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Year: 1874

A correspondent Of the London Stand.
ard, who has been assisting at the late
festivities in Iceland, saw several ladies
dressed in the old Ieelaudic full dress.
One of the ladies and her costume he
describes as follows She was some forty
years of age, tall and stately, and would
have commanded attention in any assem-.
bly,. The bright complexion and abun-
dance of fair hair, as we'll as the general
tone of the features, proclaimed her true
Morse blood. Her dress, however, was
what most caught my attention. She
wore close fitting bodice and sleeves,
made of black wooden material with
broad gold embroidery down the front
and on the seams, fastened at the throat
by gold button, open after this about
half way to the waist so as to show
white chemisette, but with gold buttons
on either side, so that it could be closed
at will. Such bodice as this is often
laced up the front by gold or silver
chain, passed through kind of ring on
the edge of the buttons; but this lady
wore it open. Round the waist was
belt formed of plates of gold linked to-
gether, and hanging down in front near.
ly to the knees. Many of these belts in
gold or silver are heirlooms, and come
down from generation to generation
perhaps relics of the time when people
carried all their available wealth about
with them, as Hindoo women and shans
Of Persia do nowadays. The skirt was
OF the same material as the bodice, and
was perfectly plain except for a narrow
band of gold embroidered round the bot
tom, which was some two inches from
the ground. No founces or frills, and
above all no denominations in the way OF
crinoline ordress improver disfigured the
graceful costume lam trying to describe.
l know | do it very badly, and / dare
say ladies will think am Ounce, but
the task is new and uncongenial. But
the head dress was the most peculiar
part of the whole. | can only describe
1t as fattened cornucopia turning over
from the back towards the front. The
cap was high, covered with white silk OIL
linen, strained over a frame of card
board, and butt up with wadding. This
construction | afterwards inquired into
so it may be accepted as correct. Round
the band of it glittered about dozen ot
gold stars, and set in all round was a
very deep net fall trimmed with lace
This fall was lifted up in front and turn
ed back over the cap, while the back
part of it fell almost to the waist, the
whole giving much the effect of bridal
veil. The hair was worn in several long
and very broad plaits, which we're turned
up in loops, and their ends hidden under
the cap. This is the usual Icelandic
style of wearing the hair, and, of course,
dispenses with all the adornment of friz
zles and false plaits, which the bellies Of
more southern climes find indispensable
Clumsiness in my description may per.
haps impart an idea OF clumsiness to
this head dress, but it is by no means
clumsy. On the contrary, it is very be-
coming, and displayed above bright and
pretty faces as L afterwards saw it, adds
a charm to what hardly requires inn
provement-the features of the better
class of Icelandic girls.
Year: 1874

A few DAYS ago the Scotsman men
toned that Bible, bound in calf, and
bearing the name Of William Sim" a
Dundee man, and the date 1880, had
been discovered IN the stomach OF
Goldfish. This fact alone was remarka-
bic enough, but still more extraordina-
ry is another circumstance connected
with the affair, also reported by the
Scotsman. On the very same day ON
which the discovery was made known
to the public through its columns, the
heirs of the deceased Mr.. Sim succeed
ed in obtaining warrant IN the outer
house of the Court of Session from
the Lord Ordinary Mure) to
uplift several hundreds of pounds
belonging 10 the said William
Sim, who was described IN
the legal proceedings as a sail
or. a native of Dundee, who
had gone to sea about 1884, and had
not since been heard of. There can be
little doubt that the Bible thus pre-
served in the Goldfish s stomach belonged
to the lost William Sim, of Dundee,
and although the Scotch papers have,
to their credit, taken up the miraculous
incident with as much fervor as though
the sea serpent had appeared at this
unusual season of the year, little or no
notice has been taken of it as yet IN
this country. This Is not to ourcredlt,
and that so little fuss has been made
about the affair is a painful symptom
of the morbid state TO which the pub
lie appetite for news has been reduced
by the Tiehborne case, and other sensa-
tional stories. Nothing short OF good
murder will rouse the public from their
apathy, yet surely the story Of the cod
fish ought to satisfy any sensible per-
son.-PaH Mall Gazette.
Year: 1874

The Neaq York Times, the leading
Republi IAN organ in the Empire State,
says:


Doubtless the day may come when
che question of sound finance will be
one of immediate political Importance,
viii be direct political issue; but it is
not so now. At present the
people are comparatively Indifferent to
the question of finance


The Ne1v York EUening Post, which
supported Grant as against Greeley,
says "If the Times truly represents
the Republican party in these declar-
tions, the biographers of theparty may
begin their work at once. Its sands
are run, if this is a true statement of
its policy The Chicago StoatEeitang
takes similar view of this matter IN
an article entitled 1.-The Suicide of the
Republican Party" The people are
at last beginning to discover that with
the Republican party, profession is
one thing and practice an altogether
different affair.
Year: 1874

AT Dubuque wedding, among the pres
ents OstentatiOusly displayed, was one
hundred-dollar bill. present from the dot
ing father TO his darling daughter. After
the guests had departed, the old man eoolly
rolled up the bill and put it in his vest
pocket. and that was the last Of it.
Year: 1874

The Washington correspondent of
the Cincinnati Gazette states that prom
inent railroad men, now In that city,
assert that it is not true that the roads
will bring influence to bear on the SEN
ate to- defeat the pending transporta-
tion bill. They base their indifference
to the passage Of tie measure on the
belief that the co.orts viii not sustain
the interference proposed by the bill
with the railroad lines. -
Year: 1874

BOsTON, March 31.-Tbe operatives in
the Jute Mills at Mathews, about two
hundred and fifty in number, are on a strike
for the restoration of wages to what they
were before the panic.


About five hundred operatives in the
Hosiery Mill and Bleachery of the Boston
Manufacturing Company at Waltham,
struck for ten per cent advance of their
WaUpc
Year: 1874

of the informer and spy system. He had
never been consulted about or asked to
recommend the passage of such law. Al
though ne had been under the impression
that he had been called upon by SanbOrn,
and that Gen. Butler had recommended
him, still since having seen Sanborn lately,
he did not appear to be the same person
whom he had in his mind.


Mr.. Douglass was very frank and ex-
plicit in his statement, and appeared to
have made very favorable impression on
the committee.
Year: 1874

/


The St. Louis Globe treats of the


cheeky girls " as follows:


In outward adornment the cheeky girl
endeavors to keep, if possible, just a
little bit ahead of the style, and is the
delight Of milliners, shoemakers, haber.
dashers and the dealers in those miscel-
laneous knick knacks, which are the in
dispensable mark of the cheeky girl.
She outvies the shepherdess in her hat,
the stage dancer in her boots, the CON
cert soprano in the buttons on her
gloves, ard the Comanche in the tro-
phies which hang suspended from her
belt. The dress reformer stands APP
palled at the monstrosity of her outfit,
and the strong minded woman is lost in
awe before the courage which can face
the world with an ivory fan, a cross
handled sunshade, an inlaid vinaigrette,
Russian leather pocket book, a bead
worked aims bag, and a lace handker-
chief, all dependent from an attenuated
waist and making the cadence of step
which is accented by pinched toe and
wobbly heel. In addition to these ad-
ventitious adornments, the cheeky girl
will generally be endowed with black
eyebrows, yellow hair, pink nose, bad
complexion where the rouge is not, and
worse one where it is, and this pre-
cious casket of the body enshrines the
yet more precious jewel of her mind
Her conversation, which runs on glibly
through the first astounding PERSONAL
ties and sly insinuations, begins to
,tho. bor eu,oU ufnalx - 81 -,
is exhausted, and dies away utterly
when she has used up such of her
acquaintances as recur to her mind. In
the far corner of a ballroom she has
been known to entertain very young
man for as much as an hour, and, under
the exhilarating stimulus of Irritation,
in sight of all the world but out of hear.
ing, she could probably struggle on
against conventional difficulties indef.
nitely. But the presence of a third
party has the same effect as the presence
OF young lady on a discussion of the
Beecher-Tilton question, and visible
unrest and uneasiness prompt the cheeky
girl to escape. What wisdom she utters
in those delightful solitudes of the heart
where only two can enter has not been
revealed to man, but in the ordinary in
tercourse of society her theme is always
her congeners, her rhetorical embellsh-
ment merely slang. Her slang can
always be relied on to be the latest, as in
consequence of her head being unable
to hold more than one idea at time she
is unable to make room for this years
idiocies of the street Arabs without for.
getting those which were wont to charm
her friends last year. The same pecu-
liarity extends to her musical repertoire,
which consists of odd lines, perhaps
verses and perhaps only fragment of
an air, which will be waited on the winds
from the hand-organs of the coming
spring. And if the pauses of your con-
versation with the cheeky girl are filed
up by amusing interpretations from the
Mulligan Guards, this has only been
accomplished by blotting from the mem
ory the obsolete beauties of the File
de Madame Angot.
Year: 1874

upon the pillow An expression which
might have been born of a pleasant
dream gave an assurance that her last
moments had been tranquil and trustful.
Estelle Lockwood was dead. The heart.
broken girl whose early hopes had one
by one been ruthlessly crushed, who had
felt the torture of hunger and gradually
faded in the relentless poverty imposed
by heartless employers, had at last come
into her kingdom. A few days before
her death an importunate minister of a
faith differing from that of her childhood
had been forbidden, at her request, to
enter her chamber 81 do not want
him here" she said; ~ have been a
good girl, and l am ready to die He
only disturbs me"


s~Such is the story of the poor working
girl whose funeral in the Church of the
Strangers on Tuesday was attended by
so many working women and by so many
ladies of wealth and culture to whom her
wretched condition had latterly become
known. Distinctions of rank and con-
dition we're disregarded before a. COM
mon subject of sympathy and commits
seration. Her remains now lie in Ever
green Cemetery. on Long Island. in the
Working.women' Protective Unions
lot, but more than one flower that trem-
bled on the coffin lid during the jolting
and jarring of that last journey was
deposited by hands which had never
been Drowned or hardened by toll or
exposure.
Year: 1874

should be cashed by the bank as If they


had been genuine. Armed with this
assurance, the purveyor briskly resumed
his business, and labored in his vocation
with such zeal and diligence that at the
end of the war he had the satisfaction Of
being able to present for payment to the
Imperial Bank 100000 worth of coun-
terfeit paper, scarcely any of which had
really been received by him in the course
Of his dealings with the army.
Year: 1874




by the courtesy of one of our firms doing
business at Buenos Ayres, we are permitted TO
publish the following interesting extract from a
letter dated Sept. 2Sth, giving an idea of the
eondition OF affairs since the breaking out of
the rebellion:


The city is in great state of excitement ow-
Ing te revolution headed by the Mtre party.
Ihe National Guards have been called out ami
the city declared in state of siege for two
months from Sept 24th. There have been one
or two unlmportant skirmshes in the country
iistrlcts, Dut so iar there has been ne fighting
In the city. On the oath inst. at midpjgbt va.
rious tramway stations were broken info and
horses taken out, telegraphic wires were emf
and several of the leading Mitre party men
left the city as fast as possible, aud among
them many OF the most prominent and leading
business men of the city. The government inn
mediately ordered the town closed so no one
can leave the city without a permit. All the
river and MontevideO steamers have stopped.
the telegraph wires are not allowed to be used,
ana the ofhces OF the telegraph companies were
put into the hands Of the troops. For one day
even, the office of the Montevideo telegraph
company was closed, but that is now open.-
captains can only go to their vessels by special
permits, and no one is allowed to go to Flores.
Tomas, Q9ilmes or even travel by the railroads
unless with these permits This is done he
cause the influential Mitre party men were trv-
Ing TO leave the city and because on Friday

morning the two new gunboats Just out from,
England and purchased by the Argentine Gov
ernment were noticed to have moved their an
chorage, and when boat was sent off 10 them.
lnqulring why this was done the answer given
was that the gunboat had been taken and its
occupants made prisoners. One of The gun
boats soon got aground, her guns were taken
out and she was abandoned; the other one now
remains in the hands of the Mitre party and il
is said is waiting the arrival of the troops
marching towards the city from all quarters =
In such state of affairs, of course ali business
is at an end. How long this will last we cannot
say, Tor II 1t IS true land all say it is) that
till they come. The troops in the city cannot
go out Tor three-quarters of the city is against
the government. 1T it We're not for so many of
the influential men having left the city t
might perhaps be settled up. Many now be-
lieve IT is going to be very serious affair. Al
ready 1t IS serious enough to stop all business.
The government has suppressed all the
journals in opposition 20 it, and it is difficult to
tell what is going on outside the city.
Year: 1874

LADY DILKE's CREMATIoN.-The accounts
of the burning of the body of the late wife of
Sir Charles W. Dixie. the English Radical,
which were carried from England to Germany
for that purpose, are corrected by the London
Lancet, which says:


''We are authorized to state that the real
facts of the case are as follows: The lady il
question had an extreme horror of the idea OF
burial, which to many is far worse than that
of cremation, and the fact of the cremation be
ingcarried out by her relatives is evidence only
of their determination to carry out the de-
ceased's wishes. The difficulty of obtaining
permission was immense, and it was only
granted on condition that representatives of the
public bodies and ministers should be present
among others, those Of the clergy For this
reason the furnace was not completely closed
as it would have been if cremation were an or.
binary and recognized process. Every person
present-the number was about twelve-was
requested and promised to make no communi-
cation of the details to others. and the account
published can only have been gained by a
breach of this promise. Nor was even the
name of the deceased known to the bystand
ars -
Year: 1874

DAILY D1spATCH.-With the present
number commences tie fourth volume
of the DAILY DISPATCH, which is sufi-
cfent to demonstrate the fact that the
paper has become one of the permanent
institutions of Seattle. We cannot say
that the experiment has been pecunia-
nv success, but it has come as near to it
as we could reasonably expect under the
circumstances. While it has cost us.
out of our own earnings from other
sources, every dollar we have paid for
telegraphie dispatches, we have the
satisfaction of knowing that it is the
only newspaper in Washington Territory
that can pay for the dispatches. and that
we have contributed over fifteen hum
dred dollars in coin to the general pros
perity of our town. With our very lin
tied means, this has only been made up
by hard labor and the closest economy,
allowing us meager time or means to
devote to the local news or other needed
additions to our columns; being under
the necessity of putting all our editorial
matters in type without committing them
to writing. We have the expectation,
under arrangements now negotiating. to
very soon enlarge the paper, and i'm
prove all its departments to the standard
of first class city daily. Whether our
expectations in this respect are realized
or not, we shall not surrender so long
as incessant toll will command the
means to sustain our DAILY DISPATCH.
Year: 1874

ANOTHER CREDIT MoBILIER.-
very funny paper called the Tacoma
Tribune, which is printed only few
miles from the present railroad terminus
and therefore assumes to represent the
interests of that uninhabite6 town plat,
has long article to prove that the Di-
rectors of the Northern Pacific Railroad
are identical with the managers of thu
Tacoma Land Company. If this is
true which we do not believe-it is
all the worse for the Railroad Directors.
The thing differs in no particular from
the Credit Mobilier, of infamous notori-
ETY., or from the Lake Superior and
Puget Sound Land Company, of like
infamous intent, which the Railroad
Company was forced to buy out to save
its own organization from ignominious
ruin. A ring of that kind inside of any
corporation existing by subsidy from
the Government can have only fraudu-
lent objects in view. and is bound to
end in disastrous failure to all engaged
in it. No good business man, with o
knowledge of the facts, will ever invest
a dollar in permanent improvements In
a town founded in fraud, without a sim
gle natural advantage in its favor as q
commercial city. With all the power
that the Railroad Company can CONS
mand in its favor, Tacoma can only be
a repetition of the failures of Duluth
aud Kalama.
Year: 1874




At this season of the year, when
slippery walks are in first-class con-
dition for nervous pedestrians, ii
may not be out of place to recite
the adventures of single evening
on the street.


was walking leisurely along,
and just ahead of me were o gen.
tleman and lady, conversing very
earnestly in low tone. They were
evidently enjoying each others So
ciety, when,-well, their conversa-
ton was brought abruptly to a close.
"The wicked shall stand on slippery
places but perhaps they were not
wicked, for they merely sat on that
icy spot for the space of about half
a minute, when they again resumed
their ramble.


was thinking how uncertain the
things of this world are, rejecting
on what lesson might be learned
from-my feet went out from under
me, and i lay at full length, to med
itate.


AS l arose to my feet, two men
passed me, and one of them re-
marked, ave must show to the
court that this man has" That
was all he said, and when he came
down on the frozen earth some
thing very much like an oath es-
capped his lips.


A block farther on I was accosted
by young lady with: "Sir, will
you be kind enough to inform me
where Mr.. WIS office is? I am
something of stran-" She said
no more, but with q wild flourish of
her hands, she quickly seated her.
self in as genteel manner as was
possible under the circumstances.
She afterward found the place de-
sired.


Near the Postoffice stood a group
of men discussing the probability
of the early opening of navigation,
when two fair creatures appeared,
and just as they neared the group,
there was q sharp shrek, and both
came to sitting position instantly /;
and as they did so, one of the group
was by some means deprived of his
understanding, so, in attempting to
avoid the fall, four of his comrades
were likewise taken with sudden
desire to seat themselves as near as
possible to the fair but "fallen."
What sight to behold "Oh 4! my
countrymen, what a fallp


/ left the scene, thinking that
even in this quiet and peaceful
abode, where there is apparently
nought to disturb the mind of the
most fastideous, ait is dangerous to
be safe"
Year: 1874

She gazed at the pitiless sky,


At the cold and barren earth,
At the hungry river rushing by,
And in deep dispair resolved 10 die,


Cursing her hour of birth.
Her soul was deeply stained by crime
A wreck cast out from the city's slime.
Why does she tremble and shrink


At the ghastly thought of death 7
Why does she fear Lethe's cup to drink;
Why fear in oblivion's arms to sink,


If this life is but breath
Does the spirit-ge in her 'darhened soul
Revolt at death as mans final goal
Docs vision of childhood hours


Sweep DER her fevered brain :
A dream Of wildwood bowers
OF sunshine, buds and Aowere,


Before temptation came p
A vision of home and its bliss now lost
To her sin sick soul so tempest tossed 7
The bell in the church-tower gray.


Within whose shadows she stands,
Is calling believers to kneel and pray;
While the 'gate of help just over the way


Throws its red light across the sand
To where the rivers cold, dark waves
The hem of her foulor garment laves.
IF should kneel with the rest TO pray,


wonder if God woull hear !
I am weary of sins unhallowed sway
Will no one teach me the better way :"


She cried in her doubt and fear;
But glances of hate and insolent plid,,
by the pious % throng she was thrust aside.
We talk of "h,is Gospel day :"


We call this Christian land
Oh, God When sinner to Thee would pray,
From the temples gate she has turned away


Alone in the street to stand
Wantonly wickedly forced from the light,
Left fanting and dizzy in darkness and night
And when, in the dreary morn.
With white lips evermore dumb,
With garments ooze-dripping and torn,
| Face hunger r-stamped and sin-worn,


She's dragged from the rivers slum,
Can you, from your brow, wash the mark Of Cain
Can you call from carth's depths the soul yo


have slain
Year: 1874

Your mother is your best earthly
friend. The world may willfully do
you many wrongs, your mother
never; the world may persecute
you while living, and when dead
plant the ivy and nightshade OF
slander upon your CRASHES grave,
but your mother will love and cher
ish you while living, and If she sur
vive you, will weep for you when
you are dead, such tears as none
but mother can weep. Love your
mother.
Year: 1874

The most exciting event ofthe week, or in
deed of many weeks. was the fracas between
the Secretary of the Treasury and Mullett,
the Supervising architect. People at q dis
tance can have very little idea of the sensa-
tion this affair has caused. for the reason thst
they do not know the parties nor understand
the nature and extent of the inteI ests that are
directly concerned. Ten or twelve years ago the
architect of the Treasury was little more than
a boss carpenter. engaged in putting up one
or two buildings, with . working force ofa
hundred men, the most Of whom regarded the