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Year: 1879

Quaker grocer In a country village
became notorious for selling eggs.
The village gossips were ready to tes e
tify that he bought large aud fine-look-
ing eggs, and where he could find so
many small-sized eggs AS he daily sent
out to customers was Il mystery they
could not fathom. There were two
mysterious looking holes in his counter
about the size of an egg, and curiosity
was excited TO the highest pitch to AS
certain what use they were pat to.
The only answer anybody could get
from the old man, when questioned
concerning the use of these holes, was :
"My friend, If tell thee the truth, It.
would not benefit me nor thee, and I
don't wish to tell falsehOod. It Is a
pity lying Is "A sin, for IL comes In so
easy In trade"


At last, IL was resolved by some of the
splnsters 10 watch his actions through
the cracks of the shutters after he had
closed his shop for the night, and thus
endeavor TO find out their use. This
resolution was put into execution and
the ladies' caught the grocer passing
eggs through the holes by the light of
penny dip. All those that passed
through the smaller hole he placed in
one basket; and those that passed
through the larger one he put In anoth
er, and all that would not pass through
either he placed In a tin pan and took
them TO his own house.


On his way thither, he heard the rust
ling of the wOmen's dresses, and he saw
that lac was caught; so ho called them
TO him, and in the blandest manner,
said


Sisters, ye have given yourselves
much trouble TO appease thy curiosity
and i VIII therefore explain all TO ye.
Ye see, sort my eggs into three sizes
by means Of these holes. The largest
use in my own family; the next size
sell a half-penny cheaper on dozen
than any Of my neighbors, for cash
the smallest | send to those who will
buy no other way than on credit"


The ladies were satisfied with the
lesson In trade, and spread the news
abroad.
Year: 1879

The Wytheville Enterprise says:
"In the town of Marion there Is, per-
haps, the only living specimen of a
person with broken neck. The
wonderful subject Of this sketch is a
little boy, the son of Southern par
ents, who are visitors to the town
mentioned. Several years since, by
an accident, the particulars of which
we have not been able to obtain, the
child's neck was broken, and the ge-
MUS Of a surgeon was called dInto
requisition to supply some means by
which the little fellow could live in
his unfortunate condition. Iron or
steel bars were arranged, running up
the spine and clasping on either side
of the face, thus holding the head in
its wonted position, and thus lives
on the little boy, now ten or twelve
years of age. Sometime since the
frame work used to sustain the posi-
tion of the head was broken, and the
head fell to one side, cutting off the
power Of speech. The mother took
the little one in her lap, and held its
head in natural position until the
clasp was mended, when all went
we'll as previously. We had never
imagined such a thing as a person
living with a broken neck, and pre-
sumo that there was never, at least
in this country, an instance such as
the one just related. We get our in
formation direct from Marion and
can vouch for the yeracity of our in.
formant, TO whom such particulars as
We have related were given"
Year: 1879

The most unfortunate day in the
career of any young man is the day
on which he fancies there is some
better way to make money than to
earn it; for from that feeling springs
the many extravagant and visionary
schemes which are INDUCED in for
the purpose of gaining livelihood
without labor. When young man
becomes thoroughly infected with
this feeling he is ready to adopt any
means for the accomplishment of his
object; and if his plans are frustra.
ted and he is foiled in his efforts,
upon the very crest of the wave
which he has already mounted, and
in full view, is the temptation to
crime to shield him from the dis.
grace which he thinks must inevita.
bly, follow in the wake of defeat. To
those he yields, and the first thing he
realizes is to find himself the viola
tor of the law, criminal in the eyes
of the community, and an inmate ol
the prison, waiting trial, all brought
about for the want of a little manly
firmness in the outset of life tc
prompt him to choose an avocation
in life where the penny earned
would bring with it its sure reward
Then let our young men spurn the
idea of obtaining money without
rendering an equivalent; let them be
ready and willing to occupy positions
in life which will give them the
best possible opportunity to develop
their natural salient, and do good tc
others while helping themselves. In
this way We may have n nation Of
noblemen and women, which shall
be source OF profit and pleasure tc
us and an object of wonder and ad'
miration to the world.
Year: 1879

You'll hardly ever see man for
get u friend that owes him though
he's no akin; you'll hardly ever see a
woman bet and pay the wager should
the other win; you'll hardly ever see
pensive goat that cannot eat a
wooden cellar-door; you'll hardly ever
hear an urchin quote the @hardly
ever" from the Pinafore.
Year: 1879

Crime cannot stand publicity. The
more light there Is and the keener
the public is aroused to a study of
the circumstances of any crime and
to its own pursuits Of clews, the
greater the chance of detection. In
that way the newspaper is a great
agent for good, and SO help 10 undo
the harm it undoubtedly does by its
sensational treatment of criminal
events. But besides that, when the
newspaper turns its own detective
talent to work upon obscure cases, it
also lets in light and often assists
the professionals very much as a
horse assists cart, as steam assists
a locomotire.-Hantord Coprant.
Year: 1879

The coast of Cornwall, particular
in and near Mounts Bay, is visited
by the warm Gulf Stream, which is
the secret of its healthful tempera-
ture. There is little alienation in
the atmosphere by day or night.
There is not much information to be
obtained concerning this interesting
phenomenon, but the influence is
felt and seen though the Gulf Stream
itself flows unseen in the wide ocean,
separated in a manner from the deep
waters through which it passes with
out mingling. The lands it visits are
warmed by it; the air above and in
the vicinity is soft and balmy. Ex-
otics seen nowhere else in England
flourish in its neighborhood, and
many an early blossom is put forth
before the winter elsewhere has de-
parted. In caves ofrocks and occasion.
ally in some places on the coast, its
presence is known by the rare and
beautiful shell which carried safely by
current through the ocean, are left as
the production of a distant shore, and
tell whence the stream flowed.


As | felt the soft influence of this
genial stream in the months of early
spring it never failed to remind ME
of the hidden life of Christ-thc pos.
tive blessing flowing from the full
ness of the Spirit in the soul of q
child of light dwelling in the ungod,
ly world; continual contrast to that
Christianity which lives only on the
lips Of formal professors, bringing
neither warmth TO themselves nor
light and gladness to others.


Remember, God is the fountain Of
all good. Whatever comes from Him
will lead to Him. His blessing is
Of His own productions, and His
curse on everything besides. "Son
of man." saith the Lord, "receive the
word at my mouth, and warn them
from me-"


A little dog in u front yard will
make more noise than whole men,
agerie, particularly when a fellow
is trying to slip out Of the front
door without making any noise, and
the old folks happen to sleep tight
over the front steps,-EmirG Gazette


The Washington Post serves notice
on Mr.. Tilden that he must carry
New York for Lucius Robinson if he,
Tilden, has any political aspirations,
Aud we s'peot that's true.
Year: 1879

On purely presidential question there


seems to be more sagaclty in Hon. Fl. D.


Money, than in any of Mississippi's Rep


resentative in Congress. He says Tilden


would be the most available candidate in


1890, and the probability is Money is about
three-thirds. We do not see any better
way to administer an overwhelming rebuke
to the infamy of I'ilden's counting out, than
to take him up and overwhelmingly elect
him. If there was no other reason for his
nomination, this is sufficient to satisfy all
men who wish to see the right triumphant,
and fraud crushed When a large portion
of the people of the United States labored
under the delusion that Tilden was wanting
in nerve to assert his right, if not con-
senting party to the infamy, there were
solid grounds for opposition to him; but
after he has gone through the fire of inves-
tigation, and come out of it pure gold,
and proved that his skirts are clear of all
the miserable double dealing and brazen
rascality of that disgraceful Presidential
episode, these grcundt of opposition give
way entirely. The nomination and ems
phatic election of Tilden is a consumma-
ton exactly in accordance with ''the eternal
fitness of things" and it is one of those
thing which the American people will be
sure to do if they ever get chance. Now,
let not the politicians undertake to rob the
people out of the just satisfaction of re-
peating with unmistakeable emphasis their
choice for President.
Year: 1879

The spring poet is beginning to thaw
out. His song will soon be heard in the
land.


Already the editors, from James Gordon
Bennett of the New York Herald to the
editor of the Weekly Sandsifter published
at Hickory Hollow, Nevada; subscription
payable in eggs and old Shoes are begin
to quake in their boots, and to yearn for
the earth to swallow them up.


The w. Bs. (wasteebaskets) have been
thoroughly everhauled and cleaned out, and
stand waiting with yawning mouths for the
brilliant effusions of genius which are sure
to come.


There are about seven thousand of the
spring poets in America, and each particu-
lar one imagines that if he had his rights
he would be Poet Laureate of England


Not a solitary one of them was ever
known to eat meat or cabbage, and they
all experience great delight in going out
on moonlight nights, stroying around, sits
ting on the cold grass and breathing soul
stirring odes to the pale moon and silent
stars,


The average annual consumption of fools
cap paper by these misguided lunatics, has
been greatly underestimated at ninety
thousand reams. But there is one consola-
tion-the rag and waste~paper man finally
gets it all, and the nation is thereby saved
from utter destruction.


The spring poet is generally known by
his long, uncombed hair, dark rolling eyes,
mysterious voice and mourning finger-
nails. He fourishes only during the spring
and summer; in the winter he exists in a
state of dormancy. He begins to thaw out
about the middle of March, and then the
editors are bowed down with sorrow; the
country walls and groans and Rome howls
generally. But the big waste-basket laughs
aloud in its glee and grows broader day by
day.
Year: 1879

That's the way the Macon Beacon and a
few other papers style the reply of TIE
OoMEr to Governor Powers "open Letter. q"
In Gov. Pofunse letter there was distinct
accusation of blackguardism filed against
the editor of this paper. 1t was, however,
purely gratuitous with nothing whatever TO
rost on. If we had made good this false
chArge and pandered to a vitiated taste for
blockguardism these lofty critics would
have been satisfied, perhaps But The
CoMET does not aim TO meet expectatives
Of this kind, neither was it established to
vindicate the personal record of its editor.
Il considers that there are questions of
more interest TO the people and more i'm
portance 10 the State than that.


Should it ever become necessary or proper,
ue imagine ourselves abundantly able to
dsfend as well as to ventillAte, but we don't
propose to do either merely to satisfy a
morbid love for sharp personalities,
whether the sentiment springs from the
bosoms of natives or aliens We are not a
monkey to 60 10 cutting up fantastic
cAperz because few simpletons and sOre>
beads may expect il.
Year: 1879

generally failure IN private letter.


Don't go into eloquence or dropinto poetry


if you can help it. Commence sentences


and proper words with capital letters.


Score once under word for italics, twice


for SMALL CAPITALS, and three times for


CAPITALS. But be sparing with your


emphasis. Too much emphasis grows


monotonous, and destroys its force. Josh


Billings and Shakespeare and other classic


writer's of pure English rarely emphasize
their words. They seem to have been


willing to concede something to the reader,


and to have rested under the impression


that if there was an emphatic thought in a


composition the intelligent reader would be


able to detect it without having it marked


out to him. He who in relating funny


incident undertakes to lead the laugh him.
| self, and thus furnish to his hearers the


clue as to the points where the laugh comes
in, won't succeed half as well as he would


do if would go on and tell the joke, and


leave the result to destiny. So with con-


stant underscoring in writing. / knew q


young man once who was elected to the
Legislature. After he had served his first
term and returned home, he was SO filled
with the divine affiuvia of embryonic
craftsmanship that he exhibited to his con,
stituency the part of walking orator, He
was perpetually making speech. The
commonest every day sort of subject was
treated by him with emphasis and elo-
quence His hands and arms were like |
birds wings always saving the air. He
made speeches to the crowd on the streets,
to his companion in walk He made
speech to his sweet heart. His commune |
cation with his mother and little sister was
intended to be eloquent. But mortal man
cannot stand strain like that, and I am
sorry to say that my gifted young friend did
not survive it, that is to say, he was not re-
turned to the Legislature. The rock that
he split on was too much emphasis. He
scared too much. He forgot that there
was a placid element in the human organs
ism that welcomed intellectual repose
sometimes-that refused to be always
laughing, or crying, or held out on oratori-
cal climaxes The fate of this young man
should be a warning to writers of letters
too much given to italics.


SEvENTHLY: Names Of persons and
places, and quotations from foreign lan>
guages, should be written perfectly plain
The reader has no aid from the connection
to enable him to guess what these words
are They must stand or fall on their own
characters. The failure of writer's to ap-
preciate the Importance of this point is the
fruitful cause of the exhumation and {
butchery of the dead languages am not
sure but that it was the original cause of
heir death-and the vast multiplication of {
names in the world. For example, the
original and pure name of Smith by i'm
perfect writing has been variously corrupt i
ID into Smyth, Smythe, Smidt, ETC., Othe
+ names have not Jared so well as Smith, /
nut have actually lost their purity and a
uphony and have been completely changed, c
rom the same cause. In the name of t
'enerated ancestry I implore you to write a
he names of persons SO that they could be Il
cad by an entire stranger. b
Year: 1879

During the last year and half, Oul
country has been called on to mourn
the loss of many of its distinguished
citizens, but the death roll contains no
name which excites more genuine sor-
row in the hearts of the people than
Bayard Taylor.


Whatever of fame he achieved was
the Just measure of his merit. Owing
nothing to the accident OF fortune, and
still less to social position, unfriended
and poor, he wrested from the field
of letters its choicest laurels, and wore
them with a modesty beyond praise
Patient aud painstaking in whatever
work he engaged, his literary labors
were conspicuous for simplicity of style,
thoroughness of treatment, correct
ness of Judgment, and fidelity of pur-
pose, clearness of opinion, and fear
lessness of expression. The quality of
honesty is reflected in every page of his
writings, and no one could read them
without being impressed with the belief
that his was a simple, earnest and
naure


The appointment he secured rs
Minister to Berlin was coveted by him
onlyi because it gave him increased
facilities for gathering material for the
of the life Of Goethe, which,
had he been spared, would have been
the Growing work fo his life. Literary
men throughout the world will regret
the event that has deprived them of
such an acquisition aS the work would
have been, and the public will mourn
the death of man who so truly
represented the best type Of American
character.-P & piow
Year: 1879

At the rate fixed by the Mississippi Press Associa-
lion it would cost a candidate $3.50 to announce his
candidacy in all the papers in this judicial district
To announce in part of the papers and not in all,
would create hostility TO the candidate on the part
Of the papers ignorod.-COlumbus Democrat.


And that is one reason why the number
of newspapers should be reduced if there is
any way in the world to do it.
Year: 1879

Alexander III. Stephens is reported
to have said


ssIt was widely heralded that we would find relief
for the people, but instead of that we have been a
burden, and the Forty-ffth Congress goes out in
deeper disgrace than any Congress in the history
Of the government"
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON, March 2S.-It is only
within the last two or three years that
the expectation of fresh beef and live
animals TO Europe has assumed i'm
pOrtance Is u commercial enterprise.
Before the recent excitement with
reference to cattle diseases it was in-
cFeaslng very rapidly, and since ships
have been fitted up with reference to
the accommodation OF animals OH the
hOOf the business has been very large
and profitable. Slaughtered beef is
now shipped in refrigeratOTS to all
parts of the globe. Between the 1St of
May and the ist OF September last an
average of three thousand head were
shipped from this country to Europe
every week, and the loss was less than
one per cent. Experienced shippers
say that on the hOOf cattle can be
shipped during tho GUNNER months
across the sIa with very much less
loss than occurs in shipments the same
distance on land, and during the win
ter months shipments can be made of
beef which is slaughtered on this side.
1t is estimated by writers ON this sub
jeet that England alone can absorb
four thousand head Of American beef
every week.


The Increase i'm the business of ex-
porting fresh (sllu5 5htereD beef can be
judged from the amounts exported
during the last three years, which are
nc fOllpVr-.
Year: 1879

1t was just the meanest thing in the
world for the Philadelphia girl who
had been out prOmenading with her
beau to stain her lips and mouth, on
her return, with red ink, and then 10
set the half dozen girls in the house
dying with envy by the statement that
she had been eating strawberries while
out.-PhiLddeiphid ChFOnicle-HsTdld
Year: 1879

One pound of green apples, two eggs
Il gill of milk. one and 4 half ounces OF
sugar. one-half gill of cold water, three
tablcspoanfuls Of bread crumbs. First
pare and core the apples and cut them
in small. thin pieces. Put into small
saucepan one ounce Of sugar and one
half gill of cold water and place the
pan over the fire. When sugar and
water boil put in the slices OF apple
and boil till soft. Place the gill of
milk over the fire to boil.


Drop into the bread crum5 the yOlks
of two eggs. Mix well together and
pour into mixture the boiling milk
Beat milk. eggs and bread crumb well
Whip up the whites of the eggs on 4
plate and add pinch of salt. Wher
the appleS have boiled soft pour then
out into pie dish. Lay over them the
bread crumb, yOlk; of eggs and milk
Put the dish into an oven to bake fOI
about five minutes. Take them Ou
and lIY roughly over the top the
whites of the eggs, beaten to Il stiff
froth. Sprinkle over them the remain
ing half ounce of sugar. Return thG
dish to the oven to remain one or tive
minutes till the whites on top have
Drowned. The pudding is hest when
eaten warm.
Year: 1879

In 1876, IN Cincinnati, in the Nation


al Democratic Convention, and still


later, in 1860, the National Democracy


in the United States affirmed the right


of the veto as one of the sacred rights


of our government, and declared that


any law which could not be passed


over veto by twO-thirdS vote has no


right to become law, and that the on


ly redress was an appeal from the veto


to the people at the next election. That


has been the democratic doctrine on


that subject from the remOteSt day
certainly from Gen. JacksOn's time


until now. What would you have


said il 1861 if the Democratic ma
jOrity in the Senate, instead of taking
| the course which il did, had simply


said. I'VE will put an amendment on


an appropriation bill declaring the


right of any State to secede from the
Union at pleasure, and fOrbidding any
officer of the army or navy Of the
United States from Interfering with
any State in its purpose to Secede:'
! Suppose that that Democratic majority
had said then. Put that on these ap-


preparation bills, or we will refuse sup
| plies to the government. Perhaps
| they could have killed the government


then by starvation. But in the mad


ness of that hour, the leaders of the
secession government did not dream
that it would he honorable tOput their
| fight on that ground. but they walked
Ous on their plan Of battle and fought


il out. But now, in a way which the
widest of secessiOniStS never dreamed


of taking, it is proposed TO make this
Year: 1879

To each pint of water use 4 table
spoonful of dry coffee. If the coffee is
to be creaned in kettle, instead of 4
pint Of water use half water and half
milk. The coffee should always be
boiled twice to settle the grains.


When it first begins to boil remove the
pot to a cooler part Of the stove. As
soon rs it stops boiling restore il II its
first place and let it bhil again. by
this means the coffee is cleared and
the grains recele to the bottom.
Year: 1879

Two or three tablespOORfuls of meal (;
pint of water; sprinkle the meal in
TO the water and stir over the fire till
it bOlls; then add little salt; let it
cook slowly for half an hour. The
best ont meal to use for pJrridge is the
medium size.
Year: 1879

PHILADELPHIA, August PA COM
rade of Schuyler Post, q. A. r., dying
a Catholic, and having expressed a wish
to he buried with Grand Army honors,
the post was ordered TO assemble and
attend the funeral. The post, however,
was informed that Archbishop
Wood would not allow the post
to enter the cemetery. The committee
called at his residence, but both the
Archbishop and the Secretary were alb
sent. The Vicar-General was waited
upon, and he said he could not consent
TO their entering either the church or
the cemetery as post; such were the
orders against secret societies, and the
Archbishop only could revoke them.
At meeting OF the post to-day it was
decided to lay the matter before the
Archbishop on his return.
Year: 1879

LOUISVILLE, August 2j.-On applica-
ton OF the Mayor and Council OF Frank
fort, in the Franklin county Circuit
Court, an order of injunction was grant
ell against Simmons Il Dickinson, re-
straining them from transacting any
lottery business under the Frank
lin grant. The notice was served
on the firm at eleven o'clock this morn
ing. Consequently their drawings this
afternoon were under the Henry county
grant. The injunction was issued at
the instance Of the Commonwealth Dis
tribution Company.