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Year: 1877

A girl who makes herself too cheap
is one to be avoided. No young
man, not even the worst, excepting for
a base purpose, wants any thing to do
with cheap young lady. For a wife,
none but q fool or q rascal will ap-
proach such woman. Cheap jewel
ry nobody will touch if he can get
any better. Cheap girls are nothing
but the refuse aud the young men
know it, and they will look in every
other direction for a lifelong friend
and companion before they will give
q glance at the pinchbeck stuff that
tinkles at every turn for fascinating
the "eye Of any that will look" You
think it quite the correct thing to
talk loudly and coarsely, be bolster
GUS and hoydenish in all public
places to make yourself so bold and
forward and commonplace, every.
where, that people wonder if you
ever had mother, or hone, or any.
Thing to do. So be it. You will
probably be taken for what you are
worth, and one of these years, if You
do not make worse than shipwreck
of yourself you will begin TO wonder
where the charms are that once you
thought yourself possessed of, and
what evil spirit could have SO belool.
ed you. Go on; but remember cheal
girls attract nobody but fools and ras
calls.
Year: 1877

The platform adopted by the Re-
publican State Convention speaks
plainly for itself. 1t is simple clear
and pointed epitome of the grand
ideas of the party which made and
endorses it. The one grand principle,
the one involving the very soul of the
Republic viz: universal civil equali-
ty and freedom for all, made so not
only theoretically but practically, is
most distinctly and unequivocally an
nounced. This is the grand thing
about which all other resolves are
placed 10 round out the party's de-
claration of principles. We need not
to extend our remarks upon that
platform. The convention rightly
passed by whatever difference of
opinion existed as TO the means TO be
used to attain this central idea of the
platform. The proper means to such
end will be developed from the hon.
est judgment of the great party and
by trial Of them.
Year: 1877

SEVERELY Sck4DEp.-Op Monday
afternoon q man named Wunderlich,
an employee of Leisy Bros. brew
cry, met with severe and painful
accident. The large kettle in which
the beer is boiled had been empticd
and while it was yet very hot Wun-
derlich started to clean it out. In or
der to prevent his feet from being
burned he put on a pair Of wooden
shoes over his boots. In descending
the ladder into the kettle he slipped
and fell into the hot beer remaining
in the bottom of the kettle, severely
scalding one leg from the hip down
and one arm from the elbow down.
The flesh was burned to blister and
the man suffered the most intense
pain.


Wunderlich is from Ottumwa and
had only gone TO work at the brew
cry or the Saturday previous. He
has q family which is still at Ottum.
wa. The accident will not result in
any permanent injury, but will lay
him mp for several weeks. s.--Gate City
Year: 1877

In Boston the prohibitionists have
been running third or temperance
tickets until they have defeated the
republicans and elected blatant
democratic demagogue by the name
of Frederick O. Prince, Mayor.
The other day Mrs. Livcrmore head
ed delegation of ladies before the
Mayor, filing an earnest protest
against the city of Boston furnishing
the presidential party with any mu.
nicipal wine. Mayor Prince inform.
cd them that prohibition was played
out, that he was in favor of wine
drinking; that he had wine in his
house every day; in other words
that he was democrat in good
standing. and that he should be false
to his ideas of municipal hospitalit,
if he failed to wine as well as dine
his expected illustrious guests.


At last accounts the prohibitionisti
of Boston were not rejoicing much
over the Mayor they indirectly help
cd to elect.
Year: 1877

BY our dispatches it will be seen
that the President is going South
He will come back confirmed i'm the
assurance that all is peace, that the
conciliation policy is success, and
that the leaders down there are good
and loyal men. If he would go down
there incog., buy q small farm, buckle
down to labor and at the next elec-
ton vote and work for the Republic
can ticket, he would have occasion to
return bringing home very different
ideas. - Dubuque Times
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, June 26.--It is ex-
pected that among the first acts of the
President upon his return will be to
remove such ofiiceholders as have not
resigned their political Positions
After this week applications will be
in order for the places of all who
have not strictly complied with the
Presidents order.
Year: 1877

New WAY TO PAY OLD DfBTs.-A
singular way to obtain paymentof money
due a Hiudoo is for the creditor to plant
himself before the door of the debtor, and
vow that he means to remain there, with
out food, until the money is paid. AS a
point of honor, which is deemed impossi-
BILE to violate, the debtor must, in like
manner, remain without food and if
payment is not made, the parties imme-
diately begin to put their mutual power Of
enduring hunger to the test. This trial
might sometimes prove illusory, and,
therefore, the creditor usually makes sure
that the fasting OF the debtor is real by
cutting off his supplies. This kind Of
dhe1ma, employed by troops against their
paymaster, or the prime minister, or the
sovereign himself has often been efiectu
al in obtaining their arrears of pay. In
America the creditor often starves, but
the debtor grows fat by paying ten cents
on the dollar.
Year: 1877

Cleanliness is word that bears NOR
nj as well rs a physical Specification and
it is its moral signifcstion chiefly that
brings cleanliness up to its honorable
proximity to godliness.


We can hardly walk far in the streets
without perceiving that there are many
dirty faces, and also many dirty tongues.
How many there are whose mouths are
full Of cursing and bitterness, and under
whose lips is the poison of asps. Dirt
meets the eyes dirt meets the nose and
the foulest dirt meets the ear. 1t is bad
enough when violent provocation calls
forth burst Of angry profanity, but in
tinitely more so when basphemy and
lllth are altered in cold blood and CON
stitute the ordinary forms of speech
Any man may be melted to sin by temp
tation. But do not see what can tempt
a man to garnish his speech with the of
lal and filth Of language yet it is very
common among men-young men-who
pride themselves on being neat, on being
well dressed who would be ashamed OF
q dirty face who brush their hats and
coats, and take pride in their personal
appearance-and an equal pride in being
as nasty ms possible in their speech
thus illustrating Swift's rather severe re-.
mark: "A nice maa is man OF nasty
ideas"


My friends, you should set yourselves
resoIutely against this awful abomination.
You know better than | how prevalent i:
is, and what dirty tone conversation Of
ten assumes when young men get togeth
er in workshops and in their social gath
eripgs. When Christopher Wren was
building st. Paul's Cathedral he made it
rule that every man guilty ofusing pro-
fame language should be- instantly dis
missed by the clerk Of the works. | do
not appeal to employers in tins matter
bat to the men themselves. You know
that such language is detestable. | do
not speak merely OF protano expressions
but dirty expressions, which are still
more common. 1t you wish to be re-
gardcd not as blackgualds but as gentle
men then give them up. Do you wish
to have credit not for vicious but highly
moral tone of feeling, then give them up,
and discourage such language in every
possible way. Don't on any occasion al
low it to be addressed to you. Consider
yourself insultcd when any foul mouthed
fool speaks to you in this, the devils Ian
guage. If you have any right moral
sense, to say nothing Of religious prlnci-
pie, such language will be offensive and
disgusting.


Seta good example yourselves. Let
the words Of your lips be pure words, and
advocate among your companions the
total abolition of all nasty speech. Try
to purify the circles in which you move
The faculty Of speech is the noblcst yo,
possess. Consider who gave it to you
and for what purpose it was given anC
never prostitute it by making it the chan
mel Of filthy communications. For this
us well as for all other gifts, we shall be
held-and most rightrously shnll we b.
held respon-ible,-HeHty T5piette.
Year: 1877

A LADY correspondent says that girls
should cease to be kissed by their gentlo-
men friends when they put on long dress
es. We never kissed anybody in cur life
but we'd just like to know what difference
the length of the dress makes.
Year: 1877

An Otu ScncAHS ANSNANSNs


A conference of gentlemen connected with
the scheme Of new railroad from Harrington
to Queenstown was held at Ocean City, last
week. Its appearance at this time is under the
wing of the Old Dominion Steamship Company
and probably has something to do with the
construction of the new road from Lewes to
Rehoboth. The Old Dominion Company wants
a more direct line from Baltimore to Rehoboth
and one which they can control. It is said
that the recent purchase of the Kent and Queen
Anne's road by the P, W. 4 B. Company will
seriously affect anything at present in the
direction indicated by the new movement, as
they are able by their charter to continue their
road to Queenstown, and thus have route of
their own there.
Year: 1877

Thursday morning, about o'clock, a tramp
stopped at the Edge Moor station on the P,
W. &B. Railroad and finding no men about
attempted to force an entrance in the dwelling
house Of the station keeper. Several children
who were on their way to school saw the man
trying to open the front door, and one Of them
came back and told the lady Of the house, who
was in the rear Of the building. She came
around to where the tramp was working at the
door and ordered him of the premises. He
turned around and making step Or two to-
ward her replied ''G-d-you, want none
of your lip, or III slam h-out Of you. want
to go in this house, and Pm going in.


he was again told to 60, but paid no atten-
ton to the order further than to reply with
even more iercel ess that if he wasn't let alone
he'd do worse than break inthe house


The station keeper owns big savage bull
dog that is kept closely chained to prevent him
injuring passers-by. The lady said no more to
the tramp, who continued to hammer away at
the door, but went and slipped the chain from
tue Jug heChs anu POlnOS0 Out lhS man, uPOA
whom the dog Immediately made furious at
tack, throwing him to the ground and inhict-
ing serious injuries which may result in the
mans death.


Had not the brute been pulled away he
would, undoubtedly, have killed the man in a
few minutes. After the dog had been securely
fastened the lsdy sent word to Wilmington,
and detective Iegg with special car went up
to the station and brought the tramp to the
city. He was taken to the police station and
a physician sent for. He is a rather large man,
about 40 years Of age, bald-headed, and the
very picture Of a professional tramp. He is
badly laeerated about the hips and groins, and
when taken to ihe Hall was in an unconscious
condition.
Year: 1877

A meeting Of the Trustees of the Forest Pres
bvterian Church has been called, to be held in
The Library room Of the church this afternoon.
at B o'clock. As this is the first meeting that
has been called for several months, it is hoped
that it will be full one There is consider
able important business to be attended to,
Year: 1877

One day last summer Ort u Cos
ice wagon was rolling through the
streets, the driver calling at each
house to make season contracts, when
he stopped at gate on which boy
was swinging, and asked:


'Bub, are your folks taking ice this
spring.


L haven't seen the n take any, re-
piled the Causlous lad.
We'll, will you go in and ask your
moth if she wants to engage Ice tor
the sumner?'


Yes, slr-gi me a little piece to
take in aAl sec If she likes the taste
of it?'
Year: 1877

1t is stated that the reduction of
wages of men who work along the
Brooklyn docks by the hour is to be
made general. Proprie:ors of ware
houses have held conference, and
are of the opinion that they CAP OBJ
tain all the help they want at twenty
cents per hour. They are behind in
the work and have found it necessary
to bring a larga force Of Germans and
Italians from New York.
Year: 1877

When a housekseper is lost so deep
in thought that she sprinkles the boil
ing clothes with salt, and puts the
fiat iron into the soup, it is time that
she paid more attention to domestic
cookery and less to tie last novel.
Year: 1877

TO YOUNG MEN.-The road up
hill may be hard, but at any rate 1t
is open, and they who set stout hearts
against stiff hill shall climb it yet.
What was hard to bear will oe sweet
to remember. If young men would
deny themselves, work hard, live hard,
and save in their early days, they
need not keep their noses to the
grind d-stone all their lives az many do.
Let them be teetotalers for economy s
sake. Water is the strongest drink
it drives mills it is the drink OF
lions and horses; and Samson never
drank anything else. The beer, ,wlne'
and tobacco money will soon build a
house and make their fortune.
Year: 1877

How soon n year is gone;
And wncn we think we sigh
At the thought of work undone.
But the past is far from snow,


The future is yet to come,
But Look! Lo =,


The work OF life S nearly done.
But to think of childhood's days;
That's faraway from the Old,
Sweet memories Of those ways,


Lead on TO joys untold.
But the life ofthc old is passing,


As the dew ON summers flowers;
But the soul that is so lasting;


viii soon leave this earthly shore.
Speeding upward in it's fight,


TO that land ofjoy it will go,
Or into eternal night;


Where ali is sorrow, pain, and woo
Year: 1878

San Francisco, Nov. 6.-Returns of
the election from Washington territory
so far as received, the republican and
democratic nominees for congressional
delegate are about even. There is a
majority for the state constitution.


Nothing has been received from Ne
vada to change previous estimates. The
republicans have undoubtedly elected
all the state ticket and will have a ma
jority in the legislature on joint ballot
of about 10.
Year: 1878

The discourse Of the sensst tional preacher
In his Tabernacle on Sunday, unbouuded in
strong and telling passages. He 10 OF
opinion that the various Mission Boards Of
the country would do well to give toe
Aeathena rest, and turn their attention 70
the Psganism yelling out into frightfu
p oportious from our large cities at home
We have more than once referred to the
cowardice Of the pulpit, in this view we are
thus sustained BY Bishop Talmage:


81 have ~ much amusement as any An
Of my profession can afford to indulge in at
any one time in seeing some of the clerical
reformers of this day mount their war
charger, dig in their spurs and With gilt
tering lance dash down upon the iniquities
Of cities that have been three or four thous-
and years dead. They will corner an old
sinner of twenty or thirty centuries ago and
scalp him, and hang him, and cut him to
pieces, and then say :-"Oh, what great
things have been done!" With amazing
prowsss they throw sulphur at sodom, and
fire at Gonorrsh, and worms at Herod, and
pitch Jszabel OF the wall bat they wipe
OF their gold speetacles, and put on their
gold spectaclss, and put on their best kid
gloves, and unroll their morocco covered
sermons and look bashful when they begin
to speak about the sins OF our day, al
though 1t were shame to mention them
The bypocrites They are afraid OF the
1lbertiAes. Better, I say, clear out all our
audiences, from pulpit to storm door, unit,
no one is left but the sexton, and he waiting
merely to lock up than to have the pulpi,
afraid OF the pew. One thing / like about
sis church Is that If dozen people gel
mad and 80 out you don't know they arc
gone till next year." 81


Thbis plain speaking, but true. There
10 nothing more common than to hear what
sydney Smith called "forty parson blast, u
against glass of wine, or bar--ornamenled
with denunciation OF the rum demon
While the same preacher is a. dumb as ar
earwig about lust, covetousness, abortion
and like deadly sins. In one case the
preacher sttffsns the stiff-neckedness OF
the psw--in the other he acts the coward
- no fears tho shots would strike. Count
one for Talmags for speaking right out.
Year: 1878

Those wishing life size crayons for the
holidays had better send in their orders soon
If they do not want to be disappointed, as
our orders are coming In fast Sutteriey,
302 Market street.
Year: 1878

PARTY DIsINTEGRATION IN THE SOUTH.-Ev- idence is accommodating that the abandonment. of it's organization by the Republican party in many southern states is not equivalent to an undisputed possession of the political field by the Democrats Experience has long shown that opposition is necessary for the mainten- ance of party organization and discipline, and that when external opposition is withdrawn it will spring up within the party that remains, and will take form either as new organization CT as an independent movement under the old name. We have already seen 8 regular Dem- ocrOtic ticket defeated by independent candi- dates in a town election in South Carolina where the Republicans did not pretend to have any organization, and the Democratic journals of that state do not hesitate to confess that their greatest fear is from independent Deme- cEats. In North Carolina, where the Republi- cans have decided not to put any ticket in the held, independent Democratic candidates are already announced in thirteen counties, with probability of great many more before cleo ton day arrives. A private letter to us from Virginia says: 'You may have perceived from the Virginia newspapers that the results proph- esied in your letters on Virginia politics two month or more ago are on the eve of culminat- ing, and that there is every prospect of divis- ion of the conservative party in this state which cannot fail to have an immense effect on the tuu1pcuueut movement LhrOugnOuC the SOutn, On the political relations of the races, on the fortunes of the present administration, and so on the general politics of the country"

 We think with the writer quoted that the readjustment of party lines in the South, which has begun and which is likely to go on very rapidly during the next few years, is of vast importance. Nothing but such readiustment can enlist the best men of that part of the Un- ion in earnest cooperation for the public good. The independent movement furnishes neutral ground on which Republicans and Democrats can meet without being asked to accept ali- ances under party names which have been hate ful to them, and which will always revive bit ter memories. In their new union they can work together for the new measures which are demanded for the present and the future, and they will be very certain, if their choice of principles is wisely made, to increase their numbers until they will be themselves party whose influence may be national in it's charac- ter: Certain it is that the old parties offer very little encouragement to men who think that new times demand new measures. Fork Ecening Post.
Year: 1878

 The following correspondence once took place between Charles Reade and the late Charles Matthew's

 GARRIoK CLUB,

 CONVENT GARDEN, November 28.

 Dear Sir,I was stopped the other night at the stage door of Drury Lane Theater, by peo- pie whom remember to have seen at the Ly- ceum under your reign. This is the first time such an affront was ever put upon me in any theater where have produced play, and is without precedent when an affront was intend ed As I never forgive an affront, am not hasty to suppose one was intended. It is very possible that this was done inadvertently, and the present stage list may have been made out without the older claims being examined. Will you be so kind as to let me know at once whether this is so; and if the people who stop. ped me at the stage door are yours will you protect the author of 'Gold," &c., from any repetition of such annoyance?

 am, dear sir, yours faithfully,

 CHARLES READE. To this demand Mir. Reade received next day the following answer :-

 T. R., DRURY LANE, November 29. Dear -Sir.-H ignorance is bliss on general occasions, on the present occasion it certainly would be folly to be wise. 1 am therefore happy to be able to inform you that am ig- nOTant of your having produced play at this .theater; ignorant that you are the author of 'GOld'; ignorant of the merits of that play; ignorant that your name has been erased from the list at the door; ignorant that it has ever been on it ignorant that you had presented yourself for admittance; ignorant that you had been refused ignorant that such refusal was without precedent; ignorant that in the man who stopped you you recognized one of the persons lately with me at the Lyceum; ignor- ant that the doOrkeeper was ever in that thea ter; ignorant that you never forgave an af- front; ignorant that any had been offered ignorant of when, how or by whom the list was made out, and equally so by whom it was altered. Allow me to add that am quite in- capable of offering any discourtesy to gem tleman l have barely the pleasure of knowing, and, moreover, have no power whatever to interfere with Mir. Smiths arrangements or disanangefhents and, with this wholesale ad- mission of ignorance, incapacity, and impo- tence, believe me, yours faithfully,

 c. J. MATHEWS. Charles Reade Esq.
Year: 1878

TIL NEW PEsr.-The little, black, hairy, oval "bug" that has been discovered in resi- dences hereahouts so plentifully, eating car pets, blankets, furs, furniture and even the door, is the larva of beetle of the De72Qis- tdCe family, the most destructive group of known coleOptera, so that housewives finding blulsh-black bugs about the house. with wings plain or marked with yellow band, should destroy them, by no means letting them escape They lay their eggs in Assures and at the edge of carpets. These eggs hatch rapidly, and the beetle passes through the two stages, lar va and pupa, in three weeks, and propagate their species as rapidly as the Colorado beetle. They are less particular than the potato bug, and very much more destructive. They eat anything from library book to safety pin, and are never more serene than when perched on lump of camphor taking the fur off $50 huff. D. VUlpsnuS, member of the same fam fly, was at one time so active among the furs in the warehouses of London that SEQ, 900 was offered for an available destructive agent, without one being discovered. Housewives may save themselves deal of tr ouble by in- specting the edges of their carpets and seeing if the pests are there :; also, stuffed furniture that is kept covered. One family found them at work in their finest furniture last month, and they are now at work in many wooden carpets. They do not like benzine, but they are as happy Tn insect powder as rabbit in clover. It is the worst invader of the house. hold that has yet appeared and can do more damage in parlor suit of furniture in a week than whole army of Colorado beetles can do in a ten acre lot ill all summer. -Ncraoich Aat- r0Td.

 The President and his associates stand almost alone. Promising to introduce a fresh spirit and purer practices in the administra- ton, they have done so in part but they have enfeebled themselves by failure in some par ticulars-a failure which is the result of the adoption of the old methods of the old system. But what controlling influence have the Pres ident and his associates in the Republican party? It is probable that such success as it may achieve in the next election will enure to the bedetit of the machine wing of the party In this state, for instance, there is too much reason to fear, that the election of Republi- can majority on joint ballot in the next Leg. slature will be equivalent to the re- election of Mir. Conkling as United States Senator. We have no desire to pursue MT. Conkling personally. We mention him only as fair representative of his wing of the party. Now, whatever may be the political uncertainties, there can be no dispute about this proposition; It is impossible to stir doubtful voters to en- thusiasm in behalf of the machine e.-Neac York EUening Post.