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Year: 1878

We do not remember to have seen
the argument Of "over-production"
more happily illustrated than in the
following story:


An old farmer up in Oxford County
Maine is in trouble. This spring he
raised from one sow four pigs, and to
sell them he can't. They are of no
more value than four woodchucks.
He went to greenback neighbor to
talk over the matter. Said he, five
years ago raised thirteen pigs and
sold them each at four dollars. Now
l can't sell my four at any price.
Says the Greenbacker: 1t amt over.
production is it? You sold thirteen
then and now you've only four.
Perhaps its over production. BY the
way, did it ever occur to you that
John Sherman's contraction policy
had struck your pig pen as we'll as
Barker Mill. Your pigs are worth
just about as much as Barker Mill
stock now, and one brick has struck
them both. When pigs go down
bonds go up, and this is the way they
strengthen the public credit. When
pigs are snapped for Barker Mill
stock, and neither are worth ten
cents on a dollar, pork is low, but it
is harder for the men who work in
Barker Mill to get pound of pork
than it was when pigs were worth
four dollars apiece. They say nobody
is hurt when prices shrink, for you
can get a barrel of flour for the same
number of pigs that you could when
prices were high. But pigs amt a
legal tender with the tax-collector,
nor with the man who holds a mort
gage on your farm. 1t takes dollars
to pay them, and when you try to con-
vert your pigs into dollars is when
this shrinkage of value hurts. 1t is
uphill work paying taxes when pigs
won't sell at uny price, and stock
shrinks in value faster than it grows.
When men have to shovel dirt seven
feet high from daylight till dark for
a dollar they can't afford to eat meat,
so pigs are drug in the market. 1t
strikes us that shrinkage of values
does hurt some folks.
Year: 1878

Our MinnesOtians become Green
hackers when they go east. Here is
an item from Massachusetts paper:


Mr.. Hutchinson. of the "Hutchin-
son family" was called upon for II
song and he responded Ivy saying that
he was not prepared with song that
would be appropriate for the occasion
but he was glad that some advance
step was being taken which he hoped
would be productive of much good.
He was in favor of Il radical revolu-
tion so that the rich would not grow
richer and the poor might be improv-
ed in their condition. and that one
third of our people should not be
made tramps. (Applause.)


Asa never would have dared to ut
ter that sentiment if he had staid in
the paralyzing atmosphere of Mime
sofa.
Year: 1878

labor issues that have called our party
into existence. Then more songs;
after which an opportunity for any
one in the crowd is given to ask
questions pertinent to the subject or
the issues that have been discussed,
when, a short, ringing speech is given,
followed by song, the interest and
enthusiasm of the audience rising
from the commencement to the close
and breaking out in a hearty applause
all along through the two to three
hours they are kept together
Year: 1878

The st. Paul Pioneer Press of June
18th prints letter from Boston, from
its special correspondent, which
makes the following striking admis.
sions as to the growth of the Green
back party:


Ina former letter l alluded to the
fact that the sentiment Of the East
was for "hard money" This state.
ment is beyond dispute, but will be
honest enough to add that there is a
possibility ofits being changed enough
to affect the popular vote. The Green
back party has greater strength in
the State, and in the city to-day, than
it ever had before. / was told that
there are fifty greenback clubs in the
State at this early day, and, further,
that there would be similar organiza-
tions in every ward in the city in
thirty days. The party seems to be
pretty we'll organized, and determined
to make strong fight. Rumor has it
that General Butler will run for gov
ernor next fall. He has always been
an able advocate of paper money. but
personally he is so unpopular don t
think his chances of being elected are
good, even though the party should
succeed in electing two-thirds ma
jority in the next legislature as it
boasts it will. Ben has about killed
his chances for gubernatorial honors
by his personal aspirations Ito use q
mild term) for that position. While
l admit that the greenback movement
is gaining ground l have not faith
enough to believe that it will ever
attain the leadership in Massachusetts,
Some people in the east class the
greenbackers as communists, and it
is not strange that they do when the
leaders Of the party declare that il
John Sherman resumes specie pay.
msnt in 1879, the streets will run in
blood. At our club meetings the
question of finance has Of late been the
principal bone Of contention.


can - no improvement in busi-
anA I don't think it win b pereepti-
Year: 1878

We do not see in these figures any,
thing to justify the reports that have
gone to England that the United
States is literally overlooking with
wheat; those reports have broken
down the price of the incoming crop,
and will cost the farmers millions of
dollars.


There is nothing so bad for the
wheat raiser rs brag. even if the
brag be founded on truth.
Year: 1878

The Greenbackers of the third con-
gressional district are not asleep.
Steps are being taken to call con-
gressional convention to meet in the
early part of September to place ma
tionalist in nomination for congress
in that district. The Greenback SEN
timent is widespread in the third
district and the ''fur will fly" if the
right kind of candidate is placed in
the field. We suggest brother Ayres.
Year: 1878

making ascene for the painter and
poet-and had thus made her an On.
emy for life. After that, made up
my mind TO take life as it came, and
to do as little harm as possible. /
tried to lead no one into temptation
but with the doors Of all houses
open to him at all hours, with I'm.
shackled possibilities Of intercourse
with all the females Of his flock, and
with a position exalted above all
Others in their eyes, l maintain that
the clergyman is exposed to a thou.
sand-fold more temptations to Illicit
sin than any other man. maintain
that the system which permits him
the free run Of all houses is utterly
pernicious and altogether wrong,
since it is responsible for many q fall
from grace. Mind, l do not excuse
the fallen clergyman, but l would
keep Others out of the pit. Iretired
from the ministry because l did not
feel myself adapted to it, and did not
want TO waste my life.
Year: 1878

stockings:are worn long this season
by those who cannot pay their
washbills.


The latest thing in hose is-ladies'
feet.


The pockets Of tnen's pants are
without change this season.


Now is time for young men to get
their hirsute adornment moved and
present the aspect Of prize fighters
or monkeys who have gone astray.


Young men should be moro like
young ducks, and occasionally liqui.
date their little bills.


Hearts are not worn ION the coat.
sleeves for the davis to pick at" as
formerly, but given to some young
lady, who passes them around to her
friends to dissect.


A stingy man in our town is try
ing to make for his boy a vest and a
pair of pants out of a coat Of paint
which he put on last year.


Love is blind. Scare prospective
fathers.in.law to the good qualities
ola young man.


Girls have a chance to get ahead
this fall; at least they haven't near
so many pullbaces4


A divorce is like railroad bridge
.accidept, 4beeause itrcreetes a com
breaks the tiest and gene
Year: 1878

Several days after the unfortunate
affair in Eden, Adam saw no other
alternative to get square with all
parties than to start an independent
paper with Democratic tendencies
and paragraph column; and the first
article he wrote was, ave don't care
Adam-we're going To raise Cain
anyhow, ben Butler to the contrary
Notwithstanding"
Year: 1878

A brainloss young NOODLE stopped
a.gruff old merchant on the street
yesterday, and said. ~ have d
thought" "Have you," said the
merchant, an go right of and hunt
up d reporter and tell him about the
accident" And as the old man star
TED off the young fellow was SO
amazed that he couldn't think Of
what he thought.
Year: 1878

A pair of industrious and ingenious Ger
mans have hit upon q novel method of
mining, which is said to be paying them
exceedingly well-just how well, nobody
but themselves appears to know, They are
operating in the bed of the Carson River,
some distance above the town of Dayton
Each man is provided with half-inch rod
about ten feet in length. At the upper end
the rod is so bent as to form loop or eye
large enough to admit the hand, about q
foot in length, shaped like the head of a
soldering iron and weighing some ten
pounds. This head has large octagonal
bulge in the middle, and in each of its eight
faces cavity about an inch in depth, and
nearly three-quarters of an inch in diameter
at the top, forming sort of tapering CUP
the cavity being hardly half an inch in
diameter at the bottom. Thus it will
be seen that in the head of each probe or
'sbob" are eight small cup-like cavities.
In working, the men 60 into the bed OF
the liver where there is now very little
water, and selecting place where the
amalgam and quicksilver would be likely to
lodge. as on the lower sides of boulders and
, at points where there are sharp curves IN
the river, they work their probes down into
the sand. mud or gravel, as the case may
he. and then begin churning AS they
churn, the quicksilver moves toward and
into the hole. and either sticks to the sides
of the "bob" or is caught in the small
cavities we have described. The "bob' is
/, frequently lifted from the hole and cleaned
of the amalgam it has accumulated by
means of small scraper. The cavities are
more for use in catching the quicksilver
that flows in at the sides of the hole when
the Ground is shaken than for collecting
,smalgam.


AS the river is lower than ever before
known, the men are able to work almost
everywhere, wearing gum boots reaching
but half way up their legs. In "bobbing'
tbev often work down half dozen holes
within space little over yard square
This is in places found to be rich. Otter
after sinking the first, or prospect" hole
thew leave and hunt new spot--one thai
will pay for working.


| As there are hundreds of tons. of quick
silver in the bed of the river, all of which
contains more or less gold and silver, thu


two ssbobbers" are doubtless making ex


cellent wages. Virginia City Enterprise
Year: 1878

The walks and drives in Ischia, are al
|(bsautiful, but perhaps the most interesting
|pf the former, not even excepting the
ascent Of Monte Eromeo, is the walk 70
1.-THE extinct crater Of Monte Rotaro.
Through narrow lanes Of the toughest and
most neck-breaking, where the slope is
steep and the stones unstable, you come to
the woods of arbutus in waxen blossoms
and crimson berry, of tree heath, myrtle,
acacia and alianthus, chestnut and oak,
ilex and carouba trse-if in autumn all Of
the most gorgeous ooloring which fringe
the top and clothe the sides Of the crater.
But you pass first by the ''fumeroli,' or
smoke holes, which are always sending out
their thin, fine vapors, like concealed bon
fires, from among the bracken and mint
of the coarse bit of stony common that
comes before you reach the wood


As you stand on the edge of the crater
and look down into the large and deep
bowl, you see lying in the bottom num-
Der of white stones that were once tossed
up from the burning heart beneath.
The crater used to be full also of grave
stones; for here were buried the victims OF
cholera in one of the outbreaks in the
early half Of the present century. But now
the little crosses which were put up as
pious memorials of the quiet dead have


either decayed and fallen, or been taken
away. Here, too, was large and stately
white marble tomb marking the last resting
place of the brother of our favorite hero
who was "buried darkly at the dead OF
night" Sir John Moore. Now the marble
has all been broken and carried away, and
only the stone core is left marking out the
spot. The kind womanly soul who was
our friend and guide to this spot-an
English woman resident on the island
scratched holes and burrows for flower seeds
about the grave; which she left to the
kindly offices of nature to spring up in the
sweet early months of the year, as hel
offering to the names of the dead. 1t was
sad to think of the brave old Englishmar
living here in his unnoted, desecrated grave,
in this desolate and sunless spot, The sur
did certainly gid the edge of one side, but
all within the deep hollow of this WORKOUT
crater was chill and dank, and full o.
painful and depressing associations. Deatt
and destruction all around US, and beneath
our feet the tears and sorrows Of countless
human hearts-the ruin of families, thu
pourp:pg Of many lives. london Queen.
Year: 1878

The Newport correspondent OF the Bos-
ton Transcript says ada Lewis, who is
in delicate health, having never recovered
from the exposure and nervous shock at,
tendant upon her efforts 10 save drown.
ing men, is living at the lighthouse and
keeping the light herself An effort will be
made this winter to induce Congress TO
grant this girl pension. She has been
in the Government employ all her life, hav
ing in reality cared for the light long be
fore her fathers death, ten years ago, though
he drew the pay, and it isthought by many
persons that such service and bravery as
hers should have some public recognition
Her last rescue was of United States sol
dicrs, who were attempting to reach For
Adams In storm, Miss Lewis Isl CHEEKY
contented little woman, who asks nothing
for herself and has never courted the FAM
or attention she has received"
Year: 1878

coast be sustained By the loud chorus Of ten fho,
sand times ten thousand in the valley Of the Misis
sipFi, aTd b. prolonged by the thousands of thou
sands on the shores Of the Pacific To-day with NOT
slave IN this broad land Of OFs to-day with mot q
State under military power to-day with not state
separated from the great head and star affer star
= anne0 70 the galaxy Of our nation our republic
grander and far surprising the expectation 81 its
founders. To-day, with the North aud the south
happy are the children Of America.


Wide as our own free race increase


Wide shall extend the elastic chain


And bind in everlasting peace


state after State mighty train
Year: 1878

THE SPEAKERsHIP AND THE PREsI-
DENcY.-0f the twenty-eight Speakers of
the House Of Representatives, only one,
Mr. Polk, became President. Mr.. Ran
siali should not feel discouraged on that
account, for has chance for the Presidency
is yet in the future. If he should ever
till the Presidency once filed by Polk, and
should gil it as well, the country would
have no cause to regret his elevation
Polk made good Speaker; so did Ran
dali. Polk made a good President; so
would Randall, if he should be chosen to
that high position by the people
Year: 1878

George Francis Train, giving his pen a
psychologist twist, announces that in thirty
days we will have the Crack of Doom Reck-
oning from the date Of his letter this sublime
catastrophe will occur on the 18th of August


If Train had given out that il was the
crack of his own dome instead of the crack
of doom, We might not baTe been so skep.
tical.
Year: 1878

A law passed at the last session Of the
Legislature of Virginia, went into opera
tion on the first of July, restoring the
whipping-pOst as a punishment for petty
larceny. The Baltimore Gazette seems
concerned about the operation of this law,
and says it shoald be administered without
regard to the color OF the cqlprit, else it
will be an uumixed evil. SIN fact" says
the Gazette, ''it would be we'll to apply Il
first to a white man to make sure Of it. 4"
Fhe Gazettes concern and sympathy for
the black Ean is so much surplusage, as
the law makes no distinction. So it is in
Delaware, black and white are alike amen
able to it, Let the Gazette be eonsoIed
on that point


The Gazette is happy. \ white man
has not only been whipped, but he was
Slarruped" by negro, as we learn from
tie following paragraph taken from the
Gazette of Thursday:


The white man who was legally whipped at
Hampton, Va, last Saturday, for petty lpr.
ceny, had his stripes administered to him by
an officer as black as the ace of spades,
There was time when the spectacle OF D ne.
gro larruping a white man at a whipping post
would have created something of a sensation
in the Old Dominion, but when a white man
so fnr forgets himself as to commit larceny
on a small scale he must expect to be placed
on an equally With colored people.
Year: 1878

NJ. and Madame Henri Schneider went
to the ball given on the occasion of the
marriage of the King of Spain. 1t is a
considerable distance from Madrid to
Crcnzot, and Madame Schneider on ar
riving home few days ago, was greatly
fatigued Two days and two nights Of
railroad travel had completely exhausted
her. It was evening, and she told her
servants that she needed complete reposc,
and added above all things let nobody
come into my room tomorrow morning
before ring the BELL However, during
the absence of Madame Schneider, her
people had proposed surprise Tor her.
They had at last succeeded in making
her little daughter walk. The child WAS
a rosy baby who up to that time had not
been able to advance single step. They
were anxious to show Madame Schneider
the newly acquired accomplishment OF
her baby, but the orders were strict, and
this was a great disappointment. But
in the morning the nurse could no longer
hold ont She thought that the mother
would forgive an indisCtetion SO well
justified, and, notwithstanding the order,
she knocked at the door There was no
response. She went in, and staggered
back, uttering a cry, Madame Schneider
was stretched upon her bed motionless,
and apparently dead. She was sutiocated,
A crack was opened in the wall through
which the smoke from the chimney en-
tered the bedroom. An hour later and
nothing could have saved her. 1t was
three hours before she became conscious.
She is not yet completely restored. But
had it not been for the good fortune of
the first steps of that baby However,
we ar. happy to announce that she is out
of daHer. - M0niteur UniUerSa.
Year: 1878

WHY GIRLS CANNOT THROW STONES
The difference between girls throwing
and boys is substantially this:-The
boy crooks his elbow and reaches back
with the upper part of his arm about at
right angles with his body, and the fore
arm at an angle of forty-tive degrees; the
direct act of throwing is accomplished
by bringing the arm back with sort Of
snap, like the tail of snake or a whip
lash, working every joint from shoulder
to wrist, and sometimes making your
elbow sing as though you had got a
whack on the crazy-bone. The girl
throws with her whole arm rigid, the boy
with his whole arm relaxed. Why this
marked and unmistakable difference ex-
lists we never learned until, at some
what advanced period, we dove into a
book of physiology, and learned that the
clavcle, or collar bone, in the anatomy
of female is some inches longer, and
set some degrees lower down than in the
masculine frame. This long, crooked,
awkward bone interferes with the full
and free action of the shoulder, and that's
the reason why girl cannot throw a
stone.-Home Journal.
Year: 1878

Garfield got the floor, making as
powerful a five minute speech as was
ever heard in the House. He denied
the story OF bargain and extolled
the action of Southern Democrats, in
defeating filibusteTing last winter,
for their high and patriotic motives.
Defended the Returning Board and
denounced, their cutiOn.-Specidl
to the Inter Ocean.


And Garfield cast pearl before swine
when he extolled the Democrats in
Congress 'for their high and patriot
ic motives" Those Democrats who
joined the Republicans to defeat fill
clustering did so because they had as
surance from some reliable source,
that the soldiers should be withdrawn
from Louisiana and South Carolina,
which involved a great gain-a solid
South--to the Democratic party. And
they never would have .let the count
proceed had they not had such assur-
ance. It is the greatest absurdity to
say or suppose that the Democrats
permitted the count to go on through
"bigh and patriotic motives. There
is no precedent in that party's history
to found such credit upon. The whole
history of the party teaches US that
when question in Congress or in the
Senate is between a Democrat and a
Republican, the Democrats will un-
hesitatingly favor the former, even if
honor and justice are outraged by so
doing, to say nothing of patriotism.
There may have been no bargain,
signed sealed and delivered, never
the less there was q bargain, and to-
day some of the parties thereto are
manifesting their displeasure because
other parties violate the contract at
their pleasure.
Year: 1878

We learn from those who know
that Nebrsska's Representative in
Congress, Frank Welch, is one of the
most indefatigable members of that
body-always at work, and at his post.
We have not seen an instance but
that be is at his post at roll call. We
venture to say that Welch will never
dodge a vote" If We shall only
succeed in getting Col. Majors in,
where he belongs, and of right should
be, Nebraska would have "a whole
team and a horse to let.' Two
young, able and indomitable men
would then represent US. We have
reason TO believe Majors chance for
admission is good.
Year: 1878

The Judge before whom the politi-
cal persecution, under color of law, IS
going on at New Orleans is declared
by Secretary Sherman and other gov
ernment officials, to be a defaulter to
the government In over half a million
dollars. A fitting man to serve the
white league and cater TO their vindic.
tive and treacherous disposition. A
Republican or any other loyal citizen
would stand poor show for justice In
such court.
Year: 1878

President Hayes now, of course,
will promptly veto the silver bill, il
for no other reason, to be consistent
with his former acts and words on f.
nancial questions, and especially the
position he took in his annual mess
age. A failure to veto or an approval
of the bill will demonstrate a most
lamentable lack of nerve and con-
tenn ptible backing down from an es-
tablished position.
Year: 1878

must go into the city to protect the
christians, if the English went in.
They want to see to it that the Eng
lish barbarians do not pitch in and
massacre Christian Inhabitants. How
very thoughtfnl and benevolent on
the part of the Sanity Russians.
Year: 1878

Many persons find much profit in
pinching back the branches of the toma.
toes; and it ia good prac ctice when ju.
diciously done. 1t may be overdone,
however, and injury result. In the fret
place, it is no use to attempt it after the
flowers have fallen. The idea is to force
the nourishment into the fruit at the
earliest start; for it is at that time that
the future fate of the fruit is cast. A
few leaves beyond the fruit is an ad-
vantage. It is only the growth that is to
be checked. And then much damage is
done by taking off the leaves as we'll az
the fruit. The tomato plant needs all
the leaves it can get. 1t is only the
branches that are to be checked in their
growth. No one who has not tried it
can have any idea of how valuable the
leaves are to the tomato plant. One
may for experiment take off most of the
leaves OF a plant, and he will find the
favor insipid, and every way poor. Of
course, it is the peculiar acidity of the
tomato that gives it 80 much value to all
of us; but the acid from tomato that
hos rlpened on an insufficient amount of
foliage is disagreeable to most tastes.
Year: 1878

When the melon begins to change
color inside, and its seeds to turn black,
a small black speck, scale, or blister,
begins to appear on the outer cuticle, or
rlnd. These are multiplied and enlarged
as the fruit natures. A ripe melon will
show them thicklY sown over the surface.
A partial development only indicates
half.ripened fruit. A full crop of blisters
reveals its perfect ripeness. When hun
dreds of melons are strewn along the
sidewalk, you will have to look pretty
sharply to find one that exhibits salts
factory "escutcheon," to borrow term
from M. Guenon. But it is unfailing when
found, and BY following this guide you
may walk away with your melon with
the most entire confidence. The blister
Is cfl ly to be seen upon close inspection,
"1tfs plainly visible when that is given