but dared not proceed
further alone. There were good and
sufficient reasons enough occurred to
me why further investigation should
be continued in the presence of spec
tators. It was too late to proceed that
night, so kept watch and vigil until
the village was astir again.


BY nine o'clock the next morn, the
local lawyer, a mason, carpenter and
constable had answered my summons
and we carefully examined the chin
ney, within and without.


The house had been so cunningly con.
strucred that the chimney apparently
flush with the main wall, had room
for a cavity on the right hand side,
more than foot wider than the wall
was at its juncture with tho wall into
which it ran, and instead of being of a
single four brick thick, it was double
that, with space of eight inches be-
tween. We did not stand on coremo
ny in breaking through the inner wall
and dragging out an iron case eight
inches wide, two feet long, and three
feet deep, supplied on the end next tc
the side of the fireplace, with a slit
like those in the ends of letter boxes,
only considerably larger, which was
exactly opposite to brick number seven
by nine. 1t was the old miser's repos
itory, constructed on the principle OF
a child's bank, to receive all but give
up nothing until broken into by force
A more careful device could not be
conceived to guard it's contents, for we
had to call in the village blacksmith tC
penetrate to its boarded wealth. Be.
sides gold bonds and notes, it contain
ed Triptolemus Forbes will, devisine
all he died possessed Of to Ethel, as
the one reparation in his power to
make for The evil he had exercised to-
wards his father.


In Difference to the opinions Of my
neighbors I have caused a costly stone
to be erected to the memory of Ethel s
uncle; but in my heart there is a
prouder monument, with a more
greatful inscription, raised to the
honor of that old Dutch clock, for from
it really descended the inheritance We
enjoy.
Year: 1877

Southern Standards: But to show our friends that we are not afraid to meet the issue in either case, we will state that the Standard was the first paper in the State to take bold and decided ground in favor of re- pudiating the fraudulent debts of the State and insisted that it should be made prominent feature in the campaign of last year, but we were overruled for the want of an active cooperation of those who are now calling on us to define our position. We have not thought it necessary to reiterate our opinions of last year from the fact that nearly everybody in the scope of the circulation of our paper are already pronounced in their views on the subject of repudi ation of the fraudulent debts of the State. Both our Representatives in the last Legislature were pledged to that measure, and without such pledge could not nave received one fourth of the votes of the county. We are as mucn of repudiationist now as we were then, and the only reason we have not entered into the discussion is, that the measure ap- pears to have plenty of champions, while the greenback question is ig- nored by the press of the State, gen orally, or declared premature and Quixotical, and sneered at and de nounced as the offspring of malcon- tents and sorchcads.
Year: 1877

THANKS PROFOUND. TO the author of
the communication in the Benson Times,
and to the publisher for printing it, for the
very kind and too flattering words spoken
of US. Moreover many of our editorial
brethren who greet us back with welcome
SO hearty that tis like the rejoicing over the
finding of the one sheep which scampered
away from its ninety mine fellows which
stayed at home and behaved properly, may
be assured that their good words make us
feel like prodigal calf Our Eg|.
Year: 1877

A happy Chicago maiden attirms that by
placing lover in the rays of blue glass
window, he can be made to propose ut one
sitting. She has tried it and proved it her.
self


OF course. The extra heat makes him
pop HUTCHTNs.
Year: 1877

PROGRESS OF THE FLAMES.


ROundsman Bems of the Fifteenth Precinct
Police was the rst man outside of the building to
discover that fire was in progress The flames
were then III the rear part OF the basement OF No.
Bond-st but the most persistent efforts to reach it
by both police and tiremen were expended in vain.
The entrance TO the building was barred by heavy
steel shutters and it fully half an hour after the
alarm had first sounded that these obstacles were
overcome 1t was the general opinion that the fire
originated beneath the boiler, probably in the pack
ing or woodwork adjoining the furnace. When
first seen the smoke came curling up
from the b0er-room and was for some
time confined that part OF the building. But be-
fore the steel shutters had been broken open the
smoke and flames had burst through their previous
narrow bounds, and were rolling up the hatcbWay
and whirling through all parts of the building. As
soon as the Insurance Patrol got at work they began
TO remove the most valuable goods that were
not protected by the large and heavy safes.


A great portion Of the most valuable Of this prop
ertv was removed to the Grand Central Hotel.
where il was safely stored. The huge safes fell at
intervals and were buried in the glowing rulns but
il is believed that they will preserve their contents
safely until they can be cooled ana opened.


As soon as the fire was discovered an alarm was
sounded that brought the usual quantity OF fire ap-
paratus to the scene including the chemical engine,
which was very useful in saving the large building
Joining the one that was destroyed. when
II was evident that the flames had extended
through to the part of the building
second alarm was sounded, then a third, general
alarm. and afterward several special calls. 1t was
calculated that at The hight of the fire there were no
less than 80 steamers and ID hook.and-ladder
trucks stationed at various points to combat the
spread of the flames 1t was this timely concentra-
ton of force that enabled the iremen to confne
the fire to the building in which it originated. The
entire length of the roof Of the building, Nos.
and 8 Broadway, was lined with brave fire
men. who retained their places in spite Of
the dense volumes of smoke, accompanied often
by fierce flames and showers of sparks A large
.'Siamese twin butt was placed in Bond-st. in
front of the burning building and an enormous vol
ume of water forced through double line Of hose
from two steamers, rapidly overpowcred the iames.
Occasionally it was turned and made to extingush


whole line of fire along the roofs and cornices OF
the buildings on the opposite side of the street.
Year: 1877

During the progress of the fire very few IN
iuries 10 remen Others were reported PrVatc fae


Of the Central Insurance Patrol struck by bolt ny
ING from shutter which being burst open. James
Gibuer of Truck No had finger severely cut Private
Sbedon of the fire patrol fell down stairway overcome
nv heat. and was carried away nearly unconscious.


Mr Flowers OF he firm OF Flowers Hill, whose car
riape establishment threatened by the hre. stated
that he noticed smoke arising from the basement Of the
Wal,lam building early in the evening" while at the
rear Of his place. The smoke continued for
some time but no evidence OF the exact
ploce Of the fire could he discovered. He
WAS positive that the fire originated in the basement as
the first blaze was seen break up through the floor
which soon fell n showing that the entire basement was
filled with flames The fire, he thought had acquired
such headway before breaking in the upper part of
the binding that no power could have checked 1t.


As one Of the iremen pushing into the burning
budiug with bis hose he stepped upon something that
sipped under his foot ling quickly, he put II In his
pocket After the fire under control he thought OF
what he had found and, on examining II, discovered
that il was IA fine American watch The watch prooab!
hnd been dropped IA the hurried removal OF tue property
Mr. Fuller who owns the building at No BOad-st.
and Is relative Mr.. Appleton OF the urn OF RoDOIs
A. Appleton was the fire after the flames reached
the second story Knowing that large number OF gold
yntch c.s were IN the Office OF his relative on the Oor
that was burning Mr.. Fuller by means of n
! ladder entered The office, and at the risk OF hls
life succeeded in removing boxes containing several
hundred OF the cases Mr.. Appleton was also ut the
scepe of tine conaagraton and, aided by One OF two


clerks entered d burning building far as the second


torv and succeeded in rescuing from the flames all tie
hooks Of the firm which not incosed IN the safe