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Year: 1878

INTRODUCTION OF THE POTATO.-Sir
Walter proved to be one Of the greatest
benefactOrs to his own country, and
eventually to the United States, by the
introduction of the potato, in the year
1884. The root was first planted on
RaIeigh's estate at Younghall, which was
afterwards sold to the Earl of Cork, and
the person who had the management OF
the estate, mistook the flower or fruit, as
he called it, for the valuable part, and on
tasting the potato ball pronounced it a
Dernicious exotic. Sometime afterwards
on turningup the earth, was discovered
that the root had spread largely and in
considerable quantities; and from this
source Great Britain's potato supply
commenced and then gradually the cul-
tivation was extended through North
America. The potato is supposed to
have been a native Of Mexico.
Year: 1878

GOLDEN MOMENTs.-HOw sOry one
would be for a man who, starting out
upon q journey, had his pockets full Of
golden coin which, one by one, had slip
ped through some mmended hole or
rent, so that when he came to the end
of his trip, he had not one left, but lay
down upon his bed a beggaT! How
strictly we would look at our own pockets
after hearing the tale, and make very
sure that what coin we had should be
well spent, or boarded carefully, and not
scattered in the roadside dust! Yet, we
start upon our lives, each one of us, with
4 store of golden moments, of which we
keep little account. Rapidly they slip
away through the rents Of slOth and
ignorance.
Year: 1878

ECONOMY THE FAsHION.-One Of the
greatest changes in the times is that it Is
no longer fashionable to live at undue
expense. Fashionable people now parade
their economy as much as a few years
ago they paraded their wealth. We think,
too, that a greater respect is constantly
being manifested for industry. Idleness
is heldin contempt, and idle people have
no place in society. These are encoUrag-
ing signs. Under such a state Of things
the depression in business can hardly
continue much longer. And when we do
enter upon q new career Of prosperity,
it will be founded on more solid and
enduring basis,
Year: 1878

1t is, I believe, Addison, who remarks,
thatif all the thoughts which pass through
mems minds were to be made public, the
difference which seems to exist between
the thinking of the wise and the unwise
would be a good deal reduced; seeing
that it is a difference which does not
consist in theirnot having the same weak
thoughts in common, but merely in the
prudence through which the wise sup
press the foolish ones. I still possess
notes of the cOgitatiOns of those solitary
evenings, ample enough to show that
they were extraordinary combinations
Of the false and the true; but I at the
same time hold them sufficiently in
memory to remember that I scarce, if at
all, distinguished between what was false
and true IN them at the time. The liter
ature Of alI3lEst every people has a cor
responding early stage, in which fresh
thinking is mingled with little cOnceits,
and in which the taste is usually false,
but the feeling trUe.-Hugb Miller.
Year: 1878

The past may be compared to q great,
ever-ascending pyramid, to which each
generation has added a layer or stratum,
. as it emerges into the light Of the pres
ent, may see further than its predecessor.
Education is in every age more difficult
than in the preceding. But the reward
increases in exact proportion to the labor;
the higher the pyramid to be ascended,
the wider the prospect to be obtained.
Year: 1878

"Many of our personal friends have been cured
by the PERUVIAN SYRUP, but we have one proof
more powerful than all these. and that is-OUR
OWN PERSONAL EXPERIENCE No authority
can put this down-no argument can contradict 1t !;
and no good word shall be spared on our part un-
Ill know ledge of this blessing shall he spread
broadcast among the people"
Year: 1878

The bootblack's trace is destined to
be overcrowded. The exchanges are
publishing a charming sketch of q
Yale graduate who opened law office
in New York, and then, rather than
starve while waiting for clients, opened
business as a bootblack under the side.
walk at the entrance of down town
restaurant. His earnings soon ran up
to Sc per day, and he had to hire an
assistant. While he was at work he
disguised himself so that his best friend
could not recognize him, but out Of
business hours the bootblack was an
elegant gentleman, living in stylish
boarding house on Twenty.6rst street.
That he fell in love with a beautiful
being, that he had a jealous rival, who
finally discovered the vulgar occupation,
and informed the venerable papa that


the young lady was keeping company
with a bootblack. goes with saying. But
the denouement is very touching.
"Lillie!" yelled the old gentleman, REQ
in the face, "come here. You may take
John as soon as you please. He set
about earning living honestly, and
has succeeded. He vii! get on" The
bootblack has resigned the brush and
resumed the practice Of law, and he has
gathered his Lille to his bosom. Go,
young lawyer, and starve no more. Who
says, Here! come, shine 'em up?
Year: 1878

The rush for Northern Pacific lands
is not confined to the Red River country,
but reaches to the Missouri River valley,
also, judging from the number of claims
taken at the Bismarck land Office during
the first week in April More claims
we're taken during that week than during
any other month since the Office was
established excepting the month Of
March 1873
Year: 1878

The contest in relation to the old
Mike Tippie property on-the railroad
right of way is ended at last and force
of men are now at work, under tho
sheriff. tearing the thing down by order
Of the Court, which awards the lots
claimed, being on the railroad right OF
way to the railroad people.
Year: 1878

Congress will adjourn on the L..
o. &C more action on Southern
Pacific railroad bill must be post
poned. Congress finds time in
abundance to leed the flames of sec.
lional and partisan strife, but no
time can be found tor legislation IN
behalf of the material interests OF
the South. "Our friends" in the
North do not burst with impatience
to assist in helping us to share OF
needed aud proper internal inn
provements.
Year: 1878

The following advertisement has
been discovered in an old Dublin
newspaper: eff Edward Headen,
house painter, who is in the habit
of travelling to all parts of the
country in prosecution of his busi-
ness, will communicate with his
brother it will be to his advantage,
as his wife is dead"
Year: 1878

An editor with nine unmarried
daughters was recently made justly
indignant by the misconstruction
his contemporaries put upon his
able leader on "The Demand for
Men."-Burlington Hawkeye.
Year: 1878

This is a perilous season for a
newspaper. 1t is liable to over
look the fact that one of its con-
slant readers took the second prize
for crook-neck squashes-in which
event it acquires bitter enemy
New Haven Register.
Year: 1878

NEw YORK has Musical College in posse,
but whether it will ever pass the embryonic
stage seems somewhat doubtful. According
to the first statement. Samuel Wood (whose
will is the base of the whole thing) bequeath-
ed nothing for the purpose except an interest
in lawsuit. Then half million was said to
be the sum he was unable to carry with him
and had therefore left for the college; from
this to an undivided million was an easy
step; that sum rapidly doubled, and finally
the endowment fund of the institution is set
at the stately figure of three millions of dol
lars, As was inevitable. under the circum-
stances. the will is to be contested, and the
noble army Of lawyers will probably make
good thing out of it. The great trouble is,
that rich men can't bear to give away their
money while they are alive and skeleton
hand outstretched from the grave has fee
Bile grasp compared with the iron claws of
living greed and avaricc.
Year: 1878

We SUBMIT that this generation has had an
elegant sufhciency of Theodore Tilton, his
wife and his friends; and the persistency
with which they parade themselves before
the public shows not only that they have an
infinitely mistaken idea of their own relative
importance, buta surprising Inconsistencies
OF the fact that the final verdict has been
rendered and the case forever closed. The
whole nsuseous affair. with its mutual
friends, its Bessie Turner'S, and its raging


blatherskites, is happily thing of the past;
and as to whether Tilton and his wife are or
are not reconciled, and whether they stay at
home or 90 to Europe, the world is profound
ly Indifferent though perhaps slightly biased
in favor of the transatlantic trip. All it
asks is to be let alone, and to be no longer
bored with the melodramatic posturing of
the tempest-tossed couple.
Year: 1878

SENATOR EpMuNps and Senator Thurman
have opposed the repeal of the bankrupt law
on the ground that commercial nation like
ours cannot do without snch statute. But
they both anticipate its repeal. The effort
will be made to amend. rather than repeal,
in the Senate; hut the chances are against
the retention Of the law in any shape.
Year: 1878

ALL THE INDICATIONS point to an Indian
outbreak Of unusual dimensions, this season,
for with ten thousand men at his bovine
heels there is no saying what Sitting Bull
may not do, and the settlers in the Far
West must keep an extraordinarily tight
grip on the tops Of their heads. In the good
old times wealthy Irish town had an ar
ticle in its Gtany, From the fury of the
O'Flaherties. good Lord deliver u.s." and
even so our Western squatters (though they
are not popularity supposed to indulge to any
great extent in litanies) may well pray to be
delivered from their scarce human foes.
What really appears to be needed is tho
capture and summary execution of Sitting
Bull, Spotted Eagle and the entire zoolo-
gcal and ornithological gang.
Year: 1878

THE PROPER MAN.-The transaction of
business with punctuality and dispatch, in
all legislative and deliberative assem- blies,
depends mainly,upen the promptness and
ability of the Chief Clerk or Secretary.
The larger and more diverse the body,
the greater the necessity for thor
oughly competent man at the Secre-
tary's desk. Here the business of the
assembly is arranged and presented for
action, and the wheels of the working
machinery of the body started and kept
in motion. Large bodies move slowly"
but in legislative matters their action NAV
be greatly retarded by an unskilled ard
inefficient Secretary, while the transac-
tion of business may be proportionaIly
accelerated by securing the services of
prompt, energetic and experienced Clerk.
The Constitutional Convention to assem-
BILE in Sacramento next September will
be composed of 152 Delegates, body 20
large that it viii naturally be unwieldy
and require clerical services Of the high
est order, all of which should be under the
immediate direction and control Of the
Secretary Of the Convention. For this
important position California happily
contains one man pre- eminently qualified; /;
a man endowed by nature and experience
with peculiar capabilities for services Mt
the Sceretary's desk. We refer to MAR
Gus ID. BORgCK, of San Francisco, who
in the past has served in like capacity on
numerous occasions and always with
marked ability. Friend and foe alike
eoneede that his equal as Clerk cannot
be found on the Pacific Coast, and no
man in the Union is his superior IN this
respect. Prompt, honest and correct, he
fills the bill to the letter and is eminently
the right man in the right place. The
selection OF officers will be the first busi-
ness before the Constitutional Convention
and much Of its success will depend upon
their choice. Let political and personal
differences be laid aside and choose off
GERS upon merit and fitness for the sever
al posi- ions. SO doing, the Convention
will do itself and the people of The State
great service by the election Of MARCUS
ID. BoRUcK as Secretary.
Year: 1878

.TBE Colossus OF New YokK.-It is
stated that the statue of"Liberty Epligbt-
ening the World" now being fashioned
in Paris for the entrance OF New York
harbor, will be completed by the time
appointed in 1881. Between forty and
fifty men are now employed on the work.
most of whom are getting the head into
shape. The material is copper, fashioned
IN plates three -eights Of an inch thick,
and the figure and features are brought by
sledgehammers and snarled irons into
Titaric kind OF TepOusse work. Some
idea of the size Of the statue is gained
from the fact that each hair on the head
is as large as mans arm.
Year: 1878

THE tunnel through the big tree in the
Tuolumne grove, on the road from Big
Oak Flat TO Yosemite valley has been
completed. 1t attracts the wonder of
tourists and every kind OF traveller who
passes through it on stage or other vehicle
for more than thirty feet. We are told
that it is in contemplation to cut room
in the tree for the accommodation and re-
freshment of passers by. 1t is really a
curiosity that will always be remem bered
by those who shall have the privilege of
seeing it.-Sonord Democrat.
Year: 1878

WORKING OF THE SILVER LAw.-The
Treasury Department has been informed
OF curiotis working of the Silver law.-
Parties in San Francisco have been in the
habit of exchanging gold dollars for sill
yer dollars, and then obtaihininx silver
certificates. These they send 20 New
York, use them in payment Of customs
and thus save tic handling or transporta-
ton Of gold, and in this way have been
able to transact considerable and profit
able business,
Year: 1878

THE Attorney General has sustained
the view taken by the Second Assistant
Postmaster General, that the law passed
at the last session Of Congress authoring
payments by the Postofice Department
directly to sub contractors for carrying
The mails is applicable to contracts exist
ing at the date Of enactment Of the law,
ss well as to those Of subsequent Isiue.
Year: 1878

UEDEoIDED.-The Potter investigation
drags its slow length along. 1t is not yet
known who will receive the medal as the
boss liar, but it seems probable that
several will have to be awarded. Honors
are easy.
Year: 1878

Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is iso-
lated In beauty To depends forever on
the necessary and useful. The plumage
OF the bird, the mimic plumaee of the
insect, has o reason for its rich c0lors i'm
the constitution Of the animal. Fitness
Is so inseparable an accompaniment Of
beauty that it has been taken for it,
EWcrSOH
Year: 1878

The great battle Of the people
was won on Saturday the 9th, in
the House of Delegates-the bat
tie of the State against the Fund
ing Bill. Many members had
paired and gone home, but the vic
tory would not have been changed


f all ha6 been present. Mr.. Bar
bour closed the debate in a power
fnl speech of two hours to a crow
ded house that gave the most per-
fest attention. The speech was
unlike that of any of the other
speeches, but was bold. spicy, sar-
castle and incisive. The senate
will be closer, but we believe it
will pass the Senate. A week will
probably determine. In all mod
ern times no measure of superior
Importance has been before the
assembled representatives of the
people Thus the State swings
lose frnm Gilbert o. Walker. at
the same that that arch schemen
switched off the soil Of Virginia
and goes to try his hand on the
Heather Chinee.
Year: 1878

VEoETINE-When the blood becomes lifeless
and stagnaut either from change of weather or
Of climate, want of exercise. irregular dict
or from any other causo. the Vegetine will re-
new the blood, carry off the putrid humors.
cleanse the stomach, regulate the bowels. and
impart tone Of vigor to the whole body
Year: 1878

To the EdttOr Of The Tribune


SIR: A constant reader of THE TRIBUNE is
DESTROYS OF knowing why II is that unadvertsed lectures
well reported and the attention OF the public Is
enlisted after the opportunity has passed 10 hear them
There is evidently great lack OF business management
the part OF those who undertake 10 manage or give
lectures they fail frequently In securing the attcn
ton Of the public and In treating fairly the few whom
they succeed In informing The public are quite free to
admit that lecture worth advertising is not worth
listening to- and experience, nine times out OF ten VIII
prove the correctness of public opinion.


in the majority OF lectures advertised the advertising
is done mperfecty to deter one from going as for
instance the hour and the price Of admission are FIRE
quently omitted, and ALL strangers or not are supposed
10 know the locality of the hall And In the case OF
given by societies. for example the GeOgraph
teal Society," Free Trade Association, Chamber of
Commerce etc, II would be very desirable to know
whether these advertised lectures are accessDe 10 the
public only 10 the members OF these associations


An advertisement To the public should take nothing
for granted the information impaired should be full and
clear, W.


NtlC- ! OIk, April II, 1873.
Year: 1878

The average weight Of outgoing mails from New-YOrk
to Brazil during the first quarter OF the present fiscal
year about 10000 pounds for each monthly trip Of
the line The amount OF revenue which accrued TO the
Post Office Department from this service was about
times the paid to the line Of steamers
which now carries the mall or about 300 year. The
line asks the Government to contract with 1t at the
OF $50 mile, the rate which is paid to rail-
road companies in the United States for mail service


The substitute of the House Committee Post Offices
and Post Roads for all the bills introduced TO provide
mail steamship between the United States
and Brazil provides for two lines OF steamers one be
tween New-York and Brazil and the other between New
Orleans and Brazil.


1t Is said at the Post Office Department that the
ton made the report OF the majority Of the House Com
mtee that there direct steam communication
between this country and Brazil but that letters from the
United States destined for Brazilian ports have be
carried across the Atlantic and thence foreign lines
10 South America Is ncOrrec that there Is at present
line which carries the United States mails, and which
has three steamers running regularly and punctually
between NewIork and the most important ports on
tho Brazilian IL is true that the flour trade be-
almost exclusively by sailing vessels


The other side OF the story Is that the Merchants


line of steamers only far Para and Bahia and
to Rio JaneirO. which is the most important port Of
Brazil II s therefore, undoubtedly true that the larger
portion OF the mail between the United States and
Brazil goes by the Of Europe, and that IL far
coeds in bulk that which is sent by the Merchantss line
Year: 1878

FACTS COLLECTED AT THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT


WASHINGTON, April 25.-SOme statistics
have been prepared at the Post Office Department for
information IN regard to the proposed mail contract
with the Brazilian steamship Company Tho payments
made by the Government 10 the Merchants Line OF
steamers OF NewYork for the transportation Of mail
matter from this country to Brazil during the past year
have been as follows:
Year: 1878

II was an inspiring spectacle that was pre-
seted Tor the contemplation of the people OF Indiana nj
mozart Hall last night, when Governor Williams STOOD
mn before mixed assemblage TO give the word Go 10
That he was weak ignorant and boorish was admitted
by all and regretted by those O had any consideration
for the reputation OF the Stae but even those WHO
fpew him best were disposed to believe ne had some
sense Of the dignity Of his office.
Year: 1878




SIR: | have no desire TO tax your columns
much but choose to publish the following and
thus satisfy the request Of many students In your
Issue OF March 30 have objection At the outset,
would say those wishing to live economically that
they expect much fancy food many pies and
cakes in my bill OF fare To healthy student. cOndi.
mcnts and swectmeats become in great measure uune
ccssary provided bis diet Is wholesome and nutritious.
In my experience do not hesitate Ia say that dish,
however sayOry delicious, over tasted better or
eaten with relish than my oatmeal or bowl Of gra-
ham bread and milk. But here are the figures. During
the nfty-two days from January TO February ~ iu-
elusive. purchased n follows:
Year: 1878

A SUDDEN CHANGE OF TUNE-The day after
Senator Howe delivered his speech, the entire
Republican delegation from Wisconsin in the
House, with Senator Cameron, of the same State,
called upon the President in body, to assure
him that they had not been consulted by Sena-
tor Howe, and that they did not approve Of his
speech, but regarded it as ill-advised and ont of
place. And while they were there, they hap
pcned to remember that ex-Congressman Cobb,
formerly of Wisconsin, was u candidate for Reg
lister of the Treasury, in place of Mr.. Allison,
deceased. They could vouch for his ability and
integrity, and took the liberty of suggesting his
appointment. The Presidential hypOcrite en-
tered very cordially into their views, and gave
them to understand that Cobb would be ap-
pointed. But when they got back to the Capitol,
they were bumfoozed to learn that the name of
Schofeld, of Pennsylvania, had already been
sent into the Senate for the same appointment,
and that it had been made the day before their
visit. Then they went to cursing Hayes. They
should have cursed themselves for eating dirt.
We have not heard that they have called in
body upon Senator Howe, to apologize for the
insult that they put upon him, and to commend
him for telling the truth.
Year: 1878

II A caucus of Republican Senators was
held at Washington, few days ago, to determ-
inc what course to pursue toward the President.
Some were in favor of appointing committee
to freely consult with him; but those who had
been on former committee would not hear to
it, as they were not willing to be treated with
contempt q second time. Even some of those
who have hitherto sustained the President, con-
fessed that 1t appeared useless to trife with him
longer, and thought that the only hope for the
Republican party was for the Republican mem-
bers of Congress to repudiate Hayes, and strike
out boldly for the integrity of the party.
Year: 1878

B= If the Bulletin will carefully read the speech
of Mr.. Green, in last weeks Chief, it will find
that there is no allusion in it to soldiers enlist
ing in the Union army to do dirty work for the
Government. That's the difference between the
speech the Chief published and the one the Bal
letim published. And furthermore, the men who
made the two speeches were of different kinds of
Greens, altogether. So, try, try again.
Year: 1878

= The organs and apologists of the Presi-
dent condemn Howe's speech, as calculated to
injure the Republican party, and encourage the
Democracy. Better to endorse Hayes, who is
doing so much to strengthen the Republican
party. The only remedy for that loathsome
cancer upon the hody of the Republican party,
is to apply the knife to it, instead of nursing
and pettiug it. The operation may hurt, for
the time being, but it will be apt to cure.
Year: 1878

have been found at Passanate's
abode, and more international
nave consequently been arrested.
The King, previous to the attempt
on his life, received two letters
intimating that it would be made