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Year: 1874

A Michigan boy has trained a rat to come forth
at his whistle, stand its hind feet, roll over,
leap through a hoop covered with paper, and to
execute various other maneuvres. The family
own big cat, and she has been trained TO stretch
out and let the rat leap over her, and the two
great friends, though OT.malkin is death on all
other rodents The lad has an exhibition twice a
week, and secures quite an income by charging
an admission fee Of five cents.
Year: 1874

Some time ago, SAYS the Cincinnati
Daily Times, while the family were at
dinner one day, at one of our wealthy
farmers houses, In Pendleton county
Kentucky. the wife of the household
walked out of the room. Her departure
was not noticed particularly, until the
lapse of time made it obvious that she
would not return. Observations soon
convinced the husband that his wife had
eloped with hired man who had been
at work on the place. Time in its pro-
gress allayed the modification. and as
suaged the PAIN of the deserted husband,
and he plodded on from day to day in
the silent and almost unvarying monot-
ony of his course.


The wife was heard of no more


New affections sprang up in the breast
of the man, whose heart-strings were so
suddenly and so rudely torn. The sister
of her who had been the departed wife
for the husband was now divorced by
law-slowly and almost unconsciously
gained favor in his eyes. and filled the
vacant place in his sympathies. He mar
| ried her.


The period of six months in the years
marriage Of the second sister glided away
when one day knock was heard at the
| door. and the absent wife was returned.


The hired man with whom she had
gone away, fell into drunkenness and
debauchery, soon treated the deluded
woman with neglect and cruelty, and at
length deserted her.


She struggled on then, amid many
privations and much suffering, and in
the maze of her miseries wandered back
to her fathers house, whose farm was
adjoining her husbands Her father
would not permit her to come into the
house, and commanded her to leave.


She then turned to her husbands
house, and there he found her in the
doorway when he came to answer the
summons.


Her worn and tattered garb, pale and
haggard countenance. lack-luster eye
and sorrowful air, made her an object
whose sadness can only be pictured in
the mind.


The husband lost to her, was struck
dumb with pang of recollections that
penetrated him like a thunder-bolt in a
moment more the gloom cloud opened q
little, and tear drop glistening fell
from his eyes.


His wife would not see her sister. Nc
member of the family would hold inter.
course with her. She could not live with
them.


But her husband built her cabin il
the extreme corner of the farm, provided
for her subsistence, and there she nov
lives, an utter stranger inher own house
hold.
Year: 1874

Give me an eve 70 others failings blind
Miss Smiths new bonnet's quite . fright behind y
Wake me in charity for the suffering poor
There comes that contribution box once more p
Take from my soul al feelings eovetOus-
CTu have shawl ike that or make fuss .
Let love for ali my kind my spirit stir
Save Mrs. Jones II never speak u herg
Let ne in Truths fair pages take delight
I'll read that other novel through to-nightg
Make He content with my earthly state
q wish I'll married rich But its too lateg
Give ne a heart of faith in all my kind
Miss Browns as big hypocrite as you'll dndg
Help NE to see myself as others see


(This dress Is quite becoming TO meD
Let me act out no falsehOod, appeal
Il wonder if they think these euris are real9
Make my heart Of humility the font


How glad I am our pew's 50 near the front9
FIJI me with patience and strength to wait
Il know he'll preach until our dinners late 3
Take from my heart each grain Of self eonceft-
(I'm sure that gentleman must think me sweet Q
Let sanity wisdom be my daily food


q wonder what they'll have for dinner, good
Let not my feet ache IN the road 70 light
Nobody knows how these shoes pinch and bite y
In this world teach me TO deserve the next
(Churcil outI Charles do you reeolIset the text p
Year: 1874

smallest grain of good makes him happy
just as half glass of VINE makes some
men drunk. There are, we say, such
people as these-men, if We may coin a
word, easily intoxicable. But We are
inclined, as rule, to vehement suspi-
cion in both cases. The man who is up
set by the first glass has generally had
a number of glasses before, and the man
who makes the best of things is general
ly helped to be serene, either by the alb
sence of strong feeling or by the want
of courage to look at the worst
Year: 1874

Ben Butler has told that story Of the
battle on the James river, and his per-
sonal presence on the field after the
fighting was over. and of bis ride among
the dead, and Of bis oath when he saw
the bronzed faces Of the dead, about Of
ten enough. 1t viii become bore in
the course Of few years additional
service. AS the PEOPLE of Ohio have
heard it repeatedly, they do not read it
with any great interest in the Congress
ional reports.-Cineimnati Commercial.


That story was never finished. Ben
never told how like thunder he got lick
ed.-Bost0n Herald
Year: 1874

Beside the fire sat Farmer John,
One clustering winter night,
Beside the farmer sat his wife.
Whose knitting needles bright
Flew in and out through the wooden sock,
OF clOuded blue and white.
-Tis a tedious night quOth Farmer John;
I'm glad fixed that shed.
Its such nice place for the sheep
II shelters every head;
There's not eritter out in the storm,
And everything Is fed
Its comfort said his wife
And am thankful too.
That I have got those mittens toue
For both the boys and you.
And that the girls have good warm clothes,
From hood 70 overshoe-
I wonder what should have done,
If You had proved to be,
i drunken sOt, like Jimmy Stone.
Who married Susie Lee:
Tou know she was the prettiest girl
in all the town of C.
Her children sleep tonight, in beds
With covering seant and thin,
And through the shingles old and woru.
The snow comes sitting in.
While OURS are tucked up snug and warm,
From toe to rosy chin
You needn't lay it all to me-


Said John with loving pride
If you had been a shiftless Jade,
Like Mary Ann Mcbride,
Who spends the half her time abroad
And the other half beside
do not dare To think how sad


Our fate might be tonight;
The children hungry, and half clad
Myself ragged fright
And everything about the house


In a disOyiered plight
And in his heart he blessed his wife


Who had hIled his life with cheer
And she thanked God for the husband true
Who made her home 50 dear:
And both were glad for the little ones.
In warm beds sleeping near.
Year: 1874

As a rich and pretentious shoddyite
was looking at some paintings which she
proposed to buy. the dealer pointed to a
fine one and said There is dog after
Landseer." "Is it. really p "What is
the dog after him for o.
Year: 1874

In Mount Vernon, Ohio, the women
have now got things reduced to sys-
ten. Instead of being at the trouble to
go around in the mud to pray and sing,
they just put up a sentry box in front
of each saloon, aud station lady in 1t
to take down the name and note the
condition of every man who enters or
leaves it. It's said to work like charm.
The fair sentries delight In their duty,
and do not welcome tae rustic OF petit
coats indicating: the approach of the
relief, .H.. 'H
Year: 1874

was informed, now absent from the state
had nothing to fear from Baxter. They
could return with perfect assurance of
immunity from violence, and their only
just cause for apprehension, tany. would
be on account of civil prosecution for
malieasance or misconduct in Office. The
president expressed himself as being sat
isfed that the proper course for the dis
position Of the question was that which
was finally adopted He had hoped that
the parties would settle the difficulties
themselves in lawful manner, and he
deemed it advisable to avail. the Assem-
bling of the legislature. This indicates
clearly enough that Clayton and Dorsey
have gained no ground at the White
House since their signal overthrow.
Year: 1874

Ey- Three hundred years ago ladies
used to comb their hair on their heads
now they hang it over the back OF chair
to comb it,


An article you can always borrow
Trouble, and are never obliged to return
IT,
Year: 1874

Ms~It is not our fault that we are red head


ed and small, and the next time one of those
overgrown rural roosters in ballroom reach
es down for our head, and suggests that some
fellow has lost a rosebud out of his button
hole, there will be trouble.-Mil'oaukee Sentinel.
Year: 1874

Against all chambermads of whatsoever age
or nationality launch the curse of Bachelor
dom


Because:


They always put the pillows upon the oppo-
site end of the bed from the gas burner, so that
while you read and smoke before sleeping (as is
the ancient and honored custom of bachelors),
you have to hold your book aloit, in an uncom-
Portable position, to keep the light from dazzling
your eyes.


If they cannot get the light in an uncomfort-
Bile position any other way they move the bed
If you pull your trunk out six inches from
the wall, so that the lid will stay up when you
open it, they always shove that trunk back
again. They do it on purpose.


They also put your boots into inaccessible
places. They chiefly enjoy depositing them as
far under the bed as the wall will permit 1t
is because this compels you to get down in an
undigniied manner and make wild sweeps for
them in the dark with the bootjack, and swear.


They always put the match box in some other
place. They hunt up new place for it every
day, and put bottle or some other perishable
oS'N'S'
is to cause you to break that glass thing, CROP
ing about in the dark, and get yourself into
trouble.


They are forever moving the furniture
When you come in, in the night, you can cal
culate on finding the bureau where the ward
rode was in the morning. And when you come
in at midnight, or therabouts, you will fall over
the rocking chair, and you will proceed toward
the window and set down in the slop tub. THIS
will disgust you. They like that


No matter where you put anything they won't
let it stay there. They will take it and move
it the first chance they get.


They always save up the old scraps of print
ed rubbish you throw on the floor, and stack
them up carefully on the table, and then start
the fire with your valuable manuscripts.


And they use more hair hair oil than any six
men.


They keep always coming to make your bed
before you get up, thus destroying your rest
and inficting agony upon you, but after you
get up they don't come any more till the next
day.
Year: 1874

"Come in there's fire in the parlor,"
were the words we heard on passing & house on
one of our principal streets one evening. 1t is
such little courtesies as this that increase the
coal dealers profits, and tend to make the baker
sweat over six-story wedding cake before the
winter is over.
Year: 1874

SOMETHING FOR NoTHING.-There is
wholesome moral regimen in the acqui-
sition of property Men cannot afford to
set aside, even this chair of equivalents.
The most dangerous thing next to cruel
ty and neglect, is charity. Indifference
is worse than charity, and next to that
comes charity. man that is charitably
disposed plays with fire. He means to
make fire under his neighbor's pot to
boil his dinner; but he burns up his
house more times than he boils his din
ner My observation in life, thus far,
with increasing breadth and certainty,
is, that the most dangerous thing any
body can do, is to give property where it
is not earned by some equivalent.-
Henry Ward Beecher.
Year: 1874

A man who had missed his way over
took a boy going with a pot of tar to
mark his masters sheep. He asked
him the road to Banff, but was directed
by so many turnings that he agreed to
take the boy behind him on the horse.
Finding the boy pert and docile. he gave
him some wholesome advice, adding oc.
casionally, Mark me well, my, boy
Eyes sir, I do" He repeated the in
junction SO often that the boy at last
cried out, 81 can not mark ye any mair,
as the tar have glen out.
Year: 1874

Never make fool of yourself by writ
ing letter while in a passion; and even
if under great provocation, take noble
pride in exhibiting the dignified courtesy
of gentleman, and the forbearance OF
Christian; and remember the more you
gloat over the severity of what you have
written, the more of an ass you will be
for sending or publishing it.
Year: 1874

Live as long as you may, the first
twenty years form the greater part of
your life. They appear so when they are
passed; they seem to have been so when
we look back to them, and they take up
more room in our memory than all the
years that succeeded them.
Year: 1874

An attorney before bench of magis-
trates, short time ago, told the bench
with great gravity that he had two wit
nesses in court in behalf of his client,and
they would be sure to speak the truth,
for he had no opportunity to communi-
cate with them
Year: 1874

An exchange recommends that when
you buy new lamp chimney, you put it
in vessel of cold water, set it on the
stove and boil. You can never break
that chimney, unless you throw a fiat
iron at it, and it won't break even then
if you miss it.
Year: 1874

"What have you been doing all day? ??
said father to his boy, who had been
set to husking corn in the barn and had
husked only half basketful. Il am
catching rats, sir" Catching ratsl How
many have you caughtP When l get
the one am now after and two more, it
will make threep
Year: 1874

A young man was carving a goose at a
dinner table one day. when by an awk-
ward move he knocked it into the lap of
a lady who was sitting opposite in all
the glory of green satin dress. Instead
of showing his verdancy by profuse apoE
ogies, and confused manner, he simply
said: III trouble you for that goose,
Miss" Can the annals of society furnish
an. example of selfpossession more sub
lime
Year: 1874

is IN distress? When the American
mother has reared the child of her affec-
ton to manhood, oh the anguish of that
heart when that child is brought home
to her a maddened and brutalized vgaa-
bond And yet how many thousands
are subjected to this sorrow! Shall the
mother, then, not be permitted to rescue
bar child
Year: 1874

ANOTHER VERSION OF THE LITTLE HATcHET
SToRY.-The Green Bay Advocate gives
the following concerning an humble fol-
lower of the great &c. W." A little boy
out West undertook to come G. Wash
ington on his mother in this way: He
cut off the cats head with the traditional
hatchet and then hid the defunct feline
in the meal barrel When the old lady
went for meal to make the "hoe cake"
for the frugal morning repast, she dis
covered that cat and interviewed her
little son. He said, II did it, mother,
with my little hatchet, but I'll be swiz-
zled if | can tell the whole truth about
this little affair" Now, most mothers
would have kissed that brave, truthful
lad on his noble brow and kept on using
the meal out of that barrel just the same
but this one didn't She said, Come
across my lap, my son; come across my
lap" He came, and for awhile there rose
such cloud of dust from the seat of his
trousers that effectually hid the son from
view, and the old woman now sports gog-
giles and is lavish in the use of
Pettit's eye salve. That good little boy
had peppered the seat of his pants.
Year: 1874




We are told that this is female COM
munism-a crusade of fanatical women.
1t is crusade but crusade in a holy
cause-a crusade in the interest of hu-
manity, of domestic happiness, of COM
mon virtue, and of our common welfare.
If that be the crusade that it is called,
then may 1 live and die crusader.
Loud amens


Women of Cincinnati, the work before
you is no holiday sport. Three hundred
thousand souls are here on the bank of
this beautiful river. By the side of mag
nitcent homes are the novels of rags and
wretchedness. In your midst are palaces
built upon crushed hearts, and colossal
Establishments whose foundations are
based on the tears of suffering Thou
sands are the victims and thousands the
champions of King Alcohol You may
fail, but | hope not. | trust that when
this warfare is ended there may remain
not one on whose cheek is seen the tear
of sorrow.


WILL PRoTEsTANTIsM- PERISH?


Think you the Christian religion will
go down in this great struggle2 We are
told that Professionalism must perish, if the
crusade goes on. Perish because it would
exterminate from the midst of mankind
its great enemy 1t may go down. The
Son of God, when battling with evil upon
the earth, was stricken down; but He
rose again. Professionalism may go down,
but it will reappear like it's crucifed
Lord, and grow brighter and brighter. 1t
is written in heaven by the finger of God
that this struggle will end in success,
and Professionalism will come out brighter
from the conflict Light, liberty and
love chained to the car of temperance,
will rise higher and higher.
Year: 1874

at is a curious thing to consider how
many people there are in the world whose
daily habits are very little superior to
those of the beasts of the field. They
do not understand the use of the bath.
They are guilty of all sorts of dirty
practices; and it is one of their peculiar
tiles that they care nothing whatever for
the annoyance or discomfort they infict
upon others. They are half unconscious
that their own habits are very objection
able, and consequently, they do not al
ways reflect that they give great offence
to others: they live like pigs themselves
and naturally fancy that the manners
and customs of the sty are universally
popular and agreeable. Consequently
they go about the s~world nuisance to
everybody, and are utterly incapable of
learning anything from the example of
better people around them.


"The spitters are among the most Of
fensive of this numerous class. They
have no respect for man, woman or child.
You see their tracks in every thorough
fare and every public building They
would as soon make their mark on your
best carpet as on the roadway. Half the
people to be met with in the streets are
dangerous to pass-for, just as you get
up to them, they discharge avolley which
you are likely to receive full on dress or
coat without hope of 'dcdging' it. Ladies,
of coHrse, suffer the most. They cannot
get out of the way; and the chewers care
little for their feelings in the matter.
They regard the world as huge spit-box,
and would resent any suggestion as to
the filthiness of their actions as an in
fringement of personal liberty.


In street railway cars, the nuisance is
almost worse than in the streets. The
driver very likely chews, and his contri-
buttons to the universal spittoon are car
ried through the car, to the great delight
,of the passengers. Or a man will seat
himself by the window at the upper end
of the car, and begin scattering his favors
on all sides of him: on the mat, out of
the window, to the right, left, or any side
he may msmentarily fancy. The wind
may be ahead and thus diffuse the
shower in a spray through the car. Re
monstrance is useless. A man has a
right to spit: hasn't he? And if you
don't like it you can get out of the car
and walk.


"Those persons are what famous lee
turer calls beasts way down. The
language sounds strong Notwithstanding
its obscurity; but the Amherst young
men probably understand it. At any
rate, there can be but one opinion among
decent people with regard to this foul
habit of splitting. 1t is a thing to be
checked, if possible. But if anybody asks
US how it is possible to do it, we shall be
obliged to say that we do not know,
This is one of those evils which we can
only describe without protesting to sup
ply a remedy."-N. Y. Times.


It is tobacco-users who spit, and make
such nuisances of themselves. Women
and children seldom spit. No man in
perfect health spits. One may have
cough, raise phlegm, and throw it off;
but he is i'll. A horse dreuls, after eating
weeds, as slovenly man spits after eat
ing nasty tobacco. But, in such cases,
both horse and man are sick, and need
renovating, purifying, curing Abstinence
is the remedy=Scierce Of HeoLth
Year: 1874

MADAME BAzAINE having obtained permis
sion to share the prison of her husband has
been with him for many months. She has
therefore subjected herself to voluntary i'm
prisonment, as she is permitted only the same
liberties as the ex Marshal. Her only prone
made is the terrace of the prison, and here the
two exiles-the one the victim for1the sins of
French vanity and the other the sacrifice of
wifely devoIiOn-can be seen taking their lone
ly walks by the monotOnous walls Of the
gloomy pile which forms their place of deten-
ton. Lately their sons and only daugh er
have arrived and taken up their abode on the
is a native of San Bias. and was married by
the Marshal while In Mexico. The ladies OF
this districtare said to be the most exquisite
in form, with charming yivacity of feature
and heavy masses Of coal black hair. Ma ny
wed Europeans, and many more are sought
by the wealthy families of the City of Mexico
itself. In the political turmoil of France the
exiles arc nearly forgotten.
Year: 1874

Dickens tells the following story OF


an American sea captain:


On his last voyage home the captain


had ON board young lady of remark-
able personal attractions--a phrase l
use as one being entirely new, and one
you never met with in the newspapers.
This young lady was beloved intensely
by five young gentlemen passengers,
and in return she was in love with
them all very ardently, but without
anyparticular preference for either. Not
knowing how to make up her deter
mination in this dilemma, she Consulted
my friend the captain. The captain be-
ing man of an ori ginal turn of mind,
says to the young lady, Jump over
board, and mary the man tha. jumps
after you The young lady, struck
with tho idea, and being naturally fond
of bathing, especially in warm weather.
as it then was, took the advice of the
captain, who had boat manned in case
of accident. Accordingly, next morning,
the five lovers being on deck, and look
ing devotedly at the young lady, she
plunged into the sea, head-fore- most
Four of the lovers immeditely jumped
in after her. When the young lady and
her four lovers were got out again, she
says to the captain, What am / to do
with them now, they are so wet2' Said
the captain, "Take the dry onel" and
the young lady did. and she married
him
Year: 1874

The Arabs have fable of miller
who was one day startled by camel's
nose thrust in the window where he
was sleeping.


1T is very cold outside" said the
camel; II only want to get my nose
in"


The nose was let in and then the
neck, and finally the whole body
Presently the miller became incon.
venienced by the ungainly companion
he had obtained, in room certainly
not large enough for both.


IF you are Inconvenience you may
leave" said the camel; as for myself
| shall stay where am"


The moral of the fable concerns all
When temptation occurs, We must not
yield to it. We must not allow Sc
much as its nose" to come in. Every.
thing like sin is TO be turned away
from. He who yields even the smallest
degree will soon be entirely overcome
and the last state of that man is worst
than tie first.
Year: 1874

The world is full Of kindness that
never was spoken and not much better
than no kindness at all The fuel in
the stove makes the room warm, but
there are great piles Of fallen trees ly-
ing among rocks and ON the tops of the
hills where nobody can get them; these
do not make anybody warm. You
might freeze to death for want of wood
10 plain sight of all these fallen trees
if you had 40 means OF getting the
wood home and making fire with it.
Just so in q family; love is what
makes the parents and children, the
brothers and sisters happy; but ifthey
care never 10 say a word about tit
they keep it profound secret, as il 10
were crime, they will not be much
happier than if there was not any love
among them; the hoSse willseenl cold
even in summer, and if you live there
you may envy the dog when any one
calls him poor fellow"


Nothing on earth can smile but hu-
man beings. Gems may fash reflected
light, but what is diamond fash
compared with an eye fash and q
mirth fash2 A face that can Rot
smile is like bud that can not blos-
som, and dries up in the Ssalk. Laugh
ter is day, and sObriety is night, and
smile is the twilight that hoyers gen
tly between both, and more bewitching
than either,