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Year: 1877

A curious feature of the Bond street
fire in New York, where so many gold
and silver goods were in the flames,
was the condition of the things in the
safes. Diamonds We're all right and
externally the watches were, but on
opening those the works of all were
found 10 be destroyed. The most sim
gular point was, that under the crystal
of each watch was found drop OF
water condensed on the glass. This
puzzles the scientific men wonderfully
They seem TO have forgotten that there
is-a spring in every watch.-CIIartford
Courant.
Year: 1877

During the hard time several Bos-
ton girls decided TO accept honest
homework. Said one of them to a
Newark lady the other evening,
''Madam, shall be obliged to you II
you will be so good as TO bring down
the atlas, so that may trace the war in
the East; and, if you please, where is
the telephoneY'-New York Herald.
Year: 1877

Tonight, at the Grand Opera House,
Madame Rentz's Female Minstrels will
give one of their enjoyable entertain
ments. This organization is highly
spoken of by the press wherever it has
appeared, and will undoubtedly give a
satisfactory performance.
Year: 1877

The Sitting Bull Commission, headed
BY General Terry, will arrive in Helena
on Saturday next. The Commission travel
from here to Fort Shaw, and thence
proceed north. Where the mounted force
for an escort is to come from is matter
of some speculation. 1t is eonjectured
that the Second Cavalry, now en- route
from Tongue river to Fort Ellis, will be
called into requisition for this duty.
Year: 1877




rAIS.-Osceola Cooper, nephew Of
the famous Seminole chief Osceola,
and himself the acknowledged chief
of the Seminole tribe and if reports
speak truly the rightful owner Of a
large fortune died Thursday morn
ing in a poor apartment in the top
story of Bond street lodging-house
in New York, where he had been
living for a few weeks in poverty.
A post mortem examination revealed
the fact that Cooper had been suffer
ing from Bright's disease of the
lungs coused by an over indulgence
in drink and that the immediate
cause Of death was dropsy of the
lungs.


CANTALoCPEs TURNED ToCUCUM-
BERs.-A gentleman of West Vim
cent township Chester county plant
ed this season large patch of can
taloupes and watermelons. A few
days ago he took some visiting friend
to see the patch. The watermelons
he found all right and fiourishing but
to his amazement the cantaloupes
were cucumbers. With good luck
he will have pickles enough during
the season to supply the entire coun-
ty.


Some tramps in Freedom district, Car
roll county, Md, made a. Intellectual at
tempt last Wednesday to rob the resi-
dence of Robert II. Hewitt, who had
been called from home to take charge of
a squad Of gentlemen who had offered
their services to defend the property of
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company.
He left his house in charge of his son,
who, at late hour, encountered two
men endeavoring to enter his sleeping
apartment. A rife fired at the burglars
caused retreat, which was followed by
a volley Of stonos from them. One of the
burglars was wounded.
Year: 1877

A STEAMER THROUGH KENT MAR
Rows.-Tbe steamer Olive made the firsl
successful trip through Kent Narrows
which connects the Chester river with
Eastern bay, last Saturday and experienc-
cd but little difficulty. A large mud
scow was sunk in the new channel, and
the steamer used the old one. The new
channel will be completed this week ,and
the Olive will use the route to reach St.
Michaels. A wharf will be built at the
narrows, and will be used as point for
the shipment Of peaches and other prod
ucts.-Easton Ledger.


The First and Fifth Militia Regiments
Of Newark n j., returned from Phillips
burg yesterday afternoon. Private Nc
Gee of tho Fifth, was drowned while
bathing at PhillipsbuTg on Thursday
night
Year: 1877

SLIGHT FIRE.-The alarm Of fire last
evening, about $50 O'Clock was caused
by pile Of shavings and wood burning
in the boat shop Of Thomas Drien & Son,
on Tatnall street below the railroad. The
fire was discovered by a celored wo man
who broke pane Of glass out Of the win
dow and extinguished it by bucket Of
water. The fire was undoubtedly the
work Of an incendiary.


The second alarm about $50 o'clock,
was false.
Year: 1877

AN IMMENSE POTATO CROP.


Unless there should be too much
rain during the next few weeks, says
the Berks county journal, so as to
cause potatoes to suffer from rot, the
crop will be unusually large. From
all parts of the country come cheer
ing reports of the promised large
yield, and yield of exceptionally
good quality at that. Farmers evil
IDENTIFY felt the scarcity of the article
the past season, and stimulated by
the high prices received for potatoes,
they resolved to plant largely. The
result is that is that, notwithstand-
ing the Colorado bugs, the yield
will be almost unprecedented, and
this not-to-be-done-without article
Of food in American households,
will again become cheap-purchase
able alike by the poor and the rich
and no more an article of luxury.
The price Of potatoes hereabouts has
fallen in two weeks from two dollars
per bushel to seventy-fve cents per
bushel, and when the late crop
comes into market it is likely the
price will come down to twenty-five
or thirty cents. This is as it should
be, and it is to be regretted that
other family necessaries are not cor
respondingly low in these days of
poor wages and little work.
Year: 1877

Tnk New York Sw decides that the
husband ought to get up in the morning
and make the ire. and Il the sun Is able
TO make the husband 10 1t there will be
a revelation in society. Nobody will
have any breakfast much before noon.
Year: 1877

Our Wcunuesscsz cUsU un Il UnuuonAu
times more regret and shame than ON
faults.


Each man has an aptitude born with
him to do easily some feat impossible to
any other.


Children are unconscious philoso-
pliers. They refuse to pull to pieces
their snjoyments to see what they are
made of.


There is not joyful boy or an inno-
cent girl buoyant with fine purposes of
duty in all the street full of eager and
rosy faces but cynic can chill and dis
hearten with q single word.


There is great outcry against fools
on the part Of the knaves, but rather
with some want of policy; for if there
were no fools in the world cunning men
would have but bad trade of it.


The force of habit affects our even
palates; we in time acquire relish for
what was once perfectly nauseous. The
Greenlanders detest turtle soup as much
as we abominate train oil.


Our natural disposition to evil is evi-
dent in this: that vice tracks out it's own
path and stands in need of no instructor;
while it requires not only example but
discipline to initiate us in virtue.


Some men and women expect imme-
diate recognition, and even pay, if they
do something for the public good. Such
men and women lack the true spirit and
will soon drop from the rank Of workers
for public benefit.
Year: 1877

To those who say that the work is not
their own, who say: "I have not de-
stroyed myself" the illustration Of an
extreme case may be helpful. Look for
example, at the case Of the drunkard.
Look at the poor, miserable wretch. Do
not the blood-shot eye, the tainted
breath and his diseased body generally
all tell the tale ? Do not they all say
something He has brought ruin upon
himself and upon those connected with
him /; his home is desolate, his children
in rags, his wife dying. You may say :
"See what drink has DONE" No, it was
not drink, but the drinking. There might
be oceans of drink around him, and yet
he might never have been destroyed.
1t is his own diseased human nature that
has brought about the work of destruc-
tion, that has go reduced him that there
is scarcely any humanity left. His sin
has spread it has gone beyond himself
to his family, to his wife and chill
dren; but who did it2 Not his neigh
bors not his malignant foes. 1t would
be case of murder that the law could
deal with if the blame of destroying a
man could be laid upon others. A
man would certainly forfeit his life if he
did against another what he does against
himself. How is it to he brought about
The god of this world has blinded his
eyes, but, remember, the man has given
permission, he has given himself over !;
it is by his own act and deed that he has
compassed his own destruction, and
sealed his ruin. Who has done it 4? is
the question. "Thou hast destroyed
thyself," is the answer, and it is beyond
all controversy. 1t is simply the strong,
fully developed result of sin that is all.
Wherever sin is present it carries on the
same deadly work, and has ever the same
deadly influence belonging to it. "Sin,
when it is finished Gperfectly) it bringeth
forth DEATH"
Year: 1877

There are people-yes, many people
always looking out for sights. They
cannot carry on the daily intercourse Of
the family without finding that some
offense is designed. They are as touchy
as hair triggers. If they meet an &C.
quaintance who happens to be pre-occu-
pied with business, they attribute his
abstraction in some mode personal to
themselves, and take umbrage accord.
ingly. They lay on others the fault Of
their irritability. Indigestion makes
them see impudence in every one they
come in contact with. Innocent per-
sons, who never dreamed Of giving Of
fense, are astonished to find some unfor-
tunate word or momentary taciturnity
mistaken for an insult To say the least
the habit is unfortunate. It is far wiser
to take the more charitable view of our
fellow beings, and not suppose that a
slight was intended unless the neglect
was open and direct. After all, too, life
takes hues in q great degree from the
color of our minds. If we are frank and
generous, the world treats MS kindly /; if,
on the contrary, we are suspicious, men
learn to be cold and cautious to us. Let
q person get the reputation of being
I" touchy," and everybody is under re-
straint, and in this way the chances of
an imaginary offense are vastly in
creased.
Year: 1877

One of the new and curious naisenao,ao
of Toxic, Japan, is gigantic image Of
a woman, made of wood and plaster, and
dedicated to Hachiman, the god of war.
In height it measures fifty-four feet, the
head alone, which is reached by wind.
ing staircase in the interior of the figure,
being capable of holding about twenty
persons with comfort. A sword is held
in the right hand and huge ball in the
left. Internally the novelty consists Of
an extraordinary anatomical model. A
fine view of the surrounding district ia
obtained by looking through one of the
eyes, and the price of admission is only
two cents. The image is situated beside
the temple of Hachiman, close by the
Kuanon of Asakusa, and is well worth q
visit,
Year: 1877

Justice Comstock's Office at Detroit
had such q home-like air that the re-
porter for the Free Press sat down to
hear an anecdote. It did not commence:
"Once upon time there was poor but
honest baker who always put sixteen
ounces of stock into his pound loaves,"
but it started off as follows: Once there
was we'll to do Detroiter who ate too
much succotash for dinner. Colic seized
him and put him to bed. and SO frighten-
ed was the man that he called out to the
doctor:


"save me, doctor, and I'll give you a
check for thousand dollars !"


The doctor gave him remedy that
soon eased him. and he called out:


"Keep at it, doctor, and I'll give you
O check for five hundred dollars I"


In half an hour more he was able to
sit up, and he calmly remarked:


"Doctor, I feel like giving you fifty
dollar BILL"


When the doctor was ready to 60 the
sick man was up and dressed, and ne
followed the physician to the door, and
said:


"Say, doc, send in your bill the first
of the MONTH"


When six months had been gathered
to Times bosom the doctor sent in bill
amounting to five dollars. He was
pressed to cut it down to three, and
after so doing he sued it, got judgment,
and the patient put in stay of execu-
ton. The poet was pretty correct when
he wrote:


at know no man whom could trust;


buy and sell for cash;


Each day know what I am wUth,


And thus avoid smash"
Year: 1877

Once upon time a young man was
convicted of crime in this city, says the
Detroit Free Press, and sentenced by
Recorder Swift to the State prison foi
three years. He made IN A No. l record
in prison and was pardoped nv Gov
DugIey o snort time before the expiration
of the term for which hc had been SEN
fenced. On his return to Detroit, he
found employment at IS a week in one
of the largest wholesale and retail houses
in the city. He conducted himself in M
exemplary manner. and he began to be-
lieve that his lines had really fallen in
pleasant places, until one morning an
ominous message came informing him
that he was wanted in the proprietor's
private Office. Apprehensive that his
history had been disclosed, he entered
the office with heavy heart, but re.
solved to meet the issue like man.
The proprietor stood by his desk hold
ing in one hand letter. His manner
indicated nothing of what was passing in
his mind, but with deprecatory gesture
he handed the letter to his clerk and
told him to read it. The young man
glanced hurriedly over the letter "a cow
.ardly anonymous production), which
was simply recital of the dark episode
in his career.


els that true?" inquired the pro-
prietor,


"Jt is true" was the sad reply.


The merchants face lighted in an in
slant. He grasped the abashed and
trembling clerk by the hand and said to
him /: "You are the man I want. You
may draw $13 week from this time un.
til furthe- notice, and at the first oppor-
tunity shall give You charge of floor.
1 can trust man who viii face the truth
in this fashion and under these circum-
stances, and you may count upon per-
manent situation so long as I am in
business"


What that young man said in response
to this unexpected declaration of conf
dence has not yet been told but the
merchant, whose sense of justice and
love of truth was so signally illustrated,
may be assured that he has gained a
loyal friend, and earned the deathless
gratitude not only of that young man,
Out III III Ills Iaui1iy. all vAalAr4o
worth more than whole decades of i'm
prisonment.
Year: 1877

II he had confined himself 10 his


legitimate quill.driving duties, there


would have been no occasion for him Ia


have been strutting around with his left


hand in sling, patch on his nose and
m absurd old gum shoe ON one foot. He


was, however, only another victim Of that
egotistical opinion OF all men, that they
can do anything better than woman.
He went home the other day and found
his wife putting up peaches in those old.
fashioned tin cans that closed with seal
ing-wax. She had an apron on, and two
or three little blotches Of sealing. wax
ornamented the floor, while the cat
under the table ,s;, was licking s,.ggiilh gieas the


"See here, Maria" he said, "youll
cripple yourself with that hot wax di-
rectly;" but as she made no answer, he
continued or.cularly: Women never
have any mechanical genius, anyway. II
there is way Of doing anything wrong
they are sure~o try it,"


"Do you think you can do any bet
ter?" she observed, with some acidity.


"Why, of course I can."


"Well, here, just distinguish yourself,
then"


So he sat down. She handed him q
fresh can, just out Of the hot water. He
took it in his hand and dropped it az
though it had been streak Of lightning;
while he stuck his fingers in his mouth
and looked sudden death at her because
he could not swear. She gave him
towel to hold the next one with, and he
took it on his knee, lighting the sealing
wax stick, and commenced prodding
around the top, but the bottom burnt his
knee, and he jerked, bringing the burn
ing wax across the back of his left hand.
Then he jumped up and howled, drop
ped the can, which emptied a spoonful
of burning preserves into his slipper.
This made him frantic, and he went
dancing about the kitchen like M
inebriated dervish, waving the burning
wax until drop took him on the nose.
In his anger he kicked the offending can
through the window, scattering its con-
tents over the dog, who rushed into the
street bowling and raising an alarm of
mad dog, which occupied the attention
of all 'the people within three squares.
Then he submitted to be laid on the
sofa, and plastered with -four and sweet
oil, until ho looked like bad-prepared
scarecrow. He is willing to make an
affidavit the size of barn door that he
will let the women be just as awkward
as they choose. e.-Elnnira Gazette.
Year: 1877

An immense cave has been discovered
in Josephine county, Oregon. Ithas been
found to be over five miles in extent, and
the exploring is not yet completed. The
stalactite formation overhead is said to be
unique, being dissimilar to that in other
caves of which more is known. A party
will shortly make a thorough investiga-
ton of this mammoth cavern.
Year: 1877

A large elephant showed, by con-
slant fagellation OF his body, that he
was much ANNOYED by his tiny perse-
cutors. the musquitoes,and just at that
time the keeper broughta little naked
black thing. as round as ball, which
In india I believe they call child,
laid il down before the animal with
two words in HindOostanee, Watch
H." and then walked away into. the
town. The elephant Immediately
broke off the larger part OF the bough
so as to make a smaller and more
convenient whisk, and directed its
whole attention to the child, gently
tanning the little lump OF Indian-ink,
and driving away every musquito
which came near Il; this he continued
for upward OF two hours, regardless or
himself, until the keeper returned.
It was really beautiful sight, caus-
ing much reflection. Here waoa mon
ster. whose weight exceeded that Of
the infant by at least ten thousand
times. acknowledging that the image
OF his maker, even in the lowest
degree OF perfection, was divine;
silently proving the truth OF the
sacred announcement that God hath
"civen 70 man dominion over the
beast Of the field" And here too was
brute animal setting an example or
devotion and self-denial that but few
Christians. none indeed but mother
could have practiced.
Year: 1877

It has puzzled many people to de-
eide. why the dark wood so highly
valued for furniture should be called
Rosewood Its color certainly does
not look much like rose; so we must
look for some other reason. Upon
asking, we are told that when the tree
is first cut, the fresh wood possesses
very strong, rose-like fragrance -
hence the name. There are half-a-
dozen or more kinds Of rosewood
trees. The varieties are found in
South America, and in the East In
dies and neighboring islands. Some
times the trees grow so large that
planks four feet broad and ten feet in
length can be cut from them. These
broad planks are principally used to
make the tops of piano-fortes. When
growing in the forest, the rosewood
tree is remarkable for its beauty; but
such is its value in manufactures as
an ornamental wood that some of the
forests where it once grew abundantly
now have scarcely single specimen.


Madras the government has pru-
IDENTIFY had great plantations OF this
tree set out, in order to keep up the
supply.
Year: 1877

A striking instance of sagacity in q
lobster is recorded by Mr.. Barker, of the
Rothesay Aquarium, in letter to one OF
the Scotch papers. II seems that three
Holsters were placed in a tank previously
occupied by fiat fish, and in which, in
advertently, founder had been left
buried in the shingle, where it died.
One of the Holsters, "a veteran of un-
usual size," soon discovered the dead
body of the founder, and, dragging il
from its resting place, retired with it to
a corner of the tank. Shortly afterward
it was noticed that the founder was
missing. 1t was impossible that the
lobster could have eaten it in the time,
and the handle of net revealed the fact
that upon the approach of the two lesser


obsters he had buried the founder be
meath heap of shingle, on which he
now mounted guard. Five times within
two hours was the founder unearthed.
and as often did the willy lobster rebury
it with his huge claws, each time ascend
ing the pile and turning bold front to
his companions.
Year: 1877

One of the most remarkable applica-
tions of photography is that by which it
is now made to register, and in the most
accurate manner, the mechanical motion
of the heart. The device by which this
result is attained is, indeed, triumph
of inventive skill. 1t consists of thin
india-rubber bag, to which short glass
tube is attached; sufficient mercury is
poured into the apparatus to fill the bag
and portion of the tube, and the in
strument is then placed over the heart of
the person to be examined. Arranged in
this manner, every pulsation of the
heart is indicated by corresponding
movement of the mercury in the tube,
and, by suitable Photographic apparatus,
provided with moving sensitive slip of
paper, a perfect registration of the ex-
tent and rate of the pulsation is OBJ
tanned. The interesting fact is made
known by this process that the fall of
the pulse sometimes takes place in sue
cessive horizontal lines, the column re-
ascending two or three times before fall
ing altogether.
Year: 1877

AN application was made to Sir John
Mantell, at Stafford Police Court, En-
gland, the other day, for summons to
stop a cock from Growing so early as 3
o'clock in the morning The applicant
said cock began to crow at that un-
reasonable hour every morning, to the
great annoyance of himself and others,


and he wanted the magistrate to abate
the nuisance. The latter refused to ac-
cede to the request, observing that,
although there was commandment that
"thou shall not be awoke by the barking
Year: 1877

THE Austin Gazette estimates the in
crease of Texas population since August
last at 100000. The Lone Star State
will be a power soon. People hardly
realize that in area Texas is larger than
all the other Gulf States put together.
Year: 1877

The powers that be in Belgrade seem at
last to have plucked up courage enough to
assume q distinctly warlike attitude toward
Turkey. Once more we hear Of Horvato-
vich and Lesjanin, and of operations on the
Morava and Timok. An occasion Of this
sort will not pass without an outcry from
the Turcophile press in England and else
where against such dastardly conduct, and
an equally fierce denunciation from the
other side, because this feeble little State
suspended its intentions until the case of
the Moslems had become 80 plainly des-
perate that only some military miracle
could save them. History will eventually
Judge the Ssrvian government mere
leniently. >Russia and the elements of
Turkish misrule desired this war, and
Servia's war of last year brought it about
For that, therefore, she is entitled to their
gratitude F; and when they fancy she should
have plunged in again this year they must
remember that the tremendous punishment
she received in her own war might fairly be
considered as her contingent toward the
exhaustion Of the Ottoman Power.
Year: 1877

Judging from the facts presented in our
despatch from Rome the Pope seems once
more to have overcome the trouble that
threatened an immediate dissolution. The
purulent discharges from the issues on his
legs were the source of this trouble as Of all
the late critical occasions They were in
terrupted. Discharges of this nature, though
eventually exhaustive, yet often acquire an
almost physiological character, particularly
in aged persons. They become SO far func-
tional that while they continue the equili-
brium Of the faculties is preserved and their
cessation is the source of such grave de-
rangements as would result from the dis
turbance of any established habit of the
system. The re-establishment of these dis
charges is therefore good sign SO far as it
goes, as indeed might be inferred from the
attendant occurrence of restoration of
clearness of intellect and good spirits.
Nevertheless, though this establishment
of the discharge is necessary condition Of
recovery from the immediate danger, yet
ultimately the discharges themselves must
wear out the victim; and, though they may
keep him alive from day to day, they neces-
sarily destroy, considered in their effect,
from month to month,