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Year: 1877

When burly youth betakes him
self to the vile habit of CARRYING
concealed weapons, he straightway
broods over the act of killing some
body as thing to give him high
standing in the community. The
current of his thoughts always in
this channel, wears away all moral
restraint, and then on slight provo
cation he becomes a murderer, hated
by God, Stunned by good men; per
haps hanged like a dog, or impris-
oned TO show a white face beyond
iron CRATES the balance OF his life.
Young man, start not down hill
thus; otherwise, let us s1rF farewell
to you as a feloueeas a wretch
whose damnatlon is certaini What !
will you go to Gods bar with the
red hands of a murderer? Will the
friends who applaud you as a bully
sOothe you in the death hour when
the mystery and helplessness of the
last dread change drapes the uni
verse in "the blackness of dark
ness?" What good will your pistol
do you then? Think!
Year: 1877

Vows made in storms are forgot
ten in Gains.


There are strings in the harp Of
every life, though covered with dust,
that give out music when the wings
of truth stir the air.


Don't live a single hour of your
life without doing exactly what
ought to be done in it, and going
right strait through it from begin
ming TO end.


No man ever sank under the bur
den of to-day. 1t is when to.mor-
rows burden is added to the burden
of to day that the weight becomes
more than a man can bare.


We should no more lament that we
have grown old than the husband
man, when the bloom and fragrance
has passed away, should lament that
summer or autumn has come.


Bad luck is simply a man with
his hands in his pockets and pipe in
his mouth, looking on to see how it
will come out. Good luck, is a man
of pluck, with his sleeves rolled up
and working TO make it come out
right.
Year: 1877

Henry Watterson has not forgot
ten that he was in Congress, and
still continues to think that the
Electoral Comission was about the
bettermost thing that could be done
under the circumstances. If Tilden
had had more courage he might
have been President. He let the
thing drop out of the hands of the
country into the hands of the COM
mission, and the inevitable followed.
Yet Mr.. Watterson thinks that on
the whole the Democrats have
gained more by defeat than they
would By victory, and that the Re
publicans have lost more by victory
than they would by defeat. Henry
is a good deal of a philosopher
when he settles down with square
grip on subject.
Year: 1877

There is a remarkable instance OF
confusion of mothers on Mr.. Thorn
as Whites place, in Eastern part Of
Huntsville. A flock of young part
ridges are following a turkey hen,
and upon her call will gather about
her and nestle beneath her wings.
just like she was their real parent.
They 1y up TO the limb and roost
with her at night They are not
gentle and hide in theEgrass upon
the approach Of any person; when
she sounds her call. just such as
she would give TO a brood Of young
turkeys, the little quails come
trooping towards her. IL Is not
known how the thing started,
but it is supposed that a partridge
had laid in the same nest with the
turkey and the latter took posses
sion and hatched the young birds.
Year: 1877

The workingmen Of Nashville
have determined TO follow the ex-
ample of their Louisville brethren
and run an independent ticket for
municipal offices. The same course
is being attempted in Cincinnati.
We regret these movements because
their effect is TO isolate a cause in
which the great mass Of the people
are interested. The fight against
the despotism of capital, the ten
dency of national legislation TO es-
tablish an oligarchal government In
the interest Of a moneyed aristoc-
racy, is one IN which the whole
body of the people are concerned,
and hence such movements as that
contemplated by the Nashville work
ingmen are TO be deplored. The
Democratic party is the only organ
ization that offers success against
the money power, and sooner or
later the workingmen will sec and
appreciate the fact. The Demo-
cratic Ohio platform is the key note
of success and should rally laboring
men everywhere.-Jaekson Tribune.
Year: 1877

For farmers and those who live
in localities where people can retire
at eight or nine o'clock in the even
ing, the old notion about early ris-
ing 10 still aupr0PriaUe. But he who
is kept up till ten or eleven or twelve
O'Clock, and then rises at five or six,
because of the teachings of some
old ditty about "early to rise" is
committing a sin against his own
soul. There is not one man in ten
thousand who can afford to do with
out seven or eight hours sleep. All
the stuff written about the great men
who slept only three or four hours
night is apocryphal. They have
been put upon such small allow
ances occasionally and prospered
but no man ever yet kept healthy
in body and mind for a number OF
years with less than seven hours
sleep. If you can get to bed early,
then rise early; if you cannot get TO
bed till late, then rise late. 1t may
be as proper for one man to rise at
eight as it is for another to rise at
five. Let the rousing bell be rung
at least thirty minutes before your
public appearance. Physicians say
that sudden jump out of bed gives
irregular motion to the pulses. 1t
is barbarous to expect children to
land on the centre of the floor at the
call of their nurses, thermometer be-
low zero. Give us time after you
call us, to roll over, gaze at the
world full in the face, and look be
/ fDro Iao,N
Year: 1877

There is said to be a well in Wise
county, Texas, ITO feet deep, which
ordinarily has an abundant supply
of water at all seasons of the year,
but when the wind blows twelve
hours from the north no water can
be drawn from it at all.
Year: 1877

A writer says that when a swim
mer gets the cramp he should turn
his toes toward his knee. Another
good way is to turn your toes to-
ward the middle of the pond and
paw for the nearest dry land.
Year: 1877

Another day has come and gone,
leaving us all older and wiser, but
as vet no communications have
been received indicating that any
one has discovered a man who can
drink out Of a spring without get
ting the end Of his nose wet
Year: 1877

The pencil marks you see around thi
paragraph tthus) mean that your


scription is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested to pay up at once. We
would take great pleasure in extending
credit to our friends and patrons. but
cash alone viii way our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to a strict cash
rule. We hope you will comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of such a
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


CB We enter no new names on our
books without the money In advance.
Year: 1877

1t takes according to a scientific
journal four thousand bumblebees
to weigh pound; but you stop a
bumblebee sometime when he is
right busy, and pick him up and
lift him, and you will raise your
hand to heaven and swear that he
weighs a ton.
Year: 1877

The Mayor of Waco, Texas, went
to Chicago on business, and during
his absence some one presented his
resignation to the Council 1t was
willingly accepted and a new cleo
tion ordered, but the Mayor got
back in time to spoil the joke.
Year: 1877

A Massachusetts farmer says
"My cattle will follow me until 1
leave the lot and on the way up to
the yard in the evening, stop and
call for a lock of hay" Smithson
says there is nothing remarkable in
that. One day last week he went
into a barn yard in the country,
where he had not the slightest ac-
quaintance with the cattle, and an
old bull not only followed him till
he left the lot, but took the gate of
the hinges, and raced with him in
the most familiar manner possible.
Smithson says he has no doubt the
old fellow would have called for
something if he had waited a little
while, but he didn't like to keep the
folks waiting dinner, so he hung
one tail of his coat and a piece of
his pants on the bulls horns and
went into the house.-EX.


Fount has been absent a day OF
two recently.
Year: 1877

The Richmond, (Va.) Wing tells
of a sad case of a reverse of fortune
to a young lady of that city who
was worth 100000 a year ago, but
married man who squandered her
property and has left her and gone
to Europe. She is now penniless,
peddling small articles in the streets
for a livelihood, and not yet eigh-
teen years of age.
Year: 1877

Sleeping turnIp seed in spirits of
turpentine is complete preventive
against the fly. 1t does not injure
the terminating of the seed, and
the young plant comes up tasting
and smelling of turpentine, the odor
remaining on it until it is in the
rough leaf.
Year: 1877

Sleepless people-and there are
many In America-should court the
sun. The very worst soporific is
laudanum, the very best is sun
shine. Therefore it is very plain
that poor sleepers should pass as
many hours of the day as possible
in the sunshine, and as few as pos
sible in the shade. Many women
are martyrs and do not know it.
They shut the sunshine out of their
houses and their hearts; they wear
wells, they carry Parasols; they do
all that is possible to keep off the
subtlest and yet the most potent in
huence which is intended TO give
them strength and beauty and
eheerfulness. Is it not time to
change all this, and so get roses
and color in our pale cheeks,
strength in our backs and courage
in our weak souls? The women of
America are pale and delicate.
They may be blooming and strong,
and the sunlight will be a potent
influence in this tran ansformation.
Year: 1877

The tea is washed before it is infused ,and


great quantity Of sugar is put into the


tea pot. 1t is IN fact, syrup,and it might


be supposed that people particular about


f1avors as are the Moores, would find such


excessive sweetness Objectionable Yet,


what is more extraordinary still, they en-


deavor apparently to suppress the delicate


tea flower altogether. There is a regular


course OF tea impregnated with different


Aavors, which are ali more or less disa-
greeable to the novice. The order of these
may vary, but from the numerous opportu-
mites we had Of Judging, the following
seemed the rule in the best circles. First,
there was pound Of plain green tea, with
no addition but sugar Milk or cream was
never used. Then came second course,
in which spearmint was infused-horrible
compound. Third, an infusion OF tea with
wormwood, not quite 80 Objectionable
Fourth, one favored with lemon verbena.
Fifth, one with citron. Sixth, and more
rerely, as being an expensive luxury, and
intended as great compliment tea and
little ambergris scraped into it and which
could be seen floating like greese on the
surface. Of this the flavor, if peculiar, was
not disagreeable. Each course of tea was
taken while very warm, and with loud,
smacking noise Of lips. Nothing mean
while was eaten.
Year: 1877

A BALTIMORE INvENT1oN.-Thom
NJ. Morton has obtained letters patent for
an invention intended to facilitate the
dampening of paper in long rolls as used
on some of the modern printing presses.
By an ingenious arrangement of felt roll
ers connected with water trough or with
spray pipes the rolls of paper are damp
ened to sufficiently uniform degree to
be at once fed to the press, the machine
being attached to and operated by the
press while in motion, and its operation
being continuous WITH that of the press.
Baltimore Sun.
Year: 1877

Colorado had no State ticket to elect
but Chief Justice, and both parties uni
ted on Judge Stone, Democrat. In the
unimportant contests for county officers
the Republicans hold their aScendency in
the State. The woman suffrage amend
ment to the Constitution is defeated by
decided majority.
Year: 1877

The OHIO DEFEAT The Cincinnati
Gazette (Rep) thus accounts for the
Republican defeat In Ohm:


An: off year after the President"
election is habit Of the Republicans.
It is the custom to talk Of the govern
ment to the people as thing the peo-
pie delight to administer; but in fact
they regard it as irksome, and want to
shuttle it of most of the time. It is
too much work to turn out and vote.
There was great deal Of dissatisfaction
among the Democrats; but the thinking
class of that party is only small pro,
portion. The mass blndly vote, like
a regular army at the word of command
Of course the negligent and disafected
Republicans will now resolve to vote
and retrieve the State. And the Dem
ocratic party has talent for disgusting
the people in a siugle term enough to
cause this reaction. Meanwhile anoth-
er United States Senatorship will have
gone to the Democrats.
Year: 1877

For the past six years the Keel
motor has gained no little notoriety
but never as yet has an opportunit,
been afforded the curious scientist fo
a critical examination of the machine
SO tn at many have been led to believe
it was destined at some day in the neal
future to supersede steam as a motive
power.


Recently several of the most eminen,
mechanical engineers have been con
suited on the subject, am ong others one
who has been employed by Keely, and
who does not hesitate to declare the
whole thing delusion, utterly devoid
of scientific merit.


lie attempted hydraulic motor,
which he termed "hydropneumatic
pulsating vacuum engine" In this he
claimed that the only force exerted on
the machine was water from an ordi-
nary hydrant; that this water mad to
create a vacuum IN the machine, had to
actuate pulsating diaphragm, had to
operate piston in cylinder, to raise
weights and to turn crank shaft,
which was TO give out more power
than the water itself possessed, but this
scheme was pronounced utterly falla-
clous, being based on contradiction of
all physical laws.


About this time Kecly applied for a
patent on the hydro pneumatic" engine,
but from the fact of his never having
produced the required working model
1t was abandoned as impracticable.
Then followed what be termed the
" "kcely motor" evolved by expulsion
from a multiplication or generator, with.
out the aid of any chemical compound,
heat, electricity or galvanic action.
The only means he employed, accord
Ing to his own account, was the intro
ductlon ofatmospheric air and limited
quantity of hydrant water. By this
slmp'e process be claimed to be able to
send train of cars fiom PHILADELPHIA
to New York, the sole motive power
being quart of water in his multipli-
Gator, which produced vaporic sub
stance. This scientists declare to be
nothing more than compressed air, com
pressed by the hydrant pressure, which
is made powerful ty proper machinery.
But mere pressure is not motive power
it is resultant of it. According to
the best accounts Keely's motor does
not possess any power whatever, and
can never be applied to any practical
use. The pressure is not continuous,
and only exists for short time, while
the machine is not automatic in the
same sense that steam engine or 9TH
er motor is, and he has SO far utterly
failed to show continuity for more
than fifteen or twenty minutes at
tlme.-Pa7aaezphia Record.
Year: 1877

Rev. Mr.. STURGEON says he can
see no scriptural authority for any man
taking vacation for forty days. He
would, therefore, advise every man to
remain at his special work as closely as
possible, citing the sad results which
followed Moses, long mountain trip,
when the old man came back to find
that his people had forgotten both him
and his God, and were worshipping a
golden calf.
Year: 1877

AMONG the peculiar exploits of the
whirligig of time is the Dem ocratic
nomination in New York of Allen G..
Beach, President of the Canal Board
which made Tilden' s great reform neces-
sary in that state, to succeed Bigelow,
chairman of the commission that made
the investigations which unearthed the
frauds. This coming from a party
which has sucn holy horror of frauds
as is shown in the resolutions adopted
at all its state conventions this year.
Il is refreshingly cool performance
and is enough to provoke smile, as we
doubt not it will upon the faces Of
Democrats laying claim to political
honesty and consistency.
Year: 1877

WE learn that joint resolution will
be introduced in the two Houses to-day,
providing for the appointment of an
official reporter of the legislative pro-
ceedings, and that Mr.. w. E. Wheeler,
editor of the Evanston Age, will be
nominated as the person to be ap-
pointed under this resolution. We
heartily second this movement and en-
dorse Mr.. Wheeler for the appoint
ment. He is one Of those plucky and
enterprising men, who spend their
energy and means in giving a news
paper to a locality which cannot and
does not provide due sustenance for q
newspaper. His perseverance in his
enterprise is highly commendable, and
should be recognized by our legislators
as worthy of their support. In bestow-
ing this position upon Mr.. Wheeler,
they will partially recompense him for
valuable services rendered to the people
OF this Territory.
Year: 1877

THE editor Of Colorado paper, re-
Gently started, says that he received a
letter by post. with $40 bill inclosed,
for one years subscription to the pa
per, the sender saying that he could
keep the balance as an offset to some of
his delinquent customers, and that he
would call in few days and give his
name and address. The editor was
highly elated at its reception, and was
feverishly anxious to take his unknown
helper by the hand. But he came not,
for the bill was counterfeit, and the
editor barely escaped being sent to Jail
for attempting to pass spurious
money.
Year: 1877

A Kansas detective was robbed very
skillfully the other evening. He was
watching faro game in gambling
room in Denver, when some sharper
"held him up" cut q hole in his vest
extracted an inside pocket containing
five $50 bills and Especial ''key'' to
telegraphic correspondence. The
detective is naturally little sore over
the matter.
Year: 1877

THE late General Forrest was an
illiterate man, although he rose to the
rank Of lieutenant general in Confeder-
ate army. Some one asked him just
before the close of the war, when his
victories made him particularly con-
spicuous, what was the secret of his
success. In his own homely way he
said that it was by "gitting the most
men thar fust.'
Year: 1877

A YOUNG man named Taylor was
recently arrested in Omaha on the
charge of embezzlement preferred by a
man from Nebraska City, and after
settling the matter, he married the
daughter Of the man to avoid trouble
on another charge. He then went to
work at the stock yard of General
Estabrook, his attorney in that city,
and on Thursday evening he collected
little money due the stock yard, and
departed for parts unknown, no doubt
being frightened by some threat on the
part of his new father-in-law.
Year: 1877

The character Of tho receut Democratic
Convention. and Of the men who have now
acquired undisputed codsrol Of the local
Democratic organization, is fairly reflected
by The County Central Committee elected by
the Convention. OF tbs &wenty-three uames
Year: 1877

AFTER the people thoroughly understand
the infamous Oregon case, they will look upon
the Democratic cloak of Reform the same as
honest men look upon the garb Of a hypocrite
who has stolen the livery of Heaven to serve
the devil in
Year: 1877

The partizanship ofthe minority seven of the
judicial Tribunal is to be regretted In q crisis
like this. Why did not Justice FIELD and
his colleagues rise above party feeling, and
strike a good square blow for humanity,
HAYES and human rightsl
Year: 1877

PRESIDENT HAYES administration will be
made illustrious by some of the proudest
Dames in the Republic. Men famed for their
ability, integrity and patriotism will make up
his official family.
Year: 1877

II THE Democratic Reform party will now
step forward and present to the country the
amount 1t has cost them aud the country to
make this political fight, 1t will he discovered
wherein reform is necessary
Year: 1877

A CURIOUS ANECDoTE.-An anecdote
illustrative Of an animal abandoning its
artificial for its natural taste, when once
it has learned what it is, may be told OF
tame ichneumon, which kept and fed
with milk. One day brought him
small water-serpent alive, being desirous
to know how far his instinct would carry
him against being with which he was
hitherto totally unacquainted. His first
emotion seemed to be astonishment
mixed with anger, for his hair became
erect; but, in an instant after, he slipped
behind the reptile, and with remarkable
agility leaped upon its head, seized 1t,
aud crushed it between his teeth. THIS
essay, and new aliment, seemed to have
awakened in him his innate and deStruc-
tive voracty, which till then had given
way TO the gentleness he had acquired
from his education. | had about my
house several kinds of curious fowls,
among which he had been brought up
and which, till then, he had suffered TO
90 and come unmolestcd; but, few days
after, he stranged them every one, ate =
little, and, as appeared, drank the blood
of two.
Year: 1877

BE NEAr.-Young ladies, if they only
knew how disgusting to men slovenliness
il, and how attractive are displays OF
neatness and taste, would array them
selves in the simplicity and cleanliness of
the lilies of the field; or, if able to IN
dulge in costly attire, they would study
the harmonious blending of colors which
nature exhibits in all her work a glrl
of good taste, and habits Of neatness, can
make a more fascinating toilet with
shilling calico dress, few cheap ibbons
and laces, and such ornaments as she can
gather from the garden, than vulgar
tawdry creature who is worth thousands,
and has the iewelry and wardrobe OF d
princess.
Year: 1877

TALLEYRAND IN AMERICA. - Talley-
rand spent part of his time in New
York. Being on visit to that city my.
self when he was there, be invited me to
breakfast with him. He WAS then about
to set out on visit to the Western coun-
try, and such was the wild state of that
region in those days that he thought it


necessary to equip himself like hunter;
for which purpose he had caused rifle


mans suit to be made, and after break
fast he went up to the bedroom and put
it on. When he was fully dressed in the
costume of a backwoodsman of the last
century he called me up to look at him.
The metamorphosis from the bishop'slawn
and purple to this savage garment was
sufficiently ridiculous, but he did not
think so, for be displayed it with pride
and delight. His companion, Beaumais,
had similar habit, and shortly afterward
they explored the forests of the interior
with their rife.guns and hunting-shirts
Year: 1877

A QUAKER, having married for his wife
a member of the Church of England, was
asked after the ceremony by the clergy
man for his fee, which he said was a
crown. The Quaker, astonished at the
demand, said if he could be shown any
text in Scripture which proved the fee
was crown he would give it, upon which
the clergyman directly turned to the 12th
chapter of Proverbs, verse 4, where it is
said, "a virtuous woman is a crown to
her husband" "Thou art right" replied
the Quaker, Gin thy assertion; Solomon
was a wise man. Here is thy money
which thou hast we'll and truly earned"
Year: 1877

for them exclusively. Numbers of small hotels
and boarding houses in this city can be found
which in like manner have to devote them
selves solely to the entertainment OF Hebrews,
of Germans, or Of the other races not their
equals in numbers or wealth. But while the
prejudices which make this necessary are re-
cognlzed, no one. thinks of seriously attI1buting
them to religious scruples or differences.


1t is of very little consequence what personal
differences or race preudices were at the
bottom of the difficulty between MIR. Hilton
and Mr.. Selgman which precipitated the late
brief social sensation. But it is OF Importance,
we think, that the idea that religion bad any
thing to do with it should be eradicated, for
that false impression is calculated to do mis-
chief Yet nearly everything we have seen
written on the subject begins and proceeds and
ends with this false assumption If there had
been any truth in it the sensation would not
have been equally brief and ridiculous.