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Year: 1879

In finishing long editorial article on
the Mormons in Utah, the London Times
says:


Yankee shrewdness in adapting means
to ends is the great secret of their success.
Not satisfied with exciting enthusiasm,
the Mormon leaders have organized it.
If they get rid of Polygamy, which many
of their number assert to be not an essen
tial part of their creed, the Mormons may
possibly long continue to prosper and
populate the vast region which might
have remained a desert had they
not converted it into garden by
the exercise of patient toll and unre-
mitting industry. Not only are they
innovators in religion, but they are also
reformers in social customs. They are
strictly temperate as Sir Wilfrid Lawson
could desire any man to be; good Nor
mons neither drink intoxicants nor smoke
tobacco. Brigham Young even abstained
from tea and coffee on the ground that
they were stimulants. Female suffrage
has been introduced into the Territory of
Utah. Cooperative associations have
long existed among the Mormons. In
deed, the stranger who walks along the
streets of their capital is struck with sign
boards on which is painted the All-seeing
Eye, the motto, Holiness to the Lord"
and the intimation "Zion's Cooperative
Morca0tllc lQSLlCuLlOQ. Ii lS tIl0 DOdSb
of the Mormons that drunkenness and the
sin of great cities were unknown in Salt
Lake City, till the mines of the Territory
caused an influx of the Gentiles, and till
the strict regulations of the church
authorities were disregarded by the
authorities of the United States. The
education of the young is conducted with
care, and the Deseret university is as USE
tul an institution as any one of its kind
in the Western States. Degrees are given
in it for proficiency in one of the three
courses of study-the classical, the scien-
tific and the commercial. AS might
be expected, the commercial course
is preferred by students. The work
of the classroom is representa-
ton of the work done in a merchants
counting house; and the student is
taught not only how to carry on mercan-
tile correspondence, how to dispatch tele-
grams, insure property, recover compensa-
ton for injury or loss, but also how to
manage a postal and telegraphic, bank
ing and an insurance Office. Mormonism
is, in fact, curious mixture of discredita-
Bile and praiseworthy elements. That it
would not survive the death of Brigham
Young was confidently predicted by
many persons who had studied it on the
spot. Yet the death of its unscrupulous
leader has not had any apparent effect
upon it. A body which will soon number
10000 may not easily be got rid of or
dissolved.
Year: 1879

Berlin, Nov. 2S.-The German post
master general is preparing proposal to
be presented TO the reichstag, under which
the postoffice department will have charge
of the entire freight traffic Of German rail.
ways and become general carrier for the
public.
Year: 1879

Henry Ward Beecher. lately preaching


on the subject of death. made the follow


ing remarks: ''Generally. there is TO pain


at the last moment, tor it seems that the


body suffers in proportion to its remote
ness from death. 1t is commonly supposed
that evil men die in great horror of their
doom. They don't. Wicked men usually
pass out of life as TRANQUILITY as any one
else. Tranquility is the law OF decadence.
Pain or exquisite pleasure at the last are
only experienced in exceptional cases. Men
suffer more every day OF their lives than
they do in dying. Every man subject to
the incursiOns Of rheumatic Affections, or
to the pangs of the toothache, suffers a
hundred times more than he will when he
Is on his death-bed. No death is more
painless than sudden death. Livingstone
records his experience when sprang upon
and struck down by lion. The moment
when the beast was on him was one of the
most exquisite tranquility. No death is
90 sudden for him who is doing his duty.
Not the stroke of lightning; not the fall
rom ihe precipice. Right living is the
correct road to right dying, and no man
,eed fear DEATH"
Year: 1879

Some men can't appreciate true friend.
ship, and they Sc IN to rejoice in holding
at arms length those who wish to think
kindly of them. Such man has an office
on Griswold street. A number OF his &C.
quaintances were the other day canvassing
his many good qualities, and it was decid-
ed to make him present and deliver a
speech. A shake purse of forty cents was
made up. the cash invested in large
sponge. and the six or eight friends pro-
ceeded in body to the ''coDsignee's" Of
flee. He was in. One of the gentlemen
held up the sponge and began:


IS When men desire to show their friend
ship for fellow-man they present him
with some token Of esteem-somethine
typical or emblematical OF his daily life.
Now, we"


The speech ended right there. The
sponge was left behind, but the crowd
took coal-scuttie, four or five clubs and
two empty boxes down stairs with them,
and there was considerable haste to see
who would get into the street first.-De-
troH Free Press.
Year: 1879

Those who understand the value of a


woman's advice have learned a valuable
lesson. 1t is wondrous advantage to a
man in any pursuit or vocation to secure
an adviser in sensible woman, for in
woman there is at once a subtle delicacy
of tact, and a plain soundness Ofjudgment
which are not combined in an equal de-
gree in man; her intuitions often excel his
reasoning. A woman, If she is really
your friend, will have due regard tor
your character, honor and repute, and will
seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing,
for she will desire to be proud of you,
while at the same time her constitutional
timidity will make her more cautions than
those Of your own sex, so that she will
very rarely advise'you to do an imprudent
thing, or anything which you may live to
regret. Therefore mans best friend is a
wife Of good sense and kindly heart.
Year: 1879




Down in Caroline county. Md. the other
day, us the Rev. Mr.. Walton, of Shepherds
Chapel, was engaged in fervent prayer, a
hilarious wOrShiper named Marvel took a
quid of tobacco in his hand, and, watching
for favorable opportunity when the cler-


gyman's head was thrown back in earnest


devotion, let fly the moist weed, which


struck fair in the tace of the hrman mark.


The prayer suddenly stopped and scene


ensued, and Marvel was taken before res


ident magistrate and fined S. costs. This


reminds one that prominent southern


preacher has said that the only time he
ever felt like laughing in the pulpit was


when lie saw man in the gallery drop a
quid of tobacco in the face of sleeping
man in pew on the ground floor of the
church.


YES" said venerable Briton, Cockney
of the Cockneyest, to the writer. who had
shown him the item shove, lit is getting
well on to fifty years since saw some
thing like that, and quite as funny, in a
London tleater. The play was Richard
and the Richard was Edmund kean. The
theater was packed, and every one in it
was under the spell Of the actors magic.
The play was almost over-in fact they had
come to the tent scene in the fifth act,
where Richard bids Ratcliff leave him, and
everybody is preparing for the rising of
the ghosts. Well, in the front row of the
gallery could see one admirer of the
drama, fairly wrought up by the players
passion and expectation, clenching the
front of the gallery with his hands, and
leaning away out over it, staring down.
ward. with his eyes protruding and his
mouth opening. Right beneath him, in
the pit, was another admirer of the drama
and the actor, as intensely wrought upon
by the mimic scene, who, with has mouth
and eyes wide open, was staring upward
as intently. And just at this instant, from
the unheeding jaws of the man in the gal
lery fell tremendous qaid. l traced its
flight through the air, sn9-kerslap -
down it comes fiat in the eye OF the man in
the pit. lie in the gallery started back,
awakened from his trance, and his victim,
from his, jumped up, and, turn
ing to the gallery, yelled, IN give Is to
my one who will show me the son of a
sea-cook that dropped his tobacco-quid in
to my eye" This incident and exclama-
tioD. as you may naturally imagine, COM
ing right in the middle of the extreme ten ,
sion to which the audience had been
mp, had tremendous effect, and s
every one in the house fairly shrieked and s
doubled mp with laughter-even the actors s
IN the stage could not control themselves d
and the curtain had to come down. Fin (
lily. when every ones sides were sore, n
md the audience too exhausted to laugh e
my more. it was run up again and the play Il
proceeded perilously. but decorously till r
Richard, Catesby, Ratclif, and others b
amc on. Then there was gurgling gig c
lie heard in one or two quarters, choked h
fl by desperate effort, till the precise h
assage was reached at which, a little while! a
Year: 1879

| The man who invented the fishhook wifi
some day have a monument. 1t will be


granite column five hundred feet high,


built by the boys alone. A boy might


possibly get along with marbles, tops,


stills, balls and kites. yet he would feel


that there was an aching void somewhere.


A kite does well enough as long as it will


outsail all other kites and the string does


not break, and a pair of stills are good


property until after the first fall; but for


real solid pleasure the fishhook can never
be beaten. A boy will always expect
more and get less from it than anything,
else invented, but he never gets too dis
couraged to try again.


The Smith boy was observed trying his
luck yesterday in pond on a vacant lot
on Alfred street. As far back rs last De-
cember his mother promised him half q
day out of school as soon as the fish began
to bite, and yesterday was the glorious
day. Where there's water there ought to-
be''fish, according to every boys reckon
ing, and this boy surrounded" that wee
little pond hole with its barrel of muddy
water with just as much enthusiasm as a
man weuld throw line into Lake St.
Clair. He had ham, sweet cake, potato,
fried beef and boiled egg for bait, and
when he had spit on the bait and cast in
his hook all the Seth Greens ever born
couldn't have convinced him that he would
ail of at least one..good big bite. For two
Ong hours he tished for sturgeon and
Dicker~l and pike, changing the bait now
mi then and never forgetting to spit OF
t, and as he hauled up for the last time he
would simply admit that it wasn't just tho
light sort Of day to 60 fishing. If he had
,ad little one TO carry home his triumph
would have been more complete, but his
yes were like diamnhds as he net two
,oys on the corner and called out:


''Say I've STAYED out of school whol6
lalf day and been a-fishing. didn't catch
ny fish, eos they were all on their nests,
'ut you ought to have seen the big frog
which tumbled of stone!''
Year: 1879

hungry tramp entered house near


Missouri Valley Thursday afternoon. and


seeing no one about the house but . little
girl he peremptorially ordered her to get


him some dinner, and added: 'Let it bs q


good one" The little girl was, Of course,


terribly frightended, but this only appear
ed to amuse the tramp, who became eacll


moment more demonstrative, and was just


about to seize the frightened child when


her brother, mere lad. entered the room.


The tramp turned upon the boy and Or
dered him to get up a good dinner in A.
short space of time as possible, and en-
deavored to enforce his commands BY the
most dire threats. But the boy did not
scare to any great extent. and instead Of
furnishing the food ordered the tramp to
leave the house at once, and his order not
being complied with he went to cleset,
and bringing out a double-barreled shet-
gun, he pointed it at the tramp and Or
dered him togo, but as the tramp did nos
seem disposed to start, he pulled the trig-
ger, and good..charge of shot was lodged
in that tramp's legs. This was more than
the gentleman had calculated on, and
jumping out OF the door he struck across
the country at a fearful rate, but did not
succeed in getting far until the contents Of
the other barrel were in various parts Of
his body. The boy coolly re-entered the
house, remarking' as he put up the gun
that he did not think that tramp would
trouble them again.-Siour City Journal.
Year: 1879

ID would be next 10 impossible for an
anomaly In character as the late John
MOrrissey to exist aud triumph i'm any
other country than Democratic America.
We use the term ln its generic, not
political sense tride Webster) "a govern
ment by the people" His life Was a
startling tissue OF contradictions. The
accident of birth placed him among the
lowest, and his early associates were the
most debasing i'm their tendency. Sur
rounded by poverty and dissolution; !;
with none but the coarsest of compan-
ions, lac grew 10 manhood, and gifted
with giant strength and bulldog tenaciiy
aud powers Of endurance he graduated
in the prize ring. From there the step
was an easy one TO gambling and despite
all Of place and political honors he never
lapsed from IL To the hour of his death.
lie was in office q law-maker-in private
life the most notorious of law-breakers.
With the opportunity 10 have liftcd
himself 10 high position, for his man
liness, truthfulness, square dealing and
official honesty were unquestioned. lac
never cut loose from the disgraceful
scenes Of the prize ring and the robbery
of the gaming table.


His life was stgglge mixture OF the
base and the noble. lie had rough
common sense his lack of early educa-
tion and refinement and want of advan-
tages were overcome Tin a remarkable
degree) by association and observation,
and he had il in his grasp TO have forever
left behind all that was vile and crimi-
nal. But he did not do so, strange "a H.
appears, with one of such yaulting
ambition and indefatigable workings.


A friend of the poor he Systematically
robbed the rich at his ''club houses"
congressman and gambler; the boon
companion OF the lowest, aud yet cOurted
for political purposes) by those who
held their heads very high now the
leader Of Tammany and then its most
bitter opponent; at one time the master
spirit and marshalling IS Ring" 10
battle aud then conquering IL To defeat;
mixing with the vilest elements of party
and yet leaving record unstained by
peculation, bribery or iobbery; assisting
to reform abuses and defiant of law
human or divine committee man in
the highest deliberatiye body Of the
nation, and shoulder striker and
iriCkster at cards.


There is considerable in his life 10 be
praiscd-more 90 be condemned for the
very reason that he knowingly and
obstinately refused To turn away from
the wrong and wasted the brightest
opportunities. He was in many respects
an uncommon man, and possessed clear
headed ability, force, aud the nerve 20
execute. lie did many things worthy
Of remembrance, but his memory is not
such an one as will be held sacred or az
pattern, and he was not such man as
the country will care to reproduce. The
admixture of evil predominatcl too much
over the good, and the vile and base
tarnished all that was bright upon his
escutcheon. Even with the rare faculty
IF holding his tongue" he will never
be- looked upon as the highest type
0f a statesman, and his private life will
blot his public one lSyond redemntion.
Year: 1879

Death and tomorrow are never here I;
they are either not come or gone.


Death comes 20 a good man 10 relieve
him; Il comes 10 a bad one to relieve
society.


IL a woman is truly beautiful, LET not
her beauty be made dim by the flash OF
diamonds.


lie who despises praise will not be
likely tO practice the virtues thai would
entitle him 10 IL.


Tranquil pleasures last the longest
We are not fitted 10 bear long tlie bur
den Of great joys.


The wasp attacks the ripest fruit first !;
40 will SANDER attempt ~ wound the
most honest fame.


The iace Of truth is not the less fair for
all the counterfeit wizards that have
been put upon her.


The misery Of idleness is nearly as
manifest in high life as in rags and filth
Of extreme poverty.


Accustom yourself 10 some employ
ment for every hour you can prudently
snatch from business.


In the time that men waste i'm bewail-
ing the perverseness Of their fortune,
they could gain competency.


lie tnat thinks himself the happiest
man really is so; but lac that thinks him
self the wisest is generally the greatest
fOoi.


Sorrow comes soon enough without
dependency; it does a man no good to
carry around a lightning-rod to attract
trouble.


The violet grows low and covers itself
with its own tears, and OF all flowers,
yields the sweetest fragrance. Such is
humility.


II you ask an obstinate man 10 incline
his ears Ia reason, he il very likely TO in
cline them backwards, like horse bent
OH mischief


Love cannot fully admit the feeling
that the beloved object may die all pas
siOns feel their object to be rs eternal as
themselves


The great see the world at one end by
flattery, the little at the other end by
neglect the meanness which both dis
cover Is the same.


You may gain applause by one great,
wise, or Fortunate action; 10 avoid cen
sure. you must pass a whole life without
saying one bad or foolish thing.


Whenever you find a great deal OF
gratitude in poor man, you may take
Il for granted there would be az much
generosity If he were a rich man.
Year: 1879

"A convict at Auburn escaped hard
work during his confinement Of two and
a-half years by feigning paralysis. lie
was so successful ia the fraud that he
was lifted about by attendants, and on
his release had ODE carried TO the depot
Ia chair and placed in the cars. An
hour afterward he visited the prison
officials and astounded them AT his
speedy and full recovery.
Year: 1879

Instead of regarding obesity as an
abnormal condition, many people
have enormously considered it as an
evidence of health, and any agent
that reduces fat is therefore at once
suspected of being injurious. Start
ing to reason from the false position
that fat is an evidence of health, it is
not surprising that they should, very
naturally, fall into the error Of sup
posing that an agent possessing prop
critics capable of reducing corpulency
would prove injurious to the health.
Reasoning, however, from the ration
81 basis, that an undue deposition of
iat, constituting obesity, is not healthy
but morbid condition, it is quite as
natural for US to arrive at the oppo-
site conclusion, which is sustained by
experience and observation, !. e. that
the reduction of fat in cases of cor
pnlsncy is invariably followed by an
improvement of strength, spirits, and
physical comforts. Allan's Anti Fat
will reduce fat person from 2 to S
pounds week. Sold by druggists.
Year: 1879

HELMBoLD's BUcHU.-Helmbold's
Buchu has long been known as one of
the most valuable medicines attain
able in certain classes of diseases,
such as dyspepsia, chronic rheumatism,
dropsy, cutaneous affections, and es-
pecially affections of the urinary Or
gans. AS diuretic, it is superior to
almost any other medicine in use, and
the great care with which it is pre-
pared, the absolute purity of the pre-
paration, and the diligence used in
the selection of the crude material,
have made it known far and wide as
reliable and effective preparation,
one that can always be used with
safety and benefit. The great success
of Helmbold's Buchu has led to the
production Of many spurious prepara-
tions, which are made cheaply e


placed upon the market to be sold


the reputation acquired byHelmbol


original preparation. Parties W


desire really good medicine shou


be careful and use Helmbold's only.
Year: 1879

SOUTH CAROLINA strawberry grow
ers are in ferment over the fact of
two Charleston firms having a monop-
oily Of the steamer refrigerators and
refusing to allow any shipments in
them, but offering to buy the berries
at about 4 cents per quart, when the
selling price in New York is from 30
to so cents per quart.
Year: 1879

A CERTAIN lawyer was compelled
to apologize to the court. With
stately dignity he rose in his place
and said: "Your honor is right and
I am wrong, as your honor generally
is." There was a dazed look in the
judges eyes, and he hardly knew
whether to feel happy or fine the law
yer for contempt of court.-Roches-
ter E1pess.
Year: 1879

A popular minister had just finish
cd an exhortation strongly recon-
mending the support of very meri-
torious institution. The congregation
was numerous, and the chapel was
crowded to excess. The discourse
being finished, the plate was about
being handed to the respective pews,
when the preacher made this short ad-
dress to the waiting congregation


From the sympathy 1 have wit
messed in your countenances, and the
strict attention you have honored me
with, there is one thing I am afraid
OF, that some of you may be inclined
to give too much. Now, it is my
duty to inform you that Justice,
though not so pleasant, should always
be prior virtue to generosity; there
fore, as you will be Immediately
waited upon in your respective pews,
| wish to have it thoroughly under
stood that no person shall think of
putting anything into the plate who
cannot pay his debts


We need not add that this produced
most overhowing collection.
Year: 1879

We clip the following from the
Pittsburg Eveniag Chronicle, of re-
recent date:


Thrilling Incidert.-On Monday of
last week spark from the blacksmith
shop of the Lochiel Lumber Company,
whose works are at Bloomington, Md,
ignited two barrels of petroleum,
which were in an adjoining building,
and in an instant they were complete
lv enveloped in flames, threatening
the entire works with destruction.


Three of the workmen apprehend-
ing the danger rushed into the shed
and made an effort to roll the burn
ing barrels out when the bung few
out of one Of them, throwing the burn
ing oil entirely over one of the men.
The crowd was horror stricken, for it
seemed the man would be burnt up
before their eyes when an employee of
the company rushed out Of the Office
with small Connolly Extinguisher,
bringing it to bear Oh the burning
man and thoroughly extinguiahing
the flames in few seconds. The Ex-
tinguisher was then used on the oil
barrels and shed, with the same graf
flying results. It was the opinion of
every one present that if no Extin-
guisher had been at hand, the man
would have been burnt to crisp and
the entire works destroyed"
Year: 1879

TUm tHB aIuUSJa ATa'J IIHe5.


Mr.. Bussey had some set-hoops in the
river one night last week. During the
night trout went for the alluring bait
and was hooked. Afterwards an otter
came along and concluded to take in the
trout. The first pass he made fastened
the hook in his mouth and there he hung
until morning. When Mr.. b. came and
raised the pole the otter plunged through
the water at terrible rate, but the hook
and line were strong and held him for
some time. At last he came on land,
and before Mr.. B. could kill him he ran
around tree, broke the hook and made
his escape. The trout was not damaged
much.
Year: 1879

SOME The following
calculations were made by somebody and
repeated by Kearney on tho Sand Lot
last Sunday: ~ find bill for stationery
of Sl25,5l2 90 for the city and county of
San Francisco for enc year. You can
take one OF our common bill posters, give
him a brush and some paste, and this
amount Of stationery will cover the globe,
both land and water, with seven thick
nosses, and then have enough left to keep
Tho people Of California for five years in
stationery. Or you can cut it into strips,
one and halfinches wide, tie one of them
on to the knob of Bryant's door, and it
will reach to the moon twenty seven and
a half times and back, and then have
enough left to paper tho City Hall from
cellar to dome. Or you can spend that
much money in steel pens, and they will
load the Panama steamer so deep that it
will be dangerous to send her to sea, and
nave pens enough left to supply the citi-
zens of the United States with eighteen
pens apiece. Or put it in ink, and it will
fill every demjohn, every bottle, every
cup, every glass, every pitcher, ana every
saucer in California, and leave enough TO
NIL the aqueduct at Russian Hill, and still
there will be enough left to fow over and
wash Chinatown and all its inhabitants
into the bay"