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Year: 1874

For months have been in the posses
sion of facts concerning the alarming men
1al condition of a young lady residing on
Prospect street. and. who was once the
pride of her parents and the delight of her
friends. vet who recently became SO chang
I'd as to cause great anxiety to her rela-
lives and gossip among her neighbors,
md the case being one of great singularity
now demands publicity. Her father said
he first noticed her idiosyncrasy last JAN
larv, one morning at the breakfast table,
when she not only acted as if in state of
great happiness but said. '' If You please"
and Thank you," as she asked for food
and WAS served. A day or two later her
mother found her in her room darning
stockings instead of reading novels, and
she also appeared in the kitchen day or
two later, and insisted on helping her
parent in the labor of baking and making
pastry and bread. A physician was at
once called in, who. unknown to the
parents. watched her through the KEY hole
for an hour. while she was engaged in re-
pairing her brothers trousers and sewing
buttons on her fathers shirts. The Doc
tor said he had practiced twenty-five years.
md never during his entire practice had
he seen any young unmarried female man.
liecl SUCH y III ptoiiio 40 lAOoC "AAhNoocu-
Her appetite, seemed to increase rather
than diminish, and the rose flush was OBJ
served on her cheeks which had not been
seen before. But the most singular symp-
tom developed few days since, when her
father. hoping to draw her from her new
IDEAS, placed two hundred dollars with the
remark:


There, Mamie, rig yourself out with
nice new dress"


Il do not need new dress now,n she
Immediately replied; but ifyou will let
me keep TWENTY-FIVE dollars of this to pay
old Mrs. Macfannigan's rent-her hus-
band has Just died, you know-Ihad much
rather you would take the rest of the
money and apply it to that new property
YOU have purchased"


The old man looked at her a few min
utes. and then fell upon the floor in anguish
saving, between his sobs:


Her mind is gone, Her mind is
gone.


called to see her yesterday, and found
her boiling rice pudding and putting a
mansard roof of frost work on fruit cake.
But there WAS look in her ewes that told
too plainly that she was not long to be
seen in her elegant home. A solitaire ring
on her finger told of the near approach of
the winged and youthful destroyer who
shoots his victims with arrows: and, as /
left the premises, young man in spring


bottom pants and white hat. bounds up


he steps with the air of one who feels that


the affair will soon be over. She will pass


away some dav in June. No cards.
Year: 1874

a war against brandy is the peculiar
form the temperance struggle assumes in
Sweden. The Swcdc gets drunk on bran
DIV, if anything. but Of late years the inces-
SAINT activity of the temperance societies
and the high excise duty on this liquor
have forbidden the laboring man the lnXu-
ry of a spree, except nj rare intervals. 50
that it had come 10 be fondly believed the
foe was beaten down for good. Recently,
however. there has been universal rise in
wages throughout the kingdom, and the in
ebriating cup has once more come within
the easy reach of the poorest working
man. And now the temperance folks are
redoubing their efforts to bring moral
forces into action. Societies have been
formed among the WORKING men. which
are widely spreading, the main idea OF
them being. not total abstinence but the
restraint of intemperance. Some of their
novel provisions are, that no married man
shall 90 into public house at all. and the
single man only ut meal times. when he Is
allowed to partake of liquor along with his
victuals. The married man. although
shut out from the public bar, is not dcbar-
red from his glass of brandy. which he
NAV keep stored in the cupboard at home


All public treating is also forbidden and
the trangression of any of these rules sub


iects the delinquent to'a fine. The town O


Gothenburg is the most original in the
methods for the suppression of drunkenness


Here the whole spirit trade has been con


ferred upon a company of philanthropists
who run the business solely for the benefi


of the town. 1t contrives that the public


houses to which licenses are dispense,
/ shall derive no profit from the traffic il


liquors, forcing the hotel keepers to deriv,


their income solely from Il legitimate hote


business. The result has been that the low


and dirty drinking-shops, formerly givel


over to mere guzzling and carousing. hav


been transformed into neat and tidy res
taurants and hotels. where wholesome foo


and unadulterated liquor are supplied.
Year: 1874

TbcIIate Charles Dickens, it is generally
known. was separated from his wife. In
tba third volume of Forster's Life of
Dickens" Just issued in London the great
novelist himself explains his mysterious
family troubles;


Poor Catherine and | are not made Tor
each other, and there is no help for 1t. lt
i not only that she makes me uneasy and
unh,nDv. but that make her so, too, and
much more so. She is exactly what you
know, in the way Of being amlable and
rom1lvinr; but we are strangely lil-as-
sorted for the bond there IS between us.
God knows she would have been thou
sand times happier if she had married
another kind of man, and that her avoid
5nce of this destiny would have been III
least equally good for us both. / am often
emf to the heart by thinking what II pity II
is. for her own sake, that ever Tell IN her
way: and if | were sick or disabled TO-
morrow | know how sorry she Wou'u pe'
and how deeply grieved myself to thlnk
how we had lost each other. But exactly
the same incompatiblity would arise the
moment was well again; and nothing on
earth could make her understand me- OF
suit us TO each other Her temperament
will not 90 with mine. 1t mattered moi
so much when we had only ourselves t'
consider. but reasons have been GroWing
since which make it all but hopeless tlia'
we should even try to struggle on What
/. nov bpf,IIinr me | have seen steadlIN
coming. ever since the days you remem-
ler when Mary was born and l know
too well that YOU cannot, and no one can
help me. Why have written l hardly
know. but it is a miserable sort of comfort
that Won should be clearly aware OF how
matters stand.


This is great foolishness, and very mucf
the same kind of stuff that makes ordlna,
~ men appear rs knaves or fools,
Year: 1874

THE TRANSIT OF VENUs.-Venus ceas-
ed to be the morning star on the 23d of
February. She has since passed to the
east side of the sun and commenced her
course as evening star, at first being so
near him as to be hidden in his rays She
will soon be discernible an hour after sun
set, in the twilight, continuing to increase
her apparent distance from the sun, and
setting later each evening until the 29th of
September, when she will reach her great
est eastern elongation. She will then ap-
proach the sun in same way, setting ear
lier every night, reaching her greatest
brilliancv on the I'd of November, and
coming to her inferior con juncting with the
sun on the 8th of December She will at
that time appear to pass like round black
spot across the suns disc, and crafty the
observing world with sight never before
witnessed by any living inllabtant of the
EARTH the long anticipated Transit of We
nus.


No astronomical event has ever been
looked forward to with such eager inter
est; no such generous appropriations were
ever before made by the governments of
the most civilized countries on the globe
and no such hopes of obtaining convincing
proofs of the most delicate mathematical
computations of celestial bodies were ever
before INDUCED in by the distinguished as
Economical observers of the age


For this seemingly insignificant event
the passing Of tiny black star across the
suns disc-sOme of the best astronomical
scholars in the world, aided by the best in
struments that scientific progress can fur
nish, will cheeriully encounter arctic cold
and tropical heat with zeal and enthusi-
asm that we trust may meet with a fitting
reward. The accuracy, the delicacy, the
patience. the eagle eye and the practised
hand required for these observations are
almost beyond the comprehension of the
unscientific mind But the practical.re-
suit which may be reached will be intelli-
gible to unlearned students of the myste-
ries of the sidereal universe, give a firm
basis on which to compute celestial meas
urement, and show the wonderful capacity
of human reason in measuring the vast
distance between us and the sun by the
passage of a planet across his surface.


We have many things to be thankful for
in this favored nineteenth century One
of these blessings is that the transit of 1874
will occur when we can watch its progress
through the eyes of other observers. An
other is, that the transit of 1882 will be
visible throughout the United States, and
that our own eyes may perhaps, witness
the august phenomenon, aided by the in
creased means afforded by eight years ad-
vance in scientific -Prouidcncc
JOurndt
Year: 1874

IAN thoughts. all passions, all delights,


Whatever stirs this mortal frame,


All are but ministers of Love,


All feel his sacred flame"


Not quite. For instance, try anger: try
hunger; try fright; try love of poverty; try
love of power. Not quite all. dear Cole
ridge! But good many of them. Love.
full, complete. perfect human love, is to
feel and express and receive the counter
part of all the attractions which make one
human being desire Observation-Disclosures
respect, friendship, enjoyment, sympathy
ii. e., co-enjoymen0. affection, passion.
All these are unselfsh. AS for selfish
consciousness which the wonderful English
minnesnger, by a noble material fallacy,
included in his assertion, they are compre-
hended, if at all, only negatively, us crime
and misery are included in Christian soci-
ETY.. to be reversed and eliminated But
without any one of these unselfish elements,
love, though it may be love, is imperfect
Still more, or rather most of all, is any
one of them alono an imperfect love. The
old saying that Pity is akin to love" is
Just as true, and no more, as that beauty is
concerned with love. The beautiful object
must be lovable too; the pitied object must
be lovable, too, before there can be a love
in consequence of the beauty or Of the pity
When Xerxes bejeweled the beautiful tree,
he showed how love for a tree is not love-
Whatever love comes of pity may be felt
for dog. Of sympathy in the sense of
co-suffering, ofpain by reason of the pain
Of another, the like is true. Whatever
love comes Of such sympathy may be felt
by man for beast, or by man for man. 1t
is the sympathy of co-enjoyment which is
a necessary part of love. This is true
equally toward God and man; the truth is
so deep as to be of the substructure of both
loves, and it is conclusive accordingly of
the criterion of unselfishness for human
love. And let no one say that such an anal
ysis is cold or passionless. It is, or at
least is susceptible of being. vivid with
sustained. deliberate passion which is to
any other what the suns steady, white
heat is to the thin flash of tinder.-F b
| Perkins, in Old and Nesc.
Year: 1874

A Yale professor has a conundrum for
somebody to solve The other day stu
dent was absent from recitation, and, by
sad mistake, handed in two excuses there
for. One said that serious illness detained
him in his room; the other asserted that
he was member Off sailing party. which
had been becalmed in the bay until recita-
ton was past. Both facts are duly attested,
but the professor is nevertheless puzzled.
Year: 1874

Most of the young Vermonters probably
have the impression that the stigma of
African slavery never rested upon their
state, but correspondent of the Woodstock
Post has unearthed document showing
that slaves were captured from the British
during the revolutionary war. and after
ward held so in the state An old epitaph
to slave has been found, too in burying-
ground at Attleboro. There is also law.
passed in 1886, to prevent the sale of
slaves out of the state, and sundry old
people remember slaves that were AGED
when they were yonng.-E1change.


There should be IN additional epitaph
or two in the burying- grounds of Addle-
head and Asinusville.
Year: 1874

A very old man named Flagg, whose
property in Waterbury was sold out for
debt more that a generation ago. recently
visited his old home, when he was con
ronted by 4 man who had, at the time of
the failure, bill of Sl20 for costs that
had never been settled The debt had in
creased to 81 90 and the money was ex-
torted on a threat to take the life of the
old man.
Year: 1874

Young Her moral sensibilities become
obscured by the life which exists about
her, and into which she may possibly at


lines get a glance through the customs OF
her father or her brothers.
Year: 1874

MATCHEs-In 1850 Godfrey Haucknitz.
in London, applied phosphorus to the max
inc of fmatches He first rubbed it between
folds of brown paper till it took fire, and it
was then made to ignite stick, one end of
which had been dipped in sulphur This
was the earliest form oft common match
such as we use to-day, but the cost of the
phosphorus prevented its being largely
used for a long while. A very few match
es, consisting of small sticks dipped first in
sulphur and then in a composition of
chlorate of potash. flowers of sulphur, gum
or sugar, and cinnabar, which last colored
them red. were sold in a little box for fif-
teen shillings. or nearly four dollars Ac-
companying these in box there was
little bottle of sulphuric acid, into which
the match being dipped it was instantly
ignited by the chemical action induced be-
tween the acid and chlorate of potash In
1928 Mr.. John Walker, a chemist in Eng
land. introduced the lucifer match. which
was lighted by drawing it rapidly over


folded sand-paper. From this time on the
steps of improvement were many, and
now we have nothing in our houses more
useful, more inexpensive than the match.
Year: 1874

Many patients die from deprivation of
common salt during protracted illness.
1t is common impression that the food for
the sick should not be seasoned, and what
ever slop may be given, it is almost inno-
cent of this essential of life. In the milk
diet recommended in sickness. common
salt is used freely. the milk being boiled
and given hot If the patient cannot take
the,sual quantity in his food. let it be Civ
en- in his drink This matter is impor-
tant. The most marked example of this
want of common salt is seen in surgical
disease, especially in open wounds. With
out supply of salt the tongue would be-
come broad, pallid, puffy, with tenacious
pasty coat. the secretions arrested. the cir
culation feeble, the effusion at the point of
injury serious, with an unpleasant watery
pus, which at last becomes q mere sanies
or ichor. A few days of a free allowance
would change all this, and the patient get
along well.
Year: 1874

1t was once said after o Sunday
morning service in Boston, at which
Edward Everett ofiiciated, that he
offered up the most eloquent prayer
ever listened 10 by Boston congre.
cation. Mr.. Evore.ts prayers may
have been more eloquent, but it would
have been difficult for him TO make
them more pointed than that which
was recently delivered by tho Chap
lain of the United States Senate. His
words are reported as follows:


40 Lord our God, we come In this place to de-
plore before Thee the spirit Of lying which is
abroad, and we bcsecch Thee to rebuke the giant
demon of SANDER that stalks forth, casting upon
all the earth fearful shadow paralyze the hand
that writes the wilful detraction palsy thetongue
that utters wanton celumny, the things which
tend to undermine all the confidence In tho good
and give a malignant power to oil the bad ele-
ments for the Generalization and destruction Of
human society. Let Thy flaming spirit tako
vengeance upon the false nccuser and consume
this spirit Of ruin from all Of the land. This we
ask in the name and for the sake Of Him who was
truth itself. Amen.s


This was pretty sharp; but we do
not think the reverend gentleman
performed his whole duty on the sub.
ject of lying by simply offering a
prayer.


Let him go to work now and preach
sermon about it; and in order that
ho may do his subject full justice, we
will take the liberty of suggesting one
point Of view from which we think it
may be treated with peculiar aptnoss.


Ofcourse he will begin by denouncing
lying in general. and with somo other
commonplace remarks. Those bo can
make to suit himself, and as they arc
not likely TO attract attention we
shall not dwell upon thom.


1t is when he comes to treat OF ly.
ing about this administration that our
advice may serve him. And the point
which we should make, ii we were
preaching on that subject, is, that
while in point Of sinfulness it is wicked
and in this respect like oil other lying
it is also entirely void Of every excuse
and worse than useless, because there
is no lie which can be told or invented
about this Administration which il
half as bad as the truth. To lieagains,
the present Administration, therefore
is to lie without any object, and mere
ly for the sake Of lying.
| Let the Chaplain put all this intt
his sermon, and we think 1t will be I
very good sermon and VIC will prin'
it for him in the Sun, and will pu'
over it in big letters, "The Sunlight o
Truth on Lying" The Chaplain viii
thus clear his conscience and do {
public service.--N. Y. Sun.
Year: 1874

John F. Lacy accomplished the feat
of crossing Long Island Sound Sep
tember 1st, in o twelve-foot row-boat
drawn by kite. The kite was ten feet
high by eight feet wide, and was at
tached to the forward part of the boat
by a strong cord, about GOO feet of
which was let out. The wind was
blowing northwest. OF about 2 o'clock
P. M, when the start was made. The
fresh breeze carried the boat steadily
out into the Sound. A sail-boat ac-
companied the kite-propelled adven-
turer, but the strength Of the Kite was
so great that the sail-boat was left be-
hind before the Long Island shore was
reached. When about half way across
the Sound the wind hauled to the west,
but the kite continued to draw as we'll
as before, and Port Jefferson vas
reached in three hours and o quarter
after leavingi Seaside Park. The dis
tance twenty-five miles, and the boat
drawn by the kite reached the shore at
least mile ahead of the sail-boat which
accompanied it. Old Field light was
the point sailed for, and it was made
exactly, and thus on the voyage about
four points to the windward were made.
As the success of the experiment had
been pronounced impossible, the achieve
ment was very gratifying, and dem
onstrated that the theories of would-be
philosophers were all wide from the
mark. The kite was covered with fine
white Gotten cloth and had tail OF
listing" 100 feet in length.
Year: 1874

The cK.-Perfect health demands
that the clothing about the neck should
be very moderate in quantity, and worn
so loose as to prevent the slightest COM
preston. The great error frequently
committed in clothing this part of the
body consistsin wearing such an amount
as to overhead and weaken the throat.
and thus render it easily susceptible to
cold, or in wearing it so tight as to re-
tard the circulation of the blood to and
from the head. Great care should be
exercised upon this point, as the arteries
and veins leading from the heart to the
brain are situated so near the surface in
the neck that slight compression of
these serves to check the flow of the blood.
Many cases of congestion of the brain
and headache are partially caused by
too tight collars and cravats.
Year: 1874

~ While manipulating the windlass
OF a well the other night party who
had been indulging in whisky let the
handle slip when the bucket was half
way up, and naturally got chuck un-
der the chin that sent him over neigh
boring fence. "Sold again" he NUT
tered as he climed to his feet; "might
anode-hic-better than TOGO fooling
around 80 much water. Bechter boots
Ill stick to whisky after this"
Year: 1874

* A little boy who was starved by
a stingy uncle (his guardian), with
whom he lived. meeting lank grey
mound in the street one day, was asked
by his guardian what made the doc so
thin. After rejecting, the little fellow
said, II suppose he lives with his
uncle"
Year: 1874

A peculiar kind of clay is found in
many places in our mines, which is not
a little curious on account OF it's creep.
ing propensities. A stratum of this
clay will crawl out into tunnels and
other openings in a manner much re-
semi ling the action of toy known as
PbaSoahs serpents. You can't see
where 1t is coming from or what moves
it, yet it is constantly crawling out. In
the drift which is being run into the
American Flat mine, at depth of 75O
feet, they have a stratum of this clay.
In order to keep the drift open, it is
necessary to keep one man constantly
engaged in cutting away the clay as it
pushes itself into the drift. This is not
owing to the shaking and swelling Of the
exposed surface, as in that case after q
few removals Of the surplus material
hole would be left. The whole body Of
clay appears to be creeping. It has the
almost imperceptible motion of the
glacier, and, like the glacier, irresista-
bly, advances, smashing everything in
the shape of timbers that may be placed
in it's way. The cause of this creeping
is probably to be found in the pressure
of the superintendent or surrounding
strata of rock. It's motion is not un-
like that seen during the Strengthening
out of piece of pith which has been
compressed. There appears to be O
limit to this, creeping of the clay, but it is
not reached until many feet have crept
out into the drift, tunnel, shaft or cham
Der, and been cut off and removed.
Its action is so mysterious that some of
the miners are ready to explain it by
simply saying that it is because "nature
abhors a vacuum" If left to its own
course it would very soon close the drift,
tunnel or other opening so completely
that no one could see that an opening
had been made init; indeed, thousands
of feet of drifts and tunnels in our
mines are so closed. In the Caledonia
mine much trouble was experienced
with this creeping clay. We have
heard of streak of it two or three feet
in width rising up in the floor of a
tunnel until over thirty feet had come
up and been cut off. 1t is bad any
where, but is most mischievous in main
shafts. For this reason mining men
always seek a spot, in which to put
down such shafts, where they are likely
to have solid country rock (rock outside
the vein) to great depth below the
surface. The sad experience of early
days taught them the lesson Virginia
Enterprise.
Year: 1874

About $500 persons were present at the game
between the Athletics and Mutuals, played on the
Union Grounds yesterday. The contest opened
we'll for very small score, as neither side was
able to get man across the home plate before the
sixth inning In fact the Athletics we're unable TO
get runner past third base during the entire
game so beautifully did the Mutual's team
play together. In the sixth inning, when
with two men on bases 1t looked as
II they would certainly score, sharp
double play by Hlgham and Burdock doubled
them up. At another time McGeary was splen.
ddy thrown out at the homeplate by Allison,
excellent skill, and was well supported IN the field
by the whole Mutual team. BurdOck at third base
was at his best and played without error. REM
sen, Hatfield and Allison maze some very pretty
catches IN the outfed while Start led at the bat.
This is the second game this season In which the
Athletics were "Cnicagoed." The following is the
-
Year: 1874

brought about by the necessity imposed upon
them 70 Oe educated at one OF the universities
and the obtaining OF his n A. before he could
vantage, too. tnat he was educated side by
side with the coming squire OF the parish
and the men who were to lead the thought in the
time either IN the Bar or the Senate. Now that
was about tho type OF the man that was admitted
to the Church to-day, and we were stil on the
right track. (Cheers.) Bishop Whipple then made
few remarks and the proceedings were closed
by the singing OF the Evening Hymn" and the
pronouncing OF she oenedction.


Ihfs evening at half-past seven the Congress will
again meet In Association Hall and discuss "The
heiatlon OF This Church to Other Christian Bodies ~