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Year: 1879

An English scientific paper remarks
as a curious physiological fact that all
though open air life is SO favorable to
health, yet it has the apparent effect Of
stunning growth in early youth. While
the children of well-to-do parents, care
fully housed and tended, are taller for
their age than the children of the poor,
they are not SO strong in after years
"The laborers' children, for instance,
who play in the lonely country roads
and fields all day, whose parents lock
their cottage doors when leaving for
work in the morning, SO that their off
spring shall not gain entrance and do
mischief are almost invariably short for
their age. The children of working
farmers exhibit the same popularity.
After sixteen or eighteen, after years Of
hesitation as it were, the lads shoot up
and become great hulking, broad fell
lows, possessed of immense strength.
Hence 1t would seem that indoor life
forces growth at the wrong period and
SO injures." By way Of comment on
this the Scientific american says" The
inference is plausible, but wide of the
mark. The children of the we'll to do
are tall not because they are kept in
doors, but because they are we'll fed and
saved from severe exposure. The child
rem of the poor are stunted not by too
much sun and air, but because they are
i'll fed. Give the first class plenty of
out door play, with their proper diet
and they will be strong as well as tall ;
give to the laborers' children the food
suitable to their years and no amount
of sun and wind will stunt them. On
the contrary, they will not have to wait
till age brings capacity to turn strong
food to bone and muscle, and time to
overcome the evil effects Of the hard
times in early life, but will grow from
the first steadily and sturdily."
Year: 1879

A very prepossessing young lady can
vassing for popular book. stepped into
the Office of a broker, and finding him
apparently at leisure. asked him to look
at the book. The gentleman informed
her that it would only be a waste of
time, as he conld not purchase it.


"Oh never mind that. calculated the
vivacious young woman, sit won't cost
anything to look at it. even if you don't
buy. should like to have you read
some portions of it. and see what it is.


The accommodating broker took the
volume, and, glancing at the title page,
commenced perusal of the introduction.
This finished, be began at the first chap
ter and read leisurely along. 1t was
about o'clock when he commenced and
an hour passed silently away. when the
book agent began to show signs of ner-
vousness, which were apparently un-
noticed by the broker, for he never took
his eyes from the volume, but read
steadily on. Eleven o'clock came, and
the lady began to walk smartly around
the room. glancing occasionally out Of
the windows and at noon the broker was
still reading, and the agent wore de-
eidedly troubled countenance. A few
minutes before one o'clock the broker
laid the book down, leisurely donned
his coat and hat, and remarked:


"That is "a very good book. am sorry
| cannot read more of it. but am obliged
to go to dinner If you will call this
afternoon, | will continue reading it..
Year: 1879

Mothers live for their children make
self-sacrifces for them; and manifest
their tenderness and love so freely that
the name Mother is the sweetest in the
human language. And yet sons, youth
full and aged, know but little of the anx-
iety, the nights of sleepless and painful
solitude which their mothers have spent
over their thoughtless waywardness.
These loving hearts 60 down to their
graves with those hours of secret agony
untold. AS the mother watches by night
or prays in the secrecy of her closet, she
weighs well the words that she will ad-
dress her son in order to lead him to a
manhood of honor and usefulness. She
will not tell him all the griefs and dead
ly fears that beset her soul. She warns
him with trembling lest she say over
much-she tries to charm him with
cherry love while her heart is bleeding.
No worthy or successful man ever yet
knew the depth of the great obligation
which he is under to the mother who
guided his needless steps at the time
when his character for virtue and purity
was so narrowly balanced against
course of vice and ignominy.


Let the son do his uttermost to sooth
his mothers pathway let him obey as
implicitly as he can her wishes and ad-
vice let him omit nothing that will con-
tribute to her peace, rest and happiness,
and yet he will part from her at the
tomb with his debt to her not half dis
charged.
Year: 1879

tons, and the variations and incidents
which mingle with all know of this
primitive family abode. l weep to think
that none of those who inhabited it are
now among the living; and if ever I fail
in affectionate veneration for him who
raised it and defended it against savage
violence and destruction, cherished all
the domestic virtues beneath its roof,
and through the fire and food of seven
years revolutionary war. shrunk from
no toll, no sacrifice to serve his country,
and to raise his children to condition
better than his own, may my name, and
the name of my prosperity be blotted
forever from the memory of man.
Daniel WebSter.
Year: 1879

There is one so cial dishonor about
which no man thinks it worth while to
say much in reprobation, but which does
more harm than any other known to US
we mean the dishonor of repeating
conversations, opinions. circumstances,
not made under promise of secrecy. but
which high sense of honor would treat
as confidential. if haply high sense of
honor were the rule. 1t is odd that one
of the best things boy learns at school
is to eschew tale bearing and keep faith
with his companions. while one of the
most common practices of society is to
betray the trust contained in talk. and
repeat to all what has been told in im-
piled confidence to ole. This habit of
repeating what we hear is as fatal to the
best intercourse of minds as to the finer
feelings of society.
Year: 1879

Life is too short to waste


In unavailing tears,
Too short to spend in bootless grief
In coward doubts and fears.
Too short to give it up


To pleasure; OF to sow
One hour in guilt to yield at last
Eternity of woe.
Time lags not on its way,


But spans our days in haste;
Iflife should last thousand years,
'Twere still too short to waste.
For, short-lived as we are,


Our pleasures yet we see
Evanish soon. they live, indeed,
Fen shorter date than We.
But ever with us here


Bids sorrow. pain and care;
The shortest life is long enough
Its lotted grief to bear.
To the old the end is nigh;
To the young far off it seems;
Yet neither should dare to toy with life
Or waste it in idle dreams.
For by each Times servant waits,
Though not for servants wage;
And the same worm nibbles the bud of youth
That gnaweth the root of age.
Live, therefore, as he lives


Who earns his share of bliss:
Strive for the prize that virtue wins,
Lfe's not too short for this.
Year: 1879

To PREVENT DISEASES AMONG Chill
DREN.-A correspondent says that he has
followed recommendation from lady
to evaporize little carbolic acid daily
in the heaters as disinfectant and
preventative against contagious diseases,
and the results have been most satisfac-
tory. 81 have large school. and out
of the whole number only two pupils
have been sick with scarlet fever, and
even these cases were indirect ones. In
my own family, which consists of four
teen children-fortunately not all my
own-and FIVE adults. not one has been
afflicted with any malady. not even with
sore throat, for longer than day or
two. We certainly keep the house mi
nutely clean, ventilate it thoroughly
every day, and never heat the rooms
above sixty-six degrees Fahrenheit. L
have never seen the like


We think it probable that the use of
small quantity of carbolic acid in the
manner above mentioned may. in some
cases be beneficial. But if it were the
golden rule in every family to keep the
house minutely clean, ventilate it thor
oughly every day, and never heat above


3 4 H.s d
sixty-six degrees Farenheit there would
probably be little need of carbolic acid
or any other drug.-Scientttic american.
Year: 1879

Few men have SO thrilling an ex-
perience as Philip Lynch and Joseph
Pendergrass. The former was blown
from high brick chimney at Hunters
Point, N. Y, during recent storm.
The latter had an almost miraculous
escape. The chimney was one hum
dred and fifteen feet high, and the two
men were on scaffolding, Pender-
grass on the upper tier and Lynch be-
low him. The wind struck the chin
ney with terrific force, and the first
scafolding began to sway back and
forth, cracking and straining.. PEN
dergrass, seeing the danger, hugged
the brick work of the chimney. As
the storm swayed the scafolding from
it's fastenings, Lynch was either unable
to obtain a secure hold on the CHM
ney or too much confused to make the
attempt. Suddenly the upper part of
the scafold gave way with a crash,
and was hurled to the ground, a
tangled mass of poles, p1anks and
splinters. Lynch fell with the scaffold,
while Pendergrass, with desperate
effort, sprang upon the top of the
chimney, and was left hanging on the
narrow edge of brick, one hundred and
fifteen feet from the ground. Lynch's
mangled body was picked up by some
of his fellow workmen, and carried to
the office of the company. He was
not yet dead, but lived for three hours.
Pendergrass, in the meantime, re-
mained clinging to the top of the
chimney, while the storm swirled
oh him oo0~oSrNe IN +1~oofo,, tho
overthrow of the structure. He sue
ceeded in finding partial protection
from the hurricane by crouching on
some pieces of planks that had been
placed inside the mouth of the Chin
ney to aid in its erection. He
says that when he felt the
scaffolding giving way under him
and sprang for the chimney cap he
called to Lynch to follow him. Lynch
made desperate effort TO gain the top
of the structure, but lost his footing and
tumbled headlong to the bottom. strik-
ing in his descent every tier of the
lower portion of the scatfolding which
did not fall. But another danger beset
Pendergrass. A fire had been few
minutes before started in the furnace
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the new chimney. The smoke and
gases from this fire had begun to pour
up through the chimney, and they al
most smothered Pendergrass, who
dared not quit the place where he
crouched, from fear of being blown
from the chimney-top by the gale that
howled over his head with in
creasing violence, while the fumes
from the chimney almest took away
his breath. II saw my DANGER" said
Pendergrass, and gave up all hope of
being rescued. But just then saw
some men below me doing all they
could do to relieve me, and my heart
bounded with hope" These were some
sailors whose names could not be ascer-
tanned. They courageously volunteered
to climb the chimney, and clambering
up the frail poles and planks that re-
manned clinging to one side of it, they
succeeded in rescuing Pendergrass,
who, his nervous system having under
gone terrible strain, tainted in the
arms of his resouers. He suffered
somewhat from inhaling gas and smoke,
but is recovering.
Year: 1879

A GENTLEMAN, accompanied by his
wife, arrived at this place last MI ght on
the midnight Erie train from the East.
They were on their way from New
London, Conn.,, to their home in the
State of Minnesota, and deviated lit
tie from their direct route in order to
visit the great Falls. Arriving 80 late,
they concluded that they would not 20
to a hotel, and waited in the Erie
depot until after four o'clock, when
they started down town to see the
sights. They strayed first down to the
bank of the river just below Winners
mill. Here the gentleman attempted
to bathe his face, when he suddenly
became dizzy and fell helplessly into
the boiling rapids. The screams of the
strangers wife attracted the attention
of William Dinan, who was watering
his horses near by. Dinan tied his
horses to tree and rushed after the
woman, who was running toward the
Cataract House. Dinan says he could
just distinguish the form of the man
in the rapids, and he told the terrified
woman that it was of no use to at
tempt his rescue, that he would GER
tainly 20 over the falls. The woman
ran through the gate leading to the
little park between the Cataract House
and the old River Hotel, and hurried
down the bank to the raceway below.
Dinan followed moment later, and
his establishment can hardly be imag-
ined when he saw the dripping stran-
ger sitting on the steps in the embrace
of his weeping wife. After falling into
the water, the gentleman said that he
hardly realized where he was for mo-
ment. He could not swim, but he
struggled as best he could to reach the
shore. This, Of course, was an utter
impossibility to accomplish, but as
good luck would have it the drowning
man was hurried against the bulkhead
of the pier inclosing the raceway back
OF the Cataract House, and was car
ried into the quiet waters, where he
managed to secure hold on the ma
sonry, and climbed out upon terra
frma. The mans escape from death
was little less than miraculous. He
hardly realized at first the magnitude
Of the danger he had escaped. He had
not seen the falls, and he questioned
Mr.. Dinan as to whether he would
have been killed to acertaintyi If he had
been carried over the cataract. Mag
ara Falls Gazette.
Year: 1879

The art Of conversation consists in
the exercise of two fine qualities
You must originate and sympathize.
You must possess at the same time
the habits of communicating and lis
tening. The union IS rare but irre-
sistible.
Year: 1879

will you keep al eye on my horse,
my son, while l stay in this store 2


Yes, sir.


Stranger goes in, comes out an d
finds his horse missing.


Where is my horse, boy p


'He's run'd away, sir


Didn't I tell you to take care Of
him, you young scamp


No, sir you told me to keep an
eve on him, and | did, tul DE got
clean out Of sight
Year: 1879

All the fairs give the first premiums
aud special awards of great merit o
Hop Bitters as the purest and best
family medicine, and we most hearth
ly approve of th3 award, for we
know they deserve it. They are now
on exhibition at the State Fairs, aud
we advise all 10 test them. See
another column.
Year: 1879

THREE million free baths were taken
in New York during the season just
closing, and it is confidently expected
that the metropolis will give Repub-
lican majority next month for the first
time in its history.-Cjncinnotj Ca
zoffe
Year: 1879

IT is little over twelve months be-
fore the people of Tennessee will be
called upon TO elect a Governor.
There is plenty of time to select can
ddates. Let parties first resolve tc be
honest and do right. After that it
will be easy enough to fix up the
slate
Year: 1879

THE small conclave Of regulators
which was held in the State Capital
last Thursday will serve a valuable
purpose with orthodox ministers of
the gospel, II they want an impress
sive illustration of the doctrine Of total
depravity, they have only TO point TO
that assem- blage and they have it.
Year: 1879

sent Term of this Court, which they
agree to publish free of any charge to
the county, it is ordered that the Clerk
OF this Court be and he is hereby di-
reeted, after the adjournment, 10 make
out fall itemized copy from the Order
Book, leaving out the Deeds, and to
give to each editor copy of the same,
theClcrk to be paid fair compensation
for the same.


Ordered that the basis of taxation OF
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Compa-
ny in this county be fixed for the year
1873 and 1879 at the sum heretofore
agreed upon, viz: three hundred and
forty thousand dollars, or at the rate OF
ten thousand dollars per mile upon the
thirty-four miles of road Of said compa-
ny, and upon the payment by said COM
pany of the legal county and district
levies, upon said basis the latter TO be
assessed upon the respective amounts OF
said sum OF s34O, 900 apportioned to the
several districts by all order hereinafter TO
be made, the sheriff will execute to said
company receipt in full for county and
district levies for said years.


1t is ordered that the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad tax shall be divided
among the different school districts as
follows:
Year: 1879

MIR. CRANKY Bull is about to make journ-
allsm lively in Illinois. Ga his release from
the Chicago Jail short time ago he set about
getting money with which to start weekly
paper to be known as the ThundeyboH, and
to be ''devoted to the interests of down-trod-
den humanity and the sporting classes" The
capital required was only fifty dollars and to
raise it he sold his body in advance to class
OF medical students for fifty dollars, one
clause in the contract reading as follows:


And to The end that the parties of the first
part may have a reasonable assurance of
speedy return from the investment by them
made, it is agreed by the party of the second
part that he shall conduct the said journal
known as the Thunderboh in such manner,
BY assaults upon desperate characters or such
other methods a, may recon- mend themselves
to his Judgment, as to make it probable that he
will be assassinated or killed within reason
able space of time.
Year: 1879

HERE is good specimen of Bostonese
taken from the correspondence of The Boston
Transcript: Boston "knows that her genius is
not to be borne to the grave with the pres ent
generation, but that it will perpetuate itself.
She is desirous to behold its fruit budding,
and award it its place in her heart and life."
Year: 1879

ONLY one amendment of Importance was
added to the new patent law bill as it passed
the Senate. This amendment provides that,
in suits brought in courts having jurisdiction
in patent cases for alleged infringement of
any patented article, device, invention, etc
when it shall appear that the defendant pur-
chased the article from the manufacturer. or
from a person or firm engaged in the open
sale or application thereof, and applied the
same to his own use, and not for sale nor for
making a product for sale, if the plaintiff
shall recover judgment for nominal damages
only, the court shall adjudge that he pay all
the costs of the suit. If the plaintiff shall
not recover 500 or over, the court shall cause
him to pay his own costs unless it shall ap-
pear that the defendant, at the time of max
ing the purchase, had knowledge OF the actual
existence of the patent.
Year: 1879

Lesson in finance by the Cincinnati Com.
mercsal: Resumption reduces the bonded
Indebtedness by reducing the cost of the
bonds. When we call in per cent. and
put out per cent. bond we save per
cent. That is clear, isn't it? Very well,
that is the effect Of the establishment of the
public credit. That is one of the many uses
and advantages of resumption"
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters ana comman
cations The name and address of the writer are ID
all cases Indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty OF good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve conn.,
munications that are not used
Year: 1879

Apropos OF this, is 1t that people rush with
such unseemly haste into poesy when per-
son dies. 1t seems to be without reason or
rhyme. Hardly has the ultimate throb OF
the weary heart pusated, when some kind
but execrable friend proceeds to embalm the
remains In lachrymose pentameter. When
the funeral procession winds its way to the
lonely churchyard the horses have to keep
step to the cadence of an ill-timed but kindly
dithyrambic; and the dull thud of the sex
toms shovel finds itself synchronous with the
signing measures Of threnody in s. and 6s.
All well-a-day! If the dead must have
swan song let US see that it is not the result
OF too hasty thought; that the rhythmic obol
VIII pass as genuine coin with the dusky
skipper of the Styx. ANsERINUs.


All the way from the gate of the noun.
talns E. M. NJ. sends some verses. This is
the fabric of song the mason builds:
Year: 1879

Quite q curiosity was found few days
ago near the camp of the workmen on the
new toll road, near Yankee Fork. 1t is
mountain rams head, deeply imbedded In
u pine tree, and about six feet from the
ground. The right horn is outside and
curls partly around the tree. while the
front of the skull and most of the left horn
is covered with the growth Of the wood.
The tree is thrifty pine, fifteen inches
through. How that rams head came
there will always remain q mystery to
scientists, but men Of the mountains, who
are familiar with the fighting propensities
of the wild buck. can easily explain Il.
The ram. whose head is now q part OF the
tree, stood on the upper side Of the hill.
while his enemy stood near what was then
pine sapling. When the present relic
made rush vt ram No. 2. the latter step
ped to one side. and the old warrior 3
head, coming in contact with the young
tree, split it wide enough for one horn 70
enter, and he was LETT dangling at tho
mercy of his foe. The rest q easily
guessed. The survivor Of the tight d.
liberately butted his unfortunate adversary


until there was nothing left Of him bot the


skull and horns fast in the wood. kred


Myers, one of the proprietors Of the toll
road, will have the part Of the tree con-
tanning the rams head sent to the Smith
sonian Institute.-Yonkec Fork, Ner.,
Herald.
Year: 1879

Three decisions were rendered yesterday by CHIEF
Justice Waite In appeals in admiralty cases argued
before him in the United States Circuit Court. The


first is in the of Louis Mayer against the steam
boat Herald and the barge Artio On the evening Of
July 81. 1874. the steamboat Connecticut left New
York for Troy. having in tow twenty-five or more
canal boats and two bsrges Near Four Mile Point.
on the Hudson River. the steamer Herald was
met on her way to New York from Albany
with four canal boats and the barge Artio.
As the tows were passing each other the
Artio struck the bow of one OF tho barges in tow
of the Connecticut. which in turn struck the barge
Late EARLY. causing her to sink. Judge Waite
holds that the Artio at fault in not keeping in
the wake Of the Herald. and that this the sole
of the collision. decree for the bellans for
$1.610 is given against the Arrio.


The second decision is in the case Of William Il.
Davis and Others vs.. Charles H. Pendergast and
others. In September. 1866, the parties executed
charter party by which the ibellants chartered to
the respondents the bark Mary Il Louisa for
y voyage from New York to Rio Janeiro.
Brazil. By the provisions of the charter forty


ve running days should be allowed for loading and
discharging. and demurrage at the rate OF f9
per day il detained longer. provided such deten-
ton should happen through the fault Of the respond
the vessel detained thirteen days the stpu-
lated time Judge Waite. in his decision, says that
after careful consideration OF all the evidence he Is
clearly of the opinion that the detention beyond
the stipulated days was caused solely by the
default Of the respondents within the mean
ing OF the charter. and that o consequence
they liable for the stipulated demurrage and in
tefest from january ~. 1867. The charter money
and demurrage payable in lilo Janeiro As no
attempt has been made to show the legal rate of in
terest at that place he orders that it shall be calcu
lated at six cent per annum decree is ordered
for the ibelants for the legal value In dollars OF
Elf and accrued interest.


The other decision was in the case of Hibbard
Youngs. owner Of the canal boat Herbert Phillips,
against the steamtug Fidelity. belonging to the De-
partment Of Charities and Correction. The action
brought to recover damages for the loss Of the
canal boat by striking on rock near Backwells 9
Island when the Fidelity endeavoring to tow her
into safe position. A decree was entered in the
United States District Court against the tngboat,
and appeal taken In dismissing the ap-
peal Judge Waite holds that the Fidelity was
exempt from seizure on process issuing out OF q
Court OF Admiralty for claims against her because
she public property and in the government SER
vice. He says further that public vessel Is part Of
the sovereignty to which she belongs; that her
liability is merged in that Of the sovereign and that
under these circumstances redress must be sought
from the sovereign, and not from tho instrument he
uses in the exercise OF his legitimate functions.