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Year: 1877

Fly him who, from mere curiosity,
asks three questions running, about a
thing which cannot interest him.


If industry will Danish poverty, no
man should complain of adverse circum-
stances.


Nothing in the world makes a man of
just pride appear SO unamiable as the
sense of dependence.


It is mistake to suppose great mind
inattentive to trihes; it's capacity and
comprehension enable it to embrace
everything.


Like tailor's pattern book, society is
of all colors and yet, make up the colors
as you will, they will cover the same kind
of Adam. .. t... .....


The faults of fool are concealed from
himself while they are evident to the
world on the other hand, the faults of
the wise man are we'll known to himself,
while they are masked over and invisible
to the world.


The failing of vanity extends through
ont all classes the poor have but little
time to bestow on their persons, and yet
in the selection of their clothes we find
they prefer such as are of faring and
gaudy color.


To put ourselves in q passion, in con-
sequence of the misconduct of others, is
unquestionably very weak behavior, but
it has also something generous about it
for we are clearly annoying and punish
ing ourselves, when the offenders only
ought to have been the sufferers.


We listen to those whom we know tc
be of the same opinion as ourselves, and
we call them wise for being of it; but
we avoid such as differ from us; we pro
nounce them rash before we have heart
them, and still more afterward, lest We
should be thought at any time to hav'
| erred ..tH .Ii tEF+S3U A'f'i p t|.-
Year: 1877

The Philosophy OF Life
In church and in State,


1t is rule or be ruled
In courtship or marriage,


II is fool or be fooled F;
In logic and law,


II is nick or be nicked ;
In gambling and trade,


II is trick or be tricked
In treaty and war,


1t is beat or be beaten
In the struggle for life,


1t is eat or be eaten.
Year: 1877

Cor. New lork Herald.


Bathing in the Seine and con-
certs in open air are the only en-
joyments Of the season. The beau
monde frequent the latter behind
the Palaise de pIndustrie. A
curious, and it must be said a for
bidding, spectacle is that of the in.
side OF a ladies' bathing establish
ment. There are few elegantes and
few beauties, the Seine being the
watering place of those who can
not afford to leave the city. All
the adornments of the Parisienne
are left in her cabin, when she
emerges in a woolen "bloomer," as
nature made her. A few walk
about drapea more OF less a Pan
tique; others sit shiyering on the
edge of the common square of
water, afraid to go down. This
liquid space is covered with heads
bound in yellow rubber caps, arms,
legs and now and then a loose tail
of hair. A pair of tights is some
times seen by bathers in the center
to leap from the platform over their
heads, and when they come down
with a splash they are found to be
a human body whose top part is a
black or blue blouse. Fat women
float about like corks on a pail of
water, the only time they feel light.
Thin, emaciated and apparently
hollow ladies jump up and down
on the same spot, never higher up
than their knees or lower down
than their elbows. Children cry,
young misses eat bread in the
water, General Slippiness is every
where perceptible; but this is
called hygienic, and though anna
teurs may have to walk home
through the sun for q long hour
after this pastime, they bathe every
day in the Seine out Of habit, Just
as husband and fathers fish their
three smelts every Sunday.
Year: 1877

SAVO Va 1itC Ai'Vl' 4HdL pldCc IL DuJ
a few miles below the head of the
Ten Islands, and is opposite to some
Of them. They, as did all persons
coming into the country at that
time, brought with them firearms
for their protection.


During their visit in search OF
homes they we're induced to 20 to
the islands to ascertain if they, or
any of them, were of sufficient size
to make q settlement. In order to
reach them they procured Indian
canoes, made of the bark Of trees,
in which to cross over the water to
the islands. These bark canoes
were very small crafts, only of suf-
ficient size to carry one, or not
more than two persons. Having
prepared themsveles for the inspec-
tion of the islands, they set out,
and on approaching one, they saw
a strange animal Of immense size
and length, about the color of cat
fish, but more in the shape of a
snake, which seemed to have drifted
upon the edge of a small island, and
was partly out of the water, making
movements and contoytions like it
was in the agonies Of death. They
approached 1t. 1t was partly COW
cred by water and partly on dry
land, but was of such enormous
size and strange shape as to battle
all Their ideas of such animals or
their names in the whole animal
kingdom, but that it was a water
animal of the snake genus. After
watching its movement and hold
ing a snort consultation, they de-
termined to kill it if bullets would
do so. They then approached more
closely to it and fired several rounds,
until they discovered it was dead.
Then they went to it for a close ex-
animation to ascertain what it real
| ly was, and discovered from the
sharp protuberanees and uneven
ness Of its body on one side and the
evenness of the other that there
must be something in it, When
they discovered that they had never
seen, or heard, or read of such an
animal, they proceeded with their
tomahawks and butcher-kniyes to
open it, and in doing SO, to their
utter amazement and surprise, they
found in it a bark canoe, the horns
and skeleton Of a deer, the skeleton
of an Indian, also an old rifle gun,
such as the Indians of that day
used, and bow aud arrows. From
finding the above named articles in
it, and their appearance, they con-
eluded that some weeks previously
an Indian had killed deer, put it
into his canoe, which the monster
swallowed together with the Indian,
deer and other articles in it. The
flesh of the deer and Indian had
been digested, but the canoe, the
gun, the bow and arrows and bones
we're so indisgetable as to sicken the
monster, and SO enfeeble it that it
Aoated to where they sound it, and
could not escape from them.


When others came to the coun-
try, and this adventure was told
them, they were incredulous, and
pronounced the whole story to be a
lie. Those who had destroyed the
monster became more sensitive,
and declined speaking of it any
more, although they knew it to be
true.
Year: 1877

Among the Huzarehs-a people
of Asia-the following is the way
weddings are managed:


The suitors Of the maiden, nine
in number, appear in the field, all
unarmed, but mounted on the best
horses they can procure; while the
bride herself, on a beautiful Turko-
man horse, surrounded by her re-
lations, anxiously surveys the group
Of lovers. The conditions of the
bridal race are these: The maiden
has certain start given, which she
avails herself of, to gain a sufficient
distance from the crowd to enable
her to manage her steed with free.
dom, so as to assist in his pursuit
the suitor whom she prefers. On a
signal from the father, all the
horsemen gallop after the fair one,
and whichever first succeeds in en-
circling her waist with his arm, no
matter whether disagreeable, or to
her choice, is entitled to claim her
as his wife. After the usual delays
incident upon such interesting oc-
casions, the maiden quits the circle
of her relations, and, putting her
steed into a hard gallop, darts into
the open plain. When satisfied
with her position, she turns round
to the impatient youths, and
stretches out her arms towards
them, as if to WOO their approach,
This is the moment for giving the
signal to commence the chase, and
each Of the impatient youths, dash
ing his pointed heels into his
chargers sides, darts like the
hooded hawk in pursuit of the flu
gitive dove.


The race course is generally ex.
tensive-say twelve miles long and
three in width-and as the horse
man speed across the plain, the
favored lover becomes apparent by
the efforts of the maiden to avoid
all others who might approach her.
On a certain occasion, after two
hours racing, the number of pur-
suers was reduced to four. who
were altogether, and gradually gain
ing on the pursued. With them is
the favorite, but, alas! his horse
suddenly fails in his speed, and as
she anxiously turns her head, she
perceiyes with dismay the hapless
position of her lover; each of the
more fortunate leaders, eager with
anticipated triumph, bending his
head on his horses name, shouts at
the top of his voice, 81 come, my
Peri; | am your lover!" But she,
making a sudden turn, and lashing
her horse almost to fury, darts
across their path, and makes for
that part of the plain where her
lover is vainly endeayoring to goad
on his weary steed. The three
others instantly check their career
but in the hurry to turn back, two
of the horses are dashed furiously
against each other, so that both
steeds and riders roll over on the
plain. The maiden laughs; for
She well knows she can easily eludo
the single horseman, and that she
will reach the point where her
lover is.
Year: 1877

tried that on a Western congress
man once, and it cured me Of inter-
viewing. He was an able-bodied,
weak-minded man, and nothing
but the fact that he was painfully
short-sighted saved me to be your
brilliant correspondent. | used to
sit opposite him in the street cars
and hear him muttering oaths CON
cerning one D. 2.


did not, therefore, intend inter-
viewing the President. The fact is,
/ only wanted to advise him to haul
off his dogs of war and leave the
poor labOrer to fight it out with the
powerful corporations. Before |
could get it out, however, the door
was flung open and Attorney Gen
eral Deyens and John Sherman
entered, evidently laboring under
some excitement. General Devens
would be a handsome man but for
the eccentricity Of nature that
undertook to make him Cyclop.
The compromise as to the gentle
mans visual organs leaves him
unable to look through a key-hole
without winking one eye.


AS for our John Sherman, he
looked as if he had been fshed from
a shipwreck. He was as pale as a
sheet, and SO disordered generally,
he did not appear to have any views
of a comforting sort. His coat
hung loose and his ill-ftting pants
seemed to be shrinking up his
financial legs as if they felt some
striker might claim them, and leave
John, in fact as he is in reputation,
drapeless bore, He had just run
the gauntlet, or thought he had,
through Baltimore. Who cannot
comprehend his financial policy OF
gold for the bond-holder and ma
tional bank rags for the people?
Year: 1877

old a1d young, every week. 1t is just to say
that the patrons of the WESTERN
METHODIST belong to the best class of
community.


We desire our business men to make note
Of the above facts before completing their
advertising arrangements for the coming
season.


We use our best efforts to keep our columns
free of all irregular and irresponsible advcr-
tisins for many good people seeing an ad-
vertisement in paper. especially their
church paper. take it as a guarantee Of ro
sponsibility. Such confidence should not bo
abused when it can bO helped, We want,
therefore,


The Advertising Patronage
Of such business men and firms as we can
recommend to our friends and the public
without compromising tho character of the
paper.


Our Terms Shall be ia Harmony


with the BUSINESS OUTLOOK.


send In Your Favors.
Year: 1877




The instability of equilibrium among
forces brlngsin an element ofuncertainty,
or rather incalculability, which renders
prediction extremely difficult in manv
fields of scientific investigation. Prof
Balfour Stewart, in a most Instructive
essay on Solar Physics" gives US some
illustrations OF this. He supposes a
stratum of air in the earth's atmosphere
to be very nearly saturated with aoueous
vapor, that Is to say, just a little above
the dew-point; while at the same time
it is losing heat with extreme slowness
so that if left to itself it would be LONG
time before moisture were deposited
Now, such stratum is in an extremely
delicate state of molecular equilibrium
and the dropping into tof a small crystal
of snow would at once cause a remarka-
BILE change of state. For what would
happen? The snow would cool the air
around it, and thus moisture would he
deposited in the form of fine mist or
dew. Now, this deposited mist or dew
being liquid. and as much more radiant
than vapor, would send its heat into
empty space much more rapidly than
the saturated air; and, therefore it
would become colder than the air around
1t. Thus, more air would be cooled, and
more mist or dew deposited; and so on
until a complete change of condition
should be brought about, resulting, per-
Year: 1877

The disclosure concerning Mr.. Days
patronage of the spiritualists suggests
word about the good business that the
mediums and clairvoyants of New York
are enabled to do through the supersti-
tious credulity of men and women who
occupy high social positions and even
rank as persons of more than ordinary
intelligence. 1t is no secret here that
such persons habitually consult the
mediums and clairvoyants about i'm
portant business affairs and are guided by
the so-called revelations which they obtain
in this way. There are mediums, both
male and female, who make regular
clientage, if it may be so called, among
merchants, professional men, spectators
and others not lacking intelligence, and
who make a very comfortable living by
supplying them with information which
they (the dupes, of course) really believe
comes from supernatural sources. 1t
was only the other day that a stock
speculator failed through operating on
"points" which medium told him came
direct from the spirit of Commodore
Vanderbilt. Either the medium was
downright fraud, or the commodore is
not so well posted in the other world as
he was in this, for the points proved as
unreliable as any that good old Daniel
Drew ever distributed among the boys.
1t is even a common thing for some
business men to consult theoracles before
going into any large venture. | am told
OF one, an importer, whose outlay for
spiritual information averages 81 900 per
year. Another makes it a rule not to
employ an accountant, salesman or errand
boy without first finding out what the
spirits think about it. Then there are
lawyers (not many, / trust, but certainly
some) who never try a case till medium
or clairvoyant has been consulted. The
late Judge Edmonds, as is well known,
used to declare that spirits frequently
appeared to him in court and put him in
the way of getting evidence of the
greatest Importance. Many business
failures are caused from time to time by
over-confidence in mediums and their
revelations. Our old friend Smith, the
razor strop man, who keeps street stand
near the sub-treasury, was doing a
prosperous trade in fine store on Grand
street until spiritualism got hold of him
and drew him away from his business
It is not only the illiterate, by any means,
on whom the sharpers of spiritualism
end the humbugs of clairvoyance
habitually prey. They have quite as
many dupes on Murray Hill as in the
quarters Of the working classes, and they
certainly get more money out of the
former than out of the latter.-Neoc
York Cor. Detroit Press.
Year: 1877

The Dead already Numbered Gy Millions.


The famine which our Shanghai cor
respondents letter describes this morn
ing, is a disaster of woful magnitude. 1t
extends over a very wide region of the
empire, it is carrying off the population
by thousands, and there is no near hope
that it's ravages will soon be over.
Through the north and east of the coun-
try, from the near neighhorhood of the
imperial city and from the shores of the
Yellow sea, beyond the line of the great
wall which shuts off China from the
western world outside, the terrible visi-
tatiou extends. The suffering, we are
told, is beyond description. III addition
to the multitude who have already per-
ished under it, there is the larger num-
Der of those who are just managing to
keep alive, and from whose exhausted
ranks fresh victims are continually added
to the dismal roll. Anything that will
allay hunger is eagerly sought after, no
matter how uninviting or unfit to be used
as food The rotten thatch of the houses
and dried leaves that serve generally
for fuel are not now neglected as nause-
Gus or unsatisfying, and lucky indeed
is the man who can get full sup
ply even of these. The government
is making the semblance of an
effort to relieve the widespread misery /;
but the means it employs are wholly in
adequate. An expression of verbal sym
pathy, grant of money which allows
about farthing day for the relief OF
each case of distress, and some well
meant but mistaken edicts, which have
had the effect of simply making matters
worse tian before, are the measure OF
assistance which the Chinese rulers can
bestow. The famine proceeds in spite of
them, and matters are rendered worse by
the intense cold which was prevailing at
the date OF our correspondents letter,
and by the snow which lay so deep as to
prevent the people from picking up any
of the wild produce of the soil. AS
summer advances and as the weeds begin
to grow and the trees to be covered with
foliage, there may be change expected
for the better. Meanwhile there is no
remedy to be found, except in the readi-
ness of the people to do anything and
submit to anything that will furnish
them with the bare means of supporting
life, and in the willing but insufficient
relief found which is subscribed among
Year: 1877

A great deal of discomfort arises from
over-sensitiveness about what peo-
pie may say of you or your actions.
This requires to be blunted. Consider
whether anything you do will have much
connection with what they Will say.
And, besides, it may be doubted whether
they viii say anything at all about
you. Many unhappy persons seem to
imagine that they are always in an am
phitheater with the assembled world as
spectators whereas all the while they
are playing to empty seats. They fancy,
too, they form the particular theme of
every passer-by. II, however, they must
listen to imaginary conversation about
themselves, they might, at any rate, defy
the proverb, and insist upon hearing
themselves well spoken of.
Year: 1877

!. Notwithstanding her deplorable
mental condition the ex-Empress Char
lotte of Mexico is in excellent bodily
health, and it is said that she is now
more attractive in appearance than she
was before her widowhood.
Year: 1877

respondence on the subject OF American rep
resentation at the Paris exhibition, and urg-
ing immediate action of Congress In supply
ing the deficiency.


The Secretary of the Interior will lay before
Congress the necessity Of making some mo-
difcation in the pension laws to facilitate
examinations.


The War Department is now awaiting cor
respondence with the various State authori-
ties relative to the railroad strike, reports OF
United States officers in command as to the
cause Of disturbance, etc. These viii be sent
to Congress.
Year: 1877

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. N.-Labor Reform
delegates to the convention met this after
noon, and, after indorsing the Harrisburg
platform put forth by the same party, nom
mated full county ticket. For the office Of
coroner German physician was nominated,
and it is the hope of the party to attract the
German vote through him
Year: 1877

New YORK, Sept. 4.-The committee of
bank presidents appointed to report on the
Coe plan for the resumption of specie pay
ments met early this week, and, it Is under
stood, recommend that contracts be made
with the government to supply sufficient
funds to resume
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, Sept 24.-It has already been
mentioned that at the extra session in Octo-
ber the President will not send in message,
but will transmit his reason why the extra
session is called. 1t is learned that in addi-
tion to this there will be sent in several execu-
tive papers of interest among them a COM
munication from the Secretary of the Navy,
calling attention to deficiencies in the appro-
priations for the pay of officers for the closing
three months OF the last fiscal year.


The Secretary Of State will present the cor
Year: 1877

STUFFED ONIONs.-Wash and skin very
large onions; lay them in cold water IN
hour; then parboi in salted boiling water
haif an hour; drain, and while hot extract
the hearts, taking care not to break the
outer layers; chop the hearts very fine.
with little salt pork or bacon, bread
crumbs pepper, salt, mace, and wet with n
spoonful OF cream; bind with a we'll beaten
egg and work into a smooth paste; stuff
the onions with this; put into dripping.
pan with little hot water, and bake until
the onions are very tender, meantime


oastlng often with melted butter. When
oone' take the onions up carefully in
vegetable dish; add to the gravy in the
arlPplng'pan the juice of half lemon, four
Hour made smooth in cold milk bo;I un
once and pour over the onions. Sarva
very hot. Nei'e
Year: 1877

WouNDs.-The leaves of geraniums are
an excellent application for cuts, when the
skin is rubbed off, and other wounds of the
same kind. One or two leaves must be
bruised and applied on linen to the part,
and the wound will become cicatrized in a
very short time.
Year: 1877

LIVING IN PAPER HousEs.-Every wear q


new use Is found for paper. We NAV dress


now IN paper suits OF clothes, substitute


paper collars for those of linen, lie warmly


IN winter beneath paper blankets. keen


nour IN paper barrels, travel in paner car.


rlages mounted on paper wheels, drape our
windows with paper curtains. and cat our
eggs out of paper egg-cups. But this is not
all; out OF paper we may make ourselves
snug homes. The use Of paper as a buiId.
ing material is an American invention. and
Is reported to be great success. As is we'll
known, paper is very bad conductor of
heat; the passage of heat, indeed, is pre.
vented by few piles Of the material. Houses
then built of paper will resist the scorcbing
rays OF the sun in summer, and prevent the
escape OF the warmth in winter. To eniov
the advantage of this peculiarity of paDer
~ Is not necessary, however, to build houses
OF sold paper bricks. Merely to line them
with VIII paste0oard would produce the same
enect' One strong point in favor of using
paper ior purposes of building construction
Is that 1T will not shrink or crack. baing
neither affected by heat, cold nor damn


Then, it will not burn so readily as wool


The houses, also, will be comparatively
ilght, and might with ease be removed
hodily from place to place; when the sensi.
ole inhabitants grow tired of living on the
side OF the hill, they will be able to shift at
once 10 hne site in the valley; or if they
ilVe on the seashore it will not be much
trouble to pack up house and bag and bag |
gage, ana go to spend six months of the |
year IN some inland district The owner
OF small paper cottage will almost be
on his back. o
Year: 1877

by the burglar, who was supposed to be Proc
tor. He had gone to the house at night,
knowing h,r father had sold the farm and
had the money in the house. He entered
the house with a cooked revolver, when
there wa- no one at home but the girl and
hs- aged mother. The girl flew at the rob
ber, struck down the pistol, tore off his
mask and actually drove him out OF the
door. lie fired two shots at her, one ball
passing through her breast and one going
through her head. The girl still lives but
the doctors say she c.. rot recover.