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Year: 1877

PAILADELpHIA, October lS.-A league
Of Pennsylvania building associations
was formed tonight to resist the effort Of
the Auditor General to collect from them
under his construction Of the act Of 1874
a tax Of one.iourth Of one per cent.
Year: 1877

ONE great error Of our moral teaching
lies in the fact that there is too much
Don't to it, and not enough DO. We bid
our children not to do this and that; we
do not always tell them what they may
do, We tell the inebriate not to 90 here,
and there; but we do not, as a general
thing, give him place where he can GO.
We bid the young avoid the light, warm,
CHEEKY saloon; butwe give only the curb
stone, or his own dim, chilly, uncomfort-
able room.
Year: 1877

THIS bitof precocity came under the OBJ
servation OF friend out West, who send.
it to the Interior. May P, of
Omaha, bright little girl of some five
or six summers accustomed, when at
table, to being "lifted higher" with a
copy of Webster's Unabridged, was
spending few days with friends in
Chicago, and stopping at one of the large
hotels of the city. At her first meal the
dusky waiter, with due ceremony and
kind politeness seated her on an ordi.
nary chair, and placed before her the
bill of fare. The little miss ran her eye
up and down the formidable array of
names, then turned to the attendant and,
with the dignity of q maturer mind
graphing with some weighty subject, in
an lmperious manner and tone exclaimed,
"Please bring me dictionary"
Year: 1877

FT0W ne bF0OhtyH 1Igu8.


The visitor at the national capital some
times Observing a tall figure in short
cloak and peaked hat moving mysteriously
about in the dim twilight of the corridors.
is tempted to think it may be Mephisto-
pheles, until the figure steps up u the res
taurant bar, pours out four fingers OF
brandy. absorbs it with as little emotion as
if it had disappeared down a rat hole
and then the visitor knows tbat it is not
Mephistopheles, but the hero of the
March to the Sea"
Year: 1877

THE following communication from a resident of Yuma, ex- presses our sentiments about the adjacent mountains exactly:

 YUMA, May 29th.

 EDITOR SENTINEL: The pur- chase of the Carga Muchacha mines by San Francisco capitalists means not only that they will be worked but itopens the eyes of the old fogy drea ners in our midst to the fact, that there is Ill the ad- joining mountains a rich harvest of gold and silver for those who may first exhibit enterprise enough to thoroughly prospect them. We have heard old miners say that there is no paying quantities of gold in our mountains, but as usual, capital, that certain mining barometer, says there is. So far as a prospectors opinion that there is no mineral in a certain section is concerned, it is not worth five cents. The simple fact is he didn't find it. The next day "tenderfoot" green.hOrn will walk over the same ground and find rich lode. The nuggets which have been brought in from the placer diggings on the Gila are sufficient evidence that there is rich quartz somewhere in the adjoining mountains. Who will find it? VISTA.
Year: 1877

Said supplies to be of the first quality and subject to inspection and approval by the Superintendent. All supplies to be delivered at the Territorial Prison. Bids to be in currency of the United States ,and may be for all or any of the articles above enumerated. Payments will be m ade as provided for by law.

 The successful bidder must be prepare to enter into contract with the Board Oi Prison Commissioners and execute bond subject to their approval in the sum of one thousand dollars.

 A copy of this advertisement must ac. company the bld, with the names of arti cles, and the successful bidder will be It. quired to pay the cost of this advertise. ment.
Year: 1877

The most notable musical event Of the past
week was the second performance Of the ''Mau-
zoni Requiem ~ by the Beethoven Society: at the
Plymouth Congregational Church, it having
been given in this instance for the benefit of the
general public which showed its appreciation OF
the work Of the Society by filing every
seat In the church. The chorus was
about the same in number, aud the
soloists the same, Of course, as at the first per-
Year: 1877

their hair brushed. apd the disorder
from play removed from their ap-
pearance. Let mothers remem be r
that these little things are the step
ping-stones to the formation of bab-
it's, and habits build character. .-Er-
change.


BRUISES AND STRAINs.-A lady
with all the world before her writes t:
II want every mother in the land to
know what a certain cure for a cut
or bruise. or any kind of hurt soft hot
water is. Immerse the injured part
into as hot water as can be borne, un-
til the pain and inflammation is reliev-
ed. know little two-year-old up
cn whose tender, soft little hand a
heavy window came crushing. II its
frantic efforts to get the hand out, the
poor little fingers were so terribly lac
Grated and torn, that amputation was
deemed inevitable. The mother wO'd
not listen to it, but kept the hand for
hours in basin of as hot water as the
child could bear. In few days the
fingers healed beautifully, without
scar or fester."


PICKLE FOR BEEF.-The following
is recon- mended by the New York
Cooking school Boil four gallons of
of water, with one and half pounds
of brown sugar or molasses, two oun-
ces saltpetre, and nine pounds salt,
until all are dissolved; skim as fast as
the scum rises; cool the brine or pic
kle thus made. Pack the meat close
ly in barrel, pour on the pickle and
keep the meat under it by means of a
weight. This quantity is sufficien,
for an ordinary barrel of meat, two
hundred pounds, closely packed.


Lamb and veal contain much less
solid food than mutton and beef, and
are consequently not so economical,
even if purchased at the same cost per
pound. Mutton, fin good condition,
is one of the most easily digested of
the ordinary meats. Pork is not so
easily digested as beef or mutton. The
flesh of young animals is not nearly
80 nutritious as that of those of ma
tuTe age.
Year: 1877

He was the orfulest liar / ever
seen" said Cooley O'Leary, as we re-
turned from his friends funeral.
why, he told me once that he lived
on a small island out in the Pacific
Ocean on which there was a volcano.
And he said that there was an active
demand out in that region for water
melons, so be went to the business of
raising them. And he said one year
his whole crop failed except one mel
on, and that kept on growing at such
"a fearful rate that it crowded him off
the lowland and up on the side Of the
volcano. which generated steam
and caused an explosion which
blew up the whole concern to
atoms, and shot him four hundred
miles out to sea, where he was picked
up by q whaler. He used to tell
me that the one great mistake of his
life was that be didn't drive a plug in
the crater of the volcano so as to make
it water tight, and then slice open the
watermelon and come sailing home
on the half she'll


"He would lie. He said that once
he was cast away on an iceberg with
no baggage but a pair of skates and a
fishing pole. But he skated around
until he came across a dead whale,
frozen into the ice. So he took off
his shirt-it was night for six months
that year up therefore it into strips
for wick, ran the strips through the
bamboo fishing rod stuck the rod into
the fat of the whale, and lit the other
end. He said 1t burned spleDdidly,
and the iceberg reflected the light so
strongly that it was bright as day
forty miles around, and one vessel ran
into the berg thinking it was a light
house. He said he sold the iceberg to
the captain for SIS 600, and the captain
split it up and took it home, ,snd made
two hundred per cent. profit disposing
Ol IL DO ICE COulphules.


Lie? well, sir, he beat any man
ever come across. Told me that once
out In Nevada, a mountain lion at
tack ed him with his mouth wide open.
He had presence of mind enough to
grab it by the tongue and pull. The
lion roared with pain, but he did his
level best pulling, and pretty soon the
tongue began to give and the tail to
shorten, and directly out they came,
the tongue and the tail one long con-
tinuous string. He said he had 'em
at home and be showed 'em to me,
but my beliefs they were only three
or four cow-hides and a bulls tail
dovetailed together.


"He was astonishing as a truth
crusher. Said he served on a gunboat
during the war which was very small
and light, while the mortar on the
deck was very large and heavy, and
he said the first time they tried to
fire a fifteen inch shell, the shell re-
mained stationary, while the recoil
was so great that it fired the gunboat
four miles up the stream and landed
it in tree. He was liar, but now
he's dead reckon he'll ketch it,"


There was no doubt about it; Mr..
O'Leary was very successful as a con-
structor of energetic works Of fiction.
Year: 1877

The President got through the Bos-
ton wine drinking without a shadow
of harm or suspicion. but the other
night, after a late Cabinet meeting
when he went home and set the night
lamp on the floor, and then sat down
and tried to pare his corns with but
ton-hook, without taking his shoes
off, Mrs. Hayes, who was awakened
by his gurgling laugh. said she never
would have believed it if she hadn't
seen it.-HaaUkeye.
Year: 1877

A New York paper, figuring from
the registration books, concludes that
the population of New York City is
decreasing. The total number of vo-
ters who registered themselves In
New York City for the election this
Year: 1877

We think that If Eve had been
properly warned and reasoned with
she wouldn't have done it.-Rochester
Democrat.


She never would have done it could
she have seen the remote consequence
of her conduct as evolved in the mod
ern newspaper paragraph.-Ogdens-
burg Journal.
Year: 1877

A tramp called at house on West
Hill few days ago and asked for
something to eat. He was so thin, he
said, that when be had a pain he
couldn't tell whether it was touch of
cholic or the backache.- -HaeUkeye.
Year: 1877

For the last five years l have uOt
lost a cuoum Der or melon vine, or cab
bage plant. Get barrel, with few
gallons of gas tar in 1t; pour water
on the tar; always have it ready when
needed, and when the bugs appear,
give them a liberal drink of the tar
water from garden sprinkler, or 9TH
erwises and if the rain washes 1t of
and tkey return, repeat the dose. II
wilLalsO destroy the Colorado potato
beetle, and frighten the old long pota-
to bug worse than threshing with
brush. Five years ago this summer
both kinds appeared on my late pota-
toes, and / watered with the tar-wa-
ter. The next day all Colorados that
had not been we'll protected from the
sprinkling were dead. and the others,
though their name was legion. were
all gone, and / have never seen one
of them on the farm since. am aware
that many will look upon this with
indifference, because it is 50 cheap
and simple a remedy. Such should
always feel both their own and their
neighbors' bugs, as they frequently
do.-COr. Chicago Tribune.


BEE RAIsING.-Bees are also as use
ful as chickens, and easily raised
They afford US luxurious food, heal
thy and cheap. Bees need little feed
ing, little expense and tion.-
They want only comfortable home,
covered from the storm and sun, and
protected from the maraudiUg miller.
They will make their own living and
do considerable toward the living of
the farmer. Not many swarms can be
kept prosperously in one place, but
every farmer can raise horey for his
own use and little to spare. Every
gardener, every villager, might do it..
A single swarm of bees. well attended
to, will soon produce as many yswarms
as can be successfully kept in one
place. All that bees make is clear
gain. They get their treasure from
the flowers. We should have bees
enough in the country to have one al
ways slipping at every flower. The
flower is always producing honey
The bee should be always gathering
it. If We bad bee all the time at ev-
cry flower, honey enough would be
produced to supply the world. 1t is
means of health, wealth, and pleas
ure. Let bees be cultivated; let eve-
ry farmer have them. They are as
useful as cows, and far less trouble
some. A little attention will teach
one to manage them.


1t is attention to trifies which con-
stitutes the real difference between
good and bad housekeeping 1t is
not the amount of money spent. nor
the beauty of the furniture, nor the
variety on the table, on which COM
fort depends. A very plain style of
living may be delightful If the home
element predominates. The lady of
the house who gives as much atten-
tion every day to her table as will Sc
cure its being neat and attractive,
will do much towards making her
family eontented. A soiled table,
cloth, cracked plates: and old cups
and saucers, will take the good taste
away from the best viands unless
people are very hungry. Children
behave better if they are always look
ing nicely. They should never be
permitted to seat themselves at meal
unless their faces and hands are clean,
Year: 1877

The following was one of the last, If no
the very last, of the religious songs set tS
music by the late p. p. Bliss. no, In conneo-
ton with Ira D. Sankev, was the writer o.
so many ofthe Gospel hymns which have be-
come so popular in many of our churches
and Sunday schools, and who, with his wife
was amcDg the unfortunate victims of the
awful tragedy at Asntabula:
When my final farewell to the world / have


said,


And gladly lie down to my rest;
When softly the watchers shall say "He is


dead,n


And fold my pale hands DER my breast;
And when, with my glorifed vision, at last
The walls of the ''city'i j see.
Will any one then at the beautiful gate
Stand waiting and watching for me!
There are little ones glancing about in my


path,


In want Of friend and guide;
There are dear little eyes looking up into


mine,


Whose tears might be easily dried;
But Jesus may beckon the children away,
In the midst of their grief and their glee,
Will any one then, at the beautiful gate
Be watching aud waiting for me.
There nre old and forsaken who lingel awhile
In homes which their dearest have left;
And few gentle words, or an action of love
May cheer their sad spirits bereft!
But the reaper is near to the long-standing


corn,


The weary will soon be set free,
Will any ofthem at the beautiful gate
Be watching and waiting for met
Oh! should be broughtthere by the bountiful


grace


Uf Him who delights to forgive;
Though bless not the Weary about in my


path,


Pray only for self while live,
Methinks | should mourn DER my sinful


neglect;


If sorrow in Heaven can be,
Should no one love, at the beautiful gate,
Be watching and waiting for me.
Year: 1877

We do not object to the Supreme
Court declaring the Dog Law un-
constitutional, but we do think that
it should have given credit where it
belongs for the grounds upon which
it bases its opinion. They decided
it uncon stitutional on Saturday,
oath, and gave their reasons, and
they are identical with the reasons
declared by some of our candidates
for the Legislature last fall. They
must have had a man out here dur
ing the canvass to hear what our
opinion was, and now they take ad
vantage of us and give it out as
original. We are willing to divide
the honors with them. We formed
the opinion and nobody would be
lleve US, and they promulgate our
opinion and everybody believes
them. They copy us word for word,
and we have but one objection to it,
and that is they were too slow
about it. Who knows the amount
Of anguish they would have saved
our legislators if they had spoken
up sooner! Now, we warn the Su-
preme Court to watch us closely
and every time they hear us say
anything, to adopt it and promul-
gate it at once, and thus save the
country many troubles.
Year: 1877

A farmer, to succeed, must think
well what he is going to do before
he does the work; he will not then
be impeded by any unnecessary
and exhaustive toll. By reading,
thinking and planning. much labor
can be performed. If the labor is
properly directed and well done, it
loses much of the severity apper-
tanning to the labor of the farmer.
Much time is wasted through not
thinking we'll what you are going to
do and how to do it. This applies
to all kinds Of work and business.
Read and think more, and you will
be able to accomplish more.
Year: 1877

Farmers, you must abandon this
wasteful cotton growing. We say
"wasteful' because you are wasting
the fertility of your soil. Grow
more grasses and clover, and feed
them, either by pasturing, or cured
into hay. After the hay has been
fed, spread the manure on the
ground from which the hay has
been taken and your land is i'm
proved, instead of being exhausted.
Manure is as good as gold-dust II
properly applied. What farmer
would see gold dust floating down
the stream Of his stable or pig-pen,
without making an effort to collect
it and convert it into corn. But
any one who allows the drainage
from his stables, pens or lots TO es-
cape, into q gully or stream, Is allow
ing that to escape which may be
converted into gold coin just as
easily as tho shining PARTICLES OF
gold, mingled with the sand In the
creeks of California and Australia.
Do not allow a particle OF II TO be
wasted.
Year: 1877




1t would seem that nothing more
could be said of cows after 10 Sta
cy's and Jesse Neirs had been de-
scribed, but really history would be
outraged if something were not said
of our Seniors new milcher. He
sent a note to a gentleman 10 miles
in the country last week to know if
he had cow that would suit him,
describing such one as he wanted.
Queen Victoria would give her
crown for a half interest in such a
COW as he described. Mr.. Blank
responded by sending the COW, and
our senior skinned his hands rub
bing them with satisfaction when
he heard she was coming. They
drove her into the lot, and twelve
or fifteen of the children ran in to
tell their papa she had arrived. He
went and there she was, backed up
against a tree resting. He ap-
preached her very civilly, and the
first word he uttered was TO shed a
tear of sympathy. 1t was very evil
dent that it was too large COW for
the skin, or that the wrong skin had
been put upon her, for the bones
stuck up like stumps in new clear
ing; and then 1t was put on back
wards too, for the hair all turned
the wrong way. One ear stood out
like palm fan and the other flop
ped and had a big tick hanging
onto it. One horn was gone and
she was just taking the sore eyes,
and evidently had the toothache
and the glanders. She had lost her
cud, and had terrible cough, was
badly spawned, had wolves in her
back, and her tail had dropped of
Just because there was nothing for
it to hang on TO. And there she
stood, and there he stood, and there
the children stood and the cook and
the dog. Presently all the COWS in
the neighborhood came believing
and paving around like they do at a
cow funeral, and the dogs gathered
around her for big bone, when the
Senior told the cook to go and get
a teaspoon and milk her. He held
the COW up to keep the cook from
pulling her over when she pulled
the teats, but nary milk. They
thought she wouldn't let down and
sent Harry for an ear of corn to
coax her. He went to a neighbor's
and borrowed the corn and came
and hunched her so she would open
her eyes, see and eat, but it scared
her so bad she tainted. The cook
then carried her into the stable,
nailed up the door and hung crepe
on it, while the Senior went into the
house to write an advertisement,
Fine Cow for Sale" Moral: Don't
buy COW from the Senior.
Year: 1877

Now that eggs are abundant do not
every one rush to town with a bas-
ket full until the market is glutted
and thereby your city cousin get
your eggs for nearly nothing. Pack
them in fresh sawdust at home, they
will keep nice and fresh at this sea-
son for a long time, and the price
will get better when the good wives
and mothers begin to set the hens for
spring chickens. Wait for demand
in the market, and then you can get
an eggs sellent price for what you
have saved and packed away.
Year: 1877

The Methodist Church in this
city was crowded Sunday morning,
it being generally understood that
the new musicalInstruments recent
ly added to the church choir would
be used for the first time on that
occasion. The result fully justified
the anticipations of the audience.
Prof. Mckenzie on the organ, Prof.
Streeper on the cornet and Prof.
Hearn on the flute made such mu-
sic as has never been equalled in a
Lebanon church, and which 1t would
be difficult to excel anywhere. We
are heartily glad to chronicle this
new departure in sacred music 1t
adds intellectually to the charm OF
church service, and no teDable OBJ
lection can be served against it,
Lebanon Herald.
Year: 1877

On Monday a young man res
cued girl who had broken through
the ice of skating pond in Toronto;
On the ensuing Saturday they were
married, although they had been
strangers up to the time of the acci-
dent, and now lots of girls go out
to that pond every morning, and
whenever there is q young man or
two standing about, try their level
best to break through the ice and
be rescued.
Year: 1877

A young lady bet young man a
kiss that Tilden would be elected
he to pay if Tilden won, she to pay
if Hayes was elected. On the morn


ing of the 9th he called and paid
the bet; on the 9th he called and
took it back. That evening she
paid the bet. The next morning
she took it back and he paid; then
she paid, and he paid, and so they
have been kept busy by the contra
dictory dispatches ever since, and
both declared their willingness and
ability to hold out until congress
decides the question. They didn't
like the new compromise bill, and
are mad at Congress for deciding
the question for at least year.
Year: 1877

The Journal of Horticulture says
the best and quickest way of test
ing the fruit of a new Seeding is to
graft il into the limbs of bearing
tree. The doctrine promulgated
that fruit could not be obtained in
this way any earlier than from the
original tree has been proved incor-
rect in many instances.
Year: 1877

Correspondents must not make a
mistake as to postage. Private cor
respordence is always subject to
letter postage, and any private note
or postscript enclosed in or attached
to a manuscript, subjects the whole
to letter postage. Manuscripts for
publication are not subject to full
letter postage when unsealed, and
have ''manuscript" or ''correspon-
dence" marked across the envelope.
But be careful not to write a pr
vate postscript or note and attempt
to send it for one cent.
Year: 1877

How to make farming pay: Raise
grain and grasses. Feed them to
your own stock, save the manure
for your own land, and thus you
will make a handsome profit of
your stock, at the same time add to
the value of your lands. Fine pork,
beef, mutton and wool, horses and
mules, always command fair prices.
Cotton does not pay except as a
surplus crop, and then it must be
grown at less expense than is usu-
ally put into>it. But with wheat,
corn, oats, peas and hay, and stock
to fatten, there will be a cure road
to independence. All over the
South there are farmers who are
preparing to reconstruct their farm
ing operations, and to grow less
cotton and more stock, and we could
hope that the number were daily in
creased.
Year: 1877

Life's cares press heavily upon
us, and we often look too much up
on the dark side of human life. A
stroll among the flowers, with the
desire to make them more beauti-
full, would drive the gloom from our
minds and invite our attention to
the brightest side of life, and show
us how its ills may be mitigated by
the beautiful IN nature.
Year: 1877

Sun flower seed are recommend.
ed for founder in horses. 1t is
said that pint of whole seed mixed
with the food as soon as 1t is dis
covered that horse is foundered
will effect an almost immediate cure.
The seed will do no harm, even il
they should not do the animal good.
Hence the remedy is worthy a trial.