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Year: 1878

A man with the toothache doesn't care
about anything else. The glories of the
world pail on his taste, the wonders of
creation seem as naught. The tooth be-
comes a volcano of belching fury, and the
rest of life hidden in cloud of its billow-
smoke. You can't borrow anything of a
man with the toothache. You can't in.
struct or improve him. You tell him the
world travels at the rate of thousand
miles a minute and it doesn't startle him in
the least He simply groans. You say to
him, "My friend, there are stars so far of
that their light has not yet reached this
world ~ but he don't mind it. He only
howls. You tell him that some of the sun
spots are one hundred thousand miles in
diameter, and that one of them would take
in Jupiter at one mouthful, but it is moth.
ing to him. He goes on swearing and
weeping and inwardly wishing that you
were in the custody of the man of fire and
birthstone. We have had it and therefore
know all about it.-Cri@feH Leader.
Year: 1878

The enormous magnitude of the liquor
trade of Great Britain is best shown by the
extraordinary fact that the sales exceed the
entire aggregate of the coal and iron trade
of the Kingdom, not withstanding the i'm.
mense sales of those departments of com.
merce.
Year: 1878

Resumption has reached that stage where
in order to accomplish it is only necessary
to resume. The premium on gold is in
significant and is no longer an obstacle in
the way of practical resumption.
Year: 1878

Corn STARCH FOR EGGs.-A secret not
known to many housekeepers is that
tablespoonful of corn starch is equal to one
egg in cake baking; if you must have four
eggs and only have two, add two table
spoonfuls of corn starch, and you will have
a cake as good and as light as the one with
four eggs
Year: 1878

To remove peach stain from any material,
wash the spots in new milk before putting
the garments into water. Ink stains can
also be taken out of the most delicate
shad of carpet by sponging with new milk
Immediately after it is soiled.
Year: 1878

Three to one of the farmers who attend
ed the last meeting of the Experimental
Farm Club in Chester CO., Pa, favored the
Fultz wheat as the most profitable, because
it is surer to yield more largely than any
other variety.
Year: 1878

Our FARMERs-It is important that the
farmers Of this country should be right.
If property is to be assailed they hold a
majority of the property. If labor is to be
helped, they represent majority of the
labor.
Year: 1878

Charles Sumner: "Infation is the method
of the exhausted inebriate, who would cure
his delirium by fresh drafts of the fatal
poison. Imitation is death to business
death to character"
Year: 1878

Our farmers are now busy preparing their
land for drilling the wheat crop. From
now until the first Of December will be
busy time with our farmers; the wheat crop
is to be sown, the corn and other crops to
be secured before the approach of winter.
Year: 1878

The term quarantine is said to have
originated in Italy and means 40 days de-
tention in the pest house. Years ago, in
the old plague time, one town used to be
quarantined against another to prevent the
introduction of contagion.
Year: 1878

PARIS ExPosITIoN.-The Superior Com
mission of the Paris Information Exposition
have decided to prolong the exhibition to
the Goth of November, in order to give an
opportunity for the sale of exhibits.
Another reason for the step may be found
in the large arrival of strangers during the
past two weeks, the hotel registers showing
over 60,000. Most of the foreign exhibi
tors however, propose to commence pack
ing on November 1st., the day originally
designed for the close of the Exposition.
The Director General of the Exposition is
organizing a grand concert, to take place
in the Hall of the Trocadero, the proceeds
to be devoted to the relief of the yellow
fever sufferers. Commissioner General Nc.
Cormick has been officially notified, and will
forward the proceeds.
Year: 1878

To remove iron rust from any white
goods, take a raw tomato ond rub it we'll
on the spots; let it remain about five
minutes then wash with warm water and
soap. Raw tomatoes will also remove berry
stain and ink from white goods.
Year: 1878

The display in this department occupying space
of3O by SG feet was especially to the ladies the most
attractive feature of the Fair 1t crowded all the
time by persons viewing the beautiful specimens of
handy craft. The needle-wOrk was most elaborate
and showed wonderful taste in execution and patient
labor in preparation.
Year: 1878

A BIG HAUL AT THE SECOND STATION
The only arrest reported at the Second sta
tion-house Saturday night was that OF
man found on Broad street in helpless
state Of intoxication. He had on q blue
ribbon nearly o hali.yard in length, and
proportionately wide. 1t was afterwards
explained, however, that be was nota new
convert, who had returned to the flowing
bowl, but that the ribbon had been pinned
on him by some bad boysin spirit OF mis-
chief.
Year: 1878

ABSOLUTELY PURE.-DooLEY's YEAST Pow.
DER Is prepared with special reference to supply
tue demand for uniformly pure and always relia-
bile baking powder. Made from pure grape cream
tartar, is free from any injurious substances and
perfectly wholesome All sizes are strictly full
weight. Every dealer who sells 1t Is authorized to
guarantee 1t in every respect to purchasers.
Year: 1878

DON'T GO WHERE YOUR LOVE LIES DREAM
ING but 60 any cigar store or restaurant and ask
for WuITLoCK MODEL CIGARS, and dream the
happy hours away by yourself. will nay tctter IN
the long run.
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, d. G., Feb. 7, 1873.
EDITOR CHIEF:


The days come, weeks pass into
months, the opening spring time ia
near and still Congress evinees mar
velous indifference to the want and
suffering that covers the whole coun-
try with its dark cloud of disaster and
misfortune. Matters have been going
from bad to worse since the meeting
of Congress and with the exception of
the annual message, no word has been
heard from the President to whom the
people have right to look when they
are breasting the tide and striving to
avert impending calamities that seem
yawning before them. The President
has golden opportunity and he should
turn his eyes away from gilded theo-
ries aud look squarely into the faces
of 40,0O0,O0 of people and from the
picture of want and suffering catch
an inspiration that should result in a
message to Congress recommending
that body to cease pickering, lay
aside all other business, sheath every
political sword, and night and day
commit themselves as patriots to the
settlement of the financial question
now distracting the country.


The Louisiana muddle seems likely
to blossom out into very uncomfort-
able affair. The Nichols government
will, it is thought, indict every body
who had any thing to do with the ar
rangement.


The faces of old lobbyists are not
now wreathed in smiles as they fill the
halls and corridors. The recent or
der excludes them, much to their dis
gust, from the floor of the House.


Another terrible marine disaster off
the Carolina coast-I refer TO the
Year: 1878

case of study: A certain artist
painted picture in a very few days
AN incrediably short space of time;
yet he asked an immense sum for it.
What" said one of his clients,
"you think that l am going to
give you so large a price for a pic
ture which has taken you less than
a week to do ?" "My friend" said
the artist, 81 am fifty years Of age,
and | have been these fifty years
learning how to paint a picture in
less thar a week." Now that is DR..
Schliemann. He was thirty.four
years learning how to acquire a
language in six weeks; and he must
not expect little boys of thirteen or
fourteen to have attained anything
like the same proficiency T"At-
las" in the London World.
Year: 1878

New York Cor, Cincinnati Gazette.l


The congregation of Plymouth
church is now beginning to COM
plain Of Beecher's absence, which
is SO extended during the lecture
season that he is only home three
days in the week and then is absent
two months in the summer on va
cation. The only way, however, in
which Beecher can be kept home is
by abating his popularity abroad.
AS long as he can lecture three
nights in the week at two hundred
dollars night, he cannot be ex-
pected to remain Gagged up in
Brooklyn. That city is not large
enough to hold a man who has so
long felt like a citizen of the world.
AS Goldsmith says in the "Trav-
eler," when viewing the different
aspects of nature:


For me your tributary stores combine


Creations heir The world, the world is


mine"


Beecher needs all that he can
earn by his lecture course. He is
deeply involved in debt, and, being
unskillful as a financier, his large
income is not as effective as it might
be made. He knows that his pop
ularity as a lecturer may pass away,
just as has been the case with his lit
erary popularity. His books no
longer sell, and as an author he has
ceased to exist. Ten years ago
Bonner gave him $4,000 for "Nor-
wood" but at present the Ledger
man would hardly care to have
Beecher's name in his columns. As
a lecturer, Beeoher's popularity is
on the decline in this city. Very
recently he appeared on the plat.
form at Steinway Hall, and yet,
though this is not a large building,
it was only partially filled. In view
Of this fact, it is important for this
distinguished preacher to make the
most Of present opportunities. The
sale of Plymouth church pews has
shown a heavy decline, but not
more than might be expected from
the present shrinkage which has
effected Brooklyn in very serious
manner.
Year: 1878

The power OF music has been lllustra
ted by some novel experiments to deter
mine its effect on the inmates OF the
Blackwells Island lunatic asylum. The
FIRST trial demonstrated the important
fact that sweet sounds can reach where
spark of reason fingers in the ruins of
the mind, and awakens there some tran.
sient memory. If music possesses this
power, its influence should take the place
of that resulting from fear or physical
restraint. Il New York Herald.
Year: 1878

A Sunday Entertainment at the


Plaza de Ache at lima.


Lima Cor. San Francisco ChrOnicIe.l


The cage was now turned and we
saw a large full-grown lioness Of
ferocious aspect, while at the same
moment an attendant appeared
leading by chain four small dogs
Of the bull species. They were i'm
mediately let into the cage, and
with fierce growls Immediately
sprang on their foe. It would seem
almost impossible for four insignif-
cant animals to be victorious in an
encounter with an enormous lion,
but the result showed how mere
brute force falls prey to cunning
strategem. The audience were now
worked up to a fever pitch of ex-
citement, and hundreds sprang into
the arena to obtain a closer view
of the combat. The soldiers
we're now ordered to clear
the arena and charged with fixed
bayonets on the crowd, wounding
several in their efforts to force them
back. This so infuriated the mob
that knives and pistols were drawn,
and a fierce encounter took place
between the military and the rabble
resulting in the killing of several of
the former. The soldiers were first
ordered to fire into the air, but this
proving futile yolley was poured
into the mob, killing several and
wOunding others. The crowd,
threatening dire vengeance, re-
treated, leaving the space clear and
thus giving the spectators an extra
performance not down in the bill.
and which appeared to be heartily
enjoyed by them. During the ex-
citement caused by the collision be-
tween the soldiers and the mob the
fight between the lion and the dogs
had ended in the latter being VIC
torious, and as we looked toward the
cage we saw the dogs standing over
their prostrate foe, tapping its blood
and apparently little The worse for
the encounter, though subsequently
three of them died from their
wounds. This closed the entertain
ment, and the enormous throng of
spectators left the Plaza de Acho
well pleased with what they had
witnessed.


Receiving an invitation to spend
the evening with the family Of my
lady friends l gladly accepted and
was soon ensconced in their hospi-
table mansion. The conversation
naturally reverted to the scenes We
had that day witnessed at the Plaza
do Acho. The ladies stoutly de-
Tended their national amusements,
although pointed out the fact that
such barbarous spectacles did not
tend to elevate the morals of a peo-
pie, and instanced the bloody afray
between the military and the mob;
still they we're unconvinced, declar-
ing that no country in the world
afforded such exquisite entertain
ments as their own beautiful Peru.
Year: 1878

Trout AND FISHING ChimaCum creek
has been visited within the past few weeks
by numerous parties of fishermen, who
have returned home heavily laden with
strings of fish, some of which they caught
and others were purchased. We suggest
to a couple Of our gay and feetive friends
before they return from another fishing
froic. that they read the story Of Hone
shoe Robnson; and also In the words of
Captain Edward Cutie, that they ''over-
haul their Annanias and Saphira," and
when found, to make note of the tate
which betel those perverters of the truth,
before they claim to have caught fish
which the telegraph said were not taken
by them with fresh beef bait, but with
sample Of Senator BANDS newly none
tized medium.
Year: 1878

CAPT. Chas. Willoughby moves this
week, with his family, to Neah Bay, there
to remain as he is now fairly installed In
the position of Indian Agent. We are
sorry to lose the Captain and his family
from Port Townsend, but feel sure that
the change cannot but be desirable one
as they will be able to accomplish much
good in their new line Of action. This
they will undoubtedly do if their duties on
the reservation are discharged with that
fidelity which may safely be predicted.
Year: 1878

SHE made telephone. He makes q
call. The old lady present. No chance
to whisper. The telephone Is introduced
Invention success; both converse for an
hour, the old lady failing to hear the
sweet messages. The young folks think
the invention happy thought, but the
old folks condemn it.
Year: 1878

We have often insisted that travel
ers on railways about Dallas should be
armed and organized before reaching
the vicinity of that sweet place, but
must shll insist, despite facts, that
these bellIgerent passengers must not
fire into the Dallas mob congregated
at the depot when each train passes by.
The whole population of the interest
ing town ls not engaged in this awful
business. Many of the leading lawyers
OF Dallas are even now in Austin, and
the editor of the Herald is too fat to be
successful in the spoliation of mail
trans. 1t is female trains that he
most affects. He is always stepping
on them to show how gracefully he
can tip his beaver and assure the fair
creatures, of what they knew before,
that there is nothing in it. But this
mail robbing business about Dali
las is growing monotonous. The
disorder might prove infectious.
The jolly highwaymeu may be induced
by the perfect impunlty that attends
their failures and successes to enlarge
the sphere of their operations, and dis
patches like that we publish from Dali
las may yet go out from Austin. 1t
does not harm Dallas, but would do Sc
rious detriment to the fame of the cap
ital, aad it is earnestly desired that
measures may be adopted by the State
authorities and others by which pc
Rod may be put to the recurrence of
these incidents, as disgraceful to Texas
as to our systems Of government and
moral training of the people.
Year: 1878

The sum required to close the con-
tract with the bidders on propositions
made by the directors of the George
town and Manor road is only $1,000.
This sum will be secured along the line
and the contract will be doubtless ex-
ecuted next week for the completion
of the branch. 1t will be of the gauge
of the Central, which will thus have its
terminus at Georgetown and, of course,
make things lovely for Austin trades
men, bankers and propcrty-holders. or
course this branch of the Central will
not stop at Georgetown. 1t will be ex-
tended year after year to the immense
landed possessions of the Central in
Comanche, Brown, Eastland, Coleman
and other northwestern counties, and
only with less rapidity than the cheaper
narrow gauge would have been if
matchless folly and sel6shness could
have been induced to save themselves
in saving Austin from blow which
dwarfs it into final and hopeless
poverty and lnsignifcsnce. 1t is no
fault of ours and the sufferers have
none to blame besides themselves.
Year: 1878

IT is plain enough that the people of
Georgetown would prefer cheap road
and cheap narrow gauge freight and
passenger rates TO Austin to broad
gauge rates to Manor. Manor is not
the place at which they would deal
with retailers, and Manor is not the
capital. Bully Rutabaga constitution
al conventions never slosh around in
Manor, and goods at wholesale and re-
tail are not as abundant at the village
as in the city. It would be easy, there
fore, to change the purposes of George
town. Twenty-Five or thirty-five thou
sand dollars shaken at the good peo-
pie Of the place would make it come
down. Then the fifty thousand dol
lars which Georgetown would invest
in the narrow gauge would certainly
pay profit Of six thousand dollars an
nuallY, while the Central Company
would coolly pocket the fifty thou
sand dollars invested in the George
town branch. Why not, therefore,
convoke the Chamber of Commerce
and let US see what can be done.
Year: 1878

THE unwarrantable attack made up
on Major Ssyers through the Ne'os's
Austin correspondent gives this gen.
tleman reason for Yindicatlng him.
self, and this is done IN style so we'll
demonstrating the frank and open
character of this worthy gentleman
that we especially call the attention of
cur readers to the facts in another
article. Every man who knows any
thing about Sayers isready to testify to
his answering honesty and to his
manly course. There are men with
more glitter about them than Sayers
carries, but there lives not in Texas
or in the broad Union truer
gentleman than this man. He is
in the prime of life, and Is possessed
of an active and vigorous mind that
leads him to success in all his under
takings. We know that 6ayers may
be trusted in all things, and this is
Why many deem him worthy of any
gift at the hands of the people Of
Texas.
Year: 1878

POSTMASTER GENERAL KEY is de-
voutly inclined to conciliation, and
therefore takes with HIM on the ex-
cursion to Cuba the venerable sore
head Hannibal HamliD. If Key unlock
Hannibal's bowels of compassion and
induce the good old creature to look
Ieniently at last upon the conduct of
the South the cost of the excursion
Will be well spent.
Year: 1878

THE New York State Capitol has al
ready cost nine millions and isn't half
finished. The Texas Legislature, rep
resenting a greater State of the future,
as FIVE to one, than New York, thought
it had done wonders when it set apart
three million acres of land for the pur-
pose of building proper capitol for
the broad commonwealth.
Year: 1878

THE press of learned Boston advo-


cate the bell punch. They copied and
approved a paragraph from the STATES
MAN which asked whether a board of
aldermen, without State legislation,


could not adopt this mode of taxing
whisky and Of extinguishing a city
debt and building narrow gauge to
Georgetown or Lampasas. Bar-rooms
that sell little are taxed little, and all
the money goes into the till. Why
not suffer whisky to become the great
est benefactor Austin has ever known
by building for US the narrow gauge?
Year: 1878




\ daughter of Dan Newman, over
at Sierra Valley, captured the first
prize at last years state fair for being
the best equcstricnne. After the
young lady had been declared boss
she turned around and told the world
at large that she would Just like to
see somebody trot out something i'll
the shape of horsctlcsh that she could
cu't ride, if they thought she was
sailing under false coIors. The re-
suit is that although she has since
been ON various animals that were
brought forward she has kept her
seat IN every instance. Now there
is Il girl that is good for something.
She can bake cookies and bread and
all such things; darn stockings, make
her own dresses and do everything
that makes a good housckccpcr, and
when II comes to playing on Il piano
she is no slouch either.
Year: 1878

The owner OF house in Hartford a
widowcr, lived in the upper story and
rcntcd the lower part to a clergyman.
\ servant girl employed in the clergy
mans family was young and pretty.
Her mistress observed that she and
the widowcr were devoting great deal
of attention TO each other and deem.
ing the matter scandalous, said to her:
Pack mp your things and quit The
cir obcyrd but on the following day
she returned in carriage, announced
that she had been married to the land
lord, and said to her former mistress
Pack up your things and quit
Year: 1878

SCnooL LoCAIIoN.-At the meeting
last Sunday afternoon divers opinions
were expressed as to the most desirable
locality for the new School House, the


majority sc, ming to favor the hill above
the present Primary School, or the site
of the intermediate. The question is
still an open one, decision being re-
served dnul the style OF building shall
be decided upon.
Year: 1878

Arrangements are making by which
postmasters throughout the country are to
receive subscriptions for the pedestal Of
Bartholdi's colossal statue of liberty en-.
tightening the world, to be erected in New
York harbor.


The experiments which have been car
ricd on ut the state agricultural college Of
Maine for some years, to test the relative
values of cooked and uncOoked meal in feed
ing hogs, are still continued, the verdict thus
far being in favor Of uncooked food.


Silkville is the name OF new town in
Kansas. where Il Frenchmau Of wealth has
established q silk-raising colony. The most
complete success is crowning his efforts, the
product of his colony being known in En'
rope as Kansas cocoOn9, and bringing the
highest market price.


The result of an attempt to restore
the models in the patent office, Damaged by
the late fire, bids fair to realize more than
expectation. Absut five thousand models
have already been restored, and from press
ent indications the whole number capable
of being put in good condition will reach at
least five thousand more than the commits
sioner's estimate, or about fifteen thousand


Much objection against the proposed
elevated railroads in New York was based
on the idea that they would prove unsightIy,
but it now is said to be the general opinion
that when completed they will add much to
the fine appearance of the city. The plans
for the stations submitted and approved are
said to be extremely picturesque, the stairs
bv which the accents and descents are to be
made are wide and handsome, and the finish
is to be modern, thorough AMI artistic.


The inquiry into tire alleged massacres
of Russian prisoners by the Turkish troops
at Plevna is being carried on quietly but
without interruption, and NOTWITHSTANDING
the military honOrs which were so readily
maid to the commander Of the besieged
town, Osman Pasha, as being responsible for
the discipline of his soldiers, will be tried by
a Russian rcourtmartial, together with all
his officers. This will says a correspondent,
be no novel proceeding, and Russia Will
be only acting upon the same principles. as
were adopted by the German staff during
the war of 1870 with regard to the French
irregular troops, and more especially the
irancstireurs.