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Year: 1878

who may be condemned to its eternal
night within night.


Again law presupposes violation for
where there is no law there can be no
violation law also. pre- supposes reward ;
for obedience to law is peace. Then law
is attended by its two satellites reward
and punishment.


We know that God gave Us laws, not
only from writings that bear the stamp
Of his authority, hut also from an intui.
tive principle in the individual which
rewards with appreciation certain acts
and condemns certain others.


Again, ii God be our creator then Is
lie our final judge; then as judge lie
must have some criterion 10 20 by
hence the law; and being intelligent ra.
tional beings lie has coBdescended to
communicate these laws by ideas to our
intelligence-hence written laws Of God


Thus, then it is we have laws. Al
laws must have penalties attached for
their violation; the laws of God have
penalties attached necessarily; these
penalties are proportional to the degree
OF violation. The penalties for the vio-
lation Of some Of God 5 laws may be in
hicted in this world, some penalties for
greater violations may be reserved for
the other world. The laws OF man fix
the penalties OF imprisonment and death.
May not the laws Of God inAict the pen
alties of Imprisonment and eternal death2
BY eternal death | mean eternal death
TO the souls happiness, which happiness
would have been its reward, had not a
violation of the law forfeited it,


II is not absolutely necessary to the
proof Of the existence Of a hell to specify
the particular torments.


Suffice that there is a God: that lie has
given US laws; that there are penalties
attached to their violations; that when
we stand before Him TO see a manifesto
tlon of His justice in the hereafter, the
guilty may expect to be visited with a
punishment proportional to the violation
of His laws, which punishment may con
sist in the utter banishment from the
presence Of God, which presence being
absolutely necessary to the happiness OF
the soul, to be deprived Of that happiness
would inhict a thousand fold greater tor
ments than a thousand roaring, blazing,
seething lakes Of fire and birthstone.
Year: 1878

There is talk Of another new departure
on iue part OF the Hayes Administration


and that hereafter it viii take q different
course towards the south We have
been at a loss TO know exactly whore the
Administration could 60 When it went
into that Southern Cancellation business
it was ia the condition OF The animal
that went into the hole aud drew thc
hole in after b. the President and
Cabinet may thunder anlthemas % the
Louisiana authorities. but they viii have
no more effect than the Popes bull
against the comet Columbus Dispatch.
Year: 1878

FEMALE BEAUTY. "A London med


ical journal of high authority says
that efforts are making Jv a number
of women of prominence to form a
school Of beauty in England, the
members pledging themselves to do
everything in their power to render
themselves comely by natural means.
Prizes are to be gwen to those who
can move with ease and grace and so
furnish evidence Of good health and
physical unconStralunent. Something
of this kind is needed here. AL.
though American women have to a
great extent, seen the foil Y and ngIi-
ness Of lacing and going thinly clad
in cold weather, there are still many
who think an absurdly small waist
attractive ana any number that 50
pinch their feet that they cannot
walk comfortably or becomngly.-
They do these ridiculous things gen
orally because they Imagine that men
admire them. If men have done so,
they do so 10 longer. They Prefer
healthy and graceful women to inva-
lid and awkward pnes, as all women
must be wko cramn their waists, wear
shoes too small or dress in any way
to interfere with their freedom and
satisfaction. N5ture and beauty are
one. No woman can be beautiful
who letters or hindcrs nature. III e
m~re nearly she approaches the nat
ural the closer size comes to lowell
ness. Women have heard this a
thousand times and accept it men
tally; yet in their blind worship OF
false gods they sacrifice themselves to
jnGrmity and deformity. 1t is en-,
ttrcly incomprehensible to men that
SO msuy women will endure pain and
incur disease from a mistaken notion
Of beauty.
Year: 1878

A couple Of Young men were out
fishing the other day anA on return,
ing We're going past a farmhouse and
felt hungry. They yelled to the far
mers' daughters. Girls have you
any buttermilk p The reply was
gently waited back to their ears,
Yes but we keep it for our calves.
The boys calculated that they had
business away-and they went.
Year: 1878

What sAa.i | teach my child =
Teach him that it is better to starve
than to steal that it is better to be a
scayeugor 0. wood chopper than tc
be an dIer dead beat; that it Is just
AS criminal, and more reprehensible
to waste Monday than to desecrate
Sunday; that labor is the price Of all
honest possessions; that no one is ex-
empt from the obligation to labor
with heal, or hands or heart; that
An honest man is the noblost work OF
God : that knowledge is power that
labor ls workshjp, and idIeness is sin;
that it is better to eat the crust of in
dependent poverty than to luXuriate
amidst the richest as dependent. -
Teach him these facts till they are
woven into his being and regulate his
lie, and we will insure his success
though the heavens fall.
Year: 1878

An old bachelor at a wedding feast
had the heartlessness to offer the fol-
lowing toast Marriage-rhe gates
through which the happy lover leaves
his enchanted regions and returns to
earth.
Year: 1878

If the habit continues to gr'~
there will certainly be a rise in the
chawin of gum before very long -


We actually feel sorry for those al
dicted to its use, mostly Of the male
persuasion, it seems so hard on Their
Jaws and is such an unnecessary *,
pense of labor for sNch small result,
Year: 1878

of the most stylish and tasteful de-
signs, embracing the handsomest
products of the European markets.
More than usual effort has been made
to make this opening a success, it
will include in addition, a beautiful
line of Domestic Cloaks. We have
decided to make our store the popu-
lar resort for all who wish to look at
the newest and best goods at the
lowest possible prices. a.
Year: 1878

with circumspection, which is satisfac'
tory to himself, invariably refuses to be
interviewed in a formal way by any
representative of the press.


The president has been making an
investigation regarding the practical
working of the Ku Klux law in the
south several years ago, under which a
large number of persons were tried,
convicted and sentenced to the peni-
tentiary at Auburn, New York. OF
several southern republicans, who called
on him during the present week, he in
quired whether or not If the rigid en-
forcement of that law would not have
the effect to break up the ku klux and
compel the members to respect the
United States laws. The answer was
In the affirmative, to which the presi-
dent said that he thought the time had
come to punish, with equal severity,
those persons in the southern states
who, at the recent elections, openly de-
fed the federal officers who were ap-
pointed under the provision of the fed
eral election law, and that necessary
steps would be taken to secure.the con-
viction and punishment of all such Of
Tenders.
Year: 1878

THAT liberal committee is refresh
ingly cool. 1t seeks to dethrone the
tory party, and proposes to accomplish
this ny by obtaining dissolution of
parliament; (2) by appealing to the
people on the eastern question and Sc
curing majority of liberals for the
next parliament. They are now busy
in getting popular opinion to demand
the dissolution, and have also requested
an interview with Beaconsfeld in order
to learn of his weak points.
Year: 1878

A VERY singular and distressing rail-
way accident occurred yesterday in New
Brunswick. The horrors experienced
by passengers locked in a burning car
that had rolled down an embankment
defy description.
Year: 1878

WHILE Edison has not received his
American patent on the electric light
his agents are busy in Europe patenting
the invention. Meanwhile the great
telegraph operator has recovered from
his illness and is meeting with remark
able success. In two weeks he will
have Menlo Park illuminated with
electric light.
Year: 1878

An account of a remarkable incident
comes from Aurora, Ind. A few days
age, as a trio of young men were hsh-
ing for bass in Hogan Greek, near
Aurora, they were disturbed by a splash
in the water, as of some animal Jump
ing into the stream. Looking in the di-
rection whence the sound came, they
saw large black hog, which had evi-
IDENTIFY come down from among the
roaming lots of porkers which make
life a burden in and around the town,
swimming rapidly towards the center
of the pool, which was about one hum
dred feet wide and eight feet deep. At
about the center the animal disappear
ed, remaining under water for con-
siderable time, and en- reappearing was
seen to have in his mouth a fine live
bass about eight inches long, with which
he swan ashore, and, on arriving on
land, proceeded to eat with the avidity
and relish peculiar to his species. After
having swallowed the last vestige with
a grunt, the animal again betook HIM
self to the water, and again dived to the
bottom, remaining considerable time.
Coming up with a snort, he made again
for the shore with another fish, which
he dispatched as quickly as before This
was repeated third time, and on the
fourth trip the animal secured small
turtle, which it also carried ashore, and,
after some difficulty, managed to de-
spatch, breaking the shell with its strong
teeth, after which it ambled off, satisfied
with its fishing experiences for the day.
| -PitsburQ Dispatch.
Year: 1878

In the American exhibit, our several
canned corned-beef manufacturers are
making vigorous effort to introduce this
specially to European notice. doubt
that it will ever come into general use
here in its present form. I found this
doubt on the, to me, apparent feature in
French gastronomy that salted meats
are little eaten, at least in France. And,
besides, there are SO many different
styles of preserved meat in use here. All
over Paris is found certain descrip-
ton of shop in which these are kept.
For a.few cents you can buy pate de
foie gras, veal pique, sausage of half
dozen varieties, and dozen other vari-
cites of spiced and preserved meats.
The principal recommendation of our
corned-beef may be its cheapness. 1t
affords only one style of taste. The
French are both versatile and tickle in
this respect. Even among the common
people the palate is pleased by far
greater diversity of methods than is
common with us. It was an Ameri-
cans remark, one day, in my hearing:
"Well, never saw so many shops de-
voted to different sorts of eating and
drinking before as 1 find in Paris" In
almost every block inhabited by the la
boring classes will be found one or two
motherly old danes, making . living by
frying potatoes, and sometimes fish. A
psIny buys plate of fried potatoes,
good measure. The workman or work.
woman here finds cheap relish to his
or her bread and wine. Every house.
wife knows that fried potatoes are q
troublesome dish. They require previ-
Gus peeling, slicing, frying-all of which
mean time and labor. There is one
woman whose whole time is devoted to
this one culinary product, who fries all
the potatoes needed for an entire block,
and who fries them better and cheaper
than could be done in the family. Again,
many of the shops where fresh meat is
sold keep also bullion and various pre-
pared dishes. Now bullion of good
quality is simply beef tea and you may
realize the advantage the Paris laborer
has over ours, when if temporarily in
disposed or his appetite capricious (for
laborers in common with lawyers and
professors have their days of 'sfeeling
poorly" when the forces refuse to act
with their usual spring and vigor), he
may for five cents refresh himself with
a bowl of this liquid nourishment.-
Prentice Mulford.
Year: 1878

The newest short dresses have thred
kilt-plaited ilounces crossing the bach
and covering the back breadths from
belt to foot. In front there is an afroI
wrinkled across and one wide knife
plated flounce at the foot.
Year: 1878

/ have known a country So
ciety which withered away to


nothing under the dry rot of
gossip only. Friendships, once
as firm as granite, dissolved to
jelly and then ran away to water,
only because of this ; love,
that promised a future as
endearing as heaven, and as
staple as truth, evaporated into
a morning mist that turned to a
day, long tears only because of
this; father and a son were
set foot to foot with the fiery
breath Of an anger that would
never cool again between them;
and a husband and a young wife
each straining at the hatred lease
which in the beginning had been
the promise Of a Godblessed love
sat mournfully by the side of the
grave where all their JOY lay
buried, and all because Of this.
| have seen faith transformed to
mean doubt, joy give place to
grim despair, and charity take
on itself the features of black
malcvolence, all because of the
fell works Of scandal, and the
magic muttering of gossip.
Great crimes work great wrong,
and the deeper tragedies Of
human life spring from the larger
passion; but woeful and most
mournful are the uncatalogued
tragedies that issue from gossip
and detraction; most mo ournful
the shipwreck often made Of
noble natures and lovely lives,
by the bitter winds and dread
salt waters of slander. So easy
to say, yet so hard to disprove-
throwing on the innocent all the
burden and the strain Of demon
strating their innocence, and
Furnishing them as guilty if
unable to pick out the stings
they never see: and to silence
words they never hear-gossip
and slander are the deadliest and
cruelist weapons man has ever
forged for his brothers heart.
Year: 1878

that was all his own. Then he
looked at the rain that was
pounding at the doors and win
dows as if to get in out of the
wet. A glance at his overcoat
and Jones was decided.


"1ll risk" he said, and step
ping to the desk with measured
tread and slow, he clapped his
name to the mortgage and was
off with the umbrella.
Year: 1878

you dream Of a Patagonian
with the chil!s and fever, paying
assiduous court to a rheumatic
lion with a pink polonaise draped
gracefully over point aiguilIc
tunic, cut bias, in a dark night,
it is a sign that you'd better wake
up, for you are dreaming like a
three-ply iackass.
Year: 1878

note in which occurred this pas
sage: "If children at school can
be made to understand how it is
Just and noble to be humane even
to what we term inferior animals,
it will do much to give them
a higher character aud tone
through life. There is nothing
meaner than barbarous and cruel
treatment of the dumb creatures,
who can not answer lis or resent
the misery which is so often need
lessly inflicted upon them"
Year: 1878

The coming dress for ladies
doesn't touch the pavement by
about three inches. This will
obviate the necessity of ladies
wishing they had three hands
when out promenadlng; but
some new method will have to
be devised to keep the sidewalk
swept clean.
Year: 1878

A man was killed by a circular
saw, and in his obituary notice it
was stated that he twas q good
citizen, an upright Christian, and
an ardent patriot. but of limited
information with regard to circu-
lar saws"
Year: 1878

In Scotland and in the North of En-
gland oatmeal is the staple food of both
the laboring and the well-to-do classes.
A writer in an English paper urges its
more general use as a means of pro-
ducing a stronger and healthier race of
men and women. He thus extols its
virtues:


For the past forty years / have made
my breakfast of pint of oatmeal por-
ridge, with very rare exceptions, and
nothing else, fasting for four hours after
wards. If, however, l take any other
form of breakfast ! find myself hungry
before the next meal, which is never the
case when have had my porridge.


A few years ago had Devonshire
girl living with me as a servant. The
girl was willing enough to work but had
not the stamina to perform it. This /
found ON questioning her arose from the
deficient and ill-advised diet on which
she had been reared. She shortly began
to take her porridge and soon gained
such vitality as to be able to do her
work with ease. Porridge is a great
strengthener. Try it, We who doubt.
Year: 1878

Mr.. r. G. White laments that reading
aloud seems to have almost gone out of
fashion in our public schools. He thus
speaks of its Importance as an educa-
tional influence:


In fixing his attention, in leading to
exactness of apprehension, in power of
bringing the pupils mind into flexible
adaptability to the thought presented to
it, there is no exercise that will take the
place of reading aloud A person can
not read anything aloud well, with
proper infection and emphasis, without
thoroughly understanding it. A pupil
cannot scramble through and skip over
what he knows that he is likely to be
called upon to read aloud. 1t is among
the very best of educational disciplines.


Besides this, with competent teacher,
it is, need hardly say, the very best
means of acquiring that clear enuncia-
tion which is one of the greatest beau
ties of speech, and which any observant
person will find largely lacking in the
younger people of the present day.
Good English speaking and good English
writing comes, except in cases of rare
Unborn faculty, chiefly by the reading
aloud of good English authors, under
the supervision of a teacher who himself
or herself speaks good English and
understands the authors.
Year: 1878

There has always been a difficulty in
the minds of teachers, as well as in the
minds of learners, to comprehend the
theory of the tides as presented in our
textbooks. This theory fails to give
satisfactory account of the cause of the
mote from the sun and moon. Accord
ing to this theory, at that part of the
earth's surface which is turned away
from the moon or from the sun, a less
amount of attraction is felt by her water
than anywhere else on her surface; and
the whole earth is therefore, in effect
drawn away from the waters on the far
side of her, and thus, the water being
left behind, tide is produced on this
side, as well as on the side at which the
force of gravity acts directly. That SO
great an absurdity should have been ac-
cepted so long by our writer's of text
books is truly marvellous. 1t is, indeed,
SO contrary to all known facts and laws
of physics, that if no other influences
are felt by the waters at the far side of
the earth than attraction, there would
be just the opposite effect produced to
that alleged by this absurd hypothesis.
This can be demonstrated by actual ex.
pertinent, and as conclusively as any
other fact coming in reach of expert
mental philosophy. 1t has been proved
experimentally that all bodies on the
surface of the earth at midnight are
heavier than at any other hour of tn.
twenty-four; and when the new moor
occurs at midnight this increase O.
weight or gravity felt by the matter OF
this part of the surface of the earth il
still greater. Now, ifthis theory wer,
correct, attraction would produce jus
the opposite effect; that is, matter woult
weigh less at midnight than at any othe
hour of the twenty-four. On the side o
the earth facing the sun and moon, tn


weight of bodies is diminished, as i
should be-
Year: 1878

THIS principle of trying to "catch
up" when work is behindhand, is the
bane Of housekeepers. A woman with a
house to keep and family of children
to rear has large contract on her
hands, and no matter how much she does,
the work she is compelled to leave un-
done will always be in the large majority.
But if from day to day she meets the
pressing duties of the day, that ought to
satisfy her. If, instead of trying to
anticipate all the work for the next week
and the next year, she simply does not
put off till tomorrow what might and
what ought to be done to-day, she should
allow herself to feel that she had done
enough.
Year: 1878

THRNew York Herald says that En-
glish capitalists have raised money to
build an underground railway in that
city, running under Broadway from the
Battery to City Hall Park, thence
through, adjacent streets to Union
Square, and through Fourth Avenue to
Forty-second Street. Sir Edward Wat
kin, President of the London under
ground railways, is said to be at the
head of the New York enterprise.
Year: 1878

THERE is an evident design on the
part ola certain class to get up a war
with Mexico; but for what reason,
nobody can tell. The border of the Rio
Grande is peopled by class who are
little superior to savages, and who en-
gage in cattle stealingas profession. To
get up n national row about such scala
wags would be sheer nonsense-worse
than shearing a hog for his wool. A
vigilance committee, well armed, and a
little strong hemp, ought to settle the
difficulty.
Year: 1878

SPECULATION as to the probable sue
cessor Of Pope Plus is going on. In the
meantime His Holiness is presumed to
be growing better, and5 if he only re-
covers his legs a bit, will be likely to at
tend the funeral of all the eager aspir-
ants for his place.
Year: 1878

evening Lieutenant John Anthony Rucker
was drowned in White river canon at Camp
Supply, Arizona while attempting to rescue
Lieutenant Austin Henley from the water.
Both officers are known as being among the
bravest and best Indian fighters
in their regiment the Sixth cavalry.
Lieutenant Rucker is son of Gen. Rucker,
and brother of Mrs. Gen. Sheridan. His
unsuccessful attempt to save the life of his
comrade is mentioned in the dispatch as
being a most heroic and daring act
Year: 1878

The thing that was in Toms stock
ing was worth a great deal.


"Worth dollar?''


More than that.


''Ten dollars?''


More than that.


Hundred doIlars."


Oh yes, much more than that; if
you had been in Toms place you
would not have sold it, Pm sure, for
many hundreds of dollars.


"Wasn't he a lucky boy, thought"


Yes, he was; not however in just
the way you think. But you haven't
guessed yet what it was that Tom
had in his stocking. Give it up?
Well, then, I'll tell you.


1t was his foot He put it in when
he jumped out of bed. Now you
know why it was like a jumping jack,
and why Tom put it into his stocking
himself and why he wouldn't have
sold it for good deal of money.


But you thought it was present.
Yes, but Tom didn't expect any pres
ent in his stocking that morning. l
suppose he would have been as glad
of one as you or /, but there was no
one to make him present on this
Christmas day. He thought it all
over before he went to sleep on Christ
mas eve. The year before there were
presents enough. They were living
then in the old home in the city
father and mother and little Sue and
baby Dick and they had Christmas
tree in the parlor, and ON it was o
dressing-gown for father, and a new
chain and locket with fathers picture
in it for mother, and dolls house
for little Sue, and jack in the box
for Dick, and many other things toe
numerous to mention; not the leas
among which was splendid ney
!, sled, latest tooth-pick pattern, paint
, ed blue, with its name sStreak" il
Gilt letters on the ton q Genuine h'p
Year: 1878

ing at once and was finally entire
~ cured by their use. Similar
eases are recorded AL over the
country and no female afflicted


with any disease pecullar TO her
sex, should tail to use them. As q


uterine tonic aud female regulator
they have no equal. Can be used
hy married aud sIuglc at all times.
Year: 1878

she became a widow, her husband
dying in New York. But it was
not observed that the terrible afflic-
ton diminished her gayety or in
fused greater sobriety into her ap-
parel. She was still to be seen in
conspicuous places, her raiment as
varied and intense in hue as the
sumac or the maple after the first
frosts OF autumn. On the day of
his burial she visited one of the
leading Photographic galleries and
had some pictures taken in many
attitudes, some of which are still
worn next the heart of hearts OF
young gentlemen who do business
in the Nevada Block. During a
portion of her travels about the
State Mrs. Godfrey was in company
with and under the presumed guar
dianship Of an elderly lady, report
ed to be her mother. A few weeks
after the Yosemite affair she disap-
peared from the coast like a beauti.
ful vision, and has not since been
heard of.