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Year: 1878

One by one the sands are flowing
One by one the moments fall
Some are coming, some are going;
Do not strive to grasp them all.
One by one thy duties wait thee,
Let thy whole strength go to each,
Let no future dreams elate thee,
Learn thou first what these can teach.
One by one (bright gifts from Heaven)
joys are sent thee here below;
Take them readily when given,
Ready too to let them go.
One by one thy griefs shall meet thee
Do not fear an armed band;
One will fade as others greet thee;
Shadows passing through the land
Do not look at life's long sorrow;
See how small each moments pain,
God will help thee for tomorrow,
So each day begin again.
Every hour that fleets SO slowly
Has its task to do or bear;
Luminous the crown, and holy,
When each gem is set with care.
Do not linger with regretting,
Or for passing hours despond
Nor, the daily toll forgetting,
Look too eagerly beyond.



Hours are golden links, Gods token,
Reaching heaven but one by one
Take them, lest the chain be broken
Ere the pilgrimage be done.
Year: 1878

In faith. it becomes your immediate duty to
subscribe for this, the first publication OF the
kind west of the Mississippi, for the extremely
low subscription price brings It within the
reach of all, while it makes necessary large
subscriotion list In order to meet expenses,
Year: 1878

The new Fall bonnet Is said by the
Buffalo Express to be made OF material
that poisons the complexion. Possibly
the ladies' will be compelled to do with
out ii but they will hardly miss 1t.
Year: 1878

The Nashville Pilot, the organ of
thecolored people of Tennessee, says
in its current issue:


We have no objection to our own
people or any other trying to better
their condition. Our people have
attempted many experiments, and
in various ways sought relief from
the burdens of life. Our movements,
however, have not been attended
with any degree of success, and to-
day we are as restless and diseon-
tented as ever. Labor conquers all
things, and will conquer in Tennes-
see as well as in Arkansas, or any
where else. Our climate, soil and
material resources are in every way
favorable to our support, and viii
reward every patron of industry,
economy and thrift with the ele-
ments of prosperity, contentment
and rest. Emigration does not les
sen toll or the necessity for perse-
yerance and stability Of action, and
until we have taxed every energy
and utilized every advantage and
means which our present Opportu-
mites and surroundings present to
secure success here, we should not
entertain the least degree of hope
that we can be successful anywhere
else. Our advice is to stay at home
and beat every opposition down,
rather than flee from seeming Ills TO
real distress.
Year: 1878

Phe Popular Science Monthly
gives few hints in regard to the
expenditure Of the various materials
in our body and the way in which
this waste is diminished and sup
piled. We quote a passage worth
serious attention ..i,


Sleep is the only entire and abso-
Lutte cessation of the mental and
bodily expenditure and perfect or
dreamless sleep the greatest cessa-
tion of all. Whatever shortens the
due allowance of sleep, renders 1t
fitful and disturbed, or promotes
dreaming, is so much force wasted.
In the waking hours there may be
cessation from given exercise,
with more or less inaction over the
whole system. The greatest diver
sion of the working forces Is made
by our meals; during these the train
OF thought Is changed, while the
body is rested. Bodily or muscular
exercise, when alternated with Sc
dentary mental labor, Is really a
mode of remission accompanied
with an expenditure requisite to re-
dress the balance. Of the physical
functions. The blood has unduly
flowed to the brain (; muscular exer-
else draws it off. The oxidation Of
the tissues has been retarded; mus
cular exercise is the most direct
mode Of increasing It. But definite
observations teach us that these two
beneficial effects are arrested at the
fatigue point so that the exercise at
last contributes, not to the refresh
ment, but to the exhaustion Of the
system. .
Year: 1878

being than he was before Italy re


discovered art and literature, o.


Gutenberg made the education o


peoples possible, or Columbus doub


led the empire of knowledge anC


civilization. One cannot but come


back upon this idea-the hopeless


inc0nvertibility and retr0gressior


of the creature, the perverse tenden.


cy In him to grow worse instead Oi


better. Surely, the careful upbuild.
| ing of o-ROumanian Empire,
of a Christian and cultured nation


capable of order and political NOR


ality and self-Supporting develop


ment, would be labor worthy the


EXTREMIST effort of the Germanic


and Latin races, and worthy the


magnanimous goodwill of Russia.


1t will be a day of jubilee for Eu-
rope when the old Asiatic horde re-


naming on her soil shall be driven


forth from it, or at least deprived of
all power therein. Her cunning
hand will then be set free to repair
the damage which has come upon
one of her most fruitful regions
through five centuries IF desolating
tyranny. No hope there of Justice
and industry and prosperity, no
hope for art and literature and sci
ence and the graces of life, no hope
even of continental content and
tranquility, until this redemption is
accomplished. One can almost i'm
agine the waste places of that Ori-
ent land pleading for deliverance.
1t needs no Imagination to hear the
generations of the trampled past
swelling the prayer with their inn
precautions. Let Europe avenge in
one merciful blow the long waste of
mans industry and earth's fertility;
avenge the groans of countless cap
tives, degraded, broken-hearted,
worn to death in bondage; avenge
all the Christian blood which has
been poured out upon the track of
the Crescent--the blood of the Hos
pitalers who fell in the breaches of
Rhodes and Tripoli and Malta; the
blood of noble Venetians, which has
stained unnumbered raInparts and
many waters the blood OF Greek
and Austrian and Servian and Mon.
tenegrin and Pole and Russian.


! If it be really true, as one may
surely hope, that we see the near
coming of the end of Ottoman mis-
rule in Europe, no man can over
state the importance and sublimity
of the events now transacting there
in field or in council. The noblest
of continents freed at last from
invasion, and from the
influences of a hopelessly
barbar1c race; the illustrious mother
of Aryan men, the chief light and
strength and glory of the world, the
parent of the highest culture and
art and law, delivered altogether to
her own Incompatible children
how can the most eloquent tongue
or pen do justice to this magnificent |
hope and possibility? A few dis
jointed words, just enough merely
to hint our longings and emotions
a burst of thanks and praise, hardly
stammered in any comprehensive
perhaps the greatest
soul could utter no more.
Year: 1878

An exchange says that new
way of fastening on ladies' hats
is to bore the tops Of their ears,
put in gold hoops and have the
hat strings tied through them.
Thus, step by step, we tread the
pathway to perfection and ere
the darkness Of death envelops all
the world man will have utilized
his nese IN holding up his pants
or pulling on his boots.


There is a man in Bridgeport
who 10 looming up as the cham
pion mean man Of the country.
He had his Wife arrested for
drunkenness, furnished the we
gon to take her to the station
house, and wanted the city to
pay for the use of it.


We have great respect for the
character and many virtues of
the late Mr.. G. Washington, but
We sincerely hope, for the sake
of his consistency as a Christian,
that he was never observed to
slip on q banana peel in public.
Year: 1878

The colossal statue of Liberty Light
ing the World" erected by France and
America in remembrance of their old
friendship, is coming out little by little
from the immense shops established ex-
pressly for its construction in the Rue
de Chazelles No. 25, near Monceau Park.
The arm and hand holding the torch are
already in America, and at present the
sculptor, Bartholdi, is finishing the prin-
cipal portion of the head. The plaster
model is nearly completed. In short
time it will be stripped of the scatfold-
ing which surrounds it, and upon which
several gangs OF men are at work. The
first sentiment inspired by the enormous
head, nearly thirty feet high, is almost
terror. It's gigantic dimensions are stu
pefying; but by degrees the eye becomes
accustomed to the colossal forms, and the
mind reconciles it to the extent of those
great lines, and we discover in the midst
of them the majesty and the light which
the author has endeavored to give to the
features But the public will soon have
an opportunity to see the beauty Of this
work, for the head of the statue of Lib
erty is to be exhibited at the Paris ex-
position. Nevertheless, We strongly adj
wise everyone beforehand to visit the
establishment of the Rue de Chazelles
and see how the different portions of his
head are prepared, worked and adjusted.
NJ. Bartholdi is making copies in plaster
of his statue of Liberty. Two hundred
of them only will be executed, number
ed and registered with the name of the
purchaser, who may in this way preserve
a souvenir of this magnificent monu-
ment commemorative of the centennial
anniversary of the independence of the
United States, and destined to renew
and enliven the old friendship between
France and merica.--.YI.Yseme Steele.
Year: 1878

Mr.. Cravens. In conclusion appeal


to the lawyers of this house, from every
quarter and section of this Union, to say
whether or not the majority report in
this case is in accordance with the in
structions of the house and whether the
position taken by the minority report is
not correct. Have these gentlemen of
the majority reported upon the guilt of
Mr.. Polk in connection with these
charges, as they were directed to do?
say they have not. l say they have dis
obeyed the direct order of the house, to
about the same extent jury did the
instructions of the court in a celebrated
case in Alabama. In that case q party
was accused of larceny, the property
charged to have been stolen being hog.
The court instructed the jury that the
value of the hog must be assessed, be.
sides there were no degrees in larceny,
and directed them to retire and bring q
verdict in proper form.


The jury retired and there was some
hot debate in the jury-room A. tn what
was the proper form. But there hap
pened to be an old Georgia justice of the
peace on the jury who was the foreman,
and saw through the situation at once.
He returned to the court with the fol-
lowing verdict:


We the jeurey pusilanimously find the de.
tendant gitty in The sum Of dollar and Il
] in taror of the hog.
Year: 1878

A Belgian journal says new process
has been applied to the manufacture of
artificial black walnut, by which ordina-
~ wood has impaired to it the appear
ance of the most beautiful specimens of
walnut, adapted to the very finest cabi-
net work. The wood, first thoroughly
dried and warmed, is coated once or
twice with = liquid composed of one part
by weight of extract of walnut peel dis
solved in six parts Of soft water BY heat.
ing it to boiling, and stirring. The wood
thus treated is, when half dry, brushed
with solution of ONE part by weight OF
bichromate If potash in five parts OF
boiling water, and, after drying thor
oughly, il rubbed and polished. The
color 10 thus said TO be fixed in the wood
to depth Of one or two lines.
Year: 1878

The Pacific Life publishes a letter
from Seth Green to the effect that fish
have an enemy in the cormorant much
more dangerous than the sea lion. These
voracious and predatory birds swarm in
thousands along the shores, and each one,
Mr.. Green says, consumes a pound Of
fish day. The difference between cor
morant and the sea lion in selecting food
is very great. While the latter eats
only the full grown, marketable fish, the
former destroys the young fish which
have just passed through all the perils of
childhood" and are ready to develop
into large ones. The size most sought
by the cormorant is that of one to two
ounces weight, although they can swal.
low fish weighing a pound. The cor.
morant is like a good many ladies and
gentlemen who fish for pleasure and &c
away leaving two or three hundred small
fish dead in the boat, when they should
have been taken carefully from the hool
and thrown back into the water in order
to give them chance TO grow up and b
eomsthing.
Year: 1878

Somebody once defined old ortho
doxy as believing in a devil with
hoofs and horns now Orthodoxy is
devil with horns only, Hereto
doxy is q devil without hoofs Or
horns, and lnfdelity no devil attall,
And now the difference between
Unitarianism and Universalism is
not clear to the uninitiated. Rev.
Thomas Star King said the differ
ence between these two wings Of
liberal Christians was, the Unita-
rians believed they were too good
to be damned, while Universalists
believed God was too good to damn
anybody.
Year: 1878

The beautiful gem known a. the tur-
quOise is 50 celebrated for its peculiar tint
Of blue that il has given descriptive
name 70 that soft, rich color known a.
turquoise blue. Yet, though 80 lovely,
the color is not permanent, but changes
and fades out by age and exposure 10
the light u is said that the color can be
restored by keeping the gem long time
in the dark There are two kinds Of the
turquoise stone, known as the oriental
and the occidental turquoise The former
Is the best and has the most permanent
color. It's found in Turkey and Persia,
also in Siberia, and has n different chem
ical IMPOSITION from the latter The
accidental turquoise is found in Lower
Langucdoc, i'm the southeast Of France,
and is fossil ivory, colored with the
phosphate Of iron. The other is a tri-
phosphate Of alumina, and derives its
color from the oxides Of iron and copper.
Truly this was ordinary stuff for old
Shyl0ck to prize 30 highly when he
mourned over his runaway daughter
extravaganza in giving his ring for q
monkey, and exclaimed


u was my turquoise ! had 10 OF
Leah when ! was bachelor would
not have given il for a wilderness OF
monkeys


But there was probably a trace ol
ancient sentiment still left in the hard
heart Of the jew, and sentiment il
great alchemist in turning dross 10 gold
Year: 1878

Wen, now you come TO the ridiculous
part OF the story. The collision did not
take place at ALL he said, in an apollo.
geuc tone, as if there ought To have
been serious accident after SO much
preparation. while | was standing ON
the platform, thinking whether | had
better warn the passengers 10 hold them.
selves ready for a shock, Jake came from
forward dragging after him two large
pet oleum-Cans, each of which would
mold quarter of barrel of oil.


Now, then, said Jake to me, if
you will oil one side of the track. | will
try the other.


l saw at once what his plan WAS.
We each brought the mouth of an oil
can as near To the polished surface of
the rail as possible and commenced pour.
ing on IL the kerosene. In less than
minute halfmile of iron rails ON
both sides was nicely oiled, and as slip
perry as the tongue of Hebrew dealer
in second hand clothes"


You have raised my expectations of
acatastrophe SO high that you have been
obliged To grease the track so as 10 let
them down again easily" said |, for |
felt little nettled at the unexpected
turn the story had taken, and was in
cllned to believe that the conductor was
drawing largely upon his imagination
for the facts.


Why don't you know that an engine
can no more make headway on n creased
track than "A tom-cat can climb steep
roof covered with ice 2" said the conduc-
tor, with pitying glance at one so pro-
foundly ignorant of railroad matters as
myself. " slapped Jake on the back,
and said, Old fellow, your 'cuteness has
brought US all out of a bad scrape'


In n few seconds the lantern Of the
train behind us was getting dim in the
distance. We slackened speed and
backed down to see what the matter was
with Simpson, "A Jake said There
stood the old Ben Franklin putting and
snorting and paving like a mad bull.
the driving-wheels buzaing around on
the creased track like all possessed, but
not gaining an inch We sanded the track
and bore down upon the old machine,
Jake was the first aboard, spelling for a
good chance at the engineer Simpson.
But no sign of an engineer, fireman, or
any other living being, was To be found.
The engine had only a tender attached,
and although there was still full head
of steam on, the fires were getting low.
we MADE snort work In pushing back to
Lakeland. We reached the station, and
got fairly upon the switch when the
Greenport train, which we should meet
there, came in, and there waiting a. if
nothing had happened, and rs if we had
been fifteen miles out ON the road TO
meet it few minutes before.


The telegraph-operator at Lakeland
handed me dispatch, which read as
follows:


"'To CONDUCTOR C-:-The Ben.
franklin has broke loose and is coming up
the road. Turn swith at Lakeland and
run her off the track.


BARToN, supt.


go Brooklyn, 10 rs p. m


You see, we did not have much time
for turning switches at Lakeland" he
continued, " 30 we did still better, and
saved the old Ben-which was not re-
sponsible, after all--from a smash-us"
Year: 1878

CoAcHNEN are beginning to place
their estimates Of self.worth 80 high
that IL is becoming next to impossible
TO find one who will elope with an heiress
worth less than n half million.
Year: 1878

4" HABIT" is hard to overcome. n you
take off the FIRST letter IL does not change
bit" IF you take off another you
still have a "bit" left. II you take on
still another the whole Of cit" remains.
II you take off another IL is not " t''
totally used up. All Of which goes
to show that If you wish % be rid
OF habit" you must throw IL of
altogether.
Year: 1878

Seeing SO much notice taken OF
these pears, vo wrote to M Berok-
man OF Augusta, an authority on
these matters, to know more about
It, and the following is the answer VIC
received


On regard TO the LeConte Pear /
would say this: The old China Sand
which have cultivated since, 1862,
produces a very large globplar fruit
with q rough skin and hard texture
of flesh. Tits Of no value as 6 dessert
but by some persons it is considered
a good cooking plant The Chinese
Year: 1878

We have made arrangements with
a good entomologist to examine and
report on all insects that may be sent
to US. Those who find anything of
that kind with which they are un-
acquainted, will in future be able to
get the information required.
Year: 1878

A PRESS summary of Secretary Schurz'

 annual report contains so singular blund- CT that it seems impossible that the report can be correctly presented. The Secretary | is made to recomniend the I'enoval Of the Pima and Maricopa Indians of Arizona to the Indian Territory, in consequence Of the diversion for mining purposes of the water of the Gila river, without which they can not cultivate their lands. If Secretary Schurz has really made such recom- mendation, some one has blundered artoclously in giving him information In the first place, it is not within the lawful power of the government to compel the removal of the Arizona Indians named They own the lands, on which they live, in fee simple, under United States patent made out to the tribes collectively. In the second place there are no mining operations on the Gila above the Pima villages, and if there were any they would not interfere with the water enough to affect the irrigation of their lands. There has been trouble about the water, but it was caused by white settlers who have taken land up in the valley above the Indians, and whose irrigation ditches are badly constructed as rule, and cause the waste of a considerable amount of the wate~ that is so precious in that region. There is water sufficient if properly hus- banded, and the Indians have as many rights at least as the whites.-POSt
Year: 1878

AMONG the most active workers in Con- gress for the transfer of the Indians to army management. was Representative Scales. who was a member of the con- mission to examine the advisibility of the transfer, and also leading advocate of change in the present commission. Now it is said the array of evidence against the transfer has overcome his convictions, and also those of Senator Saunders, and they agree that it wonld be unwise to make !5ie change. Practically, tAe whole commission is believed to be opposed to it. The commission heard Secretary StickDey, of the Peace Commission, who gave his views in opposition to the trans fer
Year: 1878




THE bulk of the Congressional
elections OF the United States will
take place on the ensuing 9Th of
November. Full of CONSERVATION at
the plain handwriting on the wall
which, as palpably as at the feast
of Belshazzar, betokens disaster to
the Republican party, the leaders
Of that organization are now busily
engaged in spreading broadcast yet
one more Infamous caiumny
against Mr.. Tilden. They charge
him with an attempt to secure by
br bery, one Of the eleven electoral
votes OF Florida and Louisiana
which were all undoubtedly cast
for him by the people Of those
States. Mr. Tilden regulates the
charge with Indignation. He is
already on record with the noble
declaration that he might lose the
Presidency but he would not rattle
for it. 1t is really beneath
his dignity to answer a charge
so evidently inspired by par
tizan malignity as this
last. His Indignant denial
is not accepted as conclusive by
his enemies. They reverse the
i'm memorial rule of the English
common law that a man is to be
held innocent till he is proven
guilty, and hold that Mr.. Tilden is
guilty till he proves himself inno-
cent. We admit, like Topsy, that
we are desperately wicked, and we
should half like to hear that Mr..
Tiiden had recognized the necessi-
ty Of meeting the party of high
moral professions with its own
weapons. But we are in no danger
Of hearing that he had done so.
We formally notify Republican
stumpers and newspaper men that,
when they shall come to assert, as
they doubtless will, In time, that
Mr. Tilden murdered his aged
grandmother, we shall not believe
q word Of it.
Year: 1878

WE reserve criticism on the &C.
tion of the Constitutional Conven-
tion until matters assume definite e
shape. We think the old Lat n
aphorism, "Make haste slowly,n
applies both to the action, and to
the criticism of the action, of q
constitutional body. We are in
clined to think that most wisdom
will be shown In allowing the
largest latitude to the Legislature.
Above all things the Constitution
of State-its organic law-should
reflect no temporary and local
quarrels. With a few exceptions,
some of them from this section, the
best metal In the Convention has
not yet been heard from, save in
the opening speech OF President
Hoge, and the people at large will
reserve their opinion until these
gentlemen have had their say.
Year: 1878

Full brass band for promenade. Grand
orchestra for dancing. No expense or ef-
ort spared to insure complete comfort
and pleasure. The Pavilion will be
cleared and fitted up for the occasion.
Year: 1878

Nc are solid for Granville Fl. oary for district attorney of Pinal county, and therefore nominate him for that office, and for the further reason that he IS too modest to an nounce himself a candidate for re- election to the office he has so ably and satisfactorily filled for she two proceeding years.
Year: 1878

Somebody who seems to have tried it,
saws, "The latest method we have
hearn of for curing cases of pure sleep
lessness, when unaccompanied by pain OF
disease, is the following: Get out of bed
and take linen bandage-although a
handkerchief, neatly folded longwise will
do as well, perhaps better. Dip one-hall
the handkerchief into water, pass the wet
portion around the wrist, over this lay
the dry half, and tuck in the ends so as
to make all secure. Lie down again
The wet bandage will be found to eXer'
else a most soothing influence on the
pulse; this will soon extend all over tht
nervous system, and calm, refreshing
sleep will be the result"