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Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, May l.


AT the cabinet session to-day suggestion
was m de that the extra session be called
for June IL instead of 4.h, but was not f..
nally determined upon. The phraseology
OF the proclamation calling an extra seq
sion was agreed upon and will be submitted
to the cabinet Friday, when the date will
be inserted which will probably be June
10th. Several important appointments
were discussed, among them one or two
foreign missions, but no action was taken.


Still another letter is said to have been
received here from Senator Blaine, in
which he states that he intends to make no
factous opposition to the president.


The democrats threatened another Loui-
sians returning board investigation at the
extra session. 1t is doubtful whether they
can secure votes enough to order it. They
claim money was used.


The story that the returning board mem
bers are not satisfied with the appointment,
of Judge King as collector at New Orleans
is false. They recommended it.


The government officers just returned
from the south say that the people are
tired of politics and wish to repair their
fortunes.


The South Carolina debt is to be scaled
and adjusted, which probably means par
tial population.


Notice has been received that the light
house erected by the Dominion government
upon the summit of Lamb Island, Lake Su.
perlor will be put in operation May IS.


The report is circulated that the subject
of reducing the number of pension agencies
has been considered by the administration
and that the number of such agencies will
be reduced to twenty.
Year: 1877

We desire to call the attention Of select
men to very neat and convenient blank,
for use in making up highway bills. This
is designed to supersede the old-fashioned
and inconvenient tax bills in sheet form
heretofore used, and will be found much
more desirable for the use of the survey
ors. We invite the orders of selectmen of
all towns in Verment. Price go cents per
dozen copies.


d&w GLOBE PAPER Co.
Year: 1877

The New CITY COUNCIL is dropping
into plain, practical business habits, and
there is every reason to believe that it
will pass year devoted to steady bust
ness, and not empty talk or useless
wrangling. Write the word Economy
on your appropriation cards, gentlemen,
and continue straight along in the path
you have entered upon.
Year: 1877

A minister was once told by a man
that he bad been professor of re-
ligion for many years, but for ten
years had neglected all religious du-
ties; but Notwithstanding this he had
never given up his ''hope." The
reverend gentleman noticing mean
while that bis breath smelled strong
ly of liquor, lost no time in telling
him it was time he did. He did not
set much vsl1e upon hope that had
been preserved in whisky for ten
years.
Year: 1877

lightning and electricity, Benjamin


Franklin divised an ingenious ex.


pertinent, which was to send up q


pointed wire upon a kite, by the


string of which the lightning might


be brought within his reach. He


soon succeeded in realizing this,


the most bold and grand conception


which ever presented itself TO the


imagination of an experimental


philosopher.


He prepared his kite by making


a small cross of two light strips of


cedar, the arms of sufficient length


to extend to the four corners of a
large silk handkerchief stretched
ugon them. To the extremities
of the arms of the cross he tied the
corners Of the handkerchief. This
being properly supplied with tail,
loop, and string, could be raised in
the air like a common paper kite,
and, being made of silk, was more
capable of bearing rain and wind.
TO the upright arm of the cross,
was attached an iron point, the



lower end of which was in contact
with the string by which the kite
was raised, which was hempen
cord. At the lower extremity of
this cord, near the observer, a key
was fastened; and, in order to in
tercept the electricity in its de-
scent, and prevent it from reach
ing the person who held the kite, a
silk ribbon was tied to the ring of
the key, and continued to the hand
by which the kite was held.


Furnished with this apparatus,
on the approach of a storm, he
went ont upon the commons near
Philadelphia, accompanied 10y his
son, ITO whom alone he communica-
ted his intentions, well knowing
the ridicule which would have at
tended the report of such an at
tempt, should it prove to be unsec-
cessful. Having raised the kite,
he placed himself under a shed, !
that the ribbon by which it was
held might be kept dry, as it would |
become a conductor of electricity
when wetted by rain, and SO fail to .
afford that protection for which
it was provided. A cloud, appar-
emily charged with thunder, soon
passed directly over the kite. He
observed the hempen cord, but no
bristling of its fibres was apparent,
such as was wont to take place
when it was electrified.


He prest nted his knuckle to the
<ey, but not the smallest spark was
vas preceptable. The agony of his
expectation and suspense can be
adequately felt by those only who
rave entered into the spirit of such
researches. After the
apse of some time, he saw that the
ihers of the chord near the KEY
,ristled and stood on end.


He presented his knuckle to the
,ey, and received a strong bright
park. 1t was lightning. The dis
overy was complete, and Frank
in felt that he was immortal.
Year: 1877

Never listen TO any proposition
which is commended to you as
giving opportunities for making
money dishonesty, or by selling
an article for much more than it is
worth. The man who proposes to
have you defraud others will cheat
you if he has a good opportunity.


AS a rule, when a stranger pro-
poses to sell you any article at
very much less than its value, it is
safe to decline buying, unless you
are a good judge of the article.


Never make purchase or con-
tract with a stranger when his as
surance is the only evidence you
have of value.


Never sign paper presented by
a stranger without reading it and
being sure you understand its char
acter.


AS rule, avoid engaging in en-
terprises, however attractive they
may appear, if entirely outside
your usual business.


Other things being equal, buy
and sell in the market nearest home.


The bright spots of mans life
are few enough without blotting
any out; and since for a moment
OF mirth we have an hour of sad
ness, it were sorry policy to dimin-
ish the few rays that illuminate
our checkered existence. Life is
an April day-sunshine and show
ers. The heart, like the earth,
would cease to yield good fruit
were 1t not watered by the tears Of
sensibility, and the fruit would be
worthless but for the sunshine of
smiles.
Year: 1877

An exchange gives the following recipe
for consumption Put dozen of whole
lemons in cold wafer, and boil until soft
(not too soip, roll and squeeze until the
juice is all extracted, sweeten the juice
enough to be palatable, and then drink.
Use rs many as dozen a day. Should
they cause pain or looseness of the bowels
lessen the quantity and use five or six a
day until little better, .hen begin, and
use dozen again. BY that time you will
begin to gain strength and have mn appe-
tite. OF course, as you get better, you
need not use as many. Follow these di-
rections, and we know you never will re-
gret it, if there is any help for you. Only
keep il up faithfully. We know of two
cases where both patients were given up
by the physicians, and were in the last
stage Of consumption, yet both were
lFed by simply using lemon according
TO the directions we have stated. One la
dy in particular was bed ridden and very
bw had tried everything that money
could procure but all in vain; when to
please friend she was finally persuaded
- use the lemons. She began to use
them in February, and in April she
weighed 40 pounds. She is well wo-
man to-day, and likely to live as long as
any of us. 800
Year: 1877




The GULF SrREAM.-The "greatriv-
er in the ocean," known as the Gulf
Stream, from the Cult of Mexico to the
Azores, is three thousand miles in length
ana its greatest breadth one hundred
and twenty. At first its speed is four
miles an hour; but this gradually de
clines as It becomes more diffused. In
the State of Florida its temperature is
eighty-three degrees, or nine degrees
above the surrounding waters and off
Newfoundland, in winter, it is twenty
live degrees TO thirty degrees warmer
than the neighborng seas, thus causing
the dense tog of that region. 1t is a
great dispenser of heat, and moisture in
its course. To its influence are oning
the verdure Of the Emerald Isle' and
the mildness of the climate OF Western
Europe compared with countries else
where of corresponding latitude. 1t ar
rests the chilling Arctic icebergs, which
melt away in its tepid waters. 1t is o
a deep indigo blue as long as its cur
rent is deep and narrow and the line
of demarcation between it and the ad
jacent waters is 80 marked that "A yes
SCI. may be seen floating one half in The
Gulf Stream and the other In the common
waters Of the sea and two buckets e
down, one at the bow, the other at The
stern, will draw up water differing II
temperature by no less than thirty de
grees.
Year: 1877

ALL the descendants who take any
interest in the fact that their foretathers
drove teams and filed the place of sut-
lers in the Revolutionary war will soon
begin to talk celebration.
Year: 1877

DEACON JONES, deceased had very
red nose. His widow thought it rather
personal in the minister to begin bis
funeral discourse "Another shining
light has been taken from our cohgre-
CATION"
Year: 1877

ALL the world is a stage and most Of
the passengers are obliged to go on foot
mp the hills, and to pry the wheels out OF
the mud. The stage is generally stuck
in the mud, when it is not going up hill
Year: 1877

THE weathercoc< on the stccple of the
village church in Soudan, France, was
lime-worn and rusty, and those in au-
thorty decided that it should be removed.
A man clam bered up the steeple, but
just before he could reach the weather
cock he lost his balance and slid down
for seventy feet, then rebounded TO the
roof of the church, aud was precipitated
to the ground without being seriously in
jured. Then II man named Chevalier
strove to haul himself up by means of a
rope, but at last his hands slipped and
he fell backwards. Hi foot caught in
the rope, and there the man remained
suspended 100 feet from the ground, with
his h ead. .down, beating the air with his
arms, struggling to recover himself and
swaying backward and forward with n
high wind. Pierre Pean now stepped
forth, and volunteered to mount TO the
rescue Of Chevalier, but after doing his
best for three quarters of an hour he had
to descend. His place was taken by
Moreau, who climbing higher than Chev-
alier, slipped a rome around his body, and
cutting that which held his foot, freed
him from the fearful position in which he
had remained for three hours.
Year: 1877

The President il 30 well satisfied
thnt there is no further need for troops
in tho South that he will shortly direct
tho issring Of orders TO withdraw all
the troops from that section except such
AS may bG necessary for gnrrison duty.
The troops SO Withdrawn will bo either
transferred TO service in tho West or
sent to tho Rio Grnndo. The order is.
sued yesterday Transforming tho Second
Infantry from Atlanta TO the Pacific
Coast il la pursunncc Of this order.
Year: 1877

It is a fact, perhaps not generally
known, that there is firm doing bust
ness in San Francisco who purchase the
thousands Of dogs slaughtered by the
poundmaster OF that city, or that may
have been otherwise killed, for which
they pay forty cents each. The carcasses
are conveyed to their manufactory at
South Francisco, where the skins are
removed and sold to the tanneries, the
hair taken off and resold to plasterers,
the hide tanned, made into gloves, and
sold in the market. The denuded car
cass is then thrown into huge cal
dron and boiled until the bones are
easily separated from the flesh, when
they are removed and sold to the sugar
refneries, where they are ground to q
fine powder and used to clarity sugar.
The oil that rises to the surface Of the
boiling mass is skinned off and manu-
featured into cod liver oil, and the re-
mainder is used for the purpose of fat
tening hogs.
Year: 1877

If the story told by the dispatches con-
cerning the blowing up of the Turkish
monitor is true then that peculiarly of
naval warfare which superseded almost
every form of man-of-war has been
not only superseded but rendered use
less. It matters not how impregnable a
craft may be from fort or ocean broad
side if torpedo can be placed under her
in broad daylight and her fragments
scattered all over the surrounding space.
Substantially, this is what was done in
the case referred to. The monitor was
able to fire upon the approaching craft
which carried the engine of destruction !;
but was not able to check it's onward
movement. And when this fact became
apparent, the supremacy Of the monitor
ceased. It's elevation skyward was
merely excess of proof. The torpedo
showed itself king the minute it demon
strated its capacity to advance under fire:


The whole question, therefore, OF naval
warfare is opened again, Just us 1t has
been scores of times when the discovery
of new gun or projectile has necessi-
tated more powerful ship, or rice rers0.
The powers with fleets of iron-clads can
no longer proclaim themselves masters
of the seas, for. the most insignificant
power with a practicable torpedo or two
can demolish their whole reliance. The
torpedo must be met with an engine
more destructive and when this is ac-
complished the LATHE ground will only
be shifted, for tie new must in its turn
be destroyed. There is hope, however,
that as invention progresses, the imple-
ments of war, both by laud and sea, will
become SO frightfully destructive as to
put M end to war altogether. IF the
day ever should come, MS it probably
will, when war means annihilation of the
unsuccessful party to the conflict,
nations will be less eager to engage in it
than they now are,
Year: 1877

A trio of ladies got on the special
Chicago express going West, and dis
covered when the train was in motion
that they were going in the wrong direc-
ton. Two of them rushed for the plat
form and jumped. The momentum of
the train threw them off their feet, and
they rolled over in the depot yard. The
third ran through the train to the plat
form of the rear car and then jumped.
But tickle fortune favored. Avery feshy
reporter happened to be standing there,
and seeing the predicament Of the lady
opened his arms. She jumped. He
staggered under the force OF the concus-
sion, but held on. 1t was good catch
and a happy escape from injury, as the
train by this time had increased its speed
to pretty good jog. No sequel Utica
Observer.
Year: 1877

A neighborhood on North Hill was
disturbed MI one night recently by
dreadful, awful noises coming from a
haunted house, and the appalled, family
in the house itself never slept wink,
but sat up with paid faces and beating
hearts, alternately reading the Bible and
calling loudly for the police, while the
perturbed spirit of the place walled and
shrieked and moaned and howled like
the echoes of despair. But when morn
ing broke the mystery was partially
cleared away by the discovery that the
cat had gone into the cistern to wash it's
feet, and had neglected to take fire
escape along by which to get out.-Bur-
lington HaWkeye.
Year: 1877

A stranger with weak back walked
into an Oil City drug store the other day
and said he wanted the strongest kind Of
a mustard plaster. With fiendish grin
the clerk built up terrible mixture and
passed it out. That night the inmates
of the hotel were startled from their
slumbers by loud cries in room fifty
seven. When the door was burst open
they found the stranger wrestling with
tlat mustard plaster in Greco-Roman
style. But the plaster had thrown h:m
twice, and was now humping him
against the wall preparatory to drawing
him through the transom. 1t took two
policemen to separate the two.
Year: 1877

Goodness is beauty in it's best estate.
Your goodness must have some edge
to it, else it is none.


It is much better to have your gold in
the hand than in the heart.


How did the atheist get his idea of that
God whom he denies?


The love of glory can only create a
great hero ; the contempt of it creates
great man.


One might as we'll try to calculate
mathematically the contingent forms OF
the tinkling of bits OF glass in a kaleido-
scope as to look through the tube of the
future and foretell its pattern.


Fortune, like other females, prefers a
lover to master, and submits with i'm
patience to control; but he that wooes
her with opportunity and importantly
will seldom court her in vain.


To be thrown upon ones own re-
fources is to be cast into the very lap of
fortune, for our faculties then undergo
development and display m energy OF
which they were previously unsuscepti-
BILE.


Though fraud in all other instances
be olious, yet in matters of war it is
laudable and glorious, and he who over
comes his enemies by stratagem is as
much to be praised as he who overcomes
hem by force.


A man is thirty years old before he has
settled thoughts Of his fortune it is not
compl ted before fifty. He falls to
building in his old age and dies before
his house is in condition to be painted
and glazed.


The sea as we'll as the mir is free and
common thing to all and particular
nation cannot pretend to have the right
to the exclusion of others without vio-
lating the rights of nature and public
usage.


Nothing can he more absurd than the
idea that "looking guilty" proves guilt.
An honest man charged with crime is
much more likely to blush at the accusa-
ton than the real offender, who is gene
rally prepared for the event, and has his
face "ready made" The very thought
of being suspected of anything criminal
will bring the blood to IN innocent mans
cheek nine times out of ten.
Year: 1877

GENESIS XXI. ~.
The Lord watch between me and thee,
When we are absent one from another;
Though long miles away thou mayst be,


And hard fate each from the other
Forever divide, yet still must my prayer
Fer be the same-in hope or despair,
In days Of soft peace, in sufferings BREATH.
In storm or in calm, in life or in death,
In right or in wrong, in good or in ill,
Ever the same, the same prayer still
The Lord watch between me and thee,
Thee, love, no other, -.....s II
Through might Of the land, through power


Of the sea,


Where'er thou mayst be,
While we are absent one from another.
Year: 1877

I was somewhat shocked when q young man
got up in our young converts meeting and said
he had carried pocket pistol ever since he be,
came converted. But when hc drew 1t out II
was Testament. l hope every one OF tne
Young YOU converts will carry a pocketpistol Of that
kind.-A[oody at Boston.
Year: 1877

The next time Joseph Richelot was
broken upon the wheel be sure the exc
cutioner did not surrender the body
until he was we'll assured that no sur
geon of earthly mold could bring it
back TO life.
Year: 1877

A correspondent says: One of the
first problems presented to a foreign
teacher in Japan is the reason of the
great apparent happiness and light
heartedness of Japan children. One
may walk for hours through the streets
of Toxic, and scarcely ever hear a
child's cry of distress. Four principal
causes of this superiority of the children
of Japan over those of other nations
have been suggested by an English lady
resident here. They are so well worthy
of the attention of teachers at home
that | reproduce them here. They are
First-the style of clothing, loose and
yet warm, is far more comfortable than
the dress of our children. Second
japanese children are much more out
in the open air and sunshine. Third
the absence of furniture, and therefore
the absence of repeatedly giving in
structions mot to touch" The thick.
soft mating, forming at once the carpet
and the beds of all Japanese houses,
and the raised Intel, on to which the
child may Chamber as it grows strong,
constitute the very beau ideal of an in
fant's playground. Fourth-children
are much petted without being capri
ciously thwarted. A child is not cuffed
one moment and INDUCED the next, as
Is too frequently the case at home. To
these four most suggestive reasons l
would add fifth, which is that Japa-
nese character is SO constituted as to
bring their elders into much stronger
sympathy with the little ones than is
the case in busy, bustling, money-m max
ing England. 1t has been we'll said
that Japan is Paradise, for babies, y
for you see old and young together
playing at battledOOr and shuttlecock
in the streets; while ON holidays the
national amusements of men, women
and children is flying huge paper kites.
Puppet-shows and masquerades also
have their vOtaries in thousands from
among both sexes and all ages.
Year: 1877

life, and for whom we did all we could
TO make life sweet; we forget then the
aggravations and exasperations which
we endured, and only remember our
own lapse, the frOwn, the sneer, the
sharp word, the unkind act, that we
would give worlds to recall. But that.
although suffered as keenly and per-
maps twice as enduringly, is a remOrse
with but the veriest trifle of foundation,
when compared with the foundation for
the remorse of those others. who per-
haps never did any thing at all to in
sure happiness to those that have left
them, and who, if they have either con-
science or common sense, are perfectly
well aware of it. Yet, whatever the
foundation for it, this remorse of theirs
seldom maintains itself at any pitch
which would produce reformation in
that regard, for the nature that could
lntiict the original wrong is not nature
to suffer long on account of it. Quite
other, too, is the remorse of those who
nave failed to secure happiness to the
dead through absorption in pressing
affairs, having always intended to do
this and do that when the time came,
and who all at once have been brought
up suddenly againt the wall to find that
time was no more, and with whom suf-
fering then goes for companion during
all the rest of life.


But all of this posthumous affection
is, i'll sOoth, sort of selfishness, subli-
mated in some degree, perhaps, but
none the less as much selfishness as any
purely personal action of life is selfish.
The master misses the servant Life
was more or less pleasant to this
mOurner; such pleasantness as it had
it is disagreeable to him to have dis
turbed it is jostling his equilibrium,
depriving him of one of his accustomed
sights, forcing back on him appreciation
of the fact that one day he also must
depart; in fact, it is the loss of piece
of property which, whether he valued
fifty or not in its day himself, he knew
had certain value in the eyes of others,
and which he was not inclined to sur
render. If the property enjoyed no
happiness, it was usually the cause of
happiness in others, and he mOurns his
own loss, and not the loss of the dead
He was used to it; he misses what he
was wont to receive; he never gave
any thing, and so suffers nothing on ac-
count of deprivation of the great Joy of
giving.


How much better than all this pos
thumOus affection, with its elaborate
weeds and costly monuments, would be
little more expression of love during
life :! 1t is but trifiing delay that it
costs the busiest, trifling expense that
it costs the poorest, trifling trouble that
it costs the coldost, and how it would
warm the poor hearts that lie in the
chill of death long before dying! Love
is the atmosphere of the soul, and those
who are deprived of it are in all as
phyxiated state; no faculty, either of
brain or heart, of doing good Ol of Civ
ing pleasure, is well developed without
it, and it is as great thing to give it
as to receive it, and as necessary to
cultivate the power of giving it, for
they who receive it may be like flower
in the sunshine, but they who give it
are like the sun himself