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Year: 1874

CHOLERAIC DIARRHGA.-Pref. john
SON of Kings College Hospital has pub
lished lectures on this subject in which
opinions are advanced that contrOvert
many popular ideas. In the collapse he
sees not exhaustion but poisoned blood.
Dlarrhna is, by nature, set up to elm
mate this poison, which in the bad epi-
demic has virulence In itsaction equal
to the venom of the cobra snake. The
rule heretofore has been to quiet the it,
ritation and stop the diarrh9a by Opiates,
astringents and aromatics. This he
naturally considers fatal practice, es-
pecially If the case is o bad one, as there
by the poison is detained instead of al
lowing it to pass off. No such attempt
should be made to stop the irritation as
cOvery may be favored by dilution
through copious drinking of water, cold
or tepid, toast water, or weak tea; or
recovery may be accelerated by sweep
ing out the alimentary canal with cas-
tOr-Oil or rhubarb. Whether In cholera
times or not, people are altogether too
ready, by the remedies known to eyery
family, to check a diarrhea. The hints
is given plainly enough that something,
perhaps indigestible food, is offending,
the system and must be got rid of. To
stop this effort ofnature is to make mat
ters worse, and perhaps greatly iniure
the patient in some cases. Professor
johnson notes that cholera is born OF
filth, which is introduced through food,
air, OF water; and he urges that the most
important consideration is to prevent
the disease by purifying air and water.
Certainly the success of the New York
Board of Health in warding off the dis
ease, at the last epidemic, by most
thorough sanitary regulations, and the
disinfection of every hint of filth, was an
excellent demonstration that prevention
is the one great thing sought.
Year: 1874

worthy the name of man. / am priest,


and il is my mission to save souls, and


| know the soul that / would allow


through any negligence of mine to be


lost would be demanded at my hands
by Almighty God. Yet here ON this
altar l positively declare that were
called upon tomorrow to annoint a
dying Catholic who had not the spirit
OF liberty within him, would think il
a pity to waste the holy oils upon him.
AS we say in Ireland, such a man is
neither good for king nor country, and
/ cannot but think he is neither good
for heaven nor for God. The present
agitation about public schools, and the
insinuations and assertions made to the
effect that the Catholic church wished
to destroy them, reminded him OF q
habit amongst mothers In general when
their children began TO cry and get
troublesome, and that was, they would
invent some monster, some "bugabOO"
in order TO frighten them into silence.
A few persons were now trying to raise
a great cry about public schools; they
were endeavOring to create "bugaboop
in order to frighten ali. those outside the
Catholic church into sustaining those
schools. OF course they knew very
well that the Catholic church is not try
ing to destroy the public scbools-that
she wants to have nothing to do with
them, one way or the Other-yet they
know if they can only get the Protest.
ants to believe that the church is con-
spring against those schools, that they
will work with all their might to pre-
serve and sustain them. He concluded
by appealing to his hearers to aid their
pastor in the erection Of schools for their
children from which the name Of God
would not be excluded.
Year: 1874

does oct act according to that law, that
he will surely lose his soul. We must
determine the nature of thing not by
itself alone, but by what it Is called
to act upon. And what does the Catholic
church act upon? The mind, the INTEL
Iigence of man. Can the mind OF
man be forced? An external profession
or admission may perhaps be extOrted
from an individual by force, but can the
mind Of man be forced? / say there is
no power on earth, or in heaven, may
say, can make me declare that It Is the
conviction Of my mind that there is no
gas there whilst can see 1t and look at
1t burning with my own eyes. No
power on earth or In heaven can do it;
and therefore the Catholic church ad-
dragGas ftaalf 70 tho
Year: 1874

and liberty" don't mean to say that
in the public schools they are taught to
rob or steal, but the religious principle
that fOroids stealing is not taught; the
religious principle that forbids murder is
not taught; the religious principle that
fOrbids the violation OF morality is not
taught, and, therefore, the absence OF
these things, the absence OF teaching
what we think ought to be taught, Is
enough 10 disqualify the public schools
In our opinion. Hence, We have our
Year: 1874

The Indiana Republican State Conyon.
ton will meet at the Academy Of Music
at 10 o'clock Tomorrow: The district
delegations hold meetings tonight for the
selection Of committee man on the arrange.
ment Of business to come before the Con.
Year: 1874

The ORGAN as household instrument
has been rapidly growing in favor. and the
yearly sales are now enormous. A good
organ remains in tune, is easily kept in
order. and blends naturally with the quail
ny OF the voice. The advertisement OF the
smith American Organ Co.. in another
column, Is referred to the consideration OF
our readers. This house has an enyiablc
reputation for good work and fair dealing.
Year: 1874

present Hon. Charles Donohue, Justice Joseph wnde
plaintiff against the National Lite Insurance Company,
defendant On reading the summons and complaint
herein heretofore fled on the proceedings heretofore had
nerein and on reading and filing the annexed affidavit
of Ell Beard the receiver IN this action. whereby
pears 70 the Court necessary and proper that notice
should be published IN this action, as provided for by
scc1on 6s section 56 OF article title part Of the
Revised Statutes, and on motion of Van Winkc Gambler
Jay the plaintiffs attorneys, and the attorneys the
said receiver ordered that all persons having any
claim against the defendant the National Life Insurance
Company, exhibit the same TO the said Eli Beard re-
eeiver as aforesaid his place OF business at NO sU
ls day Of October 1874 and that all such persons be-
parties to this action before said last named
day. and In default thereof that they and each Of them
shall be precuded from all benefit OF the decree which
will be made In this action, and from any distribution
which shall be made under such decree. And it is fur
ther ordered that this order be published week
ior six months in the New York Herald, newspaper
published in the city Of New York, and in the State
paper and the first publication thereof be made on
or before the 3lst dsS VI March, 1874.


Acopy "
Year: 1874

There was a feller from down
East, to a town called Vermont,
that come into our parts to sell his
horses. He .squinted with one eye,
and the other kept looking up for
rain, so my wife keered about him,
and she was in a great justification
to go shopping at the place where
he was, and buy her a saddle hoss.
So she went and got one. She paid
forty dollars for it, and brought it
home, for I'm sure it couldn' bring
her. My wife was never no judge
Of the article, though she could tell
bear from a panther by the feel of
his bite, if it was so dark that she
couldn't hear herself talk. The
hoss was lame in his fore legs and
hind legs too, and he had a crook
in his tail. He was blind in one
eye and deaf of both ears. He
couldn't stand up, he was so infrm,
and he couldn't lay down because
his bowels were out of order. So
the hoss.jockey was to come the
next morning arter his money. [
put a halter around the neck of the
cretur and tied his head up to the
limb Of a tree. l put an old saddle
on his back, and put bride on
him. fixed the bride so that the
least strain would break it off the
bits by taking out the Stitches
Then | went into the woods and
got hornets nest, and stopped il
up, so that the creturs couldn't git
out. In the morning the fellul


came after his pay. l began tc


praise the boss, and telled him the


animal was so spirited, didn't like


fer MY wife to ride him. He saiC


he was as gentle as lamb. laxet


him to get on and let me see how


he would go. The jockey leepec


up and got in the saddle. AS sool


as he had lighted on the breast,
beat in the hornets nest and fun!
Fit agin the hoss' fJanks Tn
| animal showed some spirits then
4 for the little varmints cum out, an


spured on the cretur most beautiful


He set off on a full run, and tn
bride broke rightoff IN the jockey
hands. The hoss then dug throug
the forest without stopping to cour
the leaves, and the feller clung
the hoss' name like chesnut bun
to a bears-skin. The last l hear


of himahe was seen up by the for
Year: 1874

Many a man is rich without mon
ey. Thousands Of men with moth,
ing in their pockets are rich. A
man born with a good sound consti>
tuition, a good stomach, good heart,
good limbs, and q pretty good
head-piece, is rich. Good bones
are better than gold; tough muscles
better than silver; and nerves that
flash fire and carry energy to every
function are better than houses or
land. 1t is better than landed
estate to have the right kind of
father or mother. Good breeds
and bad breeds exist among men as
really as among herds and horses.
Education may do much to check
bad tendencies or to develop good
ones; but it is greater thing to
inherit the right proportion of fac
uties to start with. The man is
rich who has good disposition
wkos- is naturally kind, patient.
cheerful and hopeful.
Year: 1874

That tomatoes are benefited by
pruving we have not the slightest
doubt, and we yearly q practice it
in our own garden. Some
recommend and others practice cut
ting off all the tops of the plants, to
which we most strongly object, as
we are satisfied that such a course
is very injurious to the plants, as
we'll as to the perfect ripening of
the fruit. AS the tomato begins
to grow, select say three Or four of
the strongest shoots, pinch all the
others out, should there be any, by
the finger and thumb, close to the
main stem. When these four
punches begin to show fruit, a small
lateral branch will show itself inns
mediately at the next joint. These
should be pinched out as fast as
they appear, letting no shoots grow
at any time, but the four main
branches referred to: by so doing,
whether the plants are tied to stakes
or laid on the ground, we have all
ways found that we secured larger,
finer, and at the same time heav>
ier crop than we could by any other
process obtain.


Brsqgs f. Brothers Qudrtery.
Year: 1874




The notion that those who work
only with their brains need less
food than those who labor with their
hand~, has been the cause of untold
mischief. Students and literary
men have often been the victims of
slow starvation from their ignor,
anoe Of the fact that mental labor
causes greater waste of tissue than
muscular. According to careful
estimates, three hours of hard study
wear out the body more than Il
whole day of hard work at the an"
vii or on the farm. Without
phosphorus, no thought" is a Ger
man saying; and the consumption
of that essential ingredient of the
brain increases in proportion to the
amount of labor which the organ is
required to perform. This wear
and tear of the brain are easily
measured by careful examination of
the salts in tie liquid excretions.
The Importance of the brain as a
working organ is shown by the
amount of blood it receives, which
is proportionately greater than that
of any other part of the body. One
fifth Of the blood goes to the brain,
through its average weight is only
one-fortieth of the weight of the
body. This fact alone would be
sufficient to prove that brain-workers
need more food and better food than
mechanics and farm laborers.


Relations ofTemperature to Life.


Life in general is possible only
between certain limits of tempera~
ture; and life of the higher kinds is
possible only within comparative>
ly narrow range Of temperature,
maintained artificially if not natur-
ally. Hence it results that social
life, presupposing as it does not
only human life, but that life vege-
tai and animal Oh which human life
depends, is restricted by certain ex,
tremes Of cold and heat.


Cc!i, though great, does not ri
gorously exclude warm biooded crea-
lures, if the locality supplies in adj
equate quantity the means Of gene
rating heat. The arctic Fauna con-
tains various marine and terrestrial
mammals, large and small but the
existence CT these depends, directly
or indirectly, on the existence Of
! the inferior marine creatures, yer.
(. tebrate and invertebrate, which
e would cease to live there did no
S the warm currents from the tropics
4 check the formation of ice. Henc,
t such human life as we find in arcti
0 regions, dependent as it is mainl,
T on that of these mammals, is als'
d remotely of heat.-Popular ,Scieac
K Monthly.
Year: 1874

A Southern editor says Of rival editor,
that che is inclined to deny the crime Of being
red-beaded Well. you may call it auburn, or
blonde, or anything else, but our impression is
that be would be entitled to the first place in
any torchlight procession.
Year: 1874

The business done by the Park Commissioners at
their meeting yesterday was or an unimportant
nature. their funds being only sufficient to con-
ttnue the work absolutely necessary In the parks.
The Commissioners received memorial from a27
citizens OF the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth
wards. which are beyond the Harlem River, asking
for bridge across that stream from the terminus
OF 13Sth street. TO the end Of Madison avenue The
petitioners represent TO the Commissioners that
tnelr facilities for reaching the central portion of
the city are limited oy the lack OF this bridge that
they are. In measure cut on rom visiting Mount
Morris square and the Central Park and that the
third avenue bridge Is not large enough outlet
Ior the traf1c. They propose that the Department
OF Parks shall build wooden Pile drawprdgc at o
cost OF about $4,000 The Commissioners reserved
the petition for action at their next meeting.
Year: 1874

This subject OF seeming interminable litigation
was agaln brought up argument yesterday before
Judge Donohue, in Supreme Court General Term.
Tne immediate matter under discussion was the
writ OF prohibition granted by the Supreme Court
forbidding the Surrogate from recognizing E. Il.
T. acy and Mrs. Taylor as executor and executrix
or the VIII, and the latter from continuing TO act
as such executor ana execusrtx until further or.
der OF tne Court. This writ Of prohibition was Oh
tanned after the Court OF Appeals set aside the
Surrogare'sdecree committing the will to probate,
and it is claimed by Kate b. Howland's counsel
that Mr.. Tracy ana Mrs. rRyOr are setting az den-
ance the decision OF the Court or Appeals which
reversed the decree OF the Surrogate. The object
OF the writ is to compel them to comply with the
decision OF the Court OF Appeals. The writ was re-
turnable yesterday, and after quite an extended
argument by counsel the whole matter was laid
over I'LL next month Tor further argument
Year: 1874

Reader, never break your promises !
And to this end, never make promise that
you are not sure you can fulfill. You may
think it a trifling matter to make an ap-
pontment with friend or agree to do a
certain thing, and then fail to come to
time;" but it is assuredly not small af-
fair. If you get in the habit Of neglectng
to make good your promises, how long, do
you think, will your friends and acquaint-
ances retain confidence in you2 The near
est aud dearest of them will in time learn
to doubt you, and will put but little faith


in your words. And there is way Of half
meeting ones obligations, which might be
called bending" promise, which is also
very bad practice, and should be carefully
avoided. For instance, you agree to meet
person at a certain time but, instead of
being punctual, you "put in an appearance"
several minutes, perhaps an hour, after
time; or you promise to do something for
friend, and only partially perform the
duty. You may not have exactly broken
your promise, but you have certainly bent
it, which is almost if not quite, as bad,
Keep your promises to the letter, be prompt
and exact, and twill save you much trouble
and care through life, aud win for you the
respect and trust Of your friends.
Year: 1874

Girls do not always know their power.
1t is far greater than they think; and,
were they true and brave enough to exert
it, they might almost, in generation, revo-
utionize society about them. Exert your
power for good upon the young men who
are privileged to enjoy your society. Gentle
and good, be also brave and true. Try to
exhibit the ideal Of a woman---a pure and
good woman-whose life is mighty as well
as beautiful in its maidenly dignity and at
tractive loveliness. Do not let it even
seem that dress aud friyoity constitute
your only thoughts; but let the elevation
of your character and the usefulness of
your life lift up the man that walks by your
side. Some of you are in intimate associa-
tions, which under exchanged promises, look
forward to a nearer and more enduring re-
lation. In these hours do nothing to lower,
but everything to refine and ennoble each
others character.
Year: 1874

General Washington was a pattern OF
punctuality. When he engaged to meet
Congress at noon, he never failed to be at
the door of the hall, just as the clock was
striking twelve. He always dined at four
o'clock and if the guests whom he had in.
yited were not present, the dinner went on
precisely at the appointed hour, without
waiting for them. Washington would make
no apology, but simply remark, "Gentle.
men, we are punctual here" When those
people got another invitation to dine with
the President, they would be sure to be
in time.


A person had pair Of beautiful horses
to sell, which the President wanted to buy.
Five o'clock in the morning Of certain
day was fixed as the time for Washington
to see them; but the horses were not
brought till a quarter past five, when the
owner was told that the President had been
there at the hour appointed, but had gone
away. The man thus lost q good chance Of
selling his horses by his delay Of one
quarter Of an hour
Year: 1874

SENATOR HAMLIN, called out in recent
speech in Maine, gave this summing up Of
bis long experience Of men and affairs !:
" For thirty years past | have known the
Presidents and heads Of departments, many
Of them intimately and state here on my
reputation, which | hold dearer than any
thing else in this world that there is as
much integrity in public officials to-day as
at any hour since we have had a govern
ment. | do not say that we have no cor
rupt men in office, but do say that the
Republican Administration has done more
to get rid Of them than any other govern
ment."
Year: 1874

For man or a nation of men. BY reli-
gion do not mean here the church-croed
which he processes, the articles Of faith
which he will sign, and, in words or other
wise, assert; not this wholly in many eases
not this at ALL We see men Of all kinds OF
professional creeds attain to almost all kinds
of worth or worthlessness under each or any
of them This is not what | call religion,
this profession and assertion, which is often
only profession aud assertion from the out
works of the man. But the thing a man
does practically believe, the thing man
does practically lay at heart and know for
certain, concerning his vital relations to this
mysterious universe and his duty aud des.
tiny there, that is in all cases the primary
thing for him, and creatively determines all
the rest. That's his religion; the manner it
is in which he feels himself to be spiritually
related to the unseen world; and | say, if
you tell me what that is, you tell me to a
very great extent what the man is, what
the kind Of thing he will do is Piety to
God, tho nobleness that inspires a human
soul to struggle heayenward, cannot be
taught by the most exquisite catechisms or
the must industrious preachings and drill
ings. No, alas no. Only by far other
methods-chiehy by SILENT continual ex-
ample, silently waiting for the favorable
word aud moment, and aided then by a kind
of miracle, well enough named "the grace
Of God" can that sacred contagion pass
from soul to soul
Year: 1874

VALUE OF BooKs.-Tbe book, as a COM
panion, is always at your service, always
willing and pliable. You meet with men
of service, good thinkers, good speakers,
and you do not know how to draw them
out but book is always open to your
wish, and shuts when you desire, something
which your professor might not do. In
saying these things for books, | do not for
get that they are merely secondary. When
the mind itself opens, they have to stand
aside. Their greatest benefit is that, by
causing this same opening of the mind, they
save US from themselves. Emerson.
Year: 1874

THESE words seem strange, coming from
Henry A. Wise, who, thirty years ago, was
perhaps the most pronounced champion of
slavery in Virginia " There are ninety.
nine things out of a hundred in that war
that you can't account for in any other way
only to say that it wasn't mans war at all
it was God Almighty's war. His time had
come for the abolition of slavery, and the
war was not to end till that was accom-
plished and bless God every day of my
life that it was accomplished"
Year: 1874

Won to the man who has everything
brought to him and blessed are they who
are born under adverse circumstances and
have no chance in life, and who, instead of
whining because they have no chance, de-
yelop ap inward manhood that gives them a
chancellor there is that in man which
dominates over chance, time and nature.
A man can make himself sovereign if he
has but the purpose.
Year: 1874

In is good and safe rule to sojourn in
every place as if you meant to spend your
life there, never omitting an opportunity Of
doing kindness or speaking true word,
or making friend. Seeds thus sown by
the wayside often bring forth an abundant
harvest.
Year: 1874

Miss MuLocR's stories are too eagerly
sought and too widely read, even befor


they have made the circuit which brings
them as bound volumes to the editors ta-
BE, to make necessary any recapitula,ion
Of character or incident. " My Mother
aud ' is written in the authors usual
charming style. As the title would iudi-
cate, its principal theme is the strong and
tender tie existing between an only and
fatherless daughter and mother who, be-
side her child, has no strong attraction OF
interest in the world. The relation as pic.
turcd in these pleasant pages, is close aud
sweet enough, one might think, to satisfy
almost any heart even in the absence or
loss Of that more exactiug and disturbing
love which comes, or is supposed to come,
into the lives Of most women Miss
Mulock's characters are generally genuine
men and women, and her incidents are 10
the main natural aud probable; but when
she places before US a man who can be for
months together on terms Of family init
macy with young girl who is utterly in
love with him, and is SO transparent as to
betray it hundred times day, and does
so in every way excepting by throwing her
self literally at his bead,-whon Miss
Mulock gives US hero who can do this
without once mistrusting that he is be-
loved, she expects Of US much more than
the ordinary credulity Of North America.
1 may be, although we doubt it, that young
Englishmen Of seventy years ago were thus
shall We call it modest, or stupid2 But
we hasten to defend the present generation
of American manhood from any possible
charge Of this kind, which would be as ab-
surd as it is unusual This book has thir.
teen illustrations, and is published by Har.
per 4 Brothers, New York