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Year: 1875

In the Eastern District of Brooklyn there scarcely
church that has not purchased evergreens and fow
sufficient to give their auditorium the appearance
of conservatory during the day and the religious
cises win include tho most elaborate music In the
latter the Catholic churches will be foremost the
Church of the Immaculate Conception Mozart's Twelfth
Mass, with orchestral accompaniment and sermon by
the pastor will comprise the forenoon exercises At
the Church II Sts Peter aud Paul. Rev Father Malone
Haydn's Sixteenth Mass under the direction of Mr. H.
p Kecns, will constitute the mornings music with
prelude. onertory and postlude OF Mr. keens own COM
position.


In the German Catholic churches the most elaborate
ornamentation will mark the festival, full military
bands accompanying the usual orchcstras. Holy
Trinity, on Montrose avenue and the Church of the
Annunciaton, Seventh street. tako the lead in the
musical portion of the programme


OF the Episcopal churches, Christ Church, Bedford
avenue, and Calvary church, on South Ninth street.
foremost tho ample means at the command of each
enabling them TO obtain the best talent and in a
eclipse the less pretentous churches OF their
denominations


The Sabbath school of Christ church enjoyed their
festival last evening" at the close Of which the annual
presents distributed This morning fine pro-
gramme Of music will be offered, and the communion
will follow morning service.


Calvary church. under the pastorate of Rev. Dr. Peck
has prepared an elaborate musical programme, under
the direction Of Professor l. l. Parr who will also con-
duct the exercises al the ehdrens festival Wcdnes
day evening of next week


or the other denominations at DR. Porters Reformed
church. on Bedford avenue the Sunday school festival
took place last evening the exercises Of Christmas Day
being confined to tho Mission school Ninth street
The regular services take place on Sunday. The
Church Of Christian Endeavor Lee Baptist and
tho churches of Bowronville and Greenpoint will hold
exercises to-day, but the Noble street Pres
byteran present programme Of special mention


All the dancing halls are engaged, but mono for
laudable object than Turn Hail. which has been
engaged by the Williamsburg Benevolent Society for the
presentation OF Santa Claus present TO the poor OF the
district who cannot get 1t in another way The various
singing societies and citizens generally have contributed
enable the society TO present to some GOO
children articles Of clothing candies and fruit to all
such as noed them Christmas Day, and it has been
the custom heretofore when the goods have TO
give money wherewith TO purchase the articles
quired ANY who may desire TO help the enterprise
forward therefore still have opportunity do
so by sending their mite to Turn Hall, Meserole
street. up to noon on Christmas Day.
Year: 1875

At the Arcadian Club last evening the Christmas fes-
tiva anticipated by very pleasant informal re-
union. The time spent in the most agreeable
manner with pleasant chats recitations and excellent
music. A large number OF guests in addition to the
members present. swelled the company, and life
and variety 10 the entertainments This way of spend
ing Christmas Eve proved entirely satisfactory.
Year: 1875

The lecture hall OF the Central Methodist Episcopal
church, in Seventh avenue, Fourteenth street,
Rev o. S. narrower pastor, crowded last evening
by the poor of the vicinity who invited to a sup
per provided by the Young Peoples Christian Union OF
that church This society is doing much good q
ouiet way for the poor.
Year: 1875

The surf on the African coast, says


letter writer, is ever a wonder and dan
ger. There is no coast in any part of the
world which possesses less ports or harb


ors of refuge. You may travel a thous-
and miles almost without finding a cove
or barbor where a ship could anchor
quietly without being rocked by the
surf waves. Try along the whole of the
grain. the ivory the gold and the slave
coasts, and there is not one port. But,
fortunately for ships trading to these
places, there is seldom hurricane or a
gale blowing. so that they are able to
anchor about mile. from the shore.
There is never any dead calm, though
the sea in the morning is stirred up into
wavelets by the breeze from oceanward.
During roadsteads are ever to be seen
rolling uneasily, they are never at rest.
Increasingly the long lines Of waves are
10 he traced rolling onward toward the
shore. gathering strength ms they advance
nearer until, receiving the ebbing waters
flowing from the beach from preceding
seas, there is simultaneous coiling and
rolling, and at once the long line Of wa
ters is precipitated with q furious roar
on the land. Where the water meets a
rock tall tower of spray and foam is
suddenly reared the wave line is broken
and is as in mad confusion. Where the
beach is smooth and OF sand you may
trace its straight, unbroken line Of foam


nearly mile long. -vs-s-l-gs a-,i..r
Year: 1875

A Danish Reologist asserts his belief
that the interior of the earth is occu-
pied by currents Of various degrees Of
heat. and that these mix with each other
and attain q certain degree Of tempers-
ture, In the same manner as substances
subject 20 all the physical influences of
the earth's exterior. This theory, in
other words, asserts the well-known fact
that mass Of fluid possessing different
temperatures in different parts of its in
terror must be subjected to convection.
the result being. usually, change of
volume in the entire mass OF circulating
fluid. This change is capable Of being
observed in ordinary experiments, and
may also effect the volume of the fluid
matter in the interior of the earth, pro-
vided the changes OF temperature Of the
fluid are sufficiently great. Il is, how
ever, the opinion of the most eminent
geologists that the Refrigeration of the
earth is now 30 extremely slow rs to
render il quite unlikely that any consid-
erable changes of volume arising from
this cause could have taken place with
in recent periods.
Year: 1875

] am always sorry for man who
knows bnt one thing. gave ten dol
lars to one who could speak and write
FIVE or six languages and translate
beautifully; bnt in the middle Of hard
winter he could not get living. know
another man who had preached twenty
FIVE years, till his throat failed him, and
he used 20 go around looking very blue
and sad, until people pitied him and got
up donation parties for him, because he
was good for nothing except to preach.
] knew lady who had taught school
for twenty wears, ill she was a poor,
nervous broken-down woman, and didn't
know how to make dress for herself.
Now, hoys and girls every real man,
should know how TO do one thing right
we'll. Every wise farmer has a princi-
pal crop; but he always has little some
thing else TO live on. Don't carry all
your eggs in one basket. Don't put all
yonr money in one pocket. Ifyou want
TO get along right well, learn one sort of
work to get along by, and all sorv Of
work to get living with when your
one sort gives outfit. X. Beecher.
Year: 1875

There is great practical truth embOd-
led in the following extract: Life is
school, and it is only its struggles, its
mishaps and disappointments that learn
human nature, ourselves and our fellow
men. 1t is only through repeated falls
that the child learns to stand alone and
walk. He who is the architect of his
own good fortune, character and destiny,
is always a great man. and if we examine
we will find that rinety mine out of ev-
cry hundred Of such men have begun life
without any other aid than sound ply
sical. moral and intellectual constitution
and have been successful in almost all
the phases of life-tasting of poverty,
struggling with disappointment, relegat-
ed to obscurity and undergoing all the
kicks and cuffs of Outrageous fortune" 2"
and finally by the development of their
inherent energies in such hard. rongh
school rising triumphantly over all OBJ
stacles at last


Many an unwise parent labors hard
and lives sparingly all his life for the
purpose of leaving enough to give his
children start in the world, as it is
called. Setting yonng man aAoat with
money left by his relatives is like tying
hladders under the arms of one who can
not swim; ten chances to one he will
loose his bls oder. Give your child a
good education; and you will have given
him what will he of more value than the
on ones resources, is TO be cast into the
very lap of fortune, for ones faculties
then undergoa development and display
an energy of which they were previous
Ty ,1usr,sceDtihlc
Year: 1875

Owing to the indefatigable investiga-
tion of the analytical chemists, and to
their zeal in the cause of science, there
is scarcely substance in the world that
has not passed through the ordeal of
their crucibles and test tubes. From
up of comparatively few substances; 30
few, indeed, that we are struck with as
constituent when we consider the innum-
erable variety of form and character into
which those elements are capable of be-
ing nodded. We have all the animate
and inanimate creation, the plants, the
animals; we have the rocks, the earths.
the air and water, in their endless varie-
ty; and yet the substances of which they
are composed do not exceed sixty. On
closer examination onr wonder increases
when we learn that of these elements no
less than forty-six are metals, in the or
binary sense of the word; FIVE are gas
eoup, bodies, like the air-which, indeed
consists of two gases out of these five;
and the remainder are substances of an
intermediate character, (which sulphur
and charcoal are the types. Therefore
everything that we can see or touch
pertaining to our world is composed of
one. two or more Of these six elements;
and in a general way there are rarely
more than two or three blended together
TO produce one result Thus, the white
of an egg is made Of six elementp; flint
stone of only two; piece of wood con.
tains three elements Those three ma
teria!s are the types OF the portions of
the world 10 which they belong. Though
one stone differs from another stone, and
one wood from another wood, and one
flesh from another flesh, yet their com
position is similar, and of nearly the
same elements. IL ia the nature, quality
and property of these several elements
that constitute the study of chemistry
not medicine, for that is but a mere
branch Of chemistry--the composition
of all things. By analogy, the analyti-
cal chemist can state with certainty the
principal qualities and composition Of
everything placed in his hands, what use
to make Of 1t. and how IL is to be appli-
ed for the welfare and benefit Of his fel
low man.


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Year: 1875

The Cleveland Herald says: Mr.. Fin
ney, in his palmy days, used logic, ana
with terrific force Buchard, another
revivAlist of that day, dealt in imagina-
tion. He could paint hell so that his
audience smelled birthstone. We have
seen him describe hell. Leaning over
the pulpit he would point down to an
imaginary bottomleSs PIT, where the fires
Of hell were lighted, and the souls Of The
lost were writhing, and with his hand
he would wave mp column OF FIRE and
smoke. and at every wave Of his hand,
higher and higher. he would plant on
each fold Of the sulphurona column the
word ''remorsel remorSel ! remorsel 70
until il reached the ceiling, and on
which column every eye in the house
was involuntarily 6xed as he pictured
the fate of the damned. Elder Knapp
was Of still another style. He had little
imagination, and his forte was exhorta-
ton
Year: 1875

II wonld amaze some of our Eastern
readers to look upon California to-day.
This is December-perhaps as severe q
month as any in the twelve. We re-
member what it was some twenty
years ago "at home" as We old Califor
MIA settlers fondly call our old STAMP
ing grounds, in the far East. 1t looks
to us like charm. The snow crunch
ing under the runners of sleigh or ca
rioie; the sharp ring Of the bells, as our
horses speeded over the frozen expanse,
the steel Of shoes cleaning at every step
with the bright polish impaired by the
hardened snow. We didn't mind the
cold much, it is true. There were fur
caps and gloves, and perhaus at our side,
warmly tncked away in buffalo robes, a
little beauty whose presence would
charm the cold out of Ac,urns himself.
Such experiences endear the East to us;
and yet We cannot avoid remarking the
hardships and tolls of life IN such eli
mate. 1t is bearabIe and that Is all,
while here our winter l. almost as pleas
ant as summer. We have occasional
seasons of rain-sometimes only
"Scoseh mist, three drops 70 the bucket
full, )" and sometimes rain "as is n rain"
but the weather is never cold, and " ho
can quarrel with little moisture when
the whole face of the country is green
as an emerald from valley to mountain
top?


Who can find fault with a country
where he can work in or out doors in
his sleeves the whole year round? No
fires are lighted except for cooking, in
one dwelling out of hundred, and in
business houses stoves and CRATES are
generally unused the whole year round.
OF course we have little mud, bnt then
flowers are blossoming all around us,
and every description of garden vegeta-
bles are growing vigorously. None bnt
a Californian can imagine the glory of
our landscapes in winter. We have
watched them through 80 many years
that our hair is growing gray, and yet it
never pals upon our sight. Indeed. it
grows greater year by year. 1t were
we'll worth a voyage half around the
world to behold our valleys and noun
tains at this season. In a few weeks
both will be covered all over with wild
flowers unknown elsewhere, the sweetest
that ever delighted the eye of man. The
grain fields will be more beautiful than
those Of the Easi in May. A little la
ter, and the almond and peach trees will
send forth their exquisite blossoms, and
the orange trees of the southern counties
will be in fruit, flower and leaf at the
same moment, go beautiful in their rich
contrasts Of green and gold, so vigorous
and so exultant in their growth, that the
iooker-on is almost ready TO fancy him
self in a realm of enchantment. Each
part of the State has its own peculiar
beauty. The eye may wander at will
from Klamath to San Dieogo, and never
fail to take in pictures of exquisite love-
liness.. We love the winter as we have
il in California, and are ready to forgive
and forget little sloppy walking when
we look upon the beauty of the country
and reflect upon the wondrous power
and progress of the teeming vegetation,
which is preparing for US an abundant
supply Of all the fruits and grains me-
cessary for human life and comfort
TSan Francisco Chronicle
Year: 1875

When any person wishea his paper
discontinued, he must pay all back dues
to date, or the paper may continue to be
sent until payment IL made, for the sub
scriber is legally holden for the whole
amount whether Il is taken from the
Fostofice or mot.
Year: 1875

We find the following in the proceedings
OF the New York Farmers Club: The
chairman said that in response 10 an in
qury for the best WhiteWAsh Tor barns and
outbuidngs, he had received the follow
ing: Take Il bushel of we'll burned lime,
white and unslaked, twenty pounds OF
Spanish whiting. seventeen pounds OF rock
salt, and twelve pounds Of brown sugar.
Slalc the lime and slit out any coarse
humps and mix it into Il good Whtewash


with about forty gallons Of water. and
then add the other ingredients and stir the
whole together thoroughly, and put on
two or three coats with Il common brush
To make 4 cream color, add to the aboye
three pounds of yellow ochre; a fawn
color four pounds umber one pound In
dian red, and one of lampblack If a gray
or stone color is wanted, add four pounds
Of raw untber and two of lampblacls. DR.
Smith said that he was of the opinion that
sugar was Of no service in the making of
WhitcWash. 1t was nonSensica! to use it
in such mixture, rs il would DO no good,
and its use would be simply a waste Of
money. The rock salt mentioned he sup
posed was coarse salt. lie could not say
whether or not the latter would improve
the mixture Mr.. Ely said he had found
in his experience that tallow was a good
ingredient tor whitewash, but DR.. Smith
did not agree with him, as he thought that
tallow would not mix we'll with lime.
Year: 1875

The Brattleboro' Record is excited over
the tramp nuisance. 1t says: Vermont
needs q new law relating to tramps Every
county should have a workhouse and
every tramp be put into it, and made to
work for his board But with our bienni:
al legislature we shall be obliged to wait
I'll next year before anything can be done
about it. After the horse is stolen per-
haps they will lock the door. We are not
SO much impoverished in Vermont that we
cannot afford to call the Legislature togeth-
er once a year, and this is none too often.
unless we dispense with the general court
entirely. We may be wrong, but these
are our views"
Year: 1875

M. J.. Wilder of Pembroke says in the
Maine Farmer that he has a thoroughbred
short horn COW, four years old last March
that made in one week last January, eleven
and three -tourths pounds of as nice butter
as was ever produced by Jersey COW
1t was but seven minutes churning by the
clock Her feed was but four quarts OF
shorts per day, and as much good hay as
she lNnIllu eat
Year: 1875




The New York merchants comrArae
So much OF letters being Stolen ANA -uH
of money lost in the mails that the post
office authorities, weary of the lmpulr-
tions put upon their clerks detailed l
special detective to look up Tie matter.
when he discovered that the merchant
errand boys were in the habit "i destroy
inc letters they were intrusted with nal..
ing, and using the postage stamps 90 hu
their lunches with Also that they rifrl
letters they supposed contained available
money The detective says that when At
first commenced operations in the lobby
of the post-otiice, no particular box Wa
watched, but every person who took let
ters from them, and who acted in amy WaN
suspiciously, was Immediately marked.
and rs soon as the opportunity offered,
was shadowed With but few exceptions
the thieves proved to be boys from seven
to sixteen years of age II was easy I"
pick out the guilty ones, for they would
invariably give themselves away by
holding the letters up to the light That
they might Judge Of their contents me
difficulty in every case was tn detect them
in the act of riiing the letters. 10 tell
YOU all the tricks that were resortcd to by
these bows to escape observation would
tax your patience. They were As cunning
as foxes. One boy would so to Il closet
in the building where he was employed.
aud to detect him it was necessary to gain
access to the adjoining closet, where,
hole having been bored by one of the de
tectives, he was enabled to watch his
operations The offender was caught in
the act and confessed that he had DESTROY
ed a large number of letters. Another
boy selected a retired place in hallway
and they ere obliged to watch his opef-
ations througha a sky-light Another went
on the root OF his store and sat on the
scuttle, where he was finally observe"
from behind the chimney Of IN opposite
building The scene of operations ol
more than one was in the Trinity church
graveyard, and number OF them opened
and destroyed letters in the street without
any attempt to elude observation
Year: 1875

Ii is often recommended to set several
hens at the same time and when the chick 5
are hatched, TO give them to one or more,


and reset the others. In such 4 season as
The present ii will frequently pay better to
use such hens rs step-lnotherS, q part of
them ut least. Some hens Wean their
chicks ut too early an age. at amy rate
vet after the weather becomes more mild
and settled, this trait is not so obectiona-
BILE But while the weather continues
cold and wet, early chicks should not be
left without Il hen to brood them, unless
they are otherwise we'll provided for. 10
teach hen to take u brood of chicks sew
eral weeks Old in the place Of those she
has lust hatchcd, first remove from the
nest box the most ui the nest, Us to at
afford more space, and then give her
the toster-chicks late in the evening. Put
them in with the hen and leave all TO-
gether until morning. Then remove both
hen and chicks to the same coop and the
same place the brood occupied before. IDe
night, lodging together Will usually cause
the hen to centre her maternal affections
in her adopted darlings, even should they
appear to have made a prodigious growth
in q very few hours and the location Of the
brood the next day, in their familiar quar-


ters. will reconcile them to the slight
change in their little home affairs. EX.
Year: 1875

When Franklin Pierce entered Bowdoin
college in 1920 he was sixteen years OF
age. Four years later he graduated and
bade his friend Hawthorne, who was to
remain another year, good by Pierce, |
am told. did not do much during his first
two years in college. He seemed to look
upon the labors OF Greek or Latin lexi-
con as q kind of an nnsocial and unprofit-
able drudgery At the end of his second
year, however, he suddenly changed his
course. Prof Packard says young Pierce
afterward told him how it came about.
One day as he lay on his bed the thought
of his whole past course, with q remark
on the subject dropped by one of his class
mates, suddenly flashed upon him. He


resolved to do better. And he did. Prof.
Year: 1875

There seems to be unconquerabe determination
on the part OF gang OF New York river thieves to
punder every vessel that may be moored at the public
wharf foot of Morgan street. Jersey City. Since the
explosion and destruction of lighter some weeks ago
at this wharf not week elapsed that was not marked
by some and daring of robbery Yesterday the
HERALD chroncled robbery on a schooner Following
on the heels Of that robbery came another. The
thieves visited the dock Wednesday night, and whle
the CAPTAIN and Of the schooner Alice asleep
the whole supply of provisions was carried OF Tho
robbers found nothing else worth stealing. When Mr.
Erwin the wharfngor, on his way home, having
the tolls OF the day his possession, he observed two
young watching him in very suspicious manner.
They closed upon him and entered into conversation,
but as soon Mr. Erwin signalled the watchman on
the Pennsylvania Railroad they away. The police
authorities give no attention 10 this wharf
Year: 1875

daring attempt was madc on Tuesday night to en-
ter the residence OF Captain Lewis Davis at Cumsewoque,
which was fortunately crcumvented by the bravery OF
a boy The Captain and his wife had gone 70 visit
sick relative at Wading River leaving their little
Robbie 10 guard the premises During the night the
boy was awakened by noise at one OF the windows,
and after listening moment no became satisfied that
some was trying to gain an entrance Pretty
he q mans form through the glass, and having
revolver hand with coolness rarely found in OF
his age be discharged barrel at the burglar the
ball passing through the window in his range.
Although the fellow made outcry there is little
doubt that he wounded he retreated precpatey
TO wagon standing short distance away in which he
made his escape Little Robbie Is regarded the hero
oil Cumsewodua
Year: 1875

THE result of the election in California
will be to disorganize the Dolly Warden
party, as the Independents in that State are
called, and to place such men as Newton
Booth, Senator from that State, on the
uppermost shelf of oblivion, where they
belong. The State is Republican on Ma
tional questions, beyond all doubt; but with
four tickets-Democratic, Republican, In
dependent and Temperance-in the field it
was only to be hoped that the Republicans
would carry the election. The result is
therefore not without its unpleasant fea-
tures, but on tie whole may be accepted as
a certain precursor of future victories to the
party of law and order.