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Year: 1879

Many persons may not be aware that
glass can be cut under water, with ease,
to almost any shape, by simply using a.
pair OF shears, or strong scissors. In
order to insure Guccess two points must
be attended to-frst and most import
ant the glass must be kept quite level
in the water while the scissors are ap-
piled, and, secondly, 10 avoid risk, it is
better to begin the cutting by taking off
pieces at the corners along the edges,
and so reduce the shape gradually to
that required, as if any attempt is made
to cut the glass all at once to the shape,
as we would cut piece of cardboard,
it will most likely break just where it is
not wanted.


Some kinds of glass cut much better
than others, the softer glasses being the
best for this purpose. The scissors need
not be at all sharp, as their action does
not appear to depend on the state of
the edge presented to the glass. When
the operation goes on well, the glass
breaks away from the scissors in small
pieces IN straight line with the blades.
This method of cutting glass has often
been of service when diamond has not
been at hand, for cutting ovals and seq
ments, and though the edges are not SO
smooth as might be desired for some
purposes, yet it will answer in great
many cases. The two hints given above,
if strictly followed, will always insure
success.
Year: 1879

Captain Griffin must take back seat
on the shark question. The facts are
accumulatlng against his theory that a
shark will not attack a person who is in
the water SO long as be maintains him
self in motion. A case in point occur
red the other night where a canoe, in
which were five persons, was capsized
while approaching the plays. One of
these was girl, whom one of the row.
ers caught up, and, being a strong
swimmer, made at once for the beach
with her. Before he had proceeded
many feet he was seized and dragged
under water, releasing his hold on the
girl as he disappeared. A boat coming
Immediately behind rescued the girl,
and made every search for the man,
the men in The boat beating the water,
which was shallow, with their poles, in
order to frighten the sharks away, il
possible. This they probably succeed
ed m doing, as the next morning the
body Of the man was found, minus sew
eral limbs and the head-his sharkshiI
probably having not had time to com.
plete his repast. In the locality where
the capsize occurred sharks are numer.
Gus, and are frequently seen during the
day, as they are attracted thither by
the refuse Of the slaughter-house in the
neighborhood, which is there thrown
into the sea. The hardest and most
reckless boatman in the port says hi.
prayers if he finds himself within ter
feet Of one of these monsters.
Year: 1879

A NEAT little charcoal sketch appears
in the columns of st. Louis journal.
AS a justice of the peace was sitting in
his office and biting off the end of the
second-cigar, a man covered with char
coal CRIME tumbled over the chair
nearest the door and asked how much
it would cost to be married. The price
was too high. The poor but honest
bridegroom said that he lived in Jeffer-
son county, that he and his intended
had come to the city peddHng charcoal
and wanted to get back as man and
wife. A barrel of charcoal was still on
hand, and this was offered as the mar
riage fee. The kind-hearted justice con-
cluded that it would be a good thing to
make them man and wife, and the bar
rel of charcoal was dumped into the
cellar, according to agreement.
Year: 1879

A YOUNG lady Of Philadelphia had
her pocket picket of wallet contain
ing SIS. On ascertaining her loss she
found that a diamond ring, pronounced
to be worth $500 had slipped from the
thief's finger during the operation and
remained in her nOcket.
Year: 1879

fOr the RepuDllcau.


KENT ISLAND, Nd, Oct. &.


lam glad that in recent issue you
spoke out in real manly terms in con-
demnation of the recent walking match.
Too frequently the press rather leans
TO such questionable diversions. God
is on the side of right and you will not
materially suffer for manly advocacy
of it. Would that the moral stamina
Of our country could be pledged to
continued support of newspapers that
dare lift their voices against whatever
is Injurious to morals; then some of
the petty sheets that only do damage
would sink into bankruptcy and obliv-
ion. Instead, however, many Of us are
50 partisan that we will patronize the
press of our party no matter what its
moral tone may be. Is there another
paper-I mean of the city secular press
that has followed your example in
condemning walking matches and coun-
ty fairs as now conducted? =?


Truly yours, G. w. BURKE.
Year: 1879

SO" R1Ulnt - kWAuBt - AuEnPAAOs


For the Delaware Republican.


MEssRs. EDIToRs:-Permit me through
the columns of your valuable paper to
call the attention, not so much of the
public, but Of the proper authorities to
the very bad condition of the Whining.
ton and Great Valley turnpike from its
intersection with the Philadelphia turn
pike near St. Johns church in the
Ninth Ward, to the end Of the old snuff
mill lane. The Wilmington and Great
Valley turnpike in general is kept in
good travelling order, but some years
ago the City of Wilmington took pos
session of that end of the turnpike, put
men to work. graded and curbed the
same, and left the bed of the road mol
low in the centre. Since then there has
been nothing done to it and the water
has been allowed to run down the CEN
tire of the road Cor schute as it is call
ed) instead of in the cutters, until it
has washed out and left large stones to
stick up and others to roll about, for
vehicles of all kinds, to run over and
perhaps break the same. Now it is
hard for me to say who is the proper
party to do the repairing, as the city
graded the street, but the turnpike
company continue to take toll for the
the whole pike. 1t would have been far
better not to have graded the pike than
to have left it in the condition that
they did. 1t will have to be repaired or
have it returned and declared a nui.
sance, for such it is. MARKETMAN.
Year: 1879

Letter From Roek Ran Aesr Port
Deposits.


For the Republican.


Rock Run, Oct. 70.
The runs here are what the name i'm
plies. The water Of two Of them Ia
utilized as mill power. It's carried in
eighteen inch cast iron pipes about 200
yards to a confluence iuto twenty-four
inch main, made of boiler iron, which
carries 1t from ten TO fifteen feet above
ground about the same distance further
and empties into an overshot wheel
the diameter Of which makes up for its
lack of width. The mill runs night and
day except Sunday, and has the repu-
tation Of manufacturing excellent fami-
ly -four.


There Is no reservoir or mill pond as
is customary in the country, and when
the mill is at rest the water is diverted
from the conduits to its original rocky
bed. These streams could be used to
supply the town Of Port Deposit with
drinking water If occasion should ever
require, but the town proper can only
grow in length, and whenever houses
are built, there will be springs from the
rocky hills on one side and the river
flowing on the other, from which they
have an inconvenient quantity, some
times on the breaking up Of an ice
gorge. They are said to be a grand
sight.


In 1875 or rs, a party of ladies and
gentlemen from your City headed by f..
Bringhurst, Jr., chartered a car and
came down to view one. There are
four granite quarries in operation here
which employ about 200 men, WHO are
paid about the fifth Of each month,
which makes business good for one
week in the month. 1t would be hard
hearted store keeper, who would re-
fuse man provisions after getting all
his money and there is the usual amount
Of loss, not always overbalanced by the
profit side of the account.


After a cool spell, we are having a
second or Indian summer. Stoves and
ulsters are discarded for the present,
and open windows, linen coat and sun
shades are in requisition again.


SoJoURNER.
Year: 1879

RY@The Joint Committee ap-
pointed by the General Assembly
TO investigate the charges against
the State Printer have submitted
their report in which they exhonor-
ate the said officers from the
charges of FRAUD, and gives as their
belief that the action Of the parties
making the charge was both splen-
attic and vicious.
Year: 1879

Why will you suffer with shaking
Chill or burning Fever, doses of Gu
ban Tonic, the, Great West Indies Fever
and Ague Remedy, will stop the Chills
and Fever, while one bottle will cure
them up for years. Try it
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON, April 28.-The House Com.
mittee on Coinage, Weights and Measures
held four hours session today on the bill
recently introduced in the House by Warner.
of Ohio, amendatory of the revised statutes
relating to coinage and the deposit of coin
and bullion in the treasury for certificates.


Warner was authorized to report the measure
to the house with favorable recommendation.
The salient points of the bill as it now stands
are as follows 1t repeals so much of the
revised statutes which made the gold dollar
the unit of value, and re-establishes the BIZ
metallic or double standard of gold and silver,
making the standard weight rs $40 grains of
gold the gold standard of value, and 4124
grains of silver the silver standard of value
1t authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to
receive deposits of gold or silver coin and
gold or silver bullion at the treasury or at
any assay Office of the United States, in sums
of not less $40, and to issue certificates there
for in denominations of not less than IS
each, the same to correspond with the denom-
nations of United States notes, and the certi-
6cates representing coin in the treasury used
in payment of interest of the pubic debt 1t
also permits the owner of silver bullion to
deposit the same at any United States mint to
be formed into bar or coined into the stand
ard silver dollar of 412t grains troy for his
benefit, and provides that no deposit of silver
for other coinage shall be received. 1t makes
trade dollars exchangeable for the legal
standard dollar when presented at any United
States assay Office in sums of not less than
$780, The last section of the bill requests the
President to invite an international conven-
ton for the purpose of fixing the relative
value between gold and silver.
Year: 1879

Reasons OIL the tfcSIOeDt'S VctO.


NEW YORK, April 29.-The Tribune's cor
,espondent at Washington telegraphs the
.ubstance of the message of the President
yetoipg the Army bill. The President takes
the ground that the political legislation in the
bill is entirely uncalled for. He also holds
that no law can be enforced without friction,
and that it would be as we'll to repeal the
election law outright as to take away from
allowing the law itself to stand. The Presi-
dent objects strongly to the provision forbid
ding the civil authority to keep peace at the
pos. He also discusses the practice of at
,aching general legislation to appropriation
bills and condemns it strongly.


New YORK, April 29.-The Times says
the veto message will make about three-quar-
ters of column. The President is reported
to he indignant at the haste manifested, the
messenger having arrived at the White House
with the bill between and o'clock in the
evening, as though the President contem-
plated running away. In the message the
President takes the ground that the attempted
enactment of political amendment or rider
to the Army bill Is direct infringementupon
the prerogative of the Executive and an en-
croachment upon the rights clearly guaran-
teed in the national constitution. The mes
sage declares further, that the manner in
which this unconstitutional legislation is
sought to be enacted-in other words, its ad-
dtion to bill for the support of the govern
ment, is an unworthy and unfair effort to
coerce the action of the executive that such
coercion was never thought of during the
first forty, and in many respects the best,
years of our national existence, and that dur
ing the past sixty years, or since the form of
legislation described has been in vogue, the
best men of all parties and all political fac
tions have from time to time protested
against. For these reasons the message ap-
peals to Congress now at once and forever to
put an end to the vicious custom of tacking
irrevelant legislation to appropriation bills.
As further argument against the style OF
legislation described, the message draws at
tention to the fact that in twenty-five States
of the Union it is prohibited by constitu-
tional enactments of most direct and binding
character. The President does not object to
any law prohibiting troops at the polls, and
it is reported that if the word "civil' is
stricken out of the Objectionable bill he will
sign it,
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON, April 28.-It is stated that
the President is preparing message tor the
House of Representatives tomorrow vetoing
the Army Appropriation bill.


CHICAGO, April 28.-The Journals Wash
ington special says: A few Democrats pro-
fess to believe that the President will disap-
point his friends and sign the Army Appro-
priation bill, but their opportunity for know
ing what is transpiring is very limited. Sec
retary McCrary says the President will make
q square issue with Congress on this bill, and
maintain that it is unconstitutional and an in
fringment upon his constitutional preroga-
tives. The veto message will be sent to the
House on Wednesday.


WASHINGTON, April 28.-There is no longer
any doubt that the President intends to veto
the Army Appropriation bill, for it was au-
thoritatively stated at the Executive Mansion
this afternoon that the veto message is nearly
finished and will be sent to Congress either
tomorrow or Wednesday. In view of this
announcement and of the certainty that the
pending Legislative Appropriation bill will
also be vetoed, there is much consultation
already in progress tonight among prominent
Democrats as to the proper course for the
majority to pursue when the deadlock actu.
ally occurs. Of course the matter will not
be decided without great difficulty, for there
are many conflicting views, and large pro-
portion of the Democrats in Congress con-
tinue to condemn all propositions of COM
promise; but several of the coolest Demo-
cratic leaders have this evening privately ex-
pressed themselves in favor of the passage of
ajoint resolution extending last years appro-
priations until December and prompt ad-
journment. This plan would readily obtain
majority vote in both houses by union of
the Republicans with the hard-money Demo-
Gratis, who wish an early Adjournment to pre-
vent further widening of the breach between
the Eastern and Western wings of the party,
which is likely to result from the continued
tinkering with the finances. But the soft
money men have majority of votes in the
Democratic caucus, and the adoption of this
expedient for escape from deadlock is
therefore still very uncertain.
Year: 1879

YORK, Pa, April 27.-George Einsig, con-
victed on Friday of murder in the first degree
for killing his wife, committed suicide in his
cell this morning by cutting his throat with q
razor and then hanging himself with piece
of rope and towel.
Year: 1879

ROME, April 26.-It is stated that the Pope
will shortly publish a document inviting all
European governments to unite in purging
society of the evils which at present beset it,
and join in an endeavor to stamp out social
ism.
Year: 1879

WARRINGTON. April 28.-It is probable the
Legislative Appropriation bill will not be re-
ported to the full committee of the Senate be-
fore Wednesday. The House has added to
this bill its previous attempts to regulate the
pay of Senate employees, which measure will
doubtless be rejected by the Senate
Year: 1879

This character, OF which Christ
was the perfect model. ia in itself 80
attractive, so altogether lovely that
/ cannot describe in language the ad.
mirstion with which regard it; nor
can l express the gratitude / feel for
the dispensation which bestow wed that
example on mankind, for the truth
which He taught and the suaerings
He endured for our sakes. l tremble
to think what the world would do
without Him. Take away the bless
ing of the advent of His life and the
blessings purchased by His death. in
what an abyss of guilt would man
have been left! 1t would seem to be
blotting the sun out Of the heavens
to leave our system of worlds in
chaos, frost and darkness.


In nv view of the life, the teach
ings, the labors and the offerings oi
the blessed Jesus, there ca n be no sd-
mirstion too profound, no love Of
which the human heart is capable too
warm, no gratitude too earnest and
deep OF which He is justly the object.
1t is with sorrow that my love for
Him is 30 cold. and my gratitude 30
inadequate. 1t is with sorrow that
| see any attempt to put aside His
teachings as delusion, to turn mems
eyes from His example, to meet with
doubt and denial the story of His
life. For my part, if thought that
the religion of scepticism were to
gather strength and prevail and be-
come the dominant view of mankind,
| should despair of the fate Of man.
kind in the years that are ye. to come
-Baydn!.
Year: 1879




A short time sgo the hub of the


universe was visited by a terrible


thunderstorm, accompanied by a well


developed sample Of a Kansas tor


nsdo. Many lives were lost among


the shipping along the Massachusetts
coast, and especially in Boston har-


Dor. The damage to glass ia the city
of Boston was very heavy The
next day after the storm one firm on
Canal street reported the sale of
1000 psnes Of window glass. The
whole performance was without a
precedent in the memory of the oldest
native. The startling appearance of
the sky previous to the bursting of
the shower warned travellers and pe-
destrians to seek cover. Among the
many careless ones caught in the
storm was George B., young repor-
ter of the Boston Telephone. He
was caught By the shower on Han
over street, aud stepped into q door
way to wait until the heaviest was
over. George had company in the
doorway. There were two Chinese
washees from Howard street and
several less squarious looking individ-
uals, each and all OF whom, it would
be safe to say, had not for long time
back had any very close relations
with laundry The rain fell in tor
rents, and soon great hailstones
struck the sidewalk and rebounded
few feet in the air. Rushing out in
the rain, the enthusiastic reporter got
several specimens, drew tape line
from his pocket, measured them care
fully and recorded the exact figures
in his memorandum. Repeating this
operation several times, be attracted
the attention of some young clerks in
the Office up stairs, who broke large
chunks Of ice from the block in the
ice cooler, and threw them out to the
reporter, who measured them care
fully and recorded the result. Every
one 10 that doorway was struck with
the size OF ;he hailstones, and the
Cinnamon were exhibiting eyes of an
unusual roundness and prominence.
One Of the chaps in the Office acci-
dentally dropped the balance of the
block of ice from which the monster
hailstones had been Clipped, and it
came down and landed on the side
walk with an immense crash. IL
must have weighed all of 90 pounds,
and spattered the water right and
left. Just at this instant came that
awful crash of thunder tnat startled
every one that heard it. and of which
the paDers spoke mex. day This
was too much for JoLr Chinaman.
They both ran yelling o., the street,
in the driving rain, the last one saw
ing as be cleared the DOORWAY


"Wheopee up, belle, Icee wog-
gee commee nextee. GOOD bye } ohm"
Year: 1879

Not many years ago the writer
was homeward bound from the South.
When our boat drew up to the bank
few miles below Vicksburg, to take
on wood, number of passengers,
among the rest, ventured ashore.
While eng aged in drawing down q
huge streamer of Spanish moss, my
attention was called to a rsccoon that
was descending leaning tree few
yards away. Approaching, | dis
covered a very large serpent eagerly
inspecting his coonship, and seeming
ly speeulating on the amount of nj.
trogenous matter surrounded by that
glossy hide. Down came the coon,
and his serpent foe swallowed him
without q struggle. By this time a
number of the party were on the spot,
and we were preparing to liberate
the animal by opening the abdomen
OF the snake, when to our surprise
the coon emerged from the csudsl
extremity of his living person, and
scrambled for the tree be had recent
ly occupied. In this attempt be was
foiled. The willy serpent seized him,
tail foremost, and sent him bowling
home. But not ss easy as before,
for the coon resisted every effort OF
deglutition, and in this be was aided
BY the displacement OF his fur, for
the snake was swallowing him against
the nap. Such being the case, we
concluded the coon would never fnd
the way out via the alimentary, and
we again prepared to open the rep
tile. In this we we're mistaken, for
after q series of struggles, starts,
stops, blind switches, etc, be struck
tie main track and came backing out.
bewildered but not discouraged, and
again set out for the tree. But the
snake arrested him head foremost
this time, and drawing up bis his
huge body into a dozen or more lat
eral angles, curves and commissions,
hoping thereby to retain him, be slid
him down bis esophagus like worm
lozenge. But all too late The
cunning coon had learned the route,
with ell its by-rosds, blind paths,
drifts, dips and angles. He again
emerged, only to be seized by the
hungry serpent, who now stood guard
ct the door.


This was repeated until the serpent
was enfeebled by exertion, and the
coon animated with success, came
galloping through like steer in a
cornheld, sprung clear of his foe and
regained the tree. The snake was
then killed.-S. Louis Globe DEMO
Year: 1879

1t was built to supply the Egyp-
tian public with the means Of sliding
down bill in q country where snow
never falls. The Egypsian who paid
the requisite entrance fee was allow
ed to ascend the pyramid by the stair
case, and then slide down the pol.
ished granite side. plunging pleasant.
ly and hsrmle.sly into the sand at
the foot No sleds or other appa-
ratns needed The Egyptian simply
sat down on the warm and comfort
able granite, and slid down without
any unpleasant friction. Doubtless
this was q fashionable amusement
for both sexes and all sges, and the
builders or lessees of the GreaAPyr-
amid Sliding Bank must have made q
good thing out of it
Year: 1879

If you saw man chasing a jack
rabbit with pink rosette on his left
ear, and the jack-rabbit ran up to
third-rate carpenter who had lost Ave
wives by smallpox, the last one as
having been regarded by some physi-
Clans as merely case of virulent
varioloid; and the carpenter after
ward joined the greenback party and
took to drink, thereby causing depre-
citation in the breadstufls market
equivalent to the cosine a-bxc-d,
and inducing the aunt of the Cover
nor of Winnebago to elope with gil
raffe FROM circus which had previ-
ously gone into bankruptcy means of
fraudulent affidavits procured from
moon-cyed leper in the Jews quarter
of Bagdad, it being an off year for
watermelons and rather inclined to
the horizontal, with Italian flu ng
along the edges, would yon consider
that man insane?
Year: 1879

It is stated upon apparently good
authority that Jay Gould and his ad-
herents propose to press upon the Ida
no Legislature at the present session
a scheme for bonding the Territory
i'll the sum Of 100000 fpr the building
Of a railroad from some point on the
Utah Northern to Boise City The
people Of the southern counties APP
pear to be very much taken up with
the idea Already the debt Of the
Territory is $l40 600, and with $780,
600 added, would be a burden hot to
be coveted, consi lering the limited
population. The Lewiston Teller con-
siders the scheme a dangerous one,
and urges the Assembly to spnrn The
proposition entirely