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Year: 1877

AS poor as u church mouse,


As thin as a rail
AS fat as a porpoise,


AS rough as a gale;
As brave as a lion,


AS spry as cat;
As bright as a sixpencc,


As weak as q rat.
AS proud as a peacock,


AS sly as fox;
As mad as a March hare,


As strong as an OK
As fair as lilly,


As empty as air;
As rich as a Cresus,


AS cross as n bear.
As pure as an angel,


AS neat as n pin;
As smart as a steel trap,
As ugly as sin;
AS dead as q door nail,


As white as o sheet;
As fiat as a pancake,


As red as q beet.
AS round as an apple,


As black as your hat;
AS brown as a berry,


As blind as a bat;
As mean as q miser,


As full as a tick;
AS plump as a partridge,
As sharp as stick.
AS clean as a penny,


As dark as a pail;
AS hard as q millstone,
As bitter as gall;
AS fine as a fiddle,


As clear as q bell;
As dry as a herring,


As deep as a well.
AS light as a feather,
As hard as a rock;
As stiff as a poker,


As calm as q clock;
AS green as q gosling,
AS brisk as a bee;
And now let me stop,
Lest you weary of me.
Year: 1877

IN the manufacture of my Harness none but
the very best Leather is used, and being hand
made it is therefore durable. large assort-
ment of articles in my line always ON hand, or
made to order at exceedingly low prices. -,


Repairing done at short notice and warranted
to give satisfaction. (Apr Sly
Year: 1877

There lives IL Moscow, in the ad
joining county of Hickman, man ol
considerable means, and it seems with
streak of eecentricity in bis nature,
who was solicited by the farmers OF
that county to employ a part of his
idle capital in erecting wafehonse for
the storage OF grain, promising him
patronage sutheient to pay him Iiber-
ally Tor the outlay He built the
house but did no business. He shut
up the house. locked the doors had a
row of ten inch square oak nosta nut
entirely around the house and having
cross pieces mor.ised into them 60 that
approach is impossible, aud then had
painted in large letters on the front Of
The building the words: Misplaced
Confidence He refuses n saII.,or
rent the house for love or nancy
Mayield Democrat.
Year: 1877

The Gallatin Examiner sarcastically y
.sys it likes to see the things mention
c1 below:


We like to see man refuse 10 take his
peal paper, and all the time sponge on
lis neighbor for the reading of it, We
ike to hear complaint when we ask him
% 81 bseribe for his home paper, that he
axes more papers than he reads now. and
Lsen goaround and borrow his nsighbor 5
r loaf about until be gets the news from
I. We like to see man run down his
home paper Rs not worth taking, and eve
y now and then beg the editor for fa
yor in the editorial line. We like to see
. merchant refuse to advertise in q home
paper, aud then try to get q share of trade
which papers bring TO town But, above
all things we like TO see rich miserly
man who cannot pay for his local paper
always manage to be around in time 10
read the paper, at the expense of friend
not worth the tenth part of what be him
,elf il. 1t looks so economical, thrifty
and progressive. YOU know
Year: 1877

The Dispatch says, Mr.. Carr is the
hardest worked man and the best and
most accommodating postotticc clerk in
this Territory" We cannot swallow the
whole of that statement at once, but will
try and worry it down in broken doses,
long time apart. We believe the
young man has made some progress late
ly, in the way Of distributing the mails
promptly and without partiality' We
still think there is room for improvement.
If he is so terribly overworked, we would
suggest that he exchange places with
some logging camp man, for u rest.
Year: 1877

Among the many changes TO take place soon
on the grand boulevard none will be more stKik-
ing and more indicative of the good time to come
than the swayiDg to the breeze the banners OF tho
grand "Palais Royal" Our enterprising friend
Levy, who has for 80 many years been the popa
lar proprietor of the dollar store, No. 137 Canal
street. seems to have had bis faith shaken In re-
publican Institutions and ideas, and Ia deter
mined, with one fell swoop, to obliterate tho
name OF dollar store forever. He Ia making prep
arations for the opening Of this elegant and gor-
geous establishment, and nothing will be spared
in making it the most attractive place in the
Southern country. Levy's dollar store is known
throughout the whole South, and a. it hss been
known for it's promp.ness In filing orders and
the polite attention Of the clerks and the place to
get everything, 80 viii the Palais Royal grow
into popular favor, for we will see In the large
and gilded sigrs that are to adorn the building
evidences of new era, 9 prosperity which We
have longed for but never expected until the
present time.
Year: 1877

fSpecnl to the DemocrHt.I


PARIS Aug. t4.-The MoniteW says that
the question OF state Of siege has never been
discussed or raised in the Cabinet: that MEM
hers arc in perfect accord, and that neither
tho German or any other government mas
ever made any representation on the presence
of Duke De Broglie at tho head OF the Cab
innt
Year: 1877

CLEARANCE SALE. - Schwabacher Bros.
announce their clearance sale, and 20 that
end haze marked down their entire stock
much lower than the same quality OF goods
have ever before been offered in this market.
Their stock is complete in every department,
md we can testify from personal examination
that no such an assortment Of general mer-
chaudlso Was ever before collected under one
roof in an interior town. In the main build
ing the shelves are piled with dry goods,
fancy goods, clothing, end every article that
pertains to the lady's or gentleman IS ward
robe Complete outfits can be had at mo-
ment's notice from the most fashionable full
dress down to the every day working suit
In The basement is to BIZ found groceries, pro-
visions, etc, piled up by acres, and sufficient
TO feed good sized army. All treIr goods
have been marked down TO rhe lowest figure,
and nov Is the time to roll up and secure
bargains.
Year: 1877

ICE CKoP.-Mr. Charles Chabot has ill
ed his house with ice taken from the pond
near The military post. 1t is packed away
IN pieces about yard square and q Inches
thick. This gives the assurance that with
the summer heat We will have cool drinks
Year: 1877

In the whole range of sacred and pro.


fame literature perhaps there is nothing re-
corded which has such staying properties
as a good healthy mortgage. A mortgage
can lie depended upon to stick closer than
brother. 1t has mission to perform
which never lets up. Day after day it is
there. nor does the slightest tendency to
slumber impair It's vigor in the night.
Night and day, on the Sabbath. and at holi-
day times, without a moments time for
rest or recreation, the bitter offspring of its
existence, interest, goes On. The seasons
may change, days run into weeks, weeks
into months, and months be swallowed up
into the gray man of advancing years, but
that mortgage stands up with sleepless
vigilance, with the interest, perennial
stream, eeaselessly running on. Like a
huge nightmare eating out the sleep of
some restless slumberer, tile unpaid mort
gage rears up its gaunt front in perpetual
torment to the miserable wight who is
held within its pitiless clutch. Itholds the
poor victims with the relentless grasp of a
giant; not one hour of recreation; not a
moments evasion of its hideous presence.
A genial savage of modifying aspect while
the interest is paid, a very devil of hope
less destruction when the payments fail.
Year: 1877

Sleep, Or. W. A. Hammond says, may
be defined as general repose. Almost all
the organs rest during sleep. The heart.
popularly supposed to be in perpetual mo-
ton, is at rest hours out of the "a, the
respiratory otgans..s, and the other organs
more or less. The brain alone is constant
ly employed during waketulness, and for it
sleep was formed and made needfill to its
preservation. 1t is true that sleep does
not give the brain a total recess from la
Dor; Imagination and memory are often
WILDLY active during sleep, and uncon-
scions cerebration likewise takes place. but
enough rest is obtained for the renovation
of the brain, and that which has been torn
down during wakefulness is to Il certain
extent rebuilt.


Sleep is most wonderful power, often
stronger than the will. as in the case of the
sleeping soldier-and more mighty than
pain, as when sick persons and tortured
prisoners sleep in the midst Of their suffer-
ing. No torture, it is said, has been found
equal to the prevention of sleep. The
amount of sleep needed differs according
to the constitution and habits. Big brains
and persons who perform much brain Ia
Dor need large amount of sleep. Chill
dacn need more sleep than grown pebpie.
because construction is more active than
decay in their brains.
Year: 1877

The moon, it appears, has not been be-


having lately with her usual praiseworthv
regularity and attention to business. The
New York Times calls attention to the fact
that the moon has shown decided teIiden-
cy to strike: She, does not come up to
time, and She Is drawing closer to the
earth. If this kind of thing goes OH it
seems that OUR peacefil luminary will
grow brighter and brighter, until she gets
to certain point, when she will quietly let
go her bOw-line, and rush unbidden upon
us. The result of that shock will simply
be to send US to mortal smash, and to
break us up into little stars. As this event
may not occur for several millions of wears,
there Is OF course no immediate cause for
alarm, but it is always best to he prepared
for the worst.
Year: 1877

Three saloon keepers in Chicago wert


found guilty Of selling liquor to minors


The address of the Justice when they


were sentenced, as reported in the.Chicaet


Tribune, is original and eminently whole


some. The evils of the liquor traffic, and


What license involves. are rarely set Out


in a clearer light than in the following at.
dress by Judge Reading:


'By the law you may sell to men and


women, if they will buy. You have given
your bond. and paitf ytnr license to sell to
them, and no one has Alright to molest you
In your legal business. No matter what
the consequences may be; no matter what
poverty and destitution are produced by
yonr shlling according to- law, you have
paid your money tor this privilege, and
you are licensed to pursue your calling.
NO matter what families are distracted or
rendered miserable; no matter what wives
are treated with violence; what children
stirVe or mourn over the degradation of a
parent. your business is legalzed, and no
one may interfere with you in it. No mat
ICY W''at mother may agonize over the loss
OF a son, Or sister blush at the shame of n
brother. you have right to disregard
them al, and pursue your legal calling
you are licensed! You may fit up your
lawful place of business in the most entic-
ing and captivating form: YOU NAV fur
hish II with the most costly and elegant
equipments for your lawful trade: Won
may fill it With the allurements of amuse-
ment; You may use all your arts to induce
visitors; you may skillfillly arrange and
expose to view your choicest wines and
most captivating beverages; you may then
induce thirst by all contrivances to produce
a raging appetite for..drink, and then you
may supply that appetite to the full. be
cause it Is lawful; you have paid for it
you have a license.


~ on may allow boys. almost children,
to frequent your saloon; they may witness
the apparent~-satisflction with which their
seniors qnaf the sparkling glass; you may
be schooling and ..training them for the
period OF twcnty-one, when they, too, can
participate, for all this is lawful. You
may hold the..cup to their very lips. but
you must not let them drink-tliat is un
lawful. But, While you have all these
privileges for money you pay. this 1,bor
privilege of selling to children is deiled
you. Here parents have the right to say,
Leave my son to me until tie law gives
you Il right to destroy him. Do not antic-
lrate that terrible momen, when can as
scrt for him no further rights of protection.
That will be soon enough for ine, for his
mother, for his sister, for his friends. and
for the community to see him take his
road to death. Give him to us. in his
childhood at least. Let us have few years
OF his youth. in which we can nnioy his
innocence. to repay Us in some small de-
gree for the care and love we have layshed
upon him. This is something you who
now stand prisoners at the bar have not
paid for; this is not embraced Iii your
license.


''For this otrense the court sentences YOU
to ten days imprisonment in the county
Jail, and that you pay Il fine of seventy-tive
dollars and costs; and that you stand COM
mitted until the tine and costs of this pros
ecution arr paid.''
Year: 1877

\ few days since. in Marion. s. C.. q
young man named Ivey, who had been adj
dressing Miss Buliard against the wishes
of her father. drove up to the house of the
latter for the purpose of carrying away his
prize in the absence of the old man. who
had gone fishing. 1t appears that the
old gentleman had made ready by loading
his gun with slngs of lead, cut from the
sinkers on his line, to shoot the lover if he
persisted in his efforts to carry off his
daughter. The two lovers were seated in
a buggy and making their way to North
Carolina, when they were overtaken by 4
small brother of the bride elect, who level
ed the old gun and commanded them to
halt. Not needing the command. the
youngster pulled down upon them. and
severely wounded his sister in the side. but
missed the lover, the shot lodging in the
back Of the buggy. Nothing daunted. the
two proceeded on their journey until they
reached the house of a preacher, who made
them one. The young lady was so weak
that she was supported while the ceremony
was performed. 1t seems that the boz
acted under his fathers instructions.
Year: 1877

AS near a. can crawl up to The facts ir
the:.case, Adam was the first farmer.
have given this subject large pile OF
thought, but l cannot find any reliable
person. who wants to give bonds that he
can name man who tried to earn dollar
by farming before Adam STRUCK in.


IcOnsider that Adam Il forget his other
name) started in on his career under very
favorable auspices. Adam had his garden
all planted and the things up before he
rented it. All he had to do was to 90 in
and occupy.


lie had no competition. lie could put
any price he pleased on his garden truck,
and hot lie awake nights and worry be
cause somebody might undersell him. He
could charge twenty-five cents box for
strawberries, and if his customers didn't
like it he could tip his hat over his ear and
intimate that if they didn't like his berries
at that price they could refresh their stOm-
achs on dried apples.


lie had to take no ones advice as to how
ne should plant his stuff. or when he
shOulh hoe it. If he wanted to plant his
dried pumpkins in the same hill with his
baked beans,.h did ot.fave to read halt
through an agricultural paper, to see what
some editor, who never saw farm, had to
say about it. His postotiice box was not
filled with circulars, advertising fertilizers
and patent dressing for raising salad and
mixed pickles.


All! Adam, if you were here now, and
had to take all the advice that the farmer
Of to-day does, YOU would wieh yourself
back in the Garden of Eden putting in
your winter rye.


Then Adam had splendid wife. 1t is
not Eve-ry man that can get such wO-
man. know there is good deal Of fault
found with Eve, but she certainly was the
best woman in the world when Adam mar
ried her. and shall stand up for her as
long as have legs Eve didn't have any
great amount of clothes. She didn't wor-
nv herself what she should wear to church
or have to run and fix herself up when she
had callers.


take it that the Eden farm was run on
the military plan. At any rate. Adam had
a commissary connected with the farm. for
we read that the serpent was sutter than
any beast of the field, and the accounts
show that he got mortgage ON the farm,
and foreclosed on Adam before he had TAX
en- off his first crop. Suffers have Changed
but little since the creation.


But the farmers of to-day are different
creatures. They are really the only useful
class of people WE have. Were it not for
the farmer. you and l would 60 to bed
hungry before Saturday night, but if l
we're put under hydraulic cotton-press
md all the farming qualities squeezed out
If me, there would not be enough to raise
me grain of mustard-seed. would soon
r be cut up into railroad spikes and driv-
N into oak ties, than farm it, so little do :
owe the pursuit. Ii it were left to me to !
Year: 1877

4 mar ca'Inot afford to be lnfaithful un-
der any circumstances; a man cannot af.
fort to be Iuean at any time man cannot
afford to do less than his best ut all times.
and ander all circumstances. However
unjustly you are treated, you cannot, for
your own sake. afford to use anything but
your better self, or render anything but
your better services. You cannot afford
to lie to liar; you cannot afford to be
mean to mean man; you cannot afford
todo other than uprightly wisAany man, no
matter what exigencies may exist between
him and you. No man can afford to be
any but true man, living in his higher
nature, and acting with the highest consitL
Grafton.
Year: 1877

\ bank was robbed at Windsor, VT. on
the very night that Hayes stopped in tha.
town. 1t was very unpleasant affair. but
it is cheering to notice that the New York
San is disposed to Net the Presid ant down
as easily rs may be under the somewhat
suspicious circumstances.
Year: 1877

"Just what II said" answered the boy.
"When prize is placed under your nose
you'd be clumsy il you failed TO nipit.


And when his interlocutor continued the
boy proceeded with great earnestness to
explain what . big thing them outside
hanging pockets is1 how he wouldn't
blame anybody for going through 'em."
"Why," Gays he, "they're the biggest temp
tati0n Oh deck, and must have been invented
to tease feilers who are hard up"


Deeply interested, the lawyer went on
with his enquiries, which at length led to
an exhibition by the boy on the promise
that he should not get into trouble. He
strolled through the market with his in.
qui, tive companion, and on the way took
four silk handkerchiefs and diary from
the pockets of different ladies and put them
back again without being observed by any
person beside the lawyer. Then when they
walked up Michigan Grand avenue to the
Russell house corner, aud on the way the
boy "nipped," az he called it. pocket
book from the pocket Of a young lady and
handed it to the lawyer, who courteously
lifted his hat and returned it 10 the owner,
as il it had fallen from her pocket.


Near the Russell house corner the boy
attempted to nip" silk handkerchief from
one Of these .ioutside hanging basketa," as
he termed the pocket, but the article would
not come out, and the young expert turned
to his companion with ''Ifs pined Now
watch me do good job" Glancing hastily
around, the boy took position just back
Of the lady-who was waiting for car
and to all appearances was busily engaged
looking at lightning calculator, who was
lecturing to street audience few feet
away. He stood there about half minute,
when he. sAuntered- carelessly toward the
lawyer slyly exhibiting the handkerchief.
Not satisfied with his work, the boy winked
and again took his position near the lady.
In few seconds he attracted the attention
of the lawyer and exhibited the handker-
chief partially in the pocket, as though it
had been pulled nearly out. At the boys
request the gentleman accosted the lady
with:


MADAM, you are loosing your handker.
chief


"Thank YOU, but it won't fall entirely
out" answered the lady, as she pulled upon
it TO show that she had taken the precaution
10 pin it into her pocket.


Thus ended the experimental trip, made
in the most public part of the city, and in
broad daylight, and as the boy received fol
his reward silver quarter, he shufiled of
in the direction Of the city hall, saying te
his late companion: "Them pockets is tht
easiest thing in the world to strip, and
hope the fashion will hang on forever"
Year: 1877

Judge Ludlow, at the meeting of the
bar in Philadelphia, held on Wednesday,
speaking of the probability that the late
Judge Pratt had overworked himself, said !:
"When he came TO the bench [ trembled
for him, because the man who assumes
judicial duties in this county does 80 at the
peril Of his life ! and if there is any taint
of disease, pulmonary or otherwise, in his
constitution, it will certainly be developed
by the circumstances under which he is
forced to perform his duties" This state
ment, strong as 1t is will not surprise those
who have been compelled to attend court
for any length of time, and who have
breathed the fonl air IN which the judges
are compelled to follow their sedentary call
ing There is no ventilation in some of
the buildings except that which at the same
time exposes every one in court to danger
GUS draughts from open windows; the
rooms are crowded at nearly all times, and
the supply of fresh air can seldom be such
as is required to support in health all who
are obliged to breathe it. 1t is not improb-
able that some of the astounding verdicts
Of juries are in some sort a result of the foul
air they have been compelled to breathe
while listening to the evidence, for there is
nothing NOSE calculated to Supply the in
telligence of jurors not supplied with over
abundance of wit at the best. 1t is a
shame and disgrace that 1t should have to
be said in this century that the man who
assumes judicial duties anywhere does SO
at the peril of his life, but 1t is right to say
1t If it is true, so that the evil may be rem
edIed, and judicial life freed from the dan
gers of disease as it was once freed from
the danger of violence at the hands of the
lawless.
Year: 1877

Suppose any Southeraer had predicted,
twenty years ago, that the day would
come when colored militia would parade
in the streets of Macon with colored
commissioned officer of the regular army
to review them, and the white citizens
standing By to applaud their proficiency
in the drill; or that, ere two decades
should pass, convention of colored teach
era would meet in the capital of Kentucky
to form State association--his neighbors
would have thought the prophe. candi-
date for The fanatic asylum. Yet these
things have come to pass. The leading
newspaper Of Kentucky reports of the con-
vention that not one imprudent word was
uttered, and that the principal addresses
had "a literary finish that would have
done credit to any white orator."
Year: 1877

Take two empty oyster cans and stout
smooth string. Let small hole be made
in the bottom Of each can, through which
the string, say fifty to one hundred ieet in
length is passed and secured. Then let
the experimenters set up their telegraph
by choosing their stations as far apart
as the tightly stretched string will per
nit, and while one of the operators holds
his ear to one Of the cans, and his COM
panion his mouth to the can at the other
end of the line, they will find that con-
versation can be carried on, so that low
tones, and even whisper will be distinct
ly perceptible. What usually most as
tonishes those who make this experiment
for the first time is that the sound of the
voice does not seem to come from the
person speaking from the other end Of the
string, but to issue from the can itself,
which is held to The ear Of .the listener.
This at first appears to be a deception,
but it is really not so. The ear tells the
exact truth. The voice that is heard real
~ comes from the can that is held to the
ear of the listener. The voice of the
speaker communicates sound-producing
vibrations to the wall of the can with
which his voice is in immediate contact.
These vibrations are communicated to the
string, but so changed that they no longer
affect; the car. "A person may stand by!
the string while the sound is passing, and
yet hear nothing = AT the other end OF
the string, however, these hidden vibr


tions reproduce themselves as sound.
Year: 1877

Three hundred strikers on the canal
works from Montreal to Lachine, Canada, have
brought about collision with the contract
ore, in which one or more Of the former were
killed. The riot is not yet over and the po-
lice arc powerless to suppress it. The strike
was for one dollar per day.