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Year: 1875

There is at present greater scarcity of
corn in this country than was ever known
before. 1t is useless to stop to ask wheth-
er this is the result of drouth, lazincss or
bad management. The fact is fact, and
that is sufficient Many well-to-do far
mcrs. who have always heretofore had
corn to sell. and some who never bought
a buShel OF corn in their lives, will be com
PEELED to buy, and that speedily. What
will be done? The worst OF 1t is that
many who are out of corn are also out OF
money. So here /, chance for our phi
lantropic moncycd men to make money,
easy and Il heap OF il. and at the same
time Ito good and accommodate their more
unfortunate nciglborS. We have no doubt
that vast quantitc. Of corn could be sold
at the depot to good parties for approved
and perfectly safe notes until next fall,
at - per barrel. Here is big thing for
any man who has the wisdom and money
to take advantage of il.
Year: 1875

Be well acqu 4inted with the best
means of escape from your house, both
at the top and the bottom. Do not get
confused. Admit no one to your house
except fremen, policemen or peighbors.
If a lady's or child's dress catches fire,
endeav0r to roll the person in a rag
carpet or any piece of woolen stuff.
Keep all the doors and windows closed
until the fremen arrive. II you cannot
make your way from building by
stairway, endeavor to get into a front
room, and keep all doors shut behind
you, for smoke will follow a draft, and
flames the smoke. If smoke enters the
room and it is difficult to stand erect,
get your mouth as close to the floor as
possible, and breathe easy, as there is
always a fresh current of air near the
floor A wet cloth over the mouth will
greatly aid breathing. In letting out
smoke from room, always open the
upper portion of a window. In case of
fire in a theater or any crowded place,
keep perfectly calm, and do all you can
to prevent panic, as there generally is
plenty of time to escape if there is no
panic. Do not go into building where
there is a thick smoke without satu-
rated sponge IN your mouth, or a wet
cloth or handkerchief over mouth and
nose. In ascending or descending a
ladder, do so with a regular step, to
prevent vibration.
Year: 1875

Remarkable instances of The power of
will to overcome what most persons
would succumb to, are not wanting in
history and biography. When Queen
Elizabeth was seized with illness
which terminated in her death, she
refused fol three days to give way
so far as to permit her attend
ants to carry her to bed. Her naughty,
queenly spirit fought death himself
with an obstinate resistance. Those of
our readers who have seen a representa-
tion of Lord Lytton's play of Richelieu,
will remember what admirable use he
makes of the delicacy OF body from
which the eminent statesmen suffered
constantly. John Wesley, who prob
ably performed more work than any of
his contemporaries, when a young man
had diseased lungs and hemorrhage,
and but for his good sense and pluck
would have died early instead of living
TO organize church which has attained
an enormous membership and great
wealth and power. During the last
year his life this eminent man was
the victim of a distressing complaint
which he hardly ever permitted TO inter-
fere with his incessant toll, and with
whose existence but very few persons
were acquainted. NJ. Theirs is miserable
specimen of humanity only abont four
feet high, shaped somewhat like a tad
pole, and sustained in life by the most
vigilant attention on the part of his
devoted wife and another lady IN his
household; ; yet when president of the
French republic, so very recently, the
brave old gentleman was accustomed to
be- at his desk by five in the morning
performing the detail necessary in tbe
dis charge of function which he had
assumed when his country was PROSTATE
at the feet of Gelmany. Conspicuous
examples of the triumph of will over
suffering and consequent depression of
mind could be multiplied but these are
sufficient
Year: 1875

Trace fashion to it's origin and yOu
will nearly always find that it springs
from the consciousness of a defect and
a wish to mask it. The fatherland of
crinoline is Spain, and Spanish queen
first wore hoops to dissimulate unequal
hips. A Venus of the Boulevards, who
committed suicide by throwing herself
over a balcony few years sgo, revived
the high-heeled shoes, which Louis
Quortorze originally brought into fash
ion to appear taller than the king of
Spain at the meeting in the Isle of
Pheasants. A lady who derives pres
tige from rank, fortune and striking
beauty scalded her arm three winters
back. An ugly mark bore witness to
the accident. She thought of wearing,
to conceal it, those long armed gloves
which, out of mercy to the plebeiau
wives of Napoleon's s marshals and gener-
ais, the Empress Josephine adopted.
The bats slantlng down over the eye
brows were the result of lady of ex-
alted rank losing her front hair. Queen
Elizabeth's neck was yellow and thin,
hence the "stiff muslin mane." The
double veil of white and black tulle was
contrived by parliamentary woman"
with bad complexion. She used pearl
powder to hide her red skin, and the
white and black veil to dissimulate the
pearl powder which would have shown
on black net.
Year: 1875

5UEOH5 HUI VIIS5 ION5vV1 III GI5 JUSTICES o.
life.


Dear mothers, as I say farewell to
you, would lift my heart in prayer to
the Father above, asking Him to give
you, each and all, wisdom and strength
so to bring up those boys OF yours that
a noble manhood may be theirs hap
py heart yours, and mansion of rest
for you all in the pure city of God.


And if my story will help some
mother to be more patient and tender
with her boy will thank God that He
has permitted few threads of gold to
finish my web of ife.-Artl,A.'s Home
M0Qnzine.
Year: 1875

WOMAN has always bore the character
of a ministering angel, and wherever
distress has been prevalent, there she
has always been found ready to do all in
her power to alleviate it. In so good a
cause as affording relief to the sufferers
from the grasshopper plague, we could
find it in our hearts TO endorse almost
any action of sympathetic women, but
we question whether the proposition of
Mrs. Mary Jane Brown, of Maine, who
offers to Eight any woman III America for
800 a side, the gate money to go to the
grasshopper sufferers" will meet with
the&pproval of the general public or the
authorities,
Year: 1875

Some Of our readers will recall the
facts connected with an attempt some
wears ago, made by two printers in a
small sailboat, to reach Enrol Island,
some few miles southwark of the Chan
deleurs, in search of hidden treasures.
A tradition had been handed down in the
family of one of these adventures that
an old negro cook, once employed on
one of Lafitte's vessels, had been wit
ness 10 the secreting of a large amount
of gold on the Chandelier islands.


About five years ago the last of the
brothers in this family, in whom the
possession of the facts We're, started out
singly and alone in q small boat toward
the fatal Enrol Island, and he has not
been heard Of since. The repeated at
tempfs to reach this almost mysterious
land and the many failures have given
occasion for considerable superstitution
on the part OF those who look with awe
upon the UnfathOmable. Time after
time have various parties attempted to
land upon the weird shore of Enrol
Island after secreted treasures of the
bold smUggleT, bUt in every instance
their efforts have been attended with
fatal results.


The stories of the past coming down
to us tell of considerable sums OF Span
sh money having been hid by lieu
tenant under the command of Laitte,
in one of the chain Of islands to the
southwark of the Chandeleurs, but as
yet no proof Of this tradition has b en-
found. We learn that, notwiths anding
all the hazards said to be incident to
this Quixotic pilgrimage, there is party
forming to make another venture after
this seoreted gold. By the 18th of next
mouth three stalwart young men OF our
city propose to dare the dangers of the
deep and the strange spell said to be
resting about this mysterious island,
and, come what may, bring a solution to
this time worn question. Orleans
Bulletin.
Year: 1875

A CHICAGO paragraphist, who had got
a place on a Philadelphia paper, was
thus addressed by his new proprietor
"Of course, Won know our Philadelphia
papers are different from those of the
west thev have TO be. You must be "a
little guarded in your paragraphs !
know that you come from the west, the
land of robust thought and outspoken-
ness, but you must remember that our
subscribers are peculiar people.


Don't pitch into anybOdy-that IS, any
body who is alive now, o. who Las died
within, say, five hundred years don't
even say anything har=h OF Mr.. Richard
Turpin, for there are some OF our sub
scribers who go so far as to admire him.
No man of genius, no matter how mean


he was in private life, must be ridiculed
in our paper, for our peoD pie love great
men aud always stop their papers when
they see anything against their heroes.


Why, we lost forty three subscribers
one day by harmless little paragraph
on that old humbug, Wm, Penn. BY
the way, if you should at any time feel
as though you really must attack some
body, Just pitch into Sesostris, that old
Egyptian fraud who pretended TO be a
conquerer when he never conquered
anything at all. That was a good while
ago, and none Of our subscribers know
anything about the Egyptians. A good
many of those antiquated old scoun-
drels need writing up, anyhow. Sup
pose you begin on old Sesostris at once.
Year: 1875

How we, poor players on Lifes little stage,
Thrust blindly at each 9th r IN our rage,
Quarrel and fret, yet rashly da to pray
To God to help us in our selfish way.
We think to move Him, with our prayer and


praise
To serve our needs-as in the old Greek days


fight,
With mightier arms the flying foe to smite.
The laughter of those gods pealed down to


men,
For Heaven was but an upper story then
Where goddesses about an apple strove,
And the high gods fell humanity in love.
We own God whose presence fills the sky
Whose sleepIess eyes behold the worlds roll
Whose faithful memory numbers one by one
The sons of men and calls them each His son.
He loves us all-is patient with our sin
Spreads wide His door and bids us enter in
And loves us least when least we love each


other.


How idle, then, to pray for mine or thine,
TO seek for earthly ends the grace divine,
To hope for health in storing W our gold,
That we be warm while other men are cold!
He love us ALL and from His waiting feast
VIII turn away no meanest one, or least;
But all His guests must come in friendly


guiSe,


Since Love, bright angel, guards His Para


disc,


And swift as lightning shuts its cleaning


gate


Against the soul that learns to love too late
Year: 1875

There is place WHARF two roads
meet. One is broad and smooth, and
leads gently down hill. AT first it
looks pleasant, and has trees to shade
flowers i'll the hedgerows, but by de-
grees the trees become fewer, the
flowers disappear, the road goes down
sleeper and sleeper, so that you find it
harder to turn back; and, at last, If
you go Oil, it becomes straight,
crumbling cliff, and you find out too
late that the road leads nowhere but
to destruction, and you slip or fall
forward and are dashed into the sea
below.


The other road is so narrow that
there is hardly room for two to 60 to-
gether, and it is rough at first and
steep up hill; and for long way you
find few flowers in it; but if you will
only walk on steadily a bit, you will
find it becomes less steep and rough
and there are flowers in plenty, and at
the top of the hill you will see beau
tiful house, with your Father waiting
to welcome you.


The broad road is the road of Selfish
ness; the narrow road is the road of
Goodness. At first it seems easy and
pleasant to be selfish, and hard and
painful to be good. But selfishness
leads to ruin in the end, while good
ness leads up to our Father in Heaven.
NeW A0e.
Year: 1875

Last evening about eight o'clock, as
the street evangelist was commencing
his evening exhortation in front of the
United States Hotel, the carpenter
connected with the hotel accompanied
him by beating OH an old tin lard can.
The din was horrible, between the
pounding and the singing, and officer
Toomey finally ended the disturbance
by arresting the man with the tin pan.
The sympathy of the crowd was with
the prisoner, claiming that the man
had as much right to raise row by
beating tin pan as the preacher by
singing hymns.
Year: 1875

At 10 O'Clock A. NJ, to nominate candidates for
the Assembly and for county offices, to be
supported by the Independent voters of said
county at the coming election.


The apportionment of delegates is based on
the vote of 1873. Delegates will be elected by
ballot, and all residents of the county are
qualified to vote at the elections hereinafter
called who are in hearty sympathy with the
reform movement and who will pledge them
selves to support the Peoples Independent
Party in the approaching county election.


Elections for Delegates to said Convention
will be held in the several voting places on
Year: 1875

Father Of his Country by the efforts Of the ladies
of this great Republic, In which the North and
South are vieing with each other to preserve his
its "Reminiscences, will in q great degree tend to
reconcile and settle the conflicting opinions, ant
nosities and asperities that before existed be-
tween the North and South. and establish that
fTateTnaI feeling which should exist between the
sections Of tbis great country.
Year: 1875

Deposit your bonds and silverware with the
National safe Deposit Company, corner Thr-
teenth and New York avenue, before you go away
for the summer and relieve yourself from all anX-
iety thereby adding to the comfort OF your trip.
Try it, and send your friends to do likewise.
Year: 1875

hind it, is terrible thing, even to
read Of. And yet, l dare to say il,
the hunger of a child's soul, that can
never forget the nest it has left, that
must needs carry into its prison dim
memories of a little patch of blue sky
of dewy grasses and singing birds;
of the housekeeping touch Of tender
hands and loving lips-is beyond the
power of human utterance. Suddenly
the child's face grew luminous with .
great purpose that would never be
quenched till the waters went over it.
Did the angels drop it down from the
skies! God knows. We may never
know. No suicidal soul, think,


Mad with lfe's history,


Glad to deaths mystery


Swift 70 be hurled


Anywhere-anywhere.


Out Of the world"
Ever goes to meet God and the future
till all bitterness is dropped out Of the
purpose by the gradual development
of it, and this purpose is never reached
but by series of desperate, halfwon
battles.


1t had been dogs life to her back
yonder il the factory. From begin
ming to end she only remembered foul
play.


Through the long, dreary years Of
bondage that ebbed and flowed with
their heavy baptisms of pain, she had
carried only one picture in her soul.
1t had helped to keep her pure; had
helped to beat back the coarse. vile
air that throttled her; had dropped in
to her starved soul and famished life,
mamma; as surely the bread of Heaven
as the mamma of old.
1t was the picture of her mother
with her sweet woman's face set in .
framework of braided, brown hair,
who taught her to pray and sang her
lullaby songs, but that was so long
ago it seemed ages. A dreadful fe-
yer swept by and bore her mother
away; then rough men carried her to
the factory and put chains upon her.


She grew patient as children will
and bore it meekly as children must,
till the goad cut close to the vitals-
then she bit back till the blood flowed.
Goaded hunted down-dogged-at
bay-the purpose had grown link by
link, into . chain strong enough TO
grapple with anything that would
open a gateway to the skies. And 80
it happened that the white silence was
being bridged betwixt the factory and
the river.





"Night's candles had burned out
Dawn with her rosy fingers had flung
a flush over the earth and new day
crowned and blushing, stepped from
the earth as the bells Of time rang out
the first watch. The sleeping city
slowly awakened again to the hum Of
busy life.


The shining river
Ever hurried
To be buried
In the bitter moon. mad 81"
Rolled swiftly on chanting its eternal
requium:


Down where it was swiitest and
deepest and coolest, with her white
dripping face upturned to the plying
lsky and.her yellow hair twisted amid
the leaves 81 ths watcr-lilies, the little
| |datk figure - found floating:


Nm Lxs1ol
Year: 1875

Women are like everything else in this world--a very mixed up affair. According to our own ob- servation there are

 Women good and women bad,

 Women gay and women sad,

 Women blg and women small,

 Women short and women tall,

 Women fat and women lean,

 Women sweet and women mean,

 Women young and women old,

 Women bought and women sold,

 Women poor and women rich.

 And a good many more women sieh.

 The first woman in this world was Eve. Eve was a bad girl. She didn't belong to the good templars. Eve liked apple cider too well-she wanted hers dry. We never saw Eve, but they say she was a pretty girl. Her fellow was a chap by the name of Adam. We never went to school with him. Eve was like the rest of her SIS ters-just tell her not to do any thing and she would be sure to do it. Eve must have been coun- try girl. She didn't care much for fashion, and she made her own clothes without a sewing machine. She would be rather behind the times should she visit us now.

 Some women are very pretty. We don't like pretty women there are always so many fellows around them. They remind us of a lot of flies on q molasses stick. We like the molasses-but bother the flies.

 Good women are plenty in this country, but they will never tell you Of It, you havesvt t~arail ,am out yourself.

 Bad women are everywhere. They are like rotten apples in q barrel of good ones-apt to throw their decayed influences around them. They will always try to make you believe they are good. Don't take q bad woman. She is counterfeit treasure. Look out for trade mark.

 Gay women are jolly fellows; always on laugh, they make you feel good clear to your sleeve but tons.

 A sad woman ought to wear spectacles with pink colored glass es in them. That would make hei look at the world Tn a different light.

 We don't know that we like 2 big woman better than a little one If she is so big that Q step-laddel is required to kiss her, we most respectfully decline in favor of tho small one. As we reflect further on this subject, we come to the conclusion that the small ones are always preferable. They have tendency to hang themselves around a fellow-and we want tc 

 furnish the material for hang
Year: 1875

thousand filed Sixth IN fron:of Booth
Theatre yesterday morning. clamorng be engaged
auxaries in the forthcoming spectacular tragedy OF


Julius Cesar Commodore Tooker and Stage Manager
John Vincent did the work Of selecting the wanted
There were all sorts and sizes from tho Five Points TO
Filth avenue and from Eve feet feet five fnches
Youth and Old age in the throng bat OF fine looking
specimens Of physical manhood there was an uncom-
mon display The remuneration Of about flfty cents a
night attraction some but the majority, ac-
cording y Joe Tooker impelled TO apply simply
out Of desire 70 get on the stage The work Of en-
rolling the necessary number conducted with great
rapidly Twenty policemen, under Captain Steers
Kept order and did excellent In wedding the
htuo ielows from the Dig that wanted and
fcndlns them 70 the right about without loss Of time
Yet some Of the htte fellows would manage slip in
nevertheless and after being banged through the
Twenty third street stage entrance would return and
edge Their way 10 again by the Sixth avenue door.
Had y not been that Barney Williams wanted Ihe
theatre ~ rehearse Connie SooRah the whole mum.
bcr required for Julius Caesar would been en-
Boyed, but another batch will be engaged rs soon az
possible and the drilling Of the entire lot will be begun
next week. In the crowd Of applicants were college
students dry goods clerks and members Of various
professions, whose evenings their own and who
went N Tor the fun Of the thing


Almost all who received tickets Of engagement
stood about six feet They 70 be used IN She "a
bloau1 With which the play Of "Juus Cssarn is TO be
illustrated
Year: 1875

BY the European man we have the intelligence that
Friday, the 18th Of November, somewhat suddenly
the ripe age OF scventysx, passed away from life
thai fine old English gentleman Dir Percyva Hart
Dyke Baronet Of Luningstone Castle, whose memory
will be deeply cherished throughout the county Of
Kent Patron Of all the agricultural societies and char
in his neighborhood he 70 amelorate the
condition Of the working classes, and largely sue
ceeded In abating the differences between master and
Az sporting man, In It's highest sense, he was
Justly esteemed, for he not only fine Judge Of
hunting but as formerly mastor Of foxhounds
hs knowledge was based on practical experience, TO
which added keen relish and a thorough
love Of the sport which no enjoyed 70 within week Of
his death. Coursing and shooting be equally
attached 70 must forget 70 mention that he
Of the best hand coachmen Of hts day The
West Kent Hunt will sadly miss him, for he Of


ts best supporters and his genial presence always
hailed with delight by the whole hed for who could
account for fox as well as ho knew where
70 be found with greater certainty Az captain in
the West Kent Yeomanry hts troop the largest for
its ranks were always filled by those who deemed duty
pleasure when serving under so gallant man.
Year: 1875

collision occurred yesterday morning in the Bergen
Eut Of the Pennsylvania railroad, al Jersey City be-
tween the train and the freight going
to the depot in Jersey City The locomotive OF the
news train jumped the track al the Baldwin Avenue
Bridge and the freight train dashed along. Both
locomotives were smashed, but no person injured.
The passengers and mails transferred 10 the depot
by the horse cars and travel the railroad de-
4ayed several hours
Year: 1875

A telegram OF yesterday 70 Senator Sherman from
Cardington Ohio the al that place n
Mr. T. n Reese, familiariy known IN Washington as
clerk 10 the Senate Committee on Finance Mr. Reese
had attack Of paralysis years ago from which
he had partially recovered About two weeks since he
had second attack which proved fatal meeting Of
the officers Of the Senate held this evening and
resolutions Of respect for she memory Or the deceased
were ad
Year: 1875

"A traveller in Northern New
York after the late snow storm says
that while driving to Pulaski, Oswe-
60 county, he saw a singular sight.
A farmer had dug a hole in the snow
down to his wood-pile,. and was at
work in it chopping some wood. So
deep was the hole that only the blade
of the axe, while it was at the height
Of its cireling sweep, could be seen.
Year: 1875

Archbishop McCloskey having


been raised to the dignity of Cardinal,


i; Will be etiquette for him always to
appear in a costume some portion of
which is scarlet. This is supposed to
symbolic the special readiness of dig
nitaries Of that class to shed their
blood for the good Of the church.
The full dress Of a cardinal is one Of
the most gorgeous and striking cos
TUNES worn. S~a: rC1& 1zs.si~ n ,i'.s1,sE:E
Year: 1875

THE Republicans of Chicago worked
hard on last Tuesday to defeat the
hummer ticket, and they succeeded.
All good citizens took part in the
contest, rolling up their sleeves and
going in with a will, however dis
tasteful it was to them to mix in the
crowd. At one poll, in order to frus-
tratc and drive away rcpeaters, they
threw strong calcium light upon the
voting place At the approach Of night,
and deeds of darkness did not -four
ish well under its powerful iilnmina-


tion.
Year: 1875

a Christian weekly lays it down as
a rule, in long article, that nothing
funny should be put in newspaper.
1t doesn't seem to follow the rule,
however. The long article created a
broad grin all over the country, and
aroused a widespread inquiry as to
whether its writer wasa fool on pur-
pose or merely by accident.