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Year: 1874

Itis said that the quality Of the
Egyptian cotton crop has been grad
ualty dcteriorating for some year:
back. 1t is now Irregular in length
and is mixed with white and short
cotton, which materially diminishos
its value. The deterioration is at.
tributed to want Of care rs to the
seed d>sown. The large ginning facto.
ries where cotton of different quail.
ties is ginned, supply tho seed which
is sown without sufficient care being
taken to separate the good from the
bad. As q remedy it is proposed
that tho cotton seed be supplied by
the Egyptian Government.
Year: 1874

A Richmond correspondent Of tho
Now York Tribune, writing of the
Congressional canvass in tho old Do
minion, hopefully predicts tho cleo
tion of six Conservatives to Congress
from this State this year, a gain of
two upon the present representation.
The Tribune says that its correspon-
dent is Thoroughly informed, careful
and accurate"
Year: 1874

Tho Michigander will dooido ncxt
November whether tho Aliohigoose
shall have the right to vote. The
question comes up in the form of q
constitutional amendment, which, if
adopted, will confer tho right of
suffrage upon every women Of age in
the State,
Year: 1874

Gen. Garibnldi is 80 unwell az not
to be able to hold the pen or move
his arm. lie cannot by himself
bring food to his mouth-indeed he
cannot move at all. He nov receives
no one except his most intimate
friends.
Year: 1874

The crop statistics attainable thus
early in the season indicate that all sec
tions of the country will be blessed with
bountiful harvests. OF course such sta
tistics are very far from being absolutely
trustworthy, for the crops depend main
ly on the future character of the season,
and the season will be made by the
weather, which is a by-word for tickle
ness. But the fact that crop statistics
are regularly collected tends to place
the trade in the produce of the earth on
a much securer basis than it occupied
some years ago when the grain mer-
chants of western Europe got nothing but
temporary aff1uence and certain ultimate
bankruptcy for their speculations on the
weather, and the grain merchants of the
Levant by a mysterious sort of weather
wisdom got possession of the grain mar
kets of London. The old dangers and
uncertainties of grain speculatiOns have
not by any means been removed by the
publication of such crop statistics as are
now collected, and they are not likely
to be effectually diminished until the
international system of crop reports ad-
vocated by many eminent meieorolo-
gists shall be established. But, barring
accidents, this will prove a prosperous
year for American farmers. The wheat
crop is in many sections as well assured
as a wheat crop can be before harvest
ing. The west will have a good surplus
of grain to export, and the south, with
the promise of a good cotton crop, will
also have an unusually large quantity
of grain for home Consumption. -Ne1U
York World
Year: 1874

Does not the while drift Of the So
called education Of the country run to
a pretense in what people cali the high
er branches rather than TO solldity IN
the three Rs-reading, writing and
arithmetic? And does any one know
tbis better than the editor Of the daily
neyvsDaDer. condemned to read articles
badlV written. badly spelled, AMI based
on verv bad calculation It is not West
Point alone which rejects half the Peo-
pie who apply for admission. There IS
not a bank which ants a new teller,
there is not an importer who wants a
new clerk for correspondence, there If
not a clergyman who wants a new
auanuengis. there is not a merchant
who wants a new bOok-keeper, who does
not reject nine applicants out OF ten fol
Year: 1874

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus} mean that your sub
scrip3ion is out or unpaid, and that
you are requested to pay mp at once.
We would take great pleasure in extend
ing credit to our friends and patrons,
but cash alone will pay expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to q strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity OF each
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


q We enter no new names on our
books without the money in advance.
Year: 1874

the very reasons for which West Point
has rejected these boys, because they
can not spell, they can not write, and


because they do not know what the rule
of three means. And thus we come
round again to the question, "WouId
it not be better to teach three things
thoroughly than thousand things i'll o.
Year: 1874

Those nations who eat fish with one
meal each day, are undoubtedly the
most active In intellect and the most
capable Of brain labor without eKhaus-
ton or fatigue. Not only is such Phos-
phatic food conducive to the activity OF
the brain, but It promotes fecundity and
increases the ability to endure cold,
fatigue. etc, and while the facilities for
obtaining it are constantly increasing, 1t
would be well for the rising generation
were they made so TO partake OF and
realize IT as second only In many re-
spects TO the staff of life and the hus-
band and father who occasionally takes
half day from his legitimate business
to fill his basket with delicious fish,
should not be considered as a "mere
sportsman" but " good provider fol
his family Of those things which are oi
vital utility.
Year: 1874

The Boston Transcript says: "If
the gates Of heaven were suddenly to
swing open and all mankind beasked
on equal terms to enter into the king
dom, don't you know some people
who would pause to see what some
other people were going tOdO aboutit,
and some would draw back for fear
the celestial city was getting vulgar,
and some who would refuse altogeth-
er if they saw the so-and-sos aboutto
enter9"
Year: 1874

A correspondent of the London
Lancet, the most important medical
journal published in England, relates
the following curious fact: A man
in his neighborhood had three
daughters. Wishing for son, ne
made a solemn vow that if his next
child should be girl he would never
speak to her. The next child proved
to be a son, as he wished, but, curl
ously enough, be never would speaE
to his father, although he lived thirty
FIVE years with him. He alway;
talked freely with his mother ant
sisters, but with no one else until at
ter the death of his father, when h
talked readily with every one. Il


was called dumb Eli"
Year: 1874

The common expression, "Aind
your p's and as had its origin in the
ale houses in the olden times, when
it was customary to keep each mans
account upon the wall or door. At
the head Of the bill would be the
initials P. and O., which stood for
pints and quarts, and as the numbers
mounted up, we can imagine one
kindly rustic saying to another


Mind your p's and q's, man; MIND
Year: 1874

A wealthy parre'''s lately gave the
church which he attends two tables
of stone, with the ten commandments
engraved upon them whereupon, a
member of the church remarked that
his reason for giving away the com
mandments was that he couldn't
keen them.
Year: 1874

A worthy Quaker thus wrote: Il
expect to pass through this world
but once. If, therefore, there be any
kindness I can show, or any good
thing 1 can do any fellow human be-
ING, let me do it now. Let me not
defer nor neglect it, for I will not
pass this way again.
Year: 1874

Why is it impossible to have the last word VIII
chemist? Because he always has retort.


Which is the wickedest portion of Americai
Why, Sin-sin-nGughty, to be sure


WHY are voung ladies partial to twilight? Be
cause they are daughters of Eve


WHY is the person who never lays wager as BAT
rs n regular gambler? Because he is no better.


At what time of life may man be said to belonl
TO the vegetable kingdom? When long experience
has made him sage.


When is a young lady like whale? When She
(s)pouting.
Year: 1874

Michael Hickey of East Haven, who has just been sent to jail for twenty days. IS apparently a wicked man. On one of the recent cold nights he thrust his wife out-of-doors. where she remained about three hours and was nearly frozen to death. She complained of her undatitcl husband,s and the officers on going to ar rest him found him locked in bedroom with woman, whence he would not emerge. 1t last he did come out with an ax, but was secured beiere he had killed any one.-Courant 4 Twenty days Imprisonment for adultery and an attempt to commit murder, seems very limited allowance of justice for such brute ta Apropos of Abby Smiths COWS and a good many newspapers, we are tempted to qnote

 There was an old man who said How Shall fee from this horrible cowf will sit on the stile

 And continue to smile,

 Which may soften the heart of the cow"

 -HQrtford Posf
Year: 1874




The average night climate is abou
given AS a matter OF course we sleeI
under blankets every night in the year


Malaria there is absolutely none.
What has been the practical effect2'
you are ready to ask. / will tell you 10
as few words as possible. At first the
struggle between the malarial influences
and the new climate was very severe
Every two or three weeks / had a spell,
each succeeding one, however, being
weaker than its predecessor. AS these
grew lighter found my system imprev-
ing in tone the color going out to the
ends of my fingers and toes, and I also
found my pins getting stronger uRder
me. There is witching influence in
the air that seems to coax you out to
drink it in Then if you are afoot you
see rock just up there half mile on
the hillside which looks very curious,
and you go to see it; if on horseback,
and mounted on mettlesome nag, you
feel ashamed to draw rein under six or
seven miles. and you come in after a
glorious canter or ramble of an hour,
feeling like four-year-old. This exer.
else in open air is the motive power
which sets the liver to going, which
makes the stomach work, which digests
the food, which provides the nutrition,
which raises the system above the dis
ease. Does this put you in mind of the
House that Jack Built2 Possibly, but it
has built me up. l have got back my
strength, and have no more idea that
am an invalid than other people.


This county furnishes the metropolis
with the bulk Of its good butter. We
have but small area of land under the
plow, the most of the country being too
hilly and broken to be cultivated to ad-
vantage; yet ours is one of the best and
most select communities in the State.
These high, steep hills and deep canons
are rated by the assessor at an average
of more than $l3 per acre, and | hear OF
dairy farms changing hands at as much |
as $50 an acre. The business of butter |
making is sure and certain; the income
can be calculated each day as it comes
in, and the outgo can be easily regulated.
At present butter is selling at from forty |
to fifty cents pound, which pays.


Most people who come out here neg
lect the counties adjoining tide water,
in this region, where the system of agri-
culture is settled, where the profits can
be counted on from year to year, where
the society is settled and good, the
schools we'll established and most excel.
lent, and go South to engage in orange
culture. The old story is told over
again in this: We want to make haste
too rapidly. Whoever goes far from
San Francisco does himself injustice.


But this is already too long.


GEORGE W. GIFT.


San Rafael. CAL, November 4, 1874.
Year: 1874

This record for a winter climate is
hard to beat. Our summer climate is
equally good; that is to say, the mer-
curry rarely marks a hot day, and the
climate is generally bracing ana equable.
The highest temperatures were recorded
as fnllnWs.
Year: 1874

To a millionaire the sum OF SIC, 900 would
be but as drop in his bucket of wealth.
but to a man in fear Of the sheriff or con.
stable that sum is far mightier than mill.
at the last drawing Of the Louisiana State
Lottery. but the persons who did capture it
did not wait more than hundred years be.
fore they presented their tickets to the cap
tain at his Office. and went away with the
C ,Irreucv.
Year: 1874

The people of the Second District have
resolved to publicly express their opinion
on the subject of free markets and the bill
prohibiting them which lately passed the
House of Representatives. and accordingly
have called a mass meeting. at the corner
of Bienvile and Rampar; streets. on Mon.
day evening.


Able speakers will address the meeting,
and the subject will be thoroughly dis.
cusssd All are invited to attend.
Year: 1874

under the stone ballast The ship becom-
ing water-logged. was abandoned, but was
subsequently picked up. The insurance
company defended on various grounds.
Its main ground was that the whole thing
was fraud. The jury gave sealed YER
diet for the plaintiff tor SAC, 900.
Year: 1874

| A gentleman of this city, who wrote


Mr.. Dow in regard to the statement made
| by Judge Whitman at the License meet


ing held at Exposition Hall, has received


the following reply:
MANCHESTER, Eng, April %, 1874


DEAR SIR have just arrived here
from Ireland, and find your note, with
several Others, awaiting me, asking for
the same information that you wish to
obtain.


The statement of Judge Whitman. to
which you allude, viz. Neal Dow, au-
thor of the Maine Law. has been forced
TO admit that it was necessarily a fail
ure, is entirely untrue there is not, and
never was any foundation for it. On the
contrary, l do now, and always have de-
clared it TO be an entire success. LIQUOR
is sold more or less secretly in Maine, in
violation of the law, but it is far within
the truth to say that the sales are not
One-twentieth so large as they We're be-
fore the enactment of the law, and the
effect of this upon poverty, pauperism,
suffering and crime, is marked and very
great.


In the large towns and cities secret sell
ling exists more or less but in the small
er towns, villages, and rural districts,
there is absolutely no liquor selling at all,
either open or secret Judge Whitman
had no warrant whatever for his state
ment, and l wish he may be called upon
to produce the authority on which he
made it.


L am now in this country expressly to
urge the adoption here of the policy of
prohibition. / am constantly at meet
lngs in every part of the kingdom, at all
of which | declare that in my country
that policy has been n success Every
where | declare the drink traffic to be an
infinite mischief to the nation, and an
infinite misery to the people, while no
good whatever comes from it to either,
and that it has no reason whatever for
its existence, except in the ignorance,
apathy, or vice of the people.


The movement in this country in ia
vOr of the legal suppression of the drink
traffic is making rapid progress. Already
members of Parliament are elected or
defeated by it, and at the next general
election here, this question will be more
prominent than any other. / do not un-
derstand how any intelligent man, if he
be a good citizen, can favor the legaliz-
ing of a trade which everybody knows
10 be at war with every interest of the
State and of the people. The tendency
Of that traffic is to drive out from the
people everything good, and substitute
for it everything that is bad in every pos
'ible degree of enOrmity and intensity.
It is not possible to Overstate the evils
If the liquor traffic, nor its baneful in
iuence upon every interest of society,
public and private, at the some time that
10 good whatever comes from it to the
State or the people.


am, very truly, yours,


NEAL Dow.
Year: 1874

CHINESE MARRIAGE.-A writer on
Chinese manners says: There is ire
mendous scene when the bride is torn
away from her parents and family to go
to the strange husband, whom she has
not yet seen; their copiOus weeping
washing off the mauve paint and mixing
it with the white, thus forming quite a
landscape of hills, rivers, and bridges;
but the brides face is now entirely con
cealed by long thick fringe hanging
from her head-dress of silk and iewils,
and flowers, utterly understandable. No
doubt when she gets inside her sentry
box, she puts on fresh coat of mauve
or red raddle, III order TO appear resplen
dent before her husband that is TO be.
There may be good deal of real weep
ing as also much that is sympathetic, for
it is an absolute fact that if one woman
sees another crying, she cannot resist
shedding tears also, especially If she
could touch her sorrowing friend, and
attempt to console her The bride, af-
ter many attempts, is at last secured in
her chair, from which she has been CON
stantly jumping out and rushing back
into her mothers arms"
Year: 1874

DoS'T tell child you will do anything
for it unless you intend TO keep your
promise. \ strict observance of this rule
may save you the agony Of seeing your
child become liar. If you say, I'm
skin you alive" go in and skin it, though
il bring tears 10 your eyes.
Year: 1874

PAPERS VERSUS Books. Papers be


fore books j. the rule nowadays with
most readers. The time for reading is
80 brief and uncertain, the character Of
tine book 80 remote from the ever-vary-
ing activities Of the hour, that the eye
searches for the picture Of passing events,
or the light spicy article Of the hTslg
periodical. rather than the solid matter
Of the book 60 into any family, and
you will see that. from the old grand
mother, who still reads with hsP specta-
cies. 10 the little girl who can spell Gut
the words in easy reading, it is the pa
per or magazine that is first wanted and
first read Look in the buses, the par
lor. or any other place, and you will
discover the same fact-the paper or
periodical first. then the book. What
then, should the press do but TO supply
this great and growing wanti what
should the friends Of the young and the
old do but encourage such papers ana
periodicals a. are ftted 70 promote
amusement. without incuicatlng any
thing harmful or Of doubtful tendency
Year: 1874

Harper for this month has timely paper on
the Coming Transit or VENTS" with interesting his
torca and scientific notices Of the phenomenon referred
to- In reply to the question why much Daius should
be taken about SO remote matter, the writer remarks
that scientific Investigators never inquire as to the use
OF any special knowledge but leave the practical app
cation of It to Others still it does not take much time
to show that astronomy, merely in utltaran point Of
view. has made liberal payment to the world for all
the labor that has been spent in its study The art Of
navigating the in safety is due to the researches of
Kepler, Newton, and their Before the dis
covery of their laws Of motion. no observation OF the
heavenly bodies could have availed for the direction
OF the mariner
Year: 1874

SOUTHERN GRATITUDE TO THE TRIBUNE.
TO the Edftor Of fAe 1rtbuWe.


SIR: Nature has given us q splendid State,
unsurpassed by any other we will demonstrate as
coon a. we shall DO blessed with ap honest Government
Year: 1874

n h.


The author of this volume has evidently
kept company with many OF the spirits OF the
until his mind has become imbued with tho fragrance
OF their thought He has pursued wide Of read
Ing making frequent excursions into remote nelds and
choosing his guldos with eminent discretion although
among great q variety Of authorities for unity OF
conviction. His rambes have led him into garden and
forest, by the seasbore aud the mountain sde on
the verdnnt lawn and ia the grim wilderness ahording
him the spoils OF every cline in rich profdsoa but
without calling forth an Offering Of fruits aud
Year: 1874




Alto. PIP. 524 Scribner Armstrong Co.


The journey across the Continent from
Peru to Brazil which forms the basis OF this sumptuous
volume Is described with the exuberant vyacy OF the
French character tempered with the love OF beauty ana
cultivated taste OF the artistic writer. His versatile
mind delights in the enjoyment OF the most opposite
scenes from the festive orgies OF Spanish hospitality 10
the wild aud uxuriant vegetation OF tropical nature lie
is alive to every IMPRESSION but finds himself more
at home In the city than the wilderness The study OF
man. including that Of woman, has greater attraction
for taste geographical researches HIS pictures
OF social and monastic life are painted III h'eV
colors, and present an endless fund OF amusemeht.
There is not dull uninteresting page in the WhoIe
volume Not the author is always on the alert ior
comic incldents his manner is negligent ana AS ree-
andeasy as possible; but with his natural sense OF
hunor, udicrOu3 feature escapes his notice Inere
is constant bubbiing up or fun In quiet way ana no
reader can 90 sleep under the touches OF his graphic
pen The work is illustrated with profu'on OF engraV-
ings from sketches taken the spot, many OF WHICH
are choice specimens OF art more attractive voume
for the library drawngroOm IL not likely u make lts
appearance during the holidays, and whoever s looking
for q work costly luxury for gf need 80 ho iurHei
III his quest.
Year: 1874

flowers from the culture OF his own 90
main. The wealth OF his appliances has Deeh
unavorabe original action and he brings us only the
remains OF past aromas instead OF ripe grapes from his
own vineyard. The execution OF his work betrays
want Of practice In OF his ideas HIS
style is ambitious, but not effective His words are too


large and too abundant for the occasion. nor has he
learned that economy OF language Is the secret OF
strength 1t muscle that tells in the long run, ana no
embroidery OF costume give the power OF
The writer of the work has excellent tendencies ele-
waited tastes and sound aspirations but these Will not
suffice for successful authorship; let him lay aside


large share OF cultivate independence
Of thought and sImplicciy OF expression without an
excess OF Difference to the authority of his favores
and he may bde his time with cheerful trust III the prom
lses OF the dim future.
Year: 1874

Miss CHARLOTTE CCsHMAN, in her
beautiful and appropriate response to the
address Of the poet Bryant, at the grand
ovation at Booths theateT on Saturday
night last, said: 81 found life sadly real
and intensely earnest, and in my ignor-
snce Of other ways Of study resolved
to take therefrom my text and my
watchword. To be thoroughly in
earnest in all my thoughts and in all
my actions, whether in my profession
or out Of it, became my one single idea. +"
And by this she won a name and an en-
during fame, and made 3 great example
for all who would succeed in life.
Year: 1874

New York Democracy. It was he Who


blocked out that policy OF reform which
the Syracuse convention accepted and
which resulted in the overwhelming
triumph Of Governor Tilden. 1t was he,
and his lifelong friend Francis Herman,
who reused to magnificent effort the
party in the State, leading it to a vie
tory unexsmpled in our political annals.
The Empire State honors herself when
she confers her best gifts on men as
worthy as Horatio SEYMOUR
Year: 1874

from the Clark County, Ind, Jail last
night by cutting through the iron
door and digging through the tounda.
ton. There was q hot pursuit. but
the fugitiyes were not 1ecaptured- Two Of them


thieves, and we're in the County Jail for stealing