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Year: 1878

"An increase of blood in the brain,
said DR.. VIM. A. Hammond in lecture
at Cooper Institute recently, "has been
found to accompany mental action. A
congested condition of the brain often
gives rise to hallucinations. A recum-
bent position will often bring these on,
and they will disappear when the per-
son sits or stands up. Doubtless many
ghosts have been seen in this way.
Hanging causes certain degree of con-
gestion of the brain. l don't suppose
any ofy you have ever been hanged, but
is the testimony of those who have been
cut down that they experienced very ex-
alted condition of mind, this is also true
of drowning. Standing on the head pro-
duces q similar condition. An English
writer of some note says fine land
scape can be viewed to better advantage
by stopping down and looking back be-
tween the legs. A circus tumbler once
told me that standing on the head was
almost equivalent to taking glass of
champagne. Impeding the blood in
its return from the brain sometimes
produces hallucinations. 1 once had a
patient who said that when his cravat
was tight he saw an apparition of Sir
Walter Raleigh. This never deceived
his intellect. Who can say how many
of the phenomena of Spiritualism and
ghosts arise in this way, where the per
sons are not sufficiently intelligent to
rise above the delusion?"
Year: 1878

anew. But II compelled to face the ques-
ton Of breaking England's power, or limit
ing her own. Russia will choose the former.
The events Of the next few weeks will de-
termine which course she is to pursue. but
the very possibility, remote as 1t may sccm,
that she may have to make tho effort to
break England's power will cause hor to be
sensitive on every point bearing on the line
Of action she Is to take.
Year: 1878

George Peckham, of this city, aged
about sixty, has been for some years a
victim of somnambulism, and his adven-
lures, often dangerous, while in that
state, have frequently been the subject
of newspaper paragraphes. Last spring,
before the snow was off, and when the
roads were in fearfully frozen and
rough condition for footmen, he arose
in the night and walked to the village
of Fulton, twelve miles, only awakening
after he had wandered around that place
some time. Within few months he
woke early in the morning and found
himself in Minotto, four miles from
home.


Last night Mr.. Peckham went to bed at
the usual hour. During his sleep he
dreamed he was on the cars goingto Cali
fornia to see his son, and was abruptly
awakened by jar of the train, where
upon he found himself in fact standing
On the platform of car at the Midland
Depot at 7 :15 this morning. He was
on the express train for New York, and
had been aroused by the jar when
the locomotive backed down and
coupled on. He don't know of his own
knowledge how he came there, when he
left his bed or where else he may have
been during the night. In ten minutes
he would have been on his way to New
York, without any provision for thejour-
ney and no ticket of course, the conduc-
tor would have aroused him, and there
would have been scene which would
have ended in putting Peckham off and
leaving him by the wayside. As soon as
he realized his condition he got off the
car and betook himself to his house
grateful for his safe escape from one
more somnambulistic adventure.
Year: 1878

Hosiery ought to be cheap very soon.
A Swede in Rockford, Illinois, has in
vented a patented machine which knits
stockings in one piece at the rate Of
about one minute. Twelve of these
machines can lie operated by one boy at
wage of 81 so per week. The actual
cost of knitting is thus reduced to sixty
stockings for one cent. Just think Of
i'll One hundred and twenty stockings
in ten minutes. We are almost willing
to admit that there is danger of over
production of stockings.
Year: 1878

The English aquarium is in trouble.
Its white whale is seized by its credi-
tors, and it is proposed to whale the
debt out of the corporation. 1t is sug-
gested that the big fish may be recover
ed by suing out a habeas porpoise.
Year: 1878

The Kent 'cky senate has passed a
bill re-establishing the old rate of inter.
est at six per cent. 1t makes all con
tracts for the loan of money at greater
rate void as to excess over six per cent.
it authorizes the lender to recover the
amount loaned, with legal interest, but
if he refuses, before suit is brought, tc
accept the principal, with legal interest
he shall pay the cost of the suit for til,
recovery of his debt.
Year: 1878

A ADetroit grocer, who has little time
to study human nature, and who'd save
money if he only had little more time,
wrote note to several parties selected
for the occasion to the effect that he had
lost his account-books and must depend
upon their honor to call and give in the
balance against them. One of them re-
piled that he presumed he owed three
OF four dollars, when the books showed
that he owed $2S; another thought there
might be possible balance against
him, though he had been very careful
to pay cash down, and yet his account
was $14 and over. Out of twelve or
fourteen customers, the grocer found
one who replied that he owed $3.50,
being fifty cents too much. He then
wrote to each that he had found his
books, and sent statement of account,
and as they dropped into the store one
at a time, each laughed, shook hands,
and remarked:


al knew it was one of your jokes, OF
course, and so thought I'd give you a
chance to play it clear through!'-Free
Press.
Year: 1878

"SIT closer, brethren," said the earn
est leader of an evangelical meeting,
who was doing his best to induce the
people to come forward and occupy the
scantily filled front pews of the house.
A sleek-looking young brother, evident
ly from the rural districts, looked for a
moment in the face of the pretty blonde
whom he had brought with him, and
she looked ever SO pleasantly at him.
Then the two moved nearer together
than they had been, and were delight
ed to think that they were innocently
and implicitly obeylng the request to
80 sit closer, brethren
Year: 1878

DURING its American life tea has not
found the favor coffee has done. In the
Northeastern States it is indeed the IA
vorite beverage, but in the West it is
much less drank than coffee, and as we
proceed South its use continually dimin-
ishes; in some parts of the Southern
States it has only medicinal character,
as a drink to be used in fevers or sick
ness. Tea is so little drank in Ger,'a-
ny that it acts like medicine when it is
taken by native, and persons decline
a cup of good bohea with No, l thank
you; am quite well at present.
Year: 1878

GOLD was down last week to l0l9. With
the greenback and gold at so near the same
value, what is in the way of speed re.
sumption with gold and paper worth 100
cts. in the dollar, and not cumbersome
currency worth 10 cts. less in value than its
face calls for.
Year: 1878

Some stay away from church to
read. They say they can find better
religious thinking aid teaching in
their books than in any of the pull
pits noar them. Suppose they can,
do they get better teaching? Are
they actually growing better, more
godly by this reading that keeps
them from the church? Let them be
honest with themselves, an sec if this
is not fiimsy excuse for spending
their Sabhaths, not in mere religions
learning, but over all sorts of books.
Even if they give their Sabbaths mp
wholly TO religious reading, they
have greatly mistaken the aim OF
public Sabbath services, if they think
it can thus be met at home.


God expressly commands us to
"revcrcnce his sanctuary, to lift mp
our hands in his eanctuaEy,," and
promises to come INTO US and bless
us there. We should go to church
to worship; to worship~publcIy and
united1y; as well as to receive in
struction from the preacher. Would
an Israelite have been held blame
less who nevor went to the temple
to worship, because he had the law
athome2 But the church service is, in
a sense, our temple of wol ship. No
other appliance of religious culture
eau take. its place. Abolish all
church services, and you abolish
Christianity. He who stays regular
ly away from church is doing what
little he Can to introduce heathen-
ism. He is contributing his influence
towards secularising his community
If his way was universal, irreligion
would be dominant, and the nation
would slowl y sink back into athc;stic
barbarism.
Year: 1878

EXECUTION BY THE GUILLoTINE.-A
friend once described to us an exc
cution which he witnessed in Paris,
outside the walls Of the city prison,
and in the public street. 1t took
place in the gray OF dawn, and at
the precise hour indicated in the
sentence. A squad Of soldiers filed
out OF the gates, and in a twinkling
put together the machinery Of tho
gulllotine, son'o Of them sprinkling
sawdust on the pavement while it
was being put up. Before this was
fairly finished the gate swung open,
and The criminal and executiouer and
the spiritual adviser marched out
Whatever religious exercises were
essential had been attended to within
the prison. The criminal, with his
hands bound behind him and a cap
drawn over his head, was led forth,
his body bont forward over the car-
riage, which, as ho pressed it, shot
forward on noiseless wheels, and the
knife fell with glitter Of its keen,
polished edge; the head dropped into
the basket awaiting it, the body was
placed in coffin, the machinery
taken mp, and the whole scene was
over. Within ten minutes, by the
watch OF the witness, every trace Of
the execution was over. The SOL
diers, the priest, the executioner had
disappeared, and there was not even
a drop OF blood upon the pavement
to indicate that tragedy had been
there enacted.-Cairo Bulletin.
Year: 1878

ple, has lived and has died tile
death that waketh no more. ,-...


The best Of men are swept into
the vortex, and cease to bo citizens
in any sense; and before they are
aware oft, they are gathering fag-
gots for the funeral pile of the coun-
try when all that is left them of q
once beauteops organized life will be
but the dnet and ashes of that which
was just now instinct with life, with
love and big hope. They have thus
lived perchance to learn that their
country like themselves is but moral,
and to morn for aye, that which
they find, too late, was the dearest
otject OF possession--a free, happy,
united state. Let US al recall the
motto of Massachusetts, and profit
by it: Ense petit placidam sub liberS
tate quietem. Yes! We may reach
quiet with the sword; but peace is
alone the boon of liberty !--Speights'
Daily Newspaper.
Year: 1878

We notice from tho LaurensvilIe
Herald that a majority of the town
ships in that county arc opposed to
tho primary election system. We
believe this will be the only county
in the State but what will adept that
mode of nomination.
Year: 1878

From ali parts of the country re-
ports come of the immense sales and
increasing demand for that desery-
ingly popular Sewing Machine, The
Old and Reliable STANDARD" the
price of which the prOprietors wisely
reduced tO $50, including all the at
tachmentS, and at once secured for
them popularity among the peO-
pie, far beyond that ever vet attain
ell by any other machine at any
price, the consequence of which is,
agents are leaving the old high priced
machines, and seeking territory for
the "SrANDARD." Knowing from
experience that with the best goods
at the lowest price they can outsell
all other Machines, where the supe-
iOr quality and low price is made
known. This splendid Machine
combines all the improvements. Is
far ahead of all others in beauty and
durability of its work. ease of man
agement, light running and certainty
Of operation, is sensibly made upon
sound principles, with positive work
ing parts all steel, and can be safely
put down as the very perfection OF a
Servceable Sewing Machine, in
every particular. that will outlast
any Machine, and at price far down
below any other. 1t is thoroughly
warranted for five years. Kept in
order free of charge. And sent to any
part of the Country for examination
by the customer before payment Of
the bill We can predict equally as
large demand for them in this
section as in others. Families desir-
ing the best Machine manufactured
should write direct TO the Factory.
And euterprising persons wishing to
seize the chance should apply for so
desirable an agency. See advertise
ment in another part Of this paper.
Addre' S, Standard Machine Co.. Cor,
Broadway aud Clinton Place, New
York.
Year: 1878

After months of weary search the
New York Iri6une has at last dis
covered Colonel William Tilden
Pelton, nephew of the President
elect. He was found secluded in one
of the corridors of the Giisey House,
smoking a cigar, notebook in hand
and a pencil over his right ear. He
had just returned from cave in
Canada. Being asked if he had any
thing to say about the cipher dis
patches he smiled like an alligator
and said: absolutely nothing"
This reminds us that we have heard
absolutely nothing from the Colonel
on this subject and yet two months
have elapsed since he was nailed in
the public pillory, so to speak
BGitO. Guzette.
Year: 1878

Even if we are not smart, we know
what to do when troubled with a
Cough or Cold. No doctor bills for
U.s. We take twenty-five cents, go
to the nearest Drug Store and buy a
bottle of DR.. Bulbs Cough Syrup.
One dose relieves us and one bottle
cure us entirely. 1t is pleasant to
the taste.
Year: 1878

speech when called to the chair to-day,
and it was well received. His remarks
largely foreshadowed the platform. He
said he believed the Presidential con-
test was decided, and to avoid strife
that decision should be accepted; yet
those who perpetrated the crime would
be held up to such infamy as would
forever prevent a repetition of the
outrage. The platform is the softest
kind of soft money.


Shanklin, nominee for Secretary of
State, is editor of the Evansville Cour-
ier, and a noted hard money man.
Year: 1878

THE understanding is that Repre-
sentative Bland will be recognized by
the Speaker to-day, oil the motion to
proceed with business on the Speakers
table and to lay aside all business in
advance of the silver bill, and following
him Representative Buckner will move
to refer the bill to the committee on
Banking and Currency, as instructed
by the recent silver union meeting,
whereupon Representative Stevens will
move concurrence in the Senate amend
ments
Year: 1878

Washington, Feb. 20.-The House
committee on Public Lands has agreed
to report in favor of the bill for the
restoration TO market of certain lands
in Utah. The bill provides that the
Secretary of the Interior may offer for
sale the present Indian reservation in
Utah territory, and to settle the Indians
of said territory in the Uinta valley,
and that such reservation he restored to
the public domain.


Another bill granting additional
lands to Arkansas for the use of schools
and equaliZing the bounties of soldiers
who served in the late war of the Union,
is being considered by the committee.
Year: 1878

THE postponement of the motion
in the House concerning the silver bill
until to-day is believed to have still
further strengthened the probability of
concurrence in the Senate amendments.
This result, to follow reasonable time
for debate, is in fact almost universally
conceded to be certain,
Year: 1878

This month ia wet one with thunder
showers-sets on the 10th and rains
more of less the balance of the month
too wet for the farmers TO prepare
their land for planting-will got behind
with their planting in consequence.
Year: 1878

The parallel between the political situa-
ton at the time the sands of life were run
ming out of the old Whig party and the
Know Nothing or American party was ris-
ing up like young giant in its place, and
the present, when the Democratic party
seems to be melting away before the inroads
of the Greenback or National party, is too
plain to need pointing out. There is in the
new organization the same blind and un-
reasonable zeal that characterized the
Know Nothing movement; the same class
of men are coming to the surface upon the
first waves of its success, and with the same
delusion about the powers of Government
and the rights and privileges of classes,
while the masses of the Democracy are
running after it as the old Wings ran after
Know-Nothingism, and the same sort of
old fogies resisting the tide of affairs and
trying to convince themselves that there is
really something in the old party besides
its name. All the signs of tho times are
pointing to just such political revolution
as happened in the period referred to,
when the new men astonished themselves
with their own successes.
Year: 1878

The Philadelphia Record of yesterday
says: 1t has been many years since the re-
tail establishments of this city have enjoyed
such extensive fall trade as has marked the
opening Of the present season. Those who
doubt the approach of a more active move
ment in all the branches of trade and man
ufactures should note the amount of traffic
being carried on in shopping centres.
Year: 1878

THE TRADE OUTLOOK IN New YoRK.-New
York merchants complain that the suspen-
sion of business caused by the yellow fever
and the strict quarantine it has enforced
have seriously interfered with their South
ern trade. They hope, however, that there
will be revival Of trade after frost comes,
especially in the goods needed to replace
the bedding and clothing destroyed because
infected with the fever.
Year: 1878

There is no small art in taking things


easy, 70 long as we must suffer annoy.


ances in this breathing world, saying as


little as possible about them, and making


no parade Of our martyrdom. II making


fuss and rendering every one else about


us uncomfortable in any way abated the


ills that flesh and spirit are heir TO,


there would be some slight excuse for


the folly and self1shness; but since we


can not escape tribulations Of one kind or


another, fretting only aggravates them.


Either let us be silent and endure, or
take arms against our woes, and by con.
tending end them. In general he who
makes no ado is supposed to have no trou;
bles Of his own, or an organization so n.


ferior that it is not Jared out Of tune by
the rough usage of fortune; to make tbs
very worst of every trouble, big or 1T
tie, from the fracture of tea-cup 70
that Of skull, is considered by mapSa
proof Of great sensibility and depth of
character, while he who pursues the
other course, who endures reverseS.
sights, injuries, pin-pricks Of annoy
ance, agues Of anxiety. physical and
mental anxiety, physical and mental
neuralgiss, without reporting them to
every passer, and bowling his grievances
into the ears of every listener, is often
spoken of as of fibre too coarse to feel
acutely and suffer keenly. at is his
temperament" we are told. "He takes
nothing to heart" Some one, however,
wittily advises us, "Never tell your
misfortunes; no body likes to have I'M
fortunate friends;" but in spite Of this
warning many seem to think that disas'
ter itself is a recommendation to favlr;
that they deserve bonus for serving as
target for fortunes arrows; and they
are not seldom acutely jealous lest some
other should be deemed their superb in
suffering. In the mean time, everyone has
a welcome for the person who has the
good sense to take things easy. 1t is
comfortable to be able to agonize over
ones own trials, to ga mind at leisHFe
from ITSELF" The person who can go
without her dinner and her spring suit
and not advertise the fact; who can lose
her purse and keep her temper; who
makes light of heavy weight, and can
wear a shoe that pinches without any
one being the wiser; who does Tot
magnify the splinter in her finger into
stick OF timber, nor the mote in her
neighbor's eye into beam; whoswallows
her bitters without leaving the taste in
other peoples mouths; who can give up
her own way without giving up the
ghost; who can have a thorn IN the
flesh and yet not prick all her friends
with it-such one surely carries a
passport into the good graces Of all
renkind. .--Hwpex.s Rss -
Year: 1878

The Continental Register, published
in Paris, says that an immense lottery
is to be organized at the end of the Ex.
position, containing two million tickets
at fifty cents. This sum will be devoted
to the purchase of works of art in the
EXPEDITION, which will be distributed by
lot amongst the purchasers Of the tick
cts.
Year: 1878

IL The Iolton Recorder calls our little item
relative to the death of Tweed, "wasted sympa-
thy" Call it what you may, we do not like
persecution. Justice is not persecution. II
Tweed had been convicted, and sent to the pen
itentiary, that would have been justice, and the
world would have said, Amen. But lie was kept
in Jail, and the hope held out to him, that if he
would make confession, he should be released
He made the confession; and then qubbles were
set up, and he was harassed, and kept between
hope and disappointment, until his health broke
down, and he died. And now, his confession
must be taken for what it is worth, and there is
no chance for restitution of the stolen property
Tweed was not benefited, and the community
has gained nothing. They simply kept him in
Jail, trying to worry something ont of him that
he could not or would not tell, instead of con-
victing him and furnishing him for what they
could prove; and now he is dead, and they have
got nothing. The health of even murderers is
carefully attended to, in prison. Tweed's health
evidently broke down in Jail, if the fact that he
died may be taken as evidence. We have never
heard that the laws of any of the United States
recognized torture as n legitimate mode of ex-
torting confession.
Year: 1878

- Judge McLin, late Secretary of State of
Florida, and President of the Returning Board,
mas made confession, showing that the State
was counted for Hayes By fraud. Saying moth
ing of the character of the rascal who turns
States evidence. this revelation is but another
thread of the web that is slowly but surely be-
ing woven aboat Hayes, and which will in time
be SO strong that abuse and ridicule of its weav-
ers cannot break. And still the idiot goes on
smiling, and looking at the moon over his right
shoulder!
Year: 1878

II The Bulletin has an extraordinary lawyer
in it's employ. 1t is the opinion of this brilliant
lawyer that the herd law is not worth shucks,
but that worthless as it is, the Board had the
authority to enforce it; and now that they
have ordered its enforcement, to take place next
September, they have not the authority to re-
scind the order. Perhaps it is the same legal
luminary who was going to compel the County
Board to give the printing to the Bulletin
Year: 1878

STILL Our OF LUCK The Congressional In
vestigating Committee, of which Glover, OF Mis-
souri,, Is Chairman, which was created for the
purpose of exposing Republican corruption, un-
earths about one Democratic rascal day, on an
average, with a number of precincts to hear
from, and has not yet caught Republican IN its
net. 1t is doing better work than the RepuJli-
cans could have done, for the Democracy cannot
go back on it. OF course, they are bowling
against it, like hungry hyenas, but they cannot
call its work Republican ISLANDERS.


The Democratic Legislature of Ohio is in equal
ly as bad fix. We recently spoke of one of its
members, named 0Connor, who was accused of
being deserter, bounty Jumper, a perjurer,
aud a penitentiary convict. O'Connor produced
letter from a Deputy Warden of the Michigan
Penitentiary, saying that, while O'Cohnor bore
the same name as the convict, and there was q
striking similarity in some of the features, still
there was wide difference in Others and he
was satisfied that the Legislative O'Connor was
not the "three fingered Jack" of the penitentiary.
0'Connor read this letter before the Legislature,
and convinced his Democratic colleagues that be
was all right. But Republicans kept at work
hunting up his record, and ascertained the fact
that the pretended Deputy Warden had never
been Deputy Warden at all, but had been
fellow-convict with O'Connor, who was the iden-
tical "three-fngered Jack" Then an investiga-
tion was ordered, and O'Connor sent in his rcsig-
nation. But the Democratic members could not
pass of the insult and outrage in that way. They
refused to accept the resignation, but propose to
ventilate him, and then kick him out, and send
him forth TO the world with character"