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Year: 1875

Old Deacon Sidelinker was a Well
tO-do marine farmer, who occasional
ly so far wandered from the paths Of
reetitude and strict morality as to
imbibe sundry fluid extracts, and on
such occasions found it difficult, il
not impossible, to retain an equili-
brium, and while he managed with
wonderful powers Of mind and body
to preserve gravity of demeanOr,
the center of gravity was entirely
lost.


One day the old deacon had been
absorbing liquids of a highly exhilar-
ating nature pretty freely and wan
dered into the field where his men
were cutting hay.


81 say (hic)," said he, sustaining
his dropping frame against an apple
tree, "yOu (hic) haint cutting that
grass even not by al mean not all
even" Just at this moment the fer
menting fluids within him gained
the ascendancy over his physical
powers, and be rolled on the ground
al in a sad heap. Raising his head
up, and rolling his bleared optics
wildly around he said, "Well (hic),
come to stOop down here where 1 can
get good sight along the field (hic) |
see it is cut even after all.
Year: 1875

Some somnambu!ists have been
able to walk on places where, had
they been awake, they never would
have been able to endure the dizzy
height; and see some Christians, II
indeed they be Christians, running
awful risks, which I think they would
never venture upon unless they had
fallen into deep sleep Of carnal Sc
curity. Speak of man slumbering
at the mast head, it is nothing to a
professor of religion at ease, while
covetousness is his master, or worldly
company his delight. II professors
were awake, they would see their
danger and avoid sinful amusements
and ungodly associations as men fly
from fierce tigers or deadly cobras.-
SpUrgeOn.
Year: 1875

The famous athlete, Tom Slyers,
was once asked by a gentleman,
"Well, Thomas, I suppose when you
are training you use plenty OF beef
steaks and London porter and ale %


The boxer replied ''In my time
have drunk more than was good foI
me but when have business 10 do,
there's nothing like water and the
dumb bells" After retiring from
"business'i be took TO drink and died
a sot Cold water made him 3 Sam
son alcohol laid him in his grave


AS a matter of personal health and
long life, sit is good not not to drink
wine" and as an example to Others,
total Abstinence is q christian virtue.
Year: 1875

Lord Brougham is credited with
saying that a child learns more be-
tween the ages Of eighteen and thirty
months, in certain branches OF kuowl-
edge, than in all the rest Of his life.
This may be an exaggeratiOn, but IL
will suffice t. indicate the importance
Of the primary department under our
public educational system-in which
the processes ought TO be quite as
much formative as instructive.
Year: 1875

The first right of every child is TO be well
born; aud by this mean that it has a right
TO the best conditions physical, mental aud
moral, that it is in the power OF the parents
10 secure. Without thi, the child il de-
frauded of his rights at the outset. and his
life can hardly fail Of being a pitiiul protest
against broken laws. Centuries of prepara-
tiou fitted the earth for mans occupancy
limiting thus the grandeur OF his destiny
and suggesting that IN an event of such
magnitude as the ncauating of a soul pro-
visions should be exercised, and all the best
conditions secured iu aid of a harmonious
and happy result. Good health, good hab-
it,, sound mentality aud reyerent love should
form the basis OF every new life that is in
yokcd. The mother who gives herself up to
morbid fancies. who considers her health an
excuse for petulance and nou-cXercise OF
seli-control. proves herself unworthy Of the
holy office ol mother and ought not to be
surprised if she reap at later day the bit
ter harvest Of her nwiSe sowing. Second
in Importance to none, as a means of secur-
ing the happines. and best good OF child
hood and youth, i, the right to be taught
obedience II is easy to submit to what we
know is inevitable, and to the little child
the requirement OF the parent should be law
without appeal The tender, immature be-
ing, shut in by the unknown, where every
relation is a mystery and every advance an
experiment, has a right 10 fud itself every
where sustained and directed by the parent.
1t should not be tempted to resistance by
laws that are imperfectly enforced nor sub
jected to the injurious friction Of discussion
by having long list of reasons given for
every requirement. The habit Of obedience
to the parents may be formed before the
child is two years old, and this is neces-
sary precedent of obedience to law, the next
stage of true development. The child has
q right to ask questions and to he fairly au.
swerad not 10 be snubbed as il he were
gully ut an impertineucc. nor ignored as
though his desire for information were of
NO consequence, nor misl,.l as if it did not
signify whether true or false impressions
We're made upon his mind. lie has a right
to bee taught everything which lac desires to
learn, aud to be made certain, when any
asked-ior information is withheld, that it is
only deferred till he is older and better pre-
pared to receive il. Answering q child's
questions is sowing the seeds of il. future
character.-l l'c'orid Naga-He.
Year: 1875

Observe, the higher q mans emotions, the
higher his character For ordinary life,
nothing more is needed than our animal and
individual, and social passion but for the
noble work OF life We need reverence for
God, regard for right, conservation to God.
Observe, too, that the culture of man is
more seen in the nature of his heart than
anywhere else and observe, also that the
heart is cultivated not when our affections
are allowed to eyaporate in dumb show, but
when our emotions are transmitted into life.


Here is the great difference between SEN
timentalism and genuine Christian feeling.
Paul was no sentimentalist, for he changed
ever his emotion into action. II is some
times said in complimentary terms of a
preacher His sermon was remarkably
eloquent it drew tears from my eyes" 4
sermon the effect of which should end in
tears, would certainly be failure. 1t is not
emotion alone that is of value in the sight
of God, or of an intelligent man, but it is
emotion translated into liie.-Dr. HareH.
Year: 1875

Never listen to small, unpleasant state
ments made by your child il they relate to
his playfellows Not that a child should
ever be made 10 feel that he has no sylnpa-
thy in his small troubles, but it is just as
easy, and even easier, 10 teach him a chiv-
alric sentiment of endurance while he is in
the beginning of his childhood, as it is after
ward III his companions be selfish and ar
rogant, show him how disagreeable and des-
picable quality it is, and instruct him to
abhor it in himself. Complaining is in it.
self mean-spirited thing, and tattlng is
still worse, and a child cannot too soon com
prehend its baseness. And here a wise,
strong and careful distinction must be made.
While the child is brought 10 feel the full
sympathy OF the mother, and an entirely con
fidng habit is encouraged about things that
relate solely to himself, the small faults of
his fellows are not subjects 10 be included
in this complementary are to remain for
ever unspoken TO her or 10 anybody. OF
course, we do not mean that knowledge of
criminal conduct in a companion should not
be shared with the parents, but even such
relations should be told in the most sacred
trust aud secrecy, as one would confess their
own sins TO their Maker. The small petu-
lances, trning misdeeds, arrogant assump-
tions, demands Tor the best positions when
at play, greed for sweetest pleasures by
playmates, very naturally rouse dissensions
among small people as they do among ma
turer ones. 1t is the mothers duty to dis
cover these unpleasant habits in her child's
companions aud while not encouraging
statement from him, in regard to them, she
should not permit the principles involved in
them to pass without making them subjects
of useful conversation. But the names Of
the children who are involved in the talk
about misdeeds should never be spoken by
the mother, The principles of justice and
honor are enough for proper amount of
discussion and instruction. To make the
noble qualities of manhood and womanhood
beautiful their charms should be familiar
10 the child, and so interviewer in his young
thoughts that selishness, petnlance, COM
planning, disappearing of others to make his
own way seem right, should all seem senti-
ments unworthy Of him.-The Metropolitan.
Year: 1875

Very few, probably, of the thousands who
throw old shoes after bridal parties as they
are leaving home know anything OF the orr
gin Of the custom. Like almost all OF our
common customs, its origin is ancient, and
can be traced to Bible times. II was then
the custom for the brother of childless
man to marry his widow, or at least he had
the refusal Of her. Ii he chose to reject her,
the ceremony was public, and consisted in
her loosng his shoe from his foot and spit
ting in his face


His giving up the shoe was a symbol OF
his abandoning all dominion over her, and
her splitting in his face was an assertion of
Independence. There was an affair OF this
kind between Ruth and Boaz. In some
parts of the East it was a custom 10 carry a
slipper before a newly married couple rs a
token of their subsection.


Tlre custom as il exists with rs is very
old in England and Scotland The usual
saying is that it is thrown for luck, and that
is the idea in this country, hut originally it
meant a remuneration of authority over the
| bride by the parents. IL was formerly 4
custom among the Germans for the bride,
when she was conducted TO her bod-cham-
| Der. TO take off her shoe and throw it among
| the guests Whoever got IL in the strug-
! Gle to obtain it received it as an omen that
| he or she would soon be happily married.


Train, in his history Of the 81 Isles Of
Man" says; "On the bridegroom leaving
/ his house, it was customary TO throw an old
shoe after him, and in like manner an old
shoe after the bride on leaving her home to
proceed to church, in order to insure good
luck to each respectively, and il by strate-
gem either Of the brides shoes could be
taken off by any spectator ON her way from
church, it had to be ransomed by the bride
/ groom"


In Kent England, after the couple have
started on their tour, the single ladies are
drawn up in one row and the bachelors in
another An old shoe is then thrown as far
as possible, and the ladies run for it, the
successful one being supposed to be the first
female who will get married. She then
throws the shoe at the gentlemen, and the
one who is hit by il is deemed to be the first
male who will enter into wedlock. Generally
il is considered the older the shoe the better.
Year: 1875

We are glad the owners are meeting
with success in the sale of this ma
chine. When its merits are under
stood it will be az Indispensable to he
farmer as a cooking store. 1t is just
the thing for this country. There
never was country discovered so pro.
ductive, where all the vegetables and
fruits that will grow anywhere can be
raised, and with market our farmers
would be the richest men In the world.
BY the use of this machine the world
becomes the market, and buyers will
come from all parts of the civilized
globe. These dried fruits and vegeta-
bles are always fresh, and never SUBJ
ject to worm as some dried fruits are.
Every vineyardist ought to be making
raisins 10y the ton on one of these ma
chimes. There Is no danger of glutting
the market. Our own State and Ne
vada will furnish q market for every
pound of raisins or dried grapes that
can be made in California. We look





great blessings of the age. The people
OF half the world are suffering for fresh
vegetables and fruits, and will give
any price for them. The trouble has
formerly been that machinery to can
fruits so as to retain their freshness
was too expensive for the farmer; but
now for $l0O every farmer can have
one at home, and the price of the ma
chine can be saved in two weeks.
Grapes are now worth one cent per
pound. Three pounds of grapes will
make one pound of raisins, and twelve
to fifteen cents can always be obtained
for good raisins. The operation is 80
simple that the women and children
can dry all the fruit on the place and
enjoy IL as a pastime. Their card will
be seen In another column.
Year: 1875


Up on the breezy hcadand the flshcrman's grave
they made,
Where over the daisies and clover bells the birchch
branches swaycd;
Above us the lark was singing in the cloudcss skies
Of June,
And under the cliffs the blllows were chanting their
Ccascless tune;
For the creamy line was curvlng along the hollow
Shore
Where the dear old tides were flowing that he would
ride no more.
The drgc Of the wayc the note of the bird and the
priests low tone were blCnt
In the breeze that blew from the moorland all laden
with country scent;
But never thought OF the ncw-mown hay tossing
on sunny plains,
Or Of lilies deep in the wild wood, or roses gcmmlng
the lanes,
Were In the hearts OF the stern Dronzcd men VINO
gathered around the grave,
Where lay the mate who had fought with them
The battle of wind and wave.
How boldly he stecred the coblc across the foaming
bar,
When the Sky was black 10 eastward and the break
ers white on the Scarf
How his keen eye caught the squall ahead how his
strong hand furlcd the sail,
As we drove DER the angry waters before the raging
gale
How CHEEKY he Kept all the long dark night, and
never person spoke
Good words like those he said to u.s. when at last the
morning broke
SO thought the dead mans comrades as silent and
sad they stood,
While the prayer was prayed the blessing said, and
the dun earth struck the wood;
And the widows sob and the orphans wall, Jared
through the joyous air;
How could The light wind DER the sea blow on so
fresh and fair?
How could the gay waves laugh and leap, landward
Ger sand and stone,
While he who knew and loved them all, lay tapped
in clay alone?
But for long, when to the bCctng heights the snow
tipped blllows roll,
When the cod, and skate and doghsh dart around
the herring shoal;
When gear is sorted, and sails are set and the mer-
ry breeles blow,
And away to the deep scaharvcst the talwart reap
ers go,
A kindly sigh and hearty word they Will give to
him who lies
Where the clover springs, and the heather blooms,
beneath the northern skies.


No
Year: 1875

4 TRAMp.-Only a tramp. lie came
walking in, with Il bundle of clothes aud AN
odor Of gin. lIaggard and worn with rheu-
matte pace, and the bloom of roses upon his
face. On the waste paper basket he took q
seat, and the table embellished he with his
feet lie sat on genius without regret, and
it got all the pressing twill ever get Down,
still down in the basket he went, till he lii
on "A pin that was slightly bent, Without
delay he rose from his sit" and talked pro-
fame history little bit; then down stairs
went my improysed friend, with the toe o!
my boot on his gable end, Kindly | helped
him Sour steps at bound, till he revolyed
out ON solid ground. lie shook his fist at
our sanctum door, and made a few demon
strations more. Then, with his clothes and
odor of gin, the tramp went off as he didn't
come in
Year: 1875

SICK AGAIy.-Lorenzo Gill, the white man
who WAS picked up in the street Saturday
night suffering from commissions, came TO
the First station-house yesterday evening 10
beg nights lodging. lie was shortly alter,
wards again seized with convulslons, ana
had to be sent back TO the almshouse in the
city ambulance.
Year: 1875

ALLEGED PolsoNlNG.-Dr. Taylor was
called upon few days since to examine
some coffee which, it is alleged, bad been
poisoned by the cook of we'll known gen.
tleman's family in this city and then given
to the nurse. The nurse stated last evening
that she had procured warrant for the
cook, and that the cook bad frequently
threatened to take her life. The Doctor found
quicksilver in the coffee and when the war.
rant is executed the matter will probably be
made public
Year: 1875

The acting contest is exciting our anna
teurs. Those who believe themselves likely
to be cast for leading parts are willing to
leave the matter to Mr.. Browne. The plan
most satisfactory would probably be one
already suggested. 1t is to let each one of
the clubs cast Julius Cesar from their
own n members, and play the tragedy
through on the same night, the club playin z
it best 70 wear the belt. The audience, par
ticularly on warm night, would not be
expected to stay beyond the third repre-
sentation, say fifteen acts of legitimate in
June; but the judges, who are to be paid
for their services. would remain until the
fall of the last Roman. In this way only
can the superiority of clubs be determined.
A tragedy might be slaughtered with a
picked nine, but such cast would not de
fine the status of any particular club, which
at this time s very important.
Year: 1875

An item which appeared in our columns
yesterday morning leaves the inference that
the census takers of the tenth ward in this
city had not yet finished their work, which
is not tha case. We are assured that the
officers commissioned to do the work for the
tenth ward completed their labors on the
twenty-unth of May, and Immediately
thereafter made returns to the proper
Officer
Year: 1875

ballroom on a cosy little stage, the
amateur drama held full sway. Above all
the blue empyrean, studded with stars,
rays stretched like an amethyst veil
all fretted with gems over the scene
of life and joy and beauty. At ten
o'clock dancing begun, and leaving the
revelers in the full tide of enjoyment this
star of the morn, the REPUBLICAN may
carry to the homeward bound guests the
story of the generous hospitality of the New
Orleans Rifle Club
Year: 1875

The lanterns were hung out in the
tower of the old North Church in Bos
ton on Sunday night, 10y Robert New
man, son of the sexton OF the church
who performed the same duty a hum
dred years ago, when the British took
up their line of march. The grandson
and great grandson of Paul Revere
were also present.
Year: 1875

Ten ortwelve years ago there was u
miner working in the upper levels of the
Comstock at S. per day. He lived in a


little cabin down the CANYON, did his own
cooking, and *list!cd softly There's a
good time coming boys. To-day that mi
ncr walks about the street: Of Virginia


City, as cordial IS in the old days; he
dresses no better than any ordinary gen.
tlcman Of vi yinia, and eats no better
food than conscientious editor ought to
have. And yet, as lis fortune is rated in
the stock list daily, lie is so rich that,
were his stock turned into money, lie
could LEND Scott that SO 900, 900 he waits
and have enough left to live comfortably
upon. lie could, unailcd, go down and


open, at his own expense, the Darien Co.
nal; or should his fancy run that way, he
could advertise tomorrow that the Gov
ernmcnt through him had determined to
resume Immediately specie payment, and
pretty nearly make the promise good -
He could entlow 4 college in each State
Of the Union with $4,000 0C0 each, or
could build a double track narrow gauge
railroad from San Francisco to New York
and solve at once the problem Of cheap
transportation. There is 10 telling, in


deed, what he might do; but what he
Will do is apparent enough. He was hero
when thirty feet of Gre near the surface
was big mine. At 1890 he has found
it three or four times IS wide He be


lievcs at 1900 he Will s!rikc it 500 fee
wide, and get rich, and he is going for it
Year: 1875

rounds minute. The cartridges are
stored in an iron tube, which is placed
parallel with the barrel, and contains
thirty balls, SO that the ricce may be fir
ed as many times almost without any in
tcrval, and without removing the stock
from the shoulder, there being nothing to
be done but cock and pull the trigger.
Year: 1875

excessive soiling of the hands, and the
action Of the acid on the delicate nerves
at the ingerends is anything but pleas
ant-and then, in distinguished society,
II seems vulgar TO have the fingers soiled
like those of servant. Many ladies'
who love peaches dearly" will forego
the pleasure Of eating them rather than
present so uncouth an appearance before
their friends, and especially before those
fastidious bachelors who are kept from
matrlmony because all the ladies they
know are so vulgar as to eat.


Our method is simply this: Cat the
fruit open in the middle and remove the
pit; hold the hemisphere in the left hand
1t will scarcely be soiled-the outer
skin shielding the fingers, and use a
spoon, dessert or tea, TO scoop out the
pulp and juice and carry it to the mouth.
You thus escape the disagreeableness
and vulgarity oil soiled fingers, and that
irightful temptation to suck the finger
ends, which not all the ladies Of our ac-
qoaintance are able to resist.


To add little powdered sugar to the
fruit as il reposes in the velvety cover
ing, adds to the exquisite feast the sac
carine which, in cold season like this,
it seems to need in order to be palpable
to most persons Follow these simple
suggestions and you will find new adjec-
tives or superlatives for the old ones to
describe the lusciousness Of the great
American fruit. FLORENCE
Year: 1875

Everybody knows how to eat peach,
it may be said, and yet everybody may
not know the best way. We refer not to
the general way this luscious fruit is dis.
posed of on the streets, or at irregular
times and places, but the after.dinner
eating, in the regular fruit course. The
fruit should come 10 the table whole
the larger and more perfect in form the
better. To eat o peach with tlier outer
skin is too outre for any lqdy or gentle
man. This must be avoided. To peel
the peach with q fruit-knife involves the
Year: 1875

Below me there was a miserable con.
glomeration Of houses good and bad.
Across the way there was butter mar
kot of extraordinary dimensions, while
in the vile and unswept streets the pigs
and people swarmed on a common foot
ing, the amenities Of which were only
disturbed by an occasional sharp dispute
as to the right of way. Surely thy
music, 0 Shsndon bells, speaks Of fairer
scenes than these, and thy melody rang
in the ears Of the wanderer beyond the
seas when, fortunately, the unsavory
odors--the only incense that curls about
thee-had perished on the gale.
Year: 1875

WILL BUY A QUARTER BOND OF THE
w Industrial Exhibition Company Of New


Each Quarter Bond participates in -Four
deemed. - AZ


n The following Premiums show what any
BOND may receive. A quarter Bond would
receive one quarter Of the below named pre-
Year: 1875

The miners Of Brookheld, Ohio have
received notice Of per cent. reduction.
How much lower


A former State Geologist Of Illinois was
in Humboldt recently. While there he
gave it as his opinion that vein Of coal
nnderlaid the county in that vicinity. He
thought the vein would pay to work, and
that it could be found three miles east of
Humboldt.
Year: 1875

OTTAWA, December 20.-The premier
notified the Montreal deputation that all
the work on the Lachine canal possible to
be done in winter would be contracted for
at once, and thus provede work for one
thousand men.