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Year: 1878

The Burmese have remarkable rel
ish for the most strongly favored food.
Living as they do either by the sea or on
the banks of rivers and creeks, it is nat
ural tnat fish should form one of the
commonest ingredients Of the food of the
people; and, were they content with the
fish freely caught from the river or sea,
there would be no matter for remark.
This most unsavory food, huge mounds
of which are piled up in every market,
and whole boat loads of which are car
ried by river, poisoning the very air
where the boat is moored, consists OF
fish which has first been allowed to de-
cay, and is then in some way picked
and pounded into sort of paste. 1t is
called napee, and, as the English dinner
table is incomplete without potatoes, so
no Burmese rice dish is complete with
out napee. In the common form in
which the people eat it l have never
heard of any Englishman being con-
verted to a taste for napee; it is found,
however, in more refined form called
balachong, in which it resembles very
highly favored anchovy paste, and in
which it may be appreciated by any ore
whose taste is not overdelicate. One
more illustration must be given of what
to sober people, who shudder at the
thought even Of frogs, m.y seem an in
credible depravity of taste. Among the
delicacics of Burmese table, one of the
rarest is sort of fricassee or grill made
of peculiar species Of very large mag
got. This creature, short in length,
but of monstrous girth, is found in the
fruit of certain palm-trees; a dish o1
them is sometimes brought by natives
as present on the occasion of their Wis.
iting an Englishman, and, when fried
on toast, they are supposed to be excel
lent eating. was once nearly takeI
unawares by dish of pogoungs, which
was introduced to me as toasted cheese


but, having heard of the existence OF tn


reality, 1 detected the trap, and was sav


ed from making the experiment.--Fra


GERS Magazine.
Year: 1878

We recently read n a exchange of an appalling murder in DeadWood- The yieblm was twice shot in the abdomen and once in the barber shop Ne presume the wound in 1he barber-shop cooked his goose. Not excep-iag the heart the barber shop Is the nest vital part. We have known persons to recover from bullet wounds in the ab iomen, but in the barber shop. never
Year: 1878

If re could see the sun reaecting upon mud we would be comparative ly happy, but that cannot be until 1t rains, and from present indications there IS no likelihood of that until the moon changes. It scorches us and breeds profanity in man. If 1t IS wicked to say it is d-d hot" then has every adult male citizen of this place 5 black mark scored opposite his name in the recording angels book.
Year: 1878

Lots were drawn by the super gisors to determine who should serve for the long term, Mr. VOsburgh holding over -Cinzen.

 The foregoing procedure of the board has been held, by legal minds here. as not in accordance with law. l. is conmnded that the act of 1873 provides that at the first meeting of the board after each general election
Year: 1878

Lacy's Express goes and comes to and from Silver City to this place with IS much regularity as a Weav- CTS shuttle when tTayersing 8 web In the course of construction For two months past we have noted his ar rival here, and his time has always been between sun down and dark, never Earying more than ten minutes,
Year: 1878

~ The Silver advocates in Congress have
formed an association, which is very strong.
Col Phillips is one of its officers. Ben. Butler is
q member, and has suggested the idea, that if
the President vetoes the silver bill, and there is
not strength enough to pass it over his veto,
section containing the same provisions should
be attached to the appropriation bills, and none
of them permitted to pass without the silver
section. This would be just the thing. The
section demonetizing silver was attached to a
bill of another character and stolen through
Congress- Bring it home to roost, and cut off
their supplies until it sticks.
Year: 1878

So you see, that while You were abusing the
late County Board for violating the law, they
were obeying the very letter of the law.


This decision looks sensible, too. Does anybody
suppose that the County Offices could be let out
to bids' There are hundreds of men who would
agree to take any County Office at q less salary
than is provided by law, meagre as it is; but is
there anybody who is such an 'old fool" as to de-
mand, in the interest of taxpayers, that these
Offices be let out to the lowest bidder, or to
claim that the salary could be lawfully reduced
in this wayf We think not. Yet, the laws FIX
ing the salaries of County officers are not more
explicit or positive than the laws specifying that
the printer 'shall be entitled to receive certain
fees for work named.
Year: 1878

At three minutes before every quarter Of an
hour bell is runs in Mozart Hall Brooklyn rhisis 10
prepare Mime. Anderson Tor her walk OF seven laps
around the garden, making quarter OF mile according
to official and certified measurement Al the quarter
hour the bell rung again and Madame must appear and
walk within three minutes This she has done promptly
without waiting for the three minutes margin. since x
on Monday She has not had quite one hours sleep
last sunday night taken IN maps Of less than ten
minutes alta umo She says that she will not slcen for
than eleven minutes at time until the middle Of
January She WAS little ivNerish last evening and her
feet were sWeled, These drawbacks she said, would
pass OF under Wuular treatment. ami she would
certainly accomplish her icat OF 27n quarter miles as
many quarter hours careful study of tho woman oun
vince te holdeT thntii there Is any ale On earth
who can accomplish the task she Is the woman
Year: 1878

Leon stripped of his clothes,
wrung the water out OF them into
the cask and as fast as they became
wet repeated the operation in this
way several gallons of water was
saved before the rain ceased fall
ing.


When the sun rose Leon refresh.
ed himself with hearty meal OF
oysters and eggs, then resumed his
efforts to find water by digging
on the second day he was success
ful the wafer was fit to drink
though somewhat brackish.


Having secured an unfaiIing sup
ply Of water, Leon made a rude
shelter of drift wood, hoisted his
shirt on pole as a signal of dis
tress, kept a fire burning during
the night for the same purpose,
fished, and looked out for vessels.
Occasionally he saw sails IN the
distance, but none came near him
the water around the island is
shallow and vessels generally gave
it a wide berth.


Day after day passed without
any relief coming, and Leon began
to despair.


Two months had elapsed, when
one night there was violent storm.
Icons hut was blown to pieces,
and wide sheets Of spray swept
over the island.


The wind was so furious, that all
night long Leon lay fat on the
sand, listening to the roar of the
storm. every moment fearing that
a huge wave would break over the
island and sweep him into eternity.
But the storm passed, and as
SOON as it was light he arose, and
looked around him.
Upon the beach, turned bottom
upwards, he saw a boat which had
been cast ashore.


He FASTENED towards it, recog-
nized it as the GRE in which he
owned half interest, aud under
one side of it found Pedro Nunez,
crushed to death.


By strange fatality, the man
who heartlessly left Leon to die,
had been driven ashore by the
storm, and killed almost at the feet
of his intended victim.
The mast had been broken in
two, but was still held by the rig
ging. otherwise the boat was unin.
jured.


There were nails and hatchet
in the locker Leon repaired the
mast, spliced the rigging, and by
evening had everything ready to
leave the island; bat as the sea
was still quite rough, concluded to
wait until the next day before he
started.


In the morning he LAUGHED the
boat, with the body of Pedro in it
and sailed for home with a favorine
wind.


There was more than Mint
DAYS wonder excited In Conchtown
when, late that,afternoon, the boa
| glided into the cove, and the peo-
pie saw that it was steered by Leon
who was mourned rs dead, anC
contained the corpse of Pedro.


Leon was the lion of the hour
the faithful Anita recovered he
health and spirits, and they wer'
married.
Year: 1878

A man who can stand great
grief and conceal it, and hug 1t to
his bosom, and 90 smiling around
the world, can't conceal his emotion
when a fly lights on his rose while
the barber is scraping his throat
This is what makes it so difficult to
get correct statistics of those who
really fall from grace.-Keokuh
Constitution.
Year: 1878

The discovery has been made
that the world does not revolve
with the same motion it did
thousand years ago but it still
swings around fast enough to sat.
isfy the man with a heavy bill
coming due.
Year: 1878

THE resistance by the Bosnians to the
Austrian army of occupation is explained by
a correspondent of the London Times, who
states that very few Bosnians have ever
heard of the Berlin Congress or its decisions,
and knew nothing beyond the fact that for
eigners have invaded their country. He says
that if the Austrians had first occupied the
districts along the Save, where the population
know them, and where they were not
opposed by single shot, and then waited
until the inland populations had fully UNDER
stood the objects of the occupation by means
of natives sent from the occupied territory
into the interior, and from visitors from the
latter to the former, there would in all prob
ability have been no opposition to the move
ment OF the Austrian troops.
Year: 1878

THESE are the lessons the New York


Times draws from the Maine election: In
the meantime we can only attribute this
most unfortunate and disgraceful incident
In our politics to the misguided discomfort of
the rural population of Maine, oppressed by
debt rashly incurred, and laying hold of any
hope Of relief extended to them, without re-
Election as to the real and permanent effect OF
the measures to which they have given their
approval. That at the very crisis of the long
and arduous struggle which the country has
undergone to overcome the evils brought on
by paper money and the waste of war, so con-
servative State as Maine has always been
should allow the illusion of initiation and
possible reputation to make such progress
among her people is grievous disappoint-
grave discredit to herself. But the result
does not justify any condemnation of the Re-
publican policy in the State. That party
comes out of the conflict with well.defined
convictions, firmly held and courageously
maintained. No concessions it could possibly
have made would have saved it from defeat,


while they would have cost it all hope of
future redemption, and would have made re-
demption weary and difficult task. There
can be no doubt that in the bitter contest
which awaits the country, the principles of
honesty and sober common sense must win
in the long run. 1t is cause of just con-
graduation to themselves and to the country
that the Republicans of Maine have been true
to those principles. When the present craze
for short and easy way of paying debts
without means, for making something of
absolute nothing, shall have passed away, the
Maine Republicans who have kept their heads
cool and their courage firm, will be able to
hold up an untarnished standard, about
which better informed and juster public
opinion can and will rally. The Democrats,
on the other hand, have lost everything, con-
sistency, honor, and political advantage.
They have given their birthright for mess
of pottage, and have not won the pottage.
When the people regain their senses, when
they come to see by the clear light of expert
ence and reflection the hopelessness of the
illusion by which they have been for the mo-
ment misled, they will turn with disgust and
indignation from the tricksters whose facie
morality and low cunning betrayed the cause
they once pretended to serve. Bitter as is
the chagrin and regret of the Republican
leaders at the reflection that they have over
rated the honesty and sense of the people of
Maine, it cannot be so hard to bear as the
consciousness of the Democrats that their
base traffic with the soft-money men has re-
duced them to the lowest rank in the State,
while it has rendered them utterly incapable
of gaining popular confidence after the mo-
mentary madness shall have passed of.
Year: 1878

The Providence Journal says: The expec-
tation Of stable and honest and just curren-
cy upon which to found business transactions
Is rudely shaken by this news from Maine.
THERE'S less hope, less faith in the future, less
disposition to enter upon legitimate transac-
tions, less confidence in the intelligence Of
the voter, less belief In the glory of the future
of our country. And all this without regard
to party lines. The Democrat who is en-
gagged in business, who has capital to lose, or
who depends upon his capacity, caution and
honesty to make fortune, or who, having
retired from active life with competency, is
anxious to leave it to his children, is equally
dazed and discouraged as is the Republican.
Year: 1878

SAYS the Boston Journal; 1t Is due to the
Republicans of Maine to say that they have
made magnificent fight, and to predict thai
the good influence of such contest will be
felt by the party when the delusion which
swept the State has been exposed and the in
jury it has inflicted will be regretted by those
who have had hand in it. 1t always pays
parties, as well as individuals, to maintain
their integrity. This the Republicans Of
Maine have done and they will reap their re-
ward
Year: 1878

APPOINTMENT Treasury official expresses the
following opinion on the effect of the proposed
specie resumption: "The recent letter of the
Treasury TO United States Treasurer Gilfiilan.
directing him to exchange standard silver
dollars for greenbacks after September 16,
is regarded at the Treasury Department as a
practical resumption of specie payments,
more sweeping In its effect even than
the resumption act of January first
next. The last named law provides for
resumption in sums of fifty dollars and its
multiple at sub-treasuries, whereas the letter
OF the Secretary OF the Treasury OF Saturday
makes no limit to the amounts, and pre-
scrlbes no particular place, except sub.treasu-
ries, where the exchange of silver for green
backs is to be made. 1t is thought that the
effect of the new order will be to wholly de-
stroy the small remaining premium on gold,
thus making the paper, silver and gold dollar
OF equal value as circulating medinm. 1t Is
not, however, thought that the order will
place many silver dollars in crculation,a as the
amount coined will be mainly used In





tically makes greenbacks equal with gold and
silver for the payment of customs. 1t is not
believed that any considerable amount o I
silver will be taken from the Treasury, be-
cause for the purpose Of commerce green
backs are preferable, and the new one and
two dollar notes may now be had at the
Treasury in any amount. The letter issued
several weeks ago, known as the one thous-
and dollar order,' which provides for sending
silver dollars in sums of from one to ten
thousand dollars, has had the effect to take
out of the Treasury about two millions of
dollars, making in all something more than
three millions of dollars now in practical cir
culation. There are, therefore, ten millions
OF dollars in the Treasury, which is considered
enough for use in the payment of customs.
In New York city, from three to five thous-
and dollars are paid for customs daily. The
sub-treasury at San Francisco, since the pas
sage of the Silver bill, has issued five and a
half millions of dollars in silver certificates in
payment for silver bullion, and four and q
half millions are now in New York city, hay-
ing beensent on, mostly by mail. There are
now in the vaults Of the Treasury, seventy
seven millions of dollars'in greenbacks. The
greenbacks received at the Treasury under
| Saturdays order in exchange for silver will
be paid out again in the actual course of
| business"
Year: 1878

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
atoms. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as a guaranty of good faith.


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

TAKEN IN AND DONE FORA young man
from the counter-re," who was advised by q real
friend 10 get q bottle or Dr.. HEKSDoa's GYPsYAs
GIFT, applying to q certain druggist who didn't
have II on hand and vino wanted to get of some or
his dead stock, was induced to take something else
just as good" The result was he wasted his money
and saved his rheumatsm-rather bad economy, by
the way-until he got the Gift from live druggist.
Don,t fef ,crn serve non So w..
Year: 1878

Solomon may slip in with his cruel maxim
of "Spare the rod aud spoil the child :" he has
no business about my place while my children
are tender. | can no more be hard on them
than Jesus could. If hurt them in this evil
way, l hurt those who are Of the kingdom of
Heaven. My gray hairs have brought me
this wisdom (and woe is me, l should be SO
wise y, that the objectionable sin is to be
hard on tender child. do not know wheth-
er God forgives me: know / do not forgive
myself. They forget, l hope; do not for
get. No cut of the hand or the tongue ever
fell from true father ON such child, that
failed to ache forever in the heart of the Civ
er and no such thing was ever done which
was not a damage all round. do not won
der the old grandsire is SO gentle with the
second generation. He will not tell you, or
himself perhaps. how it is he is so tender with
these new buds on the tree of life. He is try
ing to make it up to them poor man, it is all
he can do now. He would fain recall some
passages in his fatherhood, but that cannot
be done and so he chokes back the inextin-
guishable regret, and humbly tries to get even
through the over-measure. Now, we always
walk softly if we do not know our way and
that way lies through great shadows; and
here is where the child differsfro the machine.
We know what the machine can do; we have
no such knowledge of the child. My boy
may nave lhcui'l III lonstnnioh VI mn M
ture, which in thirty years will be benedic-
tion to the human family but to-day, through
the overpus of its power compared with his
other powers and his knowledge of the world
he lives in. it may look like a vice to me, and
may grow TO be a vice, if do not say, The
child is tender will lead on softly" will
suppose he is born with an overplus of imag


nation, so that things appear to him as reali-
ties which have no existence except as the
magic light of that imagination has thrown a
picture against the white surface of his world.
And so / suddenly discover, as imagine, that
he is lying right and left; and then he gets,
not gentle guidance through which he can
find the line at last between thoughts and
| things. but first stern warning, and then
what call good sound whipping. Many
minister has fogged his boy for this turn,
when he ought to have fogged himself like
one of the old hermits. Here is a case in
which they are alike, but with n difference.
The sire has been drawing on his imagination,
time out of mind, for the matter of his ser
mons. The son has come honestly by the
faculty but he is not shrewd enough to see
how far he can go without being found out.
| The rein lies on the neck of his power as yet,
and so it carries him whittier it will and
then perhaps the father even prays for him at
the family altar, as if he were q son of perdi-
tion, and helps to make him one through such
prayers Gently" l would say to such a
| man. turn the lash the other way pray for
insight and foresight; this may be u rare gift
you do not understand. The loftiest poet
that ever sang may be but vaster liar by
your base criterion. .-RO6ert COLlyer.
Year: 1878

The CHINESE FAMNE.-The well-fed Amer
lean public reads in the Asiatic news of the
day that seventy millions of human beings are
starving to death in four provinces of China,
and the announcement makes less impression
upon it than the death of almost any dis
tinguished man of our own nation. And yet
if the busy throng reflects long enough to
catch the significance of these figures it should
be startled and appalled, by the magnitude of
suffering and death which they represent.
For these seventy millions are men and wo-
men and their children. They are human in
their anatomy, human in their thoughts, af-
fections, hopes, fears and aspirations, and
this almost countless swarm is threatened
with wholesale starvation. Let us imagine
every man, woman and child i'll the United
States and the Canadas with only the scantiest
store of the coarsest food on hand and no
hope of replenishing il, and to this number
add about twenty millions more in the same
condition and We shall get an idea of the ex-
tent and growing horror of the Chinese fam
inc. Take all the living human beings on the
globe and here are a sixteenth of them in the
fearful extremity of famine. 1t is the prob
lem OF life and not of indigestion with which
they are contending, and it seems likely to
prove too knotty for their solution.
Year: 1878

The CHINESE Six COMPANIES at San Fran
cisco pronounce the dispatches from Chicago
in reference to the employment of Chirese
They declare that they have never as yet con-
tracted for or let the labor of one of their
cOuntrymen that they neither have the power
or desire TO do So and that they have had no
communication with Chicago, nor is any one
authorized to act for them in the procurement
Of labOrerS. They declare further that their
cOuntrymen earn from twenty-five to forty
dollars per month at shoemaking in San Fran
CISCO and that thirty dollars would not induce
one of them to 90 to Chicago.
Year: 1878

A BOLD GANG OF RUFFIANs.-In New York.
about midnight on Saturday, a respectable
woman returning to her home was seized by
carried bodily to a secluded spot within five
blocks of police station, and outraged She
screamed loudly while being carried off, and
doubtless many persons heard her cries, but
ably be restrained by fears for his personal
safety from interfering with body OF deSpe-
rate ruffians, so no one came to the poor
wOman'S assistance until a citizen fOund a
policeman and led him to the spot bur no
arrC StS were made
Year: 1878

a private letter. He remarks: Our democratic
friends had better tie up their sore heads and
come together like band of political brothers
shall surely attain if they act together harmo


niOusly. No man has been treated worse than
myself by individual members of the party.
and hope every one Of them will be defeated
In his aspirations for a denomination, il good
democrats can take their place, but not other
Year: 1878

THE TERRIBLE YELLOW FEVER PLAGUE
One hundred and thirty-four new cases of yell
low fever were reported yesterday at New Or
leans and 20 deaths had occurred. The weather
was showery and unfavorable for the sick.
phis, but is confined to one locality Nine new
cases and three deaths were reported yester.
day. An urgent appeal is made on behalf of
providing for the sick and destitute victims of
the yellow fever. The mayor and cOuncilmen
al all down with the disease, which is of the
most malignant character
Year: 1878

ACCORDING to an official statement in the
English Parliament the deaths from famine in
India run up to the appalling figures of one
million three hundred and fifty thousand, and
it is very probable that this Is rather below
than above the actual number who have died
Year: 1878

SECRETARY SHERMAN does not expect to
return to Washington much before the end Of
this month. After remaining here few days
he will go to Ohio and make at least one cam.
paign speech, as an offset to the late speech o.
Senator Thurman.