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Year: 1878

The greater part of the butter used in
the cities of Brazil is said to be imported
from France, Germany and Ireland,
principally from the latter place, not
withstanding that thousands of cows
Craze on the vast pan,pas in South
America. The native butter of Brazil is
of an inferior quality, and their dairying
is of the most primitive and unsatisfac-
tory character, yielding product Of q
very inferior sort. The American Dairy
man states that there are four native
modes Of making butter in the Empire
of Brazil. The first is by putting the
milk in . common bowl and beating
it with spoon, rs you would an egg.
The second, by pouring it into bottle
and shaking it till the butter appears,
when it is removed by breaking OF the
top of the bottle, rs bottles are valueless
in that part Of South America on ac-
count of the vast number imported with
foreign fruits and liquids. The third,
where the dairy is more extensive, il
performed by filing q hide. with the
milk, which il Justify shaken BY an
athletic native at each end until butter
il produced. The fourth, indicating vast
progress over and beyond any of the pre-
cedtng methods, consists in dragging
the hide or leathern vessl, filed with
milk, on the ground after galloping
horse, until it h supposed the butter 4


formed. The milk Is never strained and
the butter never washed.
Year: 1878




1t will be but very short time be-
fore we shall be able to observe the effect
that stripping the pine forests from the
sides and summit of the Sierras will have
on the climate of this state and Califor-
MIA. In few yearsevery accessible tree,
even to such as are only of value as fire.
wood, will be swept from the mountains.
Even now this has been done in some
places. 1t is to be hoped that a new
growth of pines or timber trees of some
kind may spring up on the ground that
has been cleared; but we do not hear
that any such growth has yet started.


Already one great change has occurred
that is evident to the most ordinary OBJ
server, which is the speedy melting
away of the snow on the mountains. 1t
now goes off at once--in food-with
the first warm weather of spring, where
as formerly, being shaded and protected
by the pines and other evergreen trees,
it melted slowly, and all summer sent
down to valleys, on both the eastern and
western slopes of the Sierras, constant
and copious streams of water. Instead
of good stage of water in our streams
throughout summer, as in former times,
there is food in the spring, and when
this is passed by our rivers speedily run
down, and being no longer fed from the
mountains evaporation leaves their beds
allpst dry when the hot weather of sum-
mer comes on.


The mountains being stripped of their
trees there will be nothing to shade the
rocks and earth, and both will absorb a
sufficient amount of heat from the rays
of the sun during the fall, and even till
far into the winter, to melt any light fall
of snow that may occur. The result
will be that our autumn weather will
reach further and further into winter
until at last we shall have no winter
worthy Of the name.


On the California side of the noun
tains the effect will be much the same.
The hot weather of the valleys will ex-
tend over the foothills, and gradually
reach up into the mountains.- Virginia
(Nep. Enterprise.
Year: 1878

THE season seems to be as remarkable
n northern Europe, as in northern
Anerica. The export trade of Russia,
Which is usually brought to halt by
anow and ice in November, has gone on
I'll the present moment almost without
disruption. No wonder the birds are
Nta loss to know whether to fly south or
Year: 1878

PRoBABLY the most valuable diamond
ever offered at common sale was recently
pat up in Paris shop by judicial decree
at the price of $500 1t is as large az
: half-penny and perfectly round and
white, though not throwing out much
6res The auctioneer mentioned the con-
diti0ns of the sale, but no person appear
ed TO have the amount in his pocket, and
tho gem was withdrawn.
Year: 1878

AT the cabinet session on the Sth inst,
il was determined that the secretary Of the
treasury should, ~ soor rs practicable,
invite further subscriptions to public loan
Of four per cent bonds, and 20 conduct it
that all subscribers in al parts Of the United
States shall have free and easy opportunity
to subscribe to bonds Of any amount
authorized by law through the national
Year: 1878

think remember you" The lady told him
that she did not know him, but there was a
person in the house that did. He stepped to
the door and raped. The door was opened
by his former wife. Neither knew the other.
The man tipped his hat, saying, ut seems to
me that I know you" As soon as she heard
his voice she knew him, and said: George, is
that your" At this juncture the lady friend
disappeared, and curtain was drawn over
the meeting between the long-sepsrated man
and wife.


The son, who is now 13 years of age, who
had often remarked that he wished he had q
father like other boys, is now the happiest Of
bows, and his father is wonderfully proud of
him. When toid of the cruel treatment that
his wife had received at the hands of Wilburn,
he wept like child. The young love of the
couple seems to have lost none of its ardent
strength, and in few days they will be mar
ried for the second time. Mrs. Mofhtt, who, it is
said, was the cause of the cruel separation of
man and wife, died some ten years ago--l"'
dianapolis Sentinel.
Year: 1878

S@ Be kind to your parents, or grandpa
rents; care for them tenderly, lovingly, watch
fully. Age has taken from them vitality
which gives buoyancy to youth. Mayhap
they have drank deeply of life's cup of sor-
row-with aching, heavy, well nigh broken
hearts, many see hopes and joys fade away
before their eyes-endured much for the sake
of others-and now that life is fading, they
need care and support far more than the
younger ones. Let US humor their whims,
their childishness, their seeming peevishness.
Let kind words and acts cheer them and
make life's pathway more pleasant for the tot
tering feet Make warm corner in every
heart for the aged. Remember that death
bed scene is not fer distant, and you should
have no dark spot on memory's page The
parting blessing of old age is like the very
dew of heaven. Earn it by kind actions
Year: 1878

The VALUE OF A SCRAP BooK.-Every
one who takes newspaper which he in the
least degree appreciates, will often regret see.
ing any one number thrown aside for waste
paper, which contains any interesting or i'm
portant articles. A good way to preserve
these is by the use of scrap book. One who
has never been accustomed thus to preserve
Year: 1878

short articles, can hardly estimate the pleasure
it affords to sit down and turn over the famil-
lar pages. Here ashort piece Of poetry greets
the eye, which you remember you were 90
glad to see in the paper, but which you would
long since have lost had it not been for your
scrap book. There is witty anecdote-it
does you good to laugh over it yet, though
for the twentieth time, next valuable recipe
you had almost forgotten, and which you
found Just in time to save much .perplexity.
Here il. q sweet little story, the memory Of
which has cheered and encouraged you many
a time, when almost ready to despair under
the pressure of life's cares and trials. Indeed
you can hardly take up single paper with
out reperusing. just glance over the sheet
before you and see how many valuable items
it contains that would be of service to you a
hundred times in life. A close thought is far
more precious than bit of glittering gold.
Handle with care the precious gems, and see
at the end of the year what nice treasure
you have accumulated. I
Year: 1878

names of many of its officers and soldiers have
been lost. They could be restored at trifing
Gust, and thus the monument preserved, as it
was intended, an ever.existing memento of
that gallant band of Carolinians.


MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT.


hope, gentlemen, that the period ia now
rapidly approaching when the people of this
State can give less time and attention to po'
litca affairs and devote themselves to the ma
terial development of the State. do not
mean to imply that they should abandon all
interest in those public matters usually un-
derstood as political. On the contrary, every
good citizen should take deep interest in
such issues


The character of the government under
which people live exerts more powerful
influence upon their destiny than all other
agencies combined, and that character almost
entirely depends upon the character of the
governmental officials. That government is
best which is best administered, and the high
est and surest guaranty to this end is capacity
and integrity on the part of those to whom
the different departments are entrusted.


Under our system, this depends on the
manner in which the elective franchise is
exercised, not by few, but by the whole peo'
Pile; hence, it follows that every good citizen
should take an active part and exert all his
influence towards the accomplishment of that
great end-good government-which in itself
is the beginning and foundation of all pro.
gress and prosperity. But good government
Year: 1878




I note your remarks about
superiority of the left hand in
pugllistic encounter. Here. YOU
mistake effect for cause. The
superior efficiency of the blow
given by the loft hand is to be
attributed solely to tho extra
strength and vigor of the right
sido of the body from which the
blow emanates, and with which the
left arm and fist have. thing to do
except merely as they become the
stool with which the work is done.


In respect to mechanics tools
tho great majority of them are
specially adaptod for use by the
right hand, although some may be
used by either right or left. A few
examples may serve to explain
what J. moan. The ghnlet, auger,
auger bits, the screw driver Owing
to tho fact that the screws to be
driven, arc all made to turn to the
right, just as tho entire system of
tho universe turns in the Same
d'rection), the brace and it's bits,
notably shell bits, nose bits, ream-
; ers and counter sinks, the sickle,
grass hook, all scythes, and an
Infinite number of cutting imple-
mcnts are now, and have been from
time im,nemoriul, designed for the
use of the right hand, aud in my
humble opinion will continue to be
so made and 50 usel for all time to
come Any other course could
bring about only trouble, expense
and confusion.


[ will not tax your patience
further, as my time is short. Hive
not said tithc of what could
say. You sea 1 disagree with you
only IN one WY, which is that, if
possible (and grant you that) TO
be ambidextrous would be bane
instead of a benefit


Yours respectfully, .......


Y. G.. BRADBURY,
Born and bred in Sheffield, York.


shire, but for tho last twenty-five


years Il citizen of this country.


I. S. Scene painting is but
little better than w,itewashing.


In relation to caligraphy, oil the
signatures of great men I have seen
show they were written Ivy the
right hand. Perhaps our old
friend, William Shakespeare, was
drunk or paralytic when he wrote
the two specimens of his writing
left to us, or perhaps he was trying
to write with his left hand. ..'..0 -.
Year: 1878

With what has been now actually gained
in the choice of Senatorial electors it ap-
pears to be certain that the renewals to be
made in January next will give the republi-


cans majority in the French Senate. This


b an important success, ms indicating the
iaith with which the French people con-
template the republican machinery Of gov
ernment after good trial of its opera
ton. And the France that has thus
declared its faith in republican ideas
is not that France Of universal suffrage
whose verdict has been decried by all the
reactionary elements rs that of ignorance,


prejudice and fanatical popular passion,


but it is France consulted in way con-
trived by the enemies OF the Republic as
one most likely to bring out that sentiment
which it has been believed was opposed to
democratic ideas. At last, therefore, even
that France is convinced that it is time to
try sincerely and honestly the only politi-
cal system that is no longer o conspiracy.


Both representative bodies will now, there
fore, be republican, and these on joint
ballot will elect the next President, who
will certainly be republican of whose
faith and principles there can be no doubt.
Year: 1878

Another Egyptian loan is the immediate
result of tho arrangement by which the ad-
ministration of that country has been put
into English and French hands. Some
credit Is due to the organizers of this plan
for having given the country even the
moderate capacity for borrowing, repre-
sented by the fact that 1t is willing to ac-
cept seventy-fve cents and pay interest on
IL as If IL were dollar. BY this loan the
burden of Egyptian indebtedness will not
be increased, as its proceeds are to be ap-
piled to the extinguishment of obligations
Of troublesome nature. 1t is based on the
income from the Khcdive's surrendered es-
tates, and that these will yield net income
equal to the interest on forty.two and half
million dollars, at five per cent, will give
an idea Of their extent. In the announce
Year: 1878

Savings banks that fail, savings banks
that are plundered by burglars and saw
ings banks that are robbed even more COM
pletely by their officers-savings banks, in
short, which are mere traps for the small
store of the poor people-these classes
seem to be more numerous than any other
sort of savings banks Of which the people
can hear, and therefore it becomes q very
important problem what thrifty men and
women shall do with the few dollars they
are able to lay aside from their earnings.
One Of our dispatches points out that
some Of the citizens Of Washington have
found satisfactory solution of this diff
Guilty. They have withdrawn their de-
posits and purchased, as far as their means
90, the government four per cent loan.
For some years now we have urged that our
government should follow the example set
in England, in associating with the postal
service system for accepting the deposit
of savings. All the arguments in favor Of
that are in favor of the people using the
government bonds for the same purpose.
by this means money is less Immediately
accessible in case of need than 1t would be
by the postal savings bank system, but 1t
is at least removed from oil the perils that
surround 1t in the average institution for
savinps
Year: 1878

Ancient Critics on Modern Politicians.


The aptest fables ever written are the old
Greek ones which go under the name of
Esop, there being question both MS to
their date and their real authorship,
although there has never been any ques-
ton as to the superior keenness and
fneness of observation which they display
respecting the weak and ridiculous pecu-
liarities of human nature. 1t may,
indeed, be said of Esop, as has
been so often said of celebrated
modern -Rochefoucauld, the au-
thor of the celebrated "Maxims"-
that his wonderfully acute observation
Is exhausted on the weak aud base sides of
human nature. This is quite true; but it
is also true that the base and ridiculous
hypocrisies which are 80 instructively ex-
posed by the Greek fabulist happen to be
the side of human nature which is most
enduring and which has continued to fur
nish new verifcations of Esop's wisdom from
the period when he wrote down to our
own. They are more constantly applica-
BILE in politics than in any other depart
ment of activity, there being no other in
which the selfish instincts and the transpar-
ent hypocrisy with which they are at
tempted to be veiled play SO large part
in the great comedy Of human life. How
little of Homer holds place in popular
recollection compared with the less copi-
GUS writings of the old fabulist and his
curious menagerie of knowing beasts.
Being founded on beasts. they, too, faith
fully portray tho beastly side of human
conduct, and hence their peculiar apt
ness as illustrations of modern politics.
The pending city contest comprises such
variety of elements that it presents the
whole diversified menagerie Of feathered
and unfeathered animals which make the
recitals of lEsop so entertaining to child
hood by thei, grotesqueness and to grown
people by their pithiness and satire.


In reading our modernized Esopic and
other fables this morning the units of the
Overwhelming majorities" boldly claimed
for all the candidates will not fail
to recognize how peculiarly applicable
they are to the situation. The prize
Of Office like the bone or the
cheese O. other toothsome morsel in the
fable, is sought to be won by an adoption of
stratagens that mark the instinct Of the
political animal seeking to seize it. We
find tie sly fox, the blatant donkey, the
self-dsceiving ostrich, the greedy dog, the
cringng jackal, the voracious wolf and the
lion Who brooks no rival when the prey is
to b. devoured-all contending in their Pc
culiar way for share.
Year: 1878

The report of the local inspectors of
steamers on the fatal explosion of the boiler
Of the Adelphi on the 2Sth of last Septem-
Der charges the engineer, the boiler re-
pairer and the inspector who passed the
patched magazine Of death dealing steam
with being responsible for the loss of life
that resulted. The mere fact that the
boiler required patching at all was sufi-
cient reason for it's condemnation. It is
impossible to make a patch safe, because
the strength Of the part does pot depend on
the new piece of plate, but upon the old
plate being able to hold IL in place. If
from any cause plate becomes weak
ened by wear or injury, it should be re-
moved altogether, and with it so much of the
plates to which it had been attached as to
allow for an entirely new set of rivet holes
cleanly punched. Considering that the
whole boiler depends on its riveting this
must be SO thoroughly well placed and we'll
hammered as to make the lap joint tight.
even without calking. The condition of
many steamboat boilers on our rivers to-day
is simply scandalous. It is cruel thing
that it is necessary for several of these
wretched patched things to explode and kill
a number Of people before the inspectors
awaken to sense Of the duty they owe to
the public imprisonment for long term
of years should be the punishment for this
manslaughter by criminal neglect.
Year: 1878

MR. ERAsTUs Books will again represent
Richmond county in the State Legislature.
His denomination for the Assembly is equiva-
lent to an election. Mr.. Brooks is nominated
by the democratic party, to which he is at
tached. but his support comes from men of
all political opinions who can appreciate
sterling integrity and marked ability in
representative.
Year: 1878

cure the control Of the State politics to
faction of the democratic party. who have
given the republicans certain Offices to in
duce them to help. That is the plain story
of the combination, and for all they care
the city may 60 hang.
Year: 1878

IT Is To BE REGRETTED that the person killed
yesterday by the explosion of the boiler of
twenty nine year old locomotive was faithful
conductor instead of that one of the company's
employees who is responsible for the retention Of
this ancient Internal machine in active service.
Year: 1878

THE BOARD OF INVESTIGATION in the Porter
ease have determined TO accept as evidence GER
tain documents written by General Pope since
the trial in 1863, and this is done at the re-
nuest Of General Porters counsel the announce
ment will pique public curiosity.
Year: 1878

GENERAL GEORGE H. SHARPE is nominated
for the Assembly in the First district of
Ulster county. General Sharpe has expert
ence and capacity to commend him to
the support of the people of his district,
and they will no doubt take care that he is
not defeated
Year: 1878

ment of this loan the names of the British
and French governments are tackled to the
word guarantee" in way likely to deceive
the careless reader. The governments
guarantee the appointment OF commits
missioner to see that the revenues to pro-
vide for this debt are properly applied; but
they do not guarantee that application.
Year: 1878

that by the time Baker settles with swee.
ney and his lawyers that a bad case Of
spawn will be visible in this city.


Baker says that we have no "ideas."
We have one that we know Of. Its that
man who got into the Legislature by
fraud and there decided that II is a ma.
jority Of %, should be at MOundsville
with striped clothes on.
Year: 1878

Secretary Sherman has given, it issaid,
as his opinion that under the legislation
as it stands from fifty to one hundred
million silver dollars can be put in circu-
lation and kept at par with gold. He
favored the discontinuance of the trade
dollar coinage as apt to be source of
embarrassment; preferred the nickel
tive-cent pieces to silver favored the alb
clifton OF the twenty-cent silver coin as
one whose only convenience was in pay
ing for ten cent drinks; suggested the re-
striction of the legal-tender quality of
subsidiary silver coin to ten dollars, and
the redemption of its legal tender coin
when presented at sub-treasuries in sums
of S1OO.
Year: 1878

of the Princess Mercedes. To the usual
prayer for the repose of the soul Of his little
bride he yesterday coupled the gratitude
of devout and sad heart for his recent
escape from assassination
Year: 1878

On Monday last a decision OF the
Supreme Court was announced re-
fusing a rehearing to defendant in the
case of the State er rel Fred. Duttel,
District Attorney pro tem., as. Morris
Marks. So far as the authority of the
highest judicia tribunal in the State
can extend, therefore, Judge Marks IS
inhibited from occupying the position
of Judge of the Fourth Judicial Dis
trict Court by reason of his ineligi-
bility under the Constitution. The
substance of his disqualification is the
fact that he held no diploma or license
as an attorney at law for the term of
two years next proceeding his cleo
ton as Judge.


Defendant has applied through
counsel at Washington for writ of
error to the Supreme Court of the
United States, but ne has small con-
fidence in the success of this applica-
ton if the repoit is true that he is
maneuvering to prevent the appoint
ment of the Ascension aspirant for
the vacant Judgeship. We predict
the failure of this effort. Without
questioning the fitness or worth of
the several candidates from other
parishes of the District, we contend
that Ascension has first claim to the
place that a majority of the District
bar endorses the candidate from this
parish, aud the Office being one of
a purely judicial character, Governor
Nichols will naturally give great
weight to this endorsement.


In short, we believe that Henry L.
Duffel, Esq, of Ascension will be the
next District Judge.
Year: 1878

Russia has achieved another splen-
did victory in the capture by General
Radetsky's army of the entire Turk
ish force stationed at Schipka Pass,
consisting of about 10000 men, with
ten batteries and large supply of the
munitions of war. The Turkish cause
is on the down grade, and there can
be but little doubt that the Porte will
shortly approach the Car with pro-
position to arrange treaty of peace.
Even now negotiations for an armis-
tice are pending with this view, and
it is not unlikely the battle at Sclipka
will be the last of the war.
Year: 1878

A prediction is ventured by the At
takapas Register which we shall en-
deavor to bear in mind, ''just for
green's" Speaking of the prepara-
tion of Southern Pacific Railroad
bill by Senator kellogg, the Register
says


Kellogg is hard worker and one of the
keenest members of the Senate. In less than
two years we predict he will be one of the
most prominent and applauded men in Lou
isiana.


If our contemporary desires to risk
wealth on that proposition, there will
be no trouble in finding takers. 1t
viii require an almost phenomenal
revolution in public sentiment to
make our late Governor popular with
a majority of the people of this
State, or even oregaiu him the esti-
nation in which he was held during
his former term of Senatorial service.