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Year: 1879

That said defendant. without cause.
is guilty Of extreme cruelty to plaintiff
by the iufiction Of grievous mental
suffering upon him by an incompatible
indifference and want of affection to-
wards him for . period of over two
years last past prior to the commence
ment Of this action. which said ,indiff.
erence and want Of affection has been
continually growing more incompatible
between the parties. and defendant less
inclined to affection for him, 20 such an
extent as to preclude the possibility Of
the parties ever again living together
in peace and harmony as husband and
wife.


That this com plaint is made in good
faith and sincerity. to the end that jus
t.ce may be done in the premises.


And am to swear to all this 2 asked
the reporter. 'How can I do it. It is
all false


ONLY A LITTLE FORMALLY,


Oh answered the bureau man, tn It
is only q little formslity. The com.
plaint once filed. it will be an easy
matter to get all the proof you need
You will only want one other witness
beside yourself. The commissioner will
not be particular. and by the arrange
ment We will make there will be no
defense


Seeing that the sharper would not
take NO for An answer, the reporter
asked for time. He wanted to consult
. friend and see If he was running any
risk in signing it, he said. With this
the sharper was perforce sAtisfied, and
the reporter departed with the COM
plsint.


Now the whole truth was ont. the
plan revealed BY which All innocent.
contiding wife and two children we're
10 have been cast sdrift in the world
by . scoundrel of . husband, aided by
. villainous sbyster who would hesitate
st nothing. As the reporter was not
the fortunate pcssessor OF wife. and
therefore needed no divorce, be did not
take advantage Of the bureau.
Year: 1879

NEATNEss OF MEN.-Very much
has been written about neatness in wo-
men, and in print it looks very easy,
with plenty OF calico dresses, linen col
lars and cuffs, and bright ribbon bows.
The papers say young men are used TO
seeing girls look neat before marriage
and year after are surprised TO find
they have slovenly wives. How a
righteous woman's blood boils at that
word Not one woman in ten becomes
sloven by choice. If her husband Is
farmer his first thought in the morn
ing is to swallow bis breakfast as s....y
as possible and 60 to work. Ifhis wife
stops TO pin on q collar or comb her
head, he thinks il is lost time, and tells
her to hurry up, IN half-ireiful tone.
A railroad man, blacksmith, clerk or
merchant viii do the same thing and
hurry away to business.


After breakfast comes the household
cares. with little crying babe ever and
anon breaking in upon the duties Of the
morning. The clock points TO eleven
and now the morning wrapper must do
duty, or husband will wonder what she
has been at TO make dinner so late. He
doesn't seem to notice how she looks if
everything is right about the dinner,
but If she is late, though neatly dressed,
baby sweet. and house all in perfect or
der he has not . word Of praise, or a
smile, but sits down very sober TO wait.


These are facts that every woman
knows TO be true, butthey have deeper
shading. The dresses, collars and cuffs
which women are expected to have
without stint, more frequently sum up
IN two or three changes. The wife's
money comes through the husbands :
purse and sometimes be forgets to with
draw the string for long while. The
old dresses get shabby, the shoes slip
slop, and the once tidy wife IS sloyen.


How about the men on this subject
of neatness The farmer, the mechan-
&c, the teamster. the miner, the clerk,
have work that causes them TO perspire
freely When evening comes they 81;
with their wives and children, in Their
soiled garments, and think themselves
good enough for any company that may
come 10. Their hands are only bal
washed. their faces unshaved FOR two
weeks, and haIr combed with their I'm.
gers.
Year: 1879

TIE Democracy Of the Third District
would seem to be in sore straits. With the
organ in this city declaring that the mass
Of the party in the State is in full sympa,
thy with what are called soft money no
tons, and with the gentleman, whom the
said organ admiringly calls the Great
Cireenbacker, laundering at its gates, the
Third District Democrats are in the sit
nation which Congressman Wilson used
tOdescribe, Us being between the devil and
the deep sea.
Year: 1879

A SINGULAR statement Is that reported
N have been made by Professor Chandler,
ottbe New York City Board Of Health, to
the effect that more deaths occurred in
ycw York State last year from scarlet,
,bap occurred in the South during the
same period from yellow fever, and yet
recent fatalities in our midst give an Np-
pear.pce Of probability to the statement.
Year: 1879

Tug New York Eraing Post takes ground
against the appointment of any more lieu
tenants in the army from civil life. 1t
does seem as though West Point, with all
its costly machinery and large graduating
classes, should furnish all the new officers
needed by our skeleton Of an army. No
further selections, at least, should be made
until the roster Of West Point graduates
i. .rxhnnsted.
Year: 1879

OF Gen. Albert Sydney John
son it is related that one day in
Utah when his command was
two days distant from a mailing
station, he found that a captain
had returned to camp forgetting
to post a letter which the Gem
eral had entrusted to him. But
all the commander said was: 81
can imagine no excuse for such
carelessness, Captain Not
long after, the General himself
discovered in a winter coat,
which had been packed away, a
letter which a long time before
he had received from the sur
geon, with the request that be
post it,. He had taken it to the
station, forgotten to post it, and
it had remained in the pocket
for six months. The conscien-
tious General first apologlzed
to the surgeon and then he sent
for the captain and said: 81
beg your pardon for reproving
you for an offence in which !
myself set the example" !"
Year: 1879

L ialIOflnS ana stalrWays aDOul
a railroad station have often Civ
en- rise to lawsuits, where the sta


tion-master has allowed them to
Iget out of repair or into bad con-


dition and a trayelerh has been hurt
lin consequence. While Andrew
johnson was President, he made


a trip over the Pennsylvania


road, and wherever the train


stopped people gathered to look


at him and get a speech. AT


Johnstown the station platform


broke down under the weight of
the unusual crowd. One of the
persons that was hurt sued the


company, and proved that the


platform was old and the TIM


bers rotten. The Court inquir-
led whether he had come to the


station to take the train, and he


said, No; he was only there to


see the President. The Court


SAID if that were the case, he


had no ground to sue, for the


company was not bound to keep


a strong platform for sight-seers.


But he said, if any passengers
were injured by the defect, or
even a person who had come to
meet a passenger or to see one
off he could recover damages.
A station master ON the New
Jersey Railroad allowed a hole
in the floor of his station plat
form to go unmended, until one
day lady passenger, on alight-|
ing from the cars, caught her
foot in it and fell and was badly
hurt. AT Wells River depot
there was a fight of steps at the
platform. The depot-master did
not keep the stairway lighted
properly at night, and lady
passenger who had come to take
a night train, in cropping about in
the dark to find her way, fell
down the steps and hurt her hip
so she became a cripple for life.
The Court said in both these ca
ses, atthe companies must pay.
AT one of the stations ofthe New
York Elevated road the people
in charge allowed the steps and
platforms to get icy, from rain
and snow freezing; and a pas
senger slipped, fell and was per-
manently hurt, so badly that the


jury gave him $4,000 damages.
The judges said that this was
right. The agents of railroad
companies must take more than
mere ordinary care in keepingf
their floors and platforms in a
safe condition for passengers;
they are bound to use call such
reasonable precautions against
injury as human sagacity and
foresight can suggest" /" They
are bound to be on the alert dur
ing cold weather to see whether
there is ice on the platform, and
to remove it or make it safe by
sanding it or putting ashes upon
it, or in some other manner.
And SO in a variety of other in
stances, the companies have had
to pay heavy damages to passen-
gers, because the platforms were
neglected. -Railroad Gazette.
Year: 1879

Last month a Turk, Fem Pa
sha, Governor of Banjaluka, with
twelve wives, children and a
guard of eunuchs, arrived in VI
emma and took lodgings at the
Hotel Daniel. Three wives were
put in a room, with a guard of
two eunnchs at each door. 1t
took a whole day to complete
the registration of the party at
Police Headquarters. The most
of the wives were real beauties
wearing their raven black hair
closely cut and dyeing their fin
ger nails. Under the Austrian
law these ladies were entitled to
their personal freedom, and the
German reporter naively says,
Is1f they only knew it. Each
eunuch carried a gun on one
arm and a baby on he other.
Year: 1879

1


There is a wonderful fascina.
ton about iron works and iror


workers. Novelists have made


them the scenes and heroes of


their stories; poets have made


them the theme of deathless song,


We sing Of the forge of Tuba


Cain; and Hector swore "by the


forge that stithied Mars helm, .
but the other trades are passed
over. When did poets, in lofty
numbers, sing of the carpenter
lathiDg a back room on the Sec
ond floor? Who chants the


brawny arms and the thrilling
deeds of a man climbing a four
story ladder with hod of NOR
tar? Does anybody stand with
rapt emotion and watch a pain
ter putty up nail hole? /
would not exchange my one hour
at night in the iron works at
Ashland for a whole week watch
ing a man mix mortar with hoe.
Why, these iron works surround
the Ashlanders with enough ro-
nance to last a Western COM
munity at least six weeks. And
yet / suppose there are people
about here who never saw a nail
made in their lives. I've known
times in my own eminently use
fll and highly ornamental career,
times when / was trying TO nail
a front gate to a leather hinge,
when / wished there had never
been a nail made anywhere by
anybody. And / watched them
as they fell from the ponderous
machines, fast as raindrops, and
it seemed to me as / watched
them fall that / could hear the
dull, treacherous thud of a ham
mer on the human thumb, the
long wall of a woman's anguish,
"the big, big D' of a young man
in his agony. These strange,
weird feelings and fancies rush
ed into my mind like a torrent.
| stopped and picked up brand
new nail, as a memento of my
visit. Then | laid it down again.
Sadly, but not slowly. | have
an impression, l know not where
/ got it, that a new laid nail, like.
a new laid egg, is warm. And
that it is far more perceptible in
the case of the nail. 1t may not
be SO in every instance. But
the one | picked up was not so
everlastingly whizzing cold, and
| did not investigate any further.
Year: 1879

A gentleman with an invalid
wife went to a hotel. He order
ed breakfast in his sittingroom,
and then asked for a small wal
ter, that the breakfast might be
carried to his wife in her bed
room. The servant was absent
some time, but at length return
ed, saying, "There are no small
arditers in the house, sir; but
they've sent up a chamber-maid. "
Great relief was experienced
when it was understood that the
waiter was wanted in the form
of tea-tray.
Year: 1879

ale is the only man in the
world to-day who can bring
peace to this divided country
1t is the Commercial Advertiser
that says this, and the man spok-
en- of is Grant.


IF the country can only be
saved by one man it is not worth
saving. :,
This sort of talk is an insult
to the intelligence of the people
as well as an affront to their pa
triotism.
Year: 1879

The Jacksonville (Fla.) Sun
and Press asks: "NVill some
medical man explain why or how
it is that the negro is never
known to sneeze? Ask any old
planter who owned scores of SER
wants, and he will tell you he
never heard one of his servants
sneeze. 1t may appear a very
singular fact, but tits none the less
true; and we allude to it just to
show how unobservant most
people are"
Year: 1879

1t is very well for a man to
boast of his family and hold
himself aloof because his grand
father was up in the world, but
| it is better to be reasonably
modest about it, because some
one may possibly remember that
it was a rope which held him
m
Year: 1879

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 2o.-The ques-
tion of building another railroad to
this popular resort is now being con-
sidered by prominent capitalists and
railroad mer. The idea is to run from
Philadelphia on the Camden and At
lantic railroad as far as Winslow juno
ton, there connect with the New Jer-
sey Southern, and from the nearest
point on this road to Cape May build
the new road. The road will be from
four to six miles shorter than the West
Jersey, and direct route opened from
New York to Cape May. A meeting
will probably be held at the Office OF
the Camden and Atlantic railroad some
time this week to take further action
in the matter.
Year: 1879

From the Forest News.l


A singular case is to be tried in the
Timer (Georgia) Superior Court next
week. About a year ago q Snowman
was exhibiting a trained monkey in
that county. Among other tricks, the
money had been taught to fire pistol.
The Snowman handed the animal a
pistol and told it to "shoot the ugliest
man in the crowd" Some mischievous
boys had put shot into the pistol, and
wien the monkey picked out his man
and fired, the shot took effect and
eighty wounded the ugly man, who
pulled out his knife, cut the monkeys
throat, and whipped the Snowman
The monkey died next day. The ugly
man is indicted.
Year: 1879

The Delaware Fire Marine Insurance
Company have added another large and
commodious room 80 feet in length tc
the rear of their present handsome
headquarters. They say they are max
inc room for their increased business.
Year: 1879

PUSH Ox.-That boy was a true
philosopher. " ho when he lost his
kite, thought he would cry about it,
but Immediately after concluded
not to, and went home whistling.
When asked ifhe wasn't sorry to
loose bis treasure, he replied: eyes,
but | can't fool away much time in
being sorry; I'm just going to make
rev one, and guess better one. "
\ great many full grown men
ha, emit learned that lesson YET.
When they have split their milk on
the ground they sit down close by
the wet spot and dilute the lost
lacteal fluid with their briny tears
II, instead of this repining, they
would only skurry around they
would soon find another and bigger
COW waiting to be MIXED. Don:
skulk, because it won't pay.
Year: 1879

Down at Marquette they are
quite hopeful over the prospects OF
their railroad to the Sault and
Mackinaw. A Detriot company
now has hold of the line and mat.
ters begin to look like business. We
are watching the developments
down there with q good deal of
interest. The next thing is to see
the Northern Pacific making move
to build eastward from the juno
tion.
Year: 1879




In the call for a special election
for Taylors Falls to vote bonds to
the Taylors Falls & Lake Superior
railroad company TO aid in the con
struction of road from this place
to White Bear it will be noted that
the company is given until March
1882 to complete its road. By the
terms of the agreement between
the former owners of the COMPANY
and It's present management, the
road is to be completed in about 2
years time, but the bonds are to be
~ ade good until 1892, in case any
emergency should arise by which
the Minneapolis & St. Louis com
pany should fail to fulfill their con-
tract, the old stockholders would
yet have eighteen months in which
to reorganize and complete the
road, thus saving the land grant
without calling another election. IF
the necessary aid is voted, how
ever, the Minneapolis s. St. Louis
company agree to complete the
road before the expiration of another
year. Tay lors Falls Journal.
Year: 1879

IN comparative statement of
the average production of spring
wheat per acre in seven Of the north
western States, and one territory.
Wisconsin stands second, being
beaten only by Dakota. We be-
lieve if the comparison should be
made upon winter wheat, although
there was not an extensive acreage.
our State would stand fist on the
average yield. No better soil for
the varied products of agriculture
can be found anywhere, than in our
own Wisconsin, State Journal.
Year: 1879

TO-DAY the Every Ecening hangs al
most 1ifeless upon the gibbet prepared
for its rivals. Within ten days past the
editor Of the paper referred to, was over
heard telling number of gentlemen
grouped together on the street, that the
Editors of the Republican and the GA
zETTB, naming them, should be drum
ned out of the city. We have only to
ask when the drumming process Is to be
commenced, and We have only further to
lvise our prosecuting rival to go and
Lang himself upon the gallows he has
prepared for the editors of the Republican
and GAzETTE.-RepubHcan.


Very sensible advice, worthy of a
echoolmaster. No doubt the man is
silly enough to have said what he is re-
ported above. 1t is not so very long
since the same fellow was heard saying
tile Bayards deserved to be hung, and
the GAZETTE ought to be torn out fol
supporting opinions in which these gen
tlemen concurred. Has he not slandereC
nearly every man that has befriende,
1iim-the last being lying, black mail
ing article Of gentlemen forming one O
the Oldest and most reputable busines
i.rins Of the city?
Year: 1879

IT is A FACT that a great part of the
rank and file of the Republican party are
opposed to the use of troops at the polls,
and yet we find the leaders of that.party
and the ofIice-holders so fearful of losing
their pay, if there is free, fair election,
that they are ready to oppose popular
opinion and run the risk of the country
being subjected to some military leader
in order to keep themselves in office.
Year: 1879

THE HEwORKINGMEN's PARTY has adOp-
fed the new constitution of California by
ten thousand majority. The Republican
apers are lamenting over this result as
though it would ruin the State. But we
expect the farmers of the Golden State
J ave considered the matter pretty well,
aud it may not be so bad as they imagine.
IT is not long since the same papers said
tie country would be ruined if the s'dol-
Jar OF the daddies" was recoined. But
although there is an abundance of the
"dollars of the daddiesr in circulation
iliat "would not circulate" at all, we do
'ot lind that the ruin predicted has ar
lived! Perhaps no more injury will be
tberesult of the election in California
Year: 1879

This little sentence should be written in
every heart stamped on every memory. Is
should be golden rule practice, not only in
every household, but throughout the world.
BY helping one another We not only remove
the tborns from the pathway and anxiety
from the MUD, but We feel q sense OF plea
sure in our hearts, knowing We are doing u
duty to a fellow creature. A helping hand
or encouraging word is no loss to US, and
is benefit to others. Who has not felt tho
power of little sentenced Who has not
needed the encouragement and aid Of kind
triend2 How soothing, when perplexed with
some task that Is both difficult aud burden
some, to feel a gentle hand on the shoulder.
and to hear kind voice whispering. Do not
be discouraged. 1 SEQ your troubles, let mo
help you. What strength is inspired. hopo
created, what sweet gratitude is felt; aud the
great difficulty dissolves as dew before the
sunshine. Yes, let US help one another by
endeayoriDg to strengthen and encourage tho
weak and lifting the burden OF care from the
weary aud oppressed, tina. life may glide on
smoothly, aud the fount Of bitterness yield
sweet waters; and He whose willing hand Is
ever ready to aid us, will reward humble en-
deavors. These good deeds will be bread
upon th e water, to return after many days,
if not to US, at least to those We love.
Year: 1879

As Mississippi river steamboat came to
a river landing. a tall. ungainly. gawkish
looking fellow leaning sgsinst q woodpiIe at
tracted the attention of the passengers. ono
of whom, a laxative and conspicuous person,
remarked to his friends that he was going to
have some fun out Of that fellow. So be
jumped ashore when the boat landed, and
with a great show Of ferceness approached
the fellow. Drawing assvsge-lookiDg bowie
knife he said:


$50. old fellow. I've found you at Last
You're the man that stole dog of mine and
I've sworn to get square with you. I've
been looking for you for year"


The gawky lazily opened his eyes in won
dering amusement at first as though he didn't
understand it. Then catching sight of the
laughing passengers looking on from the deck
he took in the situation. BY the time
''SDsrty" had finished telling him how long
he had been looking for bin, he had tsken
out Of his pocket fist like sledge hammer
on the end of the arm of Windmill. He
swung it once and Knocked the man who had
been looking for him plump into the river.
Then resumiDg his place against the wood
pile he raised his eyes TO the deck and with
lazy drawl inquired


us there anybody else on this boat look.
iug for me 2"
Year: 1879

THE third arrival of Shoes this Spring
just received. Stoek now complete for
Ladies and Gentleman. coarse and foe, and
will bo sold on very short profits to sui. the
times. A call is requested and you will be
convinced that Dslgsrn is selling goods in all
his branches at the very shortest profits =
Year: 1879

uufer the bench Of circular saw In the Watson
Machine Shops when the saw started and the
boy's head was sawn open from the top TO his ears
Yesterday he was able 10 talk and was rational. lie
cannot recover.


LONG ISLAND.


FLusnrYG-The Regents have instructed the
managers of the high school TO organize class Tor
the instruction Of teachers. beginning january q.
Year: 1879

The Committee of ten appointed by the Maritime
Exchange to investigate and devise measures of
relief from the excessive port charges of New-fork,
met at No. &c Bcaver-st. yesterday and completed
their plans The material for a pamphlet was read
which Is to he sent, it SAID. TO each member OF
every State Legislature each member of Congress,
every officer holding position under State or Nat
ionai Government, and to every person interested
in the Merchant Marine OF the Nation. The form of
a subscription list was adopted. Counsel is to be
employed TO work in favor of the move vement at
Albany and at Washington and a new bill is to b c
framed free from all technical points and abso-
lutely legal.


The pilots Of the Hercules sent TO the Com
missoners yesterday the report OF their earnings,
which amounted TO 81 ,O97 64, and incosed check
for the per cent commission according TO the by
laws The Commissioners refused To receive the
check as they do not recognize the Hercules as
pilot boat,
Year: 1879

Many parents think they are giving
their children good education by send
ing them to school. They do not realize
that the most important part of child's
education is what it gets at home The
most valuable teaching that boy can
have is that which gives him self control.
Far more important that he should learn
to keep his passions in subjection, than
to be able to solve quadratic equation
Most children are brought up without
any teaching in regard to those passions
which wreck many one upon the rocks
of sensuality and vice. knowledge is
not education. Education is training,
the growth and cultivation OF the vari-
GUS faculties of the mind. The moral
training of children is of the first i'm
portance; the acquisition of knowledge
should be entirely secondary.
Year: 1879

This is what Robert G. Ingersoll says
of the women: ! tell you women are
more prudent than men. 1 tell you, as
rule, women are more truthful than
men-ten times as faithful as men.
never saw man pursue his wife into
the very ditch and dust of degradation
and take her in his arms. / never saw
man stand at the shore where she had
been morally wrecked, waiting for the
waves to bring back even her corpse to
his arms, but | have seen women do it.
| have seen woman with her white arms
lift man from the mire of degradation,
and hold him to her bosom as though he
were an angel.