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Year: 1877

Only little, soft, white thing,
Made for wearing the costly ring
Made for flirting the dainty iar
AS only the belle Of the season can,
Made for the stolen pressure or kiss
O,onr Branch fashion,, raising to h"sS'
By merely the touch Of fingers white
Her escort down 10y the beach that niGht
Made fora "pr2e' for tie highest hId'
(Aud under the rose Il thorn lies hid
A thing which the honest summer sun
Has taught his honest beams to shln,
Lest freckle or tan its beauty spoil,
And make it too near hand OF toi,
Instead OF only dainty thing,
Made for ease and the diamond rnS'
Only sunburned, useful thing,
To which the hearts of the needy 'lng;
To which they turn who have learned th'


worth


OF a woman's hand on this weary earth;
Made for healing, for smoothing DER
The hearts of those who are faint ard sore;
Made for honest work each day,
For driving the shadows of life away;
For holding the "cup of water" to all
Who, faint and thirsty, for succor CALI
Made for leading the timid on;
For blessing all it may rest upon;
Made 10 be won by a loyal heart,
Who in its labor will bear part
Made to be clasped by a loyal hand,
Which chooseth the best In all the land.
Worth-O! double its weight in gold,
This useful hand that can never grow old.


-Hdrper'S Weekly.
Year: 1877

A correspondent of the Army and
Many Gazette gives the following account
of the origin of the military salute
"Within the last few years, among the
many changes which have been intro.
duced into the army, is that of the salute


Why the old-time honored salute was
abolished, no one knows; but it is an in
teresting fact, and one probably unknown
to most of our readers, that the old salute,
which consisted of the hand being brought
into horizontal position over the eye
brows, has a very old origin, dating, in fact,
from the commencement of the history of
the English Navy. Its origin is found in
the tournaments of the Middle Ages, and
was as follows: After the Queen of
Beauty was enthroned, the knights who
were to take part in the sports Of the
day marched past the dais on which she
sat, and as they passed they shielded
their eyes from the rays of her beauty.
Such was the very interesting origin of
the old salute, and it is question
worthy the attention of our military au-
thorities, why should not the old salute,
possessing such an origin, and associated
with our army from the very earliest
times, be restored2 1t is difficult to dis
cover to what purpose it was ever abol-
ished. The principal part Of the officers
salute, kissing the hilt of the sword, dates
also from the Middle Ages. When the
Crusaders were on their march to the
Holy City, the knights were in the daily
custom of planting their long two-handed
swords upright in the ground, thereby
forming cross, and before these they
performed their morning devotions. On
all military occasions they kissed the
hilts of their swords in token of their
devotion to the cause of the Cross, and
this custom was perpetuated after the
Crusaders were numbered among the
things of the past, and when the relig


ious origin of the salute was forgotten.
Year: 1877

fisheries dispute Is unsettled, and 80 are
many matters which will require to he
handled more or less by the man who holds
the position. Mr.. WELSH is seventy years
of age, and proudly claims that he is not
and never has been politician, and never
held anything except local Offices in Phila-
delphia. This constitutes tho ch cf argu-
ment that he is utterly unfit for the place
he is nominated to fill Men do not begin
to study profession when they are seven
ty, and certainly the management OF diplo-
matte affairs between two great nations is II
duty that at least requires some preparation.
A clumsy Minister TO England during the
war might have brought on recognition
of tho Contederacy, and possibly
war between the two nations. IL
will be argued that there is now no
such oncrous duties to lie performed, and
that anybody will do for the place who is
thoroughly respectable. Such reasoning is
illlaciouS in the highest degree, and should
be hoolcd out of the Senate. Nobody will,
or should, do ior such position unless he
is fit TO cope with questions that are
likely to arise. 1t would be very humili-
ating in case of @ny unookcd-ior trouble
with England, to bo obliged to recall our
Minister because he did not know enough
to be trusted with any serious duties. The
public welfare demands that the man who
occupies such a station shall he n representa-
tive statesman, and President Hayes should
be ashamed Of putting forward for the place
man who might make n good Treasurer
of the United States, but who is as ignorant
OF diplomacy and international law as Presi-
dent Hayes is of sugNr-dcaling. He is con-
fessedly respectable and rich. Simply that
and nothing more
Year: 1877

name suggestive of a dark page in
the history of the imperial family
of Russia. Many of the Chron-
icle's readers will yet remember the
somewhat romantic story of the
marriage Of the Gar Nicholas IA
vOrite daughter to a dashing young
German officer. The Duke Of
Leuchtenberg was good-looking but
comparatively poor and obscure,
and it is said that the wayward
princess made the first advance,
and even that the stern emperor
consented to the marriage only to
avoid scandal. At any rate, ro-
nance and royalty do not seem to
agree well, and the union turned
out badly. The Duchess tired of
her former idol, gay and dashing,
but at the same time scholarly and
thOurOngly honorable, German, and
began to form liasons, the most
notorious of which was with Count
Strogonoff. After a life of morti-
fed seclusion and constant study
the duke died, refusing to recog-
nize on his death-bed the last two
children borne by the princess.
Immediately after his demise the
latter was forced to marry Strogo-
noff, and was banished from Rus
sia. She took up her abode in


Paris, where she died a few years
age. The children of this union
have been somewhat under a cloud,
and several matches proposed for
the very accomplished daughter
were broken off for some unex-
planned reasons. The eldest SON
the young Duke of Ieuchtenberg
has now joined the army of the
Danube, and may accomplish some-
thing in the field that will place a
renewed luster around his wronged


fathers name, and bridge the gulf
that separated him and his sister
from the remainder of his family.
Year: 1877

A boy while fishing in Lake
Butts des Morte the other day felt
a nibble, and, drawing the hook to-
ward the shore, observed a half
gallon fruit-can trailing on the bot
tom. Having secured the vessel, he
was greatly surprised to find that a
large catfish had taken up its abode
therein and remained until his in
creased dimensions did not admit
Of egress. He had evidently Topped
around in his tin parlor until hole
was made in the rust-eaten bottom
through which his tail protruded.
In this position the catfish had
power to navigate from one place to
another, and must have been re-
garded ty his acquarian neighbors
as a kind Of iron-clad monitor.
Year: 1877

rectly upon upon him. He started
off about six feet, when he turned
around and came back with great
eagerness and took the hook, and
| hauled him out, a fine trout Of
about twelve ounces. We then
came to the conclusion that they
were all asleep. We tried the
same experiment with each fish
until we caught almost the entire
school, to the amount of six or
eight pounds"
Year: 1877

ONO state Journal.I


The question is very often asked,
what is the difference between a
registered letter and any other /?
The difference is that a registered
letter does not 60 in through the
mail proper. 1t passes from hand
to hand outside the mail pouches,
every person through whose hands
it passes being required to sign a
receipt for it on receiving it, and
secure a receipt for it on passing it
over to the next in transit. The
person holding the last receipt is
thus always able to show who is ac-
countable for the loss. The re-
sponsibility rests upon the man who
has signed a receipt for the regis
tered package and who is not able
to produce the package or a receipt
from somebody else for it. The
safest way to send money is by
money order. Where it does not
60 to a money order office it should
always be sent in a registered pack
age. Money ought not to be sent
in an ordinary letter under any
circumstances. There is no posi-
bic way of " tracking" such a letter.
Year: 1877

A Boston man thinks fish sleep.
He says: "We discovered a large
school of trout on the bottom of
the pond, apparently perfectly dor
mant, With a good degree of eau
ton We dropped our well baited
hooks down to them. They did
not appear to take any notice of it,
or of us, who were so anxisusly
waiting for bite with all the anx-
iety only known to those who are
accustomed to that kind of sport.
We continued to induce them in
every imaginable way to notice the
bait for about an hour, but to no
effect. When patience ceased to
be a virtue, l noticed there was one
apart from the rest, Of good size.


| determined to try an experiment
with him by awakening him. l
dropped the hook and sinker di-
Year: 1877

be----! An Immense sensation was
peated, and the police came up and said the
minister must stop the bird, and not create q
public nuisance, or he'd have to come along
Finally, the minister got the bird into the
wood-shed and put a lot of old carpets over
him but his hair had nearly turned gray,
and after terrible day and night, he went to
a newspaper Office and inserted the follow
ing:


fuently. Owner only parts with him on account of
ill-health. Price low Address y, s99, office.
Year: 1877

1t is not to sweep the house, and make the
beds, and darn the socks and cook the meals
chiefly that a man wants wife. If this is
all he needs, hired help can do it cheaper
than a wife. If this is all, when young
man calls to see young lady, send him into
the pantry to taste the bread and cake she
has made, send him to inspect the needle
work and bed making, or put a broom in her
hands and send him to witness its use. Such
things are important, and the wise young
man will quietly look after them. But what
a true man wants of true wife Is her CON-
panionshp, sympathy, courage and love.
The way of life has many dreary places in it,
and man needs a companion to go with him.
A man is sometimes Overtaken with misfOr-
tune; he meets with failure and defeat; trials
and temptation beset him and he needs one
to stand by and sympathize. He has some
stern battles to fight with poverty, with ene-
mics and with sin; and he needs a woman
that, while he puts his arm around ner and
feels that he has something to fight for, will
help him fight, that will put her lips to his
ear and whisper words of counsel, and her
hands to his heart and impart new inspiration.
All through storm and through sunshine, con-
tict and victory, through adverse and favor
ing winds, man needs woman's love- The
heart yearns for it. A sisters or mothers
love will hardly supply the need.
Year: 1877




We do not know if it be possible for man
to understand sensitive, high-spirited wo-
mans reluctance to ask for money, because
he can't put himself in her place. 1t would
require an impossible stretch of the magma
ton for him to conceive what his feelings
would he, if he were compelled to ask some
body when he wanted new hat, or coat, or
pair of shoes. Perhaps he might be able
to approximate to something near her state
of mind, if he could recall, his abject terror,
when, as boy, he approached his father to
crave the boon of few extra dollars A
lady said to US: Il have lain awake half
the night, dreading the stern necessity Of
asking my husband for money next day."
Another said: If was absolute mistress
of even the paltry sum Of one hundred dol
lars year, so that could spend it without
being responsible to anybody, should feel
that great weight had been lifted off me. :"
A wife who does her share of work for the
family, and by careful management and con-
irving adds to the common fund, is entitled
to Der share of the profits, and the division
should be justly and cheerful]y made by the
firm, as with any other partner. If women
were so recognized and trusted, many whose
souls are now tormented about the vexed
question of their "rights" would be con-
tented, happy "keepers at home."
Year: 1877

Nj. Paul Bert now publishes a theory,
founded on repeated experiments, that mere
ray OF green light is capable of affecting the
health of the person exposed oft, apart from
all aid afforded to it by the smell or presence
of arsenic. He has submitted several speci-
mems of the sensitive plants to rays OF differ
ent colors thrown upon them through stained
glass, and in every case those which were
treated to the most brilliant green light with
cred and died in the shortest time In those
plants which were exposed to red light
peculiar phenomena was observed; the tips
or spikes of the leaves prolonged themselves
and grew forward in a lean and hungry fash
ion horizontally with the branch from which
they sprang; while in a blue light the con-
trary effect was produced, the spikes standing
out abruptly and perpendicular from their
stem. One of the plants was inclosed in
lantern, with red glass on one side and green
on the other; instead of shrinking away from
the poison on the right to the roseate antidote
on the left, the leaves, as if by fatal fascina-
ton, turned with one consent the other way
and literally looked death in the face.
Year: 1877

In Sioux City lives girl about ten years of
age, who is the object of considerable curl
osity among her neighbors and friends. She
is surrounded at all times by some invisible
power which manifests itself in wonderful
manner. Several times on approaching the
stove in the kitchen, vessels of hot water have
been tipped from the stove without her touch.
She has several times been severely burned
by this means. When she approaches bed
the pillows and clothing are thrown about in
confusion, and the bed Stats raised perpen-
dicularly, while she stands in wonder looking
on. Sometimes on attempting to rise in the
morning she is held to the bed, and calls the
family to help her free herself from the bonds.
Slight articles rise from the floor OF tables and
attach themselves to her as she moves about
the house. She is greatly annoyed by these
demonstrations, and to prevent notoriety her
name is withheld The facts are authentica-
led by several persons whose verac''y can not
i,a questioned.
Year: 1877

[From the Nebraska City Press.i


Great excitement prevails in Hendricks
Precinct, in this county, over the compulsory
marriage of Miss Annie Baldwin to Mr.. Sui
livan. The parents interested are all Catholics,
but the girls choice is a poor Protestant She
was compelled to marry Sullivan by her
parents, who is rich and a Catholic. Judge
Dickey informs US that he issued two licenses
to marry Miss Baldwin to different parties.
Neither of them has been returned yet, al
though he has heard that the girl was CON-
PEELED to marry one of the parties against her
wish. Who the priest that married her is,
cannot be learned. She was engaged to young
Jeffries Of Palmyra. Money and religion did
the work. From residents of the precinct
we learn that had not gentleman interfered,
bloOdfhed would have been the result of this
compulsory wedlock. A correspondent of
the press writes as follows:


SYRACUSE, NEB., March 13, 1877.
The most intense excitement prevailed in
this vicinity over sensational marriage
which took place in your city on the 9th inst.
Some of the parties lived here and some on
the South Branch. The facts are these {:
There is young man of good character and
family, who has for some time been paying
his addresses to young lady living at Emer-
son they were engaged to be married on the
18th. The old folks seemed to be we'll pleased
with the choice of their daughter, till short
time before the time set for their marriage,
when there appeared young Irishman with
his old mother, and began to make love to
the old folks and bull-dozed" them with
his purse, and caused them to use means of
intimidation. The consequence was. the old
man inveigled his daughter down to Nebraska
City, under the pretense that he wished to
buy something for her and led her into
room before priest and young Sullivan, and
here she was married before she knew what
was up. From there she was taken to
hotel, where she told the story to the pro-
prietor, and asked him to protect her against
the thief who would steal her, and the old
mother who had sold her into bondage.


And he did so, and she arrived safe here
but Sullivan appeared at the residence of the
brides father with wagon drawn by shabby
mule and big horse and demanded that his
wife should be restored to him, which was
complied with, and she was carried out and
placed in his wagon and taken to South
Branch, but her friends recovered her the
same evening and took her to Palmyra, to a
relative, where she remained till to-day. She
returned home, where her friends are await
ing the return of the South Branch hyena
with plenty of bad eggs and tar, and some
feathers, and the parents of the girl deserve
no better treatment than he. -.... . .
Year: 1877

An old Indian in the township of FL
bridge has made about 50 pounds of
maple sugar and several gallons of syr-
UP, since the SNOW which fell some two
weeks ago. This is the first instance of
sugar making we ever heard of in the
month of Novembcr.-Hes
Year: 1877

The voice Of reform is heard through
the land. and speaks Of the "good time
coming" So too the spirit of reform is
working in the nurseries of the land to
banish those dangerous Opium and Nor
phia preparations. and establish useful
Bulls Baby Syrup Is acknowledged a.
the very best for all the disorders Of
Babyhood and early Childhood. Sold
everywhere at % cents bottle.
Year: 1877

PULPIT PowER.-It has been alleged of
late that the pulpit is losing its power. No
proofs given of this, as the exceptional con-
duct of wolves in sleeps clothing is not
accepted by intelligent men as fair ex-
ponent of the morality of the class to which
they belong, whether it be Reno or Baker
in the army, or Tweed or Packard among
politicians, or the Judas Iscariots among
apostles No doubt extremists and fanatics
in the pulpit have exerted some influence
in bringing their profession into contempt.
That the pulpit is not entirely impotent
may be inferred from the remarkable
statement of the Rev. DR.. Sims, of the
Northern Methodist Church, who says that
he knew a man who was ruined in body,
soul and estate by single sermon of the
Rev. Chancellor Crosby in favor of modera-
ton in drinking. A contemporary thinks
this is as strong an evidence of the un-
diminished power of the pulpit as Sydney
Smiths famous instance of a man whom a
single discourse by a Methodist minister
cured instantaneously of scrofulous legs
and atheistical principles.-Bah. Sun.
Year: 1877

a Washington dispatch to the Boston
Post says: President Hayes is reported to
have said that as soon as the Southern
question was out of the way he proposed to
dispense liberal amount of patronage
among Northern democrats, and that moth
ing would please him better than to see
Illden elected to the Senate from New
York;
Year: 1877

MIR William A Alsentzer, who sailed
for Europe ON May 9th last returned
home on Tuesday.


His voyage across was very pleas
ant one, arriving at Antwerp on the
10Th of of May. From there he pro-
ceeded Immediately to his former
home Kruesnach on the river Rhine.
Here he remained for a short time al
intervals. He also travelled all through
Germany and France. His trip was
one of business as well as pleasure, be
having purchased a large amount of
wines which will be shipped about the
middle of September he states that
during his visit that the weather was
so cool that he was compelled to sleep
on feather bed with the exception OF
two or three times. He has improved
very much in health and looks.
Year: 1877

The governor received dispatch stating
that the sheriff and deputies had taken
possession of the Northern Central road
near Elmira. The road was guarded by
soldiers and armed citizens and the sheriff
had started trains and had complete con-
troll Of the road.
Year: 1877

There are probably but few persons now living in Newtown who can remem- Der, or have ever heard of bloodless duel that was fought by two youngsters, natives Of the place, many years ago, under what is now called Gulf Bridge. which is situated on the Hanover road about one mile north of the Center What the origin of the quarrel was do not remember, but the affair was con- ducted strictly according to the rules of the code, or was intended to be so by the principals engaged therein. The present bridge marks only the site of the old one, which had wider span, and was removed long since, in consequence of its decay, having been constructed of wood, but resting upon stone abutments

 It was novel event to happen in that vicinity, and for time created no little excitement throughout the neighbor- hood. The majesty of the law" had been greatly offended, and warrants were immediately issued for the arrest of all parties who had participated in it, hence the principals were compelled to seek safety by flight to some remote part of the country, and to remain Tn exile until the affair was in measure forgotten.

 One of the combatants at least, is still living tin neighboring city) distin- guished jurist, honored and respected by all who know him. The other removed to one of the Western states, with the intention of making it his future home.
Year: 1877

The following laughable incident told
by well-known government otfice-holder
who, as he rides free on the cars,
has numerous tales to tell of his
observations and experience; There
were two seats in the car turned so
as to face each other. One was occupied
by lady and the other by Chinaman.
Evidently the lady did not relish the pres
ence of the Chinaman. She explained 10
him that she wanted to take the cushions
and their frame and place them lengthwise
across from seat to seat. John said ''all
rightee," and got out in the aisle while
she proceeded 10 lie down on the bed thus
improvised, with her head resting on her
valise. She supposed that the Chinaman
would take the hint that she wanted to rest
in the space usually occupied by four per-
sons. But John at once proceeded to
crawl in and stretch himself by her side,
with his head on little bundle of his own.
The Chinese are an initiative race, and
like to do as others do. you know. The
lady, as soon as she discovered that she
had a bed-fellow, got up little wildly and
started for the next car, to the infinite
amusement of the PASSENGERS, who had
been watching the little scene with some
interest. John took no notice of the fun
he had created. but went to sleep with the
whole bed to himself