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Year: 1879

A publication Of the navy list for 1879
shows that out of 1868 officers less than
one half are at sea. Of the rest 523 are
doing land service of one kind and another.
and about one man in eight is doing moth
ing. OF those doing "sea service" u large
share spend their time on vessels securely
anchored in the Mediterranean, where
their craft is usually undergoing re! airs.
Year: 1879

The honest man who is out of debt and
has enough to eat and drink and wear, and
a place to sleep beneath tight roof, be-
longs to the aristocracy. With the smile
of God and place 10 labor, he has nothing
to desire save the crown that awaits the
promoted.
Year: 1879

An old darkey caught two-pound
sucker one day and was SO well sa l>fied


with his work that he lay down for ntp
with the fish beside him IN the grass.


Another darkey came along presently.
picked up the sucker and left u halfpound
one in its place. When the first man and
brother woke up. the first thing his eyes
sought was the fish, and it took him some
seconds 10 realize that something had
happened. Then turning his prizr over
and examining it all round, he IMPLY
said, "Goly, how dat fish am shrunken!"
Year: 1879

The christening Of the Wsccacce
steam FIRE engine No. s, that IS expect
I'd, will not BE- recognized by the
company unless 1t bs done by water
from stream attached to the engine to
bs christened. The former statement
that the christening will not be r-cog-
D'zed unless it be by an engine Of the
sams make was incorrect.
Year: 1879

In the United States District Court
now bsing held at Pittsburg, young
man namrd g. B. Matths" son is being
tried ON the charge of robbing post
office, and the evidence as published
seems almost conclusive as to his guilt
By the prisoners side is seated almost
continuously very handsomely and
f4shionably dressed young lady. The
latter is daughter of a well-known
minister, and her bright, beautiful and
innocent looking face seems singularly
oat of place at the bar Of q criminal
court. The devotion Of this girl cling
ing to her lover charged with helm
Gus crims has excited for her great
deal of sympathy.
Year: 1879

The first victim at Police Court this
morning had two charges preferred
against him for disorderly conduct.
Que was general charge Of drunk aud
and the other specific case
Of breaking window while drunk. In
the first tl.OO and costs reduced the
in the law and $500 and costs
did the same in the window case.
Year: 1879

The Baldwin locomotive works in
Philadelphia employ 1900 men, and a.
mong their latest and largest contracts
is one to build twenty locomotives for
the Philadelphis and Reading railroad
company. Sixteen out Of the twenty
are what is known as the consolidation
type OF freight engine, the heaviest and
most powerful in Anerican practice.
All these locomotives for the Reading
road will bs furnished with the patent
Are-box for burning refuse coal dust.
Year: 1879

The Paris Journal des Dsbsts Of Oc.
tober 9th, says: Day before yesterday
morning q crowd collected around q
heavy wagon drawn BY three horses,
on tue Boulevard Bsssieres. Its load
Of coal weighed no less than $4,000 Kill
ogrammes. Consequently when that
part Of the boulevard had been reached
where there Is quite difficult ascent,
the poor exhausted beasts stopped
short. In vain the driver beat them
the team would not bulge. Then the
man in q terrible rage, began kicking
the horses and striking them with the
but of the whip. That was too much !;
suddenly the leading horse seized the
brutal fellow with his tsrth and tram
pied him under foot, after having bit.
ten him severely several times. He
WAS picked up by the bystandsrs and
carried to the Hospital, where he lies
in critical condition.
Year: 1879

A correspondent in the Rural World shows
some points of difference between British
and American methods of feeding stock, as
follows In Great Britain turnips are cut,
reduced to a pulp and mixed with cut hay
or straw, and allowed to ferment Hay and
straw are always cut up and mixed with
meal. Stock raisers in England buy oil
cake, which Americans consider too expen-
sive They wet and use it with cut hay and
straw and meal and pulped turnips. The
manure from such feeding is regarded as of
great value.
Year: 1879

Three or four bushels of corn meal, with
quart of salt, in a hogshead of water,
stirred occasionally for three or four days
until it ferments, is much better and far
cheaper than feeding either meal or corn
to growing pigs. You can add bran or
middlings or slops to it; and when half
used, fill up with water, and SO repeat, add
ing meal when needed and a little salt.
This swill will bear good deal Of thinning,
and is the cheapest method known Of
making pork.
Year: 1879

The Island Of Jersey, in the English
Channel, produces a remarkable variety OF
cabbage, called the Jersey COW cabbage,
which grows to the height Of three or four
feet, and is cultivated for fodder. The
stalk, which is tall and very straight, is
often made into walking gsticlls, and when
smoothed off and vanished it is similar in
appearance to bamboo cane.
Year: 1879

The liquid yieldings of animals are worth
more-good authorities say one.sixth more
pound for pound, than the solid excre-
ments, and are saved with greater care by
the best European farmers and gardeners.
All the leaks in the stable are not in the
roof; those often in the floor are quite as
Objectionable, and are the cause Of great
deal of waste.
Year: 1879

Most of the diseases of cattle are caused
by wrong treatment--too much feed at one
time, too little at another; too rich feed at
one time, too little at another; too rich at
one time, too poor at another, etc. If all
cattle and horses were fed, and watered,
and used properly, there would be little
disease
Year: 1879

saw several pumps that were bursted
through the middle. can have no sympa-
thy with such men. think any man with
a little common sense could put his pump
in such condition that it would not freeze.
1 have spigot in my pumps, about two feet
below the floor. turn the spigot handle
so that the water runs out just about as
thick as small straw. This is all very
simple and no patent is on it. You can 60
out in the morning and get water without
trouble, no matter if the mercury indicates
thirty degrees below zero.-D. ". Kern,
Practical Farmer.
Year: 1879

1t is folly to keep old sheep. They should
be turned off to the butcher in their prime.
1t does not take half as much to fatten
them then. When they get old and thin,
in order to put them in condition to
slaughter the whole superstructure must be
rebuilt. Four sets of lambs are all that a
eve should bear; this will bring her to five
years, and this is the age when, with little
extra care, she will round up to fine and
full carcass. Exceptions may be made
when the breed is scarce, and the blood is
more desirable than anything else.-N Y.
Tribune
Year: 1879

1t is more honorable and dignified to be
living independently on farm, making
good butter and cheese and raising abun-
dant crops and fine stock, than to sit in
high places and make bad laws.
Year: 1879

In spite Of the present distress in Eng,
land it is said that in the matter Of wages
the agricultural laborer is better off than
ever he was before, if prices are taken into
account.
Year: 1879

To me EditOr Of The Tribune.


SIR: In a country like ours it is above all
things important that the medium through which the
pcople express their VIII should be protected from
scheming demagogism and unpatriotc partisanShip
To protect the purity OF this medum-the BALLOTS 10
the interest OF every man. woman and child III the Re-
public The Democratic party has made Itself cOnSpc
uous by its usurpatOn of these most sacred rights OF
man-frecdOm OF opinion OF the voice and Will Of the
people. 1t has dened these rights by blOodshed and
violence at the South, and by all sorts OF fraudu
lent manipulation OF votes at tie North.


Such men as these disturbers OF the country's
prosperity. Tney selfish demag0gues not patriots
without hesitation they prostrate the trade of the
country for partisan ends They threaten to stop the
wheels Of oyernment unless their unjust and illegal
claims are acceded by the President. They withhold
the appropriations necessary TO carry the different
departments OF Government aud force upon the
country an session OF Congress- which means an ex-
ira period OF uncertainty ana lack OF confidence In trade
THIS is ONLY too wen excmpied by the present state of
trade IN our city aud throughout the country UP 10
the of March improving, and Du5lDeSS
men looking for brighter times; put as soon as
Congress again met st9gnntOn ensued, ana whereas
OF best business months, trade
Is almost dead II this state of affairs is to last much
longer the business community Will become eXasper-
ated What trade aud the country now need Is To De et
alone Let Congress do its duty pass the appropriation
bills and other necessary and patriotic measures ana
tnen adjourn as possible. But let thOSe VINO
trine with the peoples interests take warning. such
men will find thai the people are quick TO discover VINO
are their real enoies and that they Will express their
vi through the ballot DOX-a balOt-box made pure by
an aroused public sentiment. Very RESPECTFULLY.


GEORGE s. ROBBINS
Year: 1879

1t is noteworthy fact that while the
South is very largely represented by ex-
Confederate military men in Congress,
nearly all of them We're original anti
secessionisls. OF the twelve Georgia
Representatives, eight were open Union
men until the State seeded, and of the
ninety-three members from the South,
eighty-iive were prominent opponents OF
secession. While the S uthrrn people
fought out the war with great courage
and sacrifice, they have little love for the


he suicidal leaders who precipitated
them into rebellion. But for the fact
that jefferson Davis has been imprisoned
and execrated for the oflenses of the South
he would be one of the most unpopular
men In all the reconstructed States to.
day.-1imes
Year: 1879

No use of having the chilis. no use of
headache, ,or any of the ills that come from
disordered or inactive liver. One bot
tie of this old and reliable family remedy
will cure the most stubborn case-wilI
relieve the system and make you feel like
a new person. Tryit and be satisfied.
Year: 1879

USEFUL ADVICE TO YOU'VE MEN
The true girl has to be sought for. She
does not parade herself as show goods
She is not fash onable. Generally, she is
not rich. But oh, what heart she has
when you find her so large and pure and
womanly. When you see it you wonder
If those snowy things outside were women.
II you gain her love your two thousand
are millions. She'll not ask you for a
carriage or asrt-class house. She'll
wear simple dresses, and turn them when
necessary, with no vulgar magnifcat to
frown upon her ceremony. She'll keep
everything neat and nice in your sky par
lor, and give you such welcome when
you csme home that you'll think your
parlor higher than ever. She'll entertain
true friends on dollar, and astonish you
with the new thought hsw little happiness
depends on money. She'll make you love
home t(f you don't you're brute) and
teach you how to pity, while you scorn u
poor, fashionable society that thinks it.
self rich and yainly tries to think itself
happy. Now, do not, l pray you, say
any more, ~ cant afford to marry" Go,
find the true woman, and you can. Throw
away that cigar, burn up that switch
cane, be sensible yourself and seek your
wife in u sensible way. Oliver WendeLt
Holmes.
Year: 1879

1t is strange that in country whose
language, is stored full of the choicest
works of the human mind, and whose
popu is, as whole, so we'll educa -
ted, reading aloud as source of amuse,
ment and means OF enjoyment is so little
resorted to. There are many families
even in book loving New England there
are scores of families we dare say where
a book, or chapter of book, is never
read to the family circle from one end of
the year to another. The individual
members of the family read but all
reading done in the family is silent read
ing. Father has his paper ; mother her
tract Mary her novel Johnny his story
Of wild adventure. Reading there is,
enough Of it but each one reads to him,
self. There is no reading for the whole,
and no grouping of the family into an
audience for an evenings enjoyment, such
as comes to people who hear good
thing we'll read.


Only those who have visited in families
where the gilt OF reading was cultivated
as source Of family enjoyment, and the
custom Of reading aloud to the family is
practiced, can imagine what help and
blessing to the family life such n habit is.
Music is well enough in its way, but its
range Of expression is far narrower than
that Of reading, and for that matter far
less practical in its adaptation to the fam
lily wants. Then, too, singing requires an
instrumental accompaniment, and piano
costs money and requires too much prac,
tlce on the part Of the performer to be
aviable for the many. The art OF reading
well is easily acquired and cheaply taught
and the expressions OF literature are
abundant and varied. II sorrow has be.
fallen on the family, the needed antidote
can be found in prose anc poetry. If fun
is called for, then fun can be had for the
asking for the language is so full of
humor, so quaint and subtle that the bare
recital Of the authors words brings the
point out and "sets the table in a roar"
History, tragedy, comedy, wit, pathos,
sublimity every spring at which the hui
man mind loves to drink can be opened
and the sweet waters be freely given to
every one.


How easy these home readings may be
made Warmth, light, companionship,
culture, happiness. are all included in
them. How much You are missing if
reading is not cultivated as one of the
means of happiness and pleasure in your
family circle for in such an exercise
there is quicSening for the imagna ton,
appeal to judgment, elevation of feeling
opportunity for criticism, which shall
teach the children more of literature in
three hours than they can learn at school
in three weeks. Next to the impulse of
love as means of drawing families to-
gether, is the influence of intellectual
compani nionship. Cultivate this, and see
how satisfactory will be the result
Golden Rule.
Year: 1879

A BATHIN THE DEAD SEA.-A cores
poudent of the Washington Star, who
has had bath In Dead Sea, describes his
experience as follows: The water, which
is quite clear, and nearly the color of the
Niagara river below the Falls, seemed to
me little more bitter and salt than Salt
Lake, although brighter and more attrac>
tive to the eye when seen close at hand.
It's supporting power struck me as a
little greater, also, than that ofSalt Lake,
as the bedy foated more easily and the
difficulty Of swimming was greater on
account of the inability to keep ones feet
under water. So large quantity Of salt
is held in solution that the water has what
ia called l believe "ropy" appearance,
much like that of plate Of we'll made
tapiocs soup. l observed, however, that
when we came out Of the water there was
not SO large q deposit Of sslt crystals on
the body as after bath in Salt Lake, and
the feeling of the skin, instead of being
dry and prickly, as expected, was rath-
or oily and sticky. Our dinner that night
was seasoned with salt made from Dead
Sea water by solar evaporation. 1t was
little lighter in color than the best article
of brown sugar. It's crystals were large
and hard, and, though foreign substances
were evidently present in considerable
quantity, it was not unpleasant to the

taste. | was told that two quarts Of the
water will produce one quart of salt, but
this is probably an exaggeratIon. To
complete the statistics of this remarkable
body of water, may add what many of
my readers may already know-that there
is no living thing of any kind in it that
even driftwood brought down by the
floods in the Jordan is speedily cast upon
its shores /; that its length is about As ard
lis greatest width about 10 miles that it
is over 1900 feet deep at the deepest place;
and that the immense quantity of fresh
water poured into it daily is undoubtedly y
taken up by evaporation, as its great
depth below the basin Of the Mediterran
can must preclude the idea Of subter-
ranean outlet.
Year: 1879

The first thing to be learned by boy
or young man, or anybody else having
the least ambition to become useful
membe of society, is the habit of saving.
No matter if a boy or girl has wealthy
parents, each should learn 10 save, if for
no other reason than that riches are we'll
known to take to themselves wings and
fly away" Few are so well.to do as to
be secure against poverty and want. The
children of the wealthy classes are often
miserably poor; while men of large means
have commenced life without other ad-
vantages than habits of industry, coupled
with the disposition TO save. 1t is espe-
cially important that the children of peo-
pie in moderate circumstances and Of :he
poor, should learn to take care of the
money they get, A boy who is earn
ing twenty five cents or more day,
should manage to save portion OF
it if DO ssible If he can lay by only ten
or fifteen cents week, let him save that.
1t doesn't amount tor much, it is true.
but it is worth saving; it is better saved
than wasted-better saved than thrown
away for tobacco or beer, or any other
worthless or useless article or object. But
the best thing about it is that the boy who
saves five dollars year on a very meager
salary acquires habit of taking care OF
his money, which will be of the utmost
value to him. The reason why working
men, as class, do not get ahead faster,
are not more Independent, is that they
have never learned to save their earnings.
1t does not matter a great deal whether a
man receives a salary Of five shilling a
day or pound, if he gets rid of it all
during the week, so that there is nothing
left on Saturday night, he will not get
rich very rapidly. He will never have
much ahead. But the individual who
receives five shillings per day and is able
to save a shilling, or the one getting a
pound who is careful to lay away five
shillings, is laying up something for a
'"hit hdO bNllS pt'plO NllN GA pew W
labor with their hands for what they may
have of this worlds goods, who have no
ambition or wish to become professional
men, Office holders, or spectators, should
by all means acquire habits OF economy, +,
learn to save. SO surely as they do this
SO surely will they be able to sccumu-
mte, 50 surely will they be in situation
to ask no special favors. Every man
wants to learn to look out for himself.-
Every man needs TO feel that he is the
peer of every other man, and he cannot
do it it he is penniless. Money is power,
and those that have it exert wider influ-
ence than the destitute. They are more
independent. Hence it should be the
ambition of every young man to acquire,
and to do this he must learn 70 save.
This Is the first lesson to be learned, and
tie youth who cannot master it will never
have anything. He will be a dependent.
Baptist Weekly.
Year: 1879

SILVER MJNE RoMANCE.-About 10
o'clock yesterday morning a crowbay was
dropped down the main vertical shaft of
the Savage from the surface, and went
directly through a cage at the bottom,
piercing the bonnet and floor. No one
was on the cage at the time, and no one
was hurt, yet it is unpleasant to one
making trip into a mine to reflect that
such things sometimes occur. AS the bar
fell something oven 500 yards, it was
travelling with the rapidity and vim of a
cannon ball when 1t struck the cage. A
bit of gravel no larger than a flbert
sings like bulle toward the latter part
Of such journey. A dog once fell into
shaft at Gold Hill, and, though the
shaft was but 800 feet in depth, two men
upon whom the animal landed were kill
ed, as was also the clumsy cur that failed
to hop across the top OF the shaft. A rat
once fell down the Consolidated Virginia
shaft in attempting TO spring across a
compartment, from wall plate to wall
plate, and l 100 eet below landed on the
bald head of miner and exploded like a
bomb, causing the miners to think that
a rock had cut open the top of his skull
and let out his brains. A grain of bird
shot dropped into the top of Il shaft 1,50O
feet in depth would probably bury itself
in plank or any piece of wood it might
happen to strike at the bottom. This be
ing the case, we repeat that it is not
pleasant to think Of such things as crow
bars going down shafts. Vr9tnta Ctty
(NeU.l Chronicle.
Year: 1879

THE Stockton Democrat gives some
facts on Tobacco culture in California
and among other things says: That it
Will ultimately be a paying crop there
can be little doubt, when it Is under
stood that l, 200 pounds can be raised to
the acre. The cost Of cutivating is about
fifty dollars per acre, while at twenty
five cents per pound the yield would be
three hundred dollars, The imported
Havana filings cost from one dollar to
one dollar and quarter per pound, and
Mr.. Optiz says it will take an expert to
tell the difference.
Year: 1879

The proprietor of a popular restaurant
in Berlin has instituted what be calls the
dihner of the golden sausage, the great
attraction OF which is the insertion in
every thirtieth sausage designed for his
guests of small gold coin, which be-
comes the property OF the individual to
whose lot it chances TO fall.
Year: 1879

A CORRESPONDENT Of the Philadel-
phia Press represents President Hayes
as saying that after giving the coneiia-
tory policy thorough trial, he was
convinced that the success Of such
co1rse would require material quite diff
ferent from that which ho had attempt
ed TO work upon.
Year: 1879

THE sleeping hours Of a plant were
changed recently by a French chemist. t,
by exposing it TO bright light at night
and placing it in dark room during the
daytime. AT first the leaves opened and
closed irregularly, but at length submit
ted to the change, unfolding at night and
opening in the morning.
Year: 1879

A pair OF lovers in Central Georgia,
who had been subjected to the tyranny
of parental discipline, went to min
ister's house few days ago and were
married. They then made call on
one of their acquaintance. A hurried
step on the porch and loud knocking
at the door announced the arrival OF
the brides mother. The lovers
Jumped from the side window and fed
riotously. The aggrieved parent rap
idly pursued them, and q lively race
was witnessed by the neighbors. The
young people were fleet of foot, and
soon placed several blocks betweel
themselves and the old lady. The
boys say they remained in their hiding
place on the river bank until dusk.
Year: 1879

THE LOTTERY MAIL QUESTION. The Post
master General has refused an application made
by counsel Of the Louisiana Lottery Company
for reference to the Attorney General of brief
cent order affecting lottery mail matter. Judge
Key refused the request upon the ground that
the questions involved are now before the courts
and should be left for their decision. Mean
While the order must remain in force,