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Year: 1875

Plated waists return to favor with
the light materials used for summer.


The novelty in jewelry consists OF eX-
quisite cameo sets cut in conch-shells.


For summer morning dress in the
country there are neck-tieS of Scotch
gingham, blue, gray, pink or brown.


There are no women in the world,
says Jenny June, who contriye TO dress
fashionably upon so little money as
Americans.


The pretty. soft neck-ties now in use
are sometimes made to serve double
purpose by twisting as a scarf around
the crown of a hat.


The small pin-head checks of black
and white, known as shepherds plaids
are the compromise settled upon by
ladies of quiet tastes who object to
plaids.


Sleeveless jackets are made OF long
puffs of organdy muslin, sloped in TO
follow the outlines of the figure and
separated by rows of valenciennes in
sertion.


White tissue wells are among the
latest importation. These are of soft
creamy white silk tissue, and are shown
both plain and striped in narrow baya-
dere lines.


New corsets are made with straps on
braces passing over the shoulders, in
order to have all the weight of the
clothing suspended from the shoulders
instead of the hips.
Year: 1875

If any one in these days viii exercise
in the open air, so that each dav he will
perspire moderately, and if he will wear
thin under garments, or none at all, and
sleep in a cold room, the functions of
the skin will suffer little or no impedi-
ment, if water is withheld for months.
Indeed, bathing is not the only way in
which its healthful action can be main
tanned by those living under the cOndi-
tions at present existing. Dry friction
over the whole surface Of the body. once
Il day or once in two days, is often OF
more service than the application Of
water. The reply of the centenarian to
the inquiry TO what habit of life he
attributed his good health and extreme
longevity, that he believed it due to
rubbing himself all over with cob
every night, is significant Of an import
ant truth. If invalids and persons Of
low vitality would use dry friction and
DR.. Franklin's ''air bath every day for
Il considerable period, We are confident
they would often be greatly benefited.
Cleanliness is next TO godliness, no
doubt, and 4 proper and judiciOus Use
of water is to be commended; but human
beings are not amphibiOus. Nature
indicates that the functions of the skin
should be kept in order mainly by mus
cular exercise, by exciting natural per-
spiration by labor; and delicious as is
the bath and healthful, under proper
regulations, it is no substitute for that
exercise of the body, without which all
the functions become ahnOrmal.-PGrid-
Press
Year: 1875

1t was our wedding day


month age" dear heart hear you say.
II months. or years. or ages since have passed
| know not / have ceased to question Time.
only know that once there pealed chime
OF JOYOUS bells. and then held you fast,
And all stood back, and none my night denied
And forth we walked the world WAS free and


wide


Before u.s. Since that day
count my life; the Past is washed away
1t was no dream, that VOW;
It Was the voice that woke me from a dream.
A happy dream, ] think but am waking now,
And drink the spleIidor of a sun supreme
That turns the mist of former years to gold.
Within these arms hold
The fieeting promise, chased so long in vain
All. weary bird thou wilt not fly again;
Thy wings are clipped, thou canst no more de-


part,


Thy nest is builded in my heart,
/ was the crescent; thou
The silver phantom of the perfect sphere,
Held in its bosom in one glory now
Our lives united shine, and many year
Not the sweet moon of bridal only-we
One lustre ever at the full, shall be:
One pure and rounded light, one planet whole,
One life developed. one completed soul?
For in thee, and thou in me,
Unite our cloyen halves of destiny.
God knew his chosen time,
He bade me slowly ripen to my prime,
And from my boushs withheld the promised


fruit,
Till storm and sun gave vigor to the shoot,
Secure. o Love secure
Thy blessing is l have thee day and night;
Thou art become my blood. my life. my light;
Gods mercy thou. and therefore shalt endure.
Year: 1875

Would you show yourself really good
to your daughters Then be generous
TO them in a truer sense than that OF
heaping triukets on their neckS. Train
them for independence first, and tL.en
labor to give it to them. Let them as
soon as ever they are grown have some
little money, or means OF making
money. to be their own, and teach them
how to deal with it, without needing
every moment somebody to help them.
Calculate what you give them or will
bequeath to them, not, as Is usually
done, on the chances of their making a
rich marriage, but on the probability of
their remaining single, and according
to the scale of living TO which yOu have
accustomed them. Suppress their luxury
now If need be, but do not leave them
with scarcely bare necesSaries here
after, IN striking contrast to their
present home. A1nve all, help them 70
help themselves. Fit them tO be able
to add To their own means rather than
10 be forever pinching and ecOnOmiziug
till their minds are narrowed and their
hearts are sick. Give all the culture
you can TO every power which they
may possess. If they should remain
among the million of the unmarried,
they Will bless yOd in your grave, and
say of You. what cannot be said of
many doting parent by his surviving
child: "My father cared that | should
he happy after his death aS well as
while | Vas his pet and his 10y
Year: 1875

Some one asked la man who was counted
a great genius, to define genius, aud ne
said, Genius is industry" Things never
come about tofthemselves. The man who
writes great book never wrote it in a
day or week. The man who has worked
out a great invention did not combine
wheel and piston in an hour or a month:
but it was industry ofinquiry, the indus
try of application. Industry is the first
law of success.
Year: 1875

Ny DJq.-I have a dog, and his name
is Don. He is nine years old. His
master is in Boston, and call Don my
dog, because like to have him here.
He is a black and white dog, and mea-
sIres six feet in leUgtii, and about two
feet in height.


When | 90 errands, Don takes the
basket or pail, and trots away to the
store and sometimes L have to pull
him, OF he will 90 the wrong way.


He is lazy old fellow, and he likes
to sleep almost all the time, except
when he is asked if he wants to go any
where and then he fTisks around, and
seems as if he had never been asleep.


When he wants drink, he goes
around To the stOre-roOm door, and
asks for it by looking up in our faces I;
and dare say he would say, if he could
speak, please give me drink !"


I have a little brother, and he sits on
my dog a good deal. And have a
cousin of whom the dog is very fond
and when she is at the table, he will
put his paw on her lap, and want her
to take it.


My little baby-brother tumbles over
the dog, and sits on him and some
times when | am tired, lie down and
take nap with my head on Don's back.
He likes to have me do it, and he
always keeps watch while am asleep.
Year: 1875

A SagGcious Trout.-Some years ago,
as we are told, trout was kept In
large wateT-vat at the San Francisco
water-works. It was the custom of
visitors To feed the fish with pieces of
bread and meat, which it would readily
take from their fingers. One of the
clerks, with less humanity than love of
fun, one day attached hook to piece
of meat, caught the trout and pulled it
it back again. From that day forward
the trout would never take anything
from the hand of that clerk, although
il would readily feed from the hands
of any other person while the clerk
stood by. This is fact.
Year: 1875

With longing look in her weary eyes
And half-unconscious sigh,
She gazed out on the fresh green grass
And the glorious azure sky.
The warning bell is in her hand,


AS she stands in the open door
But mute and still its shadow lies


In the sunshine on the floor
Her thoughts are wandering far away,


She takes no note of time.
1t matters not that the little clock


Is on the stroke of nine.
The dreamy round of waving trees,
And music of the stream,
Invite her from her task to turn,


And only gaze and dream.
The same old sound Of irksome toll
She follows without change,
And is it wrong her mind should seek
A wider, freer range ?
'Tis hard, indeed, to bind the thoughts
BY pleasing fancy led,
Within the narrow sphere that fate
Compels the feet to tread.
But soon the happy, joyous laugh,
And sounds of playful strife,
Recall her wayward thoughts again
To the humdrum work of life.
She sees group Of boys and girls
So busy at their play,
And turns her, with half-formed wish
That she were as free as they.
But courage, weary, toiling one,


Your field of work is wide
And, though your lot may oft seem dark
1t has its sunny side.
The little seeds you daily SOW


Will reach fertile soil
And by harvest bountiful


Repay you for your toll.
Year: 1875

who married the Duke of Edinburg, Is
decidedly plain, in spite Of all said To
the contrary, while the Princess AL
eXandria has been, and is still q fine
looking woman. | never saw the
Empress of Russia, but | knew her
maid of honor. MademOiselle Amen
k"f who told me she was PLAIN and
rather masculine IOoking.


To speak uf the sUitana Of Turkey
would take more paper than | have
got handy; there are so many OF her.
But it IS safe to say that you will fad
there a very beautiful woman or two
after the Turkish taste. A tat round
woman, with red cheeks and black
eyebrows, is a Turkish beauty-one
easy to make since Banting wrote his
book OF dining and cOrpulency, and
cosmetics are so all-embraciI e.


Or the eX-Em press Eugene [ have
already spoken. so shall but say that
she still holds her speptre of beauty
and queenly dignity.


But the beauty of all is the fair
young Queen Olga, of Greece Rarely
have l seen any person in any walk OF
life VINO was so really lovely in all
ways as she is, and it is not to I've WON
dered at that the whole exposition
stood pertTified to see her pass, and
that murmurs Of appreciation and de-
light followed her. She was dressed
in light blue dress. with o white
burnUus earelessIy thrown over her
magnificent shoulders, and blue and
white bon net,
Year: 1875

DUNCAN, SHERMAN d Co.-EYery
bit of news that comes concerning
the affairs of this firm tends to make
a very bad matter worse. The latest
intelligence is that the liabilities Of
the firm will reach s4,916,0l3. The
total assets are 50, ,36S, showing a
deficiency of s2,796,645. Thus a
large banking firm which was sup
posed TO be worth S5,000,000, was
nearly 100000 worse than nothing.
With this statement of affairs, we
must bid good bye to that refreshing
announcement made at the time of
the failure, to the effect that the firm
suspended voluntarily, as soon as the
discovery was made that it might not
be in a condition to honor It's obliga-
tions. The failure is, in fact, one Of
the worst on record outside of the
class of the commercial and financial
knaves who go into business for the
purpose of falling.
Year: 1875

A LEGAL QUESTION of great import
ance touching the authority of mill
tary governors and mayors has just
been decided in the Supreme Court of
the United States. The Mayor of
New Orleans and the city authorities
appointed by the general command
ing the department during the mill
tary occupation executed lease of
certain property for a term of years.
The lease extended beyond the time
of military rule. Without impugning
the general principle that the con-
tracts of the cOnqueror touching
things in the conquered territory cease
with the military occupation, the court
decides practically that a fair and
reasonable exercise Of military power
must be respected, even after the mill
tary government is at an end. As a
general rule this principle would be
hurtful, but we understand the court
not to make it a rule and to apply it
only to the peculiar circumstances of
this particular case.
Year: 1875

The GREAT IssUE.-The Chicago
Times, journal which is independent
in politics SO far as being opposed to
both the great political parties consti-
tutes independence, has the following
concerning the coming Ohio election ::
With respect to tAe Ohio election, 1t can
be set down as extremely probable, cot to say
morally certain, that the politicians who
have declared war upon the National credit
will prevail The irredeemable shinplaster-
imitation ticket will most likely be elected by
a very large majority. One reason for this
opinion is found in the fact that the quack-
money idiots heretofore acting in the so-called
republican party are quite generally going
over, in Ohio, to the irredeemable rag party.
The appearance of Pig-Iron Kelley in the
Ohio fight on the side of the ragites doubtless
had considerable effect; but entirely aside
from that, other causes are working 10 bring
the ragites Of all the tribes together in one
combination. The result will be an over
whelming victory for the irredeemable rag
party in Ohio next October
Year: 1875

KEEPING fAITH.-Generai tTOOk uds
taken a long step toward keeping
GOOD faith 10 the Black Hills re-
gion by ordering all of the miners out
of it. Their claims to rights OF dis
covery and of labor already expended,
it is intimated, will be recognized here
after, when the locality is open TO set
tlement. Considering that they have
gone to work there law, without but
in defiance of it, the miners cannot
complain of this treatment which Is
more kindly than they could have ex'
pected. 1t is not surprising, there
fore, they are preparing to meet the
order without any show of opposition.
The New York Tribune suggests that
another reason for their discreet obe-
dience is to be found in the fact that
as yet the diggings have not proved
profitable, and the deeper shafts reveal
no great indueemeut to pursue the
search.
Year: 1875

HAPPY AFFAIR.-From what everybody
says who took part therein the Masonic ex-
cursion must have been an agreeable and
pleasant affair in every respect. Oar old
friend, o. S. Savage, of The Dalles, was
along-feasted on clans; fought for Z bed,
took Mongahela straight, and had generally
a good time, and now comes back with the
declaration that his experience during the
trip will afford him sources Of pleasant
thoughts for many years TO come He tells
us one story, however, that We cannot accept
without the most positive proof, and We must
be pardOned for our want of belief in his
story. He says that they have a different
WAY of raising CLANS on the Sound from that
Of any other place-simply grating them on
the trees, and pnlling them afterwards when
they are one, two and three years old. Say
age wants us 20 believe that he saw CLANS
over on the SoInd, grown in this manner
until they were three years OF age, and
weighing twenty pounds when pulled off
expressly for the Masonsic clam bike Who
would believe such a story ?-Pgt!Gna Jo;gTla!.
Year: 1875

GEN. SHERIDAN, the great cavalry
leader, has arrived in San Francisco,
where he was received with all the
honors. The rise of this man is some
thing remarkable. When the writer
first met him he was Only a ID lieut..
and by his superiors was regarded as
any thing but promising ohicer.
Now he stands at the very head of the
military profession and his reputation
Is world wide.
Year: 1875

The Baker City Herald will sus-
pend publication with the close of
Sep,ember. No reason assigned for
the suspension. The editor has labor
ii hard to make the Herald sue
cess, and has our sympathy in his fail
mo
Year: 1875

SHoDDY NAVAL ARCmTECrURE.-An And
now comes he statement that the Pacific
Nail Company new steamship Cdy Of Itkjpg,
the completion and launch Of which were at
tended with much eclat, snd to commem-
orate which the company caused costly
steel engraving of the vessel 10 be prepared
is actually falling to pieces through mal-con-
struction, and will have to be repaired at an
outlay of nearly half a million before she
Will be Ct TO go 10 sea again. The original
cost OF this ship was vory great. It was
stated that no pains had been spared 10 make
her staunch and perfect in all respects. Yet
she has only made enc voyage TO China, and
having encountered DO serious bad weather,
is said to have been in so ricketiy condition
on her arrival that no insurance could be eff
fected on her for the return trip, and she was
not allowed to bring passengers.
Year: 1875

FAILUREs.-An exchange says more
failures are announced as financial al
fairs are frightened. Then adds that
" this means shrinkage on most de-
scriptions of merchandise" We think
the true cause of most of the failures
IS 70 be found in the stock gambling
spirit that peryades the whole country.
If banking and business men would be
content to make money slow but sure,
and avoid gambling in mining and
railroad stocks, the press would have
fewer failures TO chronicle.
Year: 1875

A BLIND man had been sitting one
day and pleasantly chatting with some
visitors for an hour, when one of them
wished the company good morning
and left the room. What white
teeth that lady has, said the sarcas-
tic blind man. How can you posi-
bly, tell that p said a friend. BE.
cause was the ready answer, for the
last half hour she has done nothing
but laugh
Year: 1875

The Philadelphia Sunday Times
has made a departure from the ordi-
nary sleepy track Of the journalism of
that city by publishing in each number
a very good likeness of some one of
the leading local politicians of that
city. It has transpired that the rulers
of Philadelphia commonly alluded to
as " the ring" were nearly all mem
bers of the " Pilgrim Club" an organ
ization professedly devoted to social
intercourse, but suspected of a more
important design that is, the bring
ing together of the leading men OF
both the great parties with a view 10
comfortably sharing the plunder of the
city without the intrusion of the per,
tinent people who are always sneak
ing around irquirlng the how, why
and wherefore Of city expenditures.
Under the heading of " Our Pilgrim
Fathers" the Times has given not
only portraits, but has appended there
to very well written and impartial
biographical sketches of their lives
and careers. There is a quaintness
about some of the observations which
is amusing; for instance in speaking
of Johnny Hill, the city commissioner,
the writer holds him up as model of
economy and an example to the rising
oeneIation, iuasmuch as he has " by
dint of careful! housekeeping, in the
space of eight years, Saced two hun
dred thousand dollars off a salary
of only four thousand a year." This
shows, says the writer, what young
man can do on a moderate salary who
does not waste his money on lager
beer and cigars"
Year: 1875

Gov HENDElCKs, of Indiana, who
at this limP holds n position Of such
prominence in regard to the presidency
in his late speech at GAINESVILLE, Ohio,
said: have heretofore expressed
the opinion that wse staiesmanShip
may avoid the extremes of n contract
ed currency, cramplng enterprise aud
labor on the one hand and Of an inflated
and deprecated currency on The other;
that they are the extremes Of CLINT
tonv and starvation, and health and
strength will come of neither, have
an uuShaken confidence that the
national council of our party VIII so
adjust these differences as TO MAINTAIN
our ancient doctrine in favor OF
sound and stable currency, shaping
our politics in accordance thereto, with
return to specie payments always
anew, and at the same time avoiding
disasters which would Immediately
follow contraction"
Year: 1875

CoLUNBUs DELASO las resigned his
position as Secretary Of the In terror,
and "steps down aud out" The
people will be thankful that the chief
of gang of thieves Is no larger in a
place where he can aid his associate
thieves.
Year: 1875

TIE Commissioners of Charities and
Corrections in New York have assign
ed a first class hospital on Wards
Island, with about two hundred patti
ents, to the use Of the homeopathic
physicians. This is said to be the first
homeopathic charity hospital ever
established in the world. The home
opatbists have met with all sorts of
opposition and ridicule from their
brethren of the old school, but they
will soon have an opportunity of put
ting their theories to a practical test,
which will 90 far to topopuIarize or con-
denim them.
Year: 1875

AGAINST SEcEssioN,-Mou;gomery,
Alabama, was the first capital Of the
confederate states" and there the
confederate congress met and the con-
federate government planted itself. 1t
Is an odd ana at the same l.me 4 graf
flying circumstance to find that the
Alabama constitutional convention,
now in session at Montgomery. body
Overwhelmingly democratic, has just
unanimously adopted the following as
a part of the bill Of rights of the new
State constitution it is framing The
people of this State accept as final the
established fact that from the federal
Union there can be no secession of
any State" And yet there are repub-
llcans, like Senator Boutwell,, who
talk about new rebellion"
Year: 1875

TERRITORIAL CAPIToL.-The question
Of removing the Territorial capitol
will come up at the present session of
the legislature, and it is understood
that Seattle will enter the lists and
expects to carry Oft the prize. Since
the completion of the railroad from
the Columbia river TO the Sound,
Olympia has ceased 10 be on the main
line OF travel, and in fact has come to
be regarded as an Out-of.Ihe-way
place. Indeed, Olympia has never
been 4 place Of any considerable i'm
portance, and had it not been for the
business connected with the govern
ment offices, and the consequent travel
10 and fro, the town would not have
amounted 10 anything With very
little good farming land in It's immedi-
ate neighborhood, and too far up the
Sound 10 ever become q trading Gen.
ire, We can discover no future for
Olympia, and think the legislature will
do well 10 remove the capitol TO Seat
tie or scme other live town.
Year: 1875

The new President of the republic of Cuba
proposes to deal the Spaniards blow for blow.
Il has been he custom of the latter to shoot
all Cuban prisoners taken in arms The
Cuban President now announces his intention
TO retaliate in kind. The barbarities Of the
war in Cuba are a disgrace to civilization,
but the Cubans have been long suffering and
it is to be hoped that this determination to
retaliate for Spanish outrages viii lead TO the
adoption Of a method OF warfare in accord
ance with the recognized code of nations.
Year: 1875

An Eastern Journal, Of considerable
circulation and more pretense, remarks
that " hard money does not appear 10
exempt the people of the Pacific coast
from financial panics any more than a
greenback currency does cur own
community" To which the money
editor Of the Philadelphia Record
makes answer: mo one with sense
enough to make four out Of two and
two ever supposed it would. If a
merchant lays in q large stock of
goods and the price falls before he
sells it, he VIII be a loser, no matter
whether he buys and sells for coin or
greepbacks; if a gambler stakes his
last dollar and the dice decide against
him, 1t is Of little consequence whether
his stake was gold or paper-he is
broke" An ass will be an ass though
his ears be plated with gold.
Year: 1875

\ School DEcIsIoY.-A colored
clergyman Of Brooklyn brought suit
TO compel the admission of his son to
the public schools on an equality with
white children. Supreme Justice
Gilman delivered the decision. He
sustained the claim of the board of
education that they have the right,
under the statutes, to prescribe upon
what terms and conditions the benefits
Of the free school system shall be en-,
Joyed within their jurisdiction. 1t
was held further that the regulation
under consideration was not in conflict
either With the acts of the legislature
or with the civil rights act. because il
does not appear that coIored pupils are
thereby deprived of any advantages
extended to another class.