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Year: 1878

The hOlest of all holidays are those


Kept by ourselves i'll silence and apart


The secret anniversaries of the heart


When the full river Of feeling overaows-
The happy days unclouded to their close,


The sudden joys that out of darkness start


As flames from ashes; swift desires, that dart
Like swallows singing down each wind that blows
White as the CLEAN of receding sail:
White as cloud that floats and fades in air;
White as the whitest lily on a stream
These tender memories area fairy tale


Ofsome enchanted land we know not where,
But lovely as landscape in dream-L -L0nqftll0,c
Year: 1878

First we had the telegraph, then the
telephone, then the phonogragh, and now
we are to have the telephonograph. which,
from its name and the partial description
given, we are led to infer is combination
of all the other Instruments. If the in.
ventors keep on at this rate we shall doubt
less soon have sufficient means of communi.
cation, provided Greek verbs and the
English alphabet hold out
Year: 1878

Under the direction of the House com.
mittee on coinage some coins will shortly
be made Of goloid, and each member will
he furnished with dollar. half and quarter
dollar, just to see how he likes it. Goloid
IS composed Of gold, silver and copper, and
Is represented to be of such density that it
will resist the wear and handling.
Year: 1878

1t is related of Col. Tngersoll that, being
sharply asked if he could mention one law
OF nature that in his puppy wisdom he could
change for the better, he affably replied:
Yes; would make health catching, in.
stead of disease"
Year: 1878

A professor in the State University at
Iowa City, whose hobby is statistics, has
made tour through the saloons of the
town and furnished the Faculty with
complete list of all the students whom be
found at bar or beer table.
Year: 1878

A passenger on the day express on the
New York Central Railroad offered 500 in
gold for New York paper last Saturday.
A book-agent quietly stepped off the train at
the station, bought paper, and, after the
cars started, received the gold piece.
Year: 1878

In recognition of the great victory at
Plevna, General Todleben, to whom must
be ascribed the honor of the day, has been
decorated with the second class of the
Cross of st. George and raised to the rank
of Count.
Year: 1878

DtaH 0WlIt with ms characteristic sneer
gives the following receipt of courtship:
Two or three dears, and two or three sweets
Two or three balls or two or three treats
Two or three serenades given as a lure.
Two or three oaths how much they endure.
Two or three messengers sent in one day,
Two or three times led out from the play,
Two or three tickets for two or three times.
Two or three love letters writ all in rhymes;
Two or three months keeping strict to these rules
Can never fail making a couple of fools.
Year: 1878

Manufacturer and Builder.
A gentleman advertised for q


boy to assist him in his Office, and


nearly fifty applicants presented


themselves before him. Out OF


the whole number he selected one


and dismissed the rest. II should


like to know" said a friend, "on


what ground you selected that boy,


who had not q single recommend


alton" You are mistaken" said


the gentleman, she has q great


many. He wiped his feet when he


came in, and closed the door after


him. showing that he was careful !;
gave up bis seat to that lame old


man, showing that he was kind
and thoughtful he took Oft his cap


when he came In, answered my
questions promptly and respect
fully, showing that he was polite
and gentlemanIy; he picked up a
book, which ! had pnrposely laid
upon the floor, and replaced it on
the table, while all the rest stepped
over it OF showed it one side and
ho waited quietly for his turn, in
stead OF pushing and crowding,
showing that he was honest and
orderly. When l talked with him
I noticed that his clothes were
carefully brushed, hair in nice or
der, and his teeth as white as milk;
and when he wrote bis name / no-
ticed that his finger. nails were
clean, instead Of being tipped with
jet like that handsome little fellow
iD the blue jacket. Don't you call
these things letters of recommends
ation9 / do, and / wonld give
more for what | can tell about
boy by using my eyes ten minutes,
than all the letters OF recommend
alton that he can bring me-
Year: 1878

A bill has been offered In the
South Caroline Legislature, and
will doubtless become q law, which
provides that all executions in that
State shall be in private, with only
the officers of the law, the clergy,
the family Of the condemned man,
and two or three spectators il at
tendance.
Year: 1878

A WoRD TO ENGLISH ESTATE HUNT
ERs.-People who are living on hope
and small loans, on the strength of being
heirs to English estates, may be inter
ested to learn that, under the laws Of
England, as explained by a learned Eng
lish solicitor, title which has been I'M
disputed for sixty years is as good as if it
extended back 1000 years. Nothing
whatever can upset such a title, and,
therefore, no deeds dating back further
than that need be shown. In ordinary
cases twenty years. title is all sufficient,
since no suit In ejectment can be main
tanned dating back longer than twenty
years, unless the claimant has been q
minor, q lunatic, or an absentee from the
country. In any of these three cases
suit can be brought, or if fraud can be
shown; but if otherwise, not. In reply
to question as to whether rights of in
heritance would be obliterated Mt the end
of sixty years if the heirs had been out of
the country, the same authority replied
that no title whatever could be set up
after lapse of sixty years; no court
would even place such q suit on its
dockets.-New York Sun.
Year: 1878

A SATISFACTORY RESULT. = Spain
claims the discovery of incombustible
paper A number Of experiments have
been made with the process, and the re-
suits are said to have been very satisfac-
tory. The paper will not bum, no mat
ter what may be the intensity of the
heat applied. A single sheet submitted
to the direct action of flame will car
bonize, but does not take fire. If roll
of prepared paper is placed in the hot
test fire the outside leaves will carbonize
and the edges for a short depth, but the
interior remains unaltered, the writing or
printing being perfectly lcgible. Papers
already written or printed upon may un-
dergo the process without injury.
Year: 1878

1t has always been the case that Elec- tricity is an unmanageable and disap- pointing agent in the hands of the gen- eral practitioner. We have do doubt this will continue to be the case we fully be- lieve it must become q strict speciality, confined to few, and to institutions devo- ted to the purpose. But it is altogether to be desired that all practitioners ac- quaint themselves with its theories, and with the results that, ill skilled hands and under favoring surroundings, it is capable of producing"
Year: 1878

would be much less than the amount required
each month for payment of duties, ana 'ne
new dollars would drop back into the Treas
ury as the only place where they could dc
used instead of gold. Thus it would come 10
pass, even if the Government should 1ooiishS
cheat itself by paying out such doliais
to be at once paid back again. that .,e
silver could not be got out OF ',ie
Treasury unless OD the Treasury shouiu
wantonly and needlcssly pay out silver instead ni
of gold for interest on the public debt or W
the Treasury should retain precnbacks ana pay
out silver. In the latter event the greehpach
circulation would be contracted as last as 'le
silver was paid out, and, as the silver thus
thrown into circulation would drift back into
the Treasury instead of gold, the contraction
of legal-tenders would be exceedingly rapid IL
any attempt were made to keep part or the
silver outstanding.


This bill is a blunder. The men who framed
and passed it did not know what it meant, or
what its effects would be, and the rabld re-
pudiators and inflatonsts of the House VIII
at least make bold attempt TO restore the orig
inal features before cOnsentIng to It's passage
At the worst il must now undergo discussion,
and must meet strong attempts to amend 1t Ill
that body.
Year: 1878

whose names do not appear in the reports
were guilty of behavior quite as bad as that
of Mr.. Ellis, of Louisiana, who told MIR. Hew-.
lit that "he lied in his heart and in bis false
"throat"- words for which Mr.. Hewitt I'M
medlately compelled him to apologize. Ana
of course no written description can convey
more than an idea of the brutal manner in
which all these brutal remarks were delivered.


If the gentlemen on the other side or the
Potomac wish to create a solid North, they
have only to go on in the way they seem to
have chosen. In this section OF the country
there is a sincere desire for peace, gOod-fel-
l0wship, the obteratiOn of geographical boun-
daries in politics, and all the other phenomena
of the millennium; but we do not propose to
he kicked and cursed as poor Cuiiee was.
There Is limit even to the forbearance and
good nature of the North, and it seems to us
that the Bourbon has pretty nearly reached II.
Year: 1878

II is lust as well for us to face the worst.
The Bland bill is not unlikely to pass over
the veto. Many observers believe 1t Will,
and certainly no one is able, as yet, to show
convincing reasons for the assurance that IL
will not. Suppose it shouldf


1t is the part of wisdom to consider
what will be the effect upon its pas
sonate supporters when the dlsenchant-
ment comes-whcn all their higl-built
hopes are found to be baselcss and iiusory;
when, instead of the promised burst OF pros
pcrity to be enjoyed by the country. or the
West or the debtor class, or the laborng man,
they are faced by the hard fact that no one
has been made suddenly richer, but that
all alike are suffering from the uni
ycrsal malaria of distrust and uncertainty.
There has been nothing like order or sobrlety
in this silver movement. In some sections OF
the country, entire populations have been
under the control of an excited Imagination.
All the depression and suffering entaiicd
by the hard times have been attllo-
utcd to the fact that the Mint has
not been coming certain piece
of silver money. and having been convinced
by artful leaders that they had been PUN
dered by surrcptitious demonctizat!on, the peo-
pie have been infimcd with Indignation.
Their zeal to restore the silver dollar was not
based alone upon the delusons of an ex-
travagant hope of suddenly restored pros
pcrity, but behind 1t there was also
compelling passion 20 wreak revenge
upon their rich OpprcSs0rs Besides THIS, 1t
was the Dollar of the Fathers which was to
triumph, so that patriotism, and hope and
honest Indignation all conspired to sweep
them along in such fervOr of feeling that
the teachings of experience the voice oi rea-
son, and even the dictates of right were over
borne or brushed aside as vanitics.


What is to follow this whirlwind of passion 7
FIRST, cruel disappointment, and what then
When people who have kept their heads cool
point out to the remonctzers that the fresh
disasters brought upon the country are only what
had been predicted, will the men who have
been wrought up to such a strain OF passion
be in a mood to accuse Themselves of folly 7
viii they not rather charge the growing dis
tress upon further adroit Vaccinations of the
Money Power, and organize for more
det.rmined ASSAULT Will it be inila-
ton, repudation, or an Indictment OF
Labor riots9 Ii is well to remember
that it is hardly masked Communism
which Ewing and Voorhees,, and other leading
agitators among emotional iinancers have al
ready preached. 1t is open war upon property
which they have been melting, and it is not
too soon for the providcnt classes, who be-
lieve in experience and history and ORDER
TO consider what may be the result OF
this general corruption of the pubic conscience
and the effect of this peryasivc poison which
has been instilled into the popular mind by
the ingenious sophiStrics of the so-calcd
friends of labor. 1t may be that IN this gen
Grafton the very framework OF our social
structure is to be called upon to bear a strain
far more trying than any to which il has yn
heen subccted
Year: 1878

The cstimabc brokers and Others who infest the
rotunda OF d, the Custom House seem To have con-
ync,d themselves unanimously that the COM
merce Of the Port Will bo paralyzed by
the new rules for passing entries The
first day Of the enforcement of the revised
regulations brought with it unusual amount of
business and there was, of course, more than the
usnal confusion. The gentlemen within the rail-
ing. as well as those without, had not yet famil-
,arlzed themselves with the new system.
aud there may have been reasons, not
altogether unconnected with fees and other con-
slderations why they were not unwilling to allow
the confusion to magnify itself for spectacular
effect There is always likelihood of much
snurming whenever nest of old abuses is
stirred up and the broker who had just been
let loose on ~, 900 ball. and who wanted again
ON Saturday, might De able To give IN intelligent
reason why the business was blundcrcd through 50
rs to create sentiment in favor of re-
turn to the old ways. IL is possible that
some of the Government officials may not be heartily
in sympathy with the reform, aud, If 80, the sum-
mary dismissal of Il few Of them would have an ex-
emplary influence upon the remainder. A little
stmulant of this sort applied to the moral and in
tellectnal activities of civil servants in Wal-st.
would enable them to work. into the routine
with ease aud dispatch.
Year: 1878

ton of it is covered by insurance.


General John A. Dix forwards to us letter
from an intelligent student OF the silver q'ies-
ton residing abroad, whose opinion Is worthy
of respect. because it is so evidently free from
the taint of unworthy motives. lie
strongly advocates the reconciliation Oh
silver, but declares that the bonds must
be paid in gold, though he does so on
the ground of expediency only The writer
does not seem to have considered, however,
the difficulty of bringing to halt move
ment of this kind when it has once started.
If the silver food is once let loose, no man
will be able to stand in front of the public
debt and say, "Thus far and no farther"
II appears that the assemblage winch Is 10
sanction the Russo Turkish settlement is not
to be Conference, as Austria proposed, Dut
European Congress-, body composed OF sover-
eigns or ambassadors of the highest rank, ana
invested with the fullest powers. This change
is in the interest of the Car, who has been
averse from the first to any scheme attended
with delay. The selection of Baden-Baden as
the place of meeting is likewise in his favor
the Court of Baden being extremely friendly
to that of st. Petersburg.-The proposal
which Russia makes that the United States,
as a great maritime power, should participate
in the Congress, is an act OF goodwill "hlch
merits cordial appreciation. Ii we do not de-
part from our traditional policy of noE-inter-
yention in European affairs, we must still re-
card the deliberations of the assembly WIN
attentive interest.


Some student Of municipal affairs ought to


investigate the strange hostility which the
average local official seems to consider 1t ms
duty to display toward parks Of all kinds. In
tins city we are kept constantly on our guard,
defending each of these breathlng-spots i'll
turn AGAINST the politicians Now Washington
Square is taking its turn, and the people
in the neighborhoOd find themselves con-
fronted with decision of a recent conference,
composed of the Mayor and Controller, a com
mittee from the Aldermen, and representatives
of the National Guard, to petition the Lcgis-
lature to allow the erection Of an armory
in that park. 1t was decision very speedily,
if not hastily made, and one which might well be
even more speedily reconsidered. Washington
Square is the only park OF considerable size on
the west side of Broadway, between the Battery
and Central Park it is the only park of con-
siderable size between the City Hall and
Union Square. unless TOmpkins Square be
called one. 1t stands in a tlicliy-set;lcd
Quarter of the city, and it would be an ut
rage to destroy it, The parks are few enough
already, and the people of the city will resent
any action which diminishes their number.
Year: 1878

Now the Navy must follow the Army in
going down on its knees to the House of
Representatives and begging for the pay it
has already earned. But then the Democratic
party has an old grudge against the Army
and Nayyi
Year: 1878

A last effort is making to prevent the de-
parture of the Castelani Collection from this
city, and on our second page an earnest APP
peal is made in its behalf to our rich men who
are lovers of art.
Year: 1878

General Ewing's voice is as loud as ever for
free coinage, and he has started for Washing
ton, prepared to bulldoze the President and
organize the House into silver riot. If the
outlook for national honesty were a little
brighter in Washington, General Ewing might
prove himself a national benefactor by forcing
the two Houses into quarrel.
Year: 1878

A destructive fire in West Twenty -third-st.
last night destroyed block of buildings COM
prisipg six stores, and two churches in addi-
ton. The cause of the fire is yet undiscovered,
though it is believed that it was connected
with the laying of tar pavement on one of
Year: 1878

Yesterday was a notable day in the liquida-
ton of church debts. The Church of the
Covenant raised money to meet four-ffths OF
its Indebtedness. De Witt Talmage's Taber-
nacle cleared off more than half, and in the
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church the entire re-
manning debt was provided for. In the first
and last cases this result was reached by great
effort
Year: 1878

IF talow candle be placed in a gun
and shot at a door, it will go through
without sustaining injury; snd if mus
ket ball be shot into the water, it will
not only rebound, but be tiattened. If
fred through pane Of glass. il will make
Il hole the size OF the ball, without break
ing the glass; if the glass is suspended by
thread it will make no difference, and
the thread will not even vibrate. Cork,
if sunk two hundred feet under water,
will not rise on account Of pressure Of the
water. In the arctic regions, when the
temperature is below zero, persons can
converse more than mile distant from
each other.
Year: 1878

A TRAMP who was stealing ride in an
empty car the other night on the Erie
road, attempted to jump off at Oxford. A
hook on the side Of the car, used for fast
ening the door, caught the unlucky fell
lows clothing at the waist and suspended
him IN mid air. The train dashed on and
he was carried to Greycourt, three miles
distant, when some ole saw him, stopped
the train Immediately, and the man was
taken from his very dangerous position.
There was not scratch on his person,
but the mental suffering he had endured,
expecting momentarily to be dashed to
pieces, completely overcame him.
Year: 1878

A New Plan TO NoMIEATE.-Th
Cincinnati EHQltii er suggests new way
to nominate the next Democratic candid.
ate for the Presidency. 1t would have
the National Committee meet, say in
Baltimore, on the day set, and each State
delegation meet in its own State, at some
place in telegraphic communication with
Baltimore; then esch delegation vote for
a candidate, and telegraph the name to
the National Committee, which shall an
noance the result of thea aggregate vote to
each State Convention. II there shall be
no election on the arst ballot, the voting
to proceed until nomination shall be
mado. BY this plan, the Enquirer thinks
bargaining, manipulations Of delegations,
or carrying nominations by hurrahs would
be done away with.
Year: 1878

WHILE General Grant was in Com
stantinopa the Sultan made him a gift
Of II beautiful horse. After his Turkish
Majesty had shown his palace and gar
den- TO his guest, he conducted him to his
stables. Io ordered his best horses to be
put on exhibition, and when they had
been sufficiently admired he told the gen
cral TO make selection, taking the one
which pleased him most. At first the
General could not consent to it, and warm
ly protested against the Sullan's gener-
o-lty. The Sultan's Minister OF War,
however, iuterposed, informing General
Grant that i he did not accept the gift his
Majesty would be much displeased. The
general thereupon selected "a dapple gray,
superb in form and having step that
would light with admiration the eye OF
any cavalier. The caparsons were
brought out, and the horse, in splendid
attire, wus formally presented to General
Grant. The Sultan, at his own expense,
has sent the horse to Marseilles, whence
lie will proceed to New York city.
Year: 1878

How TO CATcH A WAsP,-A Boston
paper says: "A butterfly was caught at
the South end yestorday." 1t may be
safe enough to catch butterfly a: the south
end; but when you 50 to catch a wasp,
you want to catch it at the northeasterly
end, shifting westerly toward the head.
Year: 1878

THE charters of the national banks ex.
pire by law in 1893 Meanwhile no just
man will assume that any of their guaran-
teed privileges, rights, or immunities can be
interfered with. But the question can be
debated in the interim whether 1t will be
good policy to renew those charters, and the
probability is that applications for renewals
will be few and far between. A realization
of this probability will remove the discus
sion of their usefulness from the scope of
political discussion. A better way to ac-
complish this result, however, is to enact a
law this coming winter providing that in
due time, at tho expiration of their char
tiers, greenbacks shall be substituted for the
national bank currency. In this way the
Republican party can and will free itself
from an empty charge now being made
against 1t to the effect that It Is tied ire
yocably to that great modern bugaboo, the
money power.
Year: 1878

The rapidly multiplying instances of bur-
Claries and robberies in this city, which in
dictate but little security to property, would
argue most decidedly that we are reaping of
CoHEN's sowing during the summer and fall
His teaching that where one man has more
than another of this worlds goods II is per-
fectly right to make a divide" at will and
upon the best available terms,'is being dem
onstrated practically. Scarcely night
passes now without successful burglaries and
thcfts being perpetrated upon our citizens.
This certainly indicates either an insufficient
or an inefficient police at the present time.
We are reluctant to believe that n police
which has been proverbial for its efficiency
has become suddenly inefficient, even under
a reduction OF pay, and hence we prefer to
believe that our police force is insufficient
for the proper protection Of property after
uightiall.


The burglaries and thcfts that now occur
are bold and successful. We seldom hear
Of the burglars being overtaken and cap
tured in the act neither are they detected
and punished and the property recovered
and restored to a desirable extent. This
may not be the fault of the police, but it is
the misfortune of those who pay taxes to
secure protection. Whether this unfOrtu-
nate condition of things comes of the late
reduction in the compensation of our night
guardians, or from the wicked teachings OF
dangerous men of the COHEN stripe, it is
difficult to dctermine but that this class Of
crime is rapidly on the increase is too evil
dent for the enjoyment of a sense of secur-
ity on the part of property-holders. 1t is to
be hoped that it may receive check before
it becomes the prominent feature of ouI
condition as city. 1t certainly needs look.
ing after.