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Year: 1877

TO GLAZE SHIRT B0soMs.-Dis-
olive two table spoonfuls Of starch in II
cup of cold water pour over this Il
pint of boiling water, stir II well, and
let it boil two or three minutes. Add
to it a small lump Of white sugar, or
few shavinss Of white soap and bit


of butter, or a small piece of white


wax, or stir it with u sperm CANDLE
After the clothes are rinsed in blue


water starch them and dry them


Then ring osoms and collars from
this cold starch, roll tightly, let them
lay awhile, and iron in the usual way;
then lay the bosoms on smooth board


covered with one thickness OF muslin,


making it slightly damp, and polish
with a polishing iron. This is small


iron with a bul sc at one or both ends.


1t may be bought at any house-fnr-


nishng store, and costs from sevety-
five cents to one dollar.
Year: 1877

The Greenback party Of Ohio, the
same which nominated Peter Cooper
for the Presidency, but forgot to sup
port him, is early in the field with a
gubernatorial ticket, and invites all
voters who think paper currency bet
ter than gold to support their cand-
date. The political line will be
drawn so tightly in Ohio next fall,
that large majority of the Green
hackers will again support the Re-
publican ticket AS they did at the
Presidential election.
Year: 1877

Be NEAT Young ladies, if they
only knew how disgusting to men
slovelines3 is, and how attractive are
displays of neatness and taste, would
array themselves in the simplicity
and cleanliness OF the lilies OF the
field or, if able to indulge in costly
attire they would study the harmo-
njous blending Of colors which nature
exhibits in all her works. a girl Of
good taste, and habits of neaness,
can make a more fascinating toilet
with a shilling calico dress, a few
cheap ribbons and laces, and such or
namonts as she can gather from the
garden than vulgar, tawdy Great
ure who is worth thousands, and has
the jewelry and wardrobe Of u prin-
cess.
Year: 1877

Crop reports from Nebraska are
good except for corn, which is not so
good on account Of continued heavy
rains. There was a slight frost Sun
day night The grasshoppers have
done but very little damage, and in
but one or two places have not done
any. They seem to be disappearing.
An Omaha dispatch says that owing to
the rise in the river the railroad COM
pany have been obliged to move their
engines and cars from the shops to
high ground.
Year: 1877

In answer to the question "Where
are the men of &c . a western editor
replies that he can't say where they
are just row, but that when the next
Black Crook show comes to town
yon can find all the men over sixty
five in front rows OF the orchestra
chairs.
Year: 1877

One of the greatest trials of the newspaper
profession is that its members are compelled to
see more of the shaihs of the world than any
other profession Through every newspaper
office, day after day, go ali the weaknesses OF
the world, all the vanities that want to be
puffed; all the revenges that want to be reaped
all the mistakes that want to be corrected; ali
the dull speakers that want to be though
eloquent; all the meanness that wants to
get Its wares noticed gratis in the editorial
column, in order to save the tax in the adver.
tising columns; all the men who want to b.
set right who were never rigbt all the crack
Drained philosophers with stories as long as
their hair, and as gloomy as their finger nails
in mourning because bereft of soap; all the
bores who come to stay five minutes, but talk
i've hours. Through the editorial and report
orial rooms all the folles and the shams of the
world are seen, day after day; and the tempta
tion is to believe in neither God, man nor
woman. 1t is no surprise to me that in this
profession there are some skeptical men; only
wonder that journalists bsleye anything. Tai
mage.
Year: 1877

THE famous Krupp gun is to be superseded,
they say, by bronze gun which has been
lately turned out from the foundry at Span
dau and which is approved by the Inspector
general of the German artillery Well, nev-
er mind now, the Krupp gun has done the
business for the Turks.
Year: 1877

PEOPLE are wondering why Colonel T. B.
Thorpe, one of the oldest officers of the New
York custom house, has been removed from
the position Of weigher. The removal was
made by order of the Treasury Department,
and no reason for tbs given. Colonel Thorpe
was the only weigher at that port who re-
ceived his position in accordance with the
civil service rules through success in COM
petitiVe examination.
Year: 1877

APPARENTLY the owner of the building
in which the explosion took place is response
BILE for the great loss of life in the New York
candy factory Thursday. There ought to be
a way of holding him to responsibility.
Year: 1877

THE public at last learns something about
Farley, the new California Senator, and that
something is greatly to his advantage. He is
strongly opposed to all Government railroad
subsidies.
Year: 1877

Notable among the gift-books for the holiday
season is The Flood of Years, poem by VIII
liam Cullen Bryant, illustrated by w. j. Lin
ton. The poem is large in design and treated
with freedom and breadth. 1t is q seal which
the poets hand after many years, sets upon
the written scroll of his young faith and poetic
aspiration, Thanatopsis. The design is in a
measure conventional, yet the earnestness and
dignity Of the poem take away from it all sus-
pieion OF commonplaceness. 1t is rather the
forcible exposition of familiar things, by poet
whose long experience and clear vision give his
words large measure Of prophetic weight
The torrent of time is represented as flooding
the world and while on the extreme foam Of its
latest wave life struggles for little while, be-
hiud'are left ruin and death, forgotten things
drifting or sunk to the depth of the sea; before
it is a mist filled with alternate fantasies of
Fear and Hope. Beyond even this is veil of
darkness drawn, shadowed strait before the
open golden sea wherein all lost things suffer
sea-change into something rich and strange, and
revive to immortal happiness in the fortunate
islands of the blessed.


Mr.. Bryant has employed in this poem the
resources Of his rich aud stately vocabulary,
and the commanding traits of his poetic gift
An occasional fault of detail, momentary
lapse in prosaic phrase, an Inconsistency in the
picture, are met with, but are scarcely matter
of comment or criticism in the large flow of the
poem-a noble work of the aged singer whose
Homeris head aud dignified form are SO we'll
known and honored in the streets of the city
where every day he goes to his journalistic
duties; whose poetic fire glows Gle ar and warm
beneath the white ashes of former years burned
out which were for cheer and illumination to
the people. As he sang of lasting hope and
courage in his young days. so In his old years
does the venerable poet sing the triumph of
faith, which passes through the waters parted
as wall to the right hand and left.


The illustrations by Mr.. Linton are of singu-
lar delicacy and power, imaginative and re-
served, while their mechanic al execution is al
mirable The olive and silver of the binding is
in perfect taste. New York: G. p Putnam's
Sons; Portland: Loring, Short s. Harmony
Year: 1877

When a young man is clerk in q
store and dresses like princes smok-
ing fine cigars, and drinks nice bran>
dy, attends theatres, balls, and the
like | wonder if he does it all upon
the avais of his clerkship?


When a young lady sits in the
parlor all day, with her fingers COW
cred with rings, l wonder if her
mother don t wash and do the work
IN the kitchen


When the deacon of church sells
strong butter, recommending it as
sweet, wonder if be don't rely on
the merits of Christ for salvation ?


When a lady laces her waists third
smaller than nature made it, ] won>
doi if hor pretty figure will not
shorten life some dozen years or
more, besides making her miserable
while she does live?


When a young man is depending
upon his daily toll for his income,
and marries lady who does not
know how to make q loaf of bread
or mend a garment, I wonder if he is
not lacking, somewhere, say towards
the top for instance?


When a man goes three times a
day to get dram, I wonder if he
will not by and by 60 four times?


When a man receives periodical
or newspaper, weekly, and takes
great delight in reading them, but
neglects to pay for them, I wonder if
he has a soul or a gizzard ?-En.
Year: 1877

A gentleman is person not mere.
ly acquainted with certain forms and
etiquette of life, easily and self.pos>
sessed in society, able to speak and
act and move in the world without
awkwardness, and free from habits
which are vulgar and in bad taste.
A gentleman is something beyond
this that which lies at the root Of
every Christian virtue. 1t is the
thoughtful desire of doing in every
instance what others should do unto
him. He is constantly thinking, not
indeed how he may give pleasure to
others for the mere sense of pleasing,
but how he may avoid hurting their
feelings. When he is in society he
scrupulously ascertains the position
and relations of every one with
whom he comes in contact that he
may give to each Lis due honor, his
proper position. He studies how he
may avoid touching in conversation
on any subject which may needlessly
hurt their feelings-how he may abb
stain from illusions which may call
up disagreeable or offensive associ-
alton. A gentleman never alludes
to, never even appears conscious of
any defect, bodily deformily, inferi>
ority of talent, of rank, of reputa-
tionsin the person in whose society
he is placed. He never assumes any
superiority to himself-neser ridi>
cules, never sneers, never boasts,
uerer makes n display Of lis own
power, or rank, or advantages--such
as is implied in habits or trick J or
lnclinations which may be offensive
to Others.
Year: 1877

Select field that you do not in
tend to use for any other purpose,
for, when once planted it is difficult
to get artichokes out of the land. 1t
will produce plants from seed left in
the ground. Ii it were turned to
pasture of course the plants would
soon die out; but it is better to
fence off a portion, plow it up and
plant it in artichokes, and every fall
let the hogs into the artichok lot to
feast upon the tubers. Late in the
spring plow and harrow the lot, keep
the hogs out till fall and there will
be crop of artichokes again to feed
the hogs the following winter. If
before frost the stalks are cut, cured
and stacked up, they will furnish ex-
cellent forage for horses, cattle and
sheep. They can be dug like pota-
Toes and fed to hogs cooked, which is
an improvement. Plant in rows
three feet apart, and fifteen inches
apart in the row, and run a cultiva-
tor between the rows few times in
the spring to destroy the weeds.
Year: 1877

1t is no sign of gentility to be ut-
terly Indifferent to expenses. Many
people think it quite "the correct
thing to know nothing of the prices
of common articles. Such ignorance
is supposed TO suggest the idea of
vast wealth. But the facts are, that
it suggests quite different train of
ideas. The truly refined and high
bred, with abundant resources at
command, know tlat it advertises
great ignorance OF the world, very
limited education, and even less CONS
mon sense. This sort of display
goes handein- hand with vnlgarity,
and stamps its possessor in a way
that is known and read Of all men,"


People possessed of wealth, which
is not founded upon shifting sand"
are usually most exact and sys-
tematic in all their money affairs.
Ladies Of wealth and good breeding
see well to the ways Of their houses
holds, and are strict in their domes-
tic management, that no waste shall
be allowed. AS rule, the poor are
more wasteful than the rich-one rea-
son why they remain poor.


When a young couple, with their
way to make in the world, begin
housekeeping in style that is only
suitable in people of established
wealth, they do not command the
respect they wish, in places where
their reputation is of the greatest
account to them. Business men,
where confidence is a young mans
best capital, will not trust him half
as readily as if he had "begun small"


If there is anything that makes
home uncomfortable, it is the con,
tinued consciousness that one is liv,
ing beyond ones means, and that
day of reckoning is sure to come.
Yet the calls for expenditure are in-
cessant, and each keeps on buying,
with no calculation how matters are
coming out, until the final crash set
ties the matter for them. If you
wish to get true comfort out OF your
income, and command the respect
of those about you, learn to keep
your accounts accurately, and spend
your money with discretion.
Year: 1877

Hugh Cough, of Boroughbridge,
was rough soldier on a furlough,
but man of doughty deeds in war,
though before he fought for this
country, he was a thorough dough-
faced ploughman. His horse hav~
ing been hcughed in an engage
ment with the enemy, Hugh was
taken prisoner, and, l ought to add,
was kept on short enough clough
of food, and suffered from drought
as well as from hunger. Having,
on his return home, drunk too large
q draught OF usquebaugh, be became
intoxicated, and was laughing,
coughing and hiccoughing by a
trough, against which he sought to
steady himself. There he was ac-
cnsed by another rough, who show
ed him cough, which he had
caught on a clough near; also the
slough of snake which he held at
the end of tough bough of eugh
tree, and which his shaggy shough
had found and had brought to him
from the entrance of o sough which
ran through and drained slough
that was close to a Tough in the
neighborhood.
Year: 1877

Much jewelry is vulgar.


Do not smack while eating.


Do not run after famous people.
Do not cut your nails in company.
Cheese should be eaten with
fork.


Feeing walters is paying black
mail


Unsweetened coffee cures bad
breath.


Short nails make the finger tips
grow broad.


In going up or down stairs pre-
cede the lady.


A formal call is very long if it last
half an hour.


Only a naughty brunette should
wear yellow colors.


1t is impolite to keep a MUSICIAN
constantly playing.


Address your wife as "Mrs," your
husband as MIR"


A girl should not stroll away with
a gentleman at picnic.


A lady should not stretch her foot
out in company,


Let the wife deal with the female
servants.


A pink ribbon under the chin
makes a pale woman look brighter


No man respects a girl who flirts,
though he may firt with her.


The lady of the house should re-
ceive the guests at formal recep~
tion.


Always take the last piece of any
thing. There is supposed to be
more.


An engagement of marriage is
little less sacred than an actual mar =
riage.


If it is necessary for you to use
your handkerchief sonorously, leave
the room quietly.


If you meet a gentleman. friend
with. a strange lady on his arm, sas
lutte both.


A well>bred English or French
girl will not go to q theatre or cons
cert alone with any other gentleman
than a near relative or her accepted
suitor
Year: 1877

The good wife is none of your
dainty danes who loves to appear in
a variety of suits, every day new /;
as if gown, like stratagem in war,
were TO be used but once. But our
good wife sets up sail, according to
the keel of her husbands estate, and
if of high patronage, she doth not so
remember what she was by birth,
that she forgets what she is by
match.
Year: 1877

To be forgotten as soon as dead is
the melancholy lot OF man every
where, bat it is only in the. more
populous places of the world that
this forgetfulhess anticipates the
two,fold oblivion of the grave, and
that men are considered dead because
they cease to be remembered
Year: 1877

"In twice two hundred years the bear
The crescent shall assail,


But II the cock and bull unite,
The bear shall not prevail.
But look in twice ten years again,
Let Islam know and fear,
The cross shall wax-khe crescent wane,
Grow pale and disappear.
Year: 1877

He had not slept a wink for twenty.
four hours, coughing all the time. His
sister bought rs cent bottle Of Dr.
Bulls Cough Syrup al the nearest drug
store, gave him dose, and the cough
was broken at once and be slept quietly
during the night.
Year: 1877

and Solano. Otherwise the prospects In
that section OF the State are still good, al
though want Of rain is beginning to be felt.
especially for late sown wheat. The coast
counties north OF San Francisco are looking
we'll, although rust is reported in some local.
lties. In the lower portion Of San Joaquin
Valley the crops are in good condition, but
higher up the river, and in Los Angeles Valley
there will be but little raised except on CORFU
gated land.
Year: 1877

IF Mobilians must have see air this
summer let them seek it ON our own
beautiful shores, and not go to Newport.
All the principal cottages there have
been taken already, and the success of
the seascn is assured. The price of
cottage ranges from a50e0, the highest
rent paid so far, all the wsy down to
$2500, for the season of three months.
= Mobile Evening News.


No finer resort can be found than at
the towns along the Mississippi coast
Here living is not half as high as at the
Northern watering places and the con-
veniences are equally good. Let all
who wish to avoid the hct, dusty city
life come hither and spend few
months, and when they return to their
business in the fall they will be recupa-'
ated in health, end their pockets will
not be so depleted as if they had gone
North,
Year: 1877

would be that the laws In existencs would
remain in force until such time as abol.
ished. amended or repealed by legal
Legislature.


How, then. any one can regard the
absence Of Legislature in Louisiana to.
day as having any different or further
effect upon the government Of that State
than in the cases supposed is beyond com
prehepsiop, and 1t Is equally inexplicable
why the Commission now iu Louisiana
should give themselves any uneasiness
about the Legislature Of that State, or why
they should go at all into the question Of
the legality of either body styling itself
the Legislature. when neither their decls.
ration nor that of any other persons or
power can make either of them illegal,
but the decision of the courts OF the State,
or, in the absence Of decision on the
subject by them, the decision Of the courts
Of the United States. All questions Of the
regularity or sufficiency Of either Of those
bodies will be taken care OF In due course
by competent authority, when the ms'
chinery OF the State government Is no
longer obstructed by impediments coming
frcm without.


In view of all this 1t seems 10 Us that the
duty of the Commission should be limited
to proper inquiry as to the efficiency o.
government in Louisiana, and that any
collateral issue should be left to requisite
itself with the return Of undlsputed author
i,y. II either of the contestidg govern
ments Is found to be the government o.
the people. sslf.sustaining and capable o
enforcing its claims. then the State shoult
be lefs to itself, subject only TO such fu
ture action by the General Goyernmen
as Is warranted by the Constitution. 'Bu,
If it appears that there Is no sufficient au
thority to maintain the peace in the State
because of NO preponderance Of pows
on either side, then the Federal supervision
should continue until such a condition eI
lists. The sole question should be whethe
there b an actual government In the State
without reference to its title or the regu
larity OF It's parts. II there Is such, q!
other questions will take care OF themselve
, In good time. -. ....
Year: 1877

and to offer that a. an excu sc for nothold.
ing the Chief Of Police and his detectives
and other officers to . strict accountability
for non. performances Of duty on their part
individually. II every member Of every
Police Board since the organization Of the
force had failed In the performance OF his
duty II would be no excuse for the viols-
ton Of their oaths by the officers Of the
force. That was the matter which the
board was to inquire into, and In failing TO
do SO they made themselves individually
and collectively the apologists Of Major
RIcHARps and his detectives, who could
find no wey to break up gambling and
other crimes until after The REPUBLICAN,
had pointed ou. the way.


The board has disappointed every Law,
abiding citizen in Washington. II has
shown it's utter incspacity to conduct .
reform, and tho best thing It's members
can do is to step down and out and let
better men take their places. The gam.
blers were jubilant again yesterday for the
first time in weeks. for they regard this
report as great victory. and see the dawn
Of that day when superintendent and do.
tectives, lieutenants and pstrolmen will
again wink at their robberies and pass by
with their out stretched hands behind their
! backs.


The report is an evidence Of gross
ignorance of their duties by the members
Of the board, and willful and shameful
blindness to the best interests Of the com
munity
Year: 1877

Promising that the Louisiana Commis-


sion, 50 far ss they are authorized to act st
all in the adjustment Of the difficulties In
that State, represent the Federal power, 1t
may be assumed, a. beyond controversy.


that they have no concern with the ques-
tion Of the existence or organization Of tho
Legislature. As friendly advisers, they
may, to be sure. either - agents of the
Administration in the interests Of peace, or
as private citizens, Of their own motion.
offer such couuselsas situation suggests,


whether in respect Of the Legislative or
any other branch Of the State government;
but as diplomats approaching State -
the representatives Of the Government
Of the United States, or that Of any
other Government or State, they can
deal only with the Executive Depart
ment, and are concluded as to that by
its general efficiency. Upon coming
within the limits of the State, they arc
bound to recognize and respect as the gov.
ernment thereof, that agency which affords
them freedom and protection, and which
administers the laws and compels the obe-
dience Of the people. The presence and
effective operation Of government estab.
l'shes presumption in favor Of its legiti.
macy in all its branches, and those having
intercourse with the State may not inquire
further All questions Of regularity or Of
equity are within the local Jurisdiction to
determine. and are not open to question by
any other authority. Ifthere be laws and
tribunals and instrumentalities to expound
and execute them, and they are SO ex-
pounded and executed. It will be assumed
that there is a law making power duly
warranted and actively participating in the
government. But ifthe contrary be known,
II is not available as an objection to the
validity OF the statutes until it has
been decided by the courts; and
even then, though 1t be held tha,
a particular statute was enacted BY an lille
gal Legislature. it would in no sense affect
the status Of the government. II the
courts of any Of the States Of the Uniou
were to decide in 9 case properly before
them the Legislature Of the State to be lille
| gslly constituted, or II, In the absence O
any decision on the subject by the Ststt
courts. the courts Of the United States wer,
to 30 decide. does any one suppose that th'
decision would in any manner disturb th'
existence of the State government Sucl
decisions have been made scores Of time
in the history Of the country, and as manJ
times the States aft ected have been with
out legal Legislatures but no one eve
dreamed that this Circumstance gave tn


Federal power the right TO interven
10 execute the guaranty Of r:
publican form OF government to sue
States. Il Is plain, therefore, that thoug


Estate be absolutely without q Legislature
as by failure to elect, or by reason Of


refusal to meet according to law, Its gov
ernment survives the same as before, an


is entitled to the same recognition and re


spect The only effect that could folio
Year: 1877

IsDrvrDuAL holders Of the Centennial
stock look upon the Supreme Court through
the same eye glasses used by the fillibus-
tering Democracy shortly after the EIec-
toral Commission decision.
Year: 1877

EVERY batch Of news from Constantine
pie sends The price of breadstuffs up. The
New York markets were very lively yes
teriAy owing to the almost absolute GER
tainty of war between Russia and Tur-
key within the next thirty days.