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Year: 1879

Now is the season when the
druggist hangs dozen sheets of
sticky fy-paper in the windows to
show the folly Of investing in
mosquito-bars. The said sheets
are covered with flies, dead and dy-
ing, sometimes artistically ar
ranged, and sometimes dropped
on in reckless though captiva-
ting manner. There is no sham
about this paper. It will catch
any fly who takes a sheet OF it
for skating park, and it will hold
him long enough for you to run
to the wood-pile and bring the
axe and knock him in the head.
The only trouble is to work up
the fly. He sometimes knows his
business, and you can't beat it in
to his noddle that a sheet Of this
paper represents cool and grassy
valley into which he is privileged
to meander in search Of Jumps Of
white sugar. He will sit on the
edge Of the window-sill and won
der and think, and kick out his
legs in the sunshine, and if you
think be has got so hard up that
he must come down to molasses
and pulp, you keep right on try
ing. Visions Of the thousands Of
flies captured at the drug store
"since Monday noon" will rise up
before you, but only to make you
gmore down-hearted. Ifyou spread
out ten sheets on the chairs and
table and floor, you run more
chances Of catching a fly than
with one. Any arithmetic will
tell you this. It may be an hour
or two before some reckless old
reprobate of a fly will start out to
see what you have been doing.
Back into a corner and don't
breathe while be is making for
the table. He may light down.
Flies have their tired moments
the same as three-year-old steers.
He will slide to the east-then
north by east-tben wheel to the
west and look around to see if
anybody has q broom trained on
him. Give him time. II the mo-
lasses is up to his grade he will
find it sooner or later. When be
finally slides up to the paper you
can bet you've got him. Taking
hold of the table with his legs he
will reach his head out, nibble a
little, smack his lips, and then
make dive for the center Of the
sheet, calculating to fly off with it
to his knot-hole in the ceiling 1t
you have tackled the sheet down,
you've got a fly. Ifyou haven't,
away goes cent. You may catch
a second fly before the summer is
gone, but if you are impatient and
want to make q show, you must
order your dead flies by the box
from New York, spread out your
paper in quiet place, and put
'em on with the machine used by
all respectable druggists.


1Detr0it Free Press.
Year: 1879

I'D like to know if that mans
goin' to stay here forever p said
Susan to the old brindle COW that
night, as she drove her up from
pasture. i should s'pose he'd
feel it his duty to visit other
folks. Std O. that he's a-seltin'
round here, an Aunt Hester an
he's a-talkin' the whole endurin'
time, an he aiut said a word
about any Of them things all the
other ministers used to, as I've
heard.'


But old brindle didn't seem to
be able to enlighten Susan on any
point, and that young person
went to bed feeling that ministers
weren't what they used to be.
The minister and Miss Payne
sat and talked quietly in the still
twilight. He told all about his
lite since she had known him 10
years ago, and how the change
had come into it which transform
ed him into a minister. And then
there fell a little silence about
them which neither broke for
long time. By and by he spoke.


I don't know why l came here
first, Hester. | suppose l ought
to have gone to sawyer's, but 1
couldn't get by here. From the
time l knew I was going to be
stationed over this part I've been
thinking of you and longing to
talk over old times with you
as | have done to-day. And
some way it seemed to me as
if God had plan to carry out in
stationing me over here. l don't
know what you think about it,
Hester, but l believe [ could do
better work in the world if you
would help me. We've been
parted for a good many years, but
I've never loved any one else and
l never shall and it seemed to
me to-day that I took up life just
where we left it Is years ago-in
this old kitchen. I've always
blamed myself for what happened
afterwards, and I want to confess
it to you now whether you
think as I do about what | have
told you or whether you don't


NO, John, l was the one to
blame she said. 4 was telling
myself that this morning, not half
an hour before you came. saw
it all afterwards


is it yes or no, Hester he
asked, tenderly. We're old enough
to know ourselves better than we
did then. Can you help me in my
l1fe-work without regret for what
you must give up?'


L will help you p she cried, her
whole face aglow. 4 shall give
up nothing but loneliness, and l
shall gain-youP


What speech to make to a
minister!


If Susan could have heard it
she would have become an imme-
diate convert to the theory of to-
tai depravity. And 10 come from
Miss Payne, too


God bless you, Hester, and may
you never be sorry for this,' be
said, and kissed her with long,
gering kiss, while the moon
LIGHT fell about them like ben
ediction fIom heaven,
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON, March 6.-There is every
rrosnert that the organization of the next
House will take some time. A number Of
Democrats have demonstrated their hostility
10 Randall, asserting that they will refuse to
70 into caucus II there are any, indications
thew will not Be bound by the action OF the
caucus @ II he is nominated The great trouble
at present seems to be to select some one
upon whom all the opposition to Randall can
unite. Blackburn Is at present the most
prominent candidate.
Year: 1879

CHICAGO, March 6.-The jury, in the case OF
John Lamb, on trial for the murder Of Police
man Rice last fall, after brief deliberation,
brought in verdict of guilty and fixed the
penalty Of death. Geo. Freeman, his COM
Iade In the affair, was the principal witness
against him
Year: 1879

SITTING BuLL.-The Secretary of War has ad
dressed letter to General Sherman directing
that In case of the return OF Sitting Bull or any
Of his followers from the British possessions,
tney snail be seized and held as prisoners OF
war until iprther orders from the President In
the view OF this government, Sitting Bull and
his band have voluntarily subjected themselves
to the authority of Great Britain and ceased to
De SUBJECTS OF the United States and they will
not now be permitted even with peacea6,e in
tentions to re-cr0sS the frontier.
Year: 1879

The yachts Peter D. O'Brien and Marble both jib
and mainsail open boats. while returning last ght
to their anchorage in tue East River. after race
down the bay. encountered the first gusts Of
the heavy thunder shower that came down at
about eight o'clock. The O'Bren had crew
OF eleven men on board and the Marble had nine.
Both boats within hailing distance of each
other and were each striving to make their anchor
age ahead OF the other. While passing pier 53
East River the yachts struck by .
heavy squall that careened them their
sides. aud while their sailing masters were
striving to right them stronger gust struck the
enormous press OF racing canvas they were carry
ing and upset both boats. throwing their crews into


the river. The accident was witnessed from
shore, and q fleet of small boats were
mastering to the assistance OF the yachtsmen, some
OF whom swimming toward shore, while tho
others chung the bottoms Of their crafts. All OF
the crews of the boats rescued by members of
the Ferry Association Of Brooklyn and safely landed.
Year: 1879

Mayor Howell. of Brooklyn. has been sick for the
past two three days with malarial fever. His ab-
from the City Hall gave rise to rumors that
President Ray. Of the Common Council. who has
the right to act ~ Mayor in the Mayor s
absence, would assume the duties OF that
Office. Ray is republican. as are also q
majority Of the Aldermen. and 1t was feared
by democrats that Ray would seize upon the
opportunity to nominate republicans for the vacant
Com ssio orsnips. who would. OF course. be con-
frmed by the Aldermen. When Ray reached the City
Hall yesterday he found the Mayor still absent and
took possession Of his office. although informed by
the clerks that there was nothing for him to do.
Mayor Howell at sent Tor and upon his
rival Ray abdicated. He said he had Intention of
taking advantage Of Mayor Howells absence.
Year: 1879

IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.


WASHINGTON. July 10. 1872


singular IL not CHASTITY subject will be involved
in suit of replevn which is to be filed tomorrow
in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.
1t appears that the applicant for the writ
time ago taken with a malignant malady. which SO
endangered his life that amputation OF the affected
limbs became necessary. The surgeon who at
tended the gentleman took the amputated limbs TO
the Medical Museum. where they were placed in
jar in alcohol Their owner supposed that they had
been buried but few days since learned that they
were exhibition ut the Army Medical Museum
with his name written card placed ut the top OF
the jar. This being rather offensive to him. he con-
suited a lawyer who advised him to replevin them.
1t was reported ut the Court House that should he
succeed i'll obtaining possession of them other suits
would be brought by various persons having am
Year: 1879

GEo. II. PESDLFruS is to speak over. ct
Martins Ferry this evening. He Is
the same Geo. II. Pendleton who
ran as a candidate for Vice Presi-
dent OF the United States in 1884, on
aplatform that pronounced the war a fail
ure. lie is also the man who as member
Of Congress made speech on the Goth
DAY Of February, 1862, denouncing the is
sue Of greenbacks, and who all through
the war was known and recognized as one
Of the Northern aiders and abettors Of the
rebellion. He was in the same boat with
Thurman and vallandigham all through
the war. No thanks to Geo. H. Pendleton
that We on this side of the Ohio river are
living in the United States to-day. Had
all the Ohio people been like him we
should have had a line Of custom houses
along this river, and we on this side OF
the stream would have been in the South.
srn COnfederacy. This is the man who
now comes to our neighbors along this
border to explain away his record and In.
duce them to take stock in his present
principles. -
Year: 1879

TUE Indian corn crop last year was so
lane that no good market could be found,
and this year seven states, which produc.
el seventy per cent OF last years crops,
return yield over a third larger than in
Year: 1879

The most boastful Yankee (not that
Yankees are more boastful than other
people,, in some of the rooms of the
British Museum, is obliged to confess
that the ancients originated great many
good notions which we moderns have
only improved upon. For instance, there
are few tools more ancient than the saw
All the oncient nations appear to have
had it; certainly the Hindoos, the Egyp-
tians; the Greeks and the Romans The
saw may have existed even before there
were any men on the earth. There is a
creature called the saw.fy, with two
saws in its tail, which it actually uses
for saving the stems, leaves and fruits
wherein its eggs are to be deposited.
These is also sawfsh, the long snout
Of which is saw. 1t is said also that
the originsl inhabitants of the Island of
Madeira found ready. made saw in the
backbone of fish. The Greeks had
pretty story attributing the invention of
the saw to the accidental finding of the
jaw-bone of snake by one Talus, who
used it to cut through small piece Of
wood. Being slave, and finding that
this jaw-bone eased his labor, he made
saw of iron, and thus gave mankind
a new and most valuable tool. The an
cient saw differed from ours in two
ways The teeth were so arranged that
the cut was made by pulling, instead of
being set one to the right and one to the
left alternately, were set so that ten or
dozen in succession slanted one way,
and the same number the other way.
The ancients had several varieties of the
implement. The Greeks, for example,
had crosscut saws for two men; ; also saws
for cutting marble into slabs. And they
had a kind Of tubular saw for following
out marble bath-tub, similar in prinei,
pal to the method now employed. Among
the pictures uncovered in the buried city
of Herculaneum, there is a representa-
ton Of two genii saving a piece of wood
on carpenters bench, very much like
ours, and using a saw similar to those
now employed. Still more strange, the
frame-saw frightened with a rope and
stick, such as our street wood-sawyers
use, was probably as familiar to the
Romans as it is to us.
Year: 1879

OF course there is one thing the minis
ter can do and doos-put his hand in
that barrel and preach an old sermon.
As a rule we don't believe in this barrel
sermon preaching Very seldom does a
minister preach an old sermon to his
people the second time with anything
Approaching the fire and spirit of its first
delivery. The freshness, the warmth,
the outcome Of its preparation, its
especial seasonab,euess, the enthusiasm,
if he had it, attendant upon handling a
new theme for the first time-these are
all gone at 4 second preaching he
stands up and reads off his barrel-sermon
and however it may have excited interest
at the time, it is-unless its repetition
has been specially called for-pretty apt
to fall like a wet theologic blanket on
the hearers. The effect of barrel-ser-
mon preaching on the minister himself
is not good-certainly it is not stimu
lating.


And here is another view Of the mat
ter: No minister ought to give up one
church and take another with theidea Of
using that sermon.barrel. Yet Just this
many ministers are forced to do because
of the demand made upon them by the
double sermon service. We never knew
those ministers who moved away to
another church and took up with barrel
sermonizing to succeed. Certainly he is
putting himself under the dominion of
sloth, beside subiecting himself to thedis
integrating process known as rusting
out.


Old Andrew Fuller once replied to q
young ministers question as to what use
should be made of his old sermons.
"Burn EN-, sir ! burn 'em " 1t
wouldn't be very great loss if most Of
the old sermons in the country were to
be consumed by spontaneous combustion.
AS this is not possible, anything-what
ever it be-which tends to weaken the
minister's dependence upon the sermon
barrel can scarcely fail to be gain to
pastor and people,-Christian at Work
Year: 1879

could not have caused more alarm than
this. Most heart-rending groans came from
the group of warriors standing near, and
not word was said for five minutes, until
Dull Knife, savage chief, in loud and
threatening voice, said: Neither my peo-
pie nor myself will return south. We now
stand on the soil that by right belongs to
us. We can not live in the Indian Terrific
ry. We want to 60 to Red Clouds or Spot
ted Tails home, and live in peace with the
whites,n
Year: 1879

This block is designed for stevodores,
and Others who require block using
single line, which must be capable Of be-
ing run with great rapidity, Of sustain
ing heavy bodies with as little friction as
possible, and at the same time be light
enough to admit OF being conveniently
handled, and above all to be durable.


This block is the invention Of Capt. j.
w. Nocross, OF Boston, and consists OF an
iron or steel frame or shell, made in such
form as to give the great at resistance to
strain and accidental blows. A sheave
made of the same material, with two sets
of spokes, supporting a rim forming
deep score in which the rope runs without
chatting. The axle Of this sheave is made
fast in the hub so that it reyolves with it
instead of the sheave turning loose on the
axle or pin as in blocks heretofore in use
On the side of the frame are two wheels,
suspended, one or either side, whose in
ner rim forms flange on which the axis
of the main wheel rests and revolves.
These outer wheels :ro so proportioned
to the diameter Of the axis Of the main
shcave that it requires 20 revolutions ct the
main sheave to cause tie friction wheels to
revolve once. Thus it will be seen that
while the rope may be drawn on the
main sheave with great rapidity and un-
der heavy strain the friction OH the axle
is only that of two surfaces rolling in the
same direction with the same velocity,
while the motion OF the friction wheels on
their respective aylcs Is slow. and can
never produce heating or abrasion of the
same. A block of the above pattern
which is kdown as the "Providence Tool
Company's Power Hosting Block" hav-
ing q sheave ten inches in diameter carry
AZ inch rope requires 30 feet hoist to
cause the friction wheel, to make one
revolution. a block of this size weighs
about 4S lbs. and is capable of sustaining IL
weight of eight tons, while two to three
tons are much as it is practicable TO
raise with the ordinary hosting engines
used by stcvodores when dicharging YES
sells.


Blocks having sheaves l2in.. and l5in.
In diameter are also manufactured, also
one with an Snch sheave, designed MOI
particularly tor use in localities where
horses are used in place of steam power.


The firm also manufacture full line OF
blocks for use on cat rugged boats, yachts,
and the largest sailing vessels, which,
although entirely OF metal, are lighter,
stronger, easier worked and far more
durable than any heretofore produced.
The requirements of the lumberman and
and farmer are more fully met by these
goods than by the old style blocks as they
are more likely to be inconvenienced by
breakage when at distance from
where repairs can be obtained. Blocks
of this pattern can be shown that after 5
years constan. use have not had and do
not need repairs.


These hosting blocks are now in use by
the leading Stevodores of Boston aud New
York. Portland and Bangor, Cleveland
and Chicago, and are, this season. com.
ing into use in San Francisco, and are
fully guaranteed by the Manufacturers to
be all that they represent.
Year: 1879

The World quotes an excerpt from
Voorhees, speech, made in the senate last
May, in which he denounced the attempt.
ed contraction of the currency us "a vast
national crime, and says: Does Indiana
think that the election the to American
senate of the author of these sentiments
will encourage the owners of loanable
capital to loan it out, either in the west or
anywhere else, to manufactures, Or pro-
ducers, or distributors, or consumers
And how, unless people who own capital
can be encouraged to loan it, are the
industries of the country to be set going
again?"


Who are these men whose hireling press
declares will not supply the west with
'loanable capital, if the people approve
the sentiments expressed by Mr.. Voor.
heesY


Where and how did they obtain their
loanable fundsP


Did they earn it by the sweat of their
browse Did they dig it from the mines,
smelt it from the forge, weave it in the
looms, Or reap it from the prairies? Did
they create one farthing of it by honest
toll, or superior skill, by throwing their
labor belt from their little machines over
the great line shaft Of Natures resources
Not bit Of it. They robbed it from the
very men they now threaten to withhold
the use oft,


They possessed " 1899 The Eeld a.sumu,
Year: 1879

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Saturday afternoon some Of the pedes.
trians on Hammond street were consider.
ably surprised to see young man rolling
a barrel of apples up the hill on the chimes
of the barrel, being minus one of the
heads. 1t seems that while he was in a
certain grocery store on Central street, the
proprietor told him that he would give
him barrel of apples, providing he would
roll it home without putting Il head in the
barrel: The young man Immediately
agreed to the proposition, and won the
apples. We also heard of merchant in
this city who recently remarked to II gen
tleman in his store that he would like to
make quarter before going to dinner.
The visitor told him that he would give
him quarter if he would walk to dinner
without any hat, and the merchant accept
ed the offer and earned the money.
Year: 1879

A COOP WoMAN:-A good woman.
:aever grows old. Years: may GO over
her head, but if ,benevolence and yir..
tue dwell in her heart she is as cheer
full as when the spring Of life first
opened to her view. When we; look
upon a good woman, We never think
of her age. She looks as charming as
when the rose Of youth first bloomed
upon her cheek. That, rose has not
faded yet; it never will fade. In her
neighborhood she is the friend and
benefactor, in the church the deyout
-worshiper and exemplary Christian.
Who does not love and respect the
woman who has passed her days in
acts of kindness and mercy-who has
been the friend of man and Cod
whose whole life has been scene of
kindness and love, DEVOTION of;loVe
and religion ? We repeat, such wo-
man cannot grow old. She Will always
be fresh and buoyant in spirits, and
active in: humble deeds of mercy and


benevolence If a young lady desires
to retain the bloom and beauty Of
youth, let her not yield to the sway Of
fashion and folly; let her love truth
and virtue; and to the close Of life
she will retain those feelings which
now ma ke life appear a garden of
sweets ever fresh and new. , ...,., |
Year: 1879

EARLY Rising AND BEAUTY.--The
early morning hours have a potent
effect on the complexion, and it is bet:
ter to see the sun rise, and sleep in
the middle of the day; If one must to
secure the necessary sleep. The pure
morning air has tonic effect on the
nerves and the circulation Of the blood.
Of course, the outdoor air is what is
needed. If too cold, plant yourself
at the sunniest window: American
women need more work in the open
air, if it is only that afforded by bal:
comics. .... .
Year: 1879

BEGINNING THE DAY ARIGHT.-It
is very desirable that every day be
begun right rather than wrong. Be-
gun right and it is pretty sure to end
right. We know the father Of large
family who always comes to the break
fast table with a smile, and who
wakes up good nature in every child
before the meal is over, which lasts
generally all day. '.'