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Year: 1878

GEMs.-Lord Bacon said: If a
man be gracious to strangers ii
shows he is a citizen Of the world,
and ,ba; his heart is 90 island, cut
off from other lands, but a cont
nenL that joins them.


Deal gently with those who
stray. Draw them back by love
and persuasion. One kiss is worth
o thousand kicks. A kind word
is more valuable to the lost than a
mine of gold, Think Of this, and
be on your guard: ye who would
chase to the grave an errlng bro
ther.


Men will wrangle for religion !;
write for it; fight for it; die for
it: anything but live up to it,


We cannot easily hate the man
for whom We always pray.


God draweth straight lines, but
we think and call them crooked
Year: 1878

take that, q little DIT OF tongue, a
few sardines-just toss us up
chop if. you can, and that, with
couple of bottles of beer and
snack of bread and cheese, I think
I'll do; and, John, don't forget the.
pickles-Cross and Blackwell's hif
you 'av' EN-" About four o'clock
in the morning I was awakened
with the cry for doctor. Stubbs
was i'll. He was afraid he had
contracted some contagious disease
in America. A monster dose OF
castor oil, however, afforded him
only a temporary relief, for the
next night again he went for corned
beef and lobster salad and when
the second call for the doctor
came, I wished that the fate of
Jonah had overtaken him, or that
be had found permanent lodging
house in the bottom of the sea,


The life on the modern steam
ship, save and except the monotony,
is. not far different from that of
frst,class hotel. The discipline on
board the steamships of the In
man Line is similar to that on
board a frst-class ship of war.
Every man knows his place and
keeps it; order reigns everywhere,
and the most scrupuloas neatness
and cleanliness prevail in every
quarter. The Company book pas.
sengers straight through to Paris,
and as a hint to any Of my friends
who think of coming over, would
say-buy your through tickets in
New York, as it is a great saving to
purchase them in that way.


The passage was stormy one,
part of the time a raging, bowling
tempest; but this grand ship rode
the wages like seagull, and for
comfort, cleanliness, discipline, and
kindness, I cheerfully recommend
the Inman Line to all my friends,
and especially the ''City of Berlin
But I feel now as itJ- could per-
fectly understsnd the feelings of
the Western Hoosier who started
to make a tower of furren parts. .
And the first night that he got off
soundings, he had scarcely risen
from the table, when he was called
on to part with his supper. While
leaning over the side, almost turned
inside out, some jubilant passenger
in the cabin struck up, 'Rocked in
the Cradle of the Deep" The Hoo
sier looked up perfectly disguised,
and the picture of abject misery !;
and shaking his fist at the cabin
gangway, he exclaimed, sOnly wait
till I get ashore, and if I ever meet
the fellow that wrote Rocked in the
Cradle of the Deep III punch his
confounded head. No baser fraud
Was ever palmed off on confding
public, and I am satisfied that the
experience Of the poetic swindler
must have been confined to ex-
cnrsions on the raging canal"


A sniff of Irish air, brief look
at Hslbion's Hile, and then for
Paris. Already I feel that I am
foreigner. Tomorrow T am going
to have the tails cut of my coat,
and about three inches off the
sleeves. I shall get a hat about
three sizes too small for me, with
rim about half an inch wide, and a
blue glass in my left eye, 'tHi 'ope
to pass hinspection." :" Trusting that
my friends will not be sorry to
hear that I have got so far in safety
on my journey,


I am,


Truly yours,


RROADRRTM
Year: 1878

Among the announcements Of sporting events to
rome off during the winter the customary chal-
lenges Of Bauer and Miller. William Muldoon Of the
Metropolitan police. who proved such an adept in he
art, Is likely to come TO the front in match with
Bauer-a number of gentlemen having expressed
their Willingness to back the solid man in $500
match II Bauer will consent to make il private one
Muldoon is man of magnificent physique. in splen-
did condition. and keeps in practice and those no
are behind him think their chances TO win to be
bad by any means
Year: 1878

"A Washington dispatch states the new
method of fish Matching, devised for the
most part by Mr.. Ferguson, the fish COM
missioner Of Maryland, and put in prac-
tice for the first time this year under the
auspices of Prof. Baird, the present secre-
tary of the Smithsonian Institution, has
proved so scccessful that Prof. Baird be-
lieves it can be used TO hatch the spawn
OF goldfish, mackerel and other sea fishes,
and thus to very greatly and rapidly in
crease their numbers and establish them
at points near our coast where now they
are not found. The Matching is done in
scows and by the help of steam engine
which is used to agitate the water i'll the
vessels which contain the eggs. This
gentle but constant agitation is found to
answer precisely as well as the more Ella
borate apparatus used hitherto. Prof.
Baird says he has had sufficient eXper-
fence OF this new method to warrant the
belief that with a steamer of moderate
size to replace the scows, which are not
seaworthy, he could hatch out with GER
tainty an almost unlimited number of
cod, mackerel and sea herring; fish which
spawn at certain seasons in the open sea,
near'the coast, and which when caught
in the spawning season would yield, for
such purposes, so great a quantity of eggs
from but few individuals, that their num-
Der could with ease be prodigiously in
creased, with the help of a steamer prop
erly fitted.
Year: 1878

Some
are to be friends You will be such COM
fort to me-"


Then she went away and left him, and he
sat there trying not to see how he was cheat
ING himself and her-trying to see whether
there could be any real sin in his staying
near her. But he would not listen to the
answer stern conscience gave.
Year: 1878

A MOTHER PoIsoNs HER CHILD.-A yonns
and fashionably dressed woman astonished
the chief of police i'm jersey City this morning
override announcement that she had murdered
her child and wished 10 surrender herself
HORNED at the assertion, which the woman
MADE In an apparently cool and collected man.
ner, the chief imagined that she was demented
or lntoxlcated. She stated that her name was
May Philips. Two years ago she was married
TO isaac Phillips, plumber doing business in
Jersey City. Phillips family were very much
opposed TO their union, but they went TO live
with them at No. S79 I'd street. Phillips fam
liy, she said, treated her with indifference at
nrSt, but OF late have eviDced the bitterest
anlmoSlty toward her. They so embittered
her lie that she decided q fewdays ago TO ouit
the house and endeavor TO make living for
hersef. She went to New York and was
fortunate In finding a situation. She had a
nve-months-o old baby-a boy. When she went
away she left it with her husbands relatives
She visited the child a few days ago, and her
sister In law said that she would have to pro
VIDE for the child herself. She was disheart-
ened, and in her despair she went to Irving's
drugstore, on Grove street, and bought some
laudanum. She intended to Kill both herself
and the babe. She gave the child half a tea
spoonful OF the narcotic. She then took dose
herself. That which she herself took had no
efeet upon her. The child died at two O'Clock
on Thursday afternoon. Two hours later the
pooy OF the little one was carried by herself
and husband TO burying-ground and buried
An inquest will be held in a day or two.-IN
I. Commercial, 9th.
Year: 1878

THE REV. w. 7. ELLIS is pastor of the Con-
itually uses violent language In his sermons.
This Is only sample: You low, mealy-
mouthed looking wretches of the devil, you
look as though you had but now hoped up out
OF hell, and the devil had stuck you up against
the fence to dry. 1t would make heavens
stomach sick to look at YOU" A part of the
congregation united in requesting him to re.
sign, but he refused to go. A committee and
q policeman went TO take possession Of the
church. Ellis and few adllerents locked the
doors. A whole night was spent In Quarreline
and actual fighting, but in the morning the
pastor retreated.
Year: 1878

"Doctor," SAID an old lady the other
day, to her family physician, "kin ye tell
me how lit is that some folks Is born
dumb?' "Why-hem!-certainly, ma
DAM" replied the doctor; 'ft Is owing to
the fact that they come into this world
without the power of speech" ola me, "
remarked the old lady, "now just see
what itisIto have a physic education. I've
axed me old man more nor hundred
times that are same thing, and all that
ever could get out of him was, 'Kase
they is."


Everyday absurdities-To make your
self generally disagreeable and then Won
der that nobody will visit you. To SIT
shivering in the cold because you won't
have fire till November. Not TO go to
bed when you are tired and sleepy beN
cause it is not bedtime. To make your
servants tell lies for you and atterward
be angry because they tell lies for them
selves. 10 tell your own secrets and
think other people will keep them.


DECISION AS To Commandments
ing to the decision OF Monroe, Ia, JUS
tice of the peace, an irate father has no
right to occupy his parlor while the
young man who burns his kerosene and
says sweet things to his daughter is In
possession, but the young man can
bounce the father out and the law Will
protects him. Coarting Is necessity and
must net be molestsd!
Year: 1878

From the Express and EXAMINER. -f II


Recently, while Mr.. Specie was quar-
rying stone for lime-burning purposes
on the farm Of Mr.. Samuel Worst,
near Pequea Meeting House, Salisbury
township, he uncovered the entrance OF
what proved to be remarkable cave.
The entrance was only large enough for
aman TO crawl in, but after proceeding
a distance of twenty feet it becomes large
enough for a man to walk erect, and a
short distance further on rises to aheight
of thirty-one feet and varies from eleven
TO eighteen feet In width, and is four
hundred yards long. The roof and sides
of the cave are covered with stalactites,
some of which are three feet long. A
narrow passage leads from this chamber
to another which is about six times as
large and has an icy>cold stream Of
water running through it. In it is also
beautiful lake, about one hundred and
fifty yards long and about to-thirds as
wide. A small stream runs from the
lake and empties into the large one. In
the lake several small fish were seen
which on being caught were thought 10
sightless. The cave has not yet been
fully explored, and more curious features
may be discovered. -#e
Year: 1878

Hood used to tell a story OIL a nypo-
hondriac who was in the habit, two or
three times a week, of believing himself
diving. On a certain occasion he had one
of his terrors while riding out in his gig,
and happening to see his family physl-
cian he applied the whip to the horse to
overtake the old doctor. The doctor
appliedlthe whip to his own horse, and
they had close time of 1t for about three
miles They bypochondriacs finally came
alongside the doctor and exclaimed,
"Hang 1t, doctor, pull up Pull up In
stahtlyl / am dying!" 81 think you
are," cried the doctor; 81 never saw any
one going SO fast"
Year: 1878

From the way some Of these girls look In
their walking dresses, pulled back and tied
tight around below the knees, two peanuts
twice Q day and . grasshopper on toast
twice q month would make 'em fat. Their
waists look like the thin part Of an hour
glass with very little sand In II.
Year: 1878

On Sunday evening next several members
of the Uniform Corps of the X. of P, will
60 to Indianapolis to attend the annual
meeting Of the Supreme Lodge on Monday.
The party will be absent week.
Year: 1878

THERE is a region i'm East Tennessee where
IRON Is used exclusively for Currency When
man wants 10 do little marketing, he starts
OF with several bars of iron on his Shoulder
and when the shop keeper collects quantity,
he sends them of and sells them. Yet the peo-
pie are not contented, and clamor for the
S;lyer dollar
Year: 1878

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 5.-AbOut l35 survivors
of the wreck of the Metropolis arrived I'm this
noon and immediately proceeded 10 the office
Of i. 4 l.. Collins, in Walnut place The party
are in good health, and but few displayed
signs OF their recent suffering. The majority
OF the survivors are willing to sail for Brazil
In The next steamer, and all those who desire
TO go will be permitted to do so
Year: 1878

The ICE CROP FAILURE IN MARYLAND
The mild weather of the present season of this
latitude has thus far prevented the formation
OF ice of sufficient thickness to be used for
next summers supply. on the Susquehanna
river. Baltimore will therefore have to de-
supply, and consequently the price of ice viii
be considerably higher than last year. Though
the supply last year was SO large, the consump-
tlon was correspondingly great, and by Sep
Bait Gazette, 5th.
Year: 1878

lHE FATHER OF CHARLIE Ross will be in
baltimore to-day to see the little fellow from
Demerara brought there by Mr.. Perot and
He has very little hope of finding his lost child.
and only comes to satisfy public opinion. The
father and family have been wearied out bv
1aiSe representations. and their patience and
means dissipated by long Journeys TO such an
extent that it is not to be wondered at that
They move cautiously and apparently negli-
gently in all new Investigations.
Year: 1878

THE NORTHERN PACIFIC.-COI. Grey con
cMded his argument in behalf of an extension
OF time for the completion of th9 Northern
Pacific railroad before the Senate committee
rallruauS to-day
Year: 1878

We are glad to see that the long discus
sion between the parkersburg Journal and
the Catholic Messenger is at last coming to a
point-wc dare not say to conclusion.
The Journal calls on the Messenger to say
explicitly what sort of religious exercises
it contends for in the public schools. The
confidence with which the editor puts this
interrogatory indicates that he expects to
corner the Messenger in the next issue.
And we think lie will.
Year: 1878

VIZ have not often published in our col
umns n more interesting and instructive
article than that underline head Of Ethics
Of Gambling" in this mornings paper.
We have reproduced the article directly
from the New York Evening Post, one OF
the most respectable and responsible jour
nails in the country, and therefore entire
reliance can be placed on the perfect
truthfulncss OF the narrative.
Year: 1878

One Georgian has collected
and sold 10000 pounds of bullets
from battlefields in that state.
'Fhis reminds us of popular
society play, Lead Astray.


We observe that Washington
ians are teaching the young idea
how to shoot. One little girl Of
the capital city has just succeed
ed in shooting another little
girls nose off.


A Hartford etymologist says
there are at least thousand
kinds of bugs in that city. This
viii! give one an idea Of the
number of boarding houses.


Five months ago st. Louis
doctor removed the under jaw
Of a cancer patient and fitted
him with a new one of silver.
Last week he told a reporter:
"Oh, the mans dead, but the
operation was successful" p"


The project of a railroad across
Newfoundland is said to be at
tracing attention in the London
financial world, which is more
amiable in view of the dismal
dividends paid by the Grand
Trunk and Great Western OF
Canada.


As the night air is so unwhole-
some do not sit On the front
stoop without putting something
around your girl.-Hackensack
Republican. That's SO, We always
go armed for an emergency of
that kind. But let's leave the
painful subject.-Eli=abeth Herald.


There are two brothers on
West Hill who are SO much
alike that they cannot tell each
apart; and one day last week,
when John was raging like a
volcano with the toothache,
Henry went down to DR.. Will
sons and had six teeth pulled.
-Burdettc.
Year: 1878

at 1e o'clock of said day, at the office of Vim. A. Hancock in the town of Phenix in the County of copa said Territory all the right, title and interest of the said intestae at the time of his death and all the right title and interest that the said Estate has, by ope- ration of law otherwise acquired other than in addition to that of the said inesat the time his death nnd to all those ots pieces parcels of land situate lying and being in the said County of Mari copa, and described as follows:

 The northeast quarter of the southwest quarter; the south half of the northwest quarter of section fourteen 14 also, the south half of the northeast quarter and the north half of the southwest quarter section fifteen (l5 all in Township one north of Range three ( east of the Salt River and Gila meridian undivided interest of oneourth of that certain rr gatin ditch known the Wilson ditch, situate in the Salt tver Valley in said County of Maricopa, and being that particular ditch used heretofore the rr gating the lands above mentioned

 ELMER VAN BUREN,

 Executor of the Estate Of Paddock Jackson, dec'd. jupeT-2w
Year: 1878

Notice is hereby given, that in pursuance of the order of the Probate Court of the County of Yavaps the Territory of Arizona made the 4th day of April 1s76 in the matter of the Estate of ZADoc JACKSON, decaased, the undersigned Executor of said Estate, will

 sell at private sale, 10 the highest bidder for cash, in parcel otherwise the undersigned shat decide and subject to confirmation by said Probate Court on
Year: 1878

IT must be calling to Democrats far away
(those in Maine have already hardened their
necks to the yoke) to read the speech of Mr..
George Ladd made at the Greenback jubilee
in this city Wednesday. Not word of men
ton did Mr.. Ladd make of the Democracy.
His election to Congress from the Fourth
District was regarded and spoken of by hi m
as solely Greenback victory. Aud so it
was. The Democrats there abandoned their
organization, and merged their identity with
the Greenbackers. They ceased to exist.
That is not, perhaps, to be wondered at.
1t is not strange that men like Marcelus
Emery should seek to destroy a political Or
ganization which has, unfortunately, given
toleration if not approval to their traitorous
sentiments and unpatriotic action. These
men hope that their own reasonable record
will be buried with the Democratic party and
trust that in the new organization their past
will be ignored or forgotten.
Year: 1878

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The and address of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
municatiOns that are not used.
Year: 1878

Mr.. MURcH took occasion Wednesday
night to denounce the associated press. The
ignorance he displayed of the nature and
purposes of that worthy organization might
be pardonable in private citizen,. but is IN
excusable in a Congressman.
Year: 1878

EDISON is at it again. He has just in
vented new kind of wallpaper that absorbs
light all day and gives it out all night. That
of course will do away with other lights.
But, perhaps, holders of gas stock had better
not sell out just yet.
Year: 1878

hungry-looking tramp yesterday applied At the
residence Of Mr. William Morgan cornor of Grove and
Ninth streets Jersey City. for something to eat and
Miss Morgan prepared him several slices of bread and
buttor. When she handed them to him the fellow
threw them back into her face and away. He was
captured and upon being taken at before Judge
Davis, where he described himself AS John lockers
was committed for three months to the Snake Hill
poD
Year: 1878

The ladies of st. Mary's church will
hold fair and festival in Recreation
Hall three evenings, commencing Oc-
tober 2Sth. The proceeds derived
therefrom will be used in aid of the
new Catholic church now being built.
An efficient committee of arrangements
has been appointed, which will spare
no pains to render the occasion one of
pleasure to all who may be present.


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Year: 1878

Why THERE IS NO RAIN IN PERU.-In
Peru. South America, rain is unknown.
The coast Of Peru is within the region OF


DerpetuaI southeast trade winds, and
though the Peruvian shores are on the
verge of the great southeast boiler, yet
it never rains there. The reason is plain.
The southeast trade winds in the Allan
tic ocean first strike the water on the
coast of Africa. Travelling to the north
west they blow Obliquely across the ocean
until they reach the coast Of Brazil. By
tbis time they are laden with YaPOr,
which thev continue to bear along across
the continent, depOsiting it as they 60,
and supplying with it the sources of the
Rio de la Plata and the southern tribu-
taries of the Amazon. Finally they
reach the snow-capped Andes; here IS
wrung from them the last particle of


moisture that a very low temperature
can attract. Reaching the summit Of
| thatrange theynOw tumble down as cool
and dry winds on the Pacific slope be-
vond. Meeting with no evaporating
| Surface, and no temperature colder than
that to which they were subjected on the
mountain tops, they reach the ocean
Thus we see how the tops of the Andes
/ become the reservoir from which are
supplied the rivers Of Chill and Peru,
Year: 1878

Col. Bob IngersOl, with all his
faults, utters many sober truths that
are worth consideration. Here IS o
parable for Greenbackers, that Is to
the point: "Here is a shoe shop One
man in the shop is always busily at
work during the day-always indus
trious. In the evening he goes court
ing a good, nice girl There are i've
other men in the shop who don't do
anv such a thing. They spend half
of their working hours in lOa6Dg and
their evenings in dissipation This
first young man by and by cuts out
from these others and gets a boot
and shoe shop of his own. Then he
marries this girl Soon he is abe o
take his wife out to ride Of an even
inc. The five laborers, his former
companions, who see him INDUCING
in this little luxury, retire to a neigh
boring saloon and pass a resolution


that there is an eternal struggle be-
tween labor and capital!
Year: 1878

Some of the most curious customs that
are to be found in any class OF people
are found among the MOravians, who
have their headquarters in the beautl-
full and ancient town OF BethIeheIn,
Pennsylvania.


IT has ALWAYS seemed to the writer to
be a strange custom to toll the churCh
bells when a person is dylngi but the
Moravians do a more curious thing yet
When a person is dying, "a member o.
their sect, word is at once taken to a
person appointed to the duty, who I'M
i1ediatelv proceeds to the church ana
climbs high up in the belfry, when he
fakes a trombone and plays a tune
This tells the sad news to the MOFavlans
thai one who has been languishlng has
"gone hence" or that a sudden visit Of
the shadowy angel has borne its ghastly
and bitter fruit. The sound Of bells Is
such q common occurrence that one may
toll and toll, and the business man o.
the slumberer will fail to notice; but IN
the silent hours of night if the unaccus-
toned music Of the trombone Is walked
where is the slumberer that will not
hear it? And where is the person whose
souI it will not thrill? As the trumpetel
Is supposed to stand on the walls of Zion
and announce the coming of a spirit
from the land of mortality, it is pleas
antlv romantic to imagine that ne
catches the music from the earthly from
hone and echoes It throughout the regioT
of spirits, to be in turn rc-cchoed by
whom and where we dare not even ny
TO think. What originated the custom
it is very hard to determine, as 1t ha


been observed almost for counties
ages"