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Year: 1877

Wildness is a thing which girls can
not afford. Delicacy is a thing which
cannot be lost and found. No art can
restore to the grape its bloom. Famll-
iarity without love, without conf
dence, without regard, is destructive
to all that makes woman exalting and
| ennObling.


'The World is wide. these things are small,


They may be nothing, but they are ALL"


NothinRR 1t is the first duty of n
woman to be lady. Good breeding is
good sense. Bad manners in a woman
is an immortality. Awkwardness may
be ineradicable. Bashfulness is con-
stitutiOnaI. Ignorance of etiquette is
the result of circumstances. All can
be cOndOned, and do not Danish man
or woman from the amenities of their
kind. But self-pOssessed, unshrinking
and aggressive cOarseness of demeanOr
may be reckoned as state prison Of
fence, and certainly merits that mild
form of punishment called imprison-
ment for life. 1t is shame for women
to be lectnred on their manners. 1t is
bitter shame that they need. Women
are the umpires of society. 1t is they
to whom all mooted points should be
referred. To be a lady is more than to
be prince. A lady is always in her
right iDalienably worthy of respect. To
lady prince and peasant alike bow.
Do not be restrained. Do not have
impulses that need restraint Do not
wish to dance with the prince unsought;
feel differently. Be sure that you con-
fer honor. Carry yourselves so lofty
that men shall look up to you for re-
ward, not at You in rebuke. The ma
tural sentiment of man toward woman
is reverence. He loses a large means
of grace when he is obliged to account
her a being to be trained into prOpriety.
A mans ideal is not wounded when
woman fails in worldly wisdom; but
if in grace, in tact, in sentiment, in
delicacy, in kindness, she should be
found wanting, he receives an inward
hurt.-GdH Hamilton.
Year: 1877

Dear mel" exclaimed a vivaciOus
young friend Of ours the other day, 81
have just had TO tell the most shocking
.fJs! My conscience troubles me yet"


"Why, and about what did you tell
your tibsy" we asked, and the answer
was:


"Oh, ! went to see my friend Mrs.
Brown, who has just gone to housekeep-
ing, and nothing would do but | must
go over the whole house, and admire it,
of course. Helen kept asking all the
time: Now isn't this carpet lovelyY
and Did you ever see more beautiful
tabley' or is not that the easiest arm
chair you ever sat in? until | was both
tired of agreeing with her, and ashamed
of myself for doing it; for to tell the
truth, ! didn't like her taste at all. 1t
is so hard to be enthusiastic to order"


"Ihen why attempt it at all?' we
inquired.


"What wOdld you have one to do? be
candid and disagreeable? vex your
friends by speaking your mind, and
expect them to take your uncomfortable
sayings amiably? You must remember
that we do not live in the Palace Of
Truth nowadays"


''Then it would be better if we did,
since one must be untruthful to be
liked"


"Not mtruthtaU that is such harsh,
ugly word" objected our companion.
81 said .dJs, you know"


"Well 'fbs, are mtruths, it seems to
us, and when you agree with your
friends because yOl fear to offend or
annoy them by disagreement, you do
violence to your sense of truth, and
impair the sensibility ofyOur conscience.
The same fibs will be easier next time,
and the passive untruth may merge into
the active falsehOod. -


"Then would you have me ARRAYS say
what Think. Can the truth be spoken
at all times?"


sit is quite possible to be kind and
polite, even in our truthtelling. Otien-
sive candOr is not a Christian grace,
though we have known many people
who were frank even to positive rude
ness, under this misapprehensiOn. But
conscientious souls, with ordinary tact,
will preserve their own integrity with
out wOunding Others"


"But what would you do if you went
to see a baby as did lately, and had to
say it was perpect beauty when it was
positively ugly? Wouldn't that test
your principles ?"


"No, because we would not say any
such thing. A baby is always precious
gift to its mother, and one might speak
of its sweetness and lovableness grace
fully enough, without mentioning
beauty. Rest assured, that all the fibs
which you think friendship and social
intercourse demand Of you, can be
avoided by little thoughtfulness on
your part; and you will not only save
your conscience many a pang, but your
friends will grow insensibly to realize
your eXactness of speech, and to prize
your words the more"
Year: 1877

If a reflective, aged man were to find
at the bottom of an old chest-where it
had lain forgotten fifty years-a a record
which he had written of himself when
he was young. simply and vividly de-
scribing his whole heart and pursuits,
and reciting, verbatim, many passages
of the language which be sincerely
uttered, would he not read it with more
wonder than almost any other writer
could at his age inspireR He wonld
lose the assurance of his identity under
the impression of his immense dissim-
ilarity. 1t would seem as if it must
be the tale of the juvenile days of some
ancestor, with which he had no connec-
ton but that of name.
Year: 1877

1t has been said that man can do
anything he resolves to do. This must,
however, be taken with the limitation
that he shall resolve to do only things
that are possible. To resolve that he
will climb to the moon will certainly
never take him to that interesting sa-
tellite; and to resolve that he will grow
to eleven feet high will not carry his
scalp to that altitude above his stock
ings. Still the saying is a deserved
tribute to the will, as force; for the
will is force, and tremendous one at
that, sometimes; it cannot be seen,
heard or handled; it is invisible, intan-
gible and inaudible; but yet it is a
power, because it sets other powers
and agencies in motion; and accom-
plishes great things through them.
There are two kinds of will power
the aggressive and the passive. The
former generally takes the form of
what we call enterprise; it daTes to in
wade fields hitherto unexplored, or OF
essay objects that appear impossible of
execution, and show to the world how
much can be done with little means; it
is the chief element in the constitution
of such men as Napoleon, Caesar, and
Cromwell.
Year: 1877

sary that they should breathe OCCASION
ally, they were continually rolling over
each other to come to the service.
Sometimes half the fish would De out
Of the water, yet the uniform motion
was kept up, and no one on board could
detect any motions Of fins -or body to
warrant such speed. There are others
modes of flight such as by bats and in
sects, the dragon fly as an instance; but
the sailing of birds il a most interesting
study for philosophers, and it will be
safe to say that man will never be able
to put il in practice. But the
knowledge may come in play in ex-
planning some things yet in embryo
Scientific american.
Year: 1877

The majority of. these brigands are
from eighteen to twenty-f four years of
age, and they frequently end their lives
IN prison or by a violent death. Many
OF them, however, learn the bitterness
OF that way of life and become honest
men from the Tevulsion of feeling. The
knife is the inseparable companion of
the brigand, and he knows both how to
give and receive it thrusts with the ut
most cOolness. When two of them
quarrel the challenge TO fight is some
thing like this:


Friend, are you busyn "NO." 81
would like word with you; yes even
two" "Are you armedP" "Yes."
"Will you cOmep Let us CO." And
they resort TO some uninhabited spot
to fight. If one is injured the other
becomes his physician and attends to
his wound. The injured brigand never
betrays the name of his enemy, and
often in the hospitals of Palermo young
men die without a word, the heroes of
their code of honor. When a new man
is added to their company the brigands
make trial of his courage to deter
mine whether he is worthy to become
one of them. The Sicilian mafiosO
wears jacket and pantaloOns of vel
vet, cap or hat a little crooked, the
hair curled on the temples, and his
language is sharp and concise. He is
armed with guns and'pistOls of the best
manufacture, and carries a great guam
tity of ammunition, as well as an ex-
cellent field glass, with which to ex-
anime his enemies at a distance. But
however daring and well organized
may be the malta, it could not flourish
as it does without the secret aid of :he
persons who inhabit the country.
These persons, living in houses
scattered along the road, conceal the
maleiactors when there is OCCASION to do
so, and furnish them with food and
clothing. Without courage to be real
brigands they accept the brigands'
money, and are more inimical to the
public peace than the outlaws are.
Many large prOprletors are also intimi-
dated into giving aid to the brigands
when they demand it.
Year: 1877

Don't crowd, the world is large enough.


Tor you a. we'll as me
The doors Of sll are open wide


The realm Of thought is free.
In all earth's places you are right


To chase the best you can
Provide that you do not try


To crowd some other man.
Don't crowd the good from out your heart
BY fostering all that's bad.
But give to every virtue room


The best that may be had
10 each days record such one


That you might we'll be proud
Give each his right-giye each his room,
And never try TO crowd.
Year: 1877

The potato was unknown in LimOus-
in. 1t was not common in any part of
France, and perhaps this is not aston
ishing when we remember that the first
field crop even in agricultural Scot
land is supposed only to have been
sown in the fourth decade of that
country. People would not touch it,
though the experiment of persuading
them to cultivate this root had been
frequently tried. In LimOusin the
people were even more obstinate in their
prejudice than elsewhere. But TurgOt
persevered, knowing how useful pOta-
toes would be in a land where scarcity
of grain was so common. The ordi-
nary view was that they were hardly
fit for pigs, and that in human beings
they would certainly cause leprosy.
Some of the English Puritans would
not eat potatoes because they are not
mentioned in the Bible, and that is per-
haps no better a reason than the other.
When, however, it was seen that the
lntendant TurgOt had the hated vege-
table served every day at his own
table, the opposition grew more faint;
men were at last brought to consent
to use potatoes for their cattle, and
after time even for themselves
FOrtRightiy ReUieU.
Year: 1877

A correspondent of the New York Herald
in letter from Red Cloud agency, May J,
gives the following interesting narrative OF
some of the social amusements and customs
of the Indians now gathered into the asen-
cies.
Year: 1877

NARROW EscAPE.---Last Friday night,
between nine and ten O'Clock, fire
caught In the upper story Of the house Oc-
cupied by Vim. H.. II. Learned. ESQ.,,
which came near being very serious at
fair A girl working In the family had
been to the room with a lamp in her
hand and accidentally set fire to a curtain
and without noticing it departed, but
happily leaving the door ajar so that
another member OF the family on passing
saw the blaze and gave the alarm. Mr..
Learned Immediately repaired to the
scene to find that not only the curtain but
the woodwork was ablaze. Grasping a
vessel containing water he managed to
control the flames until receiving a sup
Ply he extinguished 1t without caus-
ing general alarm. The oppOrtune dis
eoyery and presence of mind displayed by
Mr.. Learned made trivial affair Of what
otherwise would have been most deplOra-
pie In Its, consequences. situated as the
building Is in the midst Of range OF
wooden houses.
Year: 1877

Mr.. II. L. MARRIOTT. of Oak Harbor.
Island County, favored us with call re-
Gently, and in the course of conversation
detailed his method of breaking colts,
which as it may be Of service to our pat
rons We give it. as follows 1t consists In
taking cord or small rope, double IL,
make knot In il sufficient to allow 1t to
go over the hind parts, extending as low
down as the breeching. or little lower,
the knot coming on its back. and the 9TH
er end fastened to the rope tied around his
meek, which forms a breeching that he
will not pull back upon when tied. and
on being led will help to move him for
ward, as he will not resist the pressure
thus brought to bear upon his hind parts.
This accomplished, tie up one of his legs,
for short time while handling or rub
bing him. He has never. in his expert
ence, known this method to fail In break
ing the widest colt In three or four days
trial. The above, OF course, includes the
use OF a halter to keep him in check while
being led.
Year: 1877

There is large houseless population
in the Palouse country. People have
been pouring in much, faster than shelter
could be provided. Lumber has been
selling from sixteen to thirty dollars a
thousand all the season, and the supply
has never been equal to the demand.
Year: 1877

SCHOOL LANTERN, FAMILY IANVFRy


PEOPLES LANTERN.
Each style being the best ofits class in the market
Catalogues Of Lanterns and Slides. with direc-
tiens for using, sent on application


Any enterprising man can make money with a
Magic Lantern.


Rl- Visitors to the Centennial Exposition win do
wisely to defer purchasing goods in our line until
they come to our stores in New York, where they
viii find greater variety and more moderate prices
ana can select more at their leisure But we have
concession TO sell some styles of our goods in tn
building Of the Department of Public Comfort and
those not coming to New York are invited ts can on
our representation there


Rz- fun stock Of Views Of the Exposition Build
ing and their contents.
June %, '76-m6.
Year: 1877




THERE is going to be a revival of
the woman's suffrage agitation at
Washington this winter. Many dele
gates from the conyentions are to be
there, as they have been for many
years past, but there is not much hope
for them, as political subjec,s will.
consume great deal Of time The
Committee on Privileges and Eiec-
tons viii undoubtedly sit down and
listen to their arguments very atten-
lively and forget all about the matter
when they are ont cf sight.
Year: 1877

A letter from Warren county, KY, to
the Franklin Patriot says: "This child,
a girl, was four years of age on the Goth
day of last March She weighs 100
pounds, measures Is inches across the
chest, and is four feet eight and one half
inches high. There is a thick growth of
hair covering her entire body, while her
face is covered with whiskers, including
a moustache. Up to about Is months
ago she was healthy girl, About that
time her body became very hot and was
covered with heavy perspiration, last
ing for several days. The odor occa-
stoned by the perspiration was very of
fensive, and within fifteen minutes after
being cleanly dressed her body and
clothes would become saturated as if by
some black colored liquid. When the
perspiration ceased the hair began grow
ing, only leaving the soles of her feet
and the palms of her hands bare. Her
voice attained a remarkable depth, sound
ing as though it came from the inside of
a barrel. Her strength is astonishing.
She can carry her 10-year old sister un-
der her arm with apparent ease, and the
mother states that the child actually
does not know her own strength The
statements herein made are strictly true,
and, if necessary, the testimony of the
child's parents and many people living in
the neighborhood can be produced for
cOrrObOratiOnn
Year: 1877

Nine. X has just sent away her cook, who
had TOO many military visitors, ana replaced her BY
ruecEs country lass The other day she took look In
The kitchen and there superIOOking soldier
ing a bowl Of soup Is it possible y0u too guilty
of his KIND Of thing, sOphlet Please. ma'am, you
are mistaken This is doubt Of the soldiers left
over by the last cook"
Year: 1877

1t is stated that the question OF sound
money had something to do with the republic
can victory in Massachusetts. The appeal
was made TO the harl-mOney men to rally
for Rice (the republican candidate for gov
ernor). because of the recent movement at
Washington 10 repeal the resumption act.
Mr. Ewing's geneTalship on that side was
pointed out, and the fact was dwelt upon that
more democrats than republicans were back
ing him up. On this ground the charge was
made that the democratic party is the party
OF initiation, and 1t is believed that the inn
preston had its effect in diverting votes from
CASTOR 10 Rice. As a matter of fact both
parties seem 10 be tarred with the imitation
stick, but there is no doubt that the party
found chiefly responsible for reputation leg
islation will lose votes in the East, whatever
temporary advantage it may gain In the
West. 1t does not seem certain that the in
fation craze will have any permanent hold
In the West, even. The success OF the re-
publicans In Wisconsin on a sound money
platform seems TO show that the tide is turn
ing already in that section.
Year: 1877

The reported attempt In France TO form a
new Ministry with the same policy as the
De Broglie Cabinet, TO be overturned by the
FIRST votes Of the Chamber and the Senate,
seems TO have been so far a complete failure.
Perhaps the men designated as scapegoats
did not take kindly to the ignominious part
assigned them. But, whatever the cause may
be, De Broglie and his colleagues have been
unsuccessful in the little plan which was to
enable them to retire In good order, and
must meet the new and hostile Cabinet as
the representatives of the people, and meekly
send in their designations after the first
refusal OF vote OF confidence. For the loss
CT the control of the Senate (which is cont =
IDENTIFY ssserted) deprives MacMahon of the
power of again dissolving the Chamber, and
lie can hardly stick TO his present policy of
carrying on the government, when refused
supplies and opposed by both Houses.
Year: 1877

Somehow the Boston Post doesn't bring out
IT'S big democratic rooster this time. But that
paper finds consolation for the result In NJ As
sachusetts In the thought that IL the demo
rats have failed to elect their candidate,
LEY have secured q atriumph oftheif national
policy as represented by President Hayes
and endorsed by the republican state plat
form
Year: 1877

train and run through in the same
way as the regular sleeping car.


On the admirable steel rail that is
now laid on the Chicago & North
western railway, these elegant, six
teen wheeled hotel cars will ride as
easily, and with as little noise or oscil-
lation as balloon that floats serenely
through the air; and we believe it
will be found to be q result that
thousands will flock to this "Pioneer
Line" who have hitherto gone by
some other route.


With these aud other improve
ments the people of Cedar Rapids are
very largely interested and we be-
lieve will JOIN with US in this its most
advanced step; and unite ith US 10
saving, the Chicago & Northwestern
railway has become the foremost road
in all the West.


These hotel cars will be placed in
service about March 1, 1877.-[Re-
publican, Dec. 20, 1879.
Year: 1877

OUUNI1,


And which is described as follows, that is to say:
Beginning for the same at the northwest corner or
intersection of North avenue and Washington
street extended, and running thence westerly on
Year: 1877

Is very complete. and to those intending purchase ing can offer great bargains in SPECTAc cLES and EYE GLASSES. have full line, and can warrant a perfect it and satisfaction at urices lower than ever before offered.
Year: 1877

sue oI bonds outstanding, how much
interest and principal has been paid
during the year, the rate Of interest
each issue pays and when the bonds will
mature, Weshouldknow the particulars
IN regard 10 the receipts and disburse.
ments Of the Gas Works, how much was
paid out for redemption Of that loan, how
much for extensions, and the condition OF
the property. This, II need be, could come
into tie annual statement In the shape Of
a brief report from the Gas Commits.
sioGerS.


The people have u right to much
further information in the all important
matter Of their financial affairs than they
receive. Look, for instance, how brief.
ly and blindly the expenditure Of s57, ,7G4.
70 under the head Of Streets and Alleys is
disposed Of. Barely three lines are devoted
to II, instead OF making II tell US what
amount was paid for scraping the streets,
what amount OF new paving was done,
what sewers were built. all matters that
every tax paper in the city is deeply in.
terested in.


Oicourse the answer to the complaint
will be those interested in these matters
can 80 to the city building and look
them up. This is no answer at all. Nine
persons out Of len have no time to spend
in that way, and they could not get salts.
factory information in such way even II
they had. It is far cheaper and more
satisfactory 10 everybody to get it in
detail once a year in the annual state
ment of the city'S receipts and expendi-
lures.


As showing how difficult it is to get ac-
curate information in regard to matter
SO seemingly accessible as the city indebt.
edness, We may refer to the fact that the
Mayor, in the ELECTION Notice" which
we publish over his signature this morn
ing, puts this Indebtedness at S552,O0O,
whereas a statement made only within
the last few days by an expert in the city's
finances puts it several thousand higher.
This shows that there is necessity for
reform in the manner Of keeping the city
books. We understand that the entire
debt Of the city docs not appear on
the Clerks hooks, and that the items
have to be gathered up in piece meal
when anything like an accurate state
ment is wanted, This is not as it should
be, and we trust that the true debt will
be reliably ascertained at an early day,
and then put on the public records, and
that hereafter it will come into the
annual statement in an ineligible shape
along with such other details as will
serve to explain our fiscal affairs to the
comprehension and satisfaction of the
tax paying public.
Year: 1877

Ware glad to see 80 many good sized
plums falling into the basket Of the Third
District at the State House. She yester-
day carried of the three important Offices
Of the House OF Delegates, viz: Speaker,
Clerk and Sergeant.at-A rms, and also one
or two good offices in the Senate, The
First District is entirely amiable in the
distribution Of patronage. It ia more
blessed to give than 10 receive.
Year: 1877

OUR representatives at Washington
are paid $1,000 a year to stay there
during the sitting OF Congress and attend
to the interests Of the people Of West
Virginia. They are not paid to leave
their posts and come to Wheeling to log
roll with members Of the Legislature for
their yoles.
Year: 1877

We print this morning the annual
statement submitted by the City Clerk at
the meeting Of Council Tuesday night.
The leading items in it as compared
with the same items for the two previons
years are as follows:
Year: 1877

The House Committee on the Privil.
eges, Powers and Duties OF the House in
counting the electoral vote have decided
that the President Of the Senate has no
power to count the votes, and that the
House has equal powers with the Senate
in the agency Of counting them. There
will be n minority rnnnrt
Year: 1877

The House Committee on Pacific r. r.,
to-day accepted the report Of the sub
committee on the bill commonly known
as the compromise Texas Pacific Rail.
road line, and made 4 few amendments,
but the meeting Of the House prevented
the vote on the report as amended