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Year: 1878

GOODNESS OF MASNER.-There is no
other way by which friendship may be so
completely crushed out of existence as by
GOODNESS Of manner; hard words are no
competitors at all, for they are so often
satisfactorily explained. 1t is frequently
said that 'like begets like and we believe
that is often SO. If we meet with an ac-
quaintance'who grasps our hand cordially,
and gives it a generous and hearty shake,
and their counteuance lights up with a
cheerful smile as they utter pleasant and
welcome salutation, if we are feeling dull


and moody, we are, or at least should at
once be, ashamed of that feeling, and in
stantly put forth our energies to disguise
and Danish it, If, on the contrary, we
meet with one who repels our every at
tempt to be cordial by studied GOODNESS
Of manner, we very soon become imper-
vious to any genial feeling for him, and a
larger stock Of pride springs to our aid
than we ever dreamed our heart possessed,
and gulf is then and there formed over
which passable bridge can never be
erected.


A YALE GRADUATE AS A BcorBLAcK.-
The bootb|acking trade is destined to be
overcrowded. The exchanges are publish
ing charming sketch of Yale graduate
who opened law office in New York, and
then, rather than starve while waiting for
clients, opened business as bootblack
under the sidewalk at the entrance of
down town restaurant. His earnings soon
ran up to Sc day, and he had to hire an
assistant. While he was at work, he dis
guised himself 80 that his best friend could
not recognize him, but out of business
hours the bootblack was an elegant gentle
man, living in stylish boarding house on
Twenty first street. That be fell in love
with beautiful being, that he had jeaI-
Gus rival, who finally Uncovered the vuI
gar occupation, and informed the venerable
papa that the young lady was Keeping
company with bootb|ack, goes withou,
saying. But the denouement is very touch
ing. "LilIier y yelled the old gentleman,
red in the face, "come here. You may
take John as soon as you please. He set
about earning living honestly and has
succeeded. He will get op." The boot
black has resigned the brush and resumed
the practice of the law, and he has gather
ed his Lille to his bose m. Go, young
lawyer, and starve no more. Who says:
Hs,2; eona, shine 'e11 Gp2
Year: 1878

0l the 2lst Of January we hauled
up to the bank in the town Of Girgel


We found Admiral Steedman and
Mr.. Davis, Of Boston, moored in their
dahabeeah, and they repeated the
same story that We heard all along
the Nile, that they had had good
time, a splendid time, could not have
had better time. II seems that
their dahabeeab hsdrun aground and
the Admiral came out in fine old
quarterback form and gave all the
orders necessary to save the vessel
But after be had given the orders as
became a veteran sailor who had bat
tied with tempests in every part Of
the world, it was discovered that the
crew were Arabs and did not under
stand q word of English and proba-
bly, thought that the Admiral's Wig
orous forms Of speech were kind of
deyotion-a manner of worship com
mon only to the inf9el SO the Ad-
miral's vessel had to save itself and
we had our own fun ont of the mar
rative as we sat On the deck over
cur coffee and watched the Arabs
erouebing over the FIRE. The Aimi-
raj and Mr. Davis spent q part Of the
evening with Us; bat Just as the talk
was al fell tide the dragomsa came
on board with word that there was q
rising wind. Those who sail in the
dahabeesh must take the wind when
il comes. and so our welcome guests
buried swsv and in q few minutes
we're speeding up the stream.


DONKEY RIDING IN THE DESERT.


1t was rather long distance from
our landing place to Abydos, and
Sami Bey had given orders that we
should be ready at eight for cur Jour-
ney. | am afraid il was quite an ef-
fort for some Of the party whose
names shall be withheld to heed this
command. But the General was the
first on deck aud very soon came
Mrs. Grant eager and smiling. And
as the General waits for no one those
who were late had to hurry their
breakfasts, AID some of them were
skarrying up the side Of the bank
with balf.esten biscuit. There were
our Arabs and donkeys sll waiting,
and the momentum company began to
muster there was chorus of screams
Good donkey" Good morning."
''baksheesb.r and other limited forms
of speech. The donkeys charged up
on Us in mass, each owner scream.
ing out the merits of bis animal. 1t
was only By vigorous efforts on the
part OF Hassan that we could see and
select our animals Hassan had Civ
en- me a private bit of information as
TO which donkey ! should select. and
l found myself the master of little
mite of creature, scarcely high
enough to keep my feet from the
ground. but vigorous aud strong, and
disposed TO stop and bray for the
Year: 1878

Oar journey was through a coun-
try that in better time must have
been a garden; but the Nile not hsv-
ing risen this year all is parehed and
barren. Abydos was built on the
edge of the Libyan Desert, and the
road to the great oasis leads to it
over the mountains. The old Egypt
ians were practical in this respect,
that not having land to spare they
built their tombs and temples in the
sand, and kept their narrow, fertile
lands for corn They could worship
their gods in the sand, they could
sleep in the sand; but onions and
corn needed all the parsimonious
Nile would give. We kept on over
series of irrigsting bitches, over
sand hills, over roads that had not
been mended within the memory of
man. Ny first impression was to
hold nv animal well in hand and
guide him, TO keep from going over
his head into ditch and show him
the safest paths. But soon learned
the elementary lesson in donkey-ri-
ding - namely, that your animal
knows more about the subject than
you can teach him, and that you had


better discharge your mind from all
care on the subject and allow him to
go in tis own way wherever Mo-
hammed Ali will lead him. Then if
you can make up your mind to dis
engage your feet from the stir
rups and let them swing just as


when boy you used to swing over
a gate, you will End it easier in the
long run. | noticed that those of
our party who had the most expert
ence of Egypt rode in this fashion,
and so, while some Of our ambitious
members, who bad learned horse
msnship in the best schools and lov-
ed to brace themselves in the saddle
and were anxious about stirrups, l
allowed myself to dangle. There is
another reason for this, as learned
from practical experience one day a.
Assousn. The donkey is apt to fall,
for the land is foil of holes and traps.
To fall with your feet in the stirrups
might be 8 serious matter But
when Yankee Doodle took it into his
bead to throw his head upon the
ground and his heels into the air it
only remained for me to walk from
him, as though had risen from a
cnsir, and wait till be came to q bet
ter frame Of mind. But it is not the
Year: 1878

The New York Sun has story to tie
effect that Jay Gould, the New York
stock operator, is financially embarrassed
and that loan Of his of 100000 was
thrown out of bank on Tuesday in conse
quence of the flimsy nature of his collat-
erals, which had evidently been taken
from the bottom ofhis box, The fall in
Granger stock is said to have pinched
him. Gould virtually holds all of the
Union Pacific stock, but he is afraid to
put any of it on the market because any
movement of that sort would break it
and run it down TO % at once.
Year: 1878

THE ELECTION of delegates to the
Democratic State Convention takes place
ON Saturday; and ii is hoped that care
will be taken to select good and compe-
tent men; men who have the GOOD of the
state and the country at heart. The
chief need of the people of Delaware to-
day is reduction of expenditures in the
General government. If is an indisput-
able fact that we pay too much to govern
ment; and too much of what we nav is
s4uandered. If it was carefully husband
ed and all, after the expenses of an eco
nomlcal administration, went to pay the
national debt, We might bear it uncom-
plalnlngly. But that the people of this
state should be made to pay million
dollars year; and witness its being used
TO keep up hundred thousand high sal.
arled ofhcers, who are fast assuming the
prerogative Of masters of the people
whose servants they are, is little to,
much for Democratic natures IN haar
unless 1t be few who delight in a de
basing man worship for the sake O
party.


We hope the Democratic State dele
gates in convention assembled will d,
their full duty in making platform il
conformity to the wishes of their partv
in favor Of the strictest economy. Tn,
land and all we own has been mortgage,
Tor the payment of the national debt. |
IS hard to turn these debts over to OH
children, who had naught to dowith thei
contraction; and it is harder perhaps +,
pay them as we are now doing while it il
painful to believe that our TAXPAYER
are being swindled out of their hard earn
ed labor to keep up a style of living tha
IS entirely incompatible with Democrat
principles and ourrepublican pretensions
Let our platform be one that will tend +,
the benefit of all and the injury of none
and favor the most rigid economy, sucl
as we all are compelled to practice A
home in order that our children NAV h,
reared and educated.
Year: 1878

In AN editorial on "The City Chief
Magistrate" we fell into an error in not
stating that the City Council had no
power to prevent the Mayors choice OF
police officers. The power to reject or
refuse to confirm police appointments
was removed from the Council by the
Legislature several years ago.
Year: 1878

The Hudson river ice trade proved so
profitable this season that a new stock
company is organizing in Albany with a
capital of 100000. One Albany ice man
is said to have made 1000 on his ice
this year. This is from sales at wholesale
to New York and Boston parties.
Year: 1878

The Golden Millet must be sown
every spring after the danger Of frost
is over, broadcast or in drills, in the
same manner as oats, three pecks or
one bushel Of seed to the acre. 1t is a
very rapid growing grass, and natures
in about ten weeks time. Its yield is
enormous-often as much as five tons
of hay and one hundred bushels Of
seed to the acre. 1t takes much labor
to save it, and a good force is necessa-
ry to follow the machine when cutting
as grain. 1t is eagerly eaten by all
stock; even hogs live and thrive on it,
and it is a crop Of which the farmer is
sure to raise a fair yield every time he
sows, one rain insuring a good crop. l
have seen good hay from it when the
season was too poor to make hay from
anything else, and lam sure that when
any farmer once gets into the seed he
will not want to get out. 1t will grow
IN almost any climate, having been
successfully grown in some part of
nearly every latitude from Maine to
Florida.


Orchard grass is good only as pas
ture or for the seed. Growing the
seed has been very profitable busi-
ness in this country until the present
year-the price ranging from 81 % to
81 80 per bushel, but this season an
unusually large crop brought the price,
even at retail, down to about 81 per
bushel. It is one of the earliest and
most hardy grasses Of which I have
any knowledge. Cold nor heat will
neither freeze or burn it out, and when
once set you have good pasture that
will always be the first you can turn
stock into, and it will outIast all others
in dry, blighting weather. It will grow
on any land that will grow anything
at all, and will improve and tighten
the land every year you leave it on,
and it will be there until you remove
it Intentionally. 1 know some farmers
who have stand Of twenty years, and
seemingly it is as good as new.-W
johnson, Marion county, Ky, in Coun-
try Gentleman.
Year: 1878

[From a correspondent Of The Rural World I


An eminent French physician says
that the decrease Of dyspepsia and bill
lious affections in Paris is owing to the
increasing consumption Of apples-a
fruit he maintains, which is an admi-
rable preventive and tonic, as well as
very nourishing and easily digested
article of food. The Parisians use mil
lions of them annually. It is an es-
tablished fact that the free use of good
ripe fruit is a preventive of chills and
fever, SO peculiar to malarious locali-
ties. For instance, the inhabitants of
the middle portion Of Delaware, and
parts of Maryland, where they former
ly suffered severely from fever and
ague and typhoid fever, are now much
more free-and in some localities en-
tirely exempt from these diseases
since the people grow and eat plenty
Of fruit. The free use Of fruit minis
ters a cooling, healthful effect to the
system. If the wealthy folks in the
cities would eat more fruit, and less
pastry and candies, we would see fewer
dyspeptics and more red cheeks And
what a comfort and blessing to the
sick! The time is near at hand when
planting should be done by every one
who has the land to set them on. MOI
one farmer in one hundred in these
parts has full supply of fruits for the
summer and winter. Commencing
with the strawberry and ending with
the apple, there i. no reason why every
man owning land should not have all
these good things plenty in most years


S. MILLER.
Year: 1878

WAsHINGToN's TEOIPER.-These re-
Elections from the Commercials Bulletin
come home forcibly to every married
man: "The question is raised as to
whether G. Washington was in the
habit Of losing his temper. Bless your
buttons! there were not so many mod
ern conveniences for losing the article
in Georges time. He never got all
ready for bed, and then remembering
that the furnace-fre had not been at
tended to, staggered down in his night
short-t--o attend to it. He never
wanted to retire at an early hour, and
then had Martha remind him that he
must sit up to let the hired girl in. He
never had gas bill to pay, and the
plumber had not been invented then.
He never missed a railway train by
thirty seconds, or had to stand up all
the way home in horse-car on wet
night. He never had a district tele-
graph box or telephone put up in his
house, and then, when he wanted to
astonish visitor by summoning car
riage on a stormy night, had the durn-
ed thing refuse to work, compelling
him to pull on his wet boots and wade
through the slush after the desired We
hicle. There were 10 bool,-ageRts,
chromos OF lightning-rod men in his
day. Beautiful Snow was unwritten
then, and Private Dalzell and Sergeant
Bates unborn. Pooh pooh dc not
tell US about @. w. We believe if he
had been dressing for a party and cx-
pecting the carriage every minute, by
the time he had drawn the third shirt
over his head and found the back col
lar-button gone, he would have kicked
the bedroom furniture around and
made use of expletives like any other
man."
Year: 1878

Very few of the sudden deaths which
arc said to arise from diseases of the
heart dc really arise from that cause. To
ascertain the real ori gin of sudden deaths,
,xpcrincnts have been tried in Europe
and reported to a scientific congress held
at Strasbourg. Sixty-siS cases Of sudden
de ,th were made the subject ota thorough
post st-mortem examination. III these on
ly two were found who had died from
disease of the heart. Nine out of sixty
six had died of apoplexy, while there
were furty-siX cases of congestion of the
lungs-tlat is, the lungs were so full Of
blood that they could not work, there not
being to much blood for Il quantity of air
to enter to support life. The causes that
produce nGeston OF the lungs are cold
feet, tight clothing, costive bowels, sit
ting STILL chilled after being warmed
with labor or rapid walking, going too
suddenly from close, heated rooms into
tho cold air, especially after speaking,


and sudden depressing news operating OH
the blood. The causes of sudden death


being known, an avoidance of them may
serve to lengthen many valuable lives
| which would otherwise be lost under the
verdict " heart compaint.' The disease
| IS supposed to be inevitable and incur:,-


bic hence, many do not take the pains


they would do to avoid sudden death, if


they knew it lay in their power.
Year: 1878

OF Stonewall Jackson's first cxamina-
ton at West Point, Gen. John Palmer
writes: "Thc poor fellow was in Il most
unhappy state of mind; his whole soul
was bent upon passing. When he Went
to the blackboard the perspiration was
streaming from his face, and during the
whole examination his anxiety was pailI-
full to witLess. While trying to work
out his example in fractions, the cuff Of
his coat, first the right and then the lett.
were brought into requisitiou to wipe OFT
the perspiration which streamed from his
face. But he passed creditably, and I
shall never forget how pleased he looked
when he was told that he couln take his
seat, and l think every member of the
examining board turned his head away
20 hide tic smile which could not be sup
pressed. After this his whole time was
devoted to the one thing Of preparing for
the January examination. Here he was
black board, although in nlidwiutcr, was
IL repetition of the one in June. He
found himself rather low down in his
class, but he had learned to study, and
he had the hearty sympathy and good
will of all the professors and instructors.
ed so we'll that he was we'll up in his
class and out of all danger. But lie nev-.
er relaxed his hold. Through the whole
four years he was one of the hardest stu:
dents.
Year: 1878

Government intervenes and nullifies the
discharge of this duty, by relieving the
debtor from the Whole of his obligation
on payment Of a small part. There can
be nothing more demotalizing, nothing
more destructive of mercantile honor.
nothing more ruinuous to confidence and
credit than such bankrupt law as that
Of the United States.-N. Q. Picayunc.
Year: 1878

Ar San Angel, Mexico, last month
six ladies and three gentlemen assem-
bled to open II box said TO contain
Lourdcs water and rosarics. They
took or one cover and found another
inside; this they removed and 1t dis
closed zinc plate; they started to rip
that oil, and then there came burst OF
thunder sound, and only one person
was left alive in the room. The box
had contained nitro-glycerinc.
Year: 1878

Stanley Matthews wants to run for Con-
gress in the second Ohio district again this
year: Ex-Governor Young also aspires to
tne hepublican nomination in that district.
While half dozen Democratic "reform"
States are wallowing in the slough of repudl-
ation-Michigan-a Republican State from
the birth OF that party-is able to pay Off her
bonds in advance, and to bu lid and furnish q
state caption without incurring a dollar OF
MISUNDERSTANDING Republican.


The latest explanation of the mysterious
disappearance of ex Representative John B


Vance OF Ohio is that he has fed to avoid
investigation OF some irregularities connected
with his craftsmanship of the House printing
committee in the last Congress. Vance un-
dertook to investigate the government PRINT
Ing office, and is the man who hired rela.
i've from Ohioya miller by occupation, who
had never seen the inside of a printing
office, as an "expert'' to conduct the inyesti,
cation.


In recent letter to Secretary Sherman DR.,
Linderman says: ''The new silver dollar has
one very important advantage over the trade
dollar as well as the old silver dollar, and
that Is that the border Is so arranged as fully
to protect the devices from coming together
when piled one upon another. In this way
only can undue abrasion be prevented, and
that is what have had in view in the prepa-
ration of new devices for nearly two years
past. We shall fully succeed, but In the
mean time must take the raps OF all the wise
and knowing ones in the land"


The Right Honorable Edwin Henry Smith
Stanley, Earl of Derby, who has just retired
from the Dsraeli cabinet, is but 50 years old,
but has figured prominently in the official
life of England, and will doubtless figure
prominently in it hereafter. He held three
important posts in the three administrations
of his distinguished father. and in the last,
that OF 1866, he was Secretary of State for
foreign affairs-the post he has now re.
signed-and conducted the negotiations for
the settlement of the Luxemburg difficulties
in manner that rendered him exceedingly
popular. he held the seals until the in
coming of the Gladstone ministry In 1858.
and the year following the death of his
father transferred him to the House of Peers.
Year: 1878

siton to let him try his plan. His moderate
language has had a very favorable effect upon
many of the opposition and 1t is believed
that no hostile legislation can be forced
through Congress this session. Of course
those opposed TO resumption under any cir
cumstances will not forego opposition, but
the number of these is growing steadily less.
Year: 1878

Every club is invited to send delegate, and 1t is
earnestly hoped that large number will be present.
as it is desired to make this OF the most benef-
cent mass meetings ever held in the State, and give
new impetus to the reform work in Brunswick.


The usual reduction ON the railroads will be made
Year: 1878

We do not read anonymous letters and commun
cations The name 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

WEDNESDAY, NOV. Do r. NJ


The State election having come and gone, and its
record for either good evil being signed sealed and
delivered to the archives of the bygones, the
stock market to-day relapsed into the state of semi
quietude which had preceded it, If wanting in
activity it was not wanting in strength and in this
Golathlike virtue the whole market participated in
greater or less degree. Most notably was this the
with the Northwesterns and Union Pacific and in
connection with the frmness in these securities
curious tale was told Water and oil have been made
to mix. the lion and the lamb Questions to which
is the lion and which is the lamb will not be
deemed impertinent have lain down together.
and Mr.. Vanderbilt and Mr. Gould have
entered into o grand combination for great
ranscontinental line Of railway from to
Central and Hudson. Lake Shore, Northwest and the
Pacific roads the various links and the "deInni-
ton total is to be under the exclusive control and
management of Mr.. Vanderbilt. Such was the story
partially known to the street and discussed in the
crude form given above. There was no positive in
formation as to how much of truth fasity it con-
tained but it requires mention topic that elected
attention well considerable orders to buy the
stocks in question 1t has been q theory for long
time back that Mr.. Gould has been looking to the
creation Of through line which would relieve him
from the burden of Union Pacific and foster his
Northwestern interests, but insurmountable





the Atlantic seaboard have defeated the
scheme. An alliance with Mr. Vanderbilt.
offensive and defensive, which would have for its
basshe securing Of the Lake Shore and Central and
Hudson roads integral links in the chain would
tain the desired end besides constituting the most
formidable and perhaps the most profitable railroad
monopoly the world ever saw. There nothing,
however, in the price of Lake Shore to suggest that
any such plan contemplated. for the uctua-
tions small and the closing price but shade
better than the opening In fact. Lake Shore is
hard to The large receipts of grain at the lake
ports, the satisfactory business being done by the
road, and the fact that round of money appli-
cable to dividend, has been earned all fail to push
the figures to price where they will ''stick" So
many promises have been made heretofore and they
have been 60 often broken that spectators may be
excused IL they have lost faith With the exception
that Northwest preferred and Union Pacific gained
per cent during the day the rest Of the list showed
little alteration and closed at figures pretty nearly
identical with those with which it had begun


The opening. highest lowest and closing prices Of
stocks and gold at the New York Stock Exchange to-
day were as follows:-