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Year: 1878

Mr.. BERGH's sympathies have been so
exbaustingly drawn on in behalf of
dumb animals that he actually seems to
have lost some of the natural feeling for
his own species. At the International
Humane Society he opposed a PROPOSE
tion to add children to the animals"
that the society should protect, partly
because "his experience had made him
suspicious of humanity, and he had
found that cats and dogs are honorable
by comparison"
Year: 1878

The spirit Of emulation in funerals Is
In strict obedience to public sentiment.
Coming from the burial Of friend. a
Danbury young woman sail TO her
mother: "Did you ever see such a
cheap looking corpse DsRb,uy sm.
Year: 1878

From the N. Q. Ficayuns, Feb. 9thl


An attentive examination of the con-
stitutinnal amendments confirms onr
first opinion, that they are all that the
public can reasonably expect at this
time. The committee have done their
work we'll; SO we'll, indeed, that even Il
chronic caviler could find little in it to
criticize. The fact that the committee
were unanimous in signing the report
indicates that there is u fair prospect
for the success of the amendments in
the Legislature and it is to be pre-
sumed that they will be equally success
full when submitted to the ordeal of a
popular vote. We trust that now the
Legislature will take speedy action on
this important matter. and thus satisfy
the Just and reasonable expectations OF
the public. Everybody admits that
many changes in our organic law are
necessary; and u very Intelligent and
very determined public opinion demands
that, in one way or another, those
changes shall be made. The method OF
amendment. rather than the method of
constitutional convention, appears tn
meet with the greater favor, both in
the Legislature and before the public
mind and as the amendments proposed
by the committee effect the desired OBJ
iects, they should be adopted at once.
Year: 1878

One of the young men from Milford
sat down the other dav and wrote on
the back of two postal cards. Then he
turned them over and directed them,
but by mischance placed the address on
the wrong cards. The result was the
shirt mandatory in New York got q
polite invitation to go ont carnage
riding somewhere on the Milford pike
frantic hy receiving the following !:
" please send me sample of the stuff
your shirts are made of."-lEx.
Year: 1878

LONDON, March 13-A special dispatch from
Berlin to the Morning Post says that Prince
for the benefit of his health, as was stated in
a Berlin special in yesterdays Standard and
that the German government will not issue
invitations to the congress until all difficulties
about the subject to be considered thereat are
removed The difficulties saws the dis
patch, appear more serious than was antici-
pated. The general prospect is well informed
circles is far from encouraging. Germany
will claim the presidency of the congress for
its representative by prescriptve right. whe-
ther Prince Bismarck is able to attend OF not
Year: 1878

NEW YORK, March l3.-At a meeting of the
American National Rifle Team, yesterday, a
discussion took place over the propriety of
allowing the trophy to be placed on exhibition
showed that the team regarded the National
Rifle Association as a local organization and
not as a national body. resolution was
finally adopted allowing Tiffany & Co. to take
the trophy to Europe after the first of June,
provided that at that date no response shall
have been received from any foreign team
wishing to accept the challenge of America.
The motion was agreed to
Year: 1878

The SILVER CERTIFICATEs.-Mr. McPher-
son, chief Of the bureau of engraving and
printing, is hurrying to completion the silver
certificates under the recent law. The first
will be of the denomination of ten dollars
adorned with an engraved head OF Robert
Morris. This is now ready for the press.
Next Will follow twenty, fifty, one hundred,
Gates. There will be different portrait on
the face of every denomination of certificate.
The workmanship will he in the best STYLE as
fine as that OF the legal-tender notes.
Year: 1878

MANGAM AND CRUIKsHANK ARRAIGNED AND


PLEAD NOT GUILTY.


There was q large crowd sembied In tho Court Of
Oyer and Terminer yesterday morning on the opening
OF the court the expectation that Darius X Man.
GAM late president OF the National Trust Company ,,
would DO placed trial All that was done In his case
however, his simple arraignment upon the charge
OF perjury and plea OF not guilty. He apparently
took The matter very coolly aud showed very little
nervousness TO the final result


J. C. Cruikshank, the ex.secretary Of the company,
was also arraigned and made the same plea
Year: 1878

From Mr.. J. L. Norris VIC learn that
the new fire company is getting in flight
ing trim" without unnecessary delay.
Application has been mad to tile city
council for official recognition. and the
prospects are that Port Townsend will
soon be waiting for fire just to show
how easily it can be extinguished.
Year: 1878

BEWARE OF CODA cold is often
the precursor of serious illness and
death. Whatever weak place We have,
whatever constitutional disease we are
subject to, cold will surely discover. We
take cold because our vitality is to low
to ward off the effects of the reduced tenn
perature around US. AS a matter of the
first Importance, then to resist cold and
the various arrangements of the system
consequent. it is necessary by proper
nutrition to maintain our natural animal
heat; second, to retain this heat by a
sufficient quantity of clothing; third, to
regulate with care the temperature of
the air we breath. Contrary to the
opinion current among lovers of cold
weather, a fire in bedroom in the win
ter is cheaper and better than doctors
bill; for, owing to our inactive condition
during sleep, the circulation of vitaliz-
ing blood is both slow and imperfect.
and hence the danger of taking cold by
breathing cold air is greatly increased.
Never neglect cold; it is a dangerous
liberty to take with the healthiest con-
stitution.
Year: 1878

KINDLING FIRES WITH KEROSENE
Somebody ought to publish household
tract, and advise people to kindle their
fires with gunpowder, instead of kerosene.
1t would be vastly safer indeed, for the
gunpowder only explodes, and then is
done with it, and if it blows out the
windows and doors, or takes off leg or
an arm, or puts out an eye, that is all
there is of it, and people know what to
expect. But the kerosene not only ex-
plodes, but takes fire, and its burning
vapor is pretty sure death to the woman
who tries this sort of kindling. It is
very easy thing to tilt what is left in the
lamp or the oil can right over the Goals to
make blaze when the fire is slow, but
the hospital ambulance and the coroner's
inquest are pretty sure to follow. The
most sickening of all horrors, being
burned alive, is the natural outcome of
this hurrying up of slow fires by the
aniek kindlino of kerosene but every
woman who tries it ought to know that
she would be a good deal safer in the
front of battle than behind the kerosene
can in such an experiment-Philadel-
phia Ledger.
Year: 1878

STICK TO IT, BoYs.-The too frequent
desire on the part of the boys, and young
men too, nowadays, is to wander away
from the profession or calling that their
ideas first led them to engage in. A lad
conceives the notion that he must be a
printer, or a carpenter, or some one of
the thousand other trades now in vogue,
fills some months of labor in trying to
obtain few of the rudiments thereof,
and then abandons the idea altogether
for something new to HIM. We earnest
ly entreat every young man, after he has
chosen his vocation, to stick to it. Don't
leave it because hard blows are to be
struck, or disagreeable work performed.
HhAaA ruhn runrknd their way ND to wealth
and usefulness, do not belong to the
shiftless and unstable class, but may be
reckoned among such as took off their
coats, rolled up their sleeves, conquered
the prejudice against labor, and manful.
ly bore the heat and burden of the day.
Whether upon the old farm where our
fathers toiled diligently, striving to bring
the soil to productiveness, in the machine
shop or factory, or the thousand other
business places that invite honest toll
and skill, let the motto ever be, "Perse.
verance and Industry"
Year: 1878

The Uses OF AMMoNIA.-Put a tea
spoonful of ammonia in a quart of warm
soap-suds, dip cloth into it and go over
your soiled pantaloons, and see how rap
idly the dirt will disappear no scrub
bing will be necessary. To a pint of hot
soap-suds add a tea-spoonfull of the
spirits. dip in your fork or spoon (or
whatever you wish to clcan), rub with a
soft brush, and then finish with cha
mois- skin. For washing mirrors and
windows it has no equal. It will remove
grease spots from every fabric without
injuring the garment. Put on the am
monia nearly clear; lay on a blotting
paper, and set hot iron on it for a
moment. Also few drops in water will
cleanse and whiten laces and muslins
beautifully. A few drops in bowl of
water if the skin be oily, will remove
all uncleanliness and disagreeable odors.
Added to hot bath, it nearly absorbs
all noxious smell, and nothing is better
to remove dandruff from the hair. For
cleaning nail and hair-brushes it is
equally good. For heartburn and dys-
pepsia the aromatic spirits Of ammonia
is especially prepared; ten drops taken
in wine-glass of water will give relief.
Year: 1878

Washington, March, 6.-Congress is
hopelessly behind hand with its work
and the prospect for the longest session
within our memory is beyond ques-
tion. The Appropriation committee of
the House has never been so negligent
and slow. The seventy-seventh rule of
the House requires that all appropria-
tion bills shall be reported to the House
by the committee within thirty days
from the assembling of Congress, and
yet three times thirty days have passed
and only two bills of the thirteen
have thus far been reported. One of
these, the military academy bill, is now
before the Senate committee, and other
consular and diplomatic bills are still
In the House. Important bills, and
those requiring long discussions, are
still in the hands of the committee and
nobody knows when they will come in.
If the House does not get on faster,
tropical midsummer will find Congress
still here.
Year: 1878

John Welch met his death at the
Union Pacific depot in Omaha on Sun
day by inhaling nitric acid. The Bee
says:


Among the west bound freight cars
was one containing ten carboys of
nitric acid for the San Francisco mint,
together with a lot of oil and other
combustible material. One of the
carboys of nitric acid exploded while
the car was standing at the depot, and
ten men, employees at the freight house,
were summoned to empty the car. A
Mr.. Shelby, who knew the character of
the acid, told the men to hold their
breath while in the car, and to breathe
fresh air every time they came out.
They all needed the advice except John
Welch, who probably forgot it. While
he was in the car he inhaled the fatal
fumes.


The deceased had been In the employ
of the Union Pacific railroad for over
ten years.
Year: 1878

A Bill to Consolidate the Tribe.


Washington, March 6.-The Senate
committee on Indian Affairs to-day
agreed to report favorably the bill au-
thrizing the Secretary of the Interior
to make certain negotiations with the
Utes in Colorado. The negotiations
in question are for the consolidation of
of all the bands in one agency, to be
located on or near the White river, and
for the extinguishment of the right of
the Ute Indians to the southern portion
of their reservation in Colorado.
Year: 1878

THE LEADER earnestly requests its
friends in all parts of the country to
send in the news. Write often, give
us all the news and keep us posted in
all matters of progress and develop
ment. When in the city our friends
are invited to call at this office and fur
nish us with any information they may
nOssess
Year: 1878

ENGLAND seem preparing to assume
the position Of the dog in the manger,
willing neither to define policy of her
own nor to agree to that of others.
Three of the leading London newspa-
pers, while admitting that England will
take part in the congress claim that
she will do so with the express under
standing that she is not to be bound by
its decisions if she is not satisfied with
them. The Times may well ask, "What
then is the good of a congress or con-
ference?n
Year: 1878

NEITHER Chicago nor st. Louis has
as yet committed itself on the hell con-
troversy. Each is fearfully afraid that
if it denies the existence of the place,
the other will instantly seize upon it
and prove its existence by incorporat-
ing it in the next directory.
Year: 1878

ILLINOIS debtors are petitioning the
Legislature for "stay law" but one of
their newspapers cynically remarks that
the average debtor don't stay long
enough for the law to get hold of him.
Year: 1878

MARK TWAIN explains his protracted
illness. He says: II am only taking
my holidays now. When the rest of
the world begins to take its holiday 1
mean to go to work. The longer live
the more see the rashness of putting
off your holiday till summer. You
might die, you know.
Year: 1878

This resolution has passed the Senate
only six democrats voting against it. we
are sorry that this small handful had not
the good sense to give q silent vote, and
that some of them thought it necessary to
make speeches on the subject. Fortunately
the speeches were not of sufficient mark or
interest to do much harm. The majority
of the democratic Senators judged wisely
that it is better to let this investigation
take its course, and not to waste the time
of the Senate in debate which would
merely have obstructed business Of real im-
portance. The country is heartily tired
and sick Of the everlasting Southern ques-
ton, and further agitation will only deepen
the general disgust at politicians who are
willing to subordinate great interests to
their ambitious hopes. We are passing
into new era, when questions relating to
the material interests of the country will be
the hinges of politics. Mr.. Blaine is at
tempting to ride q dead horse, and it is pre-
posterous TO consume valuable time in at
tempting to prevent him. He will discover
his mistake, and before he gets through
with this experiment he will regret it. As
no legislation can possibly result from his
investigation it is wise to let him alone to
discover his folly and want Of foresight.
Year: 1878

Our poor friends the Bulgarians are still
without sovereign, and one Of our
brilliant contemporaries proposes to send
them Talfnage, the bowling dervish of the
Brooklyn Presbyterian circus. But we are
afraid they have had q surfeit Of dervishes
already. Besides, Talmage's habits Of
thought would not incline him to the toll
Grafton that must be practised in . land in
which the religious division Of the people
is of primary consequence. He cannot
tolerate what he does not understand and
he does not understand much. We, there
fore, should not like to commit the American
people to this recommendation. But there
is reverend man Of another sort, who pos


sesses all the good qualities of Talmage and
none Of his defects. We refer, of course, to
that great prophet and medicine man Of the
Sioux, Sitting Bull. As the Bulgarians
want an American they mary prefer an
American Of the original breed, and the
Year: 1878

The refusal of one of the Hebrew institu-
tions to accept gift from Mrs. Stewart be-
cause it was to be transmitted through
Judge Hilton seems to have resulted from
q misapprehension. If the managers Of
the hospital had restrained their resent
ment until they had become better ac-
quainted with the facts they would have
evinced wiser and more considerate spirit.
1t appears that Mrs. Stewart, at the np-
proach of the Christmas season, made i'm
partial donations to all the principal chari-
ties Of the city without any distinction Of
religious creed. 1t is to be regretted that
this oct Of praiseworthy benevolenco should
have been understood in any instance
in q different spirit from that in which
it was intended. Mrs Stewart's vener-
able age, her unostentatious virtues and
the great affiic.ion to which she has been
SO rudely subjected by a recent instance Of
unfeeling barbarity, should have protected
her from any new wounds at this time, and
especially from an act Of charity being
turned into a source of bitterness. Resent
ment, however just, against her business
agent is not q sufficient excuse for thrust
at this venerable lady through the sides
Of Judge Hilton. Under oil the circum-
stances it would have been prudent and
self-respecting for the managers Of the hos
pital to have quietly ignored the offer If
they did not choose to accept it. Had they
waited few days until they could ascer-
tain the facts they might have discovered
that there was no reasonable bar to their
acceptance of the gift. 1t was not
gift to the managers but to
the poor sufferers under their charge,
and if she had divided It into small
sums and offered 1t to individual sufferers
it would have seemed o strange proceeding
for anybody to have stepped between her
and the benefciaries and intercepted her
charity. This act Of hasty resentment will
be regretted and depltred by that large
portion Of this community who disapproved
Year: 1878

In the Gable dispatches it is reported from
London that the British Board Of Admiralty
has made an official declaration Of the
falsity Of IAN interview with the Duke of
Edinburgh while at Halifax, published re-
Gently in Now York journal, in which His
Royal Highness is made to say that he
looked upon the author of England's new
peace with honor policy with feelings Of
the utmost disgust" Alas We ore afraid
those solemn and fearfully respect
able men are destined to be laughed
at, and are the victims of their incapac-
ity to see joke. No New York paper
published nm interview with the Duke
of Edinburgh except the HERALD, and in
our interview there were no expressions
such as are referred 70 by the Admiralty.
But lively little paper published in this
city, and which puts forth happy skits from
time to time, published somewhat pithy
parody on our interview, and in that parody
His Royal Highness was made to say many
startling things-for it is the privilege Of
wit to make things piquant without regard
to the proprieties. Alas that the British
Admiralty should be fooled by our neigh
bor's drollery.
Year: 1878

QUIET DAY AMONG THB STREET CAB DRIVES


DETERMINED TO HOLD OUT.


The strike Of the car drivers of the Third Avenue
road WAS continued yesterday without any notice.
able events. The company have the inside track and
are determined to keep it, and their helpless employees
have to grin and bear it. In the morning vast
crowd Of men, Ave hundred in number. collected
around the depot at Sixty-Afth street The police
of the Third inspection district, under COM
mand Of Inspector McDermott. were hand
as on the day previous. and sufficient
by their presence to forbid any idea of riot. The
drivers mot in consultation ct couple Of places
the avenue and the general disposition 10 main
tain the strike at any cost Late In the evening they
met at No. 10 Third avenue and held sconsultation
and the ent feeling to keep the strike going


James Kenny. the driver who was arrested on
Monday night for interference with new driver,
yesterday In tho Fifty seventh Street Court fined
SO held in default OF $500 bail TO keep the peace
for six months. His friends paid the fine and secured
Q bondsman.


On the Thirty fifth street branch Of the road none
Of the .bobta have boon run since the strike
began Some say this is because the company would
not trust drivers, while others say the cars de-
not pay and have been Withdrawn altogether.
Year: 1878

incur the risk of keeping it in his own
custody, and his only choice lies be-
tween giving it in charge to a safe
deposit company or turning it into his or
dinary bank account. A safe deposit COM
pany will not take it without charges which
would reduce its value below that of green
backs, and unless the owner is willing to
incur the risk of keeping it in his own safe
he must deposit it in bank. But no bank,
at this stage of affairs, will receive gold ex
cept as ordinary current money to be
checked against like any other form Of cur
rency. This puts final end to the busi-
ness of the gold brokers. "Othello's occu-
patton is gone" Gold coin can no longer
be sold and bought by mere transfer
of gold certificates, but only by actual
deliveries Of the metal, which are too cum
brous and inconvenient to justify opera
tions when there is but vanishing shade
Of difference between the values of gold and
legal tender notes. Hereafter the owners
Of gold can do nothing better with it
than to deposit in the banks which they
make the custodians Of their other funds,
and which will hereafter make no distinc-
ton between deposits Of gold and deposits
of legal tender notes. Having reached
this point the nero legal date OF
resumption ceases to be of any consequence.
In the transition from the 3lst of Decem-
Der to the 1st Of January there will be no
shock or break, nor even the slightest rip
pie of disturbance, and it is not probable
that any considerable amount of legal ten
der notes will be presented for redemption
during the month of January. We con-
gratulate the business community and the
Secretary of the Treasury Ito whose skill
the present condition Of things is great
compliment on the ease and smoothness
with which we are passing out of the old
into the new era.
Year: 1878

Our sister Republic clings to her unre-
publican modes of governmentwith curious
tenacity. The features of arbitrary rulers,
staggering soldiers and intriguing clergy
are preserved after every revolution.
Against ono class or the other the people
from time to time revolt, but change brings
no relief. 1t is strange that when they rise
up they do not make clean sweep and put
despotism of every shape out of the way.
The fact is that Mexicans are divided into
two classes-those who eat and those who
are eaten. Like the famous eels that got
used to being skinned. the Mexicans who
are the food Of the predatory classes do not
object to giving, SO to speak, leg or an
arm now and then, but are inclined to pro-
test when they are asked to contribute their
entire bodies to the official repast. Some
faint endeavor in the way Of petition
to procure the remission Of heavy
tax upon real estate and capital in the State
of Jalisco procured the entry OF a number
Of Jaliscans into prison, and mass meet
ing with the same object in the town Of
Guadalajara brought out the soldiers, who
fired upon the assembled citizens, killing
five merchants. We cannot understand in
the United States how these things occur in
Mexico without leading to an upheaval.
We sent the English home about hundred
years ago for doing things to which the
Mexicany either submit or else. making a
change, leave themselves liable to the same
treatment from their new masters. It is
moro than probable that President Diaz will
be able to tell all meddling inquirers that
peace reigns in Jalisco, that the tax is being
cheerfully paid and as cheerfully collected,
and that the firing on a peaceable crowd,
which our correspondent writes of, was q
little indiscretion that, however, had salu-
tary result