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Year: 1878

Fancy runs most furiously when q
guilty conscience drives it.


Many live miserably and meanly just
to die'magnifcently and rich.


Treat your enemies as if they would
some time or other be your friends.


Laws are always multiplying lawyers,
and lawyers always multiplying laws.


Impossibilities, like vicious dogs, fly
before him who is not afraid of them.


1t is only those that have done moth
ing, who fancy they can do everything.
Love is a compound of honey and gall,
mixed in various proportions for custom
ers.


Follow the fashion; you had better
display other peoples follies than your
own.


Many pride themselves upon being
wild young men, who are only wild
beasts.


He who knows his ignorance is the
possessor of the rarest kind OF valuable
knowledge.


Shut not up brood of evil passions in
your bosom like enraged. .serpents, they
will bite their cage.


You may gather a rich harvest Of
knowledge by reading; but thought is
the winnowing machine.


Keep the horrors at arms length.
Never turn a blessing round to see
whether it has dark side to 1t.
Year: 1878

With the addition of some huge SO.
ton guns, says the London Nears. the
heaviest artillery at present in the ser
vice, to the defenses of the Thames, the
forts which now protect London on the
side of the sea may be considered in a
satisfactory condition. We rarely regard
London as a fortified city, and yet
against the attack Of hostile squadron
it Is as well assured as any other port in
the world. 1t is only within the past
few years that any really serious stops
nave been made for the proper defense
OF the centre of the nations greatness.
At any time, no doubt, we could organ
ize IN few days a system of torpedo de-
fense which would, if successful. effect
ually bar progress up the river: but tor
podOes are at best a treacherous kind of
weapon, and are apt, at times, to be as
dangerous to friend as to foe.


Coming up to the More, the first oppo-
sition that an enemy would be likely to
meet with are the Sheerness forts and
the Isle of Grain guns, together with any
long-range cannon which might happen
to be in position on the Essex shore at
ShOeburyness. In the event of the hos
tile squadron passing these, it would next
~ NSRO viii q NClI sOnCA4lA Dcse-
terry at Coal House Point, and another
on the opposite shore called the new
Shornmeade Fort. These works mount
guns of very heavy calibre, and are so
constructed that they may operate in
unison and deliver q sweeping crossire.
Moreover, the reach of the river is of
such nature that the cannon of the
forts could command any ships coming
up the river a couple of miles before the
latter came abreast of the batteries.


If we suppose, however, the enemy to
be successful in evading these works,
also, then his progress would be checked
again at Tilbury Fort and its companion
work opposite, New Tavern Fort. These
forts are also fitted with guns of heavy
ealibre and long range, those on the Kent
shore commanding the whole of the long
reach in the river Just below Gravesend.
1t would only be in the event of an
enemy running the gauntlet of those big
guns that it would have any chance
whatever of reaching the Government
factories at WoolWich, or those docks
whose overhoWing riches the world has
heard vaunted so much and so often,
Year: 1878

In the spring of the year 1910, s. whal-
ing vessel sailed from the port of London.
upon voyage to the Polar Seas. Moth.
ing material is said to have occurred un-
til their arrival in those solitary regions.
when it became the duty of the crew to
keen q perpetual lookout upon the hori-
zon in fC arch of fish. Whilst thus occu-
pied, it vas fancied by one Of the sea-
men that u sail was discernible, as far to
the northward as the eye could reach.
As the course of the whaler was towards
the supposed vessel, mast became grad
ually distinguishable amidst the noun
tain OF ice, which appeared in that quar-
ter to bound the sea. It was now sum-
mer, and the afternoon unuslally calm,
whilst the whaler gradually /. cred the
objects in view, the supposition being
that it was a vessel engaged in operating
upon the blubber in a bay which would
open to the view upon approaching
nearer to the ice.


Upon arriving, however, at the spot, it
became clear, that the vessel was a
wreck embedded in the ice, and could
only be approached by boat. This hav-
ing been lowered, the captain and sew
eral of the seamen landed upon the ice
and proceeded to the vessel, which
proved to be a brig. The sails were
furled, very little appeared upon the
deck, and all the arrangements were
those of a vessel laid up for long period
Of time. Descending to the cabin. the
first object that was seen, was a large
newfoundland dog eoiled upon q mat,
and apparently asleep. Upon touching
the animal it was found to be dead, and
Aba hnJrr f-oznr, 70 fhn h1rIrO1r, ,e
stone. Entering the cabin, was next
seen young lady seated at a table; her
eyes were open, and gazing with mild
and steadfast expression upon the new
comers to that solitary spot. She was
dead; and in that apparently resigned
and religious attitude had been frozen to
death. Beside her was a young man,
who, it appeared, was the brother Of the
lady, and commander of the brig. He,
too, was dead, but sitting at the table,
and before him lay a sheet of paper. upon
which was written the following words
-"Our cook has endeavored, since yes
terday morning, to light a fire, but in
vain; all Is now over"


At the other side of the cabin stood
the cook, with flint and steel in his
hand, frozen to a statue, in the vain en-
deavor to procure that fire which alone
could save him and his companions from
the cold arms of death. The supersti-
tious terrors Of the seamen now hurried
the captain aWay from the wreck, the
log-book alone being brought away; and,
from this, it appeared that the ill-fated
vessel was brig, which had belonged to
the port of London, and had sailed for
the Arctic region more than fourteen
wears before.
Year: 1878

H Ss q common saying that every
child thinks his father the wisest nan
in tbe world. This is very natural; as
parents are ttzeir children's fountains Of
knowledge. Fs them their children
come for anything they want to know
and by them they are generally satisfied.
But every wise parent has occasion to
say. now and then, q do not know, my
DEAR The surprise Of the child on nrst
hearing that there is anything that his
parents do not know fixes the TACT IN his
mind. When he has once discovered
that his BaFe4ts have something more 70
learn. he becomes aware-and thus also
ought to be fixed in his mind-that their
education is not 6pished; and that It IS
their business, as il 1s his, to learn some
thing more every day, es long as they
live. So much for knowledge. The case
ought to be as clear to him with regard
to goodness. It is not enough that IN


church he hears that all men and


women are sinners; and that In prayers


at home he hears his parents pray ti1aI
they may become more worthy OF lne


goodness of God, and more IKE the
christ who Is set before them. These
fIin0s NAV set him thinking; but they


NIX or ought to be, more light every


daT 70 clear up his ideas. The sans


Parents yho honestly own to their child


inst they are ignorant of things about


which he questions them viii own 70
him that they are not nearly SO good as
they wish to lie. Thus is the truth


opened 10 the feeblest and smallest mind
that education has still to go on, even
when people are so ineopceivably old as
children are apt to think their parents
Year: 1878

Moral CoURAeE.-ln all the instances
Of moral courage we have read or seen,
we remember none that arose so near
to the sublimity and grandeur as this:


An old soldier of the Grand Army was
sent BY his chief upon a dangerous and
secret mission. He executed It faithful
lly, but his absence was discovered and
he TSs tried for desertion. Napoleon
was present at the trial The soldier
looked pleadingly into his ace for per
mission TO clear himself by revealing the
truth, but that face was cold as stone
and a finger was placed upon ths stern
iins THE soldier barred his grey head,
hsld his peace. aud endured hie punish
roant In silence; but ever after mutter-
"a. with the wild pathos Of insanity
HlSSlsnes a "a AoTtF
Year: 1878

It is wonderful how vast an amount of
mischief, and of misery, even, is produced
by the sinple misuse of these little
words. People many times say Yes with
out thinking Of whatit involves; or they
say No in so feeblesa tone, that those who
are urging them to do something which
they cannot honorably do, are invited to
persist until they get the answer they
desire. And thus they assume obliga--
tions which they have no settled purpose
to fulfill, or neglect duties which their
own conscience and their sense Of honor
tell them they should discharge. Yes is.
more easily said than No, because it is
more agreeable to assent to another's;
wishes than it is to oppose them. Hence,
of some good-natured men the remark
is often heard, 'aThey cannot say No"


Young man, consider well what you
are asked to do before you pronounce
your Yes: but having uttered it, remem-
Der that the reply to all others must be
a No, so emphatic, prompt, decisive, that
they cannot for moment doubt that
you mean it. You have made q great
attainment if you have learned to say No,
and to stick to it. Frequently you will
find it a most unpleasant word, some
times a very painful word to utter. But
thdt sort of pain is momentary. It isnot
the pain caused by conscience violated,
by honor sullied. It is not the pain pro-
duced by the lifelong memory of evils
inflicted on yourself and others, which a
little timely frmness would have pre-
vented. "Let your Yea Be Yea, and your
Nav be Nay.n
Year: 1878

Z t


In 1868 it was alleged that there
was fraud at the Presidential election
in New York City. Congress met
with rousing Republican majority in
both Houses, and the first thing these
now noisy opposers of the Potter inves-
tigation did, says the Sonoma Democrat,
was to appoint Select Committee to
investigatesthe alleged irregularities in
one Of the cities of the Union. That
committee reported great amount of
matter regarding the investigation, from
which we extract a clause and recon-
mend it to the careful perusal Of this
same party, who at this juncture shrink
from the Investigation as from the sting
of an adder. Strangely enough, we
find that they then claimed that to
leave frand in the electoral vote un-
noticed, would Mexicanize the Repub-
lie. They now contend it will Mexi-
canize the country to notice the frauds
of 1879, beside which those of 1878
are as grain of sand would be in COM
parison with Mount Diablo. Here is
what they said on the subject in
1868


"This duty is one of the highest pe-
litieal importance. Irregularities and
fraud in the election Of Representatives
to Congress and Electors Of President
and Vice President cannot fail to ex-
cite just alarm in the minds of the
people. Unless their will can be fully
and fairly expressed in the election of
the officers who are to make and exc
cute law, the vital principles upon
which the Government rests are set at
defiance, and soon We may follow the
fate of France, where imperial power
was welcomed as the only means Of
peace, or the anarchy of contending
factions, SO fatal to Mexico, may close
the career of our great Republic IF
Congress or the people could be insen-
sible of, or Indifferent to, the evils of
fraudulent elections, it would not argue
well for their patriotism, nor would it
argue well for the permanency of our ma
tionality. IF the Electors are chosen
by fraudulent votes the duty i'm
posed by the Constitution is not COM
piled with, and Congress may not only
regulate and provide for this, but may
devise mode of ascertainine shat the
result of an election has been


Their abrupt change Of front proves
clearly that the Republican party do
not consider anv outrage crime, pro
yided it is committed to forward the
interest of their party. They regard
themselves as the elect. polieiteal priests,
who are above responsibility Crime
in their interest is patriotism. aud for
gerry virtue.
Year: 1878

The following are some of the rules
that George Washington, at the age Of
thirteen, wrote out probably for his
own adoption:


Every action in company ought to be
with some sign of respect to those
present.


Be no fatterer, neither play with any
one that delights not TO be played with.
Read no letters, books or papers in
company.


Come not near the books or papers of
another, as if TO read them.


Look MT over another when he is
writing letter.


Let your countenance be cheerful,
but in serious matters be grave.


Show not yourself glad at another's
misfortune.


Let Jour discourses with others on
matters Of business be short.


1t Is good manners to let others 5ipeak
first.


Strive not with your super iurs in
argument, but be modest.


When a man does all he can, do net
blame him, though he succeeds not well
Take admonitions thankfully.


Be not hasty to believe flying reports
to the injury of another.


In your dress be modest and consult
your condition


Play not the peacock, looking vainly
at yourself.


1t is better to be alone than in bad
company.


Let your conversation be without
malice or envy.


Urge not your friend to disclose a
secret.


Break not a jest when n7ne take
pleasure in mirth.


Speak not injurious words either in
Jest or earnest.


When you speak of God let it ever
be with reverence.


Labor to keep alive in your heart
that spark of heavenly Ere called CON
science.
Year: 1878

No ceremony is more interesting
than the one which binds pair togeth
er as man and WIFE To see two ration
al beings in the glow of youth and
hope, which invests life with halo Of
happiness, appear together and acknowl-
edge their preference for each other,
voluntarily enter into league of per
petual friendship, and call heaven and
earth to witness the sanctity of their
VOWS to think of the endearing rela-
tion, and the important consequences
which are to flow from it, as they walk
side by side through life, participating
in the same joys,the sharers of each 9th
er'ssorrows; that the smiles which kindle
to eestacy at their union must at length
be quenched in the tears of the survivor
to consider all this, the epitome of the
whole circle of human sympathies and
interests, awakens the deepest and ho
Hest feelings of the heart.
Year: 1878

Use only tin pals in milking.


Sunfiower seed is good for poultry


Keep the poultry house clean and
tidy.


For lawns SOW grass seed without
grain.


Clover is one of the best and cheapest
fertilizers.


Unbuckle harness before cleaning
and oiling it.


Good wheat produces seventy-four
per cent. of fine flour.


There is 70 certain remedy yet known
for the pear blight


Mulching is nearly as good as cult
walton for strawberry plants.


If you would clear your house oi
rats, kerosene one and let him 60.


A dose of paint is q preventative Of
loose jointed farm implements.


Apple trees, when planted in good
soil, should be set forty feet apart


Never, under any circumstances
leave your milk strainer at the barn
over night


Plant peas deeper than has been the
custom, as they are less likely to mil
dew and viii be more productive


Make your fences high and strong SO
they will keep cattle and pigs out. II
you have brush make your lots strong
and secure, and keep the hogs from the
corn.


Plant grape vines, for there are few
plants that do SO well in variety Of
soils and climate, while there is no
more delicious fruit, or that may be
cultivated with less trouble, and YET
none is more neglected by the farming
community.


He who houses his farm implements
in the corners of fences, whose fowls
roost in the trees during the winter
whose manure pile teaches into a road
side ditch, and who wipes his nose OF
his ceatsleeve, makes plteous complaint
| that farming don't pay.
Year: 1878

Girls is the only folks that has their
own way every time. Girls is of sew
eral thousand kinds, and sometimes
one girl can be like several thousand
other girls if she wants to do anything


Girls is alike one way, and they are all
like cats. IF you rub 'em the right way
of the hair they'll purr and look sweet
at you, but if you rub 'em the wrong
way or step on their tails, they'll claw
you. So long as you let a girl have her
own way she's nice and sweet; but Just
cross her and she'll spit at you worse
nor a cat. Girls is also like mules


If girl don't want to believe any
thing you can't make her. If she
knows it's so she won't say so. BROTH
er George says he doesn't like big girls,
but he does like little ones, and when 1
saw him a kissing Jennie Jones last
Sunday, and told him of what he'd
said, he said he was biting her,
cause he didn't like her. l think he
hurt her, for she followed and run, and
there was big red spot all over both
of her two cheeks. This is all l know
about girls, and father says the less
know about them the better off l am.
Year: 1878

True to life is the following from one
of the American humorists, upon that
exasperating subject, 'The family ham
mer:"


No well-regulated family pretends to
be without hammer. And yet there
is nothing that goes to make up the
equipment Of domestic establishment
that causes one-half as much agony and
profanity as hammer. It is always
an old hammer, with a handle that is
inclined to silver, and always bound to
slip. The face is always as full
moon and as smooth as glass. When
it glides off nail and mashes a finger
we unhesitatingly deposit it in the back
yard, and observe that we will never
use it again. But the blood has hardly
dried on the rag before we are in search
of the same hammer again, and ready
to make another trial. The result
rarely varies, but we never profit by it.
The awful weapon goes on knocking off
our nails, and MASKING whole joints,
and slipping off the handle to the con-
fusion of mantel ornaments, and break,
ing the commandments. Yet we put
up with it, and put the handle on
again, and lay it away where it won't
get lost, and do up our smarting and
mutilated fingers, and, after all, if the
outrageous thing should disappear, We
kick up a terrible hallahalloo until it i;
found o1ai,, Til about fha fvro +,
ing influence of bad habit. It is moi
to be compared with the family ham
mer.
Year: 1878

WHAT A Coop PEIoDIcAL MAY Do.
Show. us an intelligent family of boys
and girls, and we shall show you a
family where newspapers and periodi-
Gals are plentiful. Nobody who has
been without these silent private tutors
can know their educating power for
good or evil. Have you never thought
of the innumerable topics of discussion
which they suggest. at the breakfast
table, the important public measures
with which thus early our children
become Familiarity acquainted great
philanthropic questions of the dag, to
which unconsciously their attention IS
awakened, and the general spirit of in
telligence which is evoked by these
quiet visitors2 Any thing that makes
home pleasant, cheerful and chasty,
thins the haunts of vice, and the thou
sand and one avenues of temptation
should be regarded, when We consider
its influence on the minds of the young,
as great moral and social blessing
Emerson.
Year: 1878

An ENGAGING MANNER. Politeness
is to a man what beauty is to woman.


It creates an instantaneous impression


in his behalf, while the opposite quality
exercises as quick a prejudice against
him. The politician who has this ad
vantage easily distances all his rival
candidates, for every voter he speaks
with instantly becomes his friend. Pol
ished manners have often made scoun-
drels successful, while the best of men,
by their hardness and coolness, have
done themselves incalculable injury


the shell being SO rough that the world
could not believe there was precious
kernel within it. Had Raleigh never
flung down his coat in the mud for the
proud Elizabeth to walk on, his career
would scarcely have been worth record
ing Scores of men have been success
full in life by pleasing manners alone.
Year: 1878

OLD TIMEs.-In the days of Sir
Matthew Hale, men who could read
might, by law become priests. On one
occasion man whocouldnot read desired
to be ordained, and he took his IEace
before his examiner, with copy of the
Lords prayer in his hand, and friend
who could read at his back. Prompter
commenced whispering to him-Our
Father who art in Heaven-"Our Fa-
ther who art in Heaven" he repeated,
in loud, confident voice; the prompt
er continued d-Hallowed be thy name
-"Hallowed be thy name" His
thumb was now over the next sentence,
and the prompter gently requested him
to take it away, when ''Take away
your thumb p rang through the room,
and this was clearly illustrative of the
learning of that time.
Year: 1878

Adam Smith was at times very alb
sent minded. He was told he had sent
lettsr to lady unsealed. He called
on her the following day and said
MY dear Madame, have brought you
the wafer / forgot to put on your let
a.,
Year: 1878

A DECISION BY JUDGE BARRETT.
HE HOLDS THAT HE HAS JURISDICTION IN THE


CASE OF THE ALDERMEN-A MOTION TO oUAsH


THR INDICTMENT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH


ARGUED BEFORE JUDGE SUTHERLAND


Judge Barrett decided, yesterday that he could
try at this term of the Court Of Oyer and Terminer
the indictment against the fifteen Aldermen. 1t was
arranged that a motion to quash the indictment
should be argued next Thursday. A motion to
quash the indictment against the Board of Health
was argued before Judge Sutherland, who reserved
his decision Colonel Prentice and A. j. Vanderpoel
spoke for the defendants and District-Attorney
Phelps for the prosecution.
Year: 1878

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1.-THE Montague
Company lett this city for the East Yesterday.
The company take with them the remains Of
their loved leader and manager, who brought
them all here with such bright hopes and ex-
pectations only a month ago. Now his
friends carry his remains in sorrow to those
he left behind him in New York.


After great deal Of telegraphing the "Di-
piomacy" Combination have concluded to
hold together, and they will play In Chicago
on Monday evening next. Miss Jeffreys
Lewis Is the only member OF the company left
behind. This lady may go forward to-day,
should she decide not to enter into 8 matri
monial engagement just now. At least that
is the gossip here.
Year: 1878

the Government Should Eeo.


New YORK. Aug. 14.-Gen. Butler had hie
time pretty well occupied to-day with visits
In his quarters at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
kind Of business. Butler said that the Re-
publigans some time ago did not feel SO much
in the tolls Of the bondholders, but now they
are welded to them and the country is threat
ened with the prospect the two par
tieS-Of being forever shackled with the chains
OF an irrecIaimabIe Indebtedness, on which the
bondholdors will fatten while the masses grow
poor.


Reporter Has the Republican purity nc
other issues2


Butler-None at all except that on money,
and there they are on the wrong side.


Rep.-YOu have some other plank on your
platform, General, besides this one Of green
backs to pay bondholders. You have some
way of relieving the distresses Of the laboring
classes?


Butler--Ah! There's where the people are
too stupid to see the point. Why is there dis
trass, and why are SO many out of employ
ment? [ will tell you. At the end Of the war
100000 men, all workingmen, were disband-
ed from the armies, and 900 camp follow
e-s besides these were thrown upon market
which had already q sufficient supply; and
would not distress or lack of employment fol-
lOW2 After the war there were no new avenues
Unemployment upon. While the war was going
on there was plenty to do for everybody, but
the case was different after it's close. You had
idle people in every town; your trade was
against you; explosions In business were con-
stantly occurring; and what was it all at
tributable to but to the reaction from the
great war, and the throwing on the labor mar
ket Of vast host of surplus hands?


Rep-What would be your remedy for these
depressions?


Butler-Let the government lend helping
hand in a season Of such an unexampled
character. Let it put the surplus labor out
itG waGfR IaHHG' uiua the HhnrpTc frpp
transportation West, build houses for them
and support them until they are able to sup
port themselves. The occasion is unprece-
dented anG the remedy should be the same.