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Year: 1877

headquarters may be taken as cri-


terion of the sentiments and sympathies


Of the Republican party in this state,


Senator Conkling's triumph will be Of
short duration. They are almost unan-


imous In their condemnation Of the
Rochester convention generally and Of
the obstructionist policy adopted by
Senator Conkling particularly. The
Of the south and civil SER
vice reform will now, they say, become
the shibboleths of the Republican party.
The presentation of the interviewers is
thus closed: est is plain to be seen that
Mr.. Conkling will find arrayed against
his cause at the approaching mass meet
ing a majority of the strongest Repub-
licans of this CITY,"
Year: 1877

THE cash-book of the insolvent State
Savings Institution Of Chicago, was
kept with pencil not with pen. One
of the clerks says at the beginning Of
the year the printed book which they
had been using gave out, and he spoke
about it, but one of the officers directed
that he should get an ordinary blank.
book, as it was too expensive to hav Q
one printed. The book was OCCASION
ally taken into the presidents IS Office and
kept for long time.
Year: 1877

THE mud period seems to havf, been
reached in the Ohio campaign. Judge
West has been formally charged with
breaking will which his own wife's
former husband had left, for the pur-
pose of cheating an edu cational in
stitution out of legacy. This has been
solemnly denied in det all and with
yoluminous proof and the original
slanderers are shown to have willfully
and maliciously lied. 1t would seem
to be in order now to charge the Judge
with wife-beating, or with having lost
his eyesight in diabolical attempt to
blow up his own household by pouring
powder on red-hot stove.
Year: 1877

Perhaps nothing gives greater flavor
to the dignity of a journalist than to
have a man in comfortable circum-
stances approach him with the remark
that "You ought TO have lots Of theatre
tickets arotand your clothes.''
Year: 1877

CHIEF JUSTICE GRAY, of Massachu-
sets, goes to court like magistrate of
colonial days. He rides in saddle from
Pittsfield to Boston-a distance Of one
hundred miles-and goes home in the
same fashion when the court is over,
Year: 1877

The QUESTIONABLE BoNNET.-The
grace of" good manners" includes both
! selfresrect and social respect; and it is .
duty as we'll as an accomplishment. Fun
making at fellow-b beings expense is q
violation of the golden rule, which many
even well-meaning and well-taught people
thoughtlessly commit, apparently forget
ing that it is really n part Of Christian
character TO be generously considerate of
others feelings.


One day, about fifty years ago, when
John Quincy Adams was president of the
United States, an excellent and cultivated
lady journeying in her carriage, stopped at
a hotel in Batavia, western New York.
She was plainly dressed, and one not
knowing her or unacquainted with her ac-
complishments and rare social grace,
might have judged her to be quite an
ordinary sort of person. In those times,
rs now, the kings of critics who estimate
people according to the clothes they have
on, were sufficiently numerous, and it APP
pears that several of them were stopping
that day at the same hotel.


1t was noon, and the guests were already
dining and having little time to make
an elegant toilet, even if she had been so
disposed, the lady placed her bonnet on the
parlor table and went out to dinner. When
she returned she found the parlor occupied
by merry wedding party, who had seized
upon her bonnet, and in all the abandon
OF froicsome mirth were making game Of
it, One young beau of the party poised it
on the point of his cane, and played mock
auctioneer What do l hear, ladies'
how much, how much for this rare and
beautiful calOtte a Ia prtnceSSe, only II
month from Paris, and positively the new
est mode, fifty francs; give me seventy
five, seventy-iive going and who takes it
ut seventy-fve; going, going, going''-
and of course the bidding on the part of
the rest was quite lively enough to carry
out the farce


The lady stood a minute, waiting, with
II good-natured smile. Presently she said
quietly to the young man, "I'll take the
bonnet off your hands if you cannot get
satisfactory offer for it." The auctioneer
thereupon tossed the article to her with
lofty stare and stiff bow, and coolly put
ting it on her head, the lady entered her
carraee and rode away. The young people
had had their fun, and thought no more
of it, though some of them, noticing cer-
tain superior dignity in the owner of the
questionable bonnet went SO far as to
wonder who " that woman" was.


Next day the same wedding party. on
their way to Niagara Falls, stopped mt
Black Rock to pay their respects to Gen.
Porter, United States secretary of war,
and were invited to dine with him Mt his
house. When Mrs. Porter, the lady of
the mansion, came forward to welcome
them they stood aghast, "That woman"
whose bonnet they had made game of was
the wife Of one of President Adams
cabinet ministers.


Fancy how Mrs Porter's splendid hospi-
tallty hcaped Goals of fire on their heads
and especially on the head of the young
man who played the auctioneer 1T the
Batavia hotel.


But their rudeness would have been none
the less inexcusable if they had shown it
to an inferior instead cf u superior, and
mortified another worse than they did
themseveS.-T B., in The Watchnan.
Year: 1877

TIE MIsERIES OF CHILDHoOD.-C
dren can suffer. There is IN intensity about
it. Like their appeltes, it has not been dull
ed by repetition. One of the few privileges
of growing old is that we cannot suffer so
keenly. We know from repeated blows
that time will cure us. We get not to care
- but oh! the intensity of youthful grief!
What enormous vitality it has! How por-
team its shape! | am never astonished
when | hear of youthful suicides. The
absence of the fear of death-so peculiar
to youth, for we get accustomed " to the
sweet habit of living and hate to change,
but youth has formed no such habit
the absence of this restraining
principal, and the love of change,
conspire to make suicide possible Then
the vision Of what grief is; the terrible
curtain that mercifully hides the future,
drawn all at once; the pang that rends the
heart rs we recognize the friend untrue,
the promise broken-the future void no
wonder that the river seems so merciful,
the knife so kind the poison so sweet /.
Youth has no philosophy. - Appletoh'S s
Jonrhdl
Year: 1877

COLLEGE v. UNIvERsITIEs.-rh world
will Lever outgrow universities. America
has not too many colleges. 1t is not indi-
cative of breadth, or of originality, to he
harping on one note, that American col.
leges ought to be concentrated into II few
universities. This would greatly diminish
the number of students. Few who pro-
claim that doctrine give any evidence of
having thoroughly studied the subject. On
the law of supply and demand, some Of
them will improve, some modify their
character, some disappear. Not coercive
or restraining, but encouraging efforts are
needed, and rapidly whatever be the de-
mand. it will be supplied. If the princi-
pie which we have laid down is correct,
all can see the bond of connection between
colleges and our common schools of every
grade They are all engaged largely in
one work-to make the most of manhood
Not simply to pile up an objective mass oil
Information, but to give to their pupils
power TO create and power 10 employ
Journal of HeaW.
Year: 1877

A SENSIBLE DoG.-Herc is an anecdote
that comes to us all the way from Austria
liza: Sixty years ago when was teacher
in Kilmalcum parish, says John Frazer, |
was using whiskey btters for my stom-
acl's sake. One day l dipped Il piece of
cracker in it and gave it to the dog. He
ate 1t up, curling up his lips to avoid the
taste. Ere long he became tipsy-,nIe
howled most pileously, and naturally
looked up into my face as if for help. He
began to stagger and fall like drunken
man. The appearance of his eyes and
face were extraordinary. lie lay on the
floor and howled until the effects of the
drink wore off. This was supreme folly
it was wicked. The dog never forgot the
trick. Whenever after | went to the press
for the bottles he hastened to the outside
of the house. One day, the door being
closed, he sprang with one bound through
u pane of glass, to get outside the door,
So much for the wisdom of the dog-in-
linitely surprising foolish drinking men.
Year: 1877

Here are some fine specimens of the
American gift of exaggeration: 1--WE are
told of grass in Colorado that is so short
you must lather it before you mow."
" There was man who stood under a
pile driver to have pair of tight boots
driven on. He found himself shortly after
in China perfectly naked and without II
cent in his pocket" There is man in
the West so bow-legged that his pantaloons
have been cut off with circular saw"
A Western editor said Of II tornado, 1T
was wind that just sat up on its hind legs
and howled"
Year: 1877

THE SKYE TERRIER.-Among all the
foreign dogs who from lime to time cast
in their lot with US there is none more
thoroughly reputable than the Skye terrier.
He is not as refined gentleman us the
English mastiff but he is the embodiment
o; sturdy honesty. He is not only extreme


y intelligent, but he has the good sense to
be content in that station of life to which
he has been called and TO avoid snobbish
imitation of the manners of those who
oulrank him in the social scale. lie is al
ways cheerful. active, and anxious to do
his whole duty. In his own peculiar field
of industry he is without II rival. The
combined breadth and subtlety of his views
in regard TO rats command the admiration
of every man who respects thoroughness
and skill. There are other dogs who pro-
feSs to be experts in rats, and occasionally
Scotch or an English terrier is capable of
doing good plain rat-killing in workman
like way, but in perfect mastery of all
the niceties of rafting the Skye is un-
rivaled. As II remedy for burglars, he is
also exceptionally safe and etficacious.
Unlike other small house-dogs, who will
bark with the utmost violence when the
master of the house returns at "a. NJ, from
prolracted labor ut the Office or store, and
who will stupidity accept the midnight
burglars impudent assertion that lie is ihe
local clergyman, who ought not to be bark
ed ut, the Skye dsdains to create disscn.
sion between man and wife by untimely
barking, but refuses to listen to the slight
est word of explanation from burglar.
Perhaps his highest merit is his sunny
temper, which nothing can disturb. lie is
never vicious and never mad Physicians
tell us there is not on record sing gle case
of hydrophobia which can b, traced to Al
Skye terriers bite. When he has been
disappointed in regard to bones, or ill.,
treated by cowardly master, he simply
goes out and relieves his mind with stray
cats Sincere, good-tempered, honest. con
scentious, and efficient in the discharge of
his duty, and withal modest and unassum-
ing, the Skye terrier has all the virtues of
the Scotch Lowlandcr, without the atler's
occasional faults -Er.
Year: 1877

EFFECT OF IMAGINATION UPON HEALTH.
To regain or recover health persons
should be relieved from all anxiety con-
cerning diseases. The mind has much in
huence over the body. For n person to
think he has Il disease may produce that
disease. This we see effected when the
mind is intensely concentrated upon the
disease of another. 1t is found in the hos
pitfalls, and physicians who make special
ty of certain diseases are liable to die of
them themselves, and the mental power is
so great that, sometimes, people die Of a
disease which they only have in imag-
inaton. We have known person TO die
from imagining that he had a cancer in
the stomach when he had no cancer or any
other mortal disease. Reading medical
book containing descriptions of certain
diseases has often produced the symptoms,
even among young medical students, while
they at last got the disease unless it was
stopped by common sense treatment.
Therefore, well persons, to remain well,
should be cheerful and happy, and sick
persons should have their attention drawn
as much us possible from themselves, and
directed upon subjects cheerful to contem-
plate. Notwithstanding the mind is n
product of the impressions upon the
senses with which the body is provided,
and, therefore, greatly under the influence
of The bodily conditions, it has in its turn
some influence over the body and its san.
itary condition, and this to II greater ex-
tent than is generally rccognized.-Nnu-
tttcturcr md Builder.
Year: 1877

AN ENGLISH JOURNALIST ON AMERICAN
CROWDS. never saw anything like the
patience of an American crowd" said an
English journalist to me. ~ never saw
Il crowd so gentle, so civilized. An Eng
lish crowd suddenly denied access to an
accustomed resort, rs this one is, would
not take it so kindly. They would hurt
somebody, Your people imagine them
selves great deal freer than ours, but
they bear restriction and authority as ours
never think of doing. They tried 10 stop
man fddling in Hyde Park on Sunday
Immediately a great mob gathered and
stoned the windows of the blarsted arstoc-
racy and drove the ladies out of the
houses. | received IN impression of the
forbearance of the American people in
Philadelphia that shall not forget. The
exhibition was closed to the working peo-
pie on Sunday, the only day that they could
come, yet thousands on thousands of tick
els were issued for privileged persons who
preferred to come on the Sabbath, though
they could come on any other day. 1t was
II sight to see the crowds walking outside
the gates and grounds on Sunday, looking
longingly over at the privileged ones who
entered on tickets which the poor work
ingman had not the social influence to OBJ
tain. The sight would have so infuriatcd
nm English crowd that they would have
battered the walls but the Americans bore
it with perfect quiet and patience. TO me
it is marvelous.-Mdry ClCmmcr'S Letter.


A PAINLESS DEATH. In recent holi-
day lecture at the Royal Institution, Prof
Tyndall, speaking of the painless death by
electricity, remarked that Franklin was
twice struck scnseless by the shock. lie
afterwards sent the discharge of two large
jars through six robust men, who fell tc
the ground and got up again without
knowing what had happened, neither
hearing nor feeling the discharge; and
Priestly, too, who made many valuable
contributions to electricity, received the
charge of two jars, but did not find it pain,
ful. Prof. Tyndall said this experience
agreed with his own, that, in the theatre
of the Royal Institution, and in the pres
ence of m audience, he once received the
discharge of battery of fifteen Leyder
jars. Unlike Franklin's six men, he die
not fall, but, like them, he felt nothing
he was simply cxtinguished for a sensible
interval This may be regarded as IN ex
perimental proof that people killed by
lightning suffer no pain. Now, the meas.
ured velocity of electricity is many thou.
sand times greater than the measured We.
locity of sensation in the nerves. Hence
the electrical conclusion reaches the cen.
tire of life, without any possible announce
ment by the eye or ear or sense of feeling
There is abundance evidence that death
by rife ball traversing the brain is fol
the same reason entirely without con.
sciousness Or pain. A rifle ball, however
is tortoise compared with the electric
flash
Year: 1877

My experience in boomerangs is mainly
confined to the natives about the Conda-
mine and its afiluents, where | was fire..
quently in company with natives for
about year. They had two weapons
one large, for war, the other small, for
game. should think the weapon is
seldom thrown in war, since most of their
contests (sucn as they are) take place in
scrub or forest, where it could not be
used to advantage; but have seen ma
tive frightfully cut In the abdomen, and
was told by native that he had been
struck by boomerang thrown by the
hostile party. have seen few OF these
contests, but never saw the boomerang
used in any way. The "waddys" were
thrown freely, the spear seldom. The
game boomerang is thrown among fights
OF ducks and also carrots when congre-
gated on the trees and gathering nectar
their flowers, and with marked effect.
This / have seen several times. There
are two ways of throwing the weapon,
which as could throw it well at one
time, will endeavOr TO describe. II is
grasped quite at the end by the right
hand and raised above the head, the el-
how being bent, the weapon assuming a
position with its convex edge downward
on nearly horizontal line at right angles
to the intended line of fight. The arm
is brought swiftly around from left to
right, becoming gradually extended un-
til ii reaches line directly in front of
the face, when the weapon is delivered
from the now straight arm with the con-
cave edge toward the line of fight. This
is the method of throwing into the air
No dependence can be placed on the re-
turn Of the weapon within circle of 20
yards. though it sometimes returns dam
gerously near the thrower. II 1t meets
an obstacle it is either stopped and falls
dead to the earth, or its course Is changed.
In either case its peculiar motion is de-
stroyed, as must be obvious. In the 9TH
er method of throwing the weapon Is
held in the same way, bat delivered near.
ly on line with the hip, and made to
strike the earth about 10 yards in front
of the thrower, pitching ! believe,


Though it is not easy toobserve,) on one
OF its horns. Thence II recochets and
flies straight away for perhaps 10 or SO
yards. ke ,ping a position of about four
feet from the earth, and gradually rising
until it is spent. 1t returns very little,
il at all. In this way only can 1t be used
for war, since in the other it begins tc
mount at once, and would soon be above
the enemy's head. The weapon Is made
of various woods, a piece with a sligh,
elbow being selected. 1t is hardened BY
baking. The right form is arrived at By
trial, as / have seen during the process
of manufacture. Those sold to Euro
peaus are the failures. ! had to pay
good price for the two l brought home
but they are excellent specimens Nat
urP
Year: 1877

Never write with pen or ink. II is al
together too plain, and doesn't hold the
mind of the editors and printers closely
enough to their work.


il you are compelled TO use ink, never
nse that vulgarity known RS the blotting
pad. II you drop blot of ink on the
paper, lick it of. The intelligent com.
positor loves nothing 80 dearly as to read
through the smear this will make across
twenty or thirty words. We have seen
him hang over such piece of copy hall
an hour, swearing like pirate all the
time, he felt that good.


Don't try to write too plainly. II is a
sign Of plebean origin and public. school
breeding. Poor writing is an indication
of genius. It's about the only indication
OF genius that great many men possess.
Sprawl your articles with your eyes shut,
aud make every word as illrgible as you
can. We get the same price for it from
the rag.man as though it were covered
with copper-plate sentences


Avoid all painstaking with proper
names. We know the full name Of every
man, woman and child in the United
States, and the merest hint of the namt
is sufficient. II is q great mistake tha
proper names should be written plainly


Always write on both sides Of th,
paper, and, when you have filled botl
sides of every page, trail q line up aut
down every margin and back to the tol
OF the first page, closing your article b!
writing the signature Just above the date
How We do love to get hold Of article
'xrittan in this style! And how "
1eS)d like 70 get hold Of the man wh
Iicken, and serys, Just for ten r;1E I
Year: 1877

suits wheat, and just what most hin
ders the young 'hoppers. Tho birds


of all kinds from the little wren to the
prairie chicken are apparently very
fond of the young hopper, FOR carly


and late they are dcvouiing them, aud


the amount they destroy is wonderful.
We have meyer before seen 50 many
birds Of all kinds in the country, in
the spring, aud they all eat the hop
Ipers. The red bug that came as a


parasite on the raiders last summer


and were to some extent left in the


nest with the eggs, have destroyed at


least one third of the eggs, and are


grown to an enormus size some of


them being as large as the lady bug:
| Whether they attack the young


,hoppers we have been unable to
/ determine but we think they do il
they come across him while he is still
white, or just getting out Of the shell.
Corn planting IS backward, but there
lis still time for that and the farmers


are planting as fast as the ground is
dry. enough,


Everything looks favorable and


everybody is hopeful anil if the raid
ling 'hoppers do not come this sum


mer we will all be successful.
Year: 1877

FR z'iH Brrs FOR HoCS'=s' MOUTHS -
Let any one who has The Gre of horse these
cold, frosty mornings, deliberately grasp in
his hands a piece of iron, indeed, let him
touch to it the tip of his tongue, and then let
him thrust the bit into The mouth of his
horse, if he has the heart to do it. The
horse is an animal of nervOus organization.
His mouth is formed of delicate glands and
tissues The temperature of the blood is the
same as in the human being, and as in man,
the mouth is the warmest part OF the body.
Imagine, we repeat, the irri' alton that would
be caused The human, and consider that if not
TO the same degree, still ihe suffering Of the
animal is very great. And it is not momen-
taly pain. Food is eaten with difficulty, and
the irritation repea ed day after day causes loss
OF appetite and loss Of strength. Many a horse
has become worthless from 10 other cause
ihan this Before Iudia-rubber bits were to
be had | myself used bitcovered with leah
er, and on no account would have dispensed
with 1t in freezing weather.
Year: 1877

SBoEs OF HUMAN HDE-The Pitts
burgh Dispatch says: The result of a
curious experiment recently made by
two Southside shoemakers, just come
to light. The men worked in the
same shop, and one day they INDUCED
in speculations regarding the utility
of human skin in the manufacture of
boots and shoes. Both were of the
opinion that it would answer the pur-
pose. Arrangements were made with
college Of physicians in Philadelphia,
and they secured the skin from the
stomach and back of man who had
died suddenly from an accident, and
upon whose remains corruption had
not taken hold. The skin was put in
q preparation of hemiock and oak
barks, such IS is used in the ordinary
process of tanning, and in about ten
DAYS It was in a condition to be turn
ed into the uppers and legs of pair
boots. The process Of tanning chang
ed It's color TO light browG. 1t was
more porous than calf skin. The skin
was duly made in;O a pair of boots,
the soIes being made of ordinary
leather. They prove to be warmer
than boots made from the skin of a
calf, and i. is believed tley will be
every bit as serviceable. The expert
ment proved that the skin of the man
of average size would furnish sufficient
material for two pairs of boots, inelu-
ding the soles. The soles from hu-
man skin, would not be likely to prove
serviceable for every day ware, though
they may be well adapted to dancing
pumps.
Year: 1877

a PREACHER lately told his congregation
thai II the ladies Of his church would give
up their three button gloves and wear one
button gloves instead. enough money would
bs saved to support an orphan house where
upon, some Of the ladies suggested to their
rector the possibility of saving out of the
cigar money OF the male members of the
church, from the rector down. enough to
carry on one or two asylums. They suggest
ed also that three-buttOn gloves do not make
dirt, or unsavory oior, and that they have
no deleterious effect on the nerves of the
ladies who wear them; while. on the other
hand, the brethren would be cleaner, sweeter,
and healthier if they would quit The use of
tobacco, and give 70 the cause of the orphans
the money they now ezpend on this carnal
qualification. But the brerhren could not
see it through the smoky clouds e1haled from
their incinerated Havanas.