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Year: 1875

Better than grandeur, better than goid,
rhan rank and title thousand told,
) a healthy body, a mind at ease,
md simple pleasures tnat always please;
heart that can feel for neighbor's woe
Md share the Joys with genial glow.
With sympathies large enough to en1ola
All men as brothers, Is better than goio.
Retter than gold is conscience clear,
Though toiling bread in an humble sphere;
d. nhv hest with content and health,
Jntrled by the lust Of cares or wealth.
Lowly living and lofty thought
Adorn and enpoble poor mans cot;
For man and morals OF natures plan,
Are the genuine test Of gentleman.
BETTER than gold is the sweet repose
Of the sons Of toll when their labors close'
better than gold is the poor mans sleep
And the balm that drops on his slumber oeep.
Bring sleeping draughts to the doWny pea,
Where luxury pillows his aching head
His simpler opiate labor deems
A shorter road to the land OF dreams.
Retter than gold is thinking mind
That in the realm of books can find


A treasure SURPRISING Australian ore,


And live with the great and good OF yore;


The sage's lore and the poets lay,


The pl0ries OF empires past away;


The worlds great drama will thus entold


And Weld pleasure better than gold


Retter than gold is peaceful home,


Whore all the fireside ch arities come;


The shrine of love and the heaven OF lite,


Hallowed by mother, or sister, or vile.
However humble the home may be,
Or tried by sorrow with Heavens dec ee,


The blessings that never were bought or sold


And centre there, are better than gold.
Year: 1875

1t is stated that the question of abol
ishing the office of drawing-master to
the public schools of Boston is likely
to be entertained by the school com
mittee upon the gronnd that the time
devoted to drawing defrauds pupils oil
necessary instruction in branches
which would be of use to them through
Iout life.
Year: 1875

The President of the United States was re-
ouested by resolution of the Senate


to inform the Senate. If not Incompatible with the pub


o interest, whether any portion of tho army Of the
United States or any officer officers soldier or sol
diers Of such army, did in any manner interfere or in
termeddle WITH control or seek TO control the organza
ton General Assembly OF the State OF Louisiana
or either Of the branches thereof the 4th inst and
especially whether person or persons claiming seats
in either branch OF said Legislature have been deprived
thereof or prevented from taking the by any such
military force otcer, or soldier, and If such has been
the case then that the President inform the Senate
der what circumstances and by what authority such
military intervention md interference have taken place,
and whether he has information in regard TO the
existence the State of Louisiana Of armed organi
ration hostile TO the Government OF estate and intent
upon overturning such State Government by force"


The Presidents answer to this request was
submitted to the Senate yesterday, and is
printed in full herewith. AS a history of
Louisiana politics for two years past, it is
curiOusly inexact; as defense OF the kel-
logg Government, it is, though labored and
heavy, not without the merit of being adroitlv
drawn; as an answer to the call of the
Senate for information. it conveys nothing
that was not before known; and as state
ment Of facts it is failure.



ment of the position taken by the President
upon receipt of the first intelligence of the
invasion of the Louisiana Legislature, and
from which it was said he "would not back
"down" Secretary Belknap never tele-
graphed to Sheridan the approval of the
president and all of us" without having at
least the Presidents approval. In this mes
sage the President, though he does not posi-
lively condemn Sheridan's action, does back
down from the full approval which Belknap
promised. 1t is to the credit of the President
that he has discovered his mistake. 1t is very
much more to the credit of the American
People that they showed it to him in such
manner as to preclude further argument. 1t
was after Sheridan had telegraphed to Wash
ington asking the President to proclaim the
leaders of the White League-whom Repub-
lican member of the Congressional Investigat-
ing Company declared to be men of
property and character banditti," and
leave their further treatment to him,
that Secretary Beknap answered Sheridan
Be assured that the President and Cabinet
confde in your wisdom, and rest in the be-
lief that all acts of yours have been and will
" be iudicous.n And ii is after the country
has in some degree been heard from that the
President "goes back on" this assurance in
Year: 1875

At the Canal-st and Broadway crossing there
ought really to be life-saving station established
with ropes signals guns rockets life-boat' and sub
marine armor There have been no lives lost there
yet, 80 far as we know. but after snow-storm ana
thaw the crossing is pretty much an even thng
between being impaed on an omnibus-poie OF
drowned in the turbd abyss; the wayfarer is be-
tween the devil and the deep sea. But what nice
place it would be to establish ferry. Only some
time an omnibus might get swamped there and OBJ
struct the channel.
Year: 1875

The address of President Nelson on his re-
election to the Presidency of the Board of
Education gives an encouraging view of the
condition of the public schools of New-York
His suggestions in regard to the salaries of
the teachers are practical and judicious, and
should serve not only to relieve the minds of
the teachers about this matter, but to set at
rest the agitation of the unwise propositions
for a reduction.
Year: 1875

! .'If you could run an engine


on this road you could on any


other road, could You not?"


eyes, run the engine, but l


couldn't make time"


"Why not?"


"Because | wouldn't know
the road. A stranger can't go


on to a road he has never run


and make time till he has learned


the ins and outs OF it. Didn't
you notice how we ran when we


came out Of town? Well, we
didn't run so fast after that at
any time. That was our race
ground There are spots on all
roads where you have to run
like thunder to make up for lost
time at other places. When we
came up 'three-mile grade we
didn't go over ten or twelve
miles an hour, so we had to make
lit up at other places. Did you
never hear a conductorsay some
times when his train was late
that he had a new engineer who
didn't know the road thorough
ly? That's all there is to it
In other respects one engineer
is the same in principle as an
other. But there can't be two
Of them that'll work alike; an
engine has as many tricks as a
horse. Some is as docilc as a
sheep, and others just cut up
like thunder all the while.
Some Of 'em will carry water as
steady as a clock, others win be
heavin' it up and down like a
sca-sick man. Some fire easy
and some light; others eat all
you fling in, and then don't
make any steam. III take that
engine that we came in with
and run her forever, just as she
is. The next man that comes
after me can't do anything with
her, until he fixes her, as lie
wants her, and so it goes. He'll |
swear the valves are set wrong, |
or anything, so he can get a
chance to tinker with herr


4 rap came at the door, the |
waiter handed a telegraph for
Tie engineer, who read it and |
said, Il must get up and go |
home at once" and we parted |
with mutual good wishes.
Year: 1875

In New Zealand there is a


greatdearth ofrespect&5le dress


making hands, apropos of which


the New Zealand Herald tells


the following amusing story:
1t seems that a well-to-do set


tier near Auckland was lately


attacked by an illness which his


medical attendant declared must


terminate fatally, so severe were


the symptoms. After lying in
apparently hopeless state for
some days, he suddenly took q
turn for the better, and thanks
TO a strong constitution, made a


rapid recovery. Not long af-
ter he had returned to business
he was much startled, ON OPEN
ing an account presented at his
to find himself charged
with a full set of widows weeds
of elabOrately complete des-
A domestic explana-
ton naturally followed, and his
wife reminded him that he had
always made a special desire
that the fact Of their having en-
igrated to a colony should nev-
n prevent her dressing as a la
ly. "And the dressmakers
here, you know" she added,
'haye matters so entirely in
heir own hands that they gen
,rally keep you waiting for any
hing new. So when l was told
7Ou could not possibly recover,


ordered what l knew you
would wish me to wear before
land; and now the things have
'nly just come home" The
,ill was promptly settled
Whether the husband was con-
oled for the outlay by the
hOught that his prudent wife
ad the things ready by her is q
question left open to conjec-
ure.
Year: 1875

An Internal Revenue Collector
in Richmond, Va, heaing a noise
in his house one night lately, got
up and went down stairs, with a
pistol in his hand. AS be descend
ed he though he heard some one
go ont Of tn, front door, and open
ing it, he fired in the darkness,
fastened the door, and went back
to bed. In the morning he found
blood OIL his front porch. an un-
der it the body of a man known
to have been thief.
Year: 1875

a Dubuque boy was rather
troubled for fear that be would
not know his father when they
both reached heaven, but his
mother eased him by remarking:
"All you have to do is to lcok for
an angel with red nose on him"
Year: 1875

In speaking of the debate on the coer-
cion bill, in 1916, the year before the
Liberator's death, he (Disraeli) tells us
of the "acute points" for which Mr..
O'Connell was Justly distinguished. And
there is much Of genuine pathos in his
description of the effort of his old and
inveterate enemy in the House of Com
mons: His appearance was Of great
debility, and the tones of his voice were
very still. His words, indeed, only
reached those who were Immediately
around him and the Ministers sitting on
the other side Of the green table, and
listening with that interest and respect
full attention which became the occasion.
1t was strange and touching spectacle
to those who remembered the force Of
colossal energy, and the clear and thrill
ing tones that had once startled, disturbed
and controlled Senates. To
the House generally, it was a perform
ance in dumb show, a feeble old man
muttering before table; but respect for
the great Parliamentary parsonage kept
all as silent as if the fortune of a party
hung upon his rhetoric; and though not
an accent reached the gallery, means
were taken that next morning the coun-
try should not lose the last, and not the
least, Interesting of the speeches Of one
who had 20 long occupied and agitated
the mind of nations" a
Year: 1875

She has got on torn dress, hitched up
at one side sufficiently to reveal an un-
buttoned shoe; there are flakes of white
wash in her hair and on her chin; her
dress is wet, her fingers are parboiled,
and her thumb has been split with a
hammer, but her eye is as clear and
bright as that of Major-General on
field day. She picks up handful of
skirts and skins through the apartments,
seeing five hundred things that should
be done at once, and trying to do them ;
and every time she comes in reach of the
dresser, she snatches look into the
glass and shoves fresh hairpin into her
dilapidated coil. And thus planted in
the debris, like a queen on her throne,
she unblushingly asserts that cts an
awful job" +" Everything is in wretched
shape !" "Pll be so glad when this is
over )" =" 1t does seem as if my back will
snap in two;" 9" Pm a good mind to say
I'll never clean house again so long as ]
live" And then her mind unconsciously
scars heavenward, and she wonders
if there will be a house-cleaning season
there, and If not, hew a heaven can be
made of it. 1t is this speculation which
gives her that dreamy expression when
she is cutting your bread with the soap
knife.-Ddnbwy News.
Year: 1875

Don't dun worthless debtor. He
has done you, and that should settle it.


Don't rush into lawsuit if your
pocketbook be empty. You have reached
the point by another route. ....


Don't claim that man excels woman in
the fine arts. Our women paint remark
ably we'll.


Don't attempt too much. The man
who masters the law has no business
with the gospel.


Don't apologize for poor preacher by
saying "he is good man." There is
not pulpit for every good man in the
country, and VICE versa.


Don't say that an idle man can not
make reputation. A Logansport gro
Ger has the reputation of being the lazi-
est man on the Wabash.


Don't turn up your nose when you see
a man reading Godey's Lady's Book
The poor fellow is not responsible for his
sex.


Don't imagine that you can make a
fortune in the show business. In the
outcome you will have nothing to show
but your ears. -HH H'e


Don't fail to be polite on all occasions.
No well-bred lady will intrude when
gentlemen are smoking.


Don't dream that God gave you more
than your share of brains. Those whom
you think he has sighted will be content
after taking your acknowledgement
Phdr0s.
Year: 1875

While men believed that madness
meant possession by demon, it Is not
difficult, perhaps, to account for the
superstitious and brutal treatment shown
to those possessed; but the reader will be
amazed by the details ofthe scientific de-
vices, happily of past age, planned for
the cure Of the unsound. One Of these
was to entice the sufferer to walk across
o floor, which, suddenly giving way,
dropped him into bath, where he was
half drowned. Another mode of torture
was to let the patients down q well, in
which the water, made gradually to rise,
frightened them with the prospect of an
awful death. Within the memory Of
men living, the patients of Bethlehem
Hospital (Bedlam), chained TO the wall
like wild beasts, were shown to the pub
lie on certain days of the week at
the charge of twopence a visitor and
here were to be found In their cells,
crouching on straw, women with nothing
but blanket for covering. ...t d


George III in 1888 was subjected to a
use,essly severe treatment, being con.
stantly tortured with, the straight waist
coat, and denied the society OF his wife
and children. He recovered in n few
weeks after the substitution Of kindness
for severity. nT AIT
Year: 1875

Among modern scientists Michael
Faraday, who died in 1867, stood in
some respects almost alone. He was an
eminently religious man. Usually, in
this generation, science and religion have
not gone hand in hand. Religion often
opposes science. Science almost always
has half imperceptible sneer for relig-
ion. But Michael Faraday was devout
and humble believer. He came into the
world the son of a blacksmith, whose
highest ambition was to make his boy q
bo0kbinder. At the age of thirteen
Michael Faraday entered upon his ap-
prenticeship. But he was not satisfied
to deal with the outsides of books alone.
At odd moments he possessed himself of
their contents. In this way he dipped
into some scientific treatises, and 30 his
future career was determined. Through
a customer of his masters he obtained
an opportunity to hear some of Sir
Humphrey Davy's lectures; and after
wards wrote to Sir Humphrey asking
him to help him by some means to leave
trade and enter the service of science.
Through Sir Humphrey he obtained the
post of assistant In the laboratory in Al
bemarle street, and thus commenced his
scientific career. How eminently sue
cessful he was, what honorable distinc.
ton he won, the world knows well. II
should know, also, that he never lost the
simplicity and sincerity of his character
The main characteristic of his life wai
his utter self-forgetfulness-his devotion
to truth for truths sake. The pursuit
of science was to him its own reward
and he saw such infinite and unexplored
vistas of knowledge stretching out before
him as filed him with profound humili
ty.l There was no affectati0n in the re
grets he so frequently expressed in hi
last days fhat he had done 90 little TO
science.
Year: 1875

. The Inter- Ocean calls attention to the
widespread misunderstanding of the
clause in the constitution of Nebraska
which refers to the election of United
States Senator's. The statement is going
the rounds and exciting considerable
comment, that it orders that the Senators
shall be elected by vote of the people
direct, instead of by vote ofcthe Legisla-
ture as the federal constitution provides.
The new constitution simply provides for
an expression of preference in the choice
Of Senator'S at the polls. Each man may
deposit with his ballot the name Of the
person he would like to see elected to the
Senate. The legislators are thus given a
pretty stronghint as to what the voters
prefer to have them do; they are not
bound to act upon it, but it is tolerably
safe TO assume that they will act upon it
in about one hundred and one cases out
of one hundred. e. e.
Year: 1875

A very romantic case is just now ex-
citing the people Of Milan, and may well
serve the purposes of the novelist. A
change Of children by an interruptions
nurse has often been the basis Of sensa-
tional fiction, and the writer who next
uses it may produce Q story founded on
fact. A nurse has just died at Milan,
who confessed, at the point Of death,
that twenty-one years ago she had the
care of the healthy son Of merchant,
and of the sickly heir of lady of high
position. II was much to the interest of
the latter patron that she should not be
childless. Apprehending that her son
could not live, she paid the nurse heavy
bribe to pass off the merchants -on as
her own. The child grew up, and in ut
ter ignorance of his true position until
the revelation above mentioned was
made. Hissupposed mother is still alive,
and is said to be as warmly attached to
him as il he were really her son. The
facts must come before the courts, but no
record of Judicial proceedings is yet an
nOunced.
Year: 1875

The country has gone on now no long
without any attempt by an occupant Of
the Office OF President to assume greater
and more permanent power, that our
minds are unaccustomed to think Of such
a thing. To many the bare idea Of such
a thing being possible has never occurred;
and il il does suggest itselfit is dismissed
as absurd.


With some Of the leading spirits that
rocked the infant cradle of American
liberty, and laid the foundation Of our
Government, il was far different. Pat
rick Henry, one Of the foremost of this
noble band Of patriots, was filed with
apprehensions and alarm at the PROPOSE
ton TO bestow 80 much power upon the
chief Executive Magistrate. Addressing
the State Convention of Virginia, he
said:


"If your American chief be a man OF
ambition and abilities, how easy il is
for him TO render himself absolute The
army is in his hands, and il he be man
OF address, II viii be attached 70 him,
and il will not be the subject Of long
meditation with him TO seize the first
suspicious moment 10 accomplish his de-
sign aud, sir, will the American spirit
solely relieve you when this hsppens'
Can he not, at the head Of his
army, beat down every opposition
Away with your President W. shall
hare king The army uiA salute him as
monarch; your militia will leave you and
assist in making him king, and fight
against you; and what have you 10 OPP
pose this force7 What will then become
Of you and your ights' viii not abso-
lutte despotism ensuep


Ii must be confessed that il has very
bad look for the army to see its Lieuten-
ant-Genersl, at the very first attempt Of
Year: 1875

A woman's love is ever uppermost in
her mind. Sleeping, it fills her dreams;
on waking it is her first thought; in the
moment of liie's imminent danger, still
still il is the uppermost sentiment, es-
pecially il the object of her love is her
umbrella. For instance, a lady, fat, fair
and forty, had recently narrow escape
from being killed in the Citadel Station,
Carlisle, Pa. She fell over the platform
while the train was coming in, and was
rescued lying on her back in the four
foot under the engine, whence she was
extricated from her perilous position un-
injured, Notwithstanding that she had
been dragged several yards by the en-
gine, a bar at the bottom Of which she
had firmly grasped with both hands
Upon being lifted upon the platform
again, her first word were, where's my
umbrella"
Year: 1875

The Boston Club management have perpetual
ed their former policy bY making contracts fol
thrae yeats With ali its new men. It seems al
least doubtful whether a new face or two in =
nine each year doea not very much increase the
intarost
Year: 1875

New York, June l6.-It was stated
during recess that Beach would not
finish his address before Friday after
noon, and in that case Judge Nelson
said that he would not charge the jury
until Monday. 1t is how considered
certain that Tilton's counsel will, at
the conclusion of Beach's address, ask
that the case be re-opened for the adj
mission of the lately discovered evil
dcnce.
Year: 1875

Pittsburgh, Pa, June 16.-It is not
likely that the Allen Rookie fight will
take place tomorrow. Allen is in
fine condition, and anxious for the
fight. He leaves for the battle ground
this afternoon to be in readiness; if
Rookie does not appear, he will enter
the ring and claim the stakes. Rookie
has not put in an appearance so far.
Year: 1875

Dr. Hall enumerates several practices of the careless public, which are sometimes dangerous as they are foolish

 Walking along the street with the point of an umbrella sticking out beyond, under the arm, or over the shoulder. By suddenly stopping to speak to friend or other cause, a person walking in the rear had his brain penetrated through the eye, in one of our streets. and died in d few days.

 To carry a long pencil in vest or outside coat pocket. Not long since a clerk in New York fell, and his long cedar pencil so pierc. ed an important artery that it had to be cut in the shoulder to pre- vent his bleeding to death, with three months illness.

 To t4ke exercise CT v'o''r fer n |" health. when every step IS q drag and instinct urges rePose. To guzzle down 8 glass of cold wates, on gettiug up in the morn ing with0u. any feeling of thirst, under the impression Of the bealth-giving nature of it's wash Ing-Out qualities,

 To sit down at the table and "force" down yourself to eat, when there is not only no appe. tite, but decided aversion to food.

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

 To persuade yourself that you are destroying one unpleasant odor by introducing 8 stronger one; that is trying to sweeten your unwashed garments and person by enveloping yourself in the fumes of musk, eau de cOlog. ne, or rose water; the best per- fume being clean skin and we'll washed clothing.
Year: 1875

An Iowa woman ends her views on female suffrage with: "You may look this matter in whatever light you will, but simmer It down and it is but a quarrel with the Almighty that we are not all men.o
Year: 1875

James Hewson and Raymond Hunter,
of Watervliet Centre, N. Y, were dig
ging q well recently. They drilled a
hole through the rock II inches in depth,
crammed the powder in, applied the
torch to the fuse, and shouted to the boy
above at the windlass to haul them up.
But that youth was not at bis post they
cried louder, but there was no response
They became desperate, and one of them
thought to draw the fuse out of the hole,
but it was too late. They now saw that
their only hope of escape was to get out
of the hole, and they must do it in less
than q minute, as the fuse would be
nearly burned up by that time. They
once again shouted at the top of their
voices, and were rewarded by seeing the
boy at the windlass, and he began to haul
them up as fast as he could. Before
they were half way up the blast went off,
knocking them ont of the bucket, and
they fell insensible. The windass was
also knocked off by rock, and fell,
striking the insensible body of Hewson.
A man was lowered and found the two
men at the bottom of the well, with
nearly 18 inches of water over them.
Hunters skull was fractured. Hewsen
was not much hurt.