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Year: 1878

An old judge, who was an admirer of the
fair, entered railway car and took seat by
a gorgeously beautiful woman. She was as
modest looking as beautiful. The Judge gave
her some nice peaches, and she answered his
questions modestly. At last he told her he
was certain they had met before, but he
couldn't recall the place where he had had
that pleasure. She replied, laying aside her
me up for thirty days last year. and have
iugged me thirteen times" The court fled.
Year: 1878

lr is the most natural thing in tho world
that Ben BCrLER should assume the lead
ership Of the Anti-Rcpublicun forces in the
House. There is not enough brains in the
Democratic ranks TO furnish such leader,
and the Democrats will consequently be
compelled TO fall into line in the wake of
the BUTLER party, the strongest organiza-
ton in that body, small rs it is in numbers,
outside of the Republican ranks.
Year: 1878

The absurd story is told of Senator
THURMAN that he spells negro with two g's.
It's not so absurd, after all, for he was born
in Virginia, you know, where they spell it
mig mig, ger ger niger, and he hasnt t
got over his early education in that partic-
ular, any more than he has overcome his
early belief in the right of secession.
Year: 1878

WHAT would the Democratic party
amount to to-day shorn Of its Southern
strength: And that strength is bred Of
and nourishcd by assassination aud the
most atrocious political crimes. The logic
Of this plainly coavicts the Northern Dough-
faces of completely in those atrocities, and
the conviction has been doubly assured by
the alacrity with which Senator THURMAN
and Mr.. WOOD have rushed to the defense
Of their bloody y-handed Southern friends.
Year: 1878

will not leave the Democratic party, but he
proposes to carry it with him into the
Greenback camp. A part of his programme
In carrying out this enterprise is to become
himself the Democratic candidate for Gov.
ernor of Ohio. 1t is to be hoped this part
1t least will be successfully executed.
Year: 1878

THE best thing that can he said of Sena-
tor BLAINE just now is that the entire
Democratic press is engaged in abusing him
and II is at the same time the worst thing
that can be said Of that press and its party.
Year: 1878

Mr.. LAMARs threat to destroy the
strength of the representation of all the
New England States in the Senate was not
Exactly the straightforward and consistent
thing for pronounced States Rights man.
Year: 1878

Whereas portion OF the bonded debt payable with
six aud cent interest thereon annum and
authorize by vote and direct ths Comptroller
sell therefor At not
stock of the city, psvaoic within period OF
less than twenty more than nifty from the
issue thereof and ~ oil interest not exceed
in Eve per cent per annum pays able semi annually.


OF chapter ss5 Of the Laws Of 1875 the Com
the Sinking Fund do hereby to call in ana
count, Of New York now charge upon tue treasury
city than bonds issued in cpaton
OF the collection OF he holders thereof desire
consolidated stock said city
9ft the date OF
and pay able in fifty years from the sinking fund, ami for
be sola exchanged therefor,
provided by In such and at such times he


Resolved That pursuant to the provisions OF section
9 Of chapter 3S3 OF the Laws Of 1878 the Com
missioners of the Sinking Fund do hereby de-
Sonaed debt Of the city Of New York. not exceeding
Of 500 Of issuedfor aud "f
local i'm and duo tho LIST days Vt october
aud November following. and for this purpose CO also
hereby authorize direct tho Comptroller to issue
soated stock Of said city, after twenty years
payable in fifty IRON sinking Fund The said
stock TO be ssuea snd SOLD provided law
for the payment OF said bonds when DUE Or exchange
exchange Of for said consolidated
before the same shall due 10 be taken Ut the par
value thereof with accrued interest added.


A resolution then passed by which the Comp
trolIer was authorized TO refund $8 6S3 Us to Mr.
James Barker, that being the amount II water rates
paid by him In OF the amount due tor his dis
teries Twenty ninth street at ths East River and
Elghtecnth Ninoteeuth streets, near Eleventh
Of Colonel Wingate, VINO appeared as MIR. Barkcr's
nsel, that the water for which he Was compelled
pay not used IN any OF hls buildings. Afdav It's
were submitted showing this, aud showing ase that
United States revenue ofloials and workmen had
becn discharged. ..
Year: 1878

The supper, given last evening, by the
Ladies Aid Society Of the First Presby-
terian church, was the most successful
affair of the kind that has taken place
this season. The supper was given in the
parlors of the Young Mems Chris ian
Association building, and it is estimated
that there were not less than six hundred
persons who partook Of the bountiful sup
ply OF the viands that were set before
them.


The bill of fare included every thing
the markets afford, and were of the best
quality. The ladies are to be congratu-
lated upon the s iccess of their efforts.
Year: 1878

THE card from the leading busi-
ness men of Los Angeles, published
elsewhere, Is conclusive reply to
the contemplate and malicious at
tempt which is being made to
shake the public confidence in the
stability of the Farmers and Mer-
chants Bank of this city. While
that institution can laugh to scorn
the puny assaults which have been
made upon it. we doubt il the COM
munity can afford to have our re-.
turning prosperity suspended by
the circulation of baseless and ma
licious inuendoes. Attacks of this
kind simply cause d bank to sus-
pend its loans, press its debtors for
settlement and adopt o policy of
self.defence which brings about
distressing money stringency.
Such marplot efforts should be
sternly frowned down by our peo-
pie, and that they are disposed to
frown them down is proved by the
card which appears in our local
columns.
Year: 1878

There was no attempt to say or do any
thing that could offend Mr.. Stanley, and
the whole occasion was fraught with tokens
of honor and friendly regard for the ex-
plorer. In brief, it was O memorable
tribute.
Year: 1878

AWA1 UVLD.


NEW YORK, Jan. 2S.-Thc Post SAYS that
The banks here, or several of them, have,
since since gold fell below two, been buyiny
large amounts of gold, thereby putting a
part and in some cases the whole of their
capital in gold. This is done so as to be
In position TO encourage the use of gold
among their customers with the hope of
creating snch an extended use for that
metal In mercantile transactions. as shall
make the transition from paper to a gold
basis the more easy when the proper time
comes.
Year: 1878

The greater part OF the morning hour was
occupied with presentation of petitions,
many of them demonstrating against reduc-
ton of certain tariff duties and the resto-
ration of tax on tea and coffee. Referred
to Committee or Finance.
Year: 1878

lBY TELEGRAPH 10 The TRIBUNE.I


WAsHNGION. May 27.-For some time past there
have been rumOrs in quiet circulation to the effect
that the correspondence sent to the Senate in an
sw er TO Senator Blaines resolution i'll reference
the selection Of Mr.. Dclfossc of the Halifax
Commission did not tell the whole story. Ii is also
iutimatcd that the Belgian Government felt ac-
gneycd at an apparent reflection in Congress on its
Minister. To satisfy and CRAFTY all demands from
every snIrcc. Mr. Blaine to-day offered and the
senate adopted resolution calling for all core
spOndcncc, If any not already furnished ana all
memoranda and minutes Oh the subject in the state
Department. If there is Anything there TO be told
II will probably be furnished at once.
Year: 1878

SITTING BULL PLOTTING MISCHIEF.
HE WANTS TO COME BACK UNMoLEsTED AND AT


THE SAME TIME AIMS AT A NEW WAR.


IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUsE.l


WASHINGTON, July 30.-Sitting Ball desires to
return to the United States and has made overures
to the Indian Office with that end in view. In case
he returns he insists that he shall not be held
countable for any criminality on his part during
Indian wars and that he shall be allowed to retain
the ponies possessed by himself and the other 900
of his band In view Of the fact that Sitting Bull
has had his emissaries in this country endeavorng
TO induce the Sioux to begin an outbreak in which
he has pledged himself and warriors 10 take part,
the authorities have declined to entertain any prop
OsitiOn looking toward his return. TINS decision
has the sanction of the President and Cabinet
Year: 1878

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, w. va, July 3O.-
There an impression prevalent throughout the coun-
try that the proposed sale OF the White Suphus Springs
on the 9th of August next, will cause general break
ing OF the season, and make necessary change OF
management The impression Is false, as the present
lease holds to the expiration OF the year and no change
will at present be made.
Year: 1878

''Henry" writes to learn why it is that
one end Of moustache curls more easily
than the other. He says that the right
side of his naturally curls upward, while
the opposite end as naturally lops down.
ward. This is not natural function of
the moustache. 1t is the training. If the
owner of the moustache is unmarried, the
curl of the moustache indicates on which
side of young lady he most frequently
sits. For instance, it on her righl side, the
left hand and arm, having an office of their
own to till, the hand of the right arm is
lett free to toy with that side Of the NOUS
tache, and curling up the end is its favor
ite pastime. This is reversed if her left
side is preferable to him. As a general
thing it will be found that young mems
moustaches curl best on the right side.
If the wearer is married the curl indicates
on which side of the church is his pew. If
on the right side of the church, the curl
will be OF the left of the roustache, as this
position throws his left elbow on the back
of the seat, thus bringing the left hand to
his face, when the fingers naturally fall to
work at once. The reverse occurs if the
pew is on the opposite sitle. "Henry" can
rely on this information, as il Is the result
of years Of careful study and research in
,Houstache statistics.-Danbury Ne.os.
Year: 1878

Every woman shoHld be perfect house
keeper, that is, should thoroughly under,
stand the business of housekeeping in all
of its details. This is an assertion often
made, but to sustain it Thoroughly and sue
cessfully by universal practice. we should
BIZ compelled to 60 back to first principles
and declare that every woman should be
born with a taste and capacity for this
work. That this last Is not 80 is clearly
proven by the fact that SO many women
fail utterly to become good hoase-kcepers.
while they do or could succeed admirably
in something else. There are women of
talent TO whom the needle is hateful, the
kitchen is pandemonium Of heat, hardware
hurry, and horrid smells, whom house
work disgusts, and to whom house-keep-
ing is slavery. What are we to do about
it: Insist that they keep at the business
simply because they are women? subject
those around them always to the discom-
forts Of disortlered home and fretfu
presiding spirit? or, recognizing the natu-
raj incongruity of taste and employment,





be sufficiently remunerative to enable them
to hire those who are fitted by nature and
skill to perform the household labor Tor
them? The world has yet to learn, it seems,
that the process of harnessing Pegasus to
a gravel-cart is wasteful one. True, Pc
gasus may draw the cart, leaving thereby
some poor Goblin without food or shelter.
But this is both wasteful and inhuman, as
the former might well accomplish some
thing different, if not better, while the lat
ter, with but one resource, is left to starve.
A wCman's sphere is what she can best
accomplish. OF this she is herself the best,
if not the sole judge, and arbitrary opinion
enforced without Judgment can only lead
to unsatisfactory results, involving in dis
comfort not only herself, but all immeti-
ately concerned.
Year: 1878

The appearance of typhoid in one
of the healthiest mountain villages of
Connecticut is an indication of what
any of our western villages may ex-
pect where there is no regular water
supply. 1t is well understood now
that the poison Of typhoid is espec-
tally conveyed by well-water into
which fetal matter may possibly filter
or drain through the ground. In
most country towns and villages, the
wells are dug near the cesspolls;
often on declivity below them. Be
meath the surface there are, of course
all kinds of natural drains or strata
of sand and rock, through which the
moisture flows from one point to an
other. Within moderate distance
.onc can never be certain that the pit
for a sink or a cess-poll does not drain
directly into the pit for spring water.
This Is especially the case where a
village Is built on a side hill. The
sinks and closets above. in many of
these villages. flow as hv artificial
drainage into the wells and springs
ON the streets below. The drainage is
kind of ingenious machinery for
promoting the growth Of diphthe-
ria and typhoid. These diseases will
inevitably increase till arrangements
are made for better drainage.
Year: 1878

From recent Speech at Philadelphia


Vet there is much that Is encourage
ing in the south. When they 20
cunning for negroes or revenue oih-
GERS they observe the game laws.
They do not shoot them out of season.
They only kill them when it Is ueces-
sarv TO prevent the collection of the
revenue to carry an election. Bat
that Is not all that is encouraging.
Wade has offered to allow the laws ot
the United States to be carried out.
He will allow the revenue To be col
lected if the government will allow
him to receive it. Wade Hampton
offers to assist the United States.
There is something refreshing in this.
But that is not ALL When Republic
cans hold meetings now they never
Kill more than one or two, and not 50
many if they keep still. In to-day :
papers we are told the Democrats
went to Republican meeting and
loaded cannon with tenpenny nails.
They trained it ON the speaker and
covered him with 500 rifles; but he
did not say anything and they didnot
shoot.
Year: 1878

\ SAGA,loUo DoG.-Thc Eureka
Leod,r in relating the exploits of
party of hunters from that town. tells
this story OF the sagacity of a dog:
One day the party went out in search
of game, and left dog of Luther
Clark's tied at the camp. During
their absence the animal broke loose,
with the chain attached to his neck.
The chain caught in some rocks in
canvOu. several miles from the camp,
and held the dog a prisoner. When
the party were about to return to the
camp. one of the deer hounds ran up,
and. catching Mr. Clark's clothing in
his teeth, tried to pull him in a diff
ferent direction from the deer trail


Finally it was supposed that the dogs
had brought down a deer, and the
party followed the sagacious animal
to find the dog that had been left be-
hind made prisoner. All were
proud of having SO intelligent a ami
NAL in their company. Had it not
been for this fortunate circumstance
the dog would have starved to death.
Year: 1878

what of its roar. A track of fire


aud smoke follows them; fire


struck by their friction with the


chute logs. They descend the sew


enteen hundred feet of the chute


In fourteen seconds. In doing


so, they drop seven hundred feet


perpendicularly. They strike the


deep water of the pond with re-


port that can be heard mile dis


tant. Logs fired from cannon


could scarcely have greater velocity


than they have at the foot of the
chute. Their average velocity is


over one hundred feet in a second,


throughout the entire distance, and
at the instant they leap from the


mouth their speed must be fully
two hundred feet per second.
A sugar pine log sometimes
weighs ten tons. What n missile!
How the water is dashed into
the air! Like grand plume of
diamonds and rainbows, the feath-
cry spray is hurled into the air to
the hight of q hundred feet. 1t
forms the grandest fountain ever
uobeiu! lOW tHe waters Ot tne
pond foam and seethe and lash
against the shore. One log, having
spent its force by its mad plunge |
into the deep waters, has foated so
as to be at right angles with the
path of the descending monsters. |
The mouth of the chute is,
perhaps, fifteen feet above the
surface of the water. A huge log
hurled from the chute cleaves the
air and alights on the floating log
You know how bullet glances-
but can you imagine saw-log
The end strikes with a
heavy shock, but glides quickly
past for short distance, then a
crash like the reverberation of ar
.illery, the falling log springs one
hundred and fifty feet vertically


nto the air, and with q curve like
l rocket, falls into the pond seven
y yards from the log it struck"
Year: 1878

it might he made so successful that a
trip could be taken to the North Pole
in it. Mr.. Ritcbel is a cry intelli-
gent looking gentlemen, apparently
about 30 years of age. He claims
that all other inventors have failed
with their flying machines because
they have trusted entirely to the lift
ing capacity of the balloon append
age, rising by throwing out ballast,
and falling by letting out gas.
Another defect has been the placing
of the steering apparatus in the centrr.
where oply y comparatively small
amount Of power could be exercis-
aJ
Year: 1878

War has its heroes whom men delight to
honor, but not alone in fort and field and
ON the vessels deck, not only amid deadly
strife against visible enemies is the glor-
Gus courage OF great souls displayed. For
months noble army of men and women
have been waging unequal warfare against
an unseen foe, more insidious, pitiless and
deadly than was ever met on field or food.
Into the fever stricken towns of the South
these heroes have gone, armed and de-
Tended only by their own courage
and humanity. Instead Of the stimulus
that comes OF the touch of the elbow, the
pride of trained strength, the hope of pre-
ferment the ringing cheer the glorious
charge and the anticipation of quick and
decisive end-the physicians, nurses, corre-
spondents and other brave spirits in the
South have struggled, each by himself, in q
fight in which there has not come even
momentary lul. Instead of the inspiriting
cries OF combatants they have heard only
the means of dying men, women and chill
dren. Not once have they joined with
comrades in victorious shouts. Every
one of them has led forlorn hope.
Seldom has there been any one nigh to fol-
low them, and when one has returned from
the deadly breach it has generally been to
die of mortal wounds received. The heroic
Lindley, who escaped his whilom foemen
of the civil war only to die of his efforts to
save them and their dear ones from q
destroyer moro merciless than bullet or
u,l,n Ia
with new plan for vanquishing the
destroyer and was himself struck down
before he fairly began operations !;
Year: 1878

The Lachine course has thus far proved
most unfortunate one. Courtney says that
owing to its roughness he is entirely ig-
norant OF it, and Hanlan, who has had little
more experience, pronounces it one Of the
worst courses he ever saw. It's eddies and
currents will, Courtney says, make the
time in the race very slow, and far better
track could have easily been found. If,
after all, Wednesday brings smooth water,
these eddies and currents will have much
to do with deciding the race if it is at all
close. Fortunately both men continue in
excellent condition. Courtney's dreaded
sideache and pleurisy, caught in the cold
bath he got when he tipped over in the
Dempsey race on Geneva Lake, have all
disappeared, while he is doing plenty of
fast foot work, and SO losing no time.
Hanlan has not been out Of order at ALL
Much as the American deprecates the rough
water and credits the Canadian with being
far better on it than he, there is probably
no great difference between the two in this
respect. A shell less than three inches
deep cannot go at all in water really rough,
end as the articles call for racing water
there is little doubt that the referee will
not let the men start unless the water is
either smooth or very nearly so. Rowing
in lumpy water is an art easily learned,
and it seems surprising that sculler should
have reached the deserved prominence of
either of these and yet have any hesitation
about rowing wherever the other dares to
venture.
Year: 1878

rency will undergo n considerable change
during the next year If the resumption ex-
pertinent should prove to work well. When
our currency is once re-established on q
sound basis the whole business community
in all parts of the country will shrink from
disturbing it and throwing everything again
into confusion. What the country most
needs is stability of values Debts must ne
paid in the same medium in which they are
contracted, otherwise business is mere
guosswork and gambling. Every month
that passes after resumption next January
will dispose the business classes to acqui-
esce more and more in the new state OF
things, and by the time the national party
conventions assemble in May or June, 1880,
the currency question in all its greater fea-
lures will have become settled, provided
only that there be no step backward after
January l, 1879, when the Resumption law
goes into effect. 1t is difficult to see how
there can be any step backward with Pres
ident who has the power and the will to
veto any retrogressiye legislation on the
subject. 1t is safe to assume that the great
mass of the people will submit to accom-
plished facts The stand taken by both
political parties in this State tends to check
the agitation, and let us hope that it will be
supplanted by other issues before the sum-
mer of 1880
Year: 1878

the brave Redding-operator, corre-
spondent nurse and finally victiln-at
deadly Grenada the clergyman Schuyler,
who was among the first volunteer nurses
from the North and who speedily rested
with many of those whose death he had been
powerless to prevent the heroic women who
went from various ssterhoods to work and
die in honor of the holy bonds in which
Christian love has united the suffering and
the sympathizer these and scores OF others,
known and unknown, rom North and South
alike, have sealed their heroic devotion
with their lives. Besides these there are
hundreds who are now working amid de-
pressing, narrowing scenes like those
depicted on another page by the Mother
Superior of the Convent of Mercy in
New Orleans they are fighting against ter
rible odds, often fighting alone, with
everything to dishearten, discourage and
defeat them. In the presence Of such
heroism the bravest soldier and sailor
stands abashed in honorable humility.
Unknown though they, their sufferings
and their victories, may be to mortal pens,
there are unseen hands writing a roll Of
honor which will outlast brass and marble,
and when the worlds heroes appear at the
grand review the decorations of the soldier
will be invisible beside those which these
heroes will receive.