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Year: 1878

In travelling, by rail, most people are
subject to continual annoyance from the
flying cinders. On getting into the eyes
they are not only painful for the moment,
but are often the cause of long suffering
that ends in the total loss of sight. A very
simple and effective cure; is within the
reach of every one, and would prevent
much suffering and expense were it more
generally known. It is simply one Or two
grains of aaxseed., tits saidthey ma be
placed in the eye without injury Or pain to to
that delicate organ, and shortly they begin
to swell and dissolve glutinous substance
that covers the ball Of the eye, ,epveloping
any foreign substance that may be in it.


The irritation or cutting ,ofTithe' mem


brane is thus prevented, and the annoyance


may soon be washed OUT s'Ar!dozen of
these grains stowedaway in the vest pocket
may prove, in an emergency worth their


number in gold. " ", ~ '.#
Year: 1878




Under such heavy yearly drain, the
question naturally comes up, how long
will our forests hold out at the present rate
of manufacture ? 1t is really an important
question, upon which follows the inquiry,
as to what we are to do for building ma
terial when this magnificent wood-pine-
is exhausted. One authority after another
has entered formally upon its solution,
with satisfactory results in local instances,
but very vague ones as to the field at large.
At the rate we are cutting it to-day, from
thirty to fifty years seem to be agreed
upon as the limit. Twenty years ago there
was apparently no limit, for the consump-
ton was not only leys, but the means for
it's nanufacture were primitive, and accom-
pljshed much smaller results than now. 1t
seems as if it were impossible to further
improve the machinery of saw mills, but
the near future may, for all that, see saving
machinery, in comparison to which that OF
the present day will be contemplate. So,
although twenty years ago there was no
seeing the end of the timber, now, with
the modern mills and myriads OF them,
we are beginning to calculate with dire
certainty as to the time when 'the wooden
age" will be thing of the past.
Year: 1878

DR.. Bushrod w. James, in letter to
the Philadelphia Ledger, suggests the
prOpriety of employing artificial cold
for the destruction Of yellow fever
germs. He says: Let every quaran-
tine station have a ward or room capa-
Ole of holding several patients, more
or less, as the exigencies may demand,
so arranged that ventilation may be
maintained exclusively through venti-
lators and by means Of small ante
rooms with spring closing doors, and
then have no mode Of entrance or exit
to the ward except through the ante
room. The aute-room should be kept
at the same low temperature, or even
lower than that in the ward, so that the
temperature in the latter may not be
raised by the opening and closing OF
doors by the attendants, nor any OF the
disease-producing germs escape before
they afe thoroughly subjected to the
low temperature and destroyed. The
ward and ante-rOom must be kept at a
temperature not higher than 25 deg.
Fahrenheit. Keep the patients COM
Portable by a sufficient amount Of bed
clothing; and every thing that goes
from the room, such as clothing, excre-
tions, all emanations, ETC., must be ex-
posed a sufficient length of time to the
cold. This will kill the poisonous germs
or reproducing cause, and prevent, as
far as the cases under treatment are
concerned, any risk of the disease
spreading. If patients can not bear so
much cold during treatment an adjoin-
ing warmer room can be made, with no
mode Of access or ventilation except
through the cold room, and every thing
going out Of the warmer room must be
allowed to remain sufficient length Of
time to get rid of the contagion. If no
attendant occupies the ante-rooms the
degree of cold can be kept near zero, in
order the more quickly to destroy all
the disease-producing agencies"
Year: 1878

A RECENT explorer of Southern Pata.
gonia says that the climate from the
River Santa Cruz to Cape Horn may
fairly be compared to that Of arest
Britain from the English Channel to
the north of Scotland. The eastern part
of the Patagonian peninsula is the most
salubrious. On the highlands it is dry,
with night dews, but little rain. In
winter snow falls, but in spring summer
and autumn the climate is delightful,
with some few days of intense heat.
Year: 1878

The Cleopatra obelisk now stands on
the Thames embankment without sim
gle support. Considerable work in the
surroundings, however, remains to be
done. The sphinxes have yet to be
erected, and they are not at present upon
the spot. 1t has yet to be determined
whether there will be public ceremony
when the needle is handed over to the
metropolitan board Of works.
Year: 1878

The Illinois Supreme Court has rem
deted decision of interest to all dwell
ers in citicies, that city cannot by
ordinance compel citizen to remove
snow from a sidewalk in front of his
premises, any more than to remove OBJ
structions from the middle of the street,
the interest that he has therein being
only tha interest common to. all citizens.
Year: 1878

The new system of passing entries at the
Custom House worked more smoothly yesterday. IL Is
stated by the officials that with four more entry clerks
20 assist the present force the plan OF passing all entries
through the hands OF one person instead OF turning the


,var a,rectly 10 the clerk who examines them woud
work we'll IL the order proves TO be successful u
will necessarily interfere seriously with the business OF
the Cnstom House brokers' and consequently they are
not friendly 70 It, 1t stated that much of the trouble
Year: 1878

Sir Rutherford Alcock writes to Mon
days Times that though rain has now
fallen in some of the famine-struck dis
tricts of China, and that by the month
of October it may produce good results,
till then none of the poor creatures de-
pendent on the relief fund, which is
all but exhausted, will have a chance
of any means of support. A hundred
thousand families are thus dependent,
and the Relief Committee in China ur-
gently telegraphs for $4,000 at once, of
which the collectors here can now only
forward about 9S00. Let us offer Sir
Rutherford Alcock a practical sugges-
ton. We have received from China
grotesque, but pathetic little picture
book, painting the horrors undergone in
the famine district, the stripping of the
trees of bark, as we'll as leaves, the eat
ing of the thatch offthe houses, the feed
ing ON the dead, the selling of boys and
girls into slavery, each rough print ac-
companied by an explanation of its
drift in Chinese, which, we need hardly
say, would have been quite lost upon
the present writer had not the friend
who sent it kindly given short transla-
ton of the meaning of each. A great
multiplication of this little book, with
the Chinese explanations and English
interpretations, and the appeal of the
committee for help on the cover, would,
we are persuaded, touch more minds
and hearts than any mere circular. 1t
brings home what famine means at
once vividly and with that pathos which
is ali the deeper for its quaint and gro
tesque character.-London Spectator


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Year: 1878

The young men now leaving college
who think that it would be beneath
their dignity to engage in mechanical
pursuits, and that the education which
they have received is only intended to
fit them for some one Of the learned
professions, ought to study the bacca-
laureate discourse delivered by DIR.
Peabody recently before the graduates
of Harvard. "We need" said he,
" able and educated men in agricul-
ture and manufacture, and there is not
department under those titles that
may not be elevated, not alone In
name, but in its permanent value as a
factor in its well being, by such re-
cruits as our college might furnish" :"
Stuoents fresh from the university
are too apt to forget that there is some
thing practical in life to which their
education is only an introduction, and
that if it helps them in law, in medi
cine, and in theology, it will also be an
aid to them in those other pursuits
which are equally associated with ma
tional progress and prosperity. A few
matter of fact sermons like DR. Peabody s
delivered just at the time when young
mems minds anG. feelings are the most
receptive, might lead them to indulge
less in thoughts of being carried through
life on g fiowery beds of ease and more
of following avocations which will in
the end yield not only pleasure but
profit
Year: 1878

originally constructed for the Car


Nicholas, who was wont to mount in


this fashion to his cabinet on the third


floor of the palace. On one occasion,


after a state dinner, the present Car.


instead of taking his seat in the chair


as usual, offered the place to a lady of


rank who had been a friend of his
mother The Countess, flattered bv the
compliment, took her seat at once, but
she had not risen many feet when the
chain snapped, and down came the
chair with terrific crash, finging out
Its occupant upon the floor with
broken limb and other serious injuries.
The dlsmay of the company was ex-
treme, and ali were LOUD in expressing
their thankfulness that the Car himself
had so narrowly escaped q catastrophe
which, however, no one looked upon in
any other light than that of very un-
fortunate accident. But one of the inn
perial pages, n shrewd young fellow.
who had himself witnessed the catas-
trophe, had his own thoughts about this
accident" and took the earliest op-
portunity of inspecting the broken
chain, when he at once perceived it
had been sawn half through, close to
the staple. The announcement of this
discovery fell like thunderbolt upon
the assembled grandees, and not mo-
ment was lost in calling up the palace
servants for examination, when it was
found that foreign lackey, who had
entered the service some months be-
fore. and had up to that time borne an
excellent character, had, unaccounta-
bly,, disappeared. The affair, however,
was hushed up, and to this day many
persons who were acquainted with the
story consider the whole occurrence
either imaginary or purely accidental
NeaU York Times.
Year: 1878

"Deacon Wilder, I want you to tell
me how you kept yourself and family
so well the past season, when all the
rest Of us have been sick so much, and
have had the doctors running to us so
long"


"Bro. Taylor, the answer is very easy.
| used Hop Bitters in time and kept my
family well and saved large doctor bills.
Three dollars worth of it kept us all
well and able to work all the time, and
I will warrant it has cost you and most
of the neighbors one to two hundred
dollars apiece to keep sick the same
time. guess you'll take my medicine
hereafter" See other column.
Year: 1878

A TERRIBLE disaster overlook picnic
party from Allegheny City. near Pitts
burg on the 4th of July. The party
was in the woods and heavy wind and
rain storm came UP, and eighteen Of
the party took shelter under wagon
which stooa near large tree. During
the storm the wind blew down the tree
crushing the wagon and killing ten of
the party and injuring seven others,
some of them dangerously.
Year: 1878

The result of the Maine election is a surprise to everybody, even to the Greenbackers' who are chiefly benefited by it. The Republicans have plurality on State ticket the Greenback ticket coming next, and the regular Democrat ic ticket last of all. The election is thus thrown into the House where the Democrats and Grecnbackers have majority. The Re publicans elect their iCongressmen in the first, second and third districts, but lose certainly in the fourth and probably in the fifth.
Year: 1878

It is said that a truce has been agreed on between Bismark and the Pope. The former is to let up on his fines and banishments, and the latter is to appoint no Prussian parish priests who are objectionable to the Govern ment. The Catholic bishops and clergy are also to help Bismark put down Socialism.
Year: 1878

The Springfield Republican thinks Butler not 60 very easy to beat after all He has made economy his text, and breaches pretty powerful sermon upon the cxtravagancies of the Republican administration of Massachu- sets. Nobody ever could quite match Satan in the art of rebuling sim s
Year: 1878

The tremendous rush of bankrupts te take advantage of the provisions of the national statute indicates very little loss to creditors. In most cases the assets are nearly nominal and the bankrupt is merely going in for a full discharge
Year: 1878

Birdsey & Morgan, of Bridgeport, whose advertisement will be found in another col umn, have large and we'll appointed Dry Goods establishment and it will pay any one going to that place with the intention of pur- chasing articles in their line to give them a e0u
Year: 1878

Health is an inestimable jewel. The cough that deprives you of it may take your life too. One bottle of HALE's HONEY OF HoREHoUND AND TAR will avert the evil, and saveyou from consumption. Will you weigh Life against a half. dollar Sold by all Druggists; 24-4w

 Pike's Toothache Drops cure in i minute.
Year: 1878

the following account of the affair. It seems that man named Marshall Silver nail and his wife, of N. Y., had been visiting some of the wife's friends at Lime Rock, and were on their way returning home last Mon day. They had, in passing from where their friends lived, to take down some bars, and they got out of the wagon to do SO The horse passed through, and as they were putting the bars back in their places again the horse be- came frightened and dashed wildly along the road leaving the owner behind The man ran after it, and after going quite distance he came up with it, and having found the wagon badly broken he became so enraged that he shot himself, the ball passing through his head. When found he was lying by the read side quite dead, and the pistol, which was single barrelled one, was found in his pocket. He was buried in Salisbury on the 4th inst.

 The News attributes tho suicide to domestic difficulties.
Year: 1878

There is no such thing as luck in this
world. The idea is preposterous. The
man who depends upon it will never
amount. to anything; will be mere
cypher. One might as well wait for the
ocean to dry up and reveal its hidden
treasures; fish TO come ashore to be
caught grain to grow without planting,
or gold to come ready dug and coined.


The men called the most lucky are
those who never had even a distant idea
of valuable things coming for the wish
ing-the men who the strongest put their
shoulders to the wheel, pulled the hard
est against wind and tide, dug the deep
est into the earth and fought the bravest
against odds.


1t did not come by chance, but was the
natural result of long and strenuous ef-
fort. There was no waiting, no idle hop
ing. The probabilities were seized and
the possibilities worked out to the utmost
fraction. While the foolish dreamers
we're idle the successful man was up and
doing. He knew that doomsday would
come as soon as luck.


Belief in luck is the most senseless of
superstitions. If the affairs Of this world
were dependent upon it, reasoning
powers would never have been given;
knowledge would not have been be-
slowed; the brainless faculties of beasts
of the field would have been all sufficient.
We would only have had to wait. Luck
would have brought all we needed-that
is to the fortunate-and for those cursed
by "bad luck" there would have been
no struggling against fate, and the sooner
they bowed their miserable heads to the
decree and quietly ended their existence
the better.


The belief in luck makes man tramp"
existing upon the bounty, and flching
the honest and hard-won substance of
others. The only luck he will ever find
will be home in the poor-house and
pauper's grave. The idea of luck is dis
proved by everything since creation, by
creation itself. Luck did not bring order
from chaos, and will never produce food
and clothing, and honor and a fair name.
1t is all moonshine of the thinnest quail
ty.


Young man, all the luck you can find
will be wrought out by brain and muscle
by effort and daring and unbending
will; by plunging into the stream by
climbing the mountain; by padding
your own canoe !" by nerve by pushing;
by brave front and heart; by kicking
hope out of doors; by resisting the temp
tation to sloth by turning deaf ear to
idle dreams. Fools alone trust to any
other means of acquiring reputation and
fortune.


Verify believers land followers Of their
belief in luck, will find themselves in
the situation of Cowper's people:


"Who spent their lives


In dropping buckets Into empty wells,


And growing tired of dnal01l1 noLhiIag up"
Year: 1878

Many are the anecdotes related of the
baboon, An Indian chief possessed a
tame baboon, which, in common with all
the monkey race, entertained dread of
snakes; its master, from mere wanton-
ness, forcibly entwined dead snake
round the baboon's neck, when the ami
NAL sat motionless for upwards of an
hour, stupefed with fear, and, on the
snake being removed, stole timidly into
the hut of the chief. After a short time,
the baboon was, according to custom,
called on by his master to scratch his
head but although summoned several
times in an angry voice, it refused to
move. The chief rose and struck it with
stick, and Immediately the enraged
and aggrieved animal sprang upon him
the neighbors, hearing the scufhe, ran to
see what was the matter, but could dis
tinguish nothing through the dust raised
in the interior of the hut, except hot
cinders, which were kicked about In all
directions from fireplace in the center
of the abode. The screams Of the man
and the baboon were intermingled, till
at length the latter dashed out through
the bystanders, and escaped to some
mountains. The chief had been serious
lv injured in the encounter, and was
some weeks inrecovering but ultimate
ly regained his strength, and, bent upon
revenge, secured the mountains in search
of his antagonist. He at length deserted
his baboon, which he could discern from
any other, peeping over crag, and lev
eled a gun at him; but the animal in
stantly withdrew his head, and held fer
ward one of his companions as target,
instead of himself, chattering loudly as
in defance-so that the man was COM
pelled to return foiled and disappointed.
Year: 1878




There is not human frame upon earth
that is not by an inexorable law predis-
posed to some hereditary disease, and
the knowledge most to be sought for Is,
how to modify or altogether eradicate
such tendencies.


The ignorance of the masses with re-
gard to the science of medicine and the
phenomena of disease is truly wonderful.
People of intelligence and education in
all other sciences and subjects are liter
ally in the dark regarding their own or
ganization or physical requirements.


To the family physician is left the en-
tire matter as blindly and devoutly as
the most unlettered boor does the inn
mortality and future disposition of his
soul to the priest.


The physician may be incompetent or
dishonest; one whose only aim is to re-
duce yourself or family to state of inva-
hdlsln and make his occupation more lu-
crative, and you never the wiser. The
doses you swallow may be the sub
tlest Of poisons, each containing death or
the seeds Of disease, and yet you drift on
in the infatuation of ignorance.


Strange that men who would resent
the slightest implication that they were
not capable of thinking for themselves
upon religious, political and other great
scientific questions of the day, should
persist in ignorance of the greater one of
physics, and continue to violate, through
the grossest of ignorance, all the laws of
health.


Probably the root of the matter lies in
the mistaken zeal of the faculty, who, for
the honor of medicine, use mystery and
concealment with regard to human ills
and the necessary remedies, causes and
antidotes; giving technical and befog-
ging names for the simplest things, and
which one lacks the courage to demand
in the plainest Of Saxon.


But we dare predict the dawning Of o
brighter day, that with the advancement
of the age and the growing intelligence
ofall classes. will learn to know them
selves and not trust blindly to others.


Proper food, pure air, exercise and alb
luton, are the main essentials TO perfect
health, or to the restoration Of a diseased
body, and those who disregard or make
an improper use of either of these, must
pay the penalty by the pain which leads
to decay and death,
Year: 1878

Tea mas been grown in Georgia for
nearly forty years past, and its culture
has practically been failure, owing to
the ignorance of the experimenters in
the methods of treating the leaves. And
then, besides, tea will never be a very
popular drink in Georgia until the red
ribbon movement strikes that state like
an earthquake.
Year: 1878

The Eita, commenting upon para
graph which appeared in the Herald, says
that there is no probability Of immediate
work on the Southern Pacific Arizona
wards. In five-lne item in our local
columns we yesterday stated that Col.
Hewitt had received information from
railway headquarters that cons trurtion
was to begin at once from Yuma east.
We are therefore justified in assuming
that the status in quo is at All end, and
that railway construction will shortly be-


gin with the old energy which character
lied the Southern Pacific two years ago.
The statement of the Post that the South
ern Pacific viii probably stop AT Tucson,
agrees with information which We embOd-
led in our leader yesterday.-L. A. Herald.
Year: 1878

Diseases Act" which prohibits the introduction Of I've
cattle into Great Britain from any part OF the world
after the LIST OF January next Countries desiring 70
claim exemption from this restriction can be permitted
TO do only upon furnishing statement as to the laws
OF that special country ana the measures taken there 70
prevent the spread OF infectious contagious diseases
among cattle. The Treasury Department will take
measures to claim the privilege OF exemption


General James A. Garfield, in response to a telegram
from gentleman IN this city interested IN the mat
ter sends the following his construction Of the Home
stead aw Persons entering after they have
ceased TO be soldiers get patent after one years resi-
dence. Persons actual soldiers at the date OF entry or
who became afterward If they served five years.
quire residence. The Commissioners decision Is
right did not frame the law, but concur with Judge
Lawrence, who did"


About 100000 pounds OF new type have boen pur-
chased for the Government Printing Office to replace
that which has been in for than ten years and
is out The old material will be sent TO the stereo-
type foundry connected with the Government Printing
Once, 10 be melted ard used IN the manufacture OF
stereotype plates. The type ia furnished by Bruce
Co.. Of NewYOrk and the cost OF IL IA about SbOoOO
No special appropriation for this purpose has been made
by Congress, but the money Will be paid frOm the con-
tingent fund OF the printing Office.