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Year: 1874

The other day the telegraph said that
Constantine, brother of the Car, had
conspired to overthrow the empire, and
that he had been arrested and thrown in
a dungeon. We did not believe word
of it and said so at the time, and time,
by-the-way, has proved that we were
right. His crime was not conspiracy,
but stealing, and the Grand Duke NichO-
las, not Constantine, was the culprit. He
did not steal horse nor a mule, nor a
railroad, but he hooked his mothers dia-
monds and gave them to an American
girl whom he worshipped and adored,
The law and few imperial detectives
caught him, and put him ina celia pun
ishment far more severe thanan alderman
would receive for stealing million in
New York.


The duke was staggered for few days.
He had read Mark Twain's jumping
Frog" and Timothy Ttcomb's "Advice
to a Young Wife," but not particle of
hope appeared. His dreams were of
knouts, wild horses in Tartary, and the
terrible Siberia.


For three long nights he clutched at
the portals of despair. On the fourth
day, while the court barber was shing-
ling his hair, he picked up copy of the
New York Herald just from the branch
office in st. Petersburg, and began read
ing an account of New York murder
trial. Suddenly he ground the paper to
powder and kicked the barber into the
corner. Foam and cinders issued from
his mouth. The barber lay like one
dead.


"I am going crazy howled the duke
"My brain is going Wild" and then he
broke into the gifted laugh of hyena.
Ten minutes later a crowd gathered
around the cell, and a strong guard en-
tered and carried him to an asylum. On
the way thither he bit and kicked like a
tiger.


In the asylum he became quiet, and
after hearty meal, he appeared some
what rational, but his eyes shot around
the room with the lurid glare of maniac.
No one had the least doubt but he was
as crazy as an American Congressman,
and the Gar thought it good time to
obtain some valuable secrets by little
strategy. So he ordered the duke to be
placed in an elegant but well-guarded
room, separated from another by a COM
municating partition.


The command. was obeyed, the Gar
repaired to the adjoining room to hear
what the duke might say in his rawlings.
After beating his head against the wall
few times, and believing like Samese
bull, he quietly took a seat and burst
into suppressed laugh.


Insanity is the word," said he. Gust
let me get a crack at the other diamonds,
and NV darling Cream- Tarta r. TIGER
Lilly shall shine like. an empress al
ways thought thoses ,Rhite-livered Amer
leans made a fortune3iQs a hurry. How
the Gar trembled when howled! He
thinks he is smarttbut I'll show"


Just then the Gar kicked the wall, and
ordered the guard to take the duke to the
deepest and darkest dungeon in the city,
and the prospect is that Miss Crcam-a-
Tartar will lose her head, and that the
duke will 90 to Siberia.
Year: 1874

Sir Frederick Montagu Pollock, in
Science Gossip, tells us the proper way to
look at drawing or picture is with one
eye shut; unless it be an improper pic
ture, when both eyes should be closed.
A picture ma taken for the object it
represents at ~ distance, but when
brought nearer it is soon seen to be only
picture on a fiat surface. With two
eyes we see, as it were, round an object,
because our eyes being short distance
apart, they see from different angles, that
is, slightly different pictures are presented
on their retinas A drawing resembles
the object as 1t appears when we see with
one eye only. Hence IL we look at IL
with one shut, we are led TO imagine that
there is no difference TO the real object IL
presents If the head is kept perfectly
still, the picture after few seconds
comes TO look almost stereoscopic. The
experiment Ia easily tried. IL Is said that
an English optician has invented an I'M
strument, which is to render the eye
"single and full Of light"
Year: 1874

Go into the houses of some of our farm
ers, and you will find no newspaper, no
periodical of any kind, and hardly a
book. Ask such men to subscribe for q
paper, and they will tell you that they
have no time to read one. But who is
50 constantly employed as to find no
leisure for the improvement of the mind
Not the farmer, certainly, for the long
winter evenings afford him several hours
every day which he can devote to read
ing. Not the mechanic, for instances
are frequent where an industrious me-
chanic has attained TO an eminence in
the sciences, merely by giving his leisure
hours to reading and study.


The fact is, evey man has leisure to
read a newspaper, and those who plead a
want of time as an excuse for not taking
one, are lazy.
Year: 1874

CHILpREN's WAYs.-Gail Hamilton, writing
of children says: "I should be sorry to say
anything that might aid or abet our idle, lax
and worthless American fathers and mothers.
But is an iudisputable fact that children do take
an immense deal of spelling without permanent
injury if there is good stock in them. Nature
seems to think more of substance than train


ing, for she gives children to people when they
are freshesta and strongest. tits delightful to
children always behaving with perfect proprie-
ty and politeness but if they kick, and cuff,
aud scream, and garb, all is not lost. There is
q certain governor whom, not having seen,
love, because he sends word to his son that his
gralason is the best little fellow in the would if
you de not thwart him, and always obedient if
you do not hurry him about it. The baby in
breeches was standing by my chair, and clan
destipely snatched kiss, whereupon he drew
hishand and gave me a smart slap on the cheek.
It was in my heart to retort with thump, but
1 refrained, and by and by, when whispered,
"Why did you strike me ?" he answered inno-
Gently because you stole kiss" Innocent
as an angel, for it was pure frolic, and no ma
lice or rudeness at all. But we expect to take
liberties with children, and then have them
perfectly wise and aware of the exact degree
of respect to be observed toward ourselves"
Year: 1874

LrFE.-Lve for something! Yes, and for
something worthy of life and its capabilities
and opportunities for noble deeds and achieve
ments. Every man and every woman has his
or her assignment in the duties and response
biities of daily lfe We are in the world to
make the world better; to lift it up to higher
levels of enjoyment and progress, to make its
hearts and homes brighter and happier by de-
voting to our fellows our best thoughts, activi
ties, and influences. 1t is the motto of every
true heart and the genius of every noble life,
that ono man liveth to himself"-lives chiefly
for his own selfish good 1t is law of our in
tellectua and moral being that we promote our
own happiness in the exact proportion we C N
tribute to the comfort and enjoymentof others.
Nothing worthy of the name of happiness is
possible in the Experience of those who live only
f,r themselves, all oblivious Of the welfare OF
their fellows.
Year: 1874

In the matter Of the estate Of John E .
Cronin. deceased.


On reading and filing the petition of Peter
Mulholiand, setting forth the amount o. per-
sonal estate that has come to his hands, and
outstanding against said deceased, and Il
description Of all the real estate Of which
said deceased died seized, and the condition
and value Of the respective portions thereof;
and pray ing that license be to him granted
to sell all of the real estate OF said deceased
and it appearing by said petition. that there
is not sufficient personal estate in the hands
Of said Administrator to pay said debts, and
that it is necessary in order to pay the same
to sell the whole of said real estate it is
therefore ordered that ali persons interested
in said estate appear before the Judge of this
Court, on Mon lay the 18th day of April. A .
h. 1874, at 10 O'Clock A. NJ Mt the office of
the County Judge in the City of Manitowoc
IN said county then and there 10 show cause
(if any there be why license should not be
granted to said A Administrator to sell said
real estate according to the prayer of said
petition. And it is further ordered, that a
copy of this order shall be published for four
successive weeks prior to said day Of hearing
in the Manitowoc PILoT Il weekly newspaper
printed and published at Manitowoc in said
county. and personally served on all persons
interested in said estate, residing in said
county, 1t least fourteen days before said
day of hearing BY the Court


Dated at Manitowoc, the 10th day Of March
A. b. 1871


Sl3-4t T G. OLMsTED, County judge.
Year: 1874

The steamer Tovea Safely or Brigan-


time Shoals, and En- Route for Her Doe X


nt Philadelphia.


ATLANTIC CITY, n. j., April 49, 1874


The storm ragged until after midnight attended by
northeast wind whicn banked the sea SO high that
no wrecking boat could come ashore from the
Nederand. Great anxiety was felt by all parties,
for it is certain that no vessel could stand the
dashing OF the waves until morning. At two O'Clock
the wind suddenly veered around to the north, the
ocean became calmer and before daybreak was
wonderfully quiet. The tug Relief from New
York, stayed out all night long in tine tempest and
storm, her crew doing everything to aid the
stranded ship. AT six O'Clock this morning by
means OF hawsers and q wind That was most
especially favorable, the Nederland was seen
to move tor the distance OF about half
. mile, and then suddenly stop. Alter
the interval OF an hour, during which
time numerous parties clustered around with
neld glasses upon the beach, the ship moved
again, gave a sort Of pitch forward, rolled heav
lily from side TO side and rested on the sea easily,
completely cleared from the shoals and free from
danger. The little tug Relief then took her in tow,
heightened ner hawser until it was 100 fatnoms
long and started opt for Delaware Capes.


The Nederland is helpless without her rudder
and is not very manageable; she rolls heavily and
her hawser appears to be severely strained. Her
progress is very slow, and the Indications are that
heavier seas VIII bank up before evening. The
vessel has greatly suffered, and more OF her cargo
was obliged to be sacrificed. She cannot reach
Philadelphia, it s thought, before Monday morn
ing. There Is much rejoicing here at her relief
upon the part OF al.
Year: 1874

During the afternoon HERALD reporter called
upon captain James Irving, Chief OF the Detec-
tive Corps at Police Headquarters, and asked his
opinion In relation to the matter. The captain
said the police authorities were determined to find
out whether any clew was to be obtained by the
discovery of the bloody shirt and had already be-
gun investigating the case. He did not think,
seriously speaking, however, that the tnvestiga-
ton would amount to anything In the end. And
yet it might. The HERALD reporter asked the Cap
!ain II he thought 1t possible the shirt was the
one worn Dy the murderer OF Mr.. Nathan.
-ghe captain only replied by saving that certain
gentleman. who was thoroughly cOnversant with
him tine Captain after inspecting the shirt, that
1t was the same worn by Mr.. Nathan and removed
from his body
Year: 1874

and the Commissioners were too busy trying to
untangle the muddle into which the Police Board
has fallen to give any time or attention to matter
80 trivial as q murder four years ago.
Year: 1874

eIt does not matter what comes OF this matter,
whether much or little, the causes for the appear
ance Of this article OF clothing in that place must
be investigated" said Detective Farley to
HERALD representative who saw him at Police
Headquarters yesterday afternoon. 1.-THE Chief de-
tailed me to ascertain the reasons for the strange
disappearance of the garment and Its sudden
temperance in such place after
such a length OF time. In the most CON-
monplace murder case such an investigation
would be deemed necessary; hut in great mys.
tery like the Nathan case 1t is essential that every
thing should be known. SO, when 1 was detailed
to take charge Of this new phase Of the case first
went up and looked the premises over carefully.
The men tell very strange story about the
finding Of shirt-strange, because there are
two editions OF 1t. one man asserts that he
found the garment more than two weeks ago in
the basement under the dumb waiter; the other
that he found it on Tuesday last in the carriage
house. Possibly both are correct. Alter obtaining
possession OF the shirt visited


"He identified the handwriting on the neck band
of the garment. This established the TACT beyond
doubt, that the affair was not a sell or JOB,
itself upon some Of us that 1t might be trick Of
some OF the enemies OF young Nathan to further
strange In the fact OF the disappearance of this
whch, Mr.. Nathan met his late, aud Its turning up
now"


EITHER THIS OR THAT.


"Have you any theory2" asked the HEALD
representative.


tThere are two theories. First, the shirt must
have been removed by the undertakers II was
on Mr.. Nathan at the time Of his death. II So,
tney can readily set us on the track. II they
recognize the garment IL does not very much
matter where 1t has been during this long inter-
val Second, IL they or the Coroner do not recog-
nizc the shirt, and are able to swear positively
that the SHIRT Is not the one removed from the
corpse, then the mystery becomes greater than
ever before. 1t will then be necessary to ascer-
tain If Mr.. Nathan was in the habit Of wearing a
scarf around his waist"


"Does not the theory suggest itself that the bur-
glary might have been long under contemplation
apd that the culprit might have provided himself
Year: 1874

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BOX OEEICE THREE DAYS In ADVANCE.
Year: 1874

VERY DIscOURAGING.-i: is not at
all encouraging to the enjoyment Of life
to feel that so much upon which we depend
for the comfort of living is rarely to be found
in its native and unadulterated purity, but
has been transmogri6ed by the devices that
keep steady pace with the arts of civili-
zation, into sham and deIusion if not a
poison and Il peril. 1t is bad enough to
quench our thirst with alluvial deposits,
but the universal spirit Of adulteration that
goes on from one conquest to another, with
ever increasing expedients to swindlc and
deceive us in what we eat anu drink and
wear, is positively disheartening. The
milk for babes and whiskey for men are
are alike tampered with and made instru-
ments of fever and delirium, instead OF
nutritive auxiliaries to health and vigor.
Tea without spurious admixtures of corro-
sive colorings is as difficult OF procurement
as coffee without its sprinkling Of chlcory
or strong suspicion of beans. The baking
tV"WVAo III "AACA tAS o8AC AOuSC"hC uC.
lights as accessories to her labors, bear
the impress Of the chemist and apothecary
in their composition; even our choice but
ter, with the touch of spring grass upon it,
may be transformed by ingenious processes
from refuse that appertains exclusively to
the province Of the soap boiler, and the
snowy lard that enters so largely into the
manufacture of the doughnut not seldom
attains its complexion by most questionable
means. And so on in the category Of
shams. It is needless to enlarge the un-
pleasant reflection, except to chronicle the
advent Of needless and cruel fraud on the
public in the production Of the golden
syrup or silver drips with which our buck
wheat cakes are fabricated, through Curl
Gus and poisonous compound Of lignin and
sulphuric acid.
Year: 1874

Il t.ss been remarked what large number of
candidates for Secretary of State are coming out.
Especially is this noticeable in the Northwest
ern Counties, nearly every one of which has a
candidate. Now, We would not say aught in dis


psragement of the claims of the great North
West, for they are not second to those of the
great South West; and either of these great Sec
tions is far more deserving and has received far
less favors than the great Neosho Valley used TO.
But that the great Northwest should conceive
that Secretary of State is the particular Office
that she needs-thereby hangs tale The great
Northwest is having it played upon her fine.


There is candidate for Governor very busily
at work setting up things for himself. He is a
good fellow, and = sharp fellow. His name is
not Sharp, but We shall call him Sharp, because
that is his gait Sharp's right-bOwer, whom we
shall call Paul Rivers, because his heart goes
gushing ont toward the people of the great North
West like q river, has lately made prospecting
tour through the great Northwest. In every
County he has found an active influential, aspir-
ing man, who thinks he deserves State Office.
He takes that man by the tip of the ear, and
tells him he ought to be Secretary of State, and
can be, if he only works it right. His friend
Sharp is in favor of it, and will do all in his pow
er in his favor The result is, the man in this,
that and the other County announces himself for
Secretary of State, and at once goes to work
spiking things for his delegate-said delegate, it
is understood, is to favor Sharp for Governor,
and his own County man for Secretary of State.
Rivers will soon visit the great Southwest, and
other parts of the State, which event shall be
known by the token that candidates for Secreta-
~ of State are multiplying in those sections. If
ahe thing pans out right, the result will be, that
every County will send delegate two in ia
NOr of Sharp for Governor, but each delegate
will want different man for Secretary of State.
As the nomination for Governor comes first, if
Sharp wins, he can stand of and laugh at the
scrub race for Secretary of State!
Year: 1874

~ An Arkansas paper has the honor, this
year, of first telling the story of a woman who
went to spring to do her weeks washing, TAX
ing her two children along. The oldest, while
playing short distance away, was bitten by
rattlesnake. Its screams attracted the mother,
who ran to its assistance; but while she was thus
absent, the youngest child fell into a tub of
water and was drowned Half crazed with
grief, she ran to a neighboring farm, where her
husband was assisting in raising house. He
was startled and unnerved by the news she
brought, that he loosened his hold on a stick of
timber he was raising, causing it to fall upon
him and kill him. The suake-bitten child also
died. The story brings the juice to our eyes
freely as it did in our childhood, when we first
read it, and every year SINCE We insist that the
poor woman should be disposed in some way to
end her misery; and we hereby give notice, that
if this is not done, we shall next year set the
story afioat ourself, and finish up the woman by
some improved humane process,
Year: 1874

BUFFERS STRONG HoLD.-Wise members of
Congress will refrain from entering into the
athletic sport of throwing mud with General
Butler. He has the advantage over most of them
that he throws his own missiles with precision
acquired by long practice, and the further ad
vantage that they commonly object to being hit,
while with him it makes no manner of difference
whether he is hit OF not. little mud more or
less doesn't show upon him. Accordingly, Gen.
eral Butler was the easy victor yesterday over
these gentlemen who indulged him with trying
shot or two. Our qualification at his victory
is q little dashed by the reflection that talents
for repartee which are almost wasted in Wash
ington, might have won their possessor eminence
among the wits and sages of the Board of Assist
ant Aldermen of the city of New York.-Nec
York World
Year: 1874

~ An Eastern Astronomer gives it as his
opinion that early in August the tail of the COM
ct will envelop both the earth and the moon.
He thinks it will have no other effect than a
slight change in the atmosphere of the earth, and
may also give an atmosphere to the moon. The
moon has been hitherto uninba bitable, mainly
because it had no atmosphere. If this want is
supplied, the moon will become grand opening
for new settlements. Who will get mp the first
cOlonyi great part of the country il billy and
volcanic, and gold doubtless abounds. Liberal
grants offered to railroads. A glorious opening
for those pure souls who find everything wrong
in the world. Here is a chance to start world
on the latest improved principles.
Year: 1874

The Ohio friends of Senator Thurman and
George ii. Pendleton at it again like two
tom cats in barrel The distinguished gentle
men themselves maintain distant and high
toned regard for each other, but their friends
have concluded that the Democratic party is too
close a corporation to hold them both The
Presidential nomination in 1876 is the bone of
contention, and while the Ohio Democrats are
quarreling about it, Gov. Hendricks is looking
on with a degree of complacency only equalled
by that which irradiates the countenance of the
man who is next" in a crowded barber shop.
Year: 1874

The Mobile Register gives the following good
counsel: The Register is not an organ of the
grange. 1t is something better, for it is a friend
that will speak the truth to them with fairness
and candor. Let them follow up the lead of the
veins of seund principles that some great man
has struck out for agricultural snelioratioB, i'm
provemeut and nfataal protection. But let
them be jnst to other callings, and beware that
in their blind confidence in every man that wears
the coors of their order, they do not fall into the
hands of those sharpest of bribers, the trading
political Office seekers
Year: 1874

" 1t is said by astronomers, that the exact
distance of the most remote stars from the earth
could be asOertained, if parallax of so much as
the 3600th of degree could be found Boys,
here is q chance for you to do something useful.
You cannot employ your spare time to better ad
vantage than in hunting for parallax.
Year: 1874

II The Reporter threatens to give its devil
pen and paper, and let him write for our benefit.
For the Lords sake, don't get out of that notion.
Some glimmering of common sense may then
find its way into the columns Of the Reporter.
Year: 1874

70" Now we are told that it was the devil of
the Reporter Office that missed sending the Chief
a paper. Come, now, throw off your natural re-
serve and confess that Jack Selover broke open
the mail, and stole our copy out, just to cause
troubled
Year: 1874

CVThe Beecher and Titon scandal, that is now
occupying large space in the public prints, is a
disgrace to the country. If two "sinners" were
to engage in affair half so scandalous as these
two great orthodox lights are edifying the public
WITH all the religious papers would refer to it as
natural result of ungodliness
Year: 1874

The Philadelphis Ledger says OF the
Baltimore Il Ohio Railroad Company's
Canal across tho peninsula that the
map and profiles of the route selected
have been filed in the office OF the Bee
retary of the State of Delaware, and 1t
is said the Company intends to issue
stock Immediately and commence the
word.
Year: 1874

From the new lork Arcadian.


know men who have been for years
under Italian tutorship in this city try
ing to learr how to swallow food Of sunny
Italy with ease and grace. Butafter all
their efforts they remind you Of an
anaconda swallowing bis blanket. I re-
member my own attempt not long ago in
the company Of Signors Muzio and
Strakosch. The delicious yermicular
food came in coils one hundred feet