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Year: 1877

THE FIRST NAPOLEON ON PEACE.


The First Napoleon was accustomed
to say that if Europe had only allowed
him to work out his will he would have
given it such peace as it had not known
for ages. All the warning dynasties
would have been banished to the quiet
comforts of private life; all the foolish
iealousies of nations and Churches would
have been hushed; all the bad laws ac-
cumulated by stupidity and despetism
would have been swept away to make
room for variations of the Code Ma
poleon: Europe would once more have
known the benefits of Roman peace" :"
But nations do not choose to put their
liberties, their opinions, their interests,
or, it may be, their prejudices, at the
mercy even of the most benevolent
despotism, and the mere fact that Ma
poleon had the power to begin such an
experiment made all Europe feel it
could never be tranquil until he should
be dethroned. Some faint revival of
such fear was seen during the Franco
German war. Although France had
been the aggressor, and Germany was es-
sentially peaceful, it was not comforting
to find any one State so powerful that it
could crush the strongest of its rivals in
few weeks. Such government might,
if ambitious, turn its arms against
weaker countries, and thus all would be
alarmed for the safety of their land
marks.
Year: 1877

The exercise of some of our human
sympathies, or of little bit of philos-
ophy, will enable us to endure the
foibles or ill-manners of almost every
class of people with whom we come in
contact. We can easily arm ourselves
against the tale bearer and the untruth-
full; we can be amused with our neigh
boris egotism; can tolerate him who as
sumes to be wiser or more learned than
ourselves; we can take conceit for
exactly what it is worth, and forget in a
moment any ones display of vanity.
But what can we do with the habitual
intruder?


He is fellow of blunt perceptions
and unrestrained impulses, who pays no
attention to occasion or circumstance,
and who never learns to respect the
sacredness of the rights of any man un-
fortunate enough to have made his ac-
quaintance. He became acquainted by
some means which you probably have
forgotten through lack of interest in the
event, and he follows it up by intro


ducing troops of his own kind whom


you do not wish to know. If you prefer


at any time to be alone, then "you are


the very man he has been looking for, ,


and he tumbles himself unconcernedly


into your company and starts a converse


ton in which you have not the slightes


interest and with which you do not wisl
to be bothered. If you meet casually il
public place, he addresses you loudl,


by name, and blurts out some perhap


we'll intended but unwelcome allusion
: your business. Should he discover yo
, in the company of little circle c
{ chosen friends, he thrusts himself in uI
| invited, breaks the thread of your col
{ versation, and opens out on some stupi
t topic of his own. He may hope b
r "don't intrude," and then take yor
:. sickly but polite Oh, mop for a cordi;
d welcome, and bore you, until the con
# pany separates in desperation. If
# meets you in society he assumes
r familiarity you do not care to acknow
e edge, or he impertinently listens to evel
d word and watches every attention W
N pay to others, in his effort to guage Il
n extent of your intimacy with them.
st Almost every class of Western socie


is full of him. You can guard again


him when his characteristics are W,
a. known, but like religion, he is son
as thing you have to experience before y
UT | Lunw
Year: 1877

CHICAGO Inter Ocean: 1t will interest
all who lost friends in the Ashtabula
horror last winter to know that during
the spring and summer large quantities
of relics have been found, and are in the


Coroner's care at that city. 1t will in
terest them more, and should interest
every one, to know that, though some of
them have been in the hands of the
county officials but two or three months,
they propose to sell these relics at public
auction in January next. They will sell
them because one year will then have
elapsed since the accident, and that is
the length of time the law obliges them
to hold such articles. Toys and little
baby wraps, burned trinkets, and gar.
ments of all kinds, are not of much
money value, but would be priceless to
mourning friends, many of whom have
as yet absolutely no relic of the lost ones
1t is to be hoped that this word will cir
culate all over the country, that sur
vivors may write for delay of proceed
ings, or visit Ashtabula before the sale
Year: 1877

LOUISVILLE Courier-JournaJ: While
a collection was being taken up at a
colored meeting in Detroit the other day.
Brother Gardner said to the congrega-
ton: Please remember, bredren, dat
none of us kin take our riches beyond
de grave" Just then the hat came back
empty, and brother Gardner continued !:
But it pears to me dat dis crowd is
gwine to try mighty hard to do it.''
That is the way with too many congre.
cations in this world. They know very
well that they can take nothing with
them beyond the grave, but they feel al
the same time that they wouldn't be sat
isfied after death without the conscious
ness of having tried.
Year: 1877

A lady of benevolence anG wealth sent
some delicacies to a family where sick
ness and poverty made them very well
come. The basket i'll which they were
carried was nice one in its day, but
had been carefully mended in several
places where time and use had made
ravages. The fruit and cakes were
highly priced by the poor invalid, but
one of the family, noticing the repairs
on the basket, exclaimed, Well, now,
who would think that such rich people
would mend basketp'


Just here, doubtless, is the secret of
the wealth of one and the poverty of
the other The rich family had been
brought up to mend the basket, indeed,
to be careful in little things according
to the old homely adage, =" A stitch in
time saves nine," and the proverb, GA
penny saved is penny earned" The
other despised such trifes and neglected
to take the stitch or save the penny.


These times, esteemed so hard, call
on all to mend the basket, for one can
be as useful and happy when practicins
economies as when indulging in lavish
wastefulness. The present prosperity Of
France, coming after an expensive war
| is sald 10 De owing 10 the economical
habits of the people. We are accus
toned to think of the French as gay
and extravagant nation, but they have
| the tact of making little go grea
ways. Cooking in France is almost the
art of making something out of nothing
A few cold potatoes, an onion, hand
full of sweet herbs, and a little Mayo
nais dressing, put together by skillfu
hands, make delicious salad for supper
out of materials that common Amer
can cook would hardly look at. TIL,
tasteful French dishes so mucl
extolled by our countrymen can, man,
of them, be resolved into very simpl
and inexpensive ingredients.


The economies of the kitchen are quit
worthy the attention of our lady house
keepers, even if Bridget scolds ant
threatens to leave if her absolute ant
often Wasetful rule is broken.
Year: 1877

In the jurisprudence department
of the English Social Science Congress,
lately held at Aberdeen, Scotland, Miss
Burn read paper on the question
of legislation for women in factories.
She contended that there should be no
legislation about women working in fac
tories; that nothing but pure selfishness
was at the bottom of such legislation,
the selfshness of workingmen who are
trying to drive women out of the labor
market. That such was the case was
illustrated by the fact that no legisla.
tion was proposed for the million female
servants whose hours are longer and
whose work is more severe than many
laboring men have, Miss Burn is wholly
right.
Year: 1877

THERE must be some mistake in calcu-
lat;ons that the millennium is near. A
clergyman was convicted in New York
the other day and sent to Sing-Sing for
five years, on charge of robbing lady
passenger who had come from England
on the same steamer with him. That
looks as il Gabriel would not have i'm
mediate use for his horn.
Year: 1877

THERE is a magnificent orange-tree in
the orangery of the palace of Versailles,
which is now over four hundred and
fifty years old. 1t is known by the name
Of the Grand Connetable, or Grand
Bourbon, and it grew from some pips of
a bitter orange planted in pot at the
commencement of the fiftieth century by
Eleanor of CASTLE, wife of Charles III,


King of Navarro. The young plants
which sprung from the seed were kept
in the same tub at Pampeluna until 1S49.
In 1864 they were removed to Versailles
Year: 1877

WHY some people always carry their
mouths wide open: Because their last
idea departed with the sentence just
uttered. What is the use of locking
the stable door after the horse has been
Htnlen2
Year: 1877

tyranny. If bank officers and trust
agents are not allowed to earn a living
by honest toll, what becomes of Magma
Charta and our boasted liberty? 1t is
time this business was stopped, for a
sudden rush of virtue may give the
body polite the apoplexy.
Year: 1877




A BELGIAN journal says a new
process has been applied to the manufac-
ture of artificial black walnut, by which
ordinary wood has impaired to it the ap-
pearance of the most beautiful speci-
mems of walnut, adapted to the very
finest cabinet work. The wood, first
thoroughly dried and warmed, is coated
once or twice with liquid composed Of
one part by weight of extract of walr nj
peel, dissolved in six parts of soft water
by heating it to boiling, and stirring
The wood is, when half dry, brushed
with solution of one part by weight o
bichromate of potash in five parts o
boiling water, and, after drying thor
oughly, is rubbed and polished. TIL
color is thus said to be fixed in the WOO
to the depth of one or two lines, and, i
the case of red beech or alder, for in
stance, the walnut appearance is mos
perfect.
Year: 1877

eff you have tears, prepare to shed
them now." This is addressed to those
people who are peeling onions for pick
ling.


BoARDING-HoUsE butter thinks over
all the bad jokes made about it, and
says: E" If was not strong | would never
be able to stand it."


IT is astonishing how hard man will
| work to support tailor, hackman, and
a bar-keeper, while he lets his wife run
the sewing machine to support the
children.


A MAGISTRATE in Texas, on being in
formed by counsel that his disposition
of certain case was against the decision
of the Supreme Court, replied, "Then 1
Overrule that decision"


In struggling to make a dullbrained
boy understand what conscience is,
teacher finally asked: What makes you
feel uncomfortable after you have done
wrong?" "My papa's big leather strap"
feelingly replied the boy.


DID you ever wake up in the night
and muse upon what a nice eternal fit
ness there is about all thingsi Scissors
came into use three centuries before the
art of printing was discovered. Prog
ress understands her business.
Year: 1877

A note dated on Sunday is
void.


A note obtained by fraud, OF
from one intoxicated, cannot be
collected.


If a note be lost or stolen, it
does not release the maker
he must pay it.


A note by q minor is void.
Principals are responsible for
the acts Of their agents.


Each individual in partner
ship is responsible for the whole
amount Of the debt of the firm.
Ignorance of law excuses no
one,


tits a fraud to conceal a fraud.
The law compels no one to do
impOssibilities.
An agreement without con
Eideration is void.
Signatures in lead pencil are
good in law.


A receipt for money is not
legally conclusive,


The act Of one partner binds
all the others.


Contracts made on Sunday
cannot be enforced.


A contract made with q minor
is void.


A contract made with a luna
tic is void.
Year: 1877

as the bar may well be Of its noble
record in the history Of human
freedom tyranny has never, in any
age or State, been without it's ad-
vocates and supporters. The
splendid and triumphant defence
of English liberty by Erskire was
maintained against the dark and
desperate assaults of Scott and
Milford. only less unarmed than
that great protagonist. And this
community has not forgotten, de-
spite the life service of a venal or
an insincere press, that in all our
sore strait, from Warmoth through
Kellogg, the advocates Of success
ful villainy have been easily re-
tanned from among the foremost
members OF the New Orleans bar.


On Judge Billings soul rests
the blood of those martyred pa
triots who fell in our streets on
the 18th of September. If their
murderer has become Justly
popular while that blood has
scarcely yet exhaled to Heaven let
no hypocritical semblance Of wor-
ship mock on this coming ami
versary Of their fall the solemn
sacrifice they made for us, Let
that press at least which lauds the
one pay to the other the decent
tribute of its silence.


No! Judge Billings can never
be justly popular SO long as MEM
DRY holds it's seat in the brain Of
that people whose liberties he once
struck down with the foulest blow
ever aimed at the republics life.
He is and will be, while men have
hearts to suffer and endure, q
thing for the slow moving finger
of scorn to stab with social death.
Let him pray for the charity OF
oblivion let him beseech the kind
ness of enduring silence; let him
wear out in alms-deed and in
prayer the rest of that life which
he has so darkly clouded, and do
ing justice hereafter, and walking
humbly among men, seek from
God, who may PARDON him, that
which man dare not
extend to those who commit the
ineffaceable sin against human
freedom. In. O. Democrat, Sep
tember l.
Year: 1877




quently been praised by most OF
the members Of the New Orleans
bar. They say that in his rulings
as a Judge has never betrayed
either heat or impatience OF tenn


per--no anxiety to give any liti-
giant an.unfair advantage--no wish
to dwell on trifing omissions-no
animosity whatever. He has only


been desirous that The truth was
discovered to apply the law. His
speaking, his conduct, his manner,
are all unexceptionable, all suited
to his ability, his kindly nature


and genuine modesty. Before his
appointment as judge he had a


large practice in this city, which


made him familiar with every class


of cases. Pride of every kind is
AS alien to his nature as vanity,
and having tschewed politics, ne
has become justly popular with
our people,-[N. O. Picayune.
This is the language which the
Picaynne employs in an editorial
OF yesterday on the Calcasieu case.
IT the statement be true that Judge
Billings has become popular with
our people, we are the meaneSA
and most degraded community op
the face oil the earth if it be un-.
true, the assertion is an outrage
on the just pride and self-respect
Of the entire State. Justly popular
Judge Billings never can be in
Louisiana /; justly odious he must
be wherever there is any popular
esteem for whatever is manly.
honest and OF good report. Ii can
never be forgotten that in the
midnight OF December 5, 1872,
Judge Billings drew mp the order
directing Packard, the then United
States Marshal, to take possession
of the Statehouse of Louisiana, to
hold it until further orders from
the court, to prevent the assem-
blage therein OF the lawful mem
bers of the Legislature, and to ap-
ply to Gen. Emory for the neces-
sary force. 1t will be remembered
forever, and with advantages, that
he aoas the arch-conspirator in that
airocious crime against the peace
and majesty of this commonwealth,
and that by virtue OF that very act,
which commended him to the in
sclent and vulgar tyranny OF
Grant, he became the successor.
and the fitting successor, OF the
drunken Judge into whose hand he
thrust the pen which signed at
once the doom of this State and
the fate of him who sealed it.


For this wrong no penltence can
atone for this outrage, conceived
and executed with deliberate fore
knowledge of it's tremendous con-
sequences, there can be no pardon
while liberty endures. It not only
made possible, but insured, all the
long years of seryitude and spolia-
ton we have since writhed under.
1t gave to the strong arm OF Fed
eral oppression under which we
the semblance OF legal
right, and steeled the hearts and
the eyes Of our Northern
to the justice Of Our
appeals and the righteousness Of
our struggle. II made possible the
arger but not more damning
fraud of the Electoral Commits
sion, and Judge Bradley was the
legitimate offspring Of Judge Bill
ings. They are linked together
BY a community Of crime which
vii not fade from the memory Of
nan SO long as free institutions
,xist.


Doubtless Judge BILLINGS will
Year: 1877

10 the Citi1eaS of ATsoao;--

 The following communication are pub lished for your information. They show to what lengths small faction tn Tucson will go to accomplish an end for which there K no just reason. or cause. l have considered il my best justification 10 publish them here in the Territory, where the facts are known. The two applications for my removal fol- lowed each other in quick succession, be. sides others that l know nothing about as vet, and tho third was written 10 appear in one of tho great papers Of the east about tho time that the War Department was expected to be deliherating over my removal.

 1 know Of no reason why these people should take this action, except the fact that have not been able from sense of duty to set up military establishment in Tucson. Every citizen in the Territory know, to what extent have been able io maintain the peace that was achieved hy Ocn'l Crook, and that the people were never more secire in their pursuits than they arc now. have shown that the raid in Feb. which was made the basis ol this assault upon me, Was made from the Warm Spring Reservation in New Mexico, which is in another Military lo- partment, and that the raiders re.urned therc. have also shown that the Indians Of the CniT.cahua tribe that failed to move to San Carlos, and which the Governor per sisted were at larg. had made their hone al the same Reservation.

 do not know either Page or Mercer. but it is easy to sec who has put up the former in this attempt to use Genl. huiler in this fight, and who endorsed the latter to lind space in the Herald for such document How such communication wlll advance the interests of the Territory, will l,e clear to all who will read ii. What l now publish As we'll as what l have heretofore given to the press k for the information oi th" r+r. pie and not for coniroNersv Hssgua,I. ing Io gain hu' az .1 Io~- lu a newspaper. f~'t. Aitt-I ?. kAt.IL.
Year: 1877

We would call the attention of the Tucson Citizen to the amount of freight that has been received in Prescott during the last year and then guess as to whether Prescott is dead or alive.
Year: 1877

Messrs. Elliott X Rice owners of the Ac- cidental mine. have just struck bonanza in the tunnel 125 feet below their former rich strike. Few. even in Prescott, are aware of the extent of the development of the mine. The lower tunnel k in 5i5 feet and work is pushed night and day. The ore is hauled about one mile and half and k reduced by means of q cr,lsher and fonr arastras, run by steam power The last run yielded S9l per ton, and if the chimney just struck in the lower tunnel pays as it did near the surface We may soon have to chronicle some big yields
Year: 1877

CRoUP.-Croup is an Inflammation Of
the inner surface OF the wludpipe. In
fiamat;on implies heat aud that heat
must be subdued OF The patient will
iavaribly die. If prompt efforts are
made TO cool the parts in case OF an
attack OF Group, relief will be AS
prompt as it is surprising and delight
ful. All know that cold applied 10
hO: skin cools it, but all do not as
well know and understand that no;
water applied to an inhamed skin will
as certainly cool it eff Hence the ap-
plica,ion of ice.coid water with linen
cloths, or of almost boiling water with
wooien flannel are very efficient in the
cure of Group. Take two or three
pieces of woolen flannel of two folds
large enough TO cuver the whole
throat and upper part of the chest,
put these on the an Of water as hot
as the hand can bear, and keep i thus
hot by adding wate? frUIn the boiling
tea kettle at hand let two Of the
fannelS be in hot water all the time
and one on the throat all the time
with dry flannel covering the wet
one, SO as TO keep the steam in 20 some
extent; the ilannels should not be so
wet when pGt on as TO dribble the wa
ter for it is important to keep the
clothing as dry as possible, aud the
body and feet Of child comIoTtab e
and warm. As s0ou rs ole flannel
gets a little cool put on another hot
one, wIlh as little intervals Of expos
ure as possible, and keep up this pro-
cess until tie doctor comcs. or until
the phiegm is !,oSe. The child easier,
and begins to fall asleep; then gem
tly wrap dry fiauneI over The wet
one which is on, so as to coVer it up
thoroughly. and the child is saved
When i; wakes up both fannels viii
be dry. The same results will follow
if cold water is used, the colder the
better; the cloths should be OF muslin
or linen and of several folds of thick
ness, large enough 10 cover the whole
throat and the upper part of the
breast.
Year: 1877

He was praising her beautiful hair,
and begging for one tiny curl, when
her little brother said: "Oh, my il
amt nothin' now. You just ough, to
have seen how long it hangs down
when she hangs it on the side of the
table to comb il % Then they laugh
ed, and she called her brother q cute
little angel and when the young
man was going away and heard the
boy yelling, he thought the lad wa.
taken suddenly and dangerously i'll.
Year: 1877

TIE DRAFT ana Agricultural Horse
Breeders Association Of Illinois prti-
ton the Illinois Legislature to enact
a law requiring the owners Of stations
standing for service to take out a IL
cense Of not less than $50 per year, in
order To drive out the poor and worth
less animals now in use, thereby secur-
inc more rapid Improvement of the
stock of the State.
Year: 1877

The stage manager of a theater
in Bath, England, recently enacted
the part of Captain Levison," the
villain in East Lynne" who is
handcuffed before being taken to
jail as a murderer. The curtain
fell upon this scene, and the actor
asked one of the attendants to take
off the darbies." The handouts
were an ancient property; the key
was worn out, and could not be
made to unlock the manacles.
Search was made in the corridors
and in the streets for a police officer
who might furnish a duplicate key,
but the blue-coated guardians had
disappeared from public places.
Meanwhile the audience was un-
easy and noisy, and the orchestra
out of breath; the villain was ex-
pected to go on the stage as "Jacob
Earwig," but the handouts were
not in the makeup, and further
more he could not take off his coat
to dress for the part. AT last the
villain rushed into the street and
espied a police officer near a saloon,
and on assuring him that it was
only stage murder, secured release
from his bonds.
Year: 1877

The chief village of the island of
Isabel, in the South Pacific beyond
the equator, is built on the summit
of a rocky mountain rising almost
perpendicularly to a hight of eight
hundred feet. Ascending by a ma
tive path from the interior, the
traveller will find the extreme sum-
NIT a mass of enormous rocks
standing up like a castle, among
which grow gigantic trees, in the
branches Of which the dwellings
are built. The stems of these trees
rise perfectly straight and smooth,
without a branch, to a hight vary
ing from fifty to one hundred feet.
Some of the houses are one hum
dred and twenty feet above the
ground, the average hight being
sixty feet. They are approached
by a ladder of creepers, and accom-
modatc from ten to fifteen natives
each, besides an ample supply of
stones, which are thrown with
sings in case of an attack. AT
the foot Of esch tree is another hut,
the everyday house, as it were,
where the daytime is spent when
no danger is apprehended The
natives are cannibals Of the most
ravenous kind.