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Year: 1879

Experiments prove that sound is SIM
ply applying force to the air which moves
in Il succession of nnduIatory vibrations,
Every word spoken is a breath force
pushing column OF air from the exte-
rior Of the month. When sounds arc
produced in IL long orgain pipe or q
short one the difference is made thus !:
the vibrations are made slow in the first
and quick III the other. Vibration or
waves are one thousand in a second in
one, for example, and four thousand in
the other in the same second. But
wavelets of sound move oil in space
with equal velocities and both arrive at
the ear at the same instant.


On the law of accoustics depends the
pleasures derived from music. If tho
notes did not travel with equal speed
there would be utter confusion, all har-
mony being destroyed if one sound ar
rived too late for carrying on the chain
of acoustic vibrations within the ear.
But the apparatus for receiving sound
and anal yzing it SO as to derive both
qualification and instruction from its
impulses nn a few threads of neryes
finer than the smallest thread ever
spun, is one of the curiosities of animal
organism.
Year: 1879

Work on the Railroad is advancing to
this place slowly but steadily. The road
bed on the east side of the EermiIioa
Bayou is being put in order aud work
on the bridge across the Bayou is pro-
crossing as fast as circumstances will
permit. We have been informed that
lie force employed in track laying be-
tween this place and New Iberia, has
lately been increased, and no doubt
cars will soon run to the Bayeu.-Laf-
a~~i Advistey, Dec, Gths
Year: 1879

We are unable to furnish our readers
with the total number Of votes cast IN
this parish on the 2d inst, because
several of the poll lists are locked up
in the boxes and we could not get at
them.
Year: 1879

A New Jersey letter to the
Examiner lays the blame at
the door OF shiftless farmers
for SO many farmers sons
leaving agriculture for other
pursuits. He says:


"That the fault of all this
lies with the parents them
selves, Is plain from tie fact
that with the thrifty farmers
the number Of sons who leave
home and forfeit their birth


right is small indeed, BY the
sale use of an acre of ground,
a pair Of horses which they
can call their own,or perhaps
the entire charge Of the ponl>
try, they become interested,
and the farm is made to have
attractions for them. Let
good agricultural books and
papers be furnished them, and
their education be encourag-
ed in every praper. way, the
waste places Oh the farm be
| planted and made fruitful,
Year: 1879

Greenwood Flag: Upon a
more careful reading Of the
Attorney Generals opinion Of
the high school act,it appears
to us that a school conducted
as a public school, to which
all educable children in the
district are admitted free,
could draw the fund provided
for by the act. The objection
is to paying the money to pri
vate enterprises.
Year: 1879

At the falls of the Willamette the
Oregon City fishermen now gather in
the beautiful salmon. The current
just below the falls is very rapid and
the seethlng white caps skim along,
chasing each other in dizzving sue
cession. The fishermen pull up the
river in their boats near the shore,
and upon reaching the proper point
dash into the current. The boat is
tossed about like cork, and swept
down the river at fearful rate. by
strong and rapid pulling the boat
reaches the eddy, and as suddenly
glides smoothly along as it was tossed
by the current and waves. The boat
is landed in a sheltered cove on the
island, and with large dip-nets ON
their shoulders the fishermen strike
out for the little eddies and holes ust
abreast of the falls. The roar of the
water is deaiening to them, and the
clouds of mist almost binding, caus-
ing the water To run from the rubber
coats as if in a drenching rain. The
salmon, after firing themselves out in
attempting to leap over the falls, will
swim off to the eddies to regain cour-
age. The nets are sunk in these ed
dies, and occasionally lifted up, often
bringing a beautiful fish to the sur
face, which is at once dispatched by
striking it on the head with a mallet.
when sufficient number is caught
the boat recrosses the dashng cur
rent to the city, and the market. At
times some large fish are taken, one
caught recently weighing forty-tive
pounds.
Year: 1879

The Transcript of a recent date, in
relation to the present state and the
prospects Of this town, says:


AS spring opens business is taking
fresh start i'll our city. More i'm
proyements are going on, and more
projected, than for several years past
a new life seems to have been in
fused into our citizens, and they are
going to work earnestly for the good
OF the place. The completing Of the
railroad has greatly helped the bust
ness of the town, and although not
directly observed, is every day in
creasng it, and will still more do so
in the future. Every new business
Is an incentive to others, and this
summer we believe a grcateran bet
ter change will take place. The bail
has commenced to roll, and although
it may roll very slow at first, it should
be kept rolling. Our city is backed
up by enormous natural resources
sufficient to make it a wealthy city,
and only needs the spirit of progress
enfuscd sufficiently to develop her
means. 1t is the natural centre of a
large scope Of country, and every
business induccment should be held
out to the people to come here, in
stead of sending away to other places
for wants which our business men
should supply. In part this matter
is getting corrected, but there are
other departments of trade which
should follow in the same way. Let
this spirit be manifested, and 1t will
not be long before there will nothing
be heard OF hard times.
Year: 1879




Washington Special to Chicago Tribuncl


1t is the general opinion among
lawyers familiar with the subject,
that the Arlington eiectment suit,
which the United States District
Court has just determined in favor of
the Lees, will also be decided by the
United States Supreme Court, to
which it has been appealed, in their
favor. The Judgment of the lower
court restores the entire estate to
him, and calls for the ejcctment Of all
tenants who have been in possession
since the sale Of the estate under a
tax sale in 1868. This includes the
United States as tenant of the Ma
tional cemetery, the $4,000 union
soldiers dead that lie therein, and the
government S ignal office and station
at Fort Whipple. The decision will
undoubtedly give encouragement to
the managers of the bill, which pro-
poses that congress shall purchase
the property. 1t is just to General
Lee to say that he has no desire to
disturb the patriot dead, or to regain
possession of that part of Arlington
cemetery proper, which is but a trif
ling portion of the whole estate.
General Lee has only wished to es-
tablish his entire property rights, and
is quite willing to surrender that por-
ton of the estate, or the whole Of it,
to the governments at a fair valuation.


The decision shows that the courts
have been unwilling to sustain one
Of the arbitrary acts of the great war
minister, Secretary Stanton. 1t is
certain that he declined to receive a
tender OF the taxes made prior to the
sale by the northern relatives of Gen
eral Lee, on the ground that Gen
eral Robert +. Lee was rebel. and
that no relative should be permitted
to redeem his property. Secretary
Stanton, the court says lad no au-
thority to do thisS and it is pract
cally upon that act alone that the
whole case turned. The Judge who
rendered the decision cannot be
charged with being southern sym
pathizer.
Year: 1879

1t is stated by the St Paul Pioneer
Press that during the coming summer
there will be complete re-survey of
the next hundred miles (beyond the
section now under contracU of the Mis-
souri, Y Yellowstone division of the North
ern Pacific railroad, and that it will be
put under contract in the fall Pre-
parations for this re-suivey are now III
progress. Completion OF this adIi-
tional section will not be possible the
present year, but next year it will be
pushed with the opening of spring
Year: 1879

Subscriptions to the stock of the
Northern Pacific railroad are moving
again. A loan of two million dollars
for the Missouri division, now under
construction. has been promptly taken
This is a most favorable indication for
the future Of the road. 1t is more
significant Of its future progress
than anything that has occurred since
the suspension nearly six years ago
Year: 1879

From the Enterprise


The bell for the new school house was
placed in position last Thursday in the
tall tower of the building. The work
was accomplished without accident, and
when everything was finished the first
peals OF the bell were heard. After
hearing the bell ring everybody con-
cIuded that the judges at the Paris Ex-
position were right in awarding the first
premium TO this bell. II is soft and
mellow, yet loud, in tone reminding
one of


"ThoSa bells OF Shandon


Which sound So grand on


The pleasant waters OF the river Lee
Our little city has certainly secured one
thing OF which it may be proud. The
bell will call many generations OF young
people to school, and tell the passing
hours TO thousands who will live and
die within the sound of its mellow
music.
Year: 1879

GAINESVILLE Enterprise,


The tobacco crop Of this region is be-
ing gathered. Although the crop is
small, it is OF good quality, and will
bring high prices. There is an excellent
prospect for a good tobacco market dur
Ing the next year.
Year: 1879

The worst stories told ot the Milwau- kee House of Correction seems to be borne out by the ascertained facts. The Investigating Supervisors report that the officers of the House have tortured the inmates, gagged them, shut them up in foul cells so small that thay could not stand upright or lie down at full length, denied them necessary care and nutrition when sick, and generally con- ducted themselves with barbarity ot which the Supervisors say that it is ''s disgrace to the age in which we live. ' Yet the Supervisors, who should have found out this shocking state of things long ago, content themselves with rec ommending the dismissal of the inspec- tor who has practiced these cruelties That is not an adequate punishment If he is guilty of the crime laid at his door, says an exchange, New Year. Day should find him lodged in th' State prison, working out an ex emplar. sentence
Year: 1879

Ada Clifton, the girl who shot her self at the Thanksgiving ball at Robin sons Opera House, is at the Cincinnati Hospital, and nas nearly recovered from the effects of her wounds. We received letter from her addressed jointly to us and the public, in which, among other things, she says "You are all doubt less ready to believe every thing that is said of me. I know that everybody thinks I must be one of the wickedest women in the world. Just imagine that I was respectable girl and had shot myself. Every one would sympathize with me and say: "Oh, poor girl !; l am so sorry; but because I happen to be poor sporting woman the words are, 'Oh, you may be sure she didn't intend to kill herself. She only wanted to create sensation They are mis- taken. I was, and am, tired of leading life of shame, and have long thought of ending it. Ladies who have come to see me have said, 'Oh, you are so wick ed why don't you reform?' Why don't they say, Come and I will show you how to lead different life?' I would like to go to work, but I am almost positive that I will not get chance. I beg of some one to give me chance to become once more a lady," It will seem as though there was strange re- mlssness on the part of our Christian ladies if this girl is permitted to go back to life of infamy for want of a

 little help and encouragement from them.-CSnci,ss,ati Enquirer.
Year: 1879

SIR HENRY HAvE1ooK has been left a large fortune, but there is an awkward condition attached to it. He is to take the name of Allan in future in return for the sudden wealth thrust upon him. Tennyson declined some thousands a year recently, which he was offered on change of his name, and it is hard on a man with such an honored name as Hav- clock to be obliged to part with it.
Year: 1879

THE REASON why express search has been ordered to be made in Zululand for the Prince Imperial's watch is that, attached to the chain, his Highness wore that relic Ca fragment of the true Cross) which belonged to Charlemagne, came into the hands of the first Napoleon, and was always worn by the late En- peror, who regarded it as a species oi talisman
Year: 1879

The true story IS told of a well.to-do New Hampshire farmer who last spring have his fifteen-year-old son mother less lamb; Johnnie brought it up care- fully, and this fall the father sold it with others and put the money in his own pocket, an act which the Msnohes- ter Mirror indignantly characte rizes as the meanest robbery that could be perpstrated. It will not be strange if that youth speedily develops an ire sistible longing for town life, or the western country, and the old man will murmur because he is left alone in his age 1
Year: 1879

Never send an article for publication
without giving the editor thy name, Tor
thv name oftimes secures publication to
worthless articles.


Thou shouldst not rap at the door OF
printing office; for he that answereth the
ran sneereth in his sleeve and loseth
time.


Neither do thou loaf about nor knock
ing down type, or the boys will love you
a. they do the shade trees-when thou
leavest.


Thou should never read the copy Oh
the printers case or the sharp and hook
ed counter thereof, or he may knock thee
down.
Never inquire of the editor for news
for behold it is his business to give 1t to
at the appointed time without asking
for it.
It is not right that thou shouldst ask
him who is the author of the article, for
it is his duty to keep such things unto
himself.


When thou dost enter his Office, take
heed unto thyself that thou dost not
look at what concerns thee not, tor that
is not meet in the ight of good breed
ing. ,,.
for it is not ready to meet thine eye that
thou mayest understand. .,


Thou shouldst not delude thyself with
the thought that thou has saved few
cents when thou hast secured q dead
head copy of his paper, for whilst the
printer may smile and say it's all right,
hell never forget thy meanness.
Year: 1879

A little 6.year old boy in Natchez,
Miss, had been listening to the remarks
of legal.minded uncle in regard to the
prospect of an indicted person getting
clear by securing continuance OF his
case;from time to time. Shortly after
the little fellow got into a scrape, which
secured for him from his mother prom
ise of q little dose of slipper at an early
period. He anxiously sought his uncle
for advice on the subject, but could get
sympathy only, with no prospect OF
relief. Finally, said the youngster:
" Uncle, don't you think you could get
mother to continue the case? Ii we
could get continuance think could
get of. he got off.-Boston 7rave|er'
Year: 1879

a GREAT work was recently perform.
oo IN one day in changing to the stand
ara grade the 700 miles of the Iron Noun
tam railroad. Three thousand men did
1t and the manner in which it seems to
have been planned was perfect.
Year: 1879

The National Board of Health are taking
steps to enforce rigid quarantine at the
mouth of the Mississippi river, and to pre-
vent, if possible, the introduction Of yellow
fever in New Orleans. A large building is
to be erected below New Orleans, and a
number of officers are to be appointed
whose duty it shall be to make critical in


spection Of every vessel bound up the river
for New Orleans, and to detain such as come
from any country where yellow fever exists.
Year: 1879

COMMENTING on the steamboat dis
aster at Lake Quinsigamond, the New
York Euening Post says: cit is we'll
nigh unaccountable that persons who
ordinarily behave themselves with So
briefly should when in crowd become
fairly insane in their desire to get to a
particular place ahead of their neigh
bors. The commonest dictates of pru.
ie ice, all rules and regulations for the
a::ty of the person, and even the fear
of bodily injury or death, are thrown to
the winds when crowd gathers to catch
a railroad train or a boat. It often
seems as if pleasure seekers deliberately
preferred to be killed to being left. Tht
only safe way for transportation compa
MES is to treat crowds precisely as the,
would so many children, and the rationa
members, of crowd should patiently
submit to such treatment for the sake o
the general good"
Year: 1879

MISS SUSAN KING is a Maine woman
who has amassed a fortune of half a mill
ion of dollars by the sale of tripe in the
city of Boston. That was her founda
t'on otone to fortune; investing the
money derived from thia in rool oatata IN
New York, she has gradually but surely
built up large business. She was a
poor girl and made this by her own clear
brain and individual exertion.
Year: 1879

To Me EditOr Of The Tribune.


SIR: So many people want to know what
Anna Dickinson purposes doing and many unauthor
lied and contradictory reports have been put m circua
ton that must beg space in your paper TO give gen
eral answer, aud to do 1t over my own That I
have not work for the last year il solely In
sequence OF heath propose 10 answer TO almost In
Vulnerable requests TO talk about the platform and the
sscr from the patform and later IN the season. DO
what 1 upon the stage IN new piece Cf my own
writing and In engagement already made


May add that hope my old friends Will be half ss
Had 10 | shall he 10 meet them and that
wish one and ali "a Happy New Year.


ANNA l.. DICKINSON
PhiiGdelDhid, Penn, Jan. 2, 1879.
Year: 1879

NEW YORK, August 1S.-A special from At
lanta gives the following:-Three OF the men
VINO were In the mob that murdered Standing
the Mormon elder, have been captured and
LOGGED In the Whitfield Jail. They declare that
standing killed himself; that they and their
comrades took him into the woods for the pur-
about to commence he picked up O pistol and
snot himself deliberately In the face There
are witnesses who swear that Clawson, Stand
lDgs colleague, confessed that this was the
truth, but he now says that he told this at the
demand Of the cOnspiratOrs and to save hts own
life The murderers will be taken before the
court at its next session.
Year: 1879

LITIGATION AT LONG BRANCH Chancellor
Runyon, OF New Jersey, has refused to dissolve
the Injunction obtained by the Mansion House
aga nst the Ocean Pier pavilion at Long Branch.
AS II is Claimed to obstruct the view from the
Mansion House, and Is In violation OF the dee
OF the hotel property, seventy feet OF the south
end OF the pavilion must be removed.
Year: 1879

SENATOR Hill. is occupied with legal business
IN Georgia. He has just refused to make pub
lc speech at Macon, on the ground that he is
busy, that the platform OF the campaign had
not been laid down, and that he thought per-
baps he should be silent at this time, when the
press OF the North was so ready to take up and
m1SconStIue what was said
Year: 1879

A WOMAN'S DELIBERATE SUICIDR.-Soon after
Rache, On board the steamer Bristol of the Fall
River line, sent for bottle OF champagne, and
after drinking It went to the purser Of the boat
and gave him a diamond necklace, a watch, her
Steteroom key and note directed to gentle
manin Philadelphia. She then went up stats
took off her hat, and laying it down on a radia.
tor walked out On deck and jumped Off. In
off and Immediately sank AS she could not be
seen from the steamer the captain did not think
1t best to lower q boat The steamer proceeded
side Of Hell Gate. In her purse was found
note addressed to Joseph Langfeld, 507 Arch
street, Philadelphia, stating that she could not
live longer without him aud that she hoped he
would not feel unkindly toward her. Deceased
wore black silk dress, linen duster, diamond
earrings and black bonnet. She was apoa-
TentIy l5 or 80 years old, OF light complexion
and weighed about $50 pounds
Year: 1879

mind is not all full of guns and base-
balls there are beneath his immature dreams.
hopes, passions What does his father know
of thernP What has he tried to know! How
many words of real recognition during TINS
year has he spoken to the Lad to win his con-
fdence, to get his hand upon the rudder ot MS
life? There Is the mother at the heaa
of the table. All the children know what
she has done for them they know that nobody
can take her place to them in all their hves'
But do they say sol


Let us try the value of another and better
giving than money this Christmas. III there
is word of cheerfulness or encouragement.
which, if we were dead, we wogld wish we bad
spoken. let lis speak it now. If there is one
human soul whom we can help in his fight
against his worse self, let us help him on
this Christmas time in the name of the Brother
of us ALL
Year: 1879

that purpose; tn word. they think u good policy
to bait with herring to catch - whale.


II IL hardly the province of TnE TRrBrvE to pro
uotlncc upon tho moral question involved. The
Boards always have claimed the right TO nse the
money contributed in the way IN which according TO
their own judgment, the desired ends viii BE attained
Hence there is q good deal Of discrepancy between
their idea of foreign mission work and that of the
ordinary churchgoer. The poor widow IN
the village church drops her yearly dollar
in the baS and GOES home calculating
how many actual Bibles it viii put
in the hands Of actnal heathens. But the wiser
Board see the long line of connecting links, officers.
secretaries and clerks the missionary, his wife,
children and servants their clothes, house.
hold expenses food. costs Of travelling
etc. etc. which lie between the widow and the
Bible in the hands OF hesthens the dollar bridges
over a very little bit Of the way. There is much TO
be said on both sides of this question: as to what s
right and polite and honest but IL is not for The
TRIBUNE to say it, IL concerns only the contributor
and the spender of the money.


But concerning the gratuitous distribution OF
missionary papers we have a right to an opinion,
and we very much question the policy OF such
plan. These papers arc, rs rule. OF
old standing, some OF them from hffy 10
seventy years Now n paper Of seventy years of
age il worth anything must be seifsupporting;
paper of any age to be worth anything must be SELF
supporting. .SecOndly-These papeis are dis-
tributed gratuitously. not among rreligious
people for they are not likely to give to
rpisso ons in any case; but invariably to pew
holders in churches, class who if they take
any interest in the subject are able and willing 20
pay for information about it, and who are much
more likely to value information and be guided
by opinions which they have voluntarily sought
and for which they have honestly paid. Thirdly
These newspapers do not conhne themselves
to giving religious information they are made
attractive by secular news, taken from secular
newspapers, which paid for it. To take money
given To send tie Gospel to the heather aud use
it for the gratuitous distribution OF such matter
may be generous way of conducting business. but
it Is not what onr Western friends would call
/" clean or square,"