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Year: 1877

The Missouri Editorial Association has
passed resolution to abolish the use of
hquors at the annual banquets, and sus-
pending from membership editors who
appear at any meeting of the association
lnerbriated. Did any of them ever do
such an improper thing?
Year: 1877

Ihe meeting of the Liberal League will
DO held as usual Tomorrow morning at Nc.
Clary building third floor. 1t will be conduct
ed on new plan, viz: Any person in the
audience may introduce any subject they
see dt and accompany 1t with their own IDEAS
on the subject.


Without previous lecture or essay each
ono will be free to wake suggestions or ,e-
marks which may be interesting to the
meeting.
Year: 1877

Generation after generation have
felt as we now feel, and their lives
were Us active as our own. They
passed away like vapor while nature
wore the same aspect Of beauty as
when she first existed. The heavens
shall be as bright over our graves as
they are around cur paths. The
world viii have the same attractions
for the offspring yet unborn as Il once
had for our children. Yet, a little
while and all this will have happened.
The throbbing heart will be stified,
and we shall he at rest. Our funeral
will wend its way, and the prayers
will he said and we shall be left in the
darkness and silence OF the tomb.
Aud it may be but short time that
we shall be spoken of-but things of
life shall creep on, and our names
will be forgotten. Days will continue
to move on, and laughter and song
will be heard in the room where we
died; and the eye that mourned for
us will be dry and animated with joy,
and even our children will cease to
think of us, and will remember to
lisp our names no more.
Year: 1877

DR.. Dwight closes a sermon "on
the happiness Of heaven" with the
following beautiful simile:-"To the
eyes Of man the sun appears a pure
light; a mass of unmingled glory.
Were we to ascend with n continued
fight towards this luminary, and
could, like the eagle, gaze directly on
its lustre, we should in our progress
behold its greatness continually en-
large, and its splendor become every
moment more intense. As we rose
through the heavens, we could see a
little orb, changing gradually, into a
great world; and, as we advanced
nearer and nearer, should behold il
expanding every way, until all that
was before us became a universe of ex-
cessive and universal glory. Thus
the heavenly inhabitant will, at the
commencement Of his happy existence,
see the divine system filled with mag
nifcence and splendor, and arrayed in
glory and beauty; and, as he advances
over and through the successive peri
DDS of duration, will behold all things
more and more luminous, transport
ing and sun.like for ever"
Year: 1877

NosE BLEED. To stop bleeding at
the nose, press the finger firmly upon
the little artery that supplies the bHod
to the side of the face affected. Two
small arteries branching up from the
main arteries on each side of the neck,
aud passing over the outside of the
jaw.bone. supply the face with blood
II the nose bleeds from the right nos
tril, for example, pass the finger along
the edge of the right jaw till the beat
ing of the artery is felt. Press hard
upon il aud the bleeding will cease.
Continue the pressure five minutes,
until the rupiured vessels in the nose
have time tO contract.
Year: 1877

A young urchin went into hat
store one day last week and told the
clerk that he wanted a cap, at the
same time putting two cents on the
counter. He was informed by the
clerk that the cheapest cap in the
store would cost twenty-five cents.
what" said the urchin, "them is
big enough for cannon, only want
one ior pistol.
Year: 1877

A SIMPLE REMEDY.-An eminent
physician says he cures ninety-nine
out of every hundred cases of scarlet
fever by giving the patient warm
lemonade with gum arabic dissolved
in it. A cloth wrung out in hot wa
ter and laid upon the stomach, should
be removed as rapidly as it becomes
cool
Year: 1877

Up in Carter county they gave a
man one year in the penitentiary for
killing his mother. If it had have
been his mother-in.law We think that


jury would have so tar recognized the
fitness of things as to have acquitted
the prisoner and given him chrome.
Year: 1877

An agricultural correspondent writes
to correct what he thought to be an
erroneous statement that recently ap-
peared in this column relative to COWS
giving buttermilk. We adhere to our
original statement We never saw a
COW give any thing but her milk.
Year: 1877

There are nine hundred and seven
ty.fve different kind Of animals in
drinking water, as revealel by the
microscope, and when the water is
mixed with whisky they all join
forces and take the shape of one big
snake that crawls down into the drink
er's boots. II is best to keep water
out Of your whisky. ri
Year: 1877

Moody has raised little tempest Of
wrath by his administration of the
Lords Supper at Mortified. The
congregational pastor was absent, and
Moody took his place. The invitation
was exceedingly broad. Mr.. Moody
said: "No matter what church YOU
belong to, or if you belong to none at
all, come. We make no restrictions.
Let us now break bread, without word
or comment" A number of the Bap-
fists have found fault with him for
this. and also some of the other persua-
sions who strongly believe that none
but an ordained minister should ad-
minister the communion. Their wrath
does net disturb Brother Moody at all.
Year: 1877

THE PERMANENT EXHHIT1oN.-
The International Permanent Exhibi-
tion will open at Philadelphia, to
morrow in the Main Exhibition Build
lug on the Centennial grounds, and
will doubtless be largely attended
Extra trains will be run from this city
direct to the grounds at reduced rates
and large number of Wilmingtonians
will probably attend the opening cere
monies. The exhibition combines the
leading features of the great Centen
nial, in a condensed and attractive
form, and will prove a most desirable
place of resort.
Year: 1877

SOUTH CAROLINA 1t
is said the movement in South Carolina
to make Associate Justice Willard Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court is undoubt-
edly in the interest of the holders of the
fraudulent and repudiated over-issue
known as the conversion bonds.


If the holders of this worthless paper
can make up a bench to suit their schemes
they will have tair prospect of realizing
Year: 1877

Further Cabinet Consideration of The


Change Of Date.


WASHINGTON, May S.-The subject
of the change in the date of the extra ses'
sion to October was considered in the
Cabinet to-day in connection with the
criticisms of the press, and it was decid-
ed that it was generally received with
approval.


The President says he call Congress
together before that time in the event
of foreign complications or any other
cause that should reOder such action
necessary, Under existing circum
stances, however the date will stand.
The delay in the time of meeting will
not embarras the President in the com
pletion. OF the diplomatic list.
Year: 1877

to the extent Of six Or seven million dol
lars on scrip that can now be bought for
less than three per cent. of course, the
fact that the redemption of these bonds
would increase by millions the burdens
of the already almost ruined taxpayers OF
South Carolina, does not affect the calcu-
lations of the speculators, or of Cham
berlain, their attorney.
Year: 1877

PRESIDENT HAYES ND HIS PARTY.
There is no doubt at all that resident
Hayes is disappointing the men who
take credit to themselves for his election.
And in no place is the President more
unpopular with this faction of his pn -ty
than in Ohio, his own State. Here in
Delaware the real working men Of the
Radical party are very lukewarm, and
some of the more open and fearless Re-
pubhcans openly declare that Tilden was
elected and ought to have been inaugu-
rated. They do not go so far as to de-
nounce Hayes openly to Democrats, but
hey do to their own partiZaps, and say
even to Democrats they would as leave
have an honest Democrat in the office as
Hayes if he allows himself to be govern
ed by such men as Evarts, Key and Dev-
ems, who are known not to be in sympa-
thy with Phillips, Blaine and Butler, the
real thinkers and leaders of the Radical
organization.


But perhaps the most pointed objec-
tion that has yet come to the President is
made known through the correspondents
from Washington. The statement which
thus comes to'us is that "Republican
from Ohio who arrived in Washington on
Monday, went to the White House and
gave them some pretty plain talking. He
said if the election in Ohio was to come
off tomorrow the Republicans would not
carry single county in the State. Ii
was impossible, he said, to have concep-
tion Of the universal dissatisfaction of the
party in Ohio unless by personal obser
vation. The republicans here though
that tine President was giving his entire
time and attention to the South, and ig-
noring his own party and his own section
absolutely. The gentleman who thu:
unburdened his mind is not an office
seeker himself, but some of his friend
have been we'll provided for through HI
influence, and it is not unnatural tina
the President thought such talk littl
ungrateful, and particularly when he ha
been condemned elsewhere for making s
many Ohio appointments"


Undoubtedly this is fair statement G
the condition of things throughout tn
country. The men who think they pu
Mr.. Hayes in power have been feeding &
the public crib for ten or fifteen years, an
their chief aim was to continue to hol
Office at the high rate of pay. This the
find they cannot now do so easily-th
many of them are being reduced to 'con
mon life" by Mr.. Hayes action, al
many more Of them find that there is ]
chance for getting into the places tn,
hoped and expected to get through Il
influence of friends. Here is the seer
to the real cause Of complaint.


But Mr., Hayes may snap his fingers


these people. He may say that in casti
from him the true sense Of the hight
honor and STOPPING so low as to take


office to which Mr.. Tilden was fail
elected, he made sacrifice enough; a


that now if they do not choose to ia


such offices as he pleases to give the


they could refuse and get nothing.


does not follow that because rogues I


Hayes in office he should become a roe


also. And we hope, for the sake of


country, that he will resolve to do rig


and in so far as he does right he may
sustained by the Democrats.
Year: 1877

occasionally but moral principle will
crush it out. The moral sense of man.
kind is 30 far advanced, that nothing
ju.tifies resort to blows, but in defense
ol property, the house hold or the
person.
Year: 1877

Important Decision of Judge McAll1ster


CHICAGO, Dec. 6.-Jndge McAlIister 10
the criminal court of Cooke county. rem
dered decision this morning in the case
of application for writ of habeas corpus
for woman committed to the bridewell
by city justice for vagrancy, Under an
act passed by the last state Legislature.
He declared that act unconl titutional and


atrocious to the last degree, in that it
denies to a person the right of jury trial
guaranteed by our state constitution. He
said that the act was made during an un.
due excitement over the tramp nuisance,
and that he would consider that he had
succeeded in giving it It's death blow.
Year: 1877

A PICTURE OF STURGEON, THE GEL
EBRATED MINIsTER.-Mr. Spurgeon is
a very hard working man, his time be-
ing spent in moving quickly to and fro
from the Tabernacle, the Pastors Col
lege, the schools, almshouses, and or
phanages of which he is the guiding
spirit. He passes his life, when not ac-
tually speaking or working, in a pony
chaise, varied by an occasional hand
some cab. Wrapped in a rough blue
overcoat, with species of soft deer
stalker hat on his head, loose black
neektie round his massive throat, and q
cigar burning merrily in his mouth, he
is surely the most unclerical of all
preachers of the gospel. Yet that short,
thickly built man, with the shock head
with ample brown beard covering his
covering his capaciOus mouth, is the IA.
NOUS preacher for whom, when yet q
very young man, no building could be
found sufficient to hold his congregation.
One plan he has ever pursued during his
public life. 1t Is never to reply to per-
sonal satire or attack. Not even state
ment in print that he had poisoned his
own mother would provoke the shadow
Of reply. More than this, he keeps
not one volume, but several in his libra
ry, filled with newspaper cuttings of an
abusive character, and takes particular
pleasure in pointing out to his guests
the virulent attacks in which he is desig-
mated mountebank, buffoon, blasphem-
er, hypocrite, and villain. His dark
brown eyes light up with q keen twinkle
of enjoyment as he comes upon a par.
ticular savage onslaught, and he actually
smacks his lips over caricatures.
Year: 1877

THE LOON OF LIFE.


BY EBEN E. REYFoRD.
All day. all night I can hear the jar
or the loom of life, and near and far
It thrills with its deep and muffled sound,
As the tireless wheels 60 always round.
Busily, ceaselessly goes the loom
In the light Of day and the midnight's gloom
The wheels are turning early and late,
And the woof is wound in the WARP of fate.
Click! clack there's q thread Of love wove in
Click! clack! another Of wrong and sin;
What checkered thing will this life be
When we see it unrolled in eternity
Time. with a face like mystery,
And hands as busy as hands can be,
Sits at the loom with the warp outspread,
To catch In its meshes each glanoing thread.
When shall this wonderful web be done!
In Thousand years. perhaps. or one;
Or Tomorrow. Who knoweth? Notyou nor I,
But the wheels turn on and the shuttles fly.
All, sad eyed weaver, the years nre slow.
But each one Is nearer the end, know,
And some day the last thread shall be woven
p In,


God grant 1t be love instead of sin.
Do we furnish the weaver a thread each day?
It were better, then, oh my friend, to spin
A beautiful thread than a thread OF sin.
Year: 1877

For the Spectator.
1.-THE BASELESS FABRIC OF VISION"
Such Is the widowhood of all our dreams
When the day dawns we doT our mournin,
robes.
Going forth into the world again half
Sorrowful at losses only half discerned
And dmly felt. Still knowing as we do
Full well, that all the lights and shades
or life viii be as MONDAY at the last;
Yea! then forever and forever we
Will know not of the ways of men as
Once we knew; but each widowed
Sanity dream will have Its full fruition,
Forevermore! Forevermore!!


O*s
Year: 1877

The Japanese persimmon tree Is be-
ing introduced by the horticulturists
of California. The fruit differs some
what from the persimmon Of the South
ern States, as it ripens without frost,
and is free from the acrid taste when


green which characterizes them. The
tree is highly ornamental, a prolific


bearer, hardy as the pear and Iipens
its fruit early. The fruit is solid and
can be shipped across the continent.
The season is from October to January
when fine fruits are scarce, The fruit
is of bright yellow, orange or YER
millien color, is unsurpassed for the
table, being thought by some to be
equal to the peach or strawberry Its
average weight is from one.half pound
to over pound. When dried it is equal
to figs, and is extensively used for pre-
serving in China. The wood Of the Jap
anese persimmon is valuable for manu-
featuring, it being species of the ebony.
Year: 1877

The Washington Sunday Chronicle
thinks that Tom Ewing is going to be
formidable candidate for the Speakership.
He will be sthe strongest candidate yet
named to break up the calculations of a
prolonged contest"


The Madison Democrat says there is
not federal official in Wisconsin who
does not devote all his time to the party
and let the Office take care of itself. A
little civil service ought to be mixed into
"the party" in Wisconsin, evidently.
Year: 1877

SUGGESTIVE FIGUREs.-In his charge
to the grand jury on Saturday, Judge
Pierce, of Philadelphia, adduced some
figures showing the extent of the liquor
traffic in that city. There is drinking
place to every fifty adults, and the city
spends every year in intoxicating liquors
more than enough to pay all its munich
pal expenses and the cost of its churches.
The Philadelphia Times states that one
half of these places, and naturally those
which work the most harm, exist in viola
ton of law and pay nothing to cure the
enormous evil they work.
Year: 1877

WHAT kind of robbery is not danger
GUS? A safe robbery, Of course.


AN exchange speaks with apparent
enjoyment of grin-visage war;


A CROSS dog will make the top Of a
hemlock board fence feel soft as downy
pillows are.


WHY is the bank of France like the
Mohammedan religion? Because it's
something to which you and | don't owe
assent.


"No." she said, and the wrinkles in
her face smoothed out pleasantly. " No,
| do not remember the last seventeen
year locusts. was an infant them


A MAN usually makes as much fuss in
steering lumber stalk OF asparagus to
his mouth as an old woman trying to
thread a cambric needle with linen
thread.


YouNG men of the middle classes are
80 little disposed to marry these times
that parents of manageable daughters
will have 10 resort 10 the seductive
chrome.


CAN the chap at the theatre who in
sists on beating tinies o'the orchestra
with his feet he spoken of as "man
who has no music in his soleY"


IT is probably some satisfaction to a
mule TO know that while he cannot soar
as high as the lark, he can sing just as
loud, and kick very much sorer.


SOME one said to Hugo once upon a
time: " 1t must be very difficult to write
good poetry" "No, sir" replied the
poet, "it is either very easy or utterly
impossible"


"AH," said man to his son, "hearty
breakfasts kill one-half of the world, and
tremendous suppers the other half" Il
suppose then" retorted the boy, that
the true livers are only they who die Of
hunger"


EITHER black your boots at home or
bring the exact change. The mystic
spell which binds man to the curbstone
half an hour waiting for boot black to
return with change for quarter, shows
departing intellect or deficiency of edu-
cation in the ways of boot-blacks.


WHEN a correspondent goes to full
dress party in short coat, linked at the
elbows, shining pantaloons that bag at
the knees, cheviot shirt, and no gloves,
he nearly always writes back to his paper
that the dresses were vulgar to shock
ing degree"


A CANARY.BIRD, thirty-four years old,
blind as bat and bald as an egg, can
split his face down to his shoulders and
shrek for three hours without taking
breath, in tones that make the man who
owns him wish he knew where he could
trade him off for a good three'ply whistle.


IT was "court week" in country
tavern, and late conner was given one
of dozen cots which had been put up
temporarily in the parlor. There was a
grand chorus of snores from the other
cots. After an hour or more of this up
roar, one of the most resonant snores
brought up with snort and was suddenly
silent, when a Frenchman, who occupied
a cot in an extreme corner of the room,
exclaimed, "Thank God, Won ees dead !"
Year: 1877

In selecting corn for seed, it is often the


practice to merely choose large ears from
the general crop. II Ia suggested that this
is not the best method, for, while the
plant may be strong and vigorous and
bear large ears, the corn may have been
fertilized BY pollen from feeble or ptunted
plants near 1t, and the seed may retain
and repeat these adverse qualities in
spite Of the rieor of the plant on which IL
grew. 1t is said that better plan would
be 70 plant some of the seed in small
plot by itself, at distance from the main
crop. and to give this patch plenty Of
room and high culture. When the tassels
appear In this seed bed every plant should
oc examined, and all feeble stalks should
. npe pulled out or cut Off below the tassel
Deiore 1t has an opportunity to bloom.
ny this arrangement both the plant on
winch the ears grow, and the pollen scat
kered from its own and neighboring tas
fls, will be alike strong and vigorous, and


seed will partake Of the strength of


Oh Its parents.
Year: 1877

boil all together for one minute; serve
hot.


HrcKLEBERRY CAKE.--Two cupfuls
Of sugar, one of butter, fiveegg one cup
full of milk, one teaspooniul of soda, one
small lemon, a little nutmeg, wine-glass
full of brandy, three cupfuls -four; dredge
quart of huckleberries thickly with
flour, and add the last thing.


SWEET CLOVER OISTMENT.-Taket the
clover and boil with lard. If there be
any positive virtue in the plant the hot
grease will extract it. An alcoholic
tincture Of the plant would extract its
virtues, and evaporated down lard might
be added.


BLACKBERRY VINEGAR.-To three
quarts of berries put one quart of vine
gar; let it stand for three days, then
strain II, aud to one pint of juice put one
pound Of sugar put II into kettle over
slow fire; skim 1t as it boils; let it boil
for half an hour; cool and bottle for use.


BLACKBERRY MUsH.-Take a pound
of ripe blackberries, and first bruise them
and add a very little salt; put in porce-
lain or earthenware pan, and add one
teacupful boiling water; stir in a bowl
two heaping teaspooniuls of sifted -four,
with Just enough cold water TO make
perfectly smooth: add to the berries and
stir quickly, until thickened; take of
Immediately else will burn. Eat cold,
with sugar and cream.


To CAN PINEAPPLEs.-Pare and cut
in small pieces, take out the core (or
center), then ill the jars with the fruit
10 each quart jar dissolve teacupful OF
white sugar in teacupful of boiling
water, and pour in on the fruit, which
should fill the jar; then put the jars in a
boiler of cold water quitting nail under
each jar, 70 as not to crack the jar), in
which they should stand with the water
a third from the tops of the jars boil
twenty minutes, and seal quickly. Thi'
is also an excellent recipe for canning
peaches, Bartlett pears and cherries.
Year: 1877

Those who fear for the destruction Of
our forests resulting from the demand for
hemlock bark will take comfort In the
successful attempts to obtain tannin from
other sources. II has been estimated that
one cord of hemlock bark produces one
barrel of good tannin extract, worth $40
It is now found one cord Of alder will
produce the same amount; and one ton
Of sweet fern gives the best tannin, s22
worth. besides q value of $3.50 in an in
ferior kind. There Is said to be consid-
Srable activity in Hancock county, Me-,
in the new industy of extracting tannin
from sweet fern.


If cord of hemlock bark contains 500,
a cord OF oak bark has at least quarter
more Of this tannin principle; yet,
nothing ia more common in large dis
tricts of Tennessee than the waste of oak
trees and timber, bark and all.
Year: 1877

The Baltimore fruit dealers think they
have discovered a method Of ripening
fruit which Is somewhat better than
nstnre'a Upon this point there will
probably be a difference Of opinion among
consumers, but the process Is an interest
ing one. The fruit is hung in room
which Is made perfectly dark and rs
nearly alright as possible. The room
Is then heated by means OF pipes to the
proper temperature, and the room is
kept closed except wher opened for In
spection Of progress. The experiments
thus far have been with bananas, and 1t
has been iodnd that two or three days
only are required to ripen them.
Year: 1877

IT has been made against the law for
a postmaster to give mans letter to his
wife. But the thing mustn't stop here ;
now we want a method to prevent her
from sorting over the contents of his in.
side pocket, and perusing his various
correspondence while Morpheus is hold
ing him in his arms.
Year: 1877

9Packard's scheme: disclosed in his let
ter to the New York Tribune, of proving
from Republican figures that Tilden was
elected President, attracts no little atten-
ton. Is it possible that it disCloses the
real point Of attack which the Republi-
can implaCables intend to make on the
Administration? Are they preparing to
charge that Mr.. Hayes is an usurper? 1t
would be a singular phase in American
politics if Republicans, after doing all
they could to put Republican President
in office, should then turn round and
take up the Democratic quarrel against
him, and attempt to depose him on the
ground that they had put him in Office
by fraud.