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Year: 1874




An interesting cavalcade will pass
through the Continent this summer.
Sergeant Bates, it is said, will, on May
10th, leave the United States for Europe
with two x.soldiers of France and Ger
many, and after passing through London,
will proceed to Calais. In London, ar.
rangements are to be made with an ex.
soldier of each Of the other countries OF
Europe to join him in the Grand In
ternational March of the Nineteenth
Century" The Sergeant and ex-soldiers,
each bearing the standard Of his own
country, are to march from Calais to st.
Petersburg, through the capitals of the
Continent Negotiations are in progress
to persuade an Irish Home Ruler to
carry the green flag of Erin. A white
silk Sanner, with the motto Peace on
earth, is also to be carried-if possible,
by negro. The progress Of these stan
dard bearers will be a magnificent spec
tacle and will be watched with the deep
est interest BY the civilized world; but
to render the Grand international
March of the Nineteenth Century a
really striking success, Sergeant Bates
aud his companions should pay a visit
with their flags to some regular blood
thirsty barbarians. Why not land on
the west coast of Africa and march
straight to Coomsssie, taking Europe on
the return journey-King Kofee bring
ing up the procession with his umbrella,
lent BY the South Kensington Museum
for the occasiOn2
Year: 1874

Nine Lucca tells me that she only
expects to sing about two months longer,
although she cannot speak positively
She cannot endure the climate of this
country; her healths " has been miser-
able ever since she has been here, SO she
says. She can only go out at night when
she sings, for then she can wrap up re-
gardless OF appearances. She cannot
do herself justice with her throat in the
condition that it is, and her husband
wants her to leave the stage any way


They will probably settle down in some
of the German provinces, and the little
Lucca will 90 to raising chickens and
fruit after the manner of the great
Pasta. Ishall be very sorry to have
Lucea leave this country for good, ."
as the children say, and hope Mr.


Strakosch may be able to induce her to
change her mind. Notwithstanding the
fact that Lucca appears to be overflow
ing with fun and frolic, and is always
making the troupe laugh at her cunning
little ways at rehearsals, there is to me
something about her that is indies criba-
hly melancholy. When you catch her
face in repose it has a very sad express
sion. Her large gray eyes look as
though they we're made for tears. She
is hardly ever still long enough for one
to see much Of this expression, for she
is hopping or skipping around the stage
all the time, or else entertaining a select
few with playing tunes on her teeth by
knocking them together in remarka-
Bile manner, so that she never loses a
note, making a sound, of course not so
loud, but something like eastanets.
Year: 1874

THE MEANEsT MAN.-It turns out, after all,
the meanest man is not the man who split up
his first wife's tombstone. Burrows is even
meaner than he. Burrows was an inveterate
tobacco chewer but as his wife detested the
practice and made home tempestuous and
stormy for him when he INDUCED in the habit
there, he always chswed when away during
the day, and declared tc his wife that he had
stopped permanently. But one evening, upon
entering the front door and drawing out his
handkerchief, he accidentally pulled out his
paper of tobacco and without noticing it, left
it lying on the floor When Burrows sat down
to his tea, his wife walked in with the tobacco
in her hand, and looking Burrows firmly in the
eye said, "Do you know who that belongs
to2" With great presence of mind Burrows
turned scowling to his oldest boy and said,
with a severe voice Immortal Mars Is it
possible that you have begun to chew tobacco,
you young reprobate? Where did you get
that nasty stuff? What do you mean by such
conduct, you young william? Haven't told
you often enough to let tobacco alone Come
here to me, or III tear the jacket off of you. y
And as he spoke the stern father made graf
at the boy and dragged him out in the entry
where he chastised him with cane. Their
Burrows threw the tobacco over the fence
where he went out and got it in the morning
and enjoyed it during the day. . Mercifu
Moses !" he exclaimed when he told US abou
it, what would have done if my children


had all been girls? 1t makes an old father


heart glad when he feels that he has a boy b,
can depend on in such emergencies.
Year: 1874

A CURIOUS INCIDENTAL correspondent of
the London Lancet, the most important medi-
cal journal published in England, relates the
following curious fact IA man in his neigh
borhood had three daughters. Wishing for a
son, he made solemn VOW that, if his next
child should be a girl, he would never speak
to her. The next child proved to be a son, as
he wished, but curiously enough, he would
never speak to his father, although he lived
thirty.five years with him. He always talked
freely with his mother and sisters, but with no
one else until ai.er the death of his father,
when he talked readily with every one. He
was called "Dumb Eli"
Year: 1874

AFFECTING OBITUARY.-Another old citizen
of Illinois is prematurely no more. "In lfe's
great game of poker" as the aged minister
tearfully observed in his funeral discourse,
she has thrown down his hand, which, permit
me to say, brethren, was equal to four aces and
a queen, he has surrendered his chips, drained
his glass to the dregs, and walked out. And,
what is most remarkable about it is, the full
force of the impropriety of keeping her rat
poison in the tea pot did not seem to strike the
old lady until about the time of the inquest
Year: 1874

Beneath the quaint old bridge you hear
The waves make music a. the pass,
And. winding to the elm tree near,
You see the pathway through the Rrass,
Where We were wont to walk, alasI
The river wAnders as Of cid


Beneath the shade OF willow trees,
The sunlit waters sleGm like gold.
And ripple to the gentle breeze;
But l am far from thee and theset
The sky bends over broad and blue,
And in the soft ard mellow light,
You tread the lans our footsteps knew
In former days, when days were bright;
Do these days bring such sweet dsliEhtf
And still that lane with grass is green:
With fragrant flowers the banks are fair;
In golden gloss and silver sheen


The bees still haunt the balmy air.
But you will fail to 6nd me thsre.
Again. perchanee. may not see


The rustlinE rows Of willow trees
(Which lent a Ieaiy canopy


When we strollsd underneath at ease; y
For am far from thee and these!
Our joys fsrsake us. Soon does spring
Pass by and for the summer call
Soon do the birds lose heart to sing.


When fading leaves in autumn fall;


And winter Is the end OF all.
Year: 1874

A young lady upbraded an admirer for his
firtations during a long absence. You are
too bad to be pardoned,' she said u" but if |
discard you, l shall punish myself most, and
so will ignore what is past, and enjoy your
society as much as can while live, for when
die | shall never see you any mors-I am
going to Heaven"
Year: 1874

An energetic young Yankee, who had been
reported as among the fatally injured by
railroad accident, and afterwards reported as
not among that unfortunate company, writes
to the editor, saying, 81 tell you ] toas among
the fatally injured, but the reason didn't die
was because I'm always temperate in my
living, and have a splendid constitution
naturally"
Year: 1874

A good mother was trying to explain to
young hopeful the other day about fighting
against the devil After telling the little follow
who he was, and how hard he was to success
fully resist, he turned round and said Nam
ma, I'd be scared of the old devil, but if was
to come across one of his little devils I'd
knock the stufing out of him"
Year: 1874

The other dav at a concert, q gentleman
having put his hat upon a chair to keep a
place, returned to claim it after a short absence
The hat he found, sure enough, where it had
been left, only there was stout lady sitting
on it, Madame" said he, you are sitting
on my hat" The lady blushed little, turned
round, and said in the blandest manner: "Oh,
beg pardon I'm sure thought it was my
husbands"
Year: 1874

A fellow with pistol bullet in his left side,
one inch above his heart, sixinch slash on
his head and broken leg, crawled into Ban
gor, Me-, doctors Office to get fixed up, " as
he pleasantly put it, the ether morning. He
said they'd been havin' some fun over to
house." but ho declined to designate the domi'
cile more particularly and possibly they are
too we'll used to these comic eccentrcities down
in Maine to inquire very closely: But this
Maine chap is evidently fellow who can take
joke, and bear no grudge against the giver.
Year: 1874

THE WIFE MAKES THE HUSBAND.-1
remember we'll a couple with whom l
was for years on terms of closest intima-
cy. The husband was q gentleman of
Gods creation. He filled with honor an
important Office under the United States
Government; he had large private for
tune which he spent generously on his
family, for he desired above all things
their happiness, His wife was young,
beautiful, and had been raised by his
love from a life Of bitter poverty and
toll. She had splendid home, a devo-
ted husband, and four fine sons and
daughters. Her power over her hus-
band was very great, and not the weak
est LOT her weapons was this sqlky, fearful,
injured silence. But she had no tact, she
strained the bow too far and it snapped.
| shall never forget the months of misery
preceding their final separation.


And III society he bore all the blame.
Was his wife not strictly virtuOus? Was
she nOta careful and conscientious moth
er; an acknowledged beauty and pat
tern housekeepery What then did he
want? He answered them as an old Ro-
man did on a similar occasion. Stoop-
ing down, he loosened his shoe, inquir-
ing, Z" Is it not new? Isitnot we'll made
Yet none of you can tell where it pinches
me- That is just the kind of misery.
Try il you can bear a pinching shoe
month after month, year after year-yet
it is not SO irritating as sulky woman.


Husbands as a general rule are what
wives make them. # woman com
plains to me of an unsympathizing hus-
band [ listen with closed mouth, and
closed heart too. do not indeed deny
but what there are men too utterly bad
for any woman to influence; but men do
not become bad, sour and spoiled by
some sudden lightning stroke-all at
once. A woman of any penetration
must. see suspicious circumstances in
such before marriage, and people who
run risks voluntarily ought not to ex-
pect immunity from consequences, And
it the man was good man when she
married him, and grew bad under her
management, and in her society, she
cannot be altogether blameless. Depend
upon it there are as many ill-used hus-
bands as wives, only the former keep q
stiff upper lip about their mistake, and
the latter bring theirs before the foot
lights and ask the world to cry with them.


[GOlden Age.
Year: 1874

In the southern part of Massachusetts,
there lived a good-natured poor man
who was known to the neighbors by
the simple name of Jimmie" He was
engaged to saw some wood, and was on
hand at an early hour to make full
tended visiting friend that day. and
at noon she said to Jimmie: "Will it
make any difference to you if you eat
your dinner and supper now, as | ana
going off to spend the day ?" "Oh, no."
was the answer. So Jimmie went in
and commenced his attack on the food,
After satisfying his appetite, the lady
saw him with saw and horse going to
the gate. "Where are you going %
asked the lady. "Going home" vas
the answer. Jimmie never works af-
ter sI1nnar
Year: 1874

A little girl who was visiting the
family of a neighbOr heard them speak
OF her father as a widower, and on her
return home, said "Pa, are you q
widower?" Eyes, my child. Don't
you know that your mother is dead ?"
Why, yes, know my mother is dead;
but then you always told me you were
a New YOrkerD
Year: 1874

Mrs. Perkins, ON Friend street, who
has just finished new house, has been
so much annoyed recently by lightning
rod men and insurance agents that, as
a protection, she put out a sign stating
that four of the family were jill with
the smallpox, but strangers world be
cordially received. A blind beggar was
seen to pause in front of the house for
an instant, the other day.. to read the
sign, and then he quickly sought an ad-
joining street, Columbus Sunday News
Year: 1874

EARLY CABBAGE.-The Pacific Rural
Press says: "Take large head of cab
bage, strip off the outer leaf and slip off
the bud and simply set 1t In rich dirt,
like any other plant. The result of this
will be fine growth of early cabbage
plants, with heads larger and sounder
than can be raised in the ordinary way"
Year: 1874

bellum calculation, and including them to get the
present ratio per capita of the population, rs II the
negroes cost no to govern when ,hey were
slaves than 80 many sheep.


The delegation carries very little 'morai weight
with it, Two or three of its members are consplcu'
ous corruptionsts who have enriched themselves al
the expense of the State since reconstruction one
was expelled from the House in the XLlst Congress
for selnga cadetship; two moro were members OF
the financial board that put S6OO0OOO OF fraudulent
bonds upon the New-York stock market. Without
exception, every man of them is personally inter
ested in the perpetuation of the present corrupt
regime in South Carolina 1t is shameless efrOntery
for them to come to Washington to deny facts
that are well known to every intelligent citizen Of
their State and to talk to Congress and the Presl-
dent about their virtuOus intentions.
Year: 1874

Professor Winchell, in n recent
lecture at the Cooper Institute, New
York, entitled, "Glimpses of the
Future, argued that "the final of
this world and of all the planets, as
foreshadowed by the results Of
scientific research, would be to be
precipitated into the sun. The re-
turning periods Of the comets are
growing shorter; they always come
back little too soon. The earth is
shortening its years and drawing
nearer to the sun. All the planets
are plowing their way through a
resisting medium, and many years
ago it began to be calculated what
would be the end Of that resistance.
1t is well demonstrated that the light
from the sun is propagated in the
form of undulations. The light OF
each star has trembled along its path
on the wings Of ether in some cases
for 100000 yearsl Through the
resistance Of this exceedingly tenuous
fluid, all the planets Of our solar
system are destined to be precipita-
ted into the sun and become one
totally refrigerated mass" We
guess not.
Year: 1874

A boy lately ran to a police man and
told him that there was a person in
the next street tearing up the pave
ment. Bobby" hastened round the
corner, but saw only man eneFgeti'
calIy running after an omnibnsl
Year: 1874

We have this morning very lengthy
deliverance from the Farmers Grange
Association which has been incubat.
ing at St. Louis during the past week.
The platform of principles sets forth
many excellent things, and in fact the
millennium will not be very far distant
when men everywhere adopt and live
up to the creed propounded by the
Farmers. The world would uudoubt-
.dly be better if the generous teachings
OF the Grange were permitted to con-
troll political and personal action, and
we may look for the reform OF all
abuses when the Farmers come into
exclusive power.


Seriously, the Grange movement il
every day assuming greater proportion'
and receiving fresh and enthusiastic
adherents. Under the platform oi
principles enunciated by the national
organization, it will be cordially well
coined BY all who love justice aud who
desire to maintain in government the
principles upon which the Ameri'
can republic is based. There is moth
ing in the platform presented to whici
,nv honest Democrat cannot readll!
assent, and we most cordially bid th'
association God speed


There is much good sense in TIT
memorial in relation to husbardry II
the Southern States.
Year: 1874

TaERE was a good deal OF talk IN the
city newspapers last summer about the
erection of a surburban hotel tor the
accommodation OF boarders. The idea
was minutely elaborated and met with
very general favor A great many
business men whose interests demand
their daily attendance at the store. or
factory, or Office, thought that the erec-
ton OF q first class hotel somewhere in
the neighborhood OF the city, but free
from its smoke and heat and dust and
noise, would furnish just such place
as they desire as country
boarding place for themselVes
and their families. The fe"
country boarding houses we have 10
the vicinity are excellent o! their class
but they fail to satisfy the demand
They are crowded every summer to
their utmost ca apacity and are compelled
to refuse applicants enough to I'LL two
or three such first class hotels as were
contemplated in the discussion OF this
subject last summer.


So far as we are aware, nothing mas
vet been done towards satisfying the
popular want in this respect. The sub
ject was permitted to drop as the mer'
curry in the thermometer ranged lower
and during the winter, while
our citizens have been hud'
ding together to keep warm, every
body seems to have forgotten the
delightful visions con;ured up last sum'
mer by thoughts OF a cool and shady
home where all Of the delights o
country life could be enjoyed witbou
neglect Of business, and where the COO
and quiet air would aid refreshing sleel
to "raz. out the written troubles OF th'
brain" and fit the sleeper for bette
work on the morrow. Bat now tha
the mercury is rising the subject come
up again. The summer will sooO b
her. and country boarding houses vii
soon be in demand. is too late for
philanthropist, with an eye to business
to erect the suburban hotel We will al
pant for a few months hencef '"
pause for q reply.
Year: 1874

Hints ON SLEEP.-To literary men,
preachers, teachers, lawyers, doctors,
journalists, and brain workers in gener-
al, the following hints are exceedingly
worthy of attention: The fact is that as
life becomes concentrated, and its pur-
suits more eager, short sleep and early
rising become impossible. Wetake more
sleep than our ancestors, and we take
more sleep because we want more. Six
hours sleep will do very well for
ploughman or briCklayer or any other
man who has no exhaustion but that
produced bv manual labor, and the
sooner he takes it after the labor the
better. But for the man whose labor is
mental, the stress is on his brain and
nervous system, and for him who is
tired in the evening with a dav of men
tai application, neither early to bed nor
early to rise is wholesome. He needs
letting down to the level of repose. The
longer interval between the active use
of the brain and the retirement to bed, g,
the better his chance of sleep and re-
treshment To him an hour after mid
night is probably as good as two hours
before it, and even then his sleep will
not so completely restore him as it will
his neighbor who is ply sically tired.
His best sleep is in the early morning
hours, when all the nervous excitement
has passed away, and he is in absolute
rest.
Year: 1874

lurch +; in this train come all the divorce


and adultery cases and countless mis-
erable unclean histories which never
find their way into the courts.


But our Polly, most probably, is one
OF the mass of healthy, easy.tempered
unnoteworthy women who keep the
worlds private ways clean and sweet
only by living in them. In all likeli-
hood her early ideal will drop out Of
sight, as ridiculous in her remembrance
as the old-fashioned gown in which she
was married, and she will patiently
wait until the truant fancy of her hus-
band comes back to her. There is no
magnet to hold him like the certainty
OF the steady love ofa sweet-tempered
wife. Now, when she is first building
her nest in this summer of courtship,
we have one more word of advice to
give her; that there is no way so GER
tain to bring a man back faithfully to
wife and home as to give him room to
make an occasional flight outside of
them. Our neighbours grapes are al
ways sweet as long as they are forbid
den. But herein lies philosophy which
Folly never learns nor practices.
Year: 1874

A man who fell into vat Of boiling
lard sod got out alive, says that 1t was not
an unpleasant sensation after the first mo-
ment, but he thought what mighty queer
shaped doughnut he would make.
Year: 1874

No we'll appointed farm should be
destitute of its ice house, any more
than of its barn or wood house. No
elaborate or costly building is needed
for this use no large expense need
be incurred in making the inclosure,
or filing it with ice. Some hints re
garding construction, though old
may be OF use to those wishing to
build. First, good drainage must be
secured without giving the air access
to the ice through the drain. II the
soil is porous, or gravelly, no artificial
drainage is required. 1t is not es-
sential that the ice be stored under
ground, as it keeps quite as well
above the surface. Double walls are
not necessary, but in small houses
are perhaps safest. The ice should
be compactly packed and inclosed
with packed sawdust, or tan bark. on
all sides, and on the top to the depth
OF at least twelve inches. This pack
ing is the great preservation Of the
ice. Ventilation must be given from
top of the ice. With these principles
in view, it is easy for novice to build
an ice-house. It is we'll to bear in
mind that the larger the body Of ice
stored the better it will keep no
farm. ice house, should be less than
twelve feet square on tho inside, and
eight feet high. A few square rods Of
ice will suffice to fill an ordinary
house, and the depth Of water need
not be more than three feet. II is
seasonable now to build ice e.houses
and We hope none Of our readers,
who, in the past summer have vainly
wished for supply Of ice, will neg
lect to provide for the future.--Am.
Rurai Home.
Year: 1874

A DopaE OF THE DooroRs.-Often-
times doctors advertise their Immense
practice by having some one to call
them out Of church during sermon
time. 1t was cruel on o certain dis
ciple OF Esculapius who once got
enough at this little game.


doctor! doctor !" called q young
urchin, sticking his head into a
church door ono morning just before
prayer time.


"Well, who is sick nowi" inquired
tho sexton.


mo one, as I know on" answered
the innocent youth, loud enough TO
be heard all over the church, ''but
the doctor gave me aten-cent shinny
II I'd call him out Of church during
sermon time"


Tho only serious countenance in
that church during tho prayer that
followed. wAs that q W doctor
Year: 1874

From the Detroit Free Press, sA.
About month ago family named Shu-
macher, consisting of man and wife, both
quite aged, came to this city, from Buffalo,
and rented the house No. 81 Alfred street.
The man was so infrm that he could not do
much work, and the wife supported the
family by going out to wash and clean.
A day or two ago the old man began to
show signs of diseased mind, and Tues
day night he was afraid to go to bed, say
ing that men were after him to cut his
throat He was still more fearful yester-
day morning, crying like child and beg
ging the wife to go and get policeman to
arrest the imaginary foes. He finally got
out his Bible and read until his mind was
calmer, when the woman went Oft to her
work. just before noon the man was seen
at his door by the neighbors, and was heard
to shout for help, as if he was in great
fear. No one went in for half an hour or
SO, and then he was found on the floor,
throat cut from ear to ear and the body
growing cold. His fears had driven him
to take bis own life. He had inflicted
horrible wound, and must have bled to
death in very few minutes. Coroner
Griffin was called to hold the inquest.
Schumacher was native Of Switzerland,
and, being in INDECENT circumstances, his
remains will be buried at the public ex-
penSe-