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Year: 1878

To do good, to assist in the onward
march of the world, man needn't be
hero or a saint. God made a thousand
blades of grass to one oak tree. Every
man is endowed with faculties for i'm
proving his own condition and that Of
his fellow-men; it is his duty to exercise
that endowment to the best Of his abll-
ity, however humble his sphere may be.
Year: 1878

Two hours after Maitre Magloire's
report, several police officers went to
Jules TarOt's lodgings to make a search.
At the sight of them the worker in
mo5ner-oE-pearl and his wife turned
paler than cOrpses and were seized with
an attack Of nervous trembling that
could not escape the practised eye of
MaIrre Magloire. Yet the most careful
search having failed to discover any
thing suspicious, the policemen were
about to withdraw, when the detective
saw TarOt's wife anXiously watching a
cage that hung near the window. This
was ray Of light. In an instant Ma
yloire had taken down the cage. Twelve
hundred-franc notes were found be-
tween the boards Of the floor. This
discovery seemed to crush the work
Year: 1878

NOTICE TO THE TRAVELLING PUBLIC.
~ The above cozy little is now open, and from the
natural of the offers peculiar advantages
the thirsty and traveller Our drinks Of
the best and for cooness cannot be exceled The Old
Hermit "WATTY," will always be hand to attend to
the of his old and much esteemed friends who may
favor him with a call
Year: 1878




How TO HANDLE A GUN.-As the
cunning season has opened il will be
well 10 follow the directions here given
in regard to the proper handling of q
gun, which we clip from a leading sport
ing paper. for the benefit Of amateur
gunners and sportsmen. BY observing
these directions carefully, serious acct
dents may be avoided


"Guns should always be carried at
half-cock, as then neither blow on the
striker nor a pull at the trigger viii
bring the former into action. There Is
no necessity whaieFer{ for gun to be
otherwise than at the half cock, unless
game is Immediately in front: and,
further. il may not be out of place to
add, that il is dangerous when shooting
in company for the gun 10 be swung
round in taking aim with the finger on
the trigger. The eye should follow the
line of the flight, and the gun be raised
at the proper moment. Accidents from
guns bursting are rare; but caution is
very necessary in getting over fences
TO see that no earth gets lodged in the
muzzle, or IN winter time that the lat
ter does not get blocked up by snow
dropping from the bushes or otherwise.
These obstacles, although they may be
easily removed, are quite sufficient, Il
they remain, TO burst the strongest bar
rels when the piece is fired. This IS
caused by the wonderful velocity ofthe
expanding gases. This expansion, which
i said to be at about the rate of I, ZOO
feet per second, is the same in all direc-
tions, and The least check az the muz-
zle Of the gun causes such sudden in
creased pressure on its sides that the
latter are unable 10 resis. its effects, and
are burst open. No one is more cau-
tious or scrupulously careful in the use
of his gun than an old sportsman, and
no one more readily than be detects
and condemns carelessBess in the ma
nipulation of their guns in others.
Year: 1878

You deserve to suffer, and fyou lead
q miserable, unsatisfactory life In this
beautiful world, is Is entirely your own
fault and there is only one excuse for
you,-yOur unreasonable prejudice and
skepticism, which has killed thousands.
Personal knowledge and common sense
reasoning will soon show you that
Green's August Flower will cure you
OF Liver Complaint, or Dyspepsia, with
all its miserable effects, such as sick
headache, palpitation Of the heart, sour
stomach, habitual costiveness, dizziless
of the head, nervous prostration, low
spirits, &c. Its sales now reach every
town on the Western Continent and
not u Druggist but will tell you OF its
wonderful cures. You can buy Sam
pie Bottle for 10 cents. Three doses
will relieve you.
Year: 1878

THE new Pension Bill which the House
Committee has agreed to report, provides
that iluppIications for pensions are made
within five years from the date OF death
or ds.charge OF the soldier or officer for
whom the pension is asked, that such
pension, il granted, shall date from the
time Of death or discharge Of such pen.
SiOner. Pensions for which applications
are made after five years from the time
Of death or discharge shall date from the
time such application ia made. 1t con-
,lins clause which allows pensioners to
be replaced on the rolls whose names
were stricken of on account OF aid given
the South during the rebellion, but is
applicable only to such pensioners as are
now living, conferring no benefit on the
heirs Of those who are dead.
Year: 1878

What is the only pane which every
one makes light? A winpow pane.


What is it which, if you take away
its letters, remains the samel A pestman.
When does love become pitched bat
tic? VIXEN it comes to an engagement.
Why is o the best letter in the alpha
bet9 1t is Ottenest engaged in doing
good.


What is that which, though always in
visible, IS never out of sightI The let
ter l.


Why are pond lily and awhale alike9
They both come to the surface to
blow.


When Apollo dipped the god Pan in
to the sea what did he come outi A
dripping pan. .
Why is a four quart measure like a
lady's saddlc9 Because it holds gal
Ion.


Why are washerwomen unreasonable!
They expect to have soft water when
it rains hard.


When does five franc piece lose all
its value2 When compared with dollar
it is Worthless.


Why is a novel writer the most peculi-
ar of animals2 Because his tale comes
out OF his head.


Why is beefsteak like a locomotive
on a long journey9 1t is not of much ac-
count without its tender.


Why is chess more moral game than
cards2 In chess you have two bishops:
in cards four knaves.


Why is the first chicken in brood
like the foremast of shipG Because it
comes just before the main hatch


Why is man seeking the philoso-
piers stone like Neptune? Because he
seeking, sea king, what never was


What is the difference between Noah's
ark and an archbishop One was II
high ark and the other higher ark,
hiearch }.


What is the difference between the
Prince of Wales and jet of water9
One is heir to the throne; the other is
thrown into the air.


What is the difference between an
idea and an notion2 One is the concep-
ton OF mind; the other is a vast ex-
pansc of mind Gan ocean J.


What metamerphosis does a washer
woman undergo at night2 She goes to
bed washerwoman and gets up fine
linen.


Why is paper money more valuable
than gold2 When you put it in your
pocket You double ii, and when you
take it ont you find it still in creascs


am word of three syllables My
first expresses company; my second re
nounces company ;my third calls COM
pany together. What is it2 Gu mum
drum
Year: 1878

London, April 9.-The most import
ant features of last nights debate in
the House of Lords was Beaconslield's
tone relative to the strength that Eng
land could put forth against Russia,
and Derby's statement as to his reasons
for retiring from the cabinet Bea-
consfeld spoke with the same jaunty
air which has always characterized him
when he has felt himself master of the
situation. 1t was evident that the
Premier was in unusually high spirits,
and the tone of his speech left desire
in the minds of his hearers to learn
what was kept back, for he clearly i'm
piled that he knew something he would
not tell. England is only waiting for
Russia's reply to Lord Salisbury's note
before dispatching an eXpeditionary
force to some point in Asia Minor.
Year: 1878

GEORGE ID. PRENTICE, if he had
lived to these times, would evidently
have had poor opinion of Ingersoll.
He once said: 81 hear thousand
things from the pulpit that make me
smile, yet would rather be a Christian
of the humblest order OF intellect than
the most gloriously-gifted infidel that
ever blazed like a comet through the at
mosphere of earth.''
Year: 1878

THE official Gazette, at Havana, has
published decree by the Captain Gen
eral directing that IN conformity with
the proclamation of the 2Sth of March,
the restoration to its owners of all the
property enlarged for political offense
shall begin Immediately"
Year: 1878

THE brutal tramp has started on his
spring travels in New Jersey. In Pas
sale county the other night a citizen
was attacked and left with a fractured
skull across railroad track in an in
sensible condition. What is to be the
solution of the tramp problem this sea.
son?
Year: 1878

President Hayes on the Emancipation


Proclamation


Washington, Feb. 15.-On the occa-
sion yesterday of the presentation of
steel engraving of Carpenters picture
of the ''Signing of the Emancipation
Proclamation" to Howard University,
Fred Douglas made speech. in which
he said, among the faults of his people
were their self-indulgence, love of ease
and improvidence. They must learn
to spend their earnings judiciously. If
one can't get up, he will be helped
down, They had a fair chance to get
up. The negro was on his way to
Congress, and he thought that if the
negro could stand Congress, Congress
ought to stand the negro. The colored
man had been forced up by abnormal
conditions, but they were coming up
gradually by their own exertions.


President Hayes made a speech, in
which he said: 81 quite agree with all
that has been said; yet it occurred to
hio ehoe DouSido ulduc d llOucSI
estimate of his race when he
said ''they don't build ships; they
don't build the domes you see, but
who did build them? Such men
as Adams and Sumner made their
fame by their speeches under that
dome, and the speech your colored
brother has made us is better than
making domes, but that is not my mes
sage. would say the wisdom, the
Righteousness and the grandeur of
Abraham Lincoln's act of emancipa-
tion no man will deny. That it has
conferred infinite blessings on our
country, on both races and on the
world very few question. This estimate
of the act and of its results will not be
changed by the good conduct or the
bad conduct of either race; but it is
said that the greatness of the blessing
conferred on the colored race depends
on their conduct. What they most
need is what Burns calls 'the glorious
privilege of being independent What
this requires is a willingness to labor;
and the prudence and self-denial to
save the fruits of labor. My young
colored friends, let this be among your
good resolutions: Il will work and L
will save to the end, that may become
independent IF" The speech was en-
Enthusiastically received.
Year: 1878

No, CANADA does not like Sitting
Bull, and does not want to captiyate
him. Lord Dufferin says in his mes
sage to the Dominion Parliament, re-
ferring to Sitting Bulls people: The
United States Government made a
friendly but unsuccessful attempt to in
duce these Indians to return to their
reservations. 1t is to be hoped that
such arrangements may yet be made as
may lead to their permanent and peace
full settlement, and thus relieve Canada
of source of uneasiness and heavy ex-
penditure. The British system of
treating the Indians is so superior to
the American system, that it would
seem the CaDadians ought to be glad of
testing its merits on a specimen like
Sitting Bull.
Year: 1878

THE Turks have sufficient energy left
to threaten the Greeks and Montene-
grins, and perhaps to cut a few throats
in out of the way places, but In the
presence Of the Russians they appear
to be as thoroughly whipped as their
harshest enemies could desire. They
have marched out of the fortresses on
the Danube; they have evacuated the
defenses of Constantinople, and they
even seem seem anxious not only to
make peace, but to enter into an al
lance with Russia against the rest of
the world, including their good friends
in England. They will not have to do
this, for Russia is as courteous and
diplomatic as usual, though a triHe
more lofty in her tone, and the chances
are that she will carry her points with
out going to war again to do it. But
in the conference it will be very con-
yenient for Russia to have Turkey on
her side.
Year: 1878

IT Is said that about two months ago
Pho Mono told his attendants one morn
ing that he had dreamed of having
white bread before him, which he was
obliged to leave for others. AS he told
the dream, an austere-faced ecclesiastic
was seen approaching, and Cardinal
Panebianco knelt before the Pope.
"Ah," said the Pope, there is the white
bread (pane bianco) that dreamed OF. :"
But the New York Herald calls the at
tention of those who believe that Pane
bianco is to be the new Pope to the re-
mark that dreams always go by CONTRA
ries.
Year: 1878




The reports of "stormy session.
of the College of Cardinals may be
taken with some allowance. 1t is
doubtful if any reporters were present
at the session, or that, if there had
been any storm, the Cardinals would
have informed the reporters of it. Fur
thermore, there is no reason why the
Conclave should be adjourned to Malta,
or to any other place, the Italian gov
ernment manifesting no disposition to
interfere with its freedom of action,
and however serious the differences of
opinion among the Cardinals as to the
most available candidate, or as to the
policy which the new Pope should rep
resent, it is not likely that the public
will be invited to take part in the con-
troyersv.
Year: 1878

FREIGHT train men on most of the
Southern railroads board and lodge on
the caboose cars. A lively negro boy
is employed as cook, his wages being
usually seven dollars a month, and this
expense and cost of the provisions is
divided among the men.
Year: 1878

A wedding .s abrupt, if Eot as fan
tastic, as Mr.. Wemmick's took place on
New Years night, At Marlboro. on the
Hudson. During the afternoon well
known resident of the village called on
the Rev. DR.. Oshon and invited him to
dinner at six O'Clock. Bring q mar
riage certificate with you. said the host;
'we may have wedding there to-
night The doctor is discreet man
and did as he was told. At his friend 3
house hs met large company. and after
dinner was announced took his seat at
the well appointed table. The host
undertook to carve the turkey. but made
such bungling work Of his duties that
one OF the guests was constrained to re-
mark to him, You should get married;
then your wife would teach you the
proper way to do these things The
host did not deny the soft impeachment
bat told what manner OF woman he
should like for a wife. ending by saying:
Now, before We proceed further s'pose
We take vote as to whom shall mar
ry. The company entered into the
canvass with great hilarity, and after
the vote was taken it WAS declared that
the host was in duty bound to marry
his housekeeper, L young and well-edu-
Gated lady who had presided over the
establishment for more than u year.
The young lady had stepped into the
Kitchen to give some final directions to
the cook. and when she returned she
was informed of the views of the COM
pany. She was completely taken
aback, but after the ladies had coaxed
her to give her consent. she placed her.
self in tho hands of her friends. Hal
loo! let's get married now. exclaimed
the host. with the imperturbable Wem-
mick's self-possession. The dinner was
suspended-indsed, it had scarcely be-
gun; the bride took off her white apron;
the bridegroom dropped his napkin; the
two were made one; the marriage cer-
tificate was signed; the company kissed
the bride and then sat down to dinner
with first-rats appetite. The next day
y spinster in the neighborhood, bearing
what had happened. raised her hands
toward heaven and exclaimed. in q
spirit OF true dsvoutness. Lord how
sudden, there's no tellin' whose turn'll
come next"
Year: 1878

A Paris banker, self-made man who had
known the struggles Of poverty 10 his young
days, had an old time piece over his bed when
he breathed his last few weeke ago. When
he was boy he used TO say to himself: "When
you are rich you will buy picture clock, rep
resenting hamlet with its church and in the
steeple a clooS and at the foot of the village a
railroad, with a train in full motiou, and one
side the sea, with soips sailing by" AL these
things e.made TO work by machinery 10 the
clock whcn the rich banker bought Tue train
whistled and ran along the line, and the ships
were tossed in the sea, and the Key which set
them in motion was carried in the old geutl--
mans pocket. Tue clock had the place of hou-
or in his drawing room, surrounded by paint


ings which cost their weight iu gold, and there
1t remained for years. His wife and children


did not like it. They laughed at it. They could


not understand his wbim. They did not know


of all the old dreams which that picture swak-
ened in him. His friends laughed at him Tor
letting it remain in the drswing-room. 80 De
took it into bis own room. WnepeVer ne
wanted to renew his youth he would wind up
the old clock and this steeple would chime, th-
sea roar, thu sh os toss backwards and forwards
and he would feel as happy as IN The lid days
| when he used to dream about the wonderful
treasure.
Year: 1878

Every club is invited to send delegates, and it is
earnestly hoped that large number will be present
as 1t is desired to make this of the most bepe
cent mass meetings ever held in the State, and give
new impetus to the reform work in Brunswick.


The usual reduction on the railroads will be mada
Year: 1878

we do NOS read anonymous letters and communi
cations Inc name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable necessarily for publication
but as a guaranty OF good faith.


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

The Milford Netcs says:--We are graft


fed to learn that General Daniel Woodail
will soon return 10 Delaware. He has
made good all his creditors, who have
therefore generously forgiven him, and
he will again come among his old friends,
aud work and stnier like a repentant
man until he redeems his character. All
who knew the General believe in his in
tegrily, though he was led to one mistake
and they will give him he right hand OF
friendship and aid him wi h their sy mpa-
ihies until he is restored to all the honor
and credit that he enjoyed before hi
made that mistake. We have alway,
sympathized with him in his misfortnne'
and welcome him home with pleasure
Year: 1878

Vim. Foster, an employee in the paint
shop of McLear & Kendall's carriage
factory, met with serious accident on
Saturday afternoon. He went into the
wood shop to cut some wood, and while
working at the circular saw his right
hand accidentally came in contact with
the saw, which cut off all the fingers
and portion of the thumb. He was
taken TO DIR. Kane's office, where his
hand was dressed, after which he was
taken to his home on Tatnall street nsaI
Eleventh.
Year: 1878

The latest rumor about that vacant
throne IN Bulgaria is that the Gar has
decided to offer it to his son-in-law, the
Duke OF Edinburg, and the report in
London is that Schouvalofi has already
Year: 1878

stractive and apparently aimiess insurrec-
tion. She has been menaced with absolute
disintegration as a body polite. Yet in
spite of all these things she has increased
steadily in population and in wealth. One
of the moet astOpiehirg revelations of the
Vienna Exposition of 1873 was the progress
made by the Peninsula in agriculture, aud
the juries were compelled to award to her
the fret rank in this most important de.
partmeut of national industry. What Cat.
alonia has threatened in the way of fragrant
communism everybody knows, but every
body does not know 30 well what Catalonia
has done and is daily doing in the way of
skillful and successful man afact9res. The
mercantile navy of Spain has made greater
advances during the last decade than our
own, and though that is not very high
praise, perhaps, in itself, it may at least
startle Americans into asking themselves


what the secret can be of this wonderful
vitality in a race which we are apt to judge
severely because We judge it specifically.
Year: 1878

The story of Spain has always had a
strange but real fascination even for the
races which have been most frequently and
most fiercely brought into collision with
Spanish policy and Spanish interests. 1t
was long ago cleverly said by Walter
Savage Landor that Spain was a corner of
Africa left wedged in the flank of Europe :;
but, though the saying has truth in it, it
is not wholly true, nor does it wholly ex-
plain the spell of the Spanish annals and
of Spanish letters. With the glowing
magni6Cences and the saturnins my ysteries
which it owes to the Moor, Spain has COM
bined -virility of temper, a practical
energy and q curious common sense which
make her puzzle as well as poem and a
picture. Only very ignorant person can
undetrate the capacity of people who
dominated the Old World and the New
through period longer than that of our
own existence as a nation, yet whose num-
bers during ali that splendid era of their
history never equalled those of the island
realm of Britain. For the whole of the
cnTrent century Spain, which began the
century under the ruinoUs pressure of
successfnl foreign invasion, has been
wasted alternately by atrocious misgov-
eTnnent and by exhausting civil war. She
has Jagged in the rear of all the rest of
Europe in regard TO her tiscaI policy. She
has worried her finest colony into a de-
Year: 1878

HIs PRESENT TO HIS PAsroR-A Coving-
ton (Ky.) grocer bought a table caster for
a Christmas present to his pastor. 1t cost
dollar, and lie put tag marked fourteen
dollars on it. Next day tho reverend gen.
tleman brought tho caster with tag at
tached} back to the grocery man, and said
to him, "I am too poor in this worlds
goods to afford to display so valuable q
caster on my table, and if you have no
objection should like to return it and take
fourteen dollars worth of groceries for
my family in it's stead" Tie merchant
could do nothing but acquiesce, bat fancy
his feelings.
Year: 1878

The Watchman of Ryan's White-house
appeared at the Police Court this morning
and offered to marry Anna Davis, who was
sent TO the Work-house short time ago for
disorderly conduct, provided she was dis
missed. An order was accordingly sent out
for he bride on condition that the mar
riage take place this afl ernoon.
Year: 1878

Do not forgetyhe Thanksgiving dinner of
the little folks in the new Children's Home,
1872 West Ninth street, on Thursday next.
This will be their first meal in the new
quarters and they need anything that is
reou red to make dinner suitable to the
occasion. Send either to the new Home or
to the old Home, $50 West Third street.


AT THE GEOLOGICAL GARDEN.


Extra attractions will be offered to the
visitors of the Geological Garden to morrow,
and there will be no better way to spend
Thanksgiving Day than in paying visit to
the innumerabe curiosities at this immense
resort of pleasure and instruction. As the
buildings are all heated by steam, the visit
ors will have every comfort against the
weather, should the day prove to be raw
one.


AT OUR PENAL INSTITUTIONS


The day will be observed at the House of
Refuge in becoming manner. Rev. DR..
Cooper will conduct the services.


At the County Jail the poor, unfortunate
criminals will have the day to themselves,
and enjoy the boon of not being locked up
all day.


CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS.


The Cincinnati Orphan Asylum Direc-
tors have made preparations to give feast
to the inmates. Thanksgiving contribu-
tons have been collected for the past week,
and the little ones will have royal spread
through the kindness OF Mrs. Hinsdale, of
No. 394 West Seventh street, who received
most of the contributions


The I. O. NJ. A. ball for the benefit of the
widows and orphans of the Society will
take place tomorrow night at the High
land House. Three valuable prizes will be