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Year: 1879

ltis often the custom with the senuer


sex, when disappointment in love. to


rave or weep-no matter which, so that
| it expresses the fury which consumes
tn,,,. - Asa rule, they have no conception
Of Of that 0uies, '"nified acceptance o. the
Inevitable which i IS characteristic ~ of men
under similar circumstances. The near
est approach to this quality OF feeling
which has come to light of late is the
case of a Califarna lady who was fooled
into marrying a doctors hostler, when
she thought she was marryinga a Mexican
grandee OF vast estates. II is quite un-
necessary to rehearse the romance of the
Wedding-hoW it was brought about and
all that-since the lady's letter is suffi-
GENTLY interesting to take precedence of
all else. twill suffice to say that the
orthor OF such a communication may be-
come a victim but she cannot be crushed.
Fate may be against her but she will
take it philosophically. This is the letter:


Slr-l am deeply sorry that hunger and
other circumstances over which have
no controll, COMPEL me to write you this
note. | find that you are utterly unable
to provide for me, and as am at present
unable to provide for you, | will have to
leave you and return to that home
HhSHAO oA otViC HlC, ttiltl UuCC more Hi
it with the sunshine Of love. Had I
known that you expected me to live on
the morning breezes for breakfast, the
trade winds for dinner, and the evening
fog's for supper, would have honestly
told you tha4 my constitution would not
de equal to it, even where the atmosphere
is so oderous and substantial as in this
hotel in Tar fiat, and would have declin-
ed to become your wife. fyou shall
ever marry another lady trust you
will remember the advice of your first
wife, and that the domestic menu will
consist of puddings made of plums rather
Ell than OF the north wind, and piees of
pumpkins rather than xephyrs-in short
that you will provide her with a bill of
fare rather than bill of air. IT you
meet me on the street hearafter, pass me
by as o perfect stranger, for if you do
not | will be compelled to give you the
cut direct, Your wife, Mary.
Year: 1879

There are but two ways to cure a
stage-struck young women OF her folly"
SAID q veteran manager to the Wlltel
one day in the last week.


We were standing within the entrance
to the theatre, looking out upon Broad
way. In his hand this manager held a
delicately perfumed note from a young
lady, asking for an opportunity to debut
as Virginia.


they ?"


Let her make her debut, or-fall in
love. Either calamity will settle the
business. Why, | once had young
lady who was all ready to make her
debut as Parthenia in 1ngomar. Her
dresses were all made she had been
coached, and rehearscd and billed, and
putfed in the papers. But fortunately,
she never appeared. Two days before
the night upon which she was to make a
fool of herself, she suddenly disappear
ed. She ran away, lead-over heels in
love, with the soon Of d Well-knOwn
stock broker. You see this note Well,
this is from the daughter of Il man whose
name, is as familiar to the public as
mine. She has the fever-has it bad
poor girl 2


w Ill Snc uoDuC


Yes, if she pays for it, and to do that
will take a large slice ont of her
allowance of pin money. Its a costly
luxury nowadays for a young woman to
put in first appearance, and, as a rule,
it is a permanent investment which,
When it is too late, no one more bitterly
regrets than the victim of this strange
monomania. Out of sixty three debuts
which l have had under my manage
ment, covering period of twenty years,
only two resulted in an addition to the
professional ranks"


And these two -


" Well, one OF them is, after five
years work and study, playing utility
parts in q Western theatre, at a salary
of ten or fifteen dollars a week. Her
debut cost her $4,000 The other is now
in the ballet at the present time at
and is the sole support of the
mother whose money was spent in the
vain effort to give this daughter lead
ing position upon the stage. The re-
mainder of the sixty -three-heayen
only knows where they are. They were
all failures


The experience Of this manager is, it
may De Eeapily supposed, merely re-
petition OF the experience ct all the rest.
Our greatest actresses began at the foot
Of the ladder, and: a:have slowly and la
boriously worked their way up. For
these there was no debut in Juliet,
Evadue, ot Raselind; no house packed
With friends; no fnisoHe adnlation, or
stage showered with floral offerings.
Year: 1879

Madame C-,dressmaker has a
great deal OF trouble with her sewing
girls. The other day one of them came
to her to say:


Madame, fear that | will not be
able to work much longer; | think l
am getting blind.'


Why, how is that? You seem to
get aloug pretty we'll with your work. -


Yes but | can no longer see any
meat on my plate at dinner"


Madam thunderstorm and the next
day the young ladies were served with
very large but very thin pieces of meat.


What happiness " exclaimed our
miss. " My sight has come back can
now see better than ever.


How is that, mademoiselle -


=" Why, at this moment can see the
plate through the meat"
Year: 1879

To the Editor of Tue Inter Ocean.


CHICAGO, Feb. PA friend ASKED
me to-day what the newspapers meant
by the term "Stalwart Republican. y
Will you please enlighten him and me?


INQUIRER.


A sstalwart" is one who believes 10
Republicanism as positive code of
political ethics as opposed to that mass
of social aud pol teal mischief which,
for the last forty years aud more, has
passed under the name of Democracy;
who believes in the perpetual ent ty of
his party whose issues, though their re-
lative importance may change fron
time to time, never die and never pass
out OF sight; who believes that there is
work to be done as long as sin and
Democrats are to be found in the land
and who does not sit down aud chant
the song of the millennium merely
because the enemy has been kept out
of the public crib SO long that his
voice has grown feeble. A. staIwart.
in short, is Republican pure and
simple, without the cloak of neutrality
Or the peaceful toga of no-partyism,
but with good fighting armor ou,
ready to do battle as long as there is a
head in sight that deserves to be bit
Does our correspondent catch the idea?
Inter Ocean, Feb. 26th.
Year: 1879

CAPTURING A BURGLAR BY STEAM.
-Lanktord, the burglar aud horse
thief, who robbed number of stores
some time ago at Middlebury and Clay


City, was captured on Thursday at Sa-


line, in rather peculiar manner. He
had been to Clay City, seen his wife by
night, and msde arrangements for her
to come to Terre Haute, where he
would meet her. Beng delayed in
coming he;e himself, be stopped on
the way at the Saline stove. factory to
warm himself at the fires and to await
the train and see if his wife was on


board This was early in the morn
ing before work began. The watch
man knew Lankford, had been mean-
ly treated by him at dance about a
year ago, and resolved to get even by
effecting his capture. He told the
thief that the part of the factory where
be then was would be in use during
the day and that a good place to hide
and wait for the train would be the
big steam-box where lumber is dried.


Lankford was thus entlced to enter
it. and the watchman promptly closed


the door and had ..him fast. During
the day quite number Of officers and
others arrived from Clay CITY to get
him, but the whole crowd was afraid
TO enter, as Lankford was supposed to
be armed. At last, by threatening to
have the steam turned on, Nj; Plus
Long made MIN poke his hands out of
the door. They were then tied to-
sether, and the prisoner was taken to


he Brazil Jail Terye Haute E'press
Year: 1879

1t has been commonly said that the cold
water poem, The Old Oaken Bucket was
inspired by glass of brandy. A writer in
the Boston Herald affirms the truth of the
story, and tells it as personal recollection.
Samuel Woodwork, the author, was a print
er, and was employed in an Office in Cham
bers street, New York. One day he drop
ped into Mallory's bsrroom in Franklin
street, to get some brandy and water. The
liquor was excellent. and Woodwork re-
marked that il was superior to anything he
ever tasted. No. said comrade, there
was one thing that you and used to think
far surpassed this in the way of drinking.


What was that p asked Woodwork, dub.
iously. Fresh spring water that we used to
drink from the old oaken bucket that hung
in the we'll, after our return from the hay
field on sultry day in summer The
rhythm OF the phrase, The old osken buck.
ct that hung in the WE'LL struck Woodwork
at once, and the picture of the we'll at hi,
boyhoo,. nome came to his mind. Within
few hours he had completed the poem.
Year: 1879

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Year: 1879

Senator Zach Chandler, of Michigan,
was found dead in bed this morning at
the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago. He
addressed a meeting at Chicago last
evening, and when he retired he COM
planned of indigestion.


When the office boy went to call him,
this morning, he received no response,
and upon the door being forced open, he
was found dead in bed. The body was
still warm.
Year: 1879

Wednesdays Smyrna "Times' pub
lshed in tho heart of the peach dis
trict of Delaware says, the chi-f talk
this wesk is the peach. On Monday
it was discovered that rot had struc.
them, and close examination revealed
the disagreahs fact that more than hall
the young peaches were rotting. Ol
course it produced scare. and made
many o. tho peach growers look "blue." "
The most Of the farmers We talked with
(and we have talked with a numbsr)
do not now estimate their prospective
yield above half crop. Some think
they will have less than that. Should
the crop be reduced to a half on the
Peninsula, the yield will aggregate a
good many thousand baskets, and the
money returns ba perhaps more salts
factory than full crop. This rot at
so early stage of their growth the
size OF plum seed) is new feature OF
this peculiar and uncertain fruit. Whlle
some consider it in a measure the effect
of the frosty mornings of the two first
weeks of this month, the general opiu-
ion is it has resulted from the close
foggy mornings of the past six days
followed by hot suns and alternating
sun and shower scalding them in the
sameYlanner. The true extent of the inlu-
ry cannot be ascertained for n week or so,
until this close, damp weather IS over.
Some of the varieties seem so far to be
but little hurt.
Year: 1879

BRoTHER Leon Roussan. of the
Osceola Times has taken to him


self a wife, and Miss A dab Lee
Pettcy will hereafter be known as
Mrs. Roussar, Good luck to you
both. and may your voyage through
life be n bright and prosperous one
Year: 1879

Cats are not supposed to have the in
telligence OF dogs, and yet if We observe
them we find that they are capable OF
great deal of reasoning. A cat belong
ing ts us had kitten, which, when it
learned to drink milk from saucer
with its mother, was given to Leigh-
Dor. For many days after, the old c.
never drank more than 8 certain quanti-
ty OF the milk given to her, leaving tie
rest for the kitten, which was hourly ex
pacted to return. After a time, flnd n
that the kitten did not return, she re-
sumed her habit of drinking the W ole
of the milk placed in the saucer. We
were calling at cottage, when an old
cat came in. "Ah,' said the woman o.
the house, I" she has been to see what
our neighbor's cat has got for her. She
is too old to hunt for herself, so Gu
Deighbor's cat will keep mouse or
bird for her, and she goes regularly every
morning to see what is for her." An
other cat we have seen who has been
taught tricks in the same manner as
dog, and if her master places her on the
table and says DE-" she will lie quite
motioDless, and mot move paw or her
tail until he tells her to get up, when
she jumps up Immediately, and is as
frisky as ever.
Year: 1879




1t cannot be that earth is mans only
abiding place. 1t cannot be that our
life is a bubble cast upon the ocean OF
eternity, To a rat moment upon its sur
face, and then go down into nothiDgness
snd darkness forever. Else, why is it
shat the high and glorious aspirations
which leap ike angels from the temple
oi cur hearts are forever wandering
abroad, unsatisied7 Why is that the
ixinbow and the cloud come over with q
beauty that is not of earth, and then
ass od and leave US to muse on their
iaded loyeliness? Why is it that the
stars which hold their festival around
the midnight throne, are set above the
grasp OF our limited faculties, forever
mocking us with their unapproachable
glory? And finally, why is it that
bright forms of human beauty are pre-
sented to the view. and then taken from
us. leaving the thousand streams OF the
affections to flow. back in Alpine torrents
upon cur hearts. We are born for a
higher destiny than that of earth.
There is a realm where the stars will
be spread out before us like the islands
that slumber on the ocean ; and where
the beautiful beings that here pass be-
fore us ike visions will stay in our pres
ence forever.
Year: 1879

/ Let every youth be taught some
useful art aud trained to industry and
thrift.


2. Let every young man lay aside and
keep sacredly intact certain proportion
of his earnings.


3. Let every one set out in life with q
fixed determination to engage In busi-
ness for himself, and let him pnt this de
termination in practice as early in life
as possible.


A. Begin in a small safe way, and ex-
tend your business as experience will
teach you is advantageous.


5. Keep your own books and know
constantly what you are earning and
just where you stand.


6. Do not marry until IN receipt of
tolerable certain income-suficient to
live on comfortably.


z. Let every man who is able buy
farm on which to bring up his sons. 1t
is from the arm the best men are
turned out morally and intellectually.


s. Bear in mind that. yoas business
cannot be permanently prosperous un-
less you share its advantages equally
with your customers.
Year: 1879

1t never rains in Peru, and man in
that rainless climate never knows what
it is to get up Sunday morning and
spend five hours pumping out his csilar
when he is just wild to go to church
But to atone for the loss of this pleasant
Year: 1879

The subject Of conversation at evening entertain
ment the the intelligence of animals particularly of
dogs. Snys Smith: There dogs that have more
sense than their masters Just So resi- onds Young
fitznoodly I've got that kind Of dog myself"
Year: 1879

ONE of the special features of the
late Constitutional Convention was
that not n single repre-
sentative of the native Califor-
mia race was elected as a
member. There We're in it rep
resentatives from every race on
earth except the Chinese and that
which owned this country prior to
the American occupation. Not
only that, but that body went out
OF its way to insert special pro-
vision preventing the publication
of the laws in any language but
English-thus adding to the insult
of the exclusion of the native race
from part In the deliberations
which were to make the organic
law of the State the injury of their
not being made eognizant of the
laws. 1t is an old legal maxim
that ignorance of the law excuses
no man, and yet our fellow-citizens
of the Spanish race, whom we found
here when we came to California,
are not permitted to know what the
laws are-at least those of them
who do not read English are not.
Year: 1879

The new Constitution is o "dead
duck" That Is all there.is to that
proposition, The only thing re-
naming is to see that the majority
which entombs it shall be so large
as to admit of replacing the era of
grumbling and "belly-aching" by
that of jocund industry and adven-
turous enterprise. Let every one
take hand in the good work.
Year: 1879

Apply heat to the dro wned body.
Get it warm. This is all. Only get it
warm. ! deserve no credit for the re-
ceipe. | discovered il one morning
when boy. There was no wit nor
wisdom in the discovery. 1t was made
accidentally. One wintry afternoon
found a chicken lying in frozen
pool of water. The half that was fro
zen by the water was frozen stiff.
picked up the CT, ature, took it into the
kitchen, and laid it on the stove a
minute to thaw out, so that | might
pluck it. Presently its head lifted
slightly and dropped. In minute or
so its body fluttered. took it up and
found that ii was alive. Now the ex-
PLANTATION of the thing is very simple.
the heat acted upon the nervous GEN.
tres of the chicken, these upon the
heart, this upon the blood. The blood
began to circulate, and the chicken be-
gan 10 breathe. OF course the chicken
had been dead. Everybody knows how
frozen fish come TO life again when
warmed. \ man digs hole in the ice,
brings up some Topping pickerel, and
throws them on tine ice. But any fish
erman will tell that after remaining
frozen for two or three days-weeks,
for aught | whey can be resus-
citated. Now il is the same with the
human body. Take a drowned man,
wrap a warm blanket around the body
pour warm water-as warm As the flesh
will bear-on the blanket, which will
produce an equally distributed warmth
in the body, and life will be restored,
no matter if he has been dead for days.
Why, | have saved many cases. The
first was that of man who fell off a
! boat i'm Lake Erie. The captain fol-
/ lowed my directions Immediately, and
they were successful. | have often
tried the experiment on dogs. One
summer drowned the same dog twenty
times, and brought him around all
right each time. You can take those
dogs at the pound on the East river,


warm them up well, and make them
alive again as easily as not" In cor


roboration of this assertion, DR.. Lam
bert pulled out a memorandum book,
and proceeded to read extracts from
letters he had received, and then cited


instances of the operation of the cure


lie is an earnest believer in the doc
trine Of the possible resuscitation of the


drowned. WRAP il in flannel!' he


exclaimed, land soak the flannel will


warm water. That is all ="
Year: 1879

Perhaps no class Of people live under
conditions in some respect more insanitary
than does the farmer. While ne has an
abundance of fresh, health-giving air all
about him, he often through ignorance or
neglect, himselves prepares at home the
most effective means possible fer making his
home hot-bed of disease Sometimes in
another, the laws of sanitary rectitude are
violated: perhaps more, often the evil ap-
pears under tho house, beneath the very
foundations of the home, where the malign
influence can he applied most thoroughly
and effectively. DR.. II. c. kedzie, Presi-
dent of the Michigan State Board of Health,
and Professor of Chemistry in the State
Agricultural College, has contributed to the
last annual report of the State Board Of
Health a most admirable paper on Healthy
Homes for Farmers" from which we ex
tract the following; we shall give our
readers more extended and equally valuable
extracts from the same source at some fu-
ture time: go down into the cellar and
examine the foundations of life; see whether
the cellar is dry and well ventilated, and
the air sweet and wholesome; that no vege-
tables and useless rubbish of any kind are
left to rot in your cellar. Or do you find
all kinds of things going to decay, the Gel
lar wet. the walls Shiny, mold spreading
over everything, and close and sitting
odor pervading the air of the cellar If
these inanimate things could give voice to
their warning, what sound would startle
our ears in hundreds of cellars in our State.
Here lie in ambush diphtheria and mem
branus Group, the destroyers of childhood,
and typhoid fever, that strikes at all ages :;
here lurk the seeds of consumption to bring
forth the slow but sure harvest of lamenta-
ton and woe = For the stone shall cry
out of the wall, and the beam out of timber
shall answer it, But though these voice
less things speak no word of warning, they
hang out the flag of danger; the spotted
mold and fungus attacking the timbers of
your cellar show that destructive agencies
are at work. Why, man death is gnaw-
ing the very sills of your house, and shall
he spare those tender morsels, your chill
dren These damp, musty, moldy cellars
are seed-beds of disease. Do not hope TO
preserve health over snch charnel house.
Do no; leave vegetables to rot IN your eel
lar to spread rottenness through all your
house.
Year: 1879

Walking along the street with the
point of an umbrella sticking out be
hind, under the arm or over the shoul-
der. BY SUDDENLY stopping to speak To
friend, or her cause, apersOn walk
ing in the rear had his brain penetrat-
ed through the eye, in the street and
died few days ago.


To carry long pencil in the outside
or vest pocket Not long since a clerk
in New York fell, and the long pencil
pierced an important artery and had
to be cut down from his shoulder To
prevent his bleeding to death; and
even then he had 4 three months ill
ness.


To take exercise or walk for the
health, when every step is drag; and
instinct urges repose.


To guzzle down glass Of water, on
getting up in the morning., without
any feeling of thirst, under The health
giving nature of its washing out quail
ties


To sit down to a table and force
yourself to eat, when there is not only
no appetite but decided aversion. to
food.


To take glass of soda, or toddy, or
sangaree, or mint drops, on a summer
day, under the belief that it is safe and
better than water.
Year: 1879

Little Jack is the fun OF the whole cage,


and at the same time he is the plague and
torment of the inhabitants thereof. He is
about as large as half-grown cat, and,


though quite baby, has the face of an


old man. He is a rhesus, the Bhunder, or
sacred monkey of India. He is remarkable
for agility. His eyes are full of intelligence
and AS quick as hawks. He is a regular
Paul Pry, and intrudes himself just where
ever he is not wanted Thus, when Tiny
and Jenny have nestled themselves in a
corner, little Jack jumps right into the mid
die of the group and does his best to upset
the party. Like all little people, he has a
great idea of his own consequence, and
thinks that Ibis master-am terribly
afraid of him, for he makes at me the most
hideous faces and chatters in manner that
one would think he was a big gorilla; at
least, perhaps he is in his own estimation.
He can't bear being laughed at, and if
laugh at him he gets perfectly savage. II
is curious thing, but always know when
it is getting on for one O'Clock by the mon
keys beginning to cry out for their dinner.
They all have different voices, and / know
these voices as well as know the voices Of
people about me, Tiny is a Moona monkey,
and she almost says the word ''Moo-na" in