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Year: 1879

p 'litical platform. He declares that the
Church officials must anoint the ruler, or the
people will not allow him to rule. He must
receive the sacrament before he can be
crowned. The preacher, not the judge
makes him ruler. But who, lot US ask, will
anoint the preacher, endowing him with
power to make ruler? Until the church
officials manifest sufficient capacity to make
themselves better, they had better leave the
business of President making to the poll
ticians.
Year: 1879

In view of the exceeding interest which
the Democracy seem to have in the nomina-
tion Of Wakefield, we suggest that it wouldn't
be bad idea for the Republicans to abandon
the field, and allow the Democrats to run
their convention. This would suit the
GLOBE, which insists that Wakefield is at
heart Democrat, and it would suit Wake
field, because in that event he would be nom
mated by vote Of ten to one.
Year: 1879

IT appears by statistics just published
that every State in the union contributed
recruits to the Northern army during the
war. Even those in rebellion sent over
seventy thousand men into the field.
Year: 1879

THERE are over four hundred applicants
for the thirty-six vacant second lieutenant
cies in the army. From such a number it
would seem as if there should be no difficulty
in selecting competent and brave men.
Year: 1879

Thus far we have referred only to the pub
lie career of VIM. Allen, and altogether 10
nored his domestic relations. Yet NOTHING
in his whole life shows him in more beauti.
full light.


At the time he was candidate for Con-
Rress he was suitor for the hand of the
daughter of General Macarthur, who was h,s
political opponent, and, we believe, engaged
Q be married to her. Perhaps not engaged.
though, as she afterwards married =
Year: 1879

A New York exchange tells
"How Men Suddenly Disappear
from our Streets" We haven't
read the article, but we suppose
they suddenly dart up an alley in
order to enter the saloon from the
rear. We have seen scores of men
suddenly disappear from the streets
In the same manner.-Ex.
Year: 1879

The human race is less liable to
be won in a canter than lost in a
decanter. Now we expect half Of
the population will rise to point
of order and order us to bottle up.
New York News.
Year: 1879

when I am marrying young couples. ]
generally tell the young lady to let her hus-
band be the head, for that Is according TO
scripture and TO naturci but always ad-
wise her to be the neck, and twist him round
which way she likes.-spurgeon.
Year: 1879

At Ann Arbor one of the students
bet the crowd that one of the pro-
fessors in the Law Department
would treat them. After the money
was put up some one asked
"What will the professor treat us
on 7" "Treatise on international
law" was the reply, after which
there was an awful silence.--Tole-
do Commercial.
Year: 1879

Clearly education, sound and efficient


the first step to be aimed at as the
antidOte to mendicity, Educate the


blind up to the pitch to which their in
dividual capacities render 1t possible,
and we put them on the road to indie
pendence. This is a self evident cOnclu-


SION Although most of us are super
Eicially aware that the blind have been
in the habit of reading embossed books
for years, yet the subject has never, it
would seem, received the universal
attention and interest from the benevO-
lent public which its importance de-
mands, and which It has a right to ek-
pect, when we remember how truly
great is the charity and sympathy mani
tested everywhere toward the sightless.
Now, as we must not Judge Of the char
acters and industrial capacities Of the
blind generally by the proWling, stick
tapping vagabOnds about our streets, any
mere than we should of the rest of man
kind by other mendicants, so we must
not suppose that fair example Of their
ability in reading an embossed Bible is
afforded by the blind squatteTs here and
there dotted about our paVemehts, pre-
tending to tumble out with their fingers
the Psalms orthe Gospel according to st.
John. Many Of these, in all probability,
have learned the passages by heart, and
slip them trippingly off the tongue, as
they would any other set, welcomed,
high-sounding phrases. No, to appre-
Ciate fairly what can be done by touch,
and how far the fingers may compensate
for the eye, we must go to some Of the
many schools and classes where the
blind are taught to read. Everybody,
however, cannot be expected to do tins;
and yet, to afford them the help which
all are so anxious to give, there should
be more general acquaintance than
there is with the means by which it IS
sought to educate the sightless; for, sup
posing every one ready to grant ther in
gentiity, their quickness Of apprehen-
sion, and perseverance in reading their
embossed books, how many people are
aware, even specifically, that there are
in existence some six or eight different
systems and forms of type for teaching
them to do Sol or how mauy people have
the least idea of the inndnerablB diff
culties which the present state Of these
systems offers, not only in themselves
but when weighed against the other.
Year: 1879

The use and result of study are
well brought out in the following
extract from an article by Howard
Miller, Elk Lick, Pa;


Il Will venture to assert that the
average Congressman or State leg
islator cannot pass an ezamina ion
for common school service.


81 have no doubt that many a
young miss can technically parse
this article, according to some stan
dard authority, from end to end,
while many a man has been in the
.. S. Senate, who would lose his
life, we're be to depend on such a
test for his salvation. Yet the Sena-
tor is undoubtedly the better
scholar, and this is what I mean
when I say that the individual stud
les viii hardly ever, if indeed they
ever do, come up for practical use in
any profession outside of teaching.
The result Of study is, properly, a
sort of polishing process to the
mind, which enables the party bene-
flied to see reflected all sides of an
object or idea presented to him fo1
mental inspection, and not only the
side next to him, as the ignorant
man sees.
Year: 1879

A SHREwD CLERGYMAN-A popular
minister had Just finished an exhorta-
ton strongly recommending the support
of q meritoriOus institution. The con-
gregation was numerous, and the chapel
was crowded to excess. The discourse
being finished, the plate was about beng
handed round to the respective pews,
when the preacher made this short
address to the waiting congregation =
"From the sympathy 1 have witnessed
in your CoUntenances, and the strict
attention you have honored me with.
there is one thing that 1 am afraid of,
that some of you may be inclined to give
too much. Now, it is my duty to inform
you that Justice, though not so pleasant,
should always be a prior virtue to gen
erosity; therefore, as you will all be
Immediately waited upon in your re-
spective peWs, 1 wish to have it thorOugly
understood that no person shall think
Of putting anything into the plate who
cannot pay his debts" We need not
add that this produced a most overflow
ing collection.
Year: 1879

Did you ever watch a party Of French
WorkmenP The day begins for them
nOminally at o'clock, which is earlier
I must admit, says a Paris correspondent,
than my observation of them begins.
An early-rising friend describes them as
usually arriving on the scene from 6
o'clock to half-past. The first thing
they do is to sit down on some COnve-
nient stone OF bench, and have talk.
Pines come out, and are leisurely lighted,
and tobacco is a great promoter Of con-
YersatiOn. Presently arrives a cOmrade
with a newspaper, which he unfOlds and
reads aloud; the performance belJ z
much enlivened and prOtracted by con-
tinual comment and followed by gem
eral discussion by the company. All
this may last an hour, at the end OF
which coats are laid aside and the blouse
put on, and tools and a good stroke of
work is done till breakfast. 1t is the
late French breakfast, which isrespOnsi-
bic for a good part of their dawdling.
Breakfast is a solemnity with all classes,
with the laboring men hardly. less
than with his betters, if betters he have.
Perhaps he gees tea safe for it; perhaps
it comes out Of a handkerchief and Is
eaten on the thumb in either case the
ceremony is begun and carried on and
concluded with every circumstance Of
leisurely deliberatiOn. There is at least
Us much talk as eating, for the French
man is temperate in diet and drink, and
takes an hour to dispose of u meal which
an Englishman would dispatch in five
minutes, asking for more as soon as 1t
was deYOured Then another pipe
and more talk; then a stroll back tc
work; then discussion how it shOul1
be done, in which all the men employed
in the vicinity take part. You may see
a carpenter lay down-his plane to offer
his opinion to a mason about the foliage
he is carving on a capital, and so much
natural taste or instinct have the race
that the carpenters opinion will prob
ably be worth hearing. The mason will
probably requite the obligation by hints
to his friend the painter, and so on.
This is brotherly, and perhaps the wOrk
is well done at the end, but when it is a
question of speed, the Frenchman is all
aboard.
Year: 1879

Why is it that Physiology is not
taught in our common schools p
New Vienna Register


Why, indeed? There can be but
one excuse, and that is, a want of
time. Our country teachers, with
their forty daily recitations, do not
like to take up a new branch, but
this might be made much better if
we had some one to enforce a course
of study, in the ungraded schools.
Take for instance, the subject Of
Geography. There is no doubt that
there are pupils in our schools who
have been studying that branch for
ten years, and that know no more
about it than if they had not seen a
Geography book until within the
last six mouths. Nothing could be
more foolish. There is a clear loss
cf five and ODe-half years of study,
for the study of Geography is a
very poor mental drill The same
might be said of History, (where it
is taught).


We would say, then, if you teach
History, stop at the end of three or
six months and take up Physiology,
or better still, take up Physiology
for three months and then History.


If you can do nothing more,
teachers, you can introduce short
talks on Physiology at the morning
exercises, and, if rightly managed,
Year: 1879

Law is like q seine; you may see
through It, but you must get considers
bly, reduced before you get through IT. p
I have lived 80 years, says q farmer
friend, and never yet sued q man, and
only once, and in this instance as trus-
tee of a society, have I been sued. Of
course I have had to lose some bills that
might have been collected, and have had
to pay a few unjust claims, but on the
whole it is clearly apparent that there is
a cash advantage in keeping out Of law
Law suits are an expensive luxury that
wise men should avoid as they would
pestiIence. For one, I viii deal with no
man who is in the habit Of having law
suits. When men disagree, as they
often will, and honestly too, how much
cheaper, and more satisfactorily their
differences can be settled by. peaceful
arbitration, than to apply to the courts,
where one Will 'get beat" even though
he winsl I wish every farmers club
organized in our land would pledge
themselves to adopt this manner of
settling their difficulties.
Year: 1879

Who shall judge man from his maunerS
Who shall know him by his dress :
Paupers may be Ht for princes.


Princes ft for something less
Crumpled shirt and dirty jacket


May clOthe the golden ore
OF the deepest thought and feelings
Satin vest can do ne more
Year: 1879

THE PYRAMIDs-The immense stones
used in the erection of the pyramids Of


Egypt were obtained from the quarries
in the Arabian hills, and were carried
over the river by bridge of boats. They


were then brought by means of a cause
way, which of itself took ten years to
construct, and which is said to have been
a fine work, with its polished stones and
figures Of animals engraved on them.
One hundred thousand men were en-
ployed at a time, and these were relieved
by the same number at the end of three
months. A long time was spent in lev
cling off the rock on which the edifice
stands, and twenty years for the erection
of the edifce itself The stones were
raised, step by step, by means of a ma
chine made of short pieces Of wood and,
last of all, commencing from the top, the
stones were cemented together by layers
of cement not thicker than a strip of
paper, the strength of which is proved
by the age Of these enormous materials.
Year: 1879

"A boy was recently sentenced to the
penitentiary in New Hampshire fol
stealing two postage stamps worth twelve
cents. That boy will soon learn better
than to commit so outrageous q crime,
and when he graduates from the State
prison he will lay his plans to rob some
bank of 100000 or so, and then make a
comfortable compromise with the direc-
tors for fifty per cent. of the amount.
Or, mayhap, he will start nice savings
bank with the modern improvements in
some confiding community like Chicago,
and at the proper time close up the
books with heavy liabilities and no
assets. In either of these cases the
New Hampshire boy will reap the re-
ward of enterprise, and retiring with an
abundant competency, live to a green
old age, the only blot on his reputation
being that miserably stupid and criminaI
act Of his youth when he stole twelve
cents worth Of postage stamps.
Year: 1879

Wewiu furnish our subscribers, in connection
with the NEws, any Of the following Periodicals,
at less than the regular subscription price The
frs; column shows the regular subscription price
Of each Periodical the second column the price at
which we furnish it and our paper together-both
postage prepaid:
Year: 1879

Some interesting experiments made
in Germany in the production Of local
anasthesia show that if the hand be i'm
mersed for a short time in ice-Water
severe pain is caused, but that no such
pain is produced on immersing the hand
in cold alcohol, not even when the tenn
perature of the alcohol is as low as five
degrees Cent Glycerine was found to
possess a similar property. Ether Occa-
stoned pain, and quicksilver more acute
pain still, causing the speedy withdrawal
Of the finger when plunged into this
LIQUID at a temperature of three. degrees.
1t was next ascertained that on the
finger being held for a long time in alcO-
hOl having temperature Of five degrees
Cent. no pain was experienced, and,
although the finger distinctly perceived
the faintest touch, sharp pricks gave no
pain. This seems TO show that the appii-
cation of cold alcohol, one Of the most
simple as well as safe processes, has the
effect of depriVing the part of the special
sensibility to pain without, however,
impairing the delicaCy of the general
tactile sensation which, is as well known,
resides in the superficial integUnent.
Year: 1879

The two other children followed; but
alas there was no place for the father in
the tiny skiff, already overloaded.
The two brave men exchanged look,
and understood each other. Of went the
boat, shooting down the foaming current
like an arrow. More than once all seemed
over, but the oarsman's hand was sure,
and at last. far down the stream, he
brought his charge safe to land. Then
without hating a moment, he seized the
tow rope, and dragging his boat up to the
point whence he had started, shot out
into the raging food once more.


"God be with hinl!' cried the Count,
fervently; "no other man in Saxony would
have dared such deed!'


Stoutly did the gallant man strain at
his task; but he came only just in time.
The ferryman had barely leaped into the
boat when the whole building came down.
In an instant the whole crowd was in
motion, and, headed by the Count himself,
they rushed down the bank to meet the
rescued man and his deliver as they
touched the shore.


"There, my brave fellow!' cried the
noble, holding out his purse to the oars
man; "never was money better earned!'


"Not SO, Sir Count!' answered the
other; "God has enabled me to keep my
self by the work of my own hands, and I
need nothing more. Give your gold to
this poor man and his family, who have
lost there ALL"


And without awaiting reply, he turned
on his heel and sappeared.--Saanday
Afternoon.
Year: 1879

It is not generally known to what ex-
tent we are indebted to Worms for the
productiveness of our gardens and fields
It has been found by a series Of expert
ments carried out by a German natura.
list that the tunnels made by worms into
the earth are frequently of much service
to plants whose roots occupy the channels
that have thus been made. The mold of
our gardens, and fields, too, is improved
to an almost certain extent by the bur
rowing of these humble insects. Each
worm, in less than week, passes its own
weight in mold, ,and the soil thus produced
is fine and light, ssand extremely helpf ul
to the growth of plants. When it is re-
membered that there are in every acre
some 900 worms and that in addition
to forming every day about thirty-seven
pounds of fine mold they open up the sub.
soil and render it fertile, we shall gain
some slight conception of our indebted
ness to these apparently quiet, insignif-
cant and generally unthought-ot little
WOkerS.
Year: 1879

A lady gives some hints for repairs
that can be made by any housekeeper


The fire brick of our cook-stove 'gave
OUT. and not one was to be had nearer
than Philadelphia. A friend gave us q
recipe which we find works well, though
we had little faith in it at first. We
mixed a cup of salt with two of coal ash


es, wetting it up with water. This was
applied to the inside of the stove in the
place of the FIRE brick. It hardened in a
few hours, and answers as we'll as the
brick. Cracks in stoves may be mended
in the same way. A large pail used for
taking up ashes had become too full Of
holes for use, but was SO light and handy
we did not like to give it up. So we
pasted stout cloth over the bottom,
outside and in, and then covered


the cloth with thin ceruent of salt and
ashes. It is first-rate ash-pail still, and
hot ashes do not burn out the cloth.
Mending tin with cloth may be new
fashion to some, but it works very we'll.


I know of coal-scuttle that has done
good service for five years since it was
pronounced worn out, simply by having a
piece of cloth patched on with thick flour
paste. It needs renewing about twice a
Year: 1879

In Nay, 1862, g weaver Of Nottingham
brought home a loin of veal and told his
wife to cook it for dinner. AS he did not
return to that meal, she put the veal
aside untouched. In the evening lie
came back and gave her a steak to pre-
pare for him, saying that he did not care
for the veal then. After eating the steak
be con- planned Of horrible pains, and
finally died Of convulsions. The meat
he had brought in the morning he had
rubbed with poison, hoping that his
wife would cat it, and she had fried the
steak in the dripplngs of the dish intend
ed for her deitruction.


Wh5n the royal George sank at Spit
head the men had just been paid off, and
vast amount Of money went down with
the wreck. Years afterward, two divers,
employad in removing the remnants of
the ill-fated ship from the harbor, found
a tin case full Of sovereigns. Both seized
1t and Struggled for its possession, until
one ccntriVed to smash the window in
the others helmet. The unfortunate
man was drowned, and in hauling his
body 70 the surface, it became entangled
with the air-tube Of the other and broke
1t. Tbs murderer was found dead beside
the treasure he had wrested from his vic
tim, whose fate he had shared.


A singular case of retribution occurred
IN France ten years ago. a man named
Dutaure was manufacturer, in small
way, of essential oils for perfumers at
Venice, the center Of the French flower
country. He was considered well -to-dc,
but IN reality was On the verge of bank
ruptcy. His brother, on the contrary,
bachelor of fifty, was 8 very rich man,
having accumulated over million francs
as contractor at Buenos .Ayres and
Montevldeo. Since his return he had re-
sided with Dufaure, and had made will
III favor Of the latter's son. When the
perfumer found himself Oh the brink of
ruin, he determined to retrieve his for
tune at the expense Of his opu]ent broth
er. That person was a devoted sports
man, and spent most Of his time abroad
with his gun Or his fshing-rod. One
evening when returning from one Of his
excursions, ne was startled by the dis
charge OF a gun in the thicket bordering
the road, and the whizzing Of the bullet
past his head. He took to flight, and as
ne ran he heard the sound Of a second
shot. The searching party, which he
sent out on his arrival at his brothers.
house: found the body of the perfumer
IN the bushes from which the discharge
had been made. From the condition of
the corpse, it v as evident, that Dufaure
mao AIMED the second shot at the flying
man, When the gun exploded and blew
his own head to pieces.
Year: 1879

No man can lounge into success.
Society is no comfort to one rot socia-
BILE.


Hide the faults of others and sLcw their
virtues.
Speak evil Of no one, not even your en-
emies.
tits easier and handler for men to fiat
ter than to praise.


A wise man is never less alone than
when he is alone.


He who persecutes good naaa makes
war against all mankind.
Most men like in women what IS most
opposite in their own characters,
If he who Injuries does wrong. Re who
returns an injury does equally wrong
Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor
IS good brooch to wear in q mans hat
at all times.


Abstain from wrath. Let 4 man keep
in subsection his speech, his arm, and his
appetite.


All is hollow were the heart bears not
a part, and all is il peril where principle
is not the guide.


In religion, not to do as thou ssyest is
to unsay thy religion in thy deeds and to
undo thyself by doing.


Some persons live without purpose,
and pass through the world like e:raws on
riVer-mere passengers.
When was happy thought I knew
men, but it was fat=d that I should know
in misfortune only


The universe is but one great city
full Of beloved ones, divine and human,
by nature endeared to each other.
Who is the great man? He who Is
strongest in the exercise of patients; he
who patiently endures injury.


Avoid everything calculated to iniure
others. Have 40 mpanionship with a
man who Injuries his neighbor.


Whoever is in a hurry shows that the
thing he is about is too big for him.
Haste and hurry are two different things.
Year: 1879

A goblet full OF moonbeams, a three. .cornered
hat,
The pretty colored peacock presented to the
bat.
The bat, much delighted, went and told the
snipe
That nightngales and greyhounds never
smoke pipe.
Fiddle de dee,
Fiddle de dee!


The cow fell asleep in the cherry tree.
The limb soon broke,
And the COW aWoke
And didn't think it much Of joke.


III.
There was little cat
And she tried to catch rat,
And down little hole quick he dove,
Yet the philosophical cat
Wasn't much put out thereat,
For she went and fell asleep by the stove.
Here is a speckled, cunning little pig,
For fruit cake and cider he dosn't care fig;
He ne'er wears collar around his snowy neck
And ne'er fairy slippers his little feet deck;
He ne'er falls in love with the pigeon or the
quail,
But loudly he squeals when you catch him by
the tail.


"
Here's little boy with a new bow and arrow,
He now takes aim and shoots at sparrow;
But far wide Of birdie the feathered dart sped


-Ne1y York Graphic.
Year: 1879

year. A lady told me that she mended
a big dish-pan by covering the bottom
with white paint, end then putting on a
piece Of white cloth, which she also COW
cred with paint. She had used it five
years then, and it is eleven years ago, so
| presume she is using 1t still, as she was
not a woman given to change.
Year: 1879

We sit alone in the stiffness,


Ny soul and l.
And hear, outside our cloister,


The world go by
The world, with its toiling and buying,
And striving for gain,
The pltiful world with its crying
And moaning for pain.
We have no -artin its aching.


My soul and I;
No part in its giving and taking,
So let it go by.
We have shaken off from our sandals
The dust Of its mart,
And smile to think of its tumult


While we sit apart.