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Year: 1878

TRUE LovE.-Rev. Robert Collyer of
Chicago says: 81 think the average
novel is making miechief in the aver
age mind in its pictures of true love.
1t makes the tender grow and CLAM
our which related natures feel when
they meet, true love. 1t is no such
thing; it is true passion, that is all;
blessed power purely and rightly used.
but no more pure love than those little
hooks and tendrils we see in J1ne on
a shooting vine are the ripe clusters of
October. For true love grows out of
reverence and Difference, loyalty and
courtesy, good service given and taken
dark days and bright days, sorrow and
joy. 1t is the fine essence ofall we are
together, and all we do. True passion
comes first, true love last. 1T is sown
a natural body, it is raised spiritual
body;' and SO it is written, The first
man is of the earth earthly. but the Sec
ond man is the Lord from heaven d.
Year: 1878

The members of the various church.
es throughout the United States are
requested to give thanks, some time
this fall, that the census shows that in
all this broad republic, only six men
know how to play lawn tennis, and
four of them have publicly confessed
their shame and swore of, and the
other two have been equally divided
between the insane asylum and the
penitentiary.- Burlington Hawkeye.
Year: 1878

a story is told Of woman who
freely used her tongue to the scandal
Of others, aud made confession to the
priest Of what she had done, lie gave
her a ripe thistle top, and told her to
60 out in various directions and scat,
ter the seeds, one by one. Wonder
ing at the pcnancc, she obeycd, and
then returned and told her confessor.
To her amazcment, he baae her 60
back and gather the scattered seed
and when she objected, that it would
be impossible, he replied that it would
be still moro impossible TO gather up
and destroy all evil report which she
had circulated about Others. Any
thoughtlcss, careless child can scatter
a handful OF thistle seeds before the
wind in a moment; but the strongest
and wisest man cannot gather them
again
Year: 1878

TO RENovArE BLACK MERINo. Rip
the dress apart then soak the goods
in warm soapsuds two hours; dissolve
one ounce Of extract of logwood in a
bowl of warm water; add sufficient
warm water to cover the goods,
which is to be taken from the suds
without wringing; let the dress stand
in the loswood water all night; in
the morning rinse In several waters
without wringing in the last water
add one pint of sweet milk ; iron
while damp it will look new.
Year: 1878

OVER EATING. There is but little
danger of not eating enough. The
trouble with nine.tenths Of alling and
chronically complaining city people is
injudicious and Incorporate eating.
Leave off eating so much meat and
greasy compounds and rich pastry,
and try a simple diet for time, and
our word for it, you will soon expert.
ence great and marvellous change
come over the spirit of your DREAM
GTrent0u Gazette.
Year: 1878

Flint is really nothing more or less
than common sponge turned into stone.
Once the sponge grew at the bottom of
the SET, as other sponges are growing
now; but that was ages and Nges ago, and
since then the sponge turned to flint, has
lain covered by rocks and earth of many
kinds piled thick above it. Seen with a
microscope, flint shows the make of
sponge in It's fibres, and sometimes one
can see embedded in it, the shells Of the
tiny creatures upon which the sponge
originally ted. Occasionally inside the
flint may be found bits of sponge not YET
changed.
Year: 1878

WHAT ALLIED HlM.-Tim, the news.
boy, was seen coming out OF a store
the other day with box Of paper col
lars in his hand, and as two or three
of his associates were very inqulsitlve
as to what he meant to DO with them
he answered with considerable pom
poslty:


4 shall appear in one of them this
very afternoon, and regularly there.
after till death.


'Ho hol ho!' they sneered, but
ain you just Ainging on the style,
though You've alIus looked as
mean and ragged as any Of us, and
now all to once you begin to pranco
arouad and wear paper collars.


Yes, all to once my sister is going
to get married, and all to once the
old lady has bought u sewing ma
chine and big accordion on trust,
and all to once my dad has been on
three coroners juries, and fixing
things to run for constable, and all to
oaco I'm going to keep up my end OF
the family if it takes my lest dollar,
and that's what ais Mo.
Year: 1878

AMERICAN GOLD PENS.


They who have learned to use the
American gold pens will appreciate
the excellence of tho only bettor
substitute for tho gray goose quill,
but the nice processes by which it's
perfection is is attained will be less
easily understood. Tho process by
which it is produced is not one of
scientific elaboration or brilliant
invention, but of laborious expert
ment and thoroughness and con-
sciontiousnoss Of manufacture which
wo arc not genorally disposed to
credit American manufacturers
with. First, an alloy is formed
which can be hammered to degree
of hardness which makes it almost
Incapable Of further impression from
the hammer. The pen re-


duccd to it's general form
by the die then receives Il point by
ailoying with iridium of adaman-
tine hardness, which is then cut into
two and the slit produced, when the
pen is hammered to the highest
point Of elasticity, the peculiar alloy
used being, it is said, one which will
condense under the hammer without
spreading, uatil it has received the
m 'ximum Of density alluded to, and
the pen is then FURNISHED into shape
under Il burnishor giving q pressure
OF about Il hundred pounds weight,
the effect of which is to secure the
shape finally given against any usage
by cqualzing the density of the
metal throughout. After use Of
these pens Of various manufacturers
running over u period Of moro than
twenty years Of literary occupation
L am able to say that not one has
ever fa;lol except from gross ill
treatment. The exhibits of gold
pens are an indispensable and
characteristic part of any collection
of the important American indus
| tries.
Year: 1878

Perhaps, however, the most i'm,
portant display in this department,
all things considered, is that Of tho
Waltham Watch Company, their
first in the European exhibitions.
The readers Of the Times reports
OF the Philadelphia exhibition will
not need to be informed of the adj
mirable machinery by which tho
works Of the Waltham watches arc
produced or their singular cxacti
tude, which enables any part of a
watch to be replaced by the CORES
ponding piece of any other watch Of
the same grade. To illustrate how
involved are the various improve
ments in mechanism it may be noted
that the delicacy of construction of
the new balance would only have
been possible with the mechanism
introduced by the Waltham Com
pany, the precision of which may
be Judged from that'of tho microme :
ter last produced and shown ut
Paris, which measures tho twenty
tive~thousandth part of an inch, and
even indicates that so largely that
it might be divided under lens
readily into hundred thousandths.
A micromcter screw gauge detects
inequalities in the thread of a screw
up to hundred thousandths, and a
screw made for tho Government
Scientific Commission to correct the
measures has been constructed in
which the maximum Of error in the
thread is less than ono ten thou
sandth of an inch.


FIREARMS.


In the department of firearms, in
which the Americans have always
maintained q certain advance as to
construction, there are exhibited by
the Remington Arms Company two
new forms of military rifle, one of
which, the Lee gun; is obviously an
improvement on all simple breech-
leaders hitherto used. The breech
block is the same ns the Martini
Henry, but the opening is effected
by the hammer, which holds the
same place as in the old rifle and
can be worked by the thum of the
right hand. The brooch block, when
opened, is held open by q catch
which is liberated by the fange of
the metallic cartridge as it enters the
barrel and the block, then rises to
its place and closes the breach auto
matically. The motions are fewer
and tho action simpler than in the
Martini Henry, and the hammer in
dicates to the most careless glance
the half and full cock. The second
contribution of the Remington
Company is a breechloader on the
piston system, with an auxiliary
magazine 50 arranged that q reserve
of seven cartridges may be kept in
the magazine and the gun used as
an ordinary breechloader until q
critical moment, when by pushing
aside the kew of the maoazine the
Year: 1878

The American hamingo, with his
gorgeous scarlet feathers, is superb
fellow. He Is very shy, peculiarly
afraid of man. On account of its fine
apparel, it has been more closely pur-
sued than almost any other bird. 1t
does not go north like some of the her
ons, but AudEbOn says it has occasion.
ally been seen in South Carolina. Its
constant home, however, is in the
southern part of Florida and along the
Gulf coast.


Like the herons, the, famingOes are
SOciable, and live in f1ocks. They have
webbed feet, which give them an ad-
vantage over the herons In enabling
them to swim or wade. / have never
been able to get near enough to these
birds to gain any personal knowledge
of their habits.


The nest of the flamingo Is q, curious
affair; usually built in a marshy, mud
dy place, in the form OF q mound. II
Is made Of sticks and grass and mud
to the height of two or three feet. with
hollow In the middle to hold the
eggs. The male Is said to assist In the
construction Of the nest, but this is
probably mere conjecture, for think
no one living at the present time has
been able to get near enough to these
birds to watch their habits, and their
nests can be reached only with great
difficulty.


The female lays two white eggs
about the size of those of q goose. 1t
Is said that she sits sstride the nest in
an ungainly fashion, and that the
young, as soon as they are hatched,
take to the water like young ducks.


II a law could be passed to protect
these birds, what grand sight the
waters OF Florida would soon PRESENT.
These great, brilliant, scarlet birds,
dallying and playing in the water, or
wading near the shore In quest OF
game, would be sight never to be
forgotten. Can it be possible that Flor
ida does not care for such glorious
creatures, and will allow, year aftor
year, these msrauders from the North
to kill them without single protest?
Unless something Is done for the pro
lection of these splendid creatures,
they must soon become extinct; for
their range is quite limited, and fear
the boy and girl readers of to-day, by
the time they grow to men and women,
can only read of these as gorgeous
birds of the past. Mrs. Mary Treat,
st. Nicholas for February.
Year: 1878

This Is the way man among the
Himalays Mountains once astonished
a strange dog. He put on a pair OF
huge goggles and walked steadily and
quietly toward the dog, without
speaking a word. The dog bristled
up and stared hard for a moment, and
then, all at once, he seemed tc wilt,
and away he SUNK as if ashamed of
himself.


1 heard about this only the other
day, and / tell it now merely to warn
you not to try the little trick, unless
you are sure your dog will not get
angry and jump for you.


1t would not look well for you to
stink of as If you we're ashamed Of
yourself.-"Jack-in-the- Pulpit" st.
Nicholas for February.
Year: 1878

next to none of their own money in mental
food. They are, as a sex, economical and
even parsimonious till they pass draper's,


and then exit economy and enter the worst
waste On to their backs 60 their incomes;
and even in needless and ugly additions to
their clothing, and in distorting their ears
those perfect shells-with ear rings, and
crushing their v;tals with ccrsets that redden
their noses and disease their bodies, and in
dyes that burn their hair, and piles of dead
hair that rub the live hair OF their skulls
where no forethought is, they spend without
e1aggeration, three hundred times more
money than they do in printed matter, which
is the vital food and wholesome nutriment OF
the civilized mind, whether msle or female. :"
Year: 1878

The Rev. David Swing of Chicago repudi
a.es hell. He says that ito let the old defni-
ton of he'll stand untouched is as absurd as to
leave untouched the old definition of plough,
or ring, or beauty" and he adds that sthe
majority of Christians have not for half a
century realized that there was any such hell
as that pictured by the church" ''rhe words
have been repeated as Of old, to some degree,
but the old significance las fallen away, and
there is left behind only the general truth thai
God will punish SIM"
Year: 1878

Edmunds, of Vermont:


ARTICLE XVI.


No State shall make any law respecting an
establishment of religion, or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof; and no religious test
shall ever be required as qualification to any
office or public trust under any State. No
public property, and no public revenue of,
nor any loan of credit by or under the author
ity of, the United States, or any State, Terri
tory, District, or municipal corporation, shall
be appropriated to, or made or used for, the
support of any school, educational or other
institution under the control of any religious
or anti-religous sect, organization, or denomi-
nation. And no such particular creed or
tenets shall be read or taught in any school
or institution supported in whole or in part
by such revenue or loan of credit; and no such
appropriation or loan of credit shall be made
to any religious or anti-rel:gious sect, organ
ization, or denomination, or to promote its
interests or tenets. This article shall not be
construed to prohibit the reading of the Bible
in any school or institution, and it shall not
have the effect to impair rights of property
alresdy vested.


SEC. 2. Congress shall have power, by ap-
propriate Legislation, to provide for the pre-
vention and punishment of violations of this
article.
Year: 1878

A WASHINGTON SPECIAL to the
Cincinnati Gazette says that it is hint
ed that the President, in his forthcom-
ing civil service message, will recon-
mend that the selection of Postmasters
In smaller towns be made by popular
vote, and that the Postmaster General
shall merely confirm the selection
made. This plan was adopted 10 the
Presidents own town In Ohio, and is
said to have given great satisfaction.


Another subject to which the civil
service message is expected to refer Is,
the law which makes four years the
term of Office. A recommendations
nay be made that, instead of this def
mite term, the commission run until
removed for cause.
Year: 1878

The New York bondholders of the
State OF Tennessee have appointed q
committee to take steps toward effect
ing some settlement OF the debt at not
less than sixty cents on the dollar.
Year: 1878

A MOST wonderful typographical
transmutation takes place every day in
Cheyenne. Editorial articles that are
printed Of morning in the Denver pa
pers, appear in the Cheyenne Sun, on
the evening of the same day, as original
editorial matter. They are so nearly
alike that the Photographic process only
can account for the similarity. But it
may be only case of sharp scissors. j
Year: 1878

THE cable man was very kind last
night. He sent over the voluminous
letter of Lord Cranbrook on the At
CHAN question. But the trouble was
that the document is not quite large
enough for history and too large for a
newspaper article. Besides it only re-
counts the facts which have been de-
tailed to the people from time to time.
Year: 1878

GEN. SHERIDAN says anent the In
dian transfer question, that either the
Indian bureau must be turned over to
the army or the army turned over to
the interior department to protect the
bureau.
Year: 1878

Acting on this request Of the Speaker OF
the House for extra compensation for merely
honorary duty. Hon. John Young, OF Clai-
borne, on the twenty OF February intro
duced resolution to allow the Speaker ad-
ditional compensation as member OF the
Board of Canvassers, Board Of Liquidation
OF February the resolution came up and was
defeated by a vote Of fifty-six in the negative
to thirty-seven in the affirmative.


We do not pretend to say how 1t was done,
but there is evidence to show that the Speaker
interested himself In insisting upon re-
yersal of this vote. Be that as 1t may, Brown.
a colored Radical, on the same day, moved a
reconsideration Of the previous vote, which
motion was carried by vote OF Sc to S6, and
Speaker Bush pas, by the vote of the House,
allowed ertra compensation as member Of the
Board of Liquidation member of the Printing
Board aud of the Board of Can0dssers. Thus
1t seems that the Speaker did not, when bis
own interests were involved, regard extra
eompensation as out OF the regular line OF
reform.


But this extraordinary action of the House
In allowing the Speaker extra compensation
for mere honorary duty reached the listening
ears OF the press. and the Speaker, possibly
with some higher object In view to be ad
vanced by the cry Of reform, promptly came
to the front and declined the extra compensa'
tion. In letter to the House dated March
For this letter Mr.. Bush has received much
applause throughout the State, and while w
! know the whole story. we have had no de
Year: 1878

Riots seem to be one Of the chief products
Of our modern civilization. In former times
riots were infrequent and were seldom
brought about save by violent religious or
political differences; but, to-day, nothing is
too small to provoke riot, and the most in
significant event may easily produce revo-
luton that the government finds 1t difficult
to cope with


The latest popular outburst, which occurred
at the small town OF Alrdrie, Scotland, is
unique In It's character and is overwhelming
evidence. ifevidence be needed, that Scotch
mans brain Is impervious to joke, no matter
how broad 1t may be.


On April gentleman living in Airdrie,
one of those pests of society, a practical JOKER
determined, in Difference to the patron Of the
day, to enliven the dullness Of the town by
little fun. With this end in view, he in
serted an advertisement In the local paper,
announcing that gentleman who had lately
come into fortune would distribute to the
people of Airdrie, on Monday, April 1, at the
Town Cross, 1000 loaves of bread and three
hundred weight Of cheese.


Owing to the depressed condition Of trade
| In the Airdrie district this invitation was gen.
orally accepted; for some months past great
destitution had prevailed In the town, and
thousands were thankful for even loaf of
dry bread. A crowd of a thousand or more
focked, In consequence, to the Town Cross as
appointed in the advertisement, for their
bread and cheese, and here they waited pa
! tiently for that generous gentleman, who
had recently come into a fortune. Hour
after hour they waited, and still he did not
come. At last somebody recollected what day
1t was and the hoax was soon seen by all.
The victims OF this joke, however, did not
take 1t quietly, like most victims OF All FOOLS
Day. They were Scotchmen, and failed to
see the jocular part of the hoax; saw only the
trouble it had put them to. Instead, there
fore, of laughing at 1t and going quietly
home, they armed themselves with sticks,
and proceeding to the newspaper Office that


had published the deceptive advertisement,
demanded the name OF the author OF


the joke Immediately, threatening, If it


was not given them, to "gut" the office.


The editor, In alarm, gave the name and


the crowd, forming itself into platoons,


marched around to the house of that practi-


cal Joker. They assaulted the building with
stones, brckbats and sticks, and in short


time broke in the doors and windows; but the


Joker, alarmed at this display OF violence, had


escaped and fled for safety to the village hotel.
Upon learning this the mob marched around


to the hotel and mobbed that building also,
breaking every pane Of glass In it. Before,
however, they could get hold Of their victim,
hearing that the police were coming, they
dispersed, we'll satisfied with their vengeance
, The unfortunate author Of this joke has
, therefore escaped any bodily injury. He
doubts, however, whether he has had e6oo
worth Of fun out OF his little joke, and will
never again celebrate All FOOLS Day in Scot
Z land.
Year: 1878

After months of diplomatic quibbling the
text of the invitation to the European
Congress is now before Us. II is as simple
aud direct a State document as was ever is
sued TheGriginal demand of the British Gov
-efnment was that the Treaty of San
Stefano should be laid before the Congress,
in order that the representatives of the Great
Powers might determine what articles required
revision and acceptance, and what did not.
The Russian Government did not object to
free discussion, but reserved for itself the
privilege of defining the points on which the
concurrence of the Powers might be necessary.
Under the pressure of this resistance the Brit
ish Government set forth as its uldmatum
that the stpulatiOns of San Stefano must
be discussed "in their entirety" by the
Powers that had signed the treaties of
1856 and 1871. In its note OF lnU-
tation the German Government guar
antecs "frce discussion of the whole OF the
contents of the Treaty. The Russian Court
has virtually conceded the jurisdiction OF the
Powers that registered its disgrace in the
Crimea. A nation that has triumphed glori-
ously in the field cannot swallow the smallest
slice of humble pie in the Cabinet without
many wry face. The concession which has
been made is utterly insignificant in COMPARE
son with the advantages to be derived from
the concurrence of Europe in the settlement
of the Eastern Question. Russia has been
forced to admit that the Treaties OF
Paris and London arc still technically binding.
But practically these Treaties have no more
validity than the Peace of Vienna, which was
framed by a hundred sovereigns and minis
ters. As soon as the Congress meets it will
tear up these records of humiliation in the
Crimea and register the concurrence Of Europe
in the main results of the victories of Shipka,
Plevna and Kars.


At the outset Lord Derby proposed that
Greece should send representative to the
Congress. AS soon as stress was laid upon the
validity of the Treaty of Paris, representa-
ton was necessarily confined to the six
signatory Powers. An opportunity of pro-
noting British prestige in the Hellenic
Peninsula has thus been lost. What is far
more important, the Government has carried
its point of honor, and that is a political as
well as a diplomatic triumph. In its present
temper the British nation will rally around
Ministry that has forced Russia to recede from
its position ever so little. The text Of the in
vitation discloses slight modification of for
mula. Behind this technicality are funda-
mental CONCESSIONS Count SchouvalOf did
not 60 to Berlin and st. Petersburg to revise
the invitations to the Congress but TO effect
a compromise between the two courts on the
Eastern Question.