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Year: 1879

Two adventurous miners recently took a
ride through the Big Horn Canyon, in the
Yellowstone region, never before traversed
by-man. Had they been able graphically
to describe their adventure they would
have. told tale seldom equalled in thrilling
incidents, Wishing to save 200 miles travel
around the mountains they concluded to try
the canyon. With some tools they had in
their mining camp they built frail craft at
the bottom Of the canyon, having previously
taken down theirsmaterial or red cedar.
The boat was II feet long, feet wide, and
upon trial was found to carry its cargo of
freight and passengers admirably. So on
the morning of the 23d of July, they united
il and pushed into the current. The rush
of the river, which before starting was al
most deafening, was terrible as the boat
started on its journey through this unknown
gorge. To go back was impossible; to
climb the solid limestone walls which rose
500 feet above their heads, where a narrow
streak of light lighted up their course, was
not to be entertained as means Of escape;
through they must go, trusting to their
ability to avoid rocks, and to the strength
of their craft to run the rapids, which they
met at every bend of the canyon. The loud
est halloo was heard as whisper. Grottoes,
caves, unknown rec. sses of nature were
passed by these hardy navigators. In places
ilocks of mountain sheep, startled by the
appearance of the Curiosity rushing by be-
low them, would run along ledge of
rocks, jump from crag to crag, where foot
ing for man would be impossible, and dis
appear. Evening coming on, they attempt
ed to tie up for the. night. They worked
the boat close to shore, jumped out, and
away went the craft, carrying the guns and
provisions. With starvation behind them,
and hardly foothold before them, their
chances for keeping on were doubtful, when
they luckily found two logs, which they
lashed together with their belts, and again
trusting to the river and still more danger
Gus rock, they set out to search for their
boat, which they found two miles below,
where it had stopped in an eddy. On the
afternoon of the third day, while wondering
how much longer the Big Horn Canyon
could possibly be, they suddenly shot out
into the beautiful Big Horn Valley, with
Fort G. f. Smith on their right.
Year: 1879

4.
AT ew days ago the King of Denmark
was being driven along the road by the
seaside leading from the capital to the
Palace of Bernstorff, when suddenly
the royal equipage. came into violent
collision with vehicle which was be-
ing incautiously driven by a we'll
known young actor. The King, hap
PLY, was unhurt; but his carriage re-
celved such serious damage that his
Majesty alighted in order to finish his
journey on foot. When the rising
young votary of Thespis discovered
that he had actually endangered the
life of his sovereign by the clumsy
way in which he he had acted the part
of a coachman, he became so confused
that he was unable to give utterance to
his feelings. Nor was his perplexity
much relieved when the King, before
pursuing his journey turned round and
addressed him to the following effect !:
"My dear Mr.. A., L would really
suggest to you the proprlety of study


ing your part as coachman little bet
ter next time. If you had not prepared
yourself more carefully for preYious
performances in which have seen you,
/ am afraid | should never have had
the pleasure of witnessing your per-
formances at all; and if you continue
to appear in the role you have now
taken up with no better success than
has attended you to-day, fear that
may happen which will effectually
deprive me Of the pleasure of seeing
you again!'N ~ El..l
Year: 1879

In the first place, about six weeks be-


fOrehand, the hOusekeeper must begin
| by telling her husband that she wants


barrel fixed IN the back yard to run


of lye. OF course he won't pay much


attention at first. but will merely say,


eyes, yes, l'll fix it," and go off to his


work as usual. In a week or two she


becomes more emphatic; she tells him


that every crock and old pot and broken


dish about the house Is full of soap


grease, and that If he don't put up that


lye barrel the grease will certainly get


worms in it. Then he goes out and
looks around the yard and says he don't
see any barrel and no place to put one
If he did. In about another week she
tells him that if she was man she would
have had that lye barrel put up long
ago, but it makes no difference to her
now, as she means to throw the soap
grease away anyway; that there is no
use anyway in a wOman's trying to
save and economies; that 1t don't
amount to anything, as a man can
spend at the bung-hOle while his wife
saves at the spigOt; that she will never
be any better off for her economy, and
finally she caps the climax by telling
him she isn't going to slave for some
other woman to enjoy after she is dead
and gone, and then she begins to cry.
He goes of in a nuff, but i'm about an
hnInP hiGanunrc hn
fixed the lye barrel. Then she wants
the ashes put in it and there is not a
creature ia sight TO help. So she rather
sheeplshly carries them herself and
dumps them in, spelling her clothes,
getting dust in her hair :and making
herself generally unattr4ctive and mis-
cradle by the operation. When her
husband comes to dinner he looks ask
ance at her red eyes and disordered
dress, but never says soap. Then water
is poured on and the lye begins to run,
and then it is constant worry to keepl
the children away from it. "A week or
more of constant and uneasy watching
and she has enough first-classlye to fill
a big iron kettle. Then. one morning
she gets the hired man to fix a |
place outdoors for a fire, and gets the
kettle rugged on It and filled with lye. |
Then she gathers the disgusting grease |
together and scrapes it into the big pot. |
The smoke hurts her eyes, and her
children all have dangerous fascina-
ton for the spot. She dare not leave
it and them, and so she watches and
stirs it, occasionally with spoon and
saucer, and scolds the children off and |
gets fearfully overheated, and ina few
hours has great pot Of scalding soft |
soap that is 'Just splendid" If she is
so fortunate, by close watching, as to
keep the baby from tumbling into. it
she will finally get it poured into the
soft soap barrel, and congratulate her
self that after all her trials and tribula
tions, and cares and veXations. she has |
tully half dollars worth OF the best
kind Of soft SOAP. .t ~
Year: 1879

About the middle of the last century
powder for the face was used in suchquant-
tiles that the Parliament of Paris declared
the practice of employing flour for its pre-
paration to be one of the causes which
brought about the scarcity of food, while
patches and rouge were as fashionable as
ever From this epoch, too, dates the in
PRODUCTION of the umbrella, the original
form of which was the Oriental parasol held
by pages over the heads of the great. ladies
when they went out on foot. The parasol
could not be closed, but IN l76s it was mod
flied into its present form.
Year: 1879

THE WHITE SEWING MACHINE
Is the best sewer,


The easiest running,


The strongest and best finished
Shuttle Sewing Machine ever made.
No other machine approaches it in


Excellence, and it is well called


"The Perfection"
Sample machines tmay be seen at %he New
Northwest Office.
Year: 1879

IT Is SAID by many persons even
strong temperance men, that the pres
eut laws are sufficient to break up the
unlicensed liquor traffic. If they are,
why are they not enforced In the
case of Hugh Dugan now held for the
murder of Col. Rowe, he had just been
discharged from Jail after having been
incarcerated there for six months, he
being unable to pay the fine and costs
imposed for selling liquor without Ii
cense. THIS seemed to have no effect
in breaking up the establishment, for
no sooner was he sent to jail than his
wife and son took the reins in hand,
and succeeded in keeping a place inf
nitely worse than had ever been kept
before. As far as breaking up the
house was concerned, Hugh Dugan
might Just as well have been left in
full possession, and the county saved the
cost of trying him and boarding HIM
six months in prison. Instead of the
conviction Of Dugan making the place
disreputable and shutting it up, it
seemed only to add to its popularity,
and it became the resort of not only
the lowest of all classes, but it is with
shame, We are forced to say, it became
a regular resort for some city officials.
Such places are hard to break up.
Year: 1879

The "Delawarean" and the "Senti-
mel" at Dover are, discussing the in
debtednsss Of Kent county, the former
apparently endeavoring hard to hide
the truth and the latter bringing
forth some very damaging hg-
ures to the Democratic rule. 1t Is
admitted by the "Delawarsan" that
the debt Of the county is $4,000, and
in doing this it places in the column Of


assets every dollar of uncollected taxes


found on the duplicates and also counts


in $1,000 of that $4,000 which the
county owes the State and which 1t is
expected the Levy Court will filch ont
of the State. The Sentinel" after
making the proper deductions brings
the county in debt $50, 200 without in.
cluding the floating debt which is not
known, the Levy Court having adjourn
ed without making a statement OF it,
though they had promised to do so. OF
course the "Delawarean" calls the
Sentinel all kinds of hard names,
and says it and the REPUBLICAN, are con-
tinually slandering and libelling the
State. We referred to the Kent Coun.
ty finances in several issues Of our paper
last winter during the session of the
Legislature but we were informed by the
family organ that We were untruthful,
but the people we are glad to say are
getting their eyes open and want to
know what becomes of the money they
pay in taxes. This they cannot find
out by vague denials of party paper
that has a bad record for veracity, and
the object Of which is moro to cover up
and conceal the dishonesty Of its party
leaders than to give fair and impartial
statements which would show the true
financial condition Of the county. The
Sentinel" is by odds far ahead in the
dispute, and the only way to set the
matter straight before the people, is to
have fair aud impartial examination
and statement made by disinterested
and competent committee. But of course
the "Delawa,ean would not submit to
this, and so it will have to struggle on
under the suspicion of making dis
honest statements.
Year: 1879

ought, as citizens, to remember that even
the denomination of General Grant would
set an evil precedent for the future,
whether he was elected or not. 1t
would be an example and an excuse for
other parties in other times, and would
awaken and encourage lawless and danger
Gus ambitions in other men hereafter.


1t is because he has saved the country
from such an example by the manner and
the forcible matter of his rem nunciation that
General Grant deserves the thanks and
praise of all Americans, of every party. We
regret to see party spirit going to the ex-
treme of casting doubt on his sincerity or
regretting his determination. But this
need not affect the General; he looks to
future generations, and by them his pa
triotic determination will be appreciated
and lauded, regardless of party, as General
Washington's similar course is now.
Year: 1879

Elsewhere we print another series of CON-
ments by republican and democratic
journals on General Grants sensible and
patriotic declaration that he does not wish
q denomination, and that he has had all the
honors which have ever been and which
ought 10 be given to an American citizen.


1t is amusing TO see that while the repub-
lican journals for the most part, and, in
deed, with few exceptions, praise General
Grants remuneration of political designs or
hopes, and accept his words as sincere and
sensible, many democratic papers cast
doubt upon his sincerity, and betray disap-
pointment ut his withdrawal from public
life. Do these democrats really desire
the republicans to renominate Grant, 2
Do they want to see an attempt
made to break through the Oldest and wisest
tradition of our political system9 They
Year: 1879

Russin's Prestige I'm Central Asia.


In the interesting letter which we print
this morning from our correspondent at
treated to study of Asian life
that has never before been drawn
by a journalist. He sounds the key
note of Chinese policy-the wonderful
and answering policy of patience. The
Brother Of the Sun never dies. To-day he
is q mere boy; but generation
hence he will be man. Now he
has only eight wives in few years
he may have a hundred. 1t is true that in
1871 the Province of Kuldja, on the
extreme western confines of this
vast Empire, was subjugated by the
Russians, but the idea of surrender
ing it never entered the imperial head.
A full quarter of the century remained in
which to repair the injury. A few rebel
lions at home, few heads, more or
less, all minor details, and the graver
dealing with Russia was entered
upon. A few years were occupied
in the selection of ambassadors to His I'm
perial Majesty the Czar, and in due
course of time they set out by sea
for st. Petersburg. They devoted sew
eral months to laying their case before
the Emperor of all the Russias. However
little disposed he may have been to yield
the rich province and the valued prestige
which its loss would entail the sacrifice
had to be made. In fine, China in
tended to fight. She would start one
army to-day, another next week, another
next month, another every month to the
end of time One army might be utterly
annihilated, the next dispersed, the next
checked but a Judgement would be
effected ultimately. The cohorts of
the Empire would come as comes
the daylight, from the eastward, never to
return. The weight of such high-fown
language in the politics Of Central Asia
cannot be denied. Underne cath the fanci-
full phrases of the Flowery Land the Gar
saw himself face to face with facts
and fierce fighting. The information
which the Governor of Kuldja was SO
anxious to know has reached us by the
cable. Russia is to receive money COM
pensation for her good offices in restoring
quiet in the province. But what is to
become of the hero of our correspondents
letter, Bouchery, the prosperous Bouchery
Year: 1879

him by an overwhelming majority to the
Office for which he is a candidate. The re-
action of public opinion will, as protest
against an unscrupulous attempt at MUIR
der, and by way of declaring Its love of
law, order and fair play, hurl into Office the
candidate of the party that has been held
up to the country with unlimited scorn as
the apparatus for turthering all the evil i'm
pulses Of the wild communistic classes in
n nav citv
Year: 1879

In an address at Chester Mr.. Gladstone
had word to say on axes, and on the COM
parison of axes, English and American; and
if his words are to be accepted as the sum
of ''what he knows about axes we believe
the judgment on this side the sea will be
that this is, at least, one subject en- which
this ample and well-nigh universal man
knows very little. He said "the American
axe is an axe not intended to cut tree
away neatly, but to cut tree away
quickly. The American does not care
pin about beauty of work; his object is
to clear the ground" Presumably and as
the other side of the comparison the Eng
lish axe is intended to cut tree away
neatly and not quickly, and the object of
the British woodchopper is not SO much to
get his timber as to make an artistic stump.
Woodmen who take especial pride in
the stump they make are not unknown in
this land of utility; but it Is certainly true
that the greatest measure of anxiety with
our woodcutters is on the more practical
points, not merely on clearing the ground,
but on that and on getting timber together
And if the American axe is made
with view to these ends only, and
is in an eminent degree adapted to them.
then it possesses in a superior degree that
beauty which consists in the exact adapta-
tion of an instrument to the labor to be
performed with 1t. But as to the fitness of
the American axe to cut away q tree neatly
well, that depends upon what hands are on
the helve. Perhaps Mr.. Gladstone cannot
cut neatly with one but if the choppers Of
his neighborhood are disposed to an inter-
national match with axes in the timber we
can produce fellows who will make prettier
stumps than they ever saw. There are from
twenty to hundred patterns of American
axes, and different forms are preferred in
different parts Of the country. They are
not alike in beauty, but the good speci-
mems are the handsomest axes in the world !;
handsome as they address themselves SIM
tive tools-axes whose mere aspect would
induce George Washington even in mature
years to try the swing for just one whack
on even his own, much more his fathers
cherry tree. They are handsome also in the
sense referred to of fitness for the service
expected Of them. For Mr.. Gladstone to
compare the clumsy and barbar-
Gus English axe-which is made on
pattern descended from the stone age
with an American axe shows how COM
pletely his education has been neglected.


Every American axe maker should forth
with send him an axe-especially the pro-
ducers of handmade axes-expenses pre-
paid. But they must be first fitted with


handles, for an Englishman does not know
how to hang an American axe.
Year: 1879

The STEAMBOAT RUNNERS made intolerable
nuisances of themselves yesterday, usual,
and will probably continue to do 80 until some
male excursionists will pity women travelling
alone and fell some of these brawling black
guards to the dock
Year: 1879

ToLEDo's DOUBLE TRAGEDY is one of the
strangest events of its kind that ever hap
Pencd. For "a respectable citizen to be angered
almost to insanity by newspaper card from
dangerous character seems utterly incomprc-
hensblc, and to have taken his own life after
shooting his traducer is still more inexpIicablc.
For other people the story contains the homcly
Year: 1879

SOME OF THE PUNIsHMENTs IN VOGUE at
Sing Sing, with the who inflict them,
graphically described to-day by man who fif-
teen years ago was hero in the estimation Of
thousands upon thousands of good people
Year: 1879

WALL STREET MATTERs.-The fluctuations of
the past week in the stock market have left
most of the prices about where it found them.
The general list looks pretty ragged" and
values are somewhat unsettled.
Year: 1879

Is active pursuit of pleasure or gain,
the incstimable blessing Of health is too
often forgotten until disease is firmly
seated, and the fact only realized by
great bodily and mental suffering. The
Liver is the vulnerable point IN most
versions, and the disarrangement of the
organ involves almost the whole system;
hence the reason why under the Liver
disease there is enumerated such num-
ber of Affections, and we claim the SIM
mons Liver Regulator to be a remedy
for them all.
Year: 1879

At Cincinnati last Sunday a four
year. old boy, who was leaning out OF
the fourth story OF a tenement house,
lost his balance and started whirling
down toward the brSk pavement, hfty
feet below. On the porch Of the third
story, Immediately below him, stood a
little girl, ten Years old, the daughter
of one of the residents of that floor, She
saw the boy coming, and by an instinct
or purpose which amounted toheroisln,
put out her arm to try to save the boy.
She did catch him at the risk OF being
dragged over herself and Of falling
with hlm. OF course she could not
hold such weight, but her arm was
Just strong enough to turn the course
of his fall, SO that he landed at her feet
on the floor @ the porch. His head
struck the balrster, and he had an
rglv cut on hH forehead and one eye
was considerably injured, but hiH life
was saved. Tie little girls arm was
.am.d but not broken. She said she
saw him coming, and just thought she
might save him if she would put out
her arm, and she did it.
Year: 1879

On Monday the police ended the career of
a strange dog found running at large in our
streets. This is the beginning of the ''dog
season." IF you wish to save your dogs,
muzzle them, and keep them at home.
Year: 1879

The new fire proof addition to the County
Clerks Office is being pushed rapidly TO-
ward completion. 1t will give the Clerk a
larger space for the records of the County,
and greatly improve the building.
Year: 1879




aalIy, among other facts, that Oar.
win had shown us that the monkey
was an imperfect man and that
man was perfect brute. The
General described his first military
experience in crossing the plains
as Quartermaster with the Nor
mon battalion, arriving at Los
Angeles in 1847. He pictured life
in California in those early days as
being o kind Of poetical ease and
pastime, and said that many of the
most pleasant years of his life were
passed in the midst of the native
Californians Of those days. This
Coast was described as being the
home of countless buffalo and
wild turkeys, thus making It the
paradise of the hunter and adven-
turer. The first settlers of Arizona
were spoken OF In rather uncompli-
mentary terms as to their moral
status and the causes which led to
their settling in that section. The
Apaches and their mode of life
were described at some length, and
among other favorable character
istics of the Indians spoken of was
their learning to work, and finally
how the speculators in the neigh.
borhood became uneasy at their
willing industry and declared that
the Indian "must CO."


In connection with Arizona, the
lecturer spoke discouragingly of
Gen. Fremont's proposed project of
changing the great basin in South
ern California into sea.


In his recital of incidents of the
war the General stated that it was
through him that General Scott
first communicated the order desig-
mating the troops then in the vicin-
ity of Washington as 1.-THE Army
of the Potomac" a name that was
borne by the soldiers acting on that
line until the close Of the war.
This portion of General Stoneman's
lecture was especially interesting
and was listened to with the closest
attention. In a review of the
many generals who obtained prom
inence he paid glowing tribute to
the great ability and soldierly quail
titles of General George H. Thomas,
whom he pronounced one of the
most successful and competent
officers of the war. The General
concluded his lecture by relating
his many amusing and curious ex-
perience with the "intelligent con-
trabands."
Year: 1879

A wealthy old gentleman living
in Berlin fell In love with the
young daughter of a poor widow.
He wooed and won the girl, and be-
fore the wedding day arrived he
made will leaving her all his
property, amounting to several
hundred thousand marks. The
marriage was celebrated In bril-
liant style, and the welded pair,
with their guests, sat down to
breakfast. Scarcely had the feast
Ing begun when the venerable
Bridegroom dropped his knife and
sank back in his chair, dead from
heart disease.
Year: 1879

rie facilities OF the HERALD Steam
lifting House for doing job work are not
surpassed in California outside of San
Francisco and Sacramento. All work en-
trusted to us will be executed with neat
ness and dispatch at the lowest living
rates.