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Year: 1879

The HUMAN FACE MAsK.-So in
InaJ ITeq quenGiy ~ Is DuG d MASK wnIcn
conceals the real character. The men
and women most famous for heartless
cruelty have often been celebrated for
their handsome faces: writer's of fiction
have not been unmindful of the fact,
and Faust is represented as being
handsome man while the German fish
ermen sing of the sirens who drag men S
souls down to perdition with their faith
less dover of beauty. Some faces are
unreadable and tell nothing of the
owners character. The merriest men
now and then have sober faces, and the
most serious frequently have cheerful
ones. Frequently the most heartIess
coquette has all the shy graces of girl
of sixteen, while the hearts of some
women who look you through with cold.
steady eyes. may be filled with love and
tenderness that you are too blind to
discover. So We 60 on, wearing guises
of different device. never quite conceal
ing, never revealing. the life within.
Year: 1879

The New York correspondent of the
Boston Journal gives the following salu-
tary advice: The short run of players,
rifemen. billiard champions and men of
sporting life generally, is remarkable
feature to New York life. Drink is at
the bottom of this. Men who indulge
in the cup can't control their nerves. and
men who can't do this 60 to the wall.
The bad shooting of some men. of whom
so much was expected, resulted from
their cup of indulgence. One of the
best marksmen in the city said recently
that sin rife shooting the variance of q
hairs breadth made the difference at
the muzzle of one hundred yards; and
a man must have absolute command of
his nerves. A man who would win must
not steam" Dan Mace, when in his
prime on the road, drank only lemonade


heard him say: "a single glass of
whiskey affects my nerves. Men who
drink on the road would not entrust
their valuable teams to me if was not
in the driving season teetotaler.
Year: 1879

THE PHosPHoREscENcE OF THE SEA.
The illumination of phosphorescence
of sea water at night. observable in this
latitude in the summer, and at all times
in tropical regions. is largely due to
Noctiluca mitiarfs. 1t is gelatinous
little speck of fellow. in shape like a
peach, but only l-S0 of an inch in diam
eter. The light. which is of a greenish
hue, arises from scores of minute points.
A glass of water that is taken where
these creatures are present may contain
myriads of them. Nets and ropes drawn
through the sea pick up millions of Noe
tiluca, and the ropes and meshes are
made luminous by them until they be-
come dry.
Year: 1879

FALL RIVER, MASS, JUNE. s7.-An the mills
are running this morning with the exception of
the Narragansett, which shut down yesterday
at noon. Some OF the mills gained few spin
ners to-day while others lost, but on the whole
yesterday. 1t was generally thought that the
n.ills would have considerable dificulty TO
s. aIt1ng. and manufacturers feel encouraged
at the situation. There Is no intimidation by
violence, but manufacturers say threats are
made, and quite number Of men who were at
work yesterday are out to day through fear.
may or this morning, asking that the extra
rolce be withdrawn from the streets ana kept
at the station, where they could be readily
that the presence OF so many police on the
street VIII be regarded by many OF the spin
ners as menace. The mayor said he should
try TO act as disintereSted party during the
strike, but he should preserve order, and the
extra police were only put on to prevent the
outbreak or any disturbance. The spinnerS
would not be interfered with by the police s0
long as order was preserved
Year: 1879

One point in Professor LANGsTON'S address
the other evening before the Emigrant Aid
Society was presented with new light and
fresh force, and that related to the character
and value of the war emancipation of the
slave. That act, which has been abstractly
viewed in the light of philanthrophy and
personal benefit to the emancipated, was, he
contends, simply giving the slave back to
HIMSELF with no protecting, no sustaining
power. He had no home no land, no prop
erty, no resources, no education nor hope of
any, no means of advancement, but was
turned loose abstractly as his own master,
with nothing but his two hands with which
to subsist, clothe and educate himself and
those dependent upon him; and this too, in
the midst of his former owner who had be-
came soured and unhappy because he had
been divested of his chattel, and had no real
friendship for or sympathy with the emanci-
pated slave, who to him was just so much
lost property. To make progress under such
circumstances seems almost an impossi-
bility-and yet the freedman has advanced,
though slowly and not very far, on the road
Of success. He has learned that he owns
himself, and yet he enjoys but limited bene-
| fits from that fact. He tolls, but he shares
only meagre return therefor. He is told
by the Constitution that he is n citizen and
a voter, but he is bull-dozed and intimi-
dated out of his vote His chances for edu-
catiOnal advancement are all cut off, All
of which has reduced him to lower stage
of servility than that occupied when he was
owned by his master.


1t is the awakening to n sense of his
present condition, in the midst of the plan
tocracy Of the South, that has aroused the
ex-slave to desire to emigrate and now
that the fever has broken out it will con-
tinue and spread until it becomes cpl
demic. The exodus has scarcely dawned,
and nothing short of an entire reyersion of
the Southern policy can check it until it
has exhausted itself by leading the last
colored man away from the scenes of his
captivity and oppression. Where there is a
will there is way 1t may be difficult for
the ex-slave to accomplish his desires, but
60 he will, until he finds a home where his
rights will be respected, where his children
can be educated, and where he will stand
forth in the race Of life with vindcated
and appreciated manhood as his estate
The exodus will 90 on, though it may be
treated with contumely and scorn,
Year: 1879

PAP" THOMAS was probably the most
popular commanding officer in the Union
armies during the late war. At the same
time he was an efficient dsciplinnrian and
a successful general. A virginan by birth
and thorough Southerner by association,
he remained true to the Union, when his
former comrades and blood-relatves, friends
and kinsmen, went with their States" as
the phrase goes. These facts will enable
the orator who will officiate at the unveil-
ing of the statue of the old hero next
month to enlarge without limit upon the
patriotic and consistent example of true
and useful citizenship afforded by his illus
trious career. In times like these the les
sons TO be drawn from such record as he
made cannot fail to make deep impress
sion upon the public mind nor to be pro-
ductive of good effect And the orator to
be selected for this occasion will fail of his
duty if he does not embrace the oppor-
tunity to portray the virtues of the historic
old loyalist in the most forcible figures of
speech, that his example may arouse the
emulation of the thousands of people who
will be present to do honor TO his memory.
Year: 1879

THE great misfortune of the Philadelphia
Times is that in its inordinate self-conceit it
believes nothing that does not originate
within itself The better we become ac-
quainted with our cotemporary the more
we come in accord with the author who re-
marks that {" man who shows himself too
well satisfied with himself is seldom
pleased with Others, and they, in return,
" are little disposed to like him."
Year: 1879

THOUGH the Southern Democrats may
fancy that TILDEN is dead, they will find
out in due time, if they fail to nominate
him, that he will turn up the liveliest
corpse they ever met when lie begins to
sap and mine for their defeat.
Year: 1879

THE unveiling of the THOMAS statue next
month will be great occasion for Washing
ton. Thousands of strangers will be pres
ent to do honor to the memory of the loyal
old Virginia soldier, Nothing should be
left undone by our citizens TO make it an
occasion long to be remembered as a gala
day at the Nations Capital. Let there be a
rousing turnout of ex-soldiers and citizens
at the Arlington tonight to make prepara-
tions therefor,
Year: 1879

THE occasion of the Eleventh Reunion of
the Army of the Cumberland will be espe-
cially notable not only because of the un-
yelling of the statue of General THOMAS,
but Of the return of General GRANT to
Washington after his voyage "round the
world.n
Year: 1879

THERE are very few Republican papers in
the country which attach any political sig
nideance of direct character to the
oyatious General GRANT has been receiving


and will continue to receive, since his re-
turn from abroad. The Democratic and
anti-GRANT press is engaged in this busi-
ness persistently and almost exclusively.
The Generals presence among the people
does arouse unequaled enthusiasm, it is
true, but the politicians and intriguers for
Year: 1879

THE report of the chief Of the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing sprinted in part this
morning, Colonel IRISH shows that the
increase Of the business of the bureau
during the ycarpast has been ninety per cent.
over the preceding year. while the in
crease Of expenses has been only fifty per
cent. This economical showing was to have
been expected, despite the preiudiced allie
cations of the Democratic press, for Colonel
IRISH is an experienced and skillrul officer,
the right man in the right place,
Year: 1879

THE GRANT boom is becoming red hot
with the ST. Louis Globe Democrat 1t
warns up in this manner on the subject,
and it is healthy temperature, if not =" too
previous" The people will insist upon
having much to say on the subject, but the
GtoJe-Dcmocrat shall have its say:


Senator LOGAN is chairman ofthe committee
appointed 10 receive General GRANT at
Chicago. We lock to LOGAN to do his duty in
this matter, aud to tell GRANT very plainly
that he is to be the next Republican candidate
for President There has been too much non-
partisan CANNON talked to GRANT and about
GRANT lately. Every sane man knows that
GRANT, if he lives will be the Republican can
didate for President, aud there is no sense in
affecting ignorance on the subject. On with
the boom.
Year: 1879

THE Democrats have resorted to the
agency of boasting and Dragging over the
political situation of Ohio with despera-
tion that betrays their anxiety regarding
the result Meanwhile they get crumb
of comfort now and then from the spiritless
and disgruntlod statements of such alleged
Republican journals as the New Yorll Times,
over which they make a great noise, and
out of which they get a little short lived
consolation. But it seems to be the especial
nyocation of the Times nowadays to give
comfort, if not aid, to .he enemy.
Year: 1879

After the sun lifted the curtain of mist yesterday
morning and smiled in his most gracious manner
upon the metropolis the streets were soon in
melting mood and the "beautiful snow of the day
previous became compound of everything vile.
Above. the breath OF spring. even though it were
little advance of its tme beneath rivuets of sush.
occasionally descending like miniature cata-
racts into o convenient sewer whose gaping
nav was all but choked up in the at
tempt to swallow street full OF distilled
snow ct q gulp. The worthy gentlemen who are
charged with the task of cleaning the streets
moned few laborers together when the inaugu-
rated the work Of melting and breaking up the
frozen mass Of mud aud garbage, and bid them
piete the Augean task. They commenced the under
taking Broadway and were materially aided by
the rain which came down during the afternoon.
But the efforts Of n small squad. however energetic
they might be, could not make Broadway pass
able such day. Where few hundred brooms and
pickaxes would have removed the last vestige OF
slush and mud score of Representatives Of sunny
Italy inadequate to the task. 'If this weather
York perfectly clean" said Captain Gunner. OF tho
Street Cleaning Bureau. The weather is after sll.
the only efficient broom, although the taxpayers
assessed heavily for different kind Of sweeper.
The condition OF the principal thoroughfares
last evening was such that pctestrianism be-
task OF greater difficulty than long distances
on the tan bark OF public hail. and the crossings ia
some places, were impossible. In the side streets
and alleyways only the most daring explorers could
venture. The Street Cleaning Bureau had force at
work In the First aud Fourth wards picking up and
loosening the snow aud ice. and Captain Gunner
says that Sunday 800 loads of ice and snow were
removed from broadway.
Year: 1879

WOODS-OANAH 1hAOhInS--ANOiALh OO1-
BREAK FEARED.


CAPE HAYrI. Feb. Is, 1879.
For the past week the citizens of this place have
been in fearful state Of excitement and alarm
caused by the news of fresh outbreak
The troops here kept under arms day
and night, ready for active service at 0
moments notice. while all the volunteers arc
forced to take up and do patrol duty at night
saffron, San Michel and La Roche have surrendered
to the government forces. Boisrond Canal received
personally the submission of San Michel Morency
and all his sccompces hiding in the woods.


General Mentor Nicholas rendered his resignation
to the President but it not accepted President
Canal saying that he could not allow him to resign
at such q critical moment, his services much
needed-though he would have objection to
his retiring from service little later. The
President has taken Nicholas to the capital with him.
aud his (Nicholas) family has taken refuge in the
cipal being that he is suspected Of being foremost
stirring up revolt for hls own account-and no
vet knows what Is in store for him.


To-day Hayti is divided into number of small
parties and although they do sometimes unite, yet
the chiefs do not lose sight Of their personal
views--these being generally the attainment of q
government position in which they by all
of and abuse Of the power in their hands
acquire a fortune in short time.


In proclamation issued by the government two
days since all citizens requested to be in their
houses before o'clock in the evening, as the
authorities cannot be responsible for the lives of
persons traversing tho streets after that hour.
Year: 1879

THE cEARA PLAGUE-ANoTHER GOVERNMENT
CREDIT ASKED IN AID OF THE FAST EXPIRING
POPULATIONS OF EsTAo-oNLY SEVENTY A DAY
DyING--oFFICIAL STATEMENTS.


RIO JAsEIRo Feb. 8. 1879.
Three days ago the Minister of the Empire asked
the Chamber of Deputies to grant an extraordinary
credit of ten million mires for the relief of the north
east provinces raising the outlay thereon
to forty millions. Unfortunatey. though rain fell
last month in Ceara. famine and disease continued
their ravages and at present the end still far
distant. il 1T do not the virtual extinction of
the population of that province The state of affairs
is officially declared to be improving and the deaths
at the capital reduced to about seventy day. chiefly
from smallpox"
Year: 1879

NEW YORK, Dec. 30.-One hun
dred and eighty deaths from scarlet
fever occurred in this city last
week, an increase of eighty over
the week previous. So marked has
become the increase in this disease
that the Board of Health will to-
morrow take action on the subject.
Year: 1879

Special to the Cincinnati Commercial


WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.-Secre-
tary Sherman being asked to-day
how he felt four days from resump-
ton, replied that he felt excellently
well. From advices which he had,
he wss led to believe that there
would be comparatively little de-
mand for gold when the vaults of
the Sub-Treasury were practically
thrown open to the public in New
York. Referring to a statement
recently published that combina-
ton had been formed in Wall street
to bull the price of gold in Janu-
ary, and thus attempt to defeat re-
sumption, the Secretary said
that he did not believe that any
such combination had been formed;
that if it had been, he had not
heard of it, save through newspa-
per reports, and even though such
was the fact, he did not see how 1t
could successfully hamper the
Treasury in its resumption plan.
In fact he did not fear such combl-
nations.
Year: 1879

The East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia Railroad Company will soon
put into operation telegraph line
along their line of road from Cleve.
land to Dalton for their own uae, as
we learn from the Chattanooga Neess.
Year: 1879

This popular comedy, which had a
long run ia New York last season
attracting crowded houses nightly st
the Park Theater, and which has had
brilliant success in other cities, is 10
be produced at the Opera House
Friday and Saturday nights and Sat
urday afternoon matinee by the
Leonard Grover Combination, which
has just returned from very success
ful Western and Southern tour. The
opportunity of seeing SO popular a
play, with the several characters taken
by q thoroughly trained and excellent
company, is one which the lheater-
going public will appreciate as it is
not offered every day. The press
everywhere has given "Our Boarding
House" unqualified commendation
and a highly entertaining and anus
ing perfOrmsnce may be anticipated.
There should he full house.
Year: 1879

1t is usual for travellers to dwell upon
the utter desolation of Babylon, and 10
paint its site rs a strip of desert, cspeci-
ally woe-begone and unfertile. But they
could not have seen it III the middle of
April. The date groves and gardens
along the bauks of the Euphrates are
then things Of beauty in their fresh
spring verdure and the plain itself is laid
down with crops. Irrigation-canals cross
it here and there and give trouble to the
horsemen. No grass grows upon the
mounds, and there are patches Of the
level white with the inter which is to be
found here as in other parts Of Meso-
potamia; but the surface of the soil is,
on the whole, green and pleasant to the
eye. The glad waters Of the river flow
on in the bright morning sunshine, with
palm and mulberry hanging over its
bank, drinking in its cap and life. The
great city, which counted its population
by millions and filled the world with a
renown not yet forgotten, has disappear
ed under the dust of twenty centuries,
but nature is as fresh and iocund as
when Babylon was still unbuilt.
Year: 1879

Wall street is Interested in the move
ments of two old men who came here
from Indiana several days ago, with the
enormous sum of s., 500, and with firm
determination to clean out the street
They are brothers, farm bred, and when
they called at the Office Of conspicuous
broker and asked for him by name,
| shallow-headed clerk was so unfavorably
| impressed with their outward appearance
| that he said the broker was out. The
| old farmers sat down with as much pa
tience- as they would have shown in their
own farm houses while waiting for a
storm to puss away that they might go
to the field again. After an hour or two
the clerk changed his mind and showed
| them in.


The destinations of Wall street over
power all sorts of men and women, who
| seem at some time or other to be struck
with this passion as they are with love;
but of all the queer clients this broker
has had these two old farmers were the
| queerest. Like thousands of people all
over the country, they had first become
interested through the advertisements of
a certain class OF irregular Wall street
sharks, whose glowing announcements
fill the country press. They had also
taken New York daily paper and fol-
lowed the.course of the market. They
had for year bought and sold imagi-
nary lots of stocks, paying neither inter
/ est nor commission, but away out there
in their Indiana homes making tremen-
dous turns IN the market of which the
dealers here in the city were profoundly
/ ignorant. With unlimited credit at the


bank of their own Imagination, they
went long this and short of that stock,


taking in or putting out immense blocks


and keeping strict account of all their


transactions; and they frankly told the
broker, to whom they confded all this
Year: 1879

information, that their profits in the
year were over 81, 900, 900. And through
such nursing of a delusion they had
come to believe that they eonld make
money in Wall street, and had gathered
together the earnings of lifetime and
I come east to get rich.


The broker was reluctant to open ar
account with them, but they would not
be denied. They were on the bull side
of the market-the outside operator us
ually is, being sanguine-and they
| bought little and waited for it to kite
up. They made their headquarters in
the brokers public room, where the Gus
| toners congregate, and strange con-
Frast they presented to the fashionably-
dressed men who lounged there. They
haunted the neighborhood of the ticker
and watched the tape at first with buoy
ant hope, then with an ill-concealed ca
gerness, dashed with fear, and later with
a fascination that is always unpleasant to
contemplate. For somehow, though we
have had for days rising market, the
cid men seemed to get on the wrong
stocks, and while the other men chatter
sd and figured up their gains and slipped
over to Delmonico's now and then, the
old men stuck to the tape and watched
the relentless little brass arm prancipc
up and down, stamping the black figures
on the tape, and stamping them lower
end lower until their wistful eyes grew


gearv, and they took turn now and
then in the open air of Wall or Broad
street; and thus the brokers came to see
the strangers and learn their story. Yes
terday their 81. 500 had dwindled away
to $400 and the younger of the two,
himself gray-haired man and as deeply
infatuated as ever, said he was going to
send his brother home; he was too old
and bothersome, and interfered with his
plans; alone, he said he could have his
own way, and come out all right yet; and
even the giddy brokers experience a
brief, passing qualm at this, for they
know how it will end.


But sometimes even the sharp ones
get scooped. There is O specuLator in
stock whose name is known all over the
world. He had confidential clerk, Il
sharp fellow, to whom he had given from
time to time points, so that the clerk
while serving his master might make
little for himself. In this way the clerk
accumulated about $4,000. The other
day the big speculator discovered that
his clerk was treacherous. He didn't
make row about it, nor bewail the de-
cadence Of honesty, nor even, with sad
face, give the erring clerk a moral lee
ture and plead with him to reform; but
u o. - r--;--t-, IL IL ----.--.-r
ing clerk found, when it was too late,
that the points all went against him, and
his $40, 900 had passed into his employ
er's pockets. The big speculator is al
WAYS praciica1 Phil Times
Year: 1879

An anecdote is told OF Judge, profane
and irritable, who never let meal pass
without a sonorous invocation upon the
repast. Once he rebuked deaf guest
who innocently interrupted him while
thus engaged, as follows: "D-n it.
don't you see that am saying grace?
Year: 1879

the young American officer, struck with
the remarkable beauty and extraordinary
intrepidity of the young lady, soon after
made her his wife; and up to the time
of their death resided almost in sight of
the place where they SO singuIarly met.
They we're grandparents, and were ever
pleased to narrate to the little ones
about them, the story Of the capture of
Fort George.
Year: 1879

pany agrees to pay royalty on the
license to the Western Union at
agreed rates upon all telephones
leased or used under its authority
or manufactured or sold exclusively
for expectation.