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Year: 1878

Recently, two men on horseback, to
save fifteen cents, concluded to ford the
river. They plunged into the stream
below the wagon bridge and got along
pretty well until they reached the mid
die of the river where the water COM
menced getting deeper. Soon it was
mid-side, and soon the horses were bob
bing up and down, barely touching bot
tom, and the men were cOOning it, or
riding gmonkey-fashion. They probably
would have made she rifle, but one Of
the horses stumbled and fell and with
its rider disappeared beneath the icy
food. The horse soon reappeared but
the man. it was feared, was drowned,
but he finally came to the surface hold
ing to the tail of his horse. In that
condition he was towed ashore, where
p took an inventory and found himself
half drowned, chilled nearly to death,
his hat gone, horse loose on the commons
but then he had saved fifteen cents.
Year: 1878

IL had known in the morning
How wesrily all the day


The words unkind


Would trouble my mind,
l said when went away.
Ihad been more careful. darling.
Nor given you needless pain


But We yex "our own"


With look and tone
We may never take back again.
For though in the quiet evening
may give you the kiss in peace.
let it might be


That never for me
The pain of the heart should cease,
How many go forth in the morning
That never come home st night
And hearts have been broken,
BY harsh words spoken,
That SORROW ne'er can set right
We have careful thought for the strange
And smiles for the sometime guest.
But oft for "our Owl"


The bitter tone,
Though we love ''our own" the best
All lips with curse impatient
All brow With that look Of scorni
'Twere q cruel fate,


We're the night too late
To undo the work of the morn
Year: 1878

Earl Russell was for half a century
the President of the British and Foreign
School Society, and the fiftieth anniver-
sary of his election was celebrated few
\ days before his death.
Year: 1878

NEW YORK, July l2.-The fifth annual picnic
and excursion of the New York and BROOKLYN
Orangemen, in cOmmemOration OF the Battle
OF Boyne, took place this morning, and de-
spite heavy rain storm, that set in about q }
Members of various Orange lodges, with their
wives and children, embarked on a steamer
and two bargeS, which were chartered FOR the
occasion. In anticipation OF trouble, and
fearing an attack before leaving the city, q
police force OF thirty men were early on hand
All approaches TO the dock were completely
guarded, no person being allowed Oh the pier
OF l0okers-on was ordered to disperse and
move on. Boat and bargeS We're gaily decor
ated with flags and bunting, and from a staff
al the stern OF the steamer was displayed a
large blue flag, on one side of which was rep
resented the Prince of Orange, on horseback,
and on the other painting of the battle OF
BOyne. The eXcuTSiOniStS spend the day at
Mount Pleasant. oil the UuISnn-
Year: 1878

THE EAST ST. LOUIS RroTs.-The coroner's
jury in the case OF the killing Of two deputy
metropolitan police, in an attempt by the mar
shals TO dlslodge the police from their head
quarters, have rendered verdict that the
duty and in defense of their own lives
Year: 1878

THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT.-Some six
riggers engaged on the new State department
building are at present at work on the Wash
ingtOn monument They are rigging tackle
and preparing for the removal and lowering
D ns ekey sys so9i daa the
the monument maturing plans for the
strengthening Of its base.
Year: 1878

There is nothing SO dear to US as
the loved ones at home; nothing we
value so highly as their affection. But
alas we often forget how easily that
love is wounded, how sensitive it is
to every unkind word and in mo-
ments of anger, we allow ourselves. to
say things that in cool afterthough ht,
we would almost lay down our life to
recall. But we cannot recall them.
Once spoken, they are beyond our
reach forever and therefore let us be
always considerate and speak gently.
How readily, on entering house.
hold, do we perceive if love reigns
supreme. Beaming eyes, loving words
aud kind smiles are the loving ele-
ments of such a family. Here our
work-a-day life, vanishes, our cares
are buried in oblivion, and peace and
rest are ours. But on entering the
house where brawls are often heard
and there are such homes-even if
they. try to assume q pleasant appear
ance, how soon we detect it. Love
must be real to be appreciated. There
is current underlying all which may
be easily disturbed. Let your motto
be, Love one another
Year: 1878

defeat with bold front, can meet and
manfully fight against enemies out Of
the household, but parents unfeel-
ing actions towards child will cause
its young heart to bleed with anguish,
a heart that could stand up and chal-
Iengc all others to cause it to sink. A
person possessing a heart under such
a burden can truly raise his eyes to
heaven and say, "My God, how long,"
The breach between parent and child
once made others step in to make it
wider and wider; false pride, mistak.
en- feelings, the sudden bitterness the
heart can feel, even towards those it
loyes, all will aid the work of cruelty;
the distance increases day by day un-
til finding it impossible to return, like
tho wrecked mariner, they give up in
their fate, careless whether they live
or die. Your child may have made
mistakes in life. Who has not2 Par.
ent, you were young once, and, per.
chance, you also made your mistakes.
'Tis one of the laws of nature broken,
when they of one household speaks i'll
Of each other; hearts that should
struggle together through the storms
of life, that should cling to each other
for strength when It's bufFetings have
almost overwhelmed them, hearts
that should sec CLEAN Of brightness
through the blackest cloud reflected
from parents love, have been cruel.
ly turned against each other by few
idle words. What animal will not
protect it's young against all rude a..
saults from others not of their kind
the lowest Of the brute creation will
do this, 1t is the law of nature, 1t is the
law of God. The untutored savage
will risk his life 10 save that Of HE
child.
Year: 1878

It is we'll known, but no less re.


markable fact, that it the tip OF an ex-
ceedingly small tube be dipped into


water, the water will rise spontane-
ously throughout its whole length.
This may be shown in q variety Of
ways; for instance, when piece of
sponge or sugar or cotton is just al.
lowed to touch water, these substances


being all composed Of numberless
little tubes, draw up water, and tho
whole of the piece becomes wet. 1t
is said to suck up or imbibe the mois-
ture. We see the same wonderful &C.
tion going on in nature in the rising
of sap through the small tubes or
pores of the wood, whereby the leaves
and upper portions OF the plant de-
rive nourishment from the ground
This strange action is called 'capilla-
ry,' from the resemblance the minute
tubes bear to q hair, the Latin of
which is capillus. 1t is, moreover,
singular that the absorption of the
VosCh echO paw WIN cat lOICCs
IT dry sponge be enclosed tightly in
a vessel, it will expand, when wetted,
with sufficient force to burst it, unless
very strong. Wood, which is more
unyielding material. acts with tre-
rnendous force when wetted, and adj
Yantage has been taken of this fact in
splitting blocks of granite. This pro-
cess is largely adopted in Dartmoor.
After mass OF granite has been rent
rom the mountain by blasting, it is
measured in every direction to see
how best 10 divide it into smaller
blocks. These are traced out by lines
on the surface, and series of holes
are drilled at short intervals along this
line. Wedges of dry. wood are then
tightly driven into the holes and
wetted, and the combined action of
swelling wood splits the block in the
direction required, and without any
violence. The same pro.
cess is carried out upon the other faces
and the roughly shapen block finished
with the hammer and chisel.
Year: 1878

The question whether it is possible
that there can be at all times or at any
time anything in the form of an open
Polar sea seems to be virtually set
tied, and in the most satisfactory man
ner imaginable. From the observa-
tions of Count Wilezek in 1871 and


Weyprecht and Payer in the follow
ing year. and frem those of DR.. Hayes
in1S61 and Captain Mares in 1775-'76,
il is evident that thePolar basin is nei


ther open sea nor continuous ice, but
a fatal compromise between the two ;
and there seems now to be only two
plans, one nearly as hopeless as the
other, to choose between, in any future
attempt to reach the North Pole-ei-
ther to establish permanent stations,as
proposed by Lieutenant Weyprecht


and already initiated at one point by
Captain Tyson and Captain Howsate,
aud to seize the opportunity Of run


ming north in early autumn from the
station where the sea appears most
open. or to ruo as far north as possible
at enormous expense. with great
force of men, and abundance of pro-
vision and Kerosene oil, and push
northward during the Arctic winter
by a chain of communicating stations,
with ice-built refuge huts. But little
progress has been made during the
last quarter of a century in the actual
investigation of the condition of the
Antarctic regions. From information
derived from all sources up to the
present, it may be gathered that the
unpenetrated area of 100000 square
miles surrounding the South Pole is
by no means a continuous continent,
but consists much more probably
partly of series of low continental
land, and partly of series of conti-
mental islands, bridged between and
combined and covered to q depth of
about ], 400 feet by continuous ice
cap. @t
Year: 1878

She came to the station q little late
and had to make rush for the tram.
When she reached her seat her hat
fell of. She got it on, but it toppled
oyer to one side, and when she tried to
straighten it up her hair came tum-
bling down. She lost her ticket twice
before the conductor reached her, and
would have lost it again if he hadn't
taken it away from her. She reached
up to put bundle in the rack above
her head, and burst the collar button
off her duster and stuck her fingers on
four pins in her dress before she could
find one that she dared take out to re-
pair the damage. Then just as she
thought she had got comfortably set
tied her little hand valise, packed to
bursting with enough things to load q
Saratoga trunk to the muzzle, explod-
ed, and she nearly worked herself into
fragments getting it together again.
Then by the time she got her valise
shut up her hat tumbled off again, and
by the time she got the hat straighten-
ed back into place, her hair tumbled
down again, and as soon as she got
her hair twisted up and harpooned it
with couple of hair pins, the yalise
went off, and when she got off at New
Prague, she tucked the gaping valise
under her arm, and tried to corral her
toppling hat and wandering hair with
one hand, and as she went buttering
aud struggling into the depot, one
couldn't help thinking that it would be
safer and more convenient to run her
in sections and fax her against every
thing. l have seen this woman ON
several other trains, and she has never
been able to keep herself together.
She keeps you in state of agonizing
suspense, for you never know where
she is going to give way next.
Year: 1878

The art of living together pleasantly
is greatly promoted by the habitual
exchanges of the little courtesies of
life, they are never unimportant, and
always grateful to the feelings in eve-
ry-household. Shall fathers and sons
be less careful of the feelings of one
another than those of stranger !?
Should there be less effort at gentle
ness sofdeportment and courtesy of ex-
preston between them than is extend
ed to outsiders Shame upon a par
ent who will treat his child with abu.
sivc words. Who can tell the anguish
that fills child's heart when he sees
and every hour is made to feel the
cruel and unnatural enmity directed
against it. It can bear the rude insults
of o cruel world, can meet financial
Year: 1878

A YOUNG man who was recently re-
jected by his girl, Immediately lost
his appetite and began to pine away.
His friends thought he would soon be
laid away in the silent tomb, but last
week he went to Atlantic City and
saw the object of his affeciiOns-or
what was left OF her-in a baggy fam
mel snit and all old straw hat, bathing
in the surf. That youngm man now eats
three hearty meals per day, and big
lunch between times.
Year: 1878

TIMES are changed indeed. A man
used TO be able to pass himself off for
genius by wearing spectacles and
letting his hair grow long, but that
racket don't work now. The condi-
tions of life are growing harder for
the poor man all the time.-Boston
traveller,
Year: 1878

Ir's harder To keep track of the ser
mon when you sit in the back part OF
the church. but then you get out first
and have the bsst chance to select good
umbrella from the pile at the door.
Year: 1878

Say friends do you remember still,


And Is the memory parting sweet;
The old red school house on the hill


SO gently sloping toward the street.
And does the memory stream across


Your weary hearts in shade and shine,
TO me an hour never was


SO sweet rs that scllool-lifc of mine.
Some faces warm, and soft and fair,


Are breathing closely unto mine;
And some halilost in distant air,


Their features can still define.
Where are yet All who used to come


And chase the silence and the gloom,
And make light and cheerful home,


OF shat old damp and dismal room.
Some amid city marts are found,


In business lhrongs, and some there are
Laid lOwly in the tutled mound,


Watched nightly by the silver star.
Mourn not for thosc-for some have gone
Down into dark and crooked ways.
Deal gently with the crring ones,


In memory of the oldcn days,
And let the memory stream across


Your hearts until they glow and shine,
SO sweet an hour never was;


AS that school.life of mine and thine.
Year: 1878

A Del phi mother can't understand
how it IS that her girls can play cro-
quet for half day and not feel tired,
and yet if one Of them is asked to
wash the dishes she reaches for the
camphor bottle. We don't understand
either.
Year: 1878

A New Jersey man, of an inventive
turn of mind undertook to accomplish
the biblical feat of walking on wa;er,
He was found two weeks afterwards,
but he was as dead as the late julius
Caesar, Esu
Year: 1878

A skeptical and concejted young
fellow once told an old Quaker, that
he did not believe in the Divine ori.
Gin of the Bible, as there was no proof
Of it.


The Quaker replied 10 YOU be-
lieve that there is such a country as
Africa p


Yes, for though l have never seen
it, other people have,


Then thee does not believe in any,
thing that thee or some one else has
not seen "


No, Of course not.


Did thee ever see you brains?


No.


Did thee ever see any person who
bad?


No.


Then according to thy belief thee
cannot have any, and perhaps il this
case thy doctrine Is right.
Year: 1878

A man out West is described as be-
ing SO tall that he requires ladder
to shave himself The satno individ-
ual never troubles his wife to sit ny
for him when he is out late at night,
for he can put his arm down the
chimney and unbolU the street door,
Year: 1878

A newspaper reporter recently had the following interview with MT. Sutro.

 Reporter-Will you allow the mines to use your tunnelS

 MT. Sutro-lt is likely that we will let them pump into the tunnel as soon as we shall be prepared to receive their hot water. This will require very considerable preparation, as we must cut out, in hard rock, drain three feet square and four miles in length. In this drain we will put a box made of three-inch redwood plank, covered over tightly, and cold water will be permitted to flow over the top, so as to carry of what little radiating heat will escape through the plank. It will take us five or six months to do all this, and in that time our lateral drifts will be in as far as Ophir on the north and Gold Hill on the south.

 The reporter then inquired about the bulkhead which Mir Sutro some months ago threatened to erect in tue tunnel to force all the water back into the mines unless the mining companies would make satisfactory terms with the tun- nel company.

 MT. Sutro-The bulkhead is just com pleted. It is huge structure, perfect ly water-tight. and will stand the pres sure of a column of water 5000 feet in night. It is so constructed that the greater the pressure the tighter it will get. But I do not suppose that we will ever make any use of it. At the same time, it is a good thing to have door to your house, in case of emergency.
Year: 1878

THE northern Indian troubles are giving our little army plenty of out door exercise. All available troops are now being hastened to the west. Garrisons on the seaboard have been withdrawn, and heavy artillery regi- ments have been armed and drilled as infantry, and are en route to the seat of war. An official list of the stations of troops shows that there is only one regiment east of the Mississippi-the Eighteenth Infantry. It is intended to order that west also. Official reports show that the heavy artillery detach. ments, armed with muskets, are per. forming effective service.
Year: 1878

ONE of General Towards brilliant movements during his hard chase after the Bannocks was to transport his supply train of twenty-six wagons over eighty miles of the worst road on the coast, making seventeen miles a day. It was thought that it would be utterly impossible to cross these mountains, but it was done without breaking a spoke. The road in many places had to be made by the soldiers.
Year: 1878

LORD BEAcoNsFIELD was expected to arrive in London on the 18th instant, when a great popular demonstration was expected at the Charing Cross station on his arrival A limited nun Der of tickets were issued for admis- sion to the railway platform, but so large a crowd was anticipated that a line of police was formed extending from the Railroad station to Towering street.
Year: 1878

WASHBURN'S FORLORN hope
His Campaign is Reduced to the Use Of


Money and Lies.
INFAMOUS MISREPRESENTATION
His Connection with the Wheat Ring
Fully Proven by His Own


Mouth.
THE STRUMPET OF CORRUPTION
Which is Spreading Washburn Swag
Throughout the District.
Year: 1878

THE weather is jolly. The rains are semi-occasional. The Gila has arrived opposite town. The ditches are full and Florence is way up. Every one Is happy. The valley looks fresh and new. We had feared we might be numbered with the aztec ruins, but the danger is over, the country is safe. The water supply will be abundant for the remainder of the year, and we trust this will be the last of the dry seasons for some time to come.
Year: 1878

The Capitoline Lake. Brooklyn, will be open for
skating to-day About the close Of the baseball
son the proprietors Of the Capitone Ground had an
embankment across the upper end of the field.
cutting off about and half of ground, where
they intended dumping the surplus this winter.
When the ground was flooded some weeks ago this
portion renamed dry, but the heavy rains
during the early part of last week swelled
the lake much that it overhowed the
embankment and six inches
Of water got into their dumping grounds Ice
formed this small surface Friday last and has
been steadily increasing III thickness until 1t is
nearly three inches thick. on Monday night ice
formed on the main lake and it is about an inch
and a half thick. If the present weather continues
the main lake will be opened on Saturday. Hundreds
of school children gathered around the en-
closure yesterday afternoon, looking through every
available crevice in the fence, and some of the
urchns threw stones on the ice, none of which, how


ever were heavy enough to break it. Mr.. Weed who
experimenting some repairs in the shelter build


ing. besieged by the children and made quite
hoarse by the repetition of the assurance that the
small lake would certainly be opened this morning.
Year: 1878

Captain Bogardus will give an exhibition Of his
skin in glass ball shooting, at the Arcade Theatre,
Jersey City this afternoon at half past two o'clock
for the benefit Of NJ Bubser brother sportsman OF
that city. An interesting progranIme is offered.
Year: 1878

BosTos Mass. Dec. Is, 1878.
At meeting Of the freshman class Of Harvard
College last evening IL was voted that an informal
letter be sent to the Yale freshmen to the fresh
man crews of the two colleges during the summer
If such arrangement be made il will probably be
attempted TO arrange a with the freshman crew
of Columbia College.
Year: 1878

THE Sioux Commissioners are rather
retrogressive in their recommendations.
They opine that the Spotted Tail In
dians should be removed to the Rose
bud, just where they are not wanted.
By the treaty of 1876 the entire North
ern part of this Territory was given up
BY the Indians, and an Act of Congress
opened up the entire region to the
white man. To put the Indians back
to the Rosebud would be in contrayen-
ton Of that treaty and in violation Of
the Act of Congress.
Year: 1878

IT u probable that the tax on malt
liquors will have to be raised to make
up the decrease in revenue. This will
knock the three cent beer movement
into a FIVE cent crusade instanter..
Year: 1878

The meanness of our old enemy is only
exceeded by its mendacity. A few days ago
some of its office attaches, did all they could
by lying to prevent an advertisement going
to the HERALD. God help the low lying
spirit, which prompts such opposition.
Year: 1878

The importance of the County Meeting
on Saturday cannot be over-rated. II
behooves every Democrat who can attend


to be present, as some effort will be made
to set aside the decision of the September
Convention of 1875, as regards the party
rules. Lot the Democracy be vigiIant and
watchful, and every one who can spare the
time, be on hand 10 New Castle tomorrow
Year: 1878

This night week the grand floral concert
in the Grand Opera House. The Mendel>
son Quintette Club of Boston have been
engaged, for the evening. This concert
will surpass anything ever given in this
city. The members of the Millard Club
will merely act as ushers. .Liyne u6J
Year: 1878

GOVERNMENT PATENT TO ISSUE FOR TEN


VALUABLE ACRES IN THAT CITY.


The Commissioner of the General Land Or
flee has decided that part of the old Fort Dear
born reservation, now within the limits of the
city of Chicago, is public land, and therefore
declares that the application of Thomas b.
Valentine for the location of government
scrip on the land must be granted and a patent
must issue. This is a most important decision.
involving interests of great magnitude. The
land thus declared public property. ON 4 sec
ton OF which the scrip in the present case
VIII be located, is not more than ten acres in
extent but is exceedingly valuable. The city
of Chicago was heard in opposition TO the
claimant, and the case was e!aborately argued
II IS held by the commission in this case that
the agent of the Secretary of War had not the
power under the act of 1919 TO dedicate public
lands or dispose of it i'm any way, except as
provided by law. The meaning of the law was
Iudlcially determined by Mr.. Justice Mclean
IN the case of the I. s. VS.. Railroad Bridge Co.
and also by Attorney General Butler. 1t is
also held that the land is no longer a military
reservation and that the factt that it lies within
the limits OF an Incorporated city does not
affect its nature. 1t is therefore unOccupied
and unapprOpriatcd public land within the
meaning OF the act of April ), 1S72, authorizing
the issue of the Valentine scrip, and patent
must accordingly issue. Sixty days are allowed
IN which to appeal to the Secretary of the In
terror
Year: 1878

THEN NEW JERSEY PRISON ToRTUREs.-TheSe
revelations of the Trenton prison tOrtures be-
fore the investigating committee of the New
belief. One eX-keeper teStifieS i'm an off hand
way that he saw as many as five or six con-
yictS at one time with gags i'm their mouths !:
saw men chained down to the floor and at the
same time gagged so tightly that they could
hardly breathe saw men bound to that modern
adaptation of the rack-the Stretcher. their
touching the floor: saw convicts chained TO the
floor with their handouts on; often heard
screams coming from the dungeon had seen a
woman with black and blue marks on her
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