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Year: 1879

I tell you women are more prudent
than men. / tell you, as q rule, wo-
men are more faithful than men--ten
times as faithful as men. / never
saw a man pursue his wife into the
very ditch and dust of degradation,
and take her in his arms. never
saw a man stand at the shore where
she had been morally wrecked, wait
ing for the waves to bring back even
her corpse te his arms; but have
seen woman, with, her white arms


lift man from the mire of degrade
ton, and hold him to her bosom as
though he were an angel. .-Inger-
Year: 1879

The poor Empress, writes CORE
spondent Of the Boston Journal, in her
melancholy seclusion of Camden House,
has the sympathy of everybody, includ-
ing the old ladies who are her enemies,
and who would not admit once upon
time that she WAS Il good wife and
mother. She received the Queen of
England the other day in the famous
blue boudoir, where she has collected all
the souvenirs which may hereafter have
only tragical interest to her. There
under glass can she keep the casts of
the right hand of the Emperor and the
young Prince, and these two hands are
represented as holding the adoption of
the law ordering the reconstruction of
the column in the Place Vendome.
There also, on dainty shelf, is little
white satin rosette that the Prince
Imperial wore on the day of his first
communion. By singular stroke of
luck this tiny piece of ribbon was found
intact in the midst of the ruins of the
Tuileries, preserved in some miraculous
manner from even single stain. And
there, too, on a pedestal, and carefully
shielded from harm, is marble bust OF
the Prince, which was likewise unin-
jured by the fire. The grief of the ex-
Empress is overwhelming, and she
wanders from room to room weeping
the whole day long. AS the bed cham
ber and the study of the Emperor have
been kept exactly as they were on the
day of his death, 80 are the rooms of
the young Prince left precisely as he
quilted them, never to return, and the
beds of both the Emperor and the Prince
are constantly covered with fresh violets.
In the chamber of the Emperor stands
a large wardrobe which contains every
object which Napoleon III. took from
the Tuileries when he went to the war
that on the 4th of September, 1870, he
would call his own, namely, his uniform.
What comment on the insecurity Of
human greatness.
Year: 1879

IL IS not generally known that the
custom of having bride-cake, without
which, even in this day, any wedding
within tho domain of civilization would
be counted as incomplete, is derived
from the most solemn of the three
connubial ceremonies observed by the
ancient Romans. This was called con
farreatio, the other ceremonies being
coemptio, the pretended purchase by
which the parties bought one another
with u bit of coin, and usus, the con-
summation or taking home OF the
bride. The latter two are alone men
toned by Cicero. which shows that the
first form had grown obsolete before his
time. Confarreatio was performed by
the chief priest or priests of Jupiter;
formula was pronounced in the presence
OF 10 witnesses, and the man and woman
ate of Il cake of salted wheaton bread,
throwing part of it on the sacrifice,
which was that of sheep. The cake
was termed far, or panis farreus, (corn
or wheaton bread); whence the name OF
the ceremony. BY this form the woman
was said to be possessed of her husband
by the sacred laws, and became part
ner Of all his substance and sacred rites,
those of the Penates as we'll rs Lares.
If he died intestate and without chill
drep, she inherited all his property. If
she had children she received An equal
share with them. The offspring OF this
form of marriage were designated as
patrimi or matrimi, from whom were
chosen priests and priestesses, especially
the priests Of Jupiter and the vestal vir-
gins. The Emperor Tiberius wanted
three priests of this pure lineage, but
could not get them owing to the general
disuse of the ceremony in his reign.
Confarreatio was dissoluble only by
form of divorce, disfarreatio regarded as
its equivalent in solemnity. That bride
cake is relic of confarreatio is evident
from the fact that until two centuries
since it was made of wheat or barley,
without fruit. We should think that,
with the present revival of, and love for,
the old, young women Of classic culture
and taste would insist that tho bride
cake should be of the ancient sort 1t
might add to the serious and sacred
character of the occasion,
Year: 1879

1t is the duty Of every parent to do
Everything in their power to bring up
their children to be gentle, kind, and
with love for home. One Of the east
est ways to do this is to give the boy a
horse, dog, or some kind Of animal, Or
give him the entire control Of fine lot
Of poultry not mongrels, but something
that he WI value, and so care for You
will in t! IS way create a love for home,
and thus keep him from loaGng on the
street or It the store, leading for years
en- almost purposeless existence, in
which the seeds Of vice, dissipation and
after W 3tchedness are so thickly sown.
Year: 1879

The most treacherous memory in the
worIc oelongs to ayoung man with new
watch


A Young man may do worse things
than write poetry; but other bad haoits
do not so generally afilict his neighbors.
Year: 1879

lNcW 1OTk dpci


If q farm deed is bounded, on or upon a
road, it usually extends to the middle of the
roadway. The farmer owns the soil of half
the road, and may use the grass, trees,
stones, gravel, sand or anything of value to


him, either on the land or beneath the sur


face, s-bject only to the superior rights of


the public to travel over the road, and that
of the highway surveyor to use such ma


terials for the repair of the road; and these


materials may be cartsd away and used


elsewhere on the road. No other man has a
right to feed cattle there, Or cut the grass or
trees, much less deposit his wood. old CARTS
wagons or other things there. The owner
OF drove of cattle that stops to feed in front
of your land, or drove of pigs which root
up the soil, is responsible TO you at law, as
much as if they did the same thing inside
the fence. Nobody's children have a right
to pick up apples under your trees, although
the same stand wholly outside of your fence
No private person has right to cut or iop
off the limbs of your trees in order TO move
his old barn or other buildings along the
highway, and no traveller can hitch his


horse to your trees by the sidewalk, without
being liAble, if he gnaws the bark or other
wise Injuries them. If your well stands
partly on your Jal.d and partly outside the
fence, no neighbor can use 1T except by your
permis sion. Nay, more, no man has q right
| to stand in front of your land aud insult
you with abusive language without being
liable to you for trespassing on your land.
| He has right to pass and repass in an order
| Iy and becoming manner; a right to use the
| road but not to abuse it. But notwithstand-
ing the farmer owns the soil of the road,
| even he can not use it for any purpose
| which interferes with the use of it by the
| public for travel. He can not put his pig
| pen, wagons, ca-t, wood or other things
there, If the highway surveyor orjers them


away as obstruciiug public travel. If he


leaves such things outside his fence, and
within the limits of the highway, as actually
laid out, though some distance from the
travelled path, and traveller runs into them
in the night and is injured, the owner is moi
only liable to him for private damages, bu


may also be indicted and fined for obstruct
ing public highway. And il he has fenct


or wall along the highway. he must place i
all on his land and not half on the road, q
in case OF division fences between neighbors
Bat - he owns the soil, If the road is dis


continued, or located elsewhere, the lsnt
reverts to him, and he may close 1t to tn
center, and use 1t - a part Of his farm.
Year: 1879

n'ust obey and go. They only asked that
General Crook furnished them money 10
bury those OF Their number who must die
en- route of fatigue and unaccustomed heat.
General Crook said all their sad story was
known in Washington, and all help must
come from there. He could only furnish them
rations for their southwark journey. Five
ponies now here are already ill.
Year: 1879

If the purposes OF the South we're re7olu-
tionary or unpatriotic, she would long ego
haye made them manifest But, possessed
OF the greatest devotion to the Federal
Union, and only wishing the establishment
of the fundamental bases OF true freedom,
she will do her whole duty by the Demo-
cratic party and ITS leaders, and has no fear
that they, If successful, will do their duty by
her
Year: 1879

(From the Wheeling Sunday Leader.]


One OF the most remarkable escapes from
instant death that we have heard of for some
time was related to us yesterday by gentle


man who was on the train when the accident
occurred.


A lady and two children were en,route from
Kansas City to Staunton, Va. The youngest
was about year of age, and while Its mother
was asleep it crept back to a rear seat, and
climbing up to an open window, leaned quite
distance out. A sudden jar of the train hap
pening at the time, caused it to fly out of the
window unobserved by any of the passengers
whose faces were all the other way. The
train was near Parkersburg at the time, and
the mother happening to awake a moment
after, discovered her loss, and a search
through the car failing to reveal the infant,
she became frantic with grief. The pass
engers all enlisted in the search, and, sur
missing that the baby had fallen out, the train
was instantly stopped and a large crowd re-
traced the track, and at distance of at least
half a mile discovered the lost one sitting on
pile of brush, where it had alighted, cry
ing Justify. The joy of the mother in be-
holding her baby safe, was truly pathetic,
and brought tears to the eyes of men who
were probably not used to shedding them.


Upon close examination it was found that
the child was totally unipjured, with the ex-
ception of slight bruise on its head. 1t
was happy mother that walked back to the
train, which shortly proceeded on its was.
1t was nv remarkable escape.
Year: 1879

Throughout his career Cesar displayed al


ways singular indifference to life. He had


not much belief in God or the GODS On all


such questions he observed from first to last


profound silence. But one conviction he


had. He intended, if he was to live at all,


to live master of himself in matters which


belonged to himself. Sylla might kill him if
he so pleased. It was better to die than to
put away wife who was the mother of his
child, and to marry some other woman at q
dictator's bidding. Life on such terms was
not worth keeping. What joy it is to read
of one man in the worlds history who never
played the fool or the hypocrite. On one oc-
casion the majority of the Senate-of which
Caesar was then a young member-wished to
consign large number of political offenders
to capital punishment. Caesar opposed this.
He contended that death was not a punish
ment at all. Death was the end of human
sorrow. In the grave there was Deither joy
nor sorrow. When man was dead he ceas-
ed to be. He became as he had been before
he was born. Probably almost every one in
the Senate thought like Caesar on this sub
ject Cicero certainly did. Caesar spoke his
convictions OUT a. Fr0ude
Year: 1879

Work on the great East River bridge, New


York, is continued vigorously, about 900 men


being employed at the present time. The


work upon the superstructure will be contin-


ued through the winter, except in the most


severe weather. One thousand tons of steel


are to be delivered this winter. The first sus-


penders for the support of the roadway were


placed in position last week. All those:


the Brooklyn side will be in position within


week, and after that those on the New York


side will be placed. There will be thirteen


suspenders on each of the four cables on each


side OF both towers, making 2O4. all of


which will be put up during the winter. The


longest measure 1913 feet. These suspenders
are of steel wire rope, Il inches in diameter,


with socket ut each end. The upper socket
is fastened by means of bolt, II inchesin
diameter to band of wrought iron 5 inches
wide and ! of an inch thick, which is bolted
to the cable. At the lower end of the cable
cast iron sockets, by which to attach the
beams to the suspenders. After the beams
are in place the trusses will be erected. The
thirteen suspenders to be erected this winter
will extend nearly 100 feet from the piers.
The cables are to be swayed thirteen feet
nearer together than they are now, the outer
ones being brought 81 feet nearer the center
A strain of % tons will be required to bring
them together. They will be connected at
intervals with wire rope stays. This will Sc
cure strong lateral bracing for the whole
structure, and add immensely to its ability to |
resist the winds. Sixty or seventy men will !
be employed during the winter. If all the
work that is now laid out is accomplished,
about 100 feet of the superstructure on each
side of both piers will be completed by
spring, except the flooring plank. -Four thous-
and tons of steel will be used next summer,
in addition to the thousand tons to be used
his winter.
Year: 1879

Eureka (Nev.) Leader, Oct. Is.


Tom Short, a well-known cattle man of
Buby valley, who for number of years has
furnished fine beeves to Eureka butchers, the
fore part of last week had an encounter with
large wildcat which came near resulting


fatally to Tom. 1t appears that Mr.. Short


had set out early in the morning on the trail
of couple of strayed steers, accompanied
by his two dogs He was leisurely riding


along rough mountain road, his dogs lit


tie in advance, and as they came to an abrupt
turn in the trail, the dogs were lost to sight.
In few moments Tom heard them yelping
and barking, and at once knew that they had


attacked some wild animal. Putting spurs to
ing the break in the path and coming to the


scene of action. The dogs had attacked a


wildcat, one of the largest of its species, and


were getting terribly worsted. Mr.. Short


saw how the fight was going, and not caring


to lose his valued dogs, he sprang from his


horse, drew his revolver and rushed to the


aid of his CANNES. He had not much more


than left the saddle and was watching for a


chance to shoot without hitting the dogs,


when the wildcat saw him, settled for mo-


ment on its launches and made spring,


striking Tom in the breast, knocking the pis-


tol out of his hand and carrying him to the


ground. This would undoubtedly have been


the last of Mr.. Short had not fortune favored


him. Just before the attack he had also TAX
en- the precaution to draw large knife, and,


while losing his revolver he clung to this, and
as the cat bore him to the ground he made a
desperate thrust and most fortunately the
blade touched vital spot and the wild brute
rolled over dead. Tom lay in an exhausted
and almost senseless condition, but only for
a short time. as q couple of men happening
along and seeing the horse without rider,
sought the cause, found Mr..
Short and conveyed him to a ranch and dis
patched messenger to Elko for doctor. !
Mr.. Short was terribly cut up about the face,
neck and arms, and has been about but little. |
We are pleased to say, however, that no per
manent injury will be sustained. The Wild
cat was one of the largest and most ferocious
Of its kind. weighing nearly 200 pounds. 1t
8 supposed to be the same cat that only
lew weeks ago killed horse for neighbor.
Year: 1879




l am often asked whether the cockroach
can have any redeemng points with regard
To Its relationship to civilized man, or Wneth-
er 1t be not an unmltigated pest which ought
10 be extermlnated wherever it is found.
That 1t is u nuisance is undeniable, but that
it ought to be exlerminated is very doubtful
In the first place it is, like the sewer-rat, an
Invaluable scavenger, eating substances which
might decay and breed feyers it allowed to
decay. 1t Is never seen in dry and perfectly
clean places where it can find no food, and
its very presence is a sign that it is needed
Perhaps, people may say that they can put
up with cOckrOaches in kitchens and out
houses, but When they come into bedrooms
1t is time that they should be destroyed even
under such circumstances. COckrOaches are
not likely to take the trouble of going up
stairs into bedrooms unless they have some
object in it, and that object is generally the
Hatter and smaller insects which prefer bed
rooms to kitchens. Sailors are well aware of
this, and that ''NOrfolk HOwards" and
cockroaches cannot exist in the same ship,
and curious instance of this fact is record
ed in the "Narrative of Fosters Voyage in
the Chanticleer "Cockroaches, those nui-
sances to ships, are plentiful at St. Helena,
and yet bad as they are they are more en-
durable than bugs. Previous to our arrival
here in the Chandelier we had suffered great
inconvenience from the latter, but the
cOckrOaches no sooner made their appear
ances than the bugs entirely disappeared. The
fact is, the cockroaches prey on them, and
leave no sign of vestige of where they have
been so far it is most valuable insect"
Year: 1879

The Denver Tribune says Up in Leadville
the term millionaire is played out as syno-
nym of opulence. Wealthy men are now
spoken of in that lively camp as five or ten
millionaires, as the case may be. A simple
millionaire is considered to be in comfort
able circumstances, but nothing more The
men who are pointed out to tenderfeet as
conspicuous examples of carbonate greatness,
are those who have passed these fret indica
tions of success, and who don't know within
a million or two of dollars how much they
are actually worth
Year: 1879

She laid her pretty hand upon her husbands
shoulder. Henry, love, there's something
the matter with the clock. Will you see to
it?" 50 he took off his coat. removed the
face and fingers, examined the interior parts
with large magnifying glass, blew into them
with the bellows, oiled them thoroughly, and
did all that mortal ingenuity could devise.
But it was of no avail. and so despairing at a
late hour of the pieht he went to bed and
slept the sleep of the righteous Next morn
ing at breakfast quoth she. "Harry, dear, l
know what was the matter with the clock.
well" s'It only wanted winding
Year: 1879

Editors of The Florida Agriculturist


During the past week we have had
an excess OF rain and rough weather
that threatened to eliminate in a
gale, but happily, the prospect now
is, that it will clear up and give us
our usual sunshiny days again. A
gale, such as visited our State a year
ago, would do us vast amount of
damage now, as our orange trees
have lately put on heavy growth,
which would of course be mostly de-
stroyed, in any but the best protected
groves.


We. intended to have replied to
your Daytona correspondent ere this,
but we have been so busy it seemed
impossible to get at it. Our Japan
plums have never been effected in the
way he speaks OF, and we attribute
the trouble with him to be, in not
shading them during the summer
months. For this purpose, we plant
two or three castor beans to the
southwark of our plums, early in the
spring, and if deemed necessary, de-
stroy them in the fall. With us, they
answer the purpose most admirably.
We have a few trees that should
commence bearing next year, only a
few, however, to test them, as we
doubt whether they would succeed
well with us. Ours, however, look
we'll and promise to succeed we'll.


While all unite in agreeing that
mulching is almost indispensable for
orange trees, we suppose many will
differ as. to the best way to manipu-
late it. While we do not disturb
the mulching among our pine-apples
and strawberries, as 81. D. NJ" very
naturally supposes, yet we do stir it
around our younger orange trees, Just
as often as we hoe them. The mulch.
ing forms harbor for moles, mice,
and if formed of heart wood in part
for wood-lice, and in order to guard
against these depredations, we stir il
Year: 1879

There are about eighteen foreign countries which, before our civil war, grew but little or no tobacco, but recieved thelr annual supply from America. The high prices during and since the war induced them to turn their attention to the culture of tobacco. Now they raise enough an rnually to throw large surplus, on the English markets.
Year: 1879

a LADY in Madrid, Mo, who had on
her person valuable gold watch was
in house last Summer when it was
strncls by lightning. The watch
stopped at the time, and, although
jewelers. have repeatedly examined it
and pronounced it perfect in every
particular, it cannot be made to move.
1t is so charged with electricity that
watchmakers say no part Of it could
ever be made to do duty if taken out
and put into another set of work.
Year: 1879

For the Repub lean.


WILMINGTON, Oct. II.


Not long since a certain honorable
gentleman arose in the Board of Educa.
tion and stated that he had In public
school No. 10, promoted children from
one grade to a higher, who were unfit
ted for the change, simply to fill up,
and this modern educator endeavored
to justify the ignorant interference
which prompted the act by the ridicu'
lous statement that it gave the teachers
a little more work, to be sure, but that
the thing had been done by him before,
and he thought it justiiable and in
fact rather desirable, and this gentle
man has had all the advantages Of
foreign travel, a Colonelcy in the
staff of ex Governor Cochran, and
a long association with the citizens OF
"my ward" Can human experience
that Is not too invaluable to waste its
sweetness in the Board of Education,
90 farther. Now what has it prolted
this travelled and titled individual. Dc
you, citizens Of Wilmington, when your
children are endeavoring to master the
intricacies Of one or two syllabled
words desire that at the nod of this edu'
cational autocrat they shall be compel
led to over exert themselves with three
or four syllables. Do you desire tina,
they shall be compelled to wrestl- with
fractions before they understand the
principles of addition, in order to "fll
up" Has this gentleman never yet
discovered that the sysem of over edu-
eating a child is worse than no educa-
tion whatever Does he not notice the
tendency of the age to lessen the strain
on the III ,ntal powers by lessening
the number of studies And in face
of all this he dares defend a course OF
which the pupils themselves are living
examples of failure. The word
imagine" was given to one of this
filed up class, and the definition, and
child asked to form sentence, which
should contain the word. The result
was "a pup is the imagine of God" J"
The children of that district are the
offspring of parents who can
give them no aid whatevsr
in their studies. By birth and aSsoci-
alton they are SO constituted that it is
absolutely necessary, no step in the
course of instruction should be omitted
or lightly passed over, and in what can
the effect OF such ruinOus proceedings
result but a parcel of lily educated
children who can attribute their misfor-
tune to being pushed up. While such
original ideas on the subject Of educa-
tion prevail in members of our Board
of Public Education, it would be we'll,
to allow the power of promotion to re-
main solely in the hands of the princi-
pals of the various schools. And the
citizens of tiny ward" would do well
to consider the matter well, ere theV
return to this Board man with such
remarkably progressive ideas.


HENRY SMITH.