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Year: 1879

WASHINGTON. Feb. 21.-The
following is the full text of the
Brazilian mail steamship subsidy
amendment For ocean steamship
service between the United States
and Brazil two hundred thousand
dollars and the Postmaster General
is authorized and directed, after due
Year: 1879

Sing, and to you! No-no-with one note


Jared


The harmony of Lifes long chord is broken,
Your words were light and by light lips


spoken,
And yet the music that you loved is marred.
One string, my friend, is dumb beneath your
Strike and it throbs and vibrates at your


will,


Falters upon the verge of sound, and still
Falls back as sea waves shattered on the


strand
Touch it no more, for you shall not regain
The sweet lost tone. Take what is left, or


let


Life's music sleep to Death. Let us forget
The perfect melody we seek in vain
And yet perchance, some day before we die,
As half in dreams we hear the night wind


sweep


Around our windows, when we fain would


sleep,


Laden with one long, sobbing, moaning cry,
One faint, far tone will waken, and will rise
Above the great wave voice Of mortal pain !;
Hand will touch hand and lips touch lips
again,


AS in the darkness it recedes and dies;-
Or lingering In the Summer evening glow,
Then; 1ast when the passion of the crimson
Burning like some great heart that cannot
| rest,
Stains as with blood the waters as they flow,
Some old forgotten tones may rise and wake
| Our dying youth, and set our hearts afame
! With their old sweetness-to our lips the
OF love steal softly, for the old loves sake
| -COrnhiW Ma0lzine
Year: 1879

predicted the collapse, not only of the
Post Office, but of the Empire Of Great
Britain. When was youth, women
wore pattens. Are such articles ever seen
in our day? At that time it was consid-
cred vulgar for gentleman to wear a
cotton shirt or silk hat. The shirt of
fine linen and the hat of beaver were de
rigueur. Watches had double cases, be-
tween the outer and inner of which it
was the custom to insert what we're
called watch-papers, on which were print
ed or written texts from Scripture, moral
maxims, passages from the poets, or ten
der love effusions purporting to be origi-
nal. Still more recently, and when in
my prime, remember that it was con-
sidered contra bo,aos mores and all the
preprieties for lady to ride in a hand
some cab, or for a gentleman to smoke
in lady's presence, and worse still, if
possible, for a lady to be seen in the
streets with agentleman who had pipe or
cigar in his mouth. remember and
it is scarcely memory of older date than
80 years when gentleman in full dress
was not compelled by fashion to attire
himself like a clergyman or a tavern
waiter; when the fashionable dress was a
blue coat and gilt buttons and a colored
OF embroidered vest, and when bright
celors IN the waistcoat we're not consid-
cred the exclusive right of the footman
or the costermonger. I remember, too,
when ladies were not ashamed to be
economical in their attire, and did not
allow their silks or satins to trail on the
ground, but wore their agowns," as they
were called, at a length that just reached
the ankle, and allowed the dainty little
feet and portion of the leg to be seen.
This fashion pleased the gentlemen, and
did no harm to the ladies, conduced
greatly to comfort in walking, besides
saving considerablesum in the dress.
makers account.-AlltAe Year Roalnd.
Year: 1879

The skin contains more than two mill
lone openings, which are the outlets of
an equal number Of sweat glands.


The human skeleton consists Of more
than two hundred distinct bones.


An amount of blood equal to the whole
quantity in the body passes through the
heart every minute.


The full capacity of the lungs is about
three hundred and twenty cubic inches.


About two thirds of pint of air is in
hailed and exhaled at each breath in ordin-
ary respiration.


The stomach daily produces nine
pounds of gastric juice for digestion of
food; its capacity is about five pints.


There a1e more than five hundred sepa-
rate muscles in the body, with an equal
number of nerves and blood vessels:


The average man takes five and one
half pounds of food each day, which
amounts to one ton Of solid and liquid
aourishment annually.


A man breathes eighteen times min
ute, and three thousand cubic feet, or
about three hundred and seventy-five
hogsheads Of air per hour.
Year: 1879

Captain Tyson, the Arctic explorer,
once espled an Cookbook (seaD who had
come up through hole in the ice to
breathe. The explorer beckoned to q
companion to bring gun as quietly as
possible and shoot the creature. Mean
while, the captain whistled a plaintive
tune as musically as he could. The ook-
jock was so charmed by the pleasant
sound that he fingered and listened until
the gun came and he was killed.


Now, it is said that all seals are fond of
sweet sounds, whether made by instru-
ments, sung, whistled, or, sometimes,
merely spoken, and that they will keep
still and listen, giving a hunter time to
come within shooting distance.
But perhaps there is slight mistake,
and the seal is only watching for good
chance, while he grumbles to himself,
something like this:


aPshaw! Only let me catch that
troublesome fellow, and I'll soon put an
end to his noise!"
Year: 1879

A German physician has started new
theory with regard to food. He main
tains that both the vegetarians and meat
eaters are on the wrong tack. Vegetables
are not more wholesome than meat, or
meat than vegetables, and nothing is
gained by consuming a compound of
both. Whatever nutritive qualities they
may possess, he says, is destroyed in
great measure, and often entirely, by the
process of cooking. All food should be
eaten raw. If this practice were adopted,
there would be little or no illness among
human beings. They would live their
apportioned time and simply fade away,
like animals in wild state, from old
age. Let those afflicted with gout, rheu-
matism or indigestion try for time, the
effect of simple uncooked diet, such as
oysters and fruit for instance, and they
will find all medicines unnecessary, and
such rapid improvement of their
health that they will forswear all
cooked articles of food at once
and forever. Intemperance would also.
it is urged, no longer be the curse of civ
ilized communities. The yearning for
drink is caused by the unnatural abstrac-
ton from what are termed 'ssolids" of
the aqueous element they contain-un-
cooked beef, for example, containing
from seventy to eighty per cent, and
some vegetables even larger proper
ton of water. There would be less thirst
and consequently less desire to drink
if our food were consumed in its natural
state, without being first subjected to
the action of fire. Clothing, our adviser
also thinks is mistake, but he admits
that the world is not yet far enough ad-
vanced in civilization to go about un.
dressed. Whatever differences of opin.
ion may exist as to this anti.cookine
theory, there cannot be doubt that in
getting rid of the kitchen with all it:
abuses-including the cook-housekeep-
ers would be spared vast amount O


worry, and probably on this account


alone would live to greater age that al


present.-Palz Mall Gazette.
Year: 1879

BY HENRY W. LoNGFELLoW,
Is it so far from thee
Thou canst no longer see
In the chamber over the gate
The old man desulate,
Weeping and wailing sore
For his son, who is no more?


Oh AbSalom, MY son!
1t is so long ago
That cry Of human woe
From the walled city came,
Calling on his dear name,
That it has died away
In the distance of to-day?


Oh Absalom, my son!
There is no far nor near,
There is neither there nor here,
There is neither soon nor late
In that chamber over the gate;
Nor any long ago
To that human cry of woe


On AbSalonl, my sou!
From the ages that are past
The voice comes like u blast,
Over seas that wreck and drown,
Over tumult Of traffic and town;
And for ages yet 10 be
Come the echoes back to ne


Oh Absalom, my son!
Somewhere at every hour
The watchman on the tower
Looks forth, and sees the fleet
Approach OF the hurrying feet
OF messengers, that bear,
The tidings of despair.


On Atsalom, my son!
He goes forth from the door,
Who shall return no more.
With him our JOY departs;
The light goes out III our hearts;
In the chamber over the gate
We sit disconSolate.


On Absalom, my son!
That tits common grief
Bringeth but q slight relief;
Ours is the bitterest loss,
Ours is the heavier cross;
And forever the cry will be
3 "Would to God I had died for thee,


Oh Absalom, my sonw


Atlantic Monthly
Year: 1879

Until the recent nomination of Generals


EWING and RICE for the chief executive
Offices of Ohio it has been the practice of
the leaders and the organs of the Northern


Democracy to ignore the Union soldiers who
drifted into their ranks from time to time
since the suppression Of the rebellion. Now,
when the rule has been varied in favor Of u
drifting Union Brigadier by such a notable
xcepton-aunounced with such blowingol
trumpets and waving of bandanas-One
would think that the Democracy was bring
ing forth fruits Of repentance if he had not
read in high authority that dogs have u


habit of returning to their stomachic dejec-


ture; or, to be more elegant, that exceptions
prove the rule Of political as well as moral
total depravity. But Democracy does not
love the military; it condemned the Union


soldier aud his cause too bitterly in times
past to ever make loyal hero-worship pop
ular article of its faith. The retrospect OF
Democracy affords no assuring prospect
That EPHRAIM will not return to his
idols. If this sudden regard for the
Union soldier were the expression
Of honest motives we would take great pride
Year: 1879

The veto of the judicial expense bill
sent to the House yesterday is so brief
and pointed that no one will fail to read
it with interest and profit, II is an able
document, and one that will stand analysis
in respect to its forms of composition as
well rs to the constitutionality of its argu-
ments. 1t groups in the smallest possible
space the salient points Of the Republican
position, and shows plainly the falsehood OF
the Democratic charge that the national
election laws are partisan i'll their character
and execution. 1t presents in the most
forcible light the iniquity of the Democratic
attempt to establish bare majority of Com
gress as the Government, and points out the
unconstitutionality fthe effort to enact a law
or measure which has already been vetoed
and has failed to receive the approval of
two-thirds of the House. But the strongest
point it contains is embraced in the argu-
ment to show that it is the duty Of the Ex-
ecutive, and Congress as well, to faithfully
execute existing laws until they are legally
repealed. This especial portion of the veto
will serve as an effectual and unanswernble
disclosure of the Democratic attempts at
Notification. 1t is enough to say that the
great body of the Republican party the
country over will receive it with evidence
of the most cordial approval.
Year: 1879

offices, and every other person who had been
loyal to the Union, and who then filed the
vacancies thus created with ex-rebels and
Copperhead Democrats. If EWING was in
FOSTERS place on the gubernntorial ticket
he would be better man than he Is. As it
is, he has to eat crow in accepting nomina-
-tion from such party, and he is likely to
prove too large crow for the Ohio Copper
head Democracy to swallow. No doubt
many Union soldiers would prefer to cast
their vote for General EWING, were itnot for
the record of the party that nominated him
just to catch the soldier vote. As it is, Cid-
zen FOSTER will get the soldier vote of Ohio.


THE local Democratic managers out in
Ohio are trying to make it appear that the
financial issue is the paramount question of
the hour but their efforts in that direction
are more than negatived by the influence of
the seditious acts of their national managers
here at Washington. The proceedings of
this extra session of Congress have aroused
the people to clear knowledge that the
Democrats are determined to reassert the
heresy Of State Rights as one of the funda-
mental principles of our Government the
attempted assertion of which in 156l-65
was the direct cause Of all the disturbance
that has since cnsued in our financial sys-
tenn. Reasoning from cause to effect, the
people will see to il that the cause of all our
present troubles is removed before they at
tempt to remedy the effect. They are in-
telligent enough to see that the root of our
political cancer must be eradicated before
the disease can be cured.
Year: 1879

General GRANT; or, what would be still
"worse might render probable the eleva-
ton Of Secretary SHERMAN to the Presi-
dency.' This is fearful threat; but we
imagine that it will have very little effect
upon the Republicans of the Buckeye State.
They do not perhaps, entertain the same
idea OF the alternatives lie presents that he
does.
Year: 1879

The boom has been eliminated from the
cry of No troops at the polls " Our
Democratic Congress passed a bill to pro-
hibit that calamity and it is now law by
virtue of the signature of Republican
President.
Year: 1879

The reported reformation Of B, GRATz
Brown appears to have extended to his
personal habits only, and not to his politics,
1t IS true that he has ceased TO butter his
watermelon before eating it, but he
"slayers Tom EWING all over with the
soltest kind Of soft soap But the amusing
part of this performance, which is publicly


demonstrated in the form Of an open letter.


Is am announcement of BRowN's opinion
that the election of Mr.. FOSTER would so
G.r To make possible the reelection Of
Year: 1879

WHEN the wide, wide Atlantic intervenes
between CHARLES A. DANA and this land
of fraud and corruption and all that sort of
thing, the poor man will suffer for the want
of stimulant to patriotic exertions in behalf
Of great and undying principles But lie
will survive, even il lie has to resort to
Safeguarding the shipmaster and his crew
on the voyage; and when he reaches
Albon's hospitable shores he will, from
force of habit, begin at once to growl and
snarl at and slander every man who holds
IN office in Great Britain. That is, if he
does not turn prate-and capture the vessel
on the way over
Year: 1879

JEFF DAVIS declaration regarding the
persistent adherence of the Southern women
to the Lost Cause continues to attract at
tenton in the North, although there is
nothing new in it; nor is it made any more
emphatic by the assertion of his positive
knowledge that it is true The fact is
that not only the mothers of the South
but all of the school teachers, have ever
since the war been engaged in teaching
this same pernicious doctrine to the children
of that section.
Year: 1879

THE brilliant success (?) of the Bourbons
in Congress during this extra session recalls
tale told of q doubling Confederate SOL
dier during the late war. They tell us we
"are succeeding" he said, "and l suppose
eve are; but it appears to me that the
"more victories we win the less we gain"
Year: 1879

The Great Emotional Actress, Will BE


Here Next Friday and Saturday.


Next Friday and Saturday Kate Claxton,
after a long absence, will rcappear before
St. Paul audience. Here as elsewhere she is
great favorite, and st. Paul will welcome
her with an audience worthy her greatness
as an actress. She has become familiar to
the public as the blind Louise in the "Two
Orphans a character which she has made
intensely her own, and one which
she has held up to the heartfelt sympathies
of her audiences in city and hamlet. Her
merit as an actress does not rest alone upon
this one great character, but in all she essays
she is equally attractive. The new play,
'Double Marriage in plot and climax is
fully equal to the "Two Orphans in
dramatic interest, and the character assumed
by Miss Claxton is adapted to all the niceties
Of emotion, of which she is so skillful a mis-
tress in portrayal. Everywhere the press ac-
cord the drama and the actress enthusiastic
praise, and in no remote degree her support
is commended throughout.
Year: 1879

a Son of Judge Taft Severely Furnishes a


Cincinnati Editor.


Especial Telegram to the Globe.


CINCINNATI, April 2O.-An irresponsible
publisher of sensational sheet known as
the Sunday Ne,os, received a terrible beat
ing on the street yesterday afternoon at the
hands of son of Judge Taft, ex-attorney
general of the United States. The Neacs
published an anonymous letter processing to
come from the wife of Congressman who
had celebrated a silver wedding recently, as
did Taft, and also referred to the letter as
from the wife of an ex-member of the cabi-
net, clearly directing attention to the wife of
Taft as the author. The letter purports
to be an expose of family matters and mar
ital infelicity by the husband of the writer
and general reflection upon his morals and
views in regard to matters OF this kind. The
editorial comment pointed so strongly to
the wife of Judge Taft as the author that
his sons felt it their duty to notice it, which
they did by proceeding to the office of the
publisher and the younger administering a
haggelation. Rose was found on the side
walk in front of the Office and was knocked
down and thrown into the gutter and most
thoroughly punched by the young man
while the elder brother kept the crowd back
and called for fair play. Rose was badly
used up and had to be taken home in hack
The feeling among all classes of citizens is
that Mr.. Taft did public service and should
have medal.
Year: 1879

MankaCO heVleW.I


The wheat buyers and warehousemen of
Minnesota, including the principal buyers
on the several railroads in Minnesota, met
at st. Paul on Tuesday last to organize a
State association, the principal object of
which seems to be for mutual protection and
benefit. Mr.. Barden, of st. Paul, opened
the meeting by referring to the charges of
dishonesty which had been made against the
wheat buyers, and complimented those pres
ent upon their good looks and intelligence,
claiming that they would compare favorably
even with the last legislature. This may all
be true, but good looks and intelligence are
by no means evidence sufficient to refute the
charges of unfairness that have been made.
Mr.. Barden himself is member of the
pooling combination which has de-
pressed the price of wheat at Man
kato and other competing points, and un-
der the operations of which heavy profits
have been made out of the farmers. Had
the legislature made rigid inquiry into this
matter, and exposed the trickery of wheat
rings, possibly Mr.. Barden would not have
been 80 boastful of the honesty and good
looks of himself and associates.


The meeting discussed the legislation of
last winter-the establishment of the farm
ers' board of trade, and the provisions regu-
lating the testing of wheat-and while it
was admitted that the brass kettle was liza
BILE to manipulation, and that with the Stacy
attachment it could not be used for dishon-
est purposes, there was an apparent desire to
evade the use of the latter instrument which,
to say the least, was not
in keeping with this boastfu talk
about honesty and fair dealing. The sealed
half-bushel was generally condemned, and
the threat quite generally INDUCED, that if
farmers wanted their wheat tested in that
way, these wheat lords would not humor
them to that extent, but would let them find
a market elsewhere. There was really but
little or nothing in the proceedings to show
| that these men have any real grounds of
complaint against the legislation of last
winter, and while they were quite guarded,
| it is plainly evident that a disposition to
annoy and perpIex the farmers as much as
possible is to be INDUCED. That there is
dishonesty in wheat buying in Minnesota,
the farmers know too we'll, and if the men
who control the markets will make all honest
effort to reform these practices, make
wheat buying legitimate business instead
of trick and fraad, the occasion for such
legislation as was passed last winter would
be removed. But these gentlemen might
just asWell understand now as at any other
time that they can not quiet the complaints
of the farmers and of the press of the State
by such talk and threats as characterized
their proceedings last Tuesday. The people
OF the State have the power to legislate upon
this matter, and if occasion requires it the
power will be exercised to its fullest extent
Year: 1879

lh4tCuAe1O 1uOepeQOenC.


The warehousemen and wheat speculators
don't like the Stacy law. They had meet
ing in st. Paul last week, and declared they
would have nothing to do with a half bushel.
They growled like Bengal tigers at consent
ing to use the filler on the brass kettle. They
admitted that the little kettle is inaccurate
and can be used to swindle, but they pro-
tested against the law as an ssindignity.''


We desire only to see fairness between
buyer and seller. It was charged by the
farmer that the two quart tester could cum
ningly be made to vary by designing men.
Not that all men did cheat with it, but that
the chance was exceedingly good. The buy
ers have been forced to admit this, yet they
organize and protest against a law to abolish
the device. What does this mean? It means
that the organization of buyers means to
coerce, to compel farmers to accept its terms.
The remedy is for farmers to organize in op-
position, to send reliable men to the legisla-
ture, and to elect a Governor who has "sand''
enough to face these corporations, and sign
bill for the complete burial of the two quart
fraud.
Year: 1879

ILItcHHelu independent.


The millers and warehousemen lately as
sembled in st. Paul, admitted that the brass
kettle could be manipulated to swindle. Will
those who claim it as fair means of testing
and that the cry against tits only "polit-
ical dodge" shut up now? Who can tell
how much has already been stolen by the
cunning use of the contemplate device?
What wheat raisers ask is simply that the
chance to steal be done away with. They
ask only future Justice.
Year: 1879

Secretary Sherman and the Syndicate
Dissatisfaction of the Ways and Means
Committee With Woods Chairmanship
Fernando Laboring Hard to Heal the
Notwithstanding Silver Coin
miscellaneous,
Year: 1879

LFergus Fails Advocate.


We do not feel disposed to say much about
the millers' and buyers opposition SO long as
it Is confined to words. If they do not COM
ply with the law there is way to compel
them. The farmers in all parts of the State
should organize for their own interests as
the millers pretend to be doing and pass
resolutions endorsing the action OF the
Farmers Board of Trade.