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Year: 1879

AN Englishman who has recently ar
rived at Philadelphia is shocked to see
so many left-tailed dogs in the streets,
and feels it his duty to direct public at
tention to the fact. "Your excellent
American oysters" he writes to the edi-
tor of the Telegraph, "your roast beef,
poultry and superior shad, have, | fear,
caused very provoking attack of gout,
which will prevent me from visiting the
Bench Show of Dogs, to open on Men
day next. If the dogs to be exhibited
prove to be no better breed than the
dogs I have noticed along your streets,
the exhibition will not prove very cred
table. AT least ninety in every one
hundred dogs 1 have noticed in this city
curl their tails to the left, an evidence
Of low breed and danger. Dogs that
curl their tails to the right are never
afflicted with hydrophobia; that fatal
disease prevails only among dogs that
curl their tails left. No gentleman il
London or any city of the Continent
will own a dog or allow dog to follow
him that curls his tail to the left. -
Year: 1879

We mean TO do It. Some day, some day,


We mean to slacken this fevered rush
That 10 wearing our very souls away.


And grant TO our goaded hesrts a rush
That Is holy enough to let them hear
The footsteps Of angels drawing near.
We mean to doit. Oh never doubt.


When the burden Of daytime drDll is Ger,
We'n sit and muse, wEfle the stars come out,


As the patriarch sat at the open door
OF his tent, with heavenward gazing eye,
To watch for the angels passing by.
We see them afar at high noontide,


When fiercely the worlds hot fashtngs beat;
Yet ney er have bidden them turn aside,


And tarry a while in converse sweet,
Nor prayed them to hallow the cheer we spread
To drink of our wine acd break our bread.
We promised our heaytz that when the stress


OF the life work reaches the longed-for close,
When tire weight that we groan with hinders less


Wen loosen our thoughts to such repose
As banishes cares distributing din,
And then-we'll call the angels in.
The day that we dreamed OF comes at length, :


Whea tired Of every mocking quest,
And broken in spirit and shorn of strength,


We drop, indeed, at the door of Test.
And wait and watch as the day wanes on
But the angels We meant to call are gone!
Year: 1879

CHOCOLATE CUsrARD.--Put one
quart of milk into a tin pail and set
it into kettle of boiling water; then
beat together one cup of sugar and
three eggs; add to this teaspoon.
full of Bakers chocolate, shaved fine,
and spoonful Of corn starch; add
this to the boiling milk and let it
cool until it thickens like soft Gus.
tard; flavor with vanilla; use more
chocolate, eggs, and sugar, if you
want the custard richer.
Year: 1879

An old farmer says there is no feed
so good to keep animals in flesh dur
ing winter as scalded oats. For cows
mares, and sheep that are to raise
young, it is superior to any other
feed, as it not only puts the animals
in good condition to furnish milk
abundantly, but the young at birth
are strong and active. Wheat bran
is also an excellent feed for breeding
animals, given in the form of a mess.
Year: 1879

PLAIN RICE PUDDING.-Take a
teacup of best rice, put in small
pie dish with three tablespoonfuls
moist sugar; fill the dish with milk
and water, equal proportions, and
bake slowly; eaten cold.
Year: 1879

Gail at our Drug Store and get a trial
bottle of DR.. Kings New Discovery
free of charge, if you are suffering with
"a Cough. Cold. Asthma, Bronchitis,
Hay Fever, Consumption, loss of voice
tickling in the throat or Lungs. This
is the great remedy that is causing so
much excitement by its many wonder
full cures, curing thousands of hopeless
cases. Over one million bottles ofDr.
Kings New Discovery have been used
within tbs last year, and have given
perfect satisfaction in every instance
We can unhesitatingly say that this is
is really the only sure cure for throat
and lung affections. and can cheerfully
recommend it to all, Call and get a
trial bottle free Of charge, or a regular
size for 81 90
Year: 1879

QUEBEC, Aug. 19.-The mayor having
asked the government at Ottawa to pro-
claim the Blake act in force in this city
and county. a reply was sent to the effect
that there must be some tangible evidence
of the necessity for such step, suggesting
a meeting of the city or county magistrates
to discuss the matter, and if they deem 1t
in the interest of peace to formally apply
for proclamation. The military will
continue under arms.
Year: 1879

BY this new method every sick per-
son can get a package of Kidney-N ort
and prepare for themselves six quarts
of medicine. 1t is a specific cure for
Kidney Diseases, Liver Complaint.
Constipation and Piles, and grand
tonic for Females,
Year: 1879

Frank MiIIer's Harness Oil and Blacking
is pronounced by the trade generally to be
the best manufactured. The grade OF
these goods is always standard aud their
reputation unsurpassed anywhere. The
iru is one OF the Oldest in the country and
has tho largest trade in its line. DIFF
Year: 1879

No use Of having the chills, no use OF
headache ,or any of the ills that come from
disordered or inactive liver. One bot
tie of this old and reliable family remedy
will cure the most stubborn case-will
relieve the system and make you feel like
new person. Try it and be satisfied.
Year: 1879

the most serious, since 1t was apparent that a
broken rib had penetrated my left lung, and
that many of my organs had been pressed
out so far to one side or the other of where
they belonged that it was doubtful if they
would ever learn to perform their functions
in such remote and unaccustomed localities.
They then set my LETT arm in two places,
pulled my right hip into its socket again, and
re-elevated my nose. I was an object of
great interest and even admiration; and
many sincere and warm-hearted persons had
themselves introduced to me, and said they
were proud to know the enly man who had
been hurt in French duel for forty years.


was placed in an ambulance at the very
head of the procession; and thus with grati-
flying ectdt was marched into Paris, the
most conspicuous figure in that great spec
tacle and deposited at the hospital.


The cross of the Legion of Honor has been
conferred upon me. However, few escape
that distinction.


Such is the true version of the most mem
orable private conflict of the age. My recoy
cry is still doubtful, but there are hopes. 1
am able to dictate but there is no knowing
when 1 shall be able to write.


have no complaints to make against any
one. acted for myself, and l can stand the
consequences. Without boasting, I think
may say am not afraid to stand before a
modern French dueist, but will never con.
sent to stand behind one again.
Year: 1879

My lady sits absorbed and mute
Embroidering screen on jute;


The centre design is medieval
The border, conventional leaves and fruit.
A dragon worked in ove-greeD,
SunfOwers with catkins set between,


Strange stripes made of manifold fancy stitches,
That is the style of my lady's SCREEN
And while she bends above the frame,
Lest be subject to her blame,


Although am no connoisseur in dragons,
speak in the highest praise of the same.
A brazen sconce, a Chinese fan,
A carven chair in which Queen Anne


May have slipped her tea from this porcelain tea


cup,
An angular Anglican saint in paint, wan
Against panel of dead gold
My lady's dim boudoir doth hold


To modern me- should speak, will she listen?
We too in our turn shall one day grow old
And we shall wend upon our way
With all dead folk of olden day


My lady, ah leave then these ancient ia shions;
Laugh we little, while yet we may!
Year: 1879

You should remember that the cause of nearly all
of our ills begins at the vital point, the stomach
lnat the liver Is seldom wrong when the stomach is
are struggling do the work of the stomach and
liver We would add thai no human being ever had
fever, fever ami ague, or yellow fever, who had
heal ,v cto aoh apdl Two
Year: 1879

The excursion on the, Naugatuck Railroad and the Steamer Laura to Coney Island, last Thursday, was a very enjoyable one The storm of Wednesday had cooled the heated term and laid the dust, making the railroad trip a delightful one. The ride on the sound on the steamer was very pleasant. About eight hundred excurtionists were on board,

 just enough to prevent a crowd. The Wheel CT and Wilson band played choice selections frequently. In one of the cabins there was dancing; in another, piano music and singing, and as no liquors are sold everybody was so-

 Der, we'll behaved and happy.

 The landing was maue at Locust Grove, | from whence tickets to the Island were fur

 nished on the steam cars. a distance of per

 haps two miles, About three hours were al l lowd for examining the matters and things on ! the strip of sand which about one hundred

 thousand people daily visit for pleasure. Oi

 course the first thing is dinner, if you are not

 sensible enough to carry one and eat it on the

 boat. For about two dollars one can get quite a 1HcLl IIl6 town and get fifteen cents worth of sight see ing from an elevation of three hundred feet. Then go to Brighton or Manhattan Beach, and go bathing in the surf sit down on the broad | piazza of the mammnth hotels there and hear l the grand concerts given there daily; ride over l the race course or take donkey ride, or try the marine railway or go to the aquarium ;

 go out on the ocean pier; buy green or blue ! spectacles, or spend your money for thou l sand and one other pleasures that are offered l Or you may sit still and see the merry ships l sailing on the broad Atlantic, and the surging i and swaying of it's pillows, while the restless | crowd on the white sands are hurrying to anc | fro, like so many insects in the torrid sun Everything that human Ingenuity can devise to beguile the weary mind or inveigle the la tent dime is to be found here. Steam cars

 run direct to Brooklyn and New York, while l myriads of excursion steamers ald in making

 this the great breathing place of the city.

 | Your three hours pass swiftly-much toc

 soon-and away we must flee to get the steam 1 CT. At four o'clock the Laura leaves her dock

 and in about four hours is in Bridgeport

 we tired mortals whirl up the Valley to oul

 mountain homes K. $
Year: 1879

The Connecticut Catholic glories over the German situation in an article entitled s.Bis mark Defeated" While there is little doubt of the defeat of Liberalism, we are sorry tc say that Bismark seems further from defeat than By certain concessions he has gained over the Catholic party, and is now using it tc cripple parliamentary government in Germany After he has got all the help he needs iron Catholicism, he is more than likely to begin another course of persecution.
Year: 1879

The Pennsylvania railroad proposes to give rapid-transt without seeking legislation. It has bought right of way from the Schuylkill to Broad Street, near the center of the city, Trains will cross the river on high bridge
Year: 1879

Two novel lawsuits are pending in New York courts one by wife to recover dama- ages against woman who had seduced her husband another, suit by woman against a married man for breach of promise of mar riage. his existing family relations having been concealed from her,
Year: 1879

A Bunker man recently violated a law of the community by marrying grass widow. They expelled him, and he starved himself to death. They had offered to let him back, but it was no use. Perhaps he was half dead al- ready, and did not want to go over so much ground again; or, very possibly, the widow turned out an unproitable investment.
Year: 1879

A Union soldier who lost one leg at Gettys- burgh, and got bullet in the other, gives up Senate doorkeeper's place to make room for Confederate. All wrong! Why don't some Union Congressman rise and make room for him 2
Year: 1879

there ycu will find assortment of everything need to supply the wants or add to the health happiness and prosperity of your family, from penny smoked herring to the most elegant paror .rble-topped led Room suits See what yoar money will buy when

 you get there.
Year: 1879

A few evenings since the Democratic
candidate for Council in the Second
ward was informed that a number Of
good working Republicans had moved
into that ward and he was assured that
it would bs necessary for him to work
ard to avoid defeat. "Let them come, "
replied this model municipal legislator
"they may bring Jesus Christ into thu
We d and they can't beat me-" Thi'
remark alone ought to entitle him tt
the votes of all the decent citizens o
that ward.
Year: 1879

The new spoke mill built by James
Ward on Pike creek, Mill Creek Humid
red, is now in full operation, making
spokes, wheels, hubs and fslloes, and
the mill is also arranged to grind grists
and make cider. All Of the machinery
is Of the most approved pattern and the
whole place is superintended by the
proprietor who never fails to please
those wishing anything in his line.
Year: 1879

A letter addressed Frank Daily, Led
ger Building, Philadelphia, was lost
this morning while going to the post
Office. The finder will be thanked by
leaving IT at the REPUBLICAN ONCE.
Year: 1879

MEAT LoAF.-Chop fine whatever
cold meat you may have, fat and lean
together; add pepper and salt, finely
chopped onion, 2 slices of bread, which
have been soaked in milk, and l egg.
Mix we'll together and bake in a dish.
This makes nice tea or breakfast dish.
Year: 1879

Last night twelve members of the po-
lice force proceeded over Market street
bridge, and raided on house Of i'll fame,
said to have been kept by a man named
McManus.


The officers succeeded in capturing
two women and three men. They will
be given a hearing this evening. The
mayor intends to break up all such
places of like kind, and the police will
no doubt be kept busy for the next few
days or nights.
Year: 1879

A WORD OF ADVICE TO NEWSPAPERS is CIV
en- by Rev. Washington GLADDEN. in Sunday
Afternoon, for May. He says-Not only do
our newspapers offend by the publication of
the vile details of great crimes, but also by
picking up and spreading abroad little scan
dals little unpleasantnesses in society, little
bits of gossip that no sensible or honorable
person wishes to know or would allow him
self to repeat. Much of the space of many
weekly papers and of not few daihes is de-
voted to matters of this description. The
tittle-tattle of the neighborhood, that is not
only silly, but poisonous in the extreme, IL
gathered and served up in as appetZlng
manner as possible for the entertainment OF
the whole community. Domestic ntchclues,
with which the public has no business at all,
afford material for spicy items business COM
plcatons are worse complicated by unau-
thorized reports concerning them little
troubles in the churches which those who
have the care of their interests are doing
their best TO compose are famed into grave
dissensiops by references TO them in the news
papers Sometimes when the details of these
small scandals are not given, there are little
hints and innuendoes that serve to put all
the prurient and meddlesome noses in the
community on the scent for lndecency or
mischief What excuse or justification can
there be for the puDhcauon OF sucn items
Who is profted by reading them? What in
terest of intelligence, of morality, OF decency
is promoted by spreading abroad these miser-
able details of gossip? The only reason for
printing them is that many people like to
read them; they make sale for the papers
But the taste that Graves them is vicious
and degraded taste, and the business of graf
flying and stimulating such taste is bad
business.


If it is disreputable for a man to go about
ringing his neighbor's door bells and reciting
to them scandals by word of mouth, it is
more disreputable for him to print them in
widely-circulated newspaper. The story that
gentlewoman would not stoop to tell in good
society, no gentleman ought to print in his
paper. Meddling and notwithstanding is
lust as reprehensible in a reporter as in any
other man. The fact that such stuff makes
his paper sell is poor justification. And
until the managers of newspapers learn to
discriminate with little more care between
the news which the public has right to hear
and the news which is simply noisome or in
furious scandal, the business of journalism
will suffer serious loss of respect and OF in
huence.
Year: 1879

A half century ago, a large part of the peo-
ple of the United States lived in houses un-
painted, upholstered, and utterly devoid of
adornment. A well-fed fire in the yawning
chasm of huge chimney gave partial warmth
to single room, and it was a common re-
mark that the inmates were roasting one side,
while freezing the other in contrast, ma
iority of the people of the older States now
live in houses that are clapboarded, painted,
blinded, and comfortably warmed Then,
the household furniture consisted of a few
plain chairs, a plain table, bedstead made
by the village carpenter. Carpets there We're
none. To-day, few are the houses in city or
country, that do not contain a carpet of some
sort, while the average laborer by weeks
work may earn enough to enable him to re-
pose at night upon n spring bed.


Fifty years ago, the kitchen "dressers"
were set forth with a shining row of pewter
plates. The farmer ate with buck-handled
knife and an iron or pewter spoon, but the
advancing civilization has sent the plates and
spoons to the melting pot, while the knives
aud forks have given place to nickel or silver
plated cutlery.


In those DAYS the utensils for cooking were
a dinner-pot, tea kettle, skillet, Dutch oven,
and frying-pan; to-day there is no end of
kitchen furniture.


The people of 1880 sat at evening in the
glowing light of pitch-knot fire, or read
their weekly newspapers by the tlickerng
light of 'tallow dip;" now, in city and vii
lage, their apartments are bright with the
fame of the gas jet or the softer radiance of
kerosene. Then, if the fire went out upon
the hearth, it was rekindled by coal from a
neighboring hearth, or by flint, steel, and
tinder. Those who INDUCED in pipes and ci-
gars could light them only by some hearth
stone to-day we light fire and pipes by the
dormant fireworks in the match safe, at a
cost of one hundredth of a cent.


In those days We guessed the hour of noon,
Year: 1879

If We would bring before us Isaac Newton,
now fairly started on his scientific career, We
may imagine quiet young man, not above
middle height, Of most sedate and humble
carriage, never seemingly angry, Of profound
thought, his counteuance mild, pleasant and
comcly who could be drawn from his cham
bers by none Of the recreations in which most
young men delight; who seldom went out
except to read his lectures whose time was
spent III mathematical calculations and in eN-
perimcnts in optics, chemistry, and alchemy
whom students described as mighty famous
for his learning, most excellent philosopher
and divine ; to whose rooms in college foreign
ers reSorted, anxious TO converse with the
man of transcendent genius We may think
OF this young man as growing gray at thirty,
so much absorbed in his studies that he often
forgot lis meals or sat up all night when his
chemical experiments required watching.


When Isaac was twelve years old he went
to Grantham to attend the Grammar school
and boarded at the house of Mr. Clark, an
apothecary At that time there was more
prospect of his making good mechanic than
n great scholar according TO his own account,
given later, he was inattentive to his studies
and allowed his school-fellows to outstrip
him, but one day, when he was the last IN the
lowest form but one, while on his way to
school he was kicked in the stomach 10y the
boy who ranked next above him. The pain
was severe, and though the smaller OF the two
the future philosopher after school challenged
his assailant to fight. Encouraged by the
schuol.master's son the two boys fought in
earnest spirit and agility made up for Isaac :
inferior stature, and his opponent soon cried
enough. The school masters SON told Isaac
that towards must have their noses rubbed
against IA wall This direction being COM
piled with, the vanquished was left to his
reflections aud the victor began to ask himself
''Why should allow this boy always to be
above me am | not his superior mentally
aud morally, as well MS physically? Then fol
lowed n prolonged intellectual struggle, in
which Isaac, again victor, passed above his
old adversary aud finally stood at the head of
| the school.


On one occasion he was approached by an
| agent who offered him a brihe Of six thOus-
and pounds which was refused. 'There
would be no dishonesty in taking it you do
not understand your own interests" said the
| go-between.


II know well enough what.my duty is, and
no brbes shall corrupt me, " was the reply.


'I}ut | come from great duchess-you
would not refuse so great lady besides she
! has power to advance the interests of those
| she chooses to favor" persisted the agent.


II desire you to tell the lady, that if she
were here herself and had made Inc this Offer
l would have desired her to go out of my
house and so l desire you, or you shall be
turned out" Newton answered. Oh! for O
score or two of Isaac Newtons in our country
now.-iSunddy AFTERNOON for Ady
Year: 1879

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

PARKERsBuRG, August A paSsen-
ger on the way train yesterday evening
deliberately drew a pistol and shot him
sell, creating a serious wound. lie was
taken off at Salem for medical attention.
Noone knows who the man is or where
he came from.