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Year: 1874

From the Battery to Harlem In Twenty
Minutes and That Within Thirty
Days.


NEW YORK, Feb. I, 1874.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERAAD:-


Since you are manifesting so much interest in
the subject OF rapid transit through the columns
of the HERALD, and since SO many plans are being
proposed, desire to make proposition for the
practical solution OF she question. 1t is neither an
underground railroad-dark, damp and dismal
nor an elevated road 'forty feet high" or any alt
tude above the ground nor ts 1t four track rail-
road through any avenue. requiring charter from
the Legislature and the expenditure OF large sums
OF money for tracks, rolling stock, &c. 1t Is simply
to make available any or all of the common road
beds they now exist, as most Of them are suita.
Bile for my purpose without alteration or improve
ment.


will take any wheeled carriage wagon, truck
other vehicle now in common use, and, by the
application OF q simple mechanical invention, con-
vert it into locomotive or moving body the same
being propelled by any OF the moving forces which
are now used Tor land travel or iOcOmOtion The
carriages may be used separately or they may be
used In trains. These may be safely driven
at q speed ranging from ten to thirty miles per
hour, according to locality and conditions. They
can be driven with safety through any street or
avenue, and over all grades which usually occur In
we'll constructed highway.


The expense Of such an application would be





seen brought forward, as 1t woud save millions OF
dollars in new constructions on the one hand,
and utilize vast amount OF property which
would otherwise be comparatively valueess
on the other No charter is required from the
Legislature, the local governments of cities and
towns have authority to grant any mode OF con-
veyance which does not permanently Obstruct
streets endanger human life or encroach upon indi
vidual rights. Hence no delay, because there
would be no occasion for log rolling, lobbying and
the formation OF corrupt rings to bafile honest
legislation and cheat the public out OF its natural
and political rights


The plan could be demonstrated and put into
actual practice In less time than any charter what
ever could be obtained from the Legislature and
the surveys made for any road, to say nothing Of
time for construction. :.
The plan Is very easy to demonstrate on small
SCALE ana therefore does not require time and
trouble to raise large sums OF money or to form gi-
gantic companies to test It's practicabity. The
public have been praying for some relief IN the
matter OF transit Tor years, and no feasible plan
has yet been agreed upon. 1t is high time some-
thing was done. am ready to back up all have
asserted In theory and practice or forever forfeit
all right to any reputation as q mechanic and
engineer. ]. w. II. HILL.
Year: 1874

During 1871 there died in this city 0,7O children less
than two years old, or 396 cent OF the total NOR
tally the percentage In 1870 having been 48 per cent
The mortality Of children less than five years Of ago
amounted to 1881, or 4S per cent of the total


We have here, then, some OF the influences which
may be relied upon to start


AN ACTIVE MOVEMENT


in real estate In the northern portion OF the city
at no distant day. With this new area under mu-
nicipa control opportunity Is afforded alike to the
millionaire who may desire his 100 acre plot with
all the righteousness OF lawn and lodge. and the
more modest desires Of the clerk or mechanic,
whom ten acres would suffice upon which to erect
Q comfortable home. There are. besides. numer.
Year: 1874

The telegraph has given us some'
what fuller report Of the address by
Mr.. DIsRAsLI to bis constituents than
is furnished in our telegraphic columns
this morning. He arraigus the GLAD
STONE ministry in the most emphatic
terms as derelict in it's duty
toward the country. and rays. ut
would have been better for the country
if during the past five years the foreign
policy Of the goAernment had been .
little more energetic and its domestic
policy little less so." There is q
world Of meaning and good sense in the
declaration.
Year: 1874

We have heard of the devil among the tailorS, a bull in the China shop, and lot of young married women in vegetable garden, but for cOnsumnate dev. iltry commend as to certain quartette of young Worthies, (We

 will not call them hOodIums just nOw,) who invaded the sacred precincts of our Sanctum last

 Thursday evening, when we were gone to supper and our fore man and devil were both away. The young ScampS above alluded to, were a delr gation from the new Base BdU Club, and their caperS show that they are already proficient in the baxe part. We cannot attempt a description of their doings in our sanctum, for if we did, their governors would not send them any more remit tances, and they would not be able to ask us up to take some thing, as they now do sometimes Guess we'll keep little shady. Suffice 1t to say that they turned everything upside down, and put everything just where it ought not to be They even went so far as to pry into our virtuous couch and peep under it, where profane eyes are not expected to gaze. They put our dirty boots between our clean sheets, and turned the mirror wrong side out, put candles in ink-stands, and did some things nameles, here.

 Look out, boys. We'll not give your names now. but some of, you have pretty nice quarters and if don't behave yourselves, we'llj send our Danites some of these times, and you'll find the aboni. nation of dessolation about your camps. We've written to Brig ham Young for few destroying angels for your benefit.
Year: 1874

A young man in A shtabula Ia sought to secure his sweetheart by Strategy, so he took her out for or d boat ride and threatei1eu !. .e jump overheard into the laKe ; II she did not consent to marry nm; Rut if did not work. She offered to bet him a dollar that he dare'nt dive in
Year: 1874

dACeTuOOu, over a DdS0 Ddll mdtcn between some of the prominent young gentlemen of Yuma.

 Our attention was attracted with that of many others, and, indeed, the major portion of the town turned out to witness the game. We confess we were surpris- and pleased. Surprised at the eutcropping of so much energy, so long hidden, and pleased at the opportunity of adding so much of interest to our local columns.

 The game was we'll contested throughout, and played with a science and skill that the partici- pants have reason to to be proud of. Three or four in particular attracted our special notice by their dexterity. The player who occupied position on first base, as short stop, we never saw equalled, for he invaribIy stopped the ball short in his stomach, and has been short of breath ever since.

 The catcher of the first nine, is possessed of much wonderful en- durance, for, after loosing three of his finger nails, and thereby dis. abling his hands, he heroicaIly persisted in keeping his place, and never once failed to catch the ball on his nose. We pittied and yet admired him.

 There are some points in the game of base ball, which are somewhat confusing, and which from onr inexperience, we are unable to comprehend. We can req dily understand why, when a ball comes from the bat on to a bystander's head, everybody should call out " foul," but what reason is there for yelling "but- ter," whenever a player catches a f1yino ball and drops it because it is too hot to hold? What simi- larity is there between ball going at the rate of forty miles minute. and butter? or is butter good for sore hands?

 We are ignorant and so ask these questions, for we have been selected for the honorable posi- ton of Umpire in the next game. and we wish to act fairly and justly. We would further hum. ply ask if, when-as happened in the last game-a player becomes excited and throws the ball in the wrong direction, thereby Knocking down the man at the bat. some compensation should not be given the sufferer |? Ana Is 1t absolutely necessary to throw oneself head first on to a pase because one is in hurry to get there? This latter feat re qulres much nerve and nicety of execution, but must be attended With some inconvenience when the base consists of pile of rocks.

 On the whole asa Iooker-on. we were pleased with the game of base ball, and as the Umpire is allowed to sit in an arm chair he. hing the catcher, with an um brella to shelter and protect him. we gladly accept the position. We have had an umbrella lined with cast iron, for the purpose, and we will devote three hours day to practice in lending off imaginary balls.

 We would be glad to chronicle which side won in the set.tO of l. s-l-
Year: 1874

During the early days of the Golden
State. when San Francisco BARRIERS were
as rough and bold as The balance Of crea-
tion there. she art of shaving was in a
crude state in that city. and the fact that
the knights of tho razor drank. gambled
and tore around with the bravsst, quite
naturally made them unsteady of hand
in their business the consequence where
of was that. after customer had submit
ted himself to be operated on, he usually
emerged from the ordeal looking as If he
had just been undergoing the operation of
skinning.


One Of the festive Frisco boys at last got
tired Of being continually cut and hacked,
and going into barber's shop one day.
hauled forth a revolver. with the remark
to barber: Here, you shave me. and
it you cut me this time, Ill blow your
brains out"


"All right" cbimed the barber, "take
your seat"


But, I say" replied the other, saint
you afraid to tackle me under the circum-
stances? I'll shoot you, sure, if you make
q mistake"


"Oh, don't you worry" returned the
barber; 'If | happen to nick you, why.
I'll just cut your id throat"


The bloodthirsty customer wilted forth
with \ and concluding that he wouldn't be
shaved just then walked off en- bis ear. y
Year: 1874

1t is almost impossible to get a horse
shod without having the frog cut away.
All veterinary surgeons, all horsemen, Ill
leading blacksmths, agree that the frog
should not be pared one particle, not even
trimmed. No matter how pliable and sofs
the frog is, cut it away smooth sn MI sidsr,
and in two days it will be dry and hard
as chip. You might as we'll cut all the
leaves off trees and expect them to flourish
as to pare away the frog and have healthy
foot. The rough, spengy part of the frog
is to the foot what leaves are to the tree
the lungs. Never have a rcd-hot shos
put upon the foot TO burn it level. Ii you
can find a blacksmith that is mechanic
enough to level the foot without rsd-hos
iron, employ him. If you do not think
So try the red-hot poker on your finger
nail, and see how it will affect the growth
of that. There are many other important
points in shoeing horses, but these ,ws are
of more Importance than all the rest, level
to the apprehension of men not skilled in
horses, and the two most disregarded
Year: 1874

ARTIFICIAL BUTTER There il ~
establishments in this city where artificial
butter is largely made for home and for
eign consumption. This butter is made
from fresh beef-suet. The suet is chop
ped up fine and steamed in large tanks.
This causes the separation of the fat.
which rises to the top and is skinned of.
The fat is then placed in cotton bags aud
subjected to the pressure Of powerful
press. The fine yellow oil which ooxcs
out is collected and churned with sour
milk for twenty minutes, in a cold room.
when tbs butter is made. 1t is now
worked like ordinary butter on 4 table
and salted and packed for use. 1t was
intended to make ten or twelve tons Of
butter per day at these works Other
works Of similar kind are in progress Of
erection or in actual operation in other
parts Of the country. Of course the pro.
cess will only pay where sust is plentiful
and cheap, SO that the cows occupation
is not yet gone N. 7. World.
Year: 1874

Republicans who had taken part in the
Convention that he had heard the speech
to which reference had been made with
pain; but he must ssy that be and the
other Republicans in the body regarded
the spirit in which the speech was received
by the Convention and the action taken
in recommitting the report BY which it
was accompanied as a plain and pointed
rcbuko to the sentiments which it con-
tanned.
Year: 1874

MR. EDIroR:-In these days of re-
formation, while our women are do
ing so much for the sup ppression of
intemperance, we think the attention
of a large number of the fathers and
mothers of our city ought to be
called to the fact that their boys are
constantly contracting habits and as
sociations on our streets at night, the
tendency of which is to make them
anything but good citizens in the
future.


Our streets at night are almost


Med with boys from six to eighteen
years of age, grouping themselves
about windows, chewing and smoking
tobacco, swearing and telling obscene
stories, and generally making nui-
sances of themselves, as we'll as con
tracing habits that will ruin them,
mind, body and soul, if persisted in
| know that there is not one father
or mother in our city who would like
to have their sons grow up to man
hood drunkards or licentious men,
yet at the same time, You are allow
ing them to associate themselves with
such influences while they are so sus-
ceptible to them. that it can only be
by Gods mercy that any of them es-
cape utter contamination. AS well
might we expect the waters OF our
river, when in it's most turbid state,
to instantaneously become pure, or
to change its current and flow up
stream instead of down, as to ex-
pect the lives of these boys exposed
constantly to these pernicious in
Auences, when they arrive at the
age of manhood, to become pure and
upright citizens. And now, while
we witness the pure and holy devo-
tion of our women in the cause of
reformation, let US not put anything
in their way, hut rather assist them
in such a way that their work may
not be made in vain, but that it may
he made permanent in our place by
looking after our boys aud seeing
that they are not exposed to these
influences. Fathers and mothers,
keep your boys off the street at night
il you would save them to yourselves,
to be an honor and support to you
in your old age, rather than shame
and disgrace. God demands. as
you are responsible to him for them,
that you take every means to keep
them pure and true; the State de-
mands the same of you, and human
ity, as well as christianity, demands
the same. w.
Year: 1874

EDITOR JOURNAL:


| wish through the columns of
your valuable paper 10 return my
sincere and heartfelt thanks to my
many kind friends and neigh bors for
their kind and liberal assistance in
rebuilding my house, which was
burned on the night of the 25th OF
last October by an incendiary. Re-
port gave it that the fire was by a de-
fective flue, or accident. This is q
mistake. | am truly sorry to say
that we have such fends in human
form in our midst, but such is the
TACT. and I entertain strong hopes
that the day is not far distant when
the culprit will meet his just deserts.
| herewith send the names and
amounts given by my friends which
| hope you will give to the public,
that l may in this public way return
to all of them my heartfelt gratitude.


YOurs.
Year: 1874

Your every day toilet is part of
your character A girl who looks like
FURRY" or a sloven in the morning is
not to be trusted. however finely she
may look in the evening. No matter
how humble your room may be, there
are eight things it should contain, viz:
a mirror, wash-stand, soap, towel, comb,
hair, nail, and tooth-brushes. These
are just as essential as your breakfast,
before which you should make good and
free use of them. Parents who fail to
provide their children with such appli-
ances, not only make great mistake,
but commit at sin of omission. Look
tidy in the morning, and after the din
ner is over, improve your toilet. Make
it rule of your daily life to "dress up
for the afternoon. Your dress may, or
need not be, anything better than calico;
but with ribbon, or some bit of orna-
ment, you have an air of self-respect
and satisfaction, that invariably comes
with being well dressed. A girl with
fine sensibilites cannot help feeling en-
barrassed and awkward in a ragged, dir
ty dress, with her hair unkempt, if a
stranger or neighbor comes in Moreover,
your self-respect should demand the de-
cent appareling of your body. You
should make il point to look as well
as you, can even if you know nobody
will see you but yourself.-[ Household
Year: 1874

From the st. Louis Republican,


John Arnold, young Cherokee,
agreed to meet young female Cherokee
at certain point on a stated day and
marry her. Arnold was there on time.
but his intended bride was not. He had
come to be married, and could not afford
to loose wife and his time too. So he
hunted up another Indian maiden, and
was married to her by the officiating
clergyman. There was a wedding feast
at the brides fathers house on the next
day, and the other woman appeared at
the party. She explained that she could
not possibly meet him on the day ap-
pointed, and gave good reasons for her
failure. There was great tunpleasantness
in the house, but the minister thought
it was not yet too late to correct the er-
ror, if one had been made. Mrs. Arnold
was consulted, and as her acquaintance
with her husband had been very slight,
she agreed to give him up in favor of
prior claimant. The good Indian forth
with annulled the marriage which he
had just solemnized, and Immediately
married Arnold to his first love. The
father of the repudiated bride thought
it might all be right and regular under
the Christian dispensation, but he took
occasion to advise the bridegroom not to
stay longer than minute or two in the
Cherokee nation. So Arnold and his
second wife left the house of feasting
and the presence of the holy man, and
took to the wilderness for safety.
Year: 1874




If the newly invented apparatus now
on exhibition in London, by which it is
claimed that oil or glycerine may be us
ed to perform the mechanical functions
now so largely supplied by steam, should
prove a success, the inventor will be en-
titled to the thanks of suffering civiliza-
tion. Oil placed in small cylinders, is
subjected to heat, and produces by ex-
pansion pressure of 10000 lbs. per
square inch. As this expansion is grad
ual, the pressure may thus be brought
up to the enormous figure stated, or some
fifty times the pressure allowed in the
use of steam, without danger of explo-
zion, the cylinders simply cracking, it
is claimed when the pressure exceeds
their capacity to bear the strain. This
new motor is applied to a printing press
and punching and riveting machine
which are now being exhibited. 1t
seems almost too much to hope that the
savage rule of the boiler fend is over
but if it be we shall hail with grateful
hearts his mild successor.-[Gentle Gly.
cerine.
Year: 1874

The London Daily Telegraph writes:
at may not be generally known that the
principle upon which all our guns are
now made is that discovered by Colonel
Fraser. Briefly, it consists of series
of coils, welded together in such way
that the grain of the iron is best oppos-
ed to the explosive force of the powder,
and encircling a steal tube, the interior
of which is rifed. A long bar of iron
say Of eight inches square-previous-
ly prepared, is slowly drawn from fur
mace to a length of about three hundred
feet, and wound into a double coil in
the form of cylinder. This is again
heated and placed beneath steam ham
mer, where it is welded together by tre-
mendous blows, which so efectually do
their work that a cylinder capable of
bearing the greatest possible strain is
formed at comparatively trifing ex-
pense. Several of these coils being
made, they are placed in order upon
long steel tube which has been made in
Sheffield, and the weapon is finally
turned out at an average cost Of about
ESQ ton, as against nearly e150 at
Krupp's factory in Essen. Upon this
principle, then, II is resolved to con-
struct an eighty-ton gun, which should
be able to pierce twenty inches of iron
at distance of thousand yards, with
shot l,6O0 pounds in weight, and by
the aid of three hundred pounds of
powder. The length of this magnificent
piece of artillery was fixed at twenty
seven feet, its diameter at the trunnion
six feet, and the muzzle sixteen inches,
inside measurement. 1t was calculated
that such gun would be able to deliver
its mischief-working missile at a dis
tance of nearly ten miles, and that it
would, at the same time, be easily plac-
ed in the turret of a war ship or the
embrasure Of battery, and worked
quickly and without difficulty. OF
course, there were many difficulties in
the way of the construction of such a
weapon. No steam hammer such as
that which Krupp possesses at Essen
was to be found in England; no forges
were built large enough for such tre-
mendous heat no cranes were in posi-
tion TO hoist such weight. But all
these difficulties were speedily overcome
by the skillful officials at WooIwich.
The forges were built, a huge hammer
of forty tons weight; with double ac-
tion arrangement and stiking power
of nearly thousand tons, made, and
very soon all was in readiness to begin
the construction Of the great gun. Cur
iously enough his Majesty, the Emperor
of Russia, was the first to see one of its
coils welded, and since that time the
work has been gradually going on, till
now the steel tube, the breech piece, one
coil, and the trunnion are finished; so
that it is certain that by June next the
gun will be ready for trial. 1t will then
consist Of following parts: A tough
steel tube inside, weighing nearly six
teen tons, and measuring about twenty
four feet in length; breech piece coil
twelve feet in length; one central, anoth-
er coil nearer the muzzle, and the trun.
nion coil. The cascabel through which
the FIRE from the friction tube is commu-
nicated to the cartridge inside the gun
is of steel. and immensely strong"
Year: 1874

Detectives yarns are often a little
more marvellous than those of sailors,
who are supposed, according to the pop
ular notion, to spend their whole time in
talking to the marines. This one is
about Chicago boy, and the reader is
not required to believe it in the absence
of documentary evidence. This youth
made raid OH an open safe, and ran
away with roll which turned out to
contain large amount in five-twenty
bonds. 1t was found that the boy lived
with his mother in a shanty on the out
skirts of the city, and the detective, re-
pairing thither, entered and beheld on
its walls the most extraordinary and val
liable wallpaper on which his sharp
eyes had ever rested. The missing bonds
had been neatly pasted on the wall nice
ly matched and joined. By considerable
moistening, pulling, and profanity, they
finally came off with layer of white
wash adhering to them. We regret to
say that the boy was arrested and pun
ished. He should have been allowed tc
keep the bonds for his ignorance, if moi
for his honesty.
Year: 1874

OLD FRIENDs.-Never give up old
friends for new ones, make new ones if
you like, and when you have learned that
you can trust them, love them if you
will, but remember the old ones still.
Do not forget they have been tried and
found true; that they have been merry
with you in time of pleasure, and when
sorrow came to you they sorrowed also.
No matter if they have gone down in
the social scale, and you up; no matter il
poverty and misfortune has come to
them, while prosperity and plenty to
you, are they any the less true for that?
Are not their hearts as warm and ten
der IL they do beat meath homespun in
stead of velvet? Yes, kind friend, they
are as true and tender and loving, and
don't forget old friends.