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Year: 1877

THE majority Of the ways and means COM
mittee Is undoubtedly in favor of the reimpo-
sition of the income tax, and the committee
will in all probability on the reassembling of
Congress recommend its restoration.
Year: 1877

THE impression prevails in Washington
that the Administration is not using its pow
er and influence as it might and should
against the Bland bill. There Is no doubt
that the President will veto the bill, but it is
claimed that he does not vigorously oppose
its passage
Year: 1877

We DO not read anonymous etters and communi
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return preserve COM
munications that are not nsed.
Year: 1877

Little Things.


A serpent's fang is little thing, but
death is its victory.


A baby is . wee little thing, but
constable was once baby.


A lap dog is little thing, but he is
very silly thing besides.


A cross word is little thing, but it is
a what stirs up the elephant


The tongue is little thing, but it fills
the universe with trouble.


A star is little thing, but it can hold
this great world in its arms.


An egg is little thing, but the huge
crocodile creeps into life out of it.


A hornets sting is little thing, but
it sends the schoolboy home bowling.
An orange peel on the sidewalk is q
little thing, but it has upset many q
giant.


A kiss is very little thing, but it be-
trayed the Son of God into the hands
his enemy.


a word Is little thing, but one word
has been many mans destiny, for good
or for evil.


A spark is little thing, but it can
light the poor mans pipe, or set the
world ID burning.


The acorn is little thing, but the
black bear and his family live in the
oak that springs from it.


A minute is little thing, but it is
long enough to pull a dozen aching
teeth, or to get married and have your
own mother -in-law.


Life is made up of little things. Life
itself is but little thing; one breath
ess, then comes the funeral.-Josh BIZ
in9s.
Year: 1877

In all diseases affecting these organs,
whether they secret too much or too little
water; or whether they be afflicted with
stone OF gravel, or with aches and pains set
tied in the loins or over the regions of the
kindnevs these Pills should be taken accord
ing to the printed directions, and the Oint-
ment should be well rubbed into the small
of the back at bed time. This treatment
will give almost immediate relief when all
Il. L.. Eli
Year: 1877

Is the great blood purifier, Syphilis, and re-
moves Pimples and Humors on the face


Reason should teach us that blotchy rough or
plmpled skin depends entirely upon an internal
cause, and no outward application cure the
defect.
Year: 1877

During the late snowstorm an Old
farmer named Butler lived in northern
PENNSYLVANIA, a mile from the main road
and two miles from any neighbor. His
family consisted besides himself, of wife
and two daughters. Their house was
nearly buried in the snow, and their
only communication with the road was
heaped it's entire length with impossible
drifts. Their peculiar situation was not
discovered until farmers passing along
the road saw that the lane leading to the
house was drifted full.


A force at once went to work and cut
road into the old farmers. With the
help of his two daughters-his wife be-
ing too feeble to render any assistance
the old man had cut passage to his
barn through a bank fifteen feet high
and twenty-five in breadth.


They were compelled to use tins and
fire shovel, the only available implements
they had at hand This passage made,
they had commenced to dig way through
the lane to the road.


When discovered they had made con-
siderable progress. The old man had
been prostrated by the exhausting labor,
and his two daughters were at work
alone. The aid reached them most OPP
portunely, as the provisions of the family
were quite gone, and their wood nearly
used up. The women could never have
reached the road, and all would have
persisted with hunger and cold.
Year: 1877

We have heard the question asked fire.


quently, not only of physicians, but


others, what course drinking man


should take to rid himself of the craving


appetite for liquor. None but one who


has been there knows how terrible is the
appetite, and how difficult it is to resist


its demands. The desire for just one


more drink bescts every man who has


once fallen victim to the curse, and the
cries for something to fill up the void
without q return to the intoxicating cup
are heard everywhere.


We clip from the Boston 7rapetcr the
following information: A drinking man
can supply himself easily with the rene
dies used at nearly all the inebriate asyl-
,lms and be his own physician at his own
house, without the necessity, expense
and publicity of visiting the Washington
ian home or any other reformatory in
stitution. His laboratory need contain
only small quantity of cayenne pepper,
a pot of concentrated extract of beef, and
few grains of bromide of potassium.
When the desire for drink recurs, make
a tea from the cayenne pepper, as strong
as can be taken with any degree of COM
fort, sweeten it with milk and sugar, and
drink. This tea will supply the same
place that glass of liquor would fill, and
will leave no injurious effect behind.
Repeated daily, or 80 often as the ap e
tite returns, it will be but a days befoAe
tho sufferer will have become disgustod
with the taste of the pepper, and with
the appearance of this disgust disappears
the love of liquor. The fact is proven
every day. The extract of beef is to be :
made into beef tea, according to the di-
rections ON the pot, in quantities as may
be needed for the timo being, and fur
nishes cheap, easily digestible and
healthful nutriment, it being made to
"stay on the stomach when heavier
articles of food would be rejected. The
bromide of potassium is to be used care
fully and only in cases OF extreme ner-
vousness, the dose being from fifteen to
twenty grains, Dissolved in water. This
is u public exhibit of the method of treat
mcnt adopted at inebriato asylums. In
addition thereto the drinking man should
surround himself with influences which
tend to make him forget the degrading
associates of the barroom, and lift him
upward. He should endeavor, so far as
his business avocations will permit, to
sleep, bathe and eat regularly, and obey
the laws of health. BY the adoption OF
this course energetically and sincerely,
no man who has the will to reform can
fail to do SO. Hundreds and thousands
can attest the truth of these statements.
Year: 1877

A man who looked like a countryman
was lately walking in the street with n
packet in his hand, sealed and addressed,
with memorandum that it contained a
Thousand dollars in bank notes. AS the
bearer appeared to be at loss, he was
accosted by a man, who asked him what
he was looking for. The simple country
man placed the packet in the inquirer's
hands, and requested that he would read
the address, as he was unable to do so,
and had forgotten it. The reply was
made, as with agreeable surprise: "Why,
this letter is for me ! have been ex-
pecting it for long while" The mes
senger upon this demanded a dollar for
the carriage of the packet, which was
readily paid. The new possessor of the
packet fastened to an obscure corner to
examine his prize but, on breaking the
seal, he found nothing but a few sheets
of paper, ON which was written the simple
word "Doner'
Year: 1877

A song TO the press, the printing press
or the good old fashioned kind,
Ere the giant machine with its pulse Of stean
Elbows II ont Of mind.
In the days OF yore


Our fathers honr


by his sturdy limbs have wrought;
or iron or oak,


His teachings spoke,


The language of burning thought.
A song to the press, the printing press
As the carriage rolls mcrrily along,
His stout sides groan, as the bar pulls homc
Keeping time to the prcssman's song;
And the crisp, wet sheet
On it, errand fleet


by anxious hands is sped;
Though oft elsewhere
1t may sorrow bear


II brings to the printer bread.
Then here's to the press, the printing press
Though his days be numbered now,
A fond heart weayes of the laurel leaves
Agarland TO deck his brow;
Though thegiant machine
With its pulse Of steam


Has doomed his form to decay,
His stout old frame
From our hearts shall claim


Remembrance for many day.
Year: 1877

Tho Mcdicai Examiner says: Thou-


sands suffer from wakcfulness who are


otherwise in good health. To some of


them this becomes habit, and too often


q growing one. Some resort to soporitic


drugs, and this is how the opium crave


is often initiated. Others find wine or


spirits occasionally effectual, and are


thus induced to take alcohol every


night, and not few, it is to be feared,


have in this way laid the foundation of


mtemperance. There have, however,


never been wanting people who have


found way of going to sleep without re-
sort to such measures. The mesmerists
" one time were popular, and from them


q hest of people learned that looking at
any fixed point steadily would often sue
coed in inducing sleep. In the dark,
however, this is not SO easy; but this
difficulty was not felt in Braidism, which
consisted merely in closing the eyes and
trying to think they were Watching at
tentively the streams of air entering and
leaving the nostrils. 1t was asserted
that whoever would will to see this
stream as if it We're visible would infalli-
bly, soon fall asleep. We have known
the plan succeed, and it is evidently the
same in principle as fixing the attention
on any single visible object. Another
plan has just reached us proposed by an
American physician, DR.. Cooke, who
tells us that in numerous cases of Sleep
lessness it is only necessary to breathe
very slowly and quietly for few min
utcs to secure a refreshing sleep. He
thinks that most cases depend on hyper
emia of the brain, and that in this slow
breathing the blood supply is lessened
to make an impression. Ger
tainly, when the mind is uncontrollably
active, and SO preventing sleep, we have
ascertained from patients whose observa-
lion was worth trusting, that the breath
ing was quick and short, and they have
found they became more disposed to
sleep by breathing slowly. This sup
ports DR.. Cookies practice, but at other
lines his plan quite failed. 1t is certain
y worth any ones while who is OCCASION
lily sleepless to give it trial. In doing
50 they should breathe very quietly,
'ather deeply, and at long intervals, but
not long enough to cause the least feel
ng OF uneasiness. In fine, they should
initiate person sleeping, and do it
steadily for several minutes.
Year: 1877

At an agricultural meeting, held at
Madbury, Sir Massey Lopes warned his
bucolic hearers that they must expect
serious competition in the meat trade by
the importation of fresh carcasses from
abroad. The warming is timely and
jutlicious one, for the export of fresh
meat from New York has already become
staple trade; and the new process is
perfectly applicable to much longer voy-
ages than that from the Hudson to the
Mersey.


The Liverpool merchants who have
gone into the trade are persons of posi-
ton and standing in the commercial
world, who are determined to push the
new enterprise with vigor and determine
ton. In order to prevent repetition of
such fiascoes as that which lately threw
the whole Smithield supply into the
hands of the retail butchers of London
at about penny the pound, to be resold
to their customers at the ordinary retail
prices, the importers intend opening
shops for the sale of American fresh
meat in Liverpool, Manchester and other
provincial towns. The fact is that for
the present exorbitant price of butcher
meat the retailer is chiefly responsible;
but these special shops will keep the
butcher in order, and they may be set
up the reader that the public have al
ready become accustomed to similar
changes in the machinery of distribu-
ton.


After the butcher comes the market
salesman and last of all the farmer, who
has often good reason to complain of the
paucity of his returns. And if the
landlords take large portions of their es-
tates into their own hands, as several ex-
tensive proprietors in the north are re-
ported to be about to do, the farmers
lookout is of the darkest.
Year: 1877

The London Examiner says: Once
confess to your fashionable doctor that
you have got head, a chest, stomach,
spine or an auricle, and it is all up
with you. You get possessed; and once
possessed of fashionable doctor there
is no power on earth to bring deliver
Year: 1877

1t seems unfortunate that the Centen-
nial couldn't have been extended over
the first of January. This leaves man
with no resort when he sees bill collector
coming, except the old one of stepping
down cellar and leaving word that he has
been called away to the funeral of rich
uncle out West.
Year: 1877

allowed to sit in the dress circle of
the Bath theater. once resided
in western county. For the time
being the high sheriff of county
is the direct representative of the
queen. 1t is an honorary Office,
and costs the man who holds it ten
or fifteen thousand dollars at least.
He meets the judges of assize in
state, attended by his jayelin men
and retainers. The Judges are for
bidden to receive his hospitality,
for some old-world reason or anoth-
er. They are therefore entertained
at dinner once at least during the
assize by the lord lieutenant. |
had the honor of an invitation to
dine at one of these banquets by
the earl of B., but be excluded the
high sheriff because he was a man.
ufacturer. Not even the royal seal
of majesty protected the plebeian
sheriff from the aristocratic snub
direct.
Year: 1877

flash and CLEAN with startling bril-
liancy and force. His voice is
strong, sonorous and rich, full of
melody and power, with sort of
weird pathos and languor which it
is impossible to describe. His elo-
cution and action, his language and
style of speech are purely and dis
tinctly oratorical, betraying in everN
gesture and infection of the voice
the born orator-the man who. if a
great occasion should arise to call
forth all his energies, could stir the
pulse Of multitudeS, and rouse
Christendom to engage in a second
crusade. Beginning very slowly and
deliberately, he gives out his text
standing erect in the pulpit, with
both hands on its ledge. For a
time there is little or no action be-
yond an occasional raising of the
right hand, but as he gradually
warns to his work, the action be-
comes more vigorous and frequent,
the utterance more vehement and
rapid, until by nicely balanced and
artistically conceived gradations he
rises into the rare attitudes of fer
vid eloquence, and electrifies his
audience by one of those passion
ate and trilling outbursts which
send a delightful and indescribable
tremOr through the entire congre-
cation. This was particularly the
case when he went to describe the
Suferings Of our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ. At first the preacher
leant over the pulpit, and talked
familiarly to his hearers, as one
might do at his own freside. Then,
step by step, he led them on from
one phase of feeling to another,
until having prepared them for
what was to follow, he suddenly
drew himself erect, and raising his
right arm aloft, hurled forth
for there is no other word
to describe it - such a tor
rent Of descriptive eloquence
that one felt compelled to hold his
breath until it was over. AS to the
sermon itself, it was simply a plain,
straightforward, tersely expressed
description Of our Lords suffer
ingS, devoid of metaphor or flower
of speech"
Year: 1877

81. Louis Republican.


Some mountaineer Of the Pacific
coast tells q San Francisco paper a
strange story of a custom of the
"0wassoes" or Rabbit Indians. 1t
is that Of alternating their babies.
The narrator had often heard the
story but never believed it, which
was creditable to his sense. He
went to see for himself, and saw it
with his which is rather hard
on the eyes, or else discreditable to
his character for truth and veracity.
He goes on to say that the Rabbit
Indians, at the approach Of winter,
on account Of a scarcity of food,
sink their children in the bottom
of the lake on the borders Of which
they live, and resurrect them again
in the spring. That they put them
in birch barch "mokocks," like an
egg shell, sealed up air-tight with
gum, bury them beneath the ice for
the winter, shake and wake them
up again in the spring, and find all
alive and well, except about two
per cent. of deaths-not more than
would naturally have occurred had
the children been running around
loose. But be it said to the credit
Of this investigating mountaineer,
that he did not go among the Rab-
bits in time to see the children sunk
in the lake for the winter, nor did
he wait to see them brought up
alive and kicking in the spring. lie
was present at the wedding feast of
the Lady Louisa Na-ga-nhp's
daughter to one Boyle, a broth Of a
boy, from Galway. The marriage
feast lasted a week. He saw some
unseated mokocks" and asked if
the story of putting their children
to sleep for the winter was true.
They assured him it was, and stated
that there were three or four hum
dred of their young people now
under the water since November,
and they expected they would al
most all be safe and well about the
middle Of May, when they would
be able to supply them with food.
This was the evidence, and the
mountaineer came away satisfied
that the Rabbits would not lie about
a few little young ones. Besides,
he saw no children around, and the
solemn word of the Indians ac-
counted for their absence. The
medicine men confirmed the story
of the custom, but our white doc
tors may well be permitted to doubt
it, and excused if they do,
Year: 1877

The London Standard in an ar
ticle on Masonry, says:


During the last two years the
desire to become Mason has
amounted to a positive mania, and
at the present moment it has been
computed that nearly one out Of
every four or five men of the upper
and middle classes is a Mason; and
thus Masonry may have already
begun to lose some Of its interest
in the eyes of outsiders" who used
to look on,a Mason as most mys-
terious being.


1t may be asked, what is the
secret Of this popularity of Free
Masonry, and what is the special
influence at work which makes it
just now more popular than ever ?
A full answer to this would involve
a long disquisition. Suffice it to
say that the first and chief attrac-
tion of Masonry is the mystery with
which it is surrounded, combined
with an antiquity more respectable
and universally greater than has
been attained by any religion in the
world. Although the fact has been
questioned, it is generally believed
that Masonry is Of pre-christian
origin, and since its origin its prin-
ciples have remained unchanged,
and one great central idea has CON
tinued to run through all its forms
and ceremonies, though they have
received, from time to time, in diff
ferent countries, certain modifca-
tions, additions and diminutions.
Here, then, we have the great fact
that worldwide institution has
existed for an immense length Of
time, and that up to the present
moment the outside world is in ab-
solute ignorance Of the specific
forms and ceremonies, the signs
and passwords connected with this
wonderful fraternity; its general
principles, which it makes known
itself, are all the non-members
know of it. This is in itself enough
to attract candidates for admission,
prompted as they probably are in
many cases by no higher feeling
than that of curiosity.


If, as some people say, there are
no secret signs and words by which
Masons can recognize one another,
the curiosity is none the less to as
certain for a fact whether this be
so or not; for it would be equally
as astounding a fact that the secret
of there being no secret has been
kept as that the real secrets should
have remained inviolable. 1t was
curiosity which led Hon. Mrs.
Aldworth to secrete herself in a
Masonic lodge and discover the
secrets Of the craft, the story of the
"lady in the clock case" being by
no means apooryphal, as even the
generality Of Masons themselves are
inclined to treat it. 1t is simply a
historical fact, that the lady Just
mentioned did so secrete herself,
and further, that when discovered
she was at once "made a Mason"
She continued to take an active in.
terest in the order throughout her
life; she founded the Dublin benev-
Olentjnstitution for orphan daugh-
ters of Masons, and her portrait
still hangs in lodge-room in Cork,
and under it. in glass case, the
Masonic apron and jewel she used
to wear. Whether curiosity will
ever incite another lady to attempt
to elude the vigilance of the tyler
remains to be seen; but it may bo
taken for granted that men, who,
perhaps, are really as much crea-
lures Of curiosity as those to whom
they specially attribute this weak
ness, will continue to be Influenced
by it to join the mystic fraternity,
Il
Year: 1877




BY telegraph IN the GAZETTE. ,nt


WAsHlNGToN, July 13.


Attorney General Deven's is sending
official letters to the various U. 5.
Marshal's and other important Off
cials under his department calling
their attention to the President order
prohibiting officials of the Government
taking any pant in the management
of political parties, and directs those
whom it is sent to inform all officers
who are under them, of the contents the
letter. The secretary of the Kansas Re-
publican association called on the Presi-
dent yesterday to ascertain whether the
above mentioned order applied 10 per-
son holding offices in the various Stale
associations.


The President was under the impress
sion that the associations were social in
their character, but on being informed
that large amount of poliucal work was
done by them he emphatically asserted
that no person in the Government en-
ploy would be allowed to take any part
whatever mpoItics, as 1t is his intention lo
forever divorce politics and civil service SC
far IS i'll MIN lies the power. This decision
virtually abolishts the Republican State
Associations, Us there 10 but little to keep
them intact outside Of politics.