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Year: 1878

" Many an oak is blasted on it's way. Many growing hope is overthrown.

 What might have been, his early growth had shown;

 What was our love and tears for him may tell; He lived he toiled, he faded, and he fell. When our friend lay within the narrow room Men call coffin-in his cheeress gloom Himself the only tenant and asleep

 In d long slumber terrible and deep;

 When at the open door his pale, sad face Appeared to us. without a look trace Of recognition in its ghastIy hue

 Soon to be hid forever from our view; When with his sightless eyes to heaven upturned, Wherefrom his royal soul upon them burned. He waited for his last rites to be said, With his pathetic patience of the dead; When tenderly his manly form we lay

 In its last couch, with covering Of clay; Who in that mournful duty had part. But felt the cloud of Death upon his heart? But when We thought how his unfettered soul, Ire from his poor sick body's weak control, piuming its wings at the Eternal throne, Night take through realms of space it's rapid flight, And find million joys to ns unknown, The cloud rifted by a ray of light.

 Now in the glory of this summer day,

 We part, and eanh one goes his different way. Let each, with hope to fire his yearning soul Still hurry onward to the shining zeal.

 The way at times may dark and weary seem. No ray of sunshine on our path may beam, The dark clouds hover OCT us like pail And gloom and sadness seem to ecnpass all; But still, with honest purpose toil we on: And if our steps be upright. straight and true, Far in the east golden Ii g,ht shall dawn

 And the bright smile of God come bursting thro'.

 The Doctor was followed by Major 1Iiddlebrook, who. despite his impaired voice, was pleasing speaker and could Ill good story of himself. He spoke of being in Virginia last fall and meet ing with loyal Virginian who inquired of him if he knew what had become of a good looking tall man who commanded the lst Conn. Cavalry, and had voice that yoI could hear a mile. What was his namef' Oh, it is long ne. Well. barring the good looks, was the name Mi ldlcbrooks:" and he answered
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, November -
Special 10 he Register.


There is Il pretty fight going on be
tween the Commissioners of the District
of Columbia and United States Treas
urcr Giltllan, with fair prospect of
becoming hotter before it coolS off. In
September the Treasurer advanced TO
the Commissioners something over half
4 million OF dollars on account, under
the act passed at the last session.
The Commissioners exhausted all
the money, and applied to the
Treasurer for another like advance. This
the Treasurer refused until the Com
miSsioners should conform To the act by
showing what they had done with the
money already received. This they
have not done, and an acrimonious cor
respondencc is passing As Il consequence.
The Treasurer has the law on his side,
and will not yield. The Commissioners
have on their side the precedent OF ire
sponsible squandering of the District
funds, and they show no sign of yield
ing unless the matter shall speedily be
settled. There will be no money TO pay
the school teachers, laborers and all the
people dependent upon the District
government for their livelihood. For
them the outlook is dark.
Year: 1878

The Secretary thinks, however, that the
public at large ought to have option to
take gold, silver or paper of any de-
nomination coined or printed. This is
the best way to secure the largest circu-
lation. Ii the chief end OF lie was 10
secure the circulation oil silver money,
it might be forced into circulation By
withdrawing the ones and twos, but the
Secretary does not see why the people
should be denied the use OF such notes
if they want them. Nor why silver
money should be made unpopular by
being forced into circulation TO the ex-
clusion Of more convenient money.
Year: 1878

The dorian is a fruit of which the
mere smell is so repulsively powerful
that the presence of even one Gt is about
as large as a cocoa-nut stripped of its
fibre) in any part of the house is enough
to fill every room with the odor, and this
is such that, on discovering it, the first
impulse of the ignorant inmate would be
that it was time he should see to his
drains. 1t may be imagined that to go
to sea, as have, in a ship even partially
loaded with dorians, is trial to the
stoutest of sailors. Yet of all fruits
there is none which is more priced as a
delicacy by the natives of the country,
so that whole ship loads ara yearly car
ried up the Irrawady to the palace OF
the King of Ava. What is more, even
among Englishmen there are not few
who, having once violently overcome
their first repugnance and presevered
for little, have exchanged their dis.
gust for admiration, and will assure
their more squeamish friends that there
is no fruit in the world to equal the
dorian.-Fraser's Magazine.
Year: 1878

The number of young men who go
alone to balls, sociables and other even
ing Entertainments has been rapidly in
creasing for years past, and is now
general subject of remark. Doubtless
this is partially due to the growing iso-
lation of men and women consequent
on club life and other causes, but is
largely due to the absurd necessity i'm
posed upon young men of providing a
carriage, at an expense of S3, when
ever they invite young ladies to accom-
pany them to the theater or party, and
this, added to other expenses, swells the
amount to a prohibitory size. Let girls
turn to and make their own dresses in a
pretty, simple fashion; let them dis
courage the hiring of carriages, the pur-
chase of expensive bouquets, and re.
fuse restaurant suppers, at least beyond
the moderate dish of oysters, the cup of
chocolate or plate of ice-cream, and
they will see u marvellous change in the
social thermometer-girl stock will go
up.-ErchdIlge.
Year: 1878

Instead of bridesmaids, fashion in
France now prescribes two tiny pages,
who are chosen from the prettiest of the


boy relatives of the bride or bridegroom.
These are dressed in velvet of the BRIDES
favorite color. At a recent wedding the
tiny court dress worn was of sapphire
velvet, with white silk stockings and
velvet shoes with diamond buckles. A
bouquet composed of rosebud, an
orange blossom, and branch of myrtle
is attached to the left side. They per-
form the usual role of the bridesmaid,
carry the brides missal bouquet, and
gloves, and, in addition, meet her and
assist her from and to the carriage-step
Year: 1878

Swinging in gilded cage in the cozy
parlor of Mrs. G. w. Carpenter, whose
husband is the proprietor of the Cont
mental Hotel in Newark, is brown and
yellow canary bird. 1t looks like an
ordinary bird, behaves like an ordinary
bird but listen to it for second, and
you will hear tune, occasionally varied
by genuine bird warblings.
Year: 1878




Spiders in many respects are just like
other animals, and can be tanned and
petted and taughta great many lessons
which they will learn rs readily as a
dog or cat. But you must take the
trouble to study their ways, and get on
the good side of them.


One day had been reading in book
how spiders managed to get their webs
across streams and roads, and from the
top of one tall tree TO another. went
ont and caught large garden spider,
one of those blue-gray sprawling fel-
lows, and fixed him mp for my expert
ment.


took stick about eighteen inches
in length, and fastened piece of iron
to one end of it, so that that the stick
would stand up on that end itself. Then
| put that stick in the centre OF large
tub half full of water, and placed the
spider on the top of the stick. wanted
to see if he could get to "land," which
was the edge of the tub, without ally
help. He ran down first one side of the
stick, and the other; each time he
would stop when he touched the water,
and shaking his foot like cat does, he
would run up again. At last he came
to the conclusion that he was entirely
surrounded by water-on an island in
fact. After remaining perfectly quiet
for a long while, during which, have
no doubt, he was arranging his plans
he began running around the top of the
stick, and throwing out great coil OF
web with his hind feet. In a few
minutes little fine strings of web were
floating away in the slight breeze that
was blowing. After little, one OF
these threads touched the edge Of the
tub and stuck fast, as all spider web:
will do. lH ....He ''s l---


This was just what Mr.. Spider was
looking for, and the next minute he
took hold of this web and gave it a jerk
like sailor does with rope when he
wishes to see how strong it is, or make
it fast. Having satisfied himself that
it was fast at the other end, he gathered
it in till it was tight and straight, ant
then ran on it quickly to the shore;
rescued castaway, saved by his own in
genuity.


Spiders are not fools, If they are ugly
and He who made all things has
thought and care for all.
Year: 1878

The greatest wonder in the State Of
Iowa, and perhaps any other State is
what is called the "Walled Lake, " in
Weight county, twelve miles north of
the Dubuque and Pacific Railway, and
one hundred and fifty miles west of Du-
bugue city. The lake is from two to
three feet higher than the earth's sur
face. In some places the wall Is ten feet
high; width at bottom fifteen feet, and
at the top five. Another fact the size
of the stones used in construction; the
whole of them varying in weight from
three tons down to one hundred pounds
There is an abundan Of stones in
Weight county; bu surrounding the
AXE to the extent of five or ten miles,
there are none. No one can form an
idea as to the means employed to bring
them to the spot or who constructed 1t.
around the entire lake is a belt of wood
land half mile in width, composed of
oak; with this exception the country is
a rolling prairie. The trees must have
been planted there at the time of build
ing of the walls. In the spring of 1856,
there was a graet storm, and the Ice on
the lake broke the wall in several places
and the farmers in the vicinity were
obliged to repair the damages to pre-
vent inundatlon. The lake occupies a
ground surface of two thousand eight
hundred acres; depth of water as great
as twenty-five feet. The water is clear
and cold; soil sandy and loamy. 1t is
singular that no one has been able to
ascertain where the water comes from,
Rsg.where it goes, yet it is always clear


A
Year: 1878

Z. b. Frazer, Esq, the obliging and
efficient Clerk of the City Council, was
forty-fve years old yesterday, and the
day was also the twelfth anniversary of
his wedding. In honor of the event he
set out a lot of splendid cigars to the
members of Council and his personal
friends, last evening, and all united in
rendering their best wishes for his future
nrosnprity
Year: 1878

Runors that his Friends are Anxious


Concerning His Condition.


WASHINGTON, Dec. IA telegram
from near personal friend of Governor
Hampton, of South Carolina, received
here to-day by Senator Butler, speaks of
the Governors condition being such as
to excite the anxiety of his friends, but
they were hopeful that he would recover
his strength and regain health. One of
the leading physicians of this city, who
Is Intimately acquainted with Governor
Hampton, said he did not believe the eff
iect OF the ampul alton would endanger
his life, but still he was apprehensive of
the result
Year: 1878

THE LOCAL DEPARTMENT
Will be, more thar ever, the special feature
of the paper.


THE POLITICS OF THE APPEAL
VIII be, as always,
Strictly Black Republican. or d" RadicaI;'
And the editor anticipates with pleasure the
probability that in supporting the next Re
publican candidate for the Presidency, he
will support


GENERAL GRANT IN 1850.
Meantime the APPEAL will nail the Old Flag
to the mast, and neither surrender to the


Adherents of the Lost Cause.
Nor give its support to q policy which
Demolished the Republican Party of


the South.
And SOUGHT to
Year: 1878

In short, the HoRs1So APPEAL will keep
on an even keel and stand by the friends of
Republican principles, Republican usage and
the Republican leaders OF tried courage and
ability.


But the APPEAL will be especially valuable
as an
Year: 1878

The numerous friends of Mr.. Frank Iviehie-
vich will join us in our expressions of sym
pathy for him In his double bereavement. In
one short week his dear, happy home. of which
he Justly felt so proud, has been made desolate by
the death OF two little darings the bright hopes
of their worthy father. Frank has stout heart,
as strong as it Is generous, hence we hope he
willl bravely overcome the heavy misfortune
under which he has to labor.
Year: 1878

Mayor Pilsbury has received a telegram from
F. G. Latrobe Mayor OF Baltimore. advising the
addition Of s54s to the yellow fever relief fund.


Other communications from the North and
East were received by the Mayor, but they were
for the yellow fever, and not worthy of note
unless the gentlemen send MS their advertise
ments at SO much per line. lSee business man
Year: 1878

A DIsTINCTIoN.-Satur afternoon a
young man OF about twenty, nearly envel-
oped in linen duster, was wandering
through the Detroit City Hall with his
Mary Ann, and he was several times over
heard to say;


Mary, Id die for you--would Tor a
fact


After seeing the various rooms, he left
her on the steps while he hunted around
Tor place To buy soda-water. In crossing
the street he was run into by a velocipede,
and he got up yelling like an Indian. The
officer on duty at the hall, ran down and
asked if he was hurt.


"HuIt! I'm all mashed to kindings :"
was the reply.


But heard you say you were willing
to die for the girl in the gray dress up
there"


Il don't keer penny for what ye heard ?"
exclalined the young man as he danced
around on one leg. II want you to under
stand that there's just as much difference
tween dying for the gal you love and col
ludin' with two-wheeled sulky as there is
tween a three-cent mouth organ and a
brass band, | wanted to begin lawsuit
right OFF,
Year: 1878


Mr.. Editor:


1t has been my privilege to stop in this
County, aptly called the garden of New
England for few weeks, and perhaps it
may be of some interest to your readers to
know what is being done by the people in
this vicinity.


This terra incognita, so to speak, is al
together different country from what one
would suppose who had never visited it.
The farms are the largest and finest that
can be found in the East, and the broad,
fertile fields, and the luxuriant pastures.
present rich sight to the eye. At this
time they are as green as in summer. The
harvesting is rapidly going on, and the
crops are coming in sbundantly. 1t is
nothing uncommon for some of the best
farmers to raise two or three thousand
bushels OF potatoes, fifty of beans, two or
three hundred of buckwheat and the same,
or greater amount of wheat per annum,
while the other grains are extensively cul-
tivated. The potatoes are used chiefly for
making starch. Factories for that purpose
Year: 1878

"A new industry has lately been dis
covered in New York. A gentleman riding
down town in q horse car the other day
noticed a respectable looking man who es-
cOrted drunken companion to the car.
and, after seeing him safely slowed away,
with a timid passenger to lean against,
returned to the sidewalk. Going up town
in the evening by the same route, the gem
tipsy person and prop him up on the rear
platform, all the seats being taken. How
much do you want?" said the drunken
man. Fifteen cents,' was the answer.
The money was paid; and the pilot re-
turned to his post, to watch, no doubt, for
another job.
Year: 1878

THE LIVER is more frequently the seat
of disease than is generally supposed, for
upon its regular action depends, in great
measure, the power of the stomach, bow,
els, brain, and the whole nervous system.
Regulate that important organ by taking
Simmons Liver Regulator. and you pre-
vent most of the diseases that flesh i.
heir to.
Year: 1878

LONDON. 14-An influential committee
under the Craftsmanship of Lord Lawrence
is being formed to obtain, in view of the
probability of war with Afghauistan, an
expression OF public opinion N favor Of
the Immediate summoning OF ParlimeDt.
Year: 1878

Dos'r point your gun at yourself.
Don't point your gun at any one else.
Don't carry your gun so that its range
includes all your hunting companions.
Don't try to ind ont whether your gun
Is loaded or not by shutting one eyes
and looking down the barrel with the
other. Don't use your gun for a walk.
ing stick. Don't climb over fence and
pull your gun through muzzle foremost.
Don't throw your gun into boat 30
tha, the trigger will catch in the seat
and the charge bo deposited into your
stomach. Don't use your gun Tor
sledge hammer. Don't carry your gun
with the hammer down. Don't be q
fool. Don't you forget il.
Year: 1878

LONDON, March "A dispatch from Vienna
says the discussion on the preliminary meeting
of the Austrian delegation lasted several hours
only q few members declared against the credit
One section was ready to vote The money uncon-
ing to do SO on condition that ii shall not be
used In furtherance of any scheme of annexa-
tinn
Year: 1878

The performance of Carmen" on Friday
night was one Of the best of the In the last act
especially. the acting of Miss Hank and sig. Campanini
was so realistic that could hardly look az 1t without
a shudder There has rarely been so good a dramatic
,epresenfatlou on our operate stage. I" The Magic
Flute was repeated before pretty large house at the
matinee The performance did not differ materially from
thar Of Wednesday night except that Sig Frapo was
much better The care bestowed upon the email parts
In this difficult opera deserves cordial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT


They are troublesome roles and the whole they have
hoe very iudietously filled although, considering the
unknd behavior OF portion OF the audience towards
one of the re Damigella della Regina We might allow
ourselves TO say the managers to the 0ugbtcss
sneetators or 10 both, /" RisaIn teneatis, anlc'
Year: 1878

The general policies and paths of the two
narties are clear They arr tUt made BY men, but are
Shared by ingrained character and controlling ten
dcucIes The Republican party Will stand for honest
finance and the protection Uf the country from the
rule of solid South The Democratic party will stand


s the representative aud embodiment Of Southern In
hnenees and for Just much Of opposition and oh
struction to sound finance not beaten OF 1t by
repeated defeat.
Year: 1878

who have a greater respect for
defiant secessionist than for a
sneaking repudiator.


Senator Grover bids fair to
make one Of the most influential
and useful Senators in Congress,
not so much on account OF his
brilliant abilities as for his gen
tie department conservatism and
PRACTICAL common sense, by
which he will probably be able
to achieve as much for his State
as Mitchell has by his untiring
industry andindomintable perse-
verence. With another Senator
like Grover, with Whitaker in
the House, Oregon would be as
we'll represented as any State in
the Union. DR.. Hawthorne
would Just fill the bill.
Year: 1878

THERE is an impression In what may be
called the politico-social circles of London
that the recent visit of the Crown Princess of
Germany to Queen Victoria, her mother, was
for the particular purpose of intimating to her
Majesty, in non-official but distinct manner
that unless England lower her tone and mod.
lfy her bearing, as regards Russia and the
treaty of San Stefano, it was possible that the
Emperor of Germany would relinquish his
neutrality, the Gear being his nephew. The
Crown Prince, who followed his wife to Eng
land a little later, was called away by Nobil-
ing's attempt to murder the Emperor; but it
was thought in London that the Queen must
have been influenced, as was intended, for i.
is affirmed she expressed desire that the
Gear should no longer be spoken of in un-
friendly or disrespectful language at court
An early and easy settlement of the Eastern
question by the conference at Berlin is con-
fdently anticipated now.
Year: 1878

THE president of a great insurance COM
pany very recently made this remark: "Five
lines" he said, sin morning newspaper do
US more good than whole page during a
year in all the insurance papers in the United
States" These then, are the lessons of ex.
perience-the experience of success. To put
it mathematically, there are at least nine
chances out OF ten in favor of advertising
ones business in reputable newspaper.
For all the better class of goods too, it is the
better class of people that the advertisers de-
sire to reach. The journals they should seek,
therefore, are those which are known and
everywhere recognized as read by the hest
classps
Year: 1878

We DO not read anonymous letters and cormuni-
cations The name and address Of the writer are In
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1878

One little word; how much may hang upon
it! They had only been married a few weeks.
and she had invited her mother to come and
spend few days with them and see how nicely
they got along at housekeeping; and she told
her husband to be as bright and clever and
funny as possible, and let her mother see him
at his best. And when tea was served and the
old lady asked bim if he would take some
peaches, he replied briskly, "with pleasure, as
the man said when he was invited to attend his
motber-in-law's funeral"
Year: 1878

RIO DE JANEIRo. July Cover 1000 Euro
pean immigrants were sent to the southern ports of
Brazil during the last fortnight The arrivals Of late
chiefly under old importation contracts have been
large as to prove serious embarrassment to the Gov
ernmen and orders have been sent TO stop further
mittanccs under those contracts.


The City of Para arrived here the 2d Of July hav-
ing been delayed three days Para by afog and failure
TO obtain pilot at Pernambuco by the heavy sea, and
I'm general by heavy weather from the outset OF the
age The of delays In getting into the port
of Para is further proof of the difficulties which that
call entails and its disadvantages to rapid communca


ons between Rio de Jaueiro and NewYork To obviate
one source Of delay the Imperial Government has
given license for the steamships OF the line TO ascend TO
Para without pilot.


Among the City Of Para's passengers were number
OF gentlemen representing syndicate OF Philadelphia
manufacturers They are here for the purpose OF IN
dncing purchasers deal directly with the Philadelphia
manufacturers and dispense with the Intervention OF the
commission houses. The Anglo Brazilfan Times pro-
nounoes this enterprise impraotcable.


The BRAZILIAN Government has on the application OF
the United States Minister az Ro given license for the
ascent OF the Amazon by United states surveying
vessel TO make a chart OF tae navigation up to the
Madeira