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Year: 1877

THE HERRIOT LITIGATION is only one of the
hundreds Of arguments which offers every year
in favor of the plan of disposing of supcrfuous
funds before death instead of leaving them to he
the source Of family quarrels which are credtable
to nobody and profitable only to lawyers
Year: 1877

THERE Is A GREAT DEAL in q name. A boy
who stole two chickens was yesterday sent to
the Penitentiary for year, but couple Of
gamblers who relieved of hundred
dollars in little game of banco went for only
al
Year: 1877

schools of the State. Our educational sys-
tenn is very good as it is, and we do not wish
to have it dragged into the political arena.
The schools at least should be supported by
both parties.
Year: 1877

TIE ONLY STRANGE THING about the retuc-
ton in the price of milk is that it has been post
poned so long. Our special article ON this subject
shows what enormous advance the consumer
pays upon the price of the producer.
Year: 1877

!HE MODERN PRINTEk.-He must be
satisfied with about onc-thrird of a price
Tor his work, and then he must be willing
to do the work over seven or eight times,
lust to sec how it will look" for tho gen.
erallty of people do not know how thing
Will come out in print, and, of course, want
IL "A little different" He must lie willing
to wait six months for his pay. and then
take 1t out IN second hand clothes pins or
last years garden seeds. He must never
be so bold as to suggest that little cash
might not come amiss, for pcople exncct
him to work for nothing and board himself.
and yet always be cheerful and happy. He
must at all times be willing to do this or
that for nothing, or at least at a greatly re-
duced price, as sit is for the association. Won
know; and must throw in puff gratis
also, if he happens to be publishig news
paper.
Year: 1877

PLowIHG.--Stff clay and sod lands for
spring crops are plowed with profit in the
fall and winter Not only is the work
OF the buster season Of the spring thereby
forwarded, but the action of the frosts and
thawings is beneficial.
Year: 1877

WEST.


From the indianapolis Journal.


The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher i.
making lecture tour Of the North
west aud charging $500 per night for


his lectures, and has made an agree


meat that he will not preach on Sun


days to interfere with the receipts for


his lectures. Mr. Bsecher made his


start in this city, and the Joarndt has


been very kindly disposed toward him


in his unminisserial tribulations, but


W. are very much inclined now 10 the


belief that he is fraud on general


principles. The $500 per night at the
present time is simply an extortion


which a Christian gentleman would
not led himself to, aud the agreement
to refrain from preaching the gospel
on Sunday is evidence conclusive thai
Mr.. Bescher regards the ministerial
robe in the same light as the fighting
Quaker did his-a garment that may
be thrown aside whenever it stands in
the way OF profit or pleasure, or when
he may want to enter intn fight. MIR.
Beecher considered 500 per night
fair compensation for his services
when times were flush, but then he
had not obtained the great potoriety
by being charged with, and not ac-
quilted of, adultery; and We presume
II ne should be charged with the vio-
lation of another # the Command
ments he would let himself out at
81 900 per night. II he would add to
this an agreement to quit the minis
terry entirely, we think the sooner the
charge could be preferred, the better.
Year: 1877

NEWPORT, Feb. 16.-The story that
Mr.. James Gordon Bennett is to remain
abroad for an indefinite period in conse-
quence Of the recent unpleasantness does
not appear to have the least foundation.
He has already made inquiry relative to
certain cottages, as to whether they ara
to be rented or not, and the tenor of his
letter ieaves no DOUBT Whatever but that
he will be in Newport during the season
as usual.
Year: 1877

DULL BoYs.-Don't be discouraged.
Slow growth is often sure growth. Some
minds are like Norwegian pines. They
are slow in growth, but they are striking
their roots deep. Some of the greatest
men have been dull boys. Dryden and
Swift were dull as boys. So was Gold
smith. So was Gibbon. So was Sir Wal
ter Scott. Napoleon at school had so
much difficulty in learning his Latin
that the master said it would need
glmlet to get word into his head.
Douglas Jerrold was SO backward in his
boyhood that at nine he was scarcely
able to read. Isaac Barrow, one Of the
greatest divines the Church of England
has ever produced, was so impenetrably
stupid in his early years, that his father
more than once SAID that, if God took
away any of his children, he hoped it
would be Isaac, as he feared he would
never be fit for any thing In this world.
Yet that boy was the genius of the fam
ily.
Year: 1877

MORE PIoUs THAN HoNEsT-Up in
New Hampshire, where | used to live
when boy tsays Gov. Noyes,) there
was an old deacon who was great deal
more pious than honest. He was an
old hypocrire, and when he had done a
particularly mean thing he eased his
concience by going out into field, along
one side of which was stone wall, and
kneeling beside it praying the Lord to
topple it over on him if he had done
anything offensive to him or wrong in
his sight. Well, we boys found it out,
and one day when we saw the deacon
making for the stone wall, we got on
the other side and waited. He knelt
down according to his usual custom. and
went through his usual formula, closing
with the usual petition to have the wal
toppled over if he had done anything
wrong. And we toppled it. jumping
out from under the stones, the old MAI
cried out in tones of mingled disgust ant
alarm ''Good gracious can't you tel
when man is joking ?"
Year: 1877

Woman's distress in the hardest of
hard times is touching thing. Martha
B. of San Francisco, hearing how much
the manager of the Benevolent Society
was doing for the poor, appealed to him
for few things. She said she would
like half pint of cream every day for
her tea and coffee, one gallon of the best
Year: 1877

The only kind of business that can
succeed without cash, is that of the man
who sits around on dry goods boxes all
day, and sponges his living out of the
sugar barrel, cracker box and cheese
safe of the grocery store.
Year: 1877

port wine, and little change, SO that
whenever she returned from a theater
she could have few plates of nice
Eastern oysters. She was also in need
of few pairs of twelve button gloves
and some perfumery, nice bronze drop.
light, and piano.
Year: 1877

In that desolate land and lone,
Where the Big Horn.and Yellowstone
Roar down their mountain path,
BY their fires the Sioux chiefs
Muttered their woes and griefs.


And the menace OF their wrath.
"Revengel" cried Rain-in-the-Face.
Revenge upon all the race


or the white chief with yellow hair ~
And the mountains dark and high
From their crags re-echoed the cry
OF his anger and despair.
In the meadow, spreading wide
BY woodland and river side 20
The Indian village stood;
All was silent as a dream,
Save the rushing Of the stream
And the blue jay'in the wood.
In his war paint and his beads,
Like bison among the reeds,


In ambush the Sitting Bull
Lay with three thousand braves.
Crouched IN the clefts and caves.
Savage, unmercirull
Into the fatal snare
The white chief with yellow hair
And his three hundred men
Dashed headlong. sword in hand;
But Of that gallant band


Net one returned again.
The sudden darkness Of death
Overwhelmed them. like the breath
And smoke Of furnace fire;
By the rivers bank, and between
The rocks OF the ravine,


They lay in their bloody attire.
But the foemen fed In the night,
And Rain-in-the-Race. in his fight,
Uplifted high in air
As a ghastly trophy bore
The brave heart that beat no more,
OF the white chief with yellow hair.
Whose was the right and the wrongP
Sing it, oh, funeral songI


With a voice that is full OF tears,
And say that eur broken faith
Wrought all this rum and seattle,
In the Year Of Hundred Years.
Year: 1877

An amusing tumble of sounds will be
the result if you repeat the following
rapidly three or four times Six gay
green geese greased.-Also-A crow few
over the river with lump of raw liver.
Also repeat rapidly-Mix a batch of bis
cult. Another funny combination OF
sounds is made by repeating-May a
man make money mercilessly?
Year: 1877

stand or table, having an oblong
base or plinth Of wood resting on
five small knob feet, also of solid
wood and a single wood pillar sup
ports the thin table top, which on
its upper surface, is of silk stuffed
like a cushion. This light stand
is then placed upon the stage, and
is isolated from the foor-cloth by
fiat squares Of clear plate glass, first
inspected by the audience, and then
without q possibility of substitution
laid one under each foot of the ia
bic. Zoe, the model of a young
lady in Greek costume (of more
voluminous character than would
seem orthodox to DR.. Schliemann),
is fashioned in a sitting attitude ;
and if she could stand up would be
about four and a half feet in stature.
She is carried round, for any person
to test by her weight the fact that
she is certainly a hollow doll fitted
with light mechanism, and cannot
possibly be an outside shell holding
a diminutive human being within.
She is placed sitting upon the
stuffed top of the little table, with
her back to the audience an easel,
supported by bracket from the ta-
ble op,holds upright before her, and
at nearly arms length, a drawing
board with sheet Of paper about
twenty-one inches long, eighteen
inches broad, and a crayon is held
between her wax finger and thumb
by means Of a sliding-pencil arrange.
ment, with a small weight which,
when the crayon is applied to the
paper, maintains a uniform slight
pressure sufficient for distinct
marking. While PSYCHIC is going
through his feats of calculation,
Zoe records the products and totals,
writing figures about a couple of
inches long Though they may be
much smaller Or much larger at
pleasure) with CELEBRITY, her facility
being particularly observable in the
way she adds the bottom stroke Of
a figure 4, or touches off the top
stroke of a 5. While Psyche is
playing his hand at whist and per-
forming his inScrutable card tricks,
Zoe executes various outline
sketches, two, on the occasion OF
our visit, being original and excel
lent caricature representations Of
Lord Beaconsfeld and Mr.. Glad
stone.
Year: 1877

at the Rio the bark was condemned
as unseaworthy, and Richard was a
second time cast adrift in a foreign
land. He finally shipped as cook
in West India trading schooner,
where he got more kicks than ha'-
pence, and in this vessel came to
Halifax, where he shipped in 4
schooner that afterwards came to
Baltimore with potatoes. Previous
to sailing he wrote to his mother,
telling her the name of his vessel.
His father cabled to Halifax and
aseertained his destination, and
then cabled to a friend in Baltimore
to look out for Richard on his ar
rival. Dick came here in the
schooner Bertha Ellen, after a
thirty days tempestuous voyage.


His fathers agent met him, tele-
graphed his father, provided him
with a new outfit of clothes and a
passage to Liverpool by the White
Star Line steamer sailing to-day.
And last evening Richard left for
New York to take the steamer, a
wiser boy, a cripple for life, and
one not likely to again be filled with
glowing enthusiasm at the stories
of writers of melodramatic fiction.


The gentleman who acted for young
Fielding here can be found daily
not a thousand miles from the


Merchants Exchange, and will


vouch for the truth Of this story.
Year: 1877

grouping is but the type of the
purity Of character which have
marked the particular acts and the
entire career that have endeared you
to our people and made both laurels
and bays no stranger to your brow"
The audience here rose to their feet
and loudly applauded Gen. john
stou, as he gracefully bowed his ac-
Acknowledgements. The applause
broke out afresh as the band struck
up "Dixie."
Year: 1877

ECONOMY on THE FARM George Wash
ington said : Economy in all things is as
| colnmendable in the manager as it is ben
efcial and desirable to the employer and
on the farm it shows itself in nothing
more evidently, or more essentially, than
in not suffering the provendsr to be vast
ed but, or the contrary, in taking care
that ever atom of it be used to the best
advantage; and likewise, N not permit
ting the piows, harness and other imple-
ments of husbandry, and the gear belong
ing to them, TO be unnecessarily exposed,
trodden under foot, run over By carts.
and abused in other respects. More good
is derived from attending to the minuti;e
OF a farm than strikes people al first view,
and examining the farin-yard nces. and
locking into the fields TO see that nothing
is there but what is allowed to be there,
oftentimes is the means Of producing
much good, or at least Of avoiding much
evil.
Year: 1877

Russian SUPERSTITION. TO the Rus.
sian girl, Christmas Eve Is what All Hal
lowe 'en used 20 be TO the English lass
the mystic time when she may discover
her future lord. One method of diyina-
ton is 10 have supper laid for two. If
the young lady is in luck, the apparitlon
of the future husband viii come and sit
down beside her, but in order 10 secure
success the girl must not divulge to any
one her intention Of thus attempting to
dive into futurity. There is a story told
In Russia TO the effect that daughter OF
a rich farmer was in love with young
lieutenant, and he, suspecting that she
would probably have supper laid for two,
climbed the wall of the garden, and, sit
ting down by her side, partook OF the pre-
pared banquet-the girl being under the
impression that it was his apparition, and
not the real Simon Pure. However, rs
she soon after married another man, it is
probable her belief II ''signs' was speedi-
" destroyed Sometimes the inquisitive
husband-seekers viii take a candle, ard,
melting the wax pour IL on the SNOW,
after which she strives to discern IL the
hardened substance the likeness Of him
she seeks, whilst very favorite amuse-
ment at this season Of the year, and when
several girls are congregated Under the
same roof, it is to divine by the aid of a
cock. Each girl taking some corn, makes
a small heap on the floor and there con-
ais a ring. The chantic.er is then in
troductd, and is then let loose beside the
corn. Presently he begins to pick at the
heaps of grain. At last one Of the rings
is exposed to view, when its owner, ac-
cording to the popular belief, Will out
strip her companions IN the race for mat
rimcny-a happy result which is rs desir-
able in Russia as in other quarters Of the
civilized globe.
Year: 1877

EVILS OF GoSsIP.-I have known Il
country society which witheTed away to
nothing under the dry gossip only.
Friendships, once as firm as granite, dis
solved to Jelly and then ran away to wa
ter only because of this love that prom
ised future as enduring and rs stable as
truth, evapOrated INTO a mist that turned
to days long tears; only because of this,
father and a son were set foot to foot
with the fiery breath of anger that would
never cool again between them and a
husband and young wife each straining at
the hated lash, which in the beginning
had been the promise of God-blessed love
sat mournful!y by the side of the grave
where all their joy lay buried. and all be
cause of tn S. | have seen faith transform
ed to mean doubt, JOY give place to grim
despair, and charity take on itself the fea-
lures OF black maIevolence, all because
of the fell words Of scandal and the
magic whispering Of gossip Great crimes
work great wrong, and the deeper TRACE
dies Of human life spring from the lar.er
passions but woeful and most mournfuI
the ShipwrecG often made of noble ma
lures ard lovely lives by the bitter winds
and dead salt water Of slander. So easy
to say, get 50 hard e. disprove-throwing
on the innocent all the burden and the
strain OF demonstrating their innocence.
and furnishing them as guilty Il unable to
pluck out the stings they never see and
10 silence words they never hear-,,,ssin
and SANDER are the loAiliest and crJelest
W. apons man has ever forged for his broth
ers heart.
Year: 1877

VIZ read that deaf and dumb boy,
sixteen years of age, recently passed a
viva voice" examination at Harvard,
with honor. He e-celied in classics and
mathematics The honor of course would
not be so much for having fairly acquit-
ted himself in these as for the way in
which he came through the ''riva voice :"
II must have been quite honorary
Year: 1877

tbs Washington Monumental Society
had meeting recently and adopted a re
pot taking Issue With the board of en-
gineers IS TO the stability OF the founda-
ton for the monument and showing that
the commission fell INTO error from the
adoption uf erroneous data.
Year: 1877

GHOSTS should be more circunspee, and
careful. One came out TO frighten lady
IN Homer, Louisiana, the other night, and
she fred pistol so closely in range TO the
apparition that it went away hoWling and
hmDing on one leg.
Year: 1877

When information is received from the
interIor of Russia as to the effects of the
defeats and reverses which the armies OF
that county have suffered on the Danube
ami In Armenia is stated to be precisely
of the character TO be expected by those


who have studied Russia closely. The
New York TimeS's advices show that the
disasters have produced exactly the same
effects which the defeats of the North
did in the early part OF our late civll
war. They have in fact strengthened
the government, and the Muscovite ma
ton, feeling responsible to certain de-
gree for urging the Emperor into the
war, will pour forth more blood and trea-
sure now than it ever would have done
after victory. 1t is also remarked that,
like the defeats and losses of the Crimean
war, the present disasters of Russia will
produce an excellent effect within the
empire. The failure of the Crimean war,
for which SO many sacrifices had been
made, kindled a popular impulse 70 cor
rect those evils which had made Russia
Inferior to Western Europe in the test of
war. This reform went so far as to So
cure the freedom of serfs, change In
the tenure of property, and the introduc-
tion of local assemblies. At the same
time the imperial authority remained
much as it was, and Russia was left in
many respects in the, middle-age condi-
tion, as compared with Western Europe.
Still it must be borne in mind that the
Russians are not, like the Turks, a
stationary or retrograde people. Their
intincts point them to progress, and they
are cropping, however slowly and blindly,
for Intellectual, moral and political ad-
vancement When they reflect apou the
failure of their arms, led by princes of the
blood, in collision with an interior power
like turkey, the imperial prestige will
be greatly lowered, and there may be an
effect to exclude members of the i'm
perial family from positions in the army
when in the field, and to reform the
office-holding class from its foundations.
1t is even conjectured that parliamen-
tary period may ere long dawn in Russia,
in which intelligence and public senti-
ment will gain a greater control over the
conduct of officers. For the Russians
are a people whe on the whole are feeling
after more light and freedom, and not,
like the Turkish population, stagnant
pond over which no breeze has ever
blown, or ever will blow, except to stir
up miasma and render the body polite
more torpid and impotent then ever


Bait Sun.
Year: 1877

Mandarin yellow is much used for
Frightening up black toilets.


Distinguished-looking toilets have
"the quaint old gold" color combined
with olive color. amt


In evening dresses, the low square
necked princess is the stylish design
for a full-dress toilet.


One new fancy in floral trimmings
is deep peplume point made entire
ly of pink crushed roses.


Fussy-looking founces that curve
upward and outward are not as stylish
as those that lie closely against the
skirt.


New linen collars in English shape,
with cuffs to match, have a bunch
of lengthwise tucks for their only
ornament. .a.'fr


A very elegant street costume,
which has just made its appearance
in New York, is styled the Creedmoor
polonaise walking-suit.


Moss green, the prevalent color
found in all the fall materials, will
be the first choice in the wardrobe
for visiting and church materials.


How to trim the bottom of the
dress is by no means important as it
formerly was, as little trimming is
left visible by the long over-dress.


Negligee scarfs of knitted wool for
wearing over the head or shoulders
are ornamented with cloth figures cut
in Egyptian and other Eastern designs.


The most elegant fall costumes are
combination suits of the new rough
threaded wooden stuffs with silk, or
else the brocaded silks and stamped
velvet, with plain velvet Or gros-grain,
or perhaps there are three materials
in one costume.
Year: 1877

of tram of several prisms, through
which the ray OF light under exami-
nation can be passed by reflection
more than once. Bv these means
greater dispersion is gained; that is
to say, the resulting spectrum is
longer, and consequently far easier
of examination. A detailed descrip
ton OF the instrument would be i'm
possible without diagrams, but
enough has been said to enable the
reader to understand theoretically
its construction and application.


1t will be understood that we
have but lightly touched upon
phase of science which is at present
quite in its infancy. 1t is probable
that many more remarkable dis
coverics Will i'll course of time be
due to the prism. Already within
the past twenty yeais, tour new
metals have by its aid been sepa-
ratcd from the substances with which
they were before confounded; and
although they have not at present
any commercial value, we may tecl
sure that they have been created
for some good purpose not yet re-
revealed to us. There are signs
that the spectroscope will some day
become a recognized adjunct to
our educational appliances. 1t is
even now included nuder the head
of chemistry in the examination Of
candidates for university honors,
and there is no doubt that it will
gradually have a more extended
use. Many years hence, when gene
rations OF school boards have ban
ished ignorance from the land, the
spectroscope may become com
mon toy in the hands of children,
enabling them to lisp:


Twinkle. twinkle. little star,


We know exactly where you are.