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Year: 1875

The business of to-day at the Stock Exchange in
noint Of volume far exceeded that of yesterday the
total transactions footing up some l13'0oO shares
and the general feeling was of mingled anxiety
and expectation-anxicty on the part OF holders OF
speculative shares, and expectation on the part OF
those who are short of tho article. Pacific Mail was
the most prominent feature of tho day. the prce
having moved up steadily from the start the busi-
ness scoring over G000 shares, and the quotation
reaching plump Al at the close. net gam Oi rs on
the price last night. Union Pacific on very moder-
ate dealings, and with no important reactions
touched 1884 at the close, scoring gam oi per
cent on tho day-all on account OF the beiiei'
prevalent in Wall-st if nowhere else, that favorable
decision in one of the Companys controversies with
the Government is soon to be rendered. The ques-
tion is one of great significance to the road, and If 1t


Is TO be decided IN its favor that fact would clearly
furnish good reason for al advance in the stock.
With the exception Of these two stocks tho losses
and gains on the speculative list were not material


though NOrth-West Preferred and Western Union
Year: 1875

Oliver Wendell Holmes writes: Our
land lady'5 daughter Is young lady OF
some pretensions to gentilty She wears
her bonnet Well back upon her head,
which is known to all to be a mark of
high breeding. She wears her trains verv
long, as the great ladies do in Euronc.
To be sure their dresses are so made only
to sweep the tapestride floors of chateaus
and palaces; as those odiOus arstocrats OF
the other side do not 90 dragging through
the mud in silks and satins, but. forsooth
must ride in coaches when they are in full
dress. 1t IS true that, considering various
habits OF American people, also the little
accidents which the best kept sidewalks
are liable to, a lady who has swept Il mile
OF them IS not exactly in such condition
that one would care to he her neirhb0r
But coniound the mahe-belieyc women
we have turned loose upon our street ,
Where do they come from? Not out OF
our Boston parlors | trust Why, there
isn't = beast or a bird that would DRAG its
tail through the dirt i'll the way that these
creatures DO their dresses. Because 70
queen or duchess wears long robes on
great occasions, q maid Of all work or u
factory girl thinks she must make herself
a nuisance by trailing about with her
bah that's what call getting ialgarily
into your bones and marrow. Making
believe what You are not is the essence of
vulgarltY. Show over dirt is the one at
tribute OF vulgar people, 1t any man
Gan walk behind one of these women and
see what she rakes up as She goes, and
not feel squeamlsh he has got a tough
stomach. / wouldn't let one of 'em into
my room without sci ing them as David
served Gaul at the cave in the wilderness
cut of his skirts, sir, cut Oft his skirts
Don't tell me that Il true lady ever sacri-
fees the duty Of keeping all about her
sweet and clean to the wish of max ING
vulgar show. don't believe it of u lady.
There are some things that no fashion has
right to touch, and cleanliness is one of
those things. If a woman wishes to show
that her husband or father has money
which she wants and means to spend, but
doesn't know how, let her buy yard or
two OF silk and pin it to her dress when
she goes out to walk, but let her unpin it
before she goes into the house
Year: 1875

A horrible gallows scene was witnessed
in Columbus, Miss, last week, where a
colored murderer named Henry was exc
cuted The prisoner ascended the scat
fold enveloped in u black robe that traled
at his feet. He was clearly agitated and
his lips kept moving in prayer The cape
of the black robe was drawn forward over
the doomed mans head and the colored
Sheriff jerked the lever that supported the
scalfold from its tastenngS and gave the
floor of the scal1old kick A groan arose
from the thousands of negroes who throng-
ed the adjacent walls and vacant places.
The scat1old fell and the body of Henry
dangled an instant in the air, and then
tumbled full length on the ground Every
body was Mortified, A surgeon felt the
pulse of the unfortunate man and said he
was alive. The deputy raised Henry
carried him back to the balcony and re-
moved the black cape from his face. lie
was alive and perfectly conscious, and
continued to murmur, Jesus, save me y
There was a slight abrasion on his neck
and he was splitting blood. When the
knot had been retied Henry was assisted
to rise. With his feet pinioned, he ad-
vanced as well as he could to the centre
of the platform AS the Sheriff adjusted
the moose, Henry said, Don't choke me-"
The Sheriff loosened the knot, and Henry
asked, "Got it tied rightP" "Yes," said
the Sheriff, and the doctor directed the
knot to be placed further to The rear of
the ear. Then the Sheriff stepped back,
the deputy touched the lever and Henry
swung into the air. A thrill of horror ran
through the multitude and number of
negro women tainted.
Year: 1875

If there be a land


Where our longings stand.
Like angels strong and sweet
With wings at head and feet,
Released from their long ward


And durance, put on guard
For strength and meekness,
All the stronger for their sweetness,
All the sweeter for their strength
In such a land at length
| wonder, would it ever be,
That l could give little love to thee:


If in such place


| should see IA face
Seen not long ago
That should scarcely know
If it might be the same;
And if one spoke my name,


However family,
In the old way-stealing sanity,
Like chant upon my ear-
In such a place, l fear,
1t could never, never be
That thou couldst have little love for me.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
Year: 1875

FAT SHELF FOR HEAVY FLEECE There
is much said about ewes being too fat TO
breed well. In my experience of twenty
years | have never seen anything that led
me to think So, providing the flesh was
put on with good pasture during the sum-
mer. and q few roots with good hay in the
winter. The tattcr sheep become under
Such circumstances the more valuable |
consider them There is no time in the
year when il pays better to feed small
allowance ol grain daily thau i'm the fall,
after the feed gets frozen and il is not
necessary to bring the llocks to the barn.


Ii is an old saying, that ''sheep well
Novembercd are halt wntered' Keep
the ewes fat, and the lambs will be fat and
the tlceceS heavy. | do not say it is better
to have the lambs come early OF late, but
| do say it is best to have them fat then
whether early or late, they are salable.
All ewes, that, with good care, will not
raise lamb and shear four lbs of washed
wool, should be sold, | have them in my
flock that will shear nine lbs and raise a
pair OF twins. and 1t costs no more to keep
one, than a sheep that shears but three
pounds. think that no one will hear the
man who keeps hls tiocks in this way,
complaining because his sheep are all
run out" and do not pay him, and the
like


Ticks must be kept out of the locks;
they are the worst enemy OF the sheep,
Ii they are not killed they will destroy
the sheep For killing them have tried
nothing better than tobacco juice. Cor.
Country Gentleman
Year: 1875

A funny incident recently took place at
a Crystal Palace concert in London The
Liverpool choir had Just begun to sing
Handers chorus from Theodore, "He saw
the lovely YOUTH when side drummer
of Colman's Band, who was standing
apart from his comrades, lost his drum
and his footing, and tumbling down two
or three steps of the orchestra, fell on his
back, his legs alone being visible. The
contretemps led to a burst of laughter
from the audience, which nearly unnerved
the choir, and was renewed with increas-
ed hilarity when, upon the choir arriving
at the words ''the youth begins to rise,'
the unfortunate cause ofa tue merriment
picked himself up and resumed his place,
no one laughing more heartily than Mad
anne Goldschmidt
Year: 1875

A CURE FOR GRAVEL. Dr. Strecter, Of
Santa Barbara. tells the Atlas that the
worst case OF gravel may be cured, the
deposit dissolved and passed away, by
using the water in which potatoes have
been boiled to pieces; STRAIN the water,
sweelen TO taste, and drink tor two or
three weeks. This is a painless cure. The
same authority states turing or coating
deposited on the inside of steam boilers
may be easily removed, making the sur
face appear like new iron, by placing a
quantity of raw potatoes in the boiler and
letting them boil to pieces. After two or
three days open the manholes and sandy
deposit will be found brush it out and the
boiler viii be as GOOD IS new
Year: 1875

believe that everywhere the same re-
suit will follow the same cause. But to
acquire and keep up III everyday work
that habit of concentrated attention on
details, two things are necessary - train
ing and energy. The training you can all
give yourselves; the energy which is nee
essary to maintain it is in part. no doubt,
Il gift of nature. Men possess it, to begin
with, in very different degrees; but II
may be lost where it naturally exists, and
it may be enormously increased where it
originally was but feeble. And in that
connection it is important to notice how
much depends on what students andyoung
men are apt to despise as below their no
tlce. | mean a perfectly sound physical
condition. Take two men, if they could be
found. exactly alike in mental and bodily
aptitudes, and let the one 90 on careless
~ and idly, indulging his appetites, and
generally leading life of what is called
pleasure, and let the other train himself
by early hours, by temperate habits, and
by giving to muscle and brain each their
fair share of employment, and at the end
of two or three years they will be as wide
apart in their capacity for exertion as if
they had been born with wholly different
constitutions Lord Derby
Year: 1875

\ little boy was carrying 4 bottle of
ginger-pop down King street the other
day, when suddenly the cork popped him
in the north eve When he bad sufficient
ly recovered from his astonishment he
yelled SO vigorously that u small crowd
soon collected around him to ascertain the
matter Two carpenters at work on the
next block around the corner, in their
anxiety 10 see what the excitement was
about, TELL out OF the second story window
on to peanut stand beneath, Then two
women tainted, one of whom suddenly
disappeared in IN adjacent coal-cellar.
Three small boys shouted "iire - and a
man with long ladder on his shoulder,
hearing their cries, turned around sudden
ly and after overturning an apple woman
amidst the demoralzing ruin of her wares
the end OF the ladder demolished plate
glass window, and finally settled itself on
an old gentleman's worst corn. Then u
lat old lady had one eye gouged out by
an umbrella, and Dutchman and Irish
man, after eXcitedly endeavoring to ex-
plain to each other the cause of it all, cot
into fight and rolled recklessly into The
gutter. BY this time seven policemen.
headed by two engines came upon the
scene. and arrested two innocent lockers
on. This had the effect Of dispensing the
crowd, most of whom to this hour havn't
the remotest idea what it was all about
ANYHOW
Year: 1875

winhin q month At present, Of course,
the enterprise involves so much OF expert
ment in nearly all of its numerous depart
ments, that any attempted statement of
wages could be nothing more than conjec-
tural and approximate. As early ss.Practi-
cable we shall present detailed account
Of the multiplied industries concerned in
the making Of . complete watch, and the
compensations which they command. At
present the watchmakers of the coast rank
with the jewellers, and receive the same
pay.
Year: 1875

Friction impedes the progress Of the
railway train, and yet it is only through
friction that it makes any progress. This
apparent paradox is explained when We
remember that by reason of the frictional
'bite" Of the drivers upon the track they
draw the train. The bearings of the
wheels upon the rails are mere line where
they come in contact with iron, yet this
slight and almost impercePtible hold u
sufficient to move hundreds Of tons Of
dead weight with the speed Of the wiAd.
Year: 1875

There's little face at the window
And two dimpled hands on the pane;
And somebody's eyes are hxed upon
The gate at the end Of the lane
The hills have caught the shadow
Which heralds the coming night,
And the lane, with Its Towering frin.e. grows din
To the watchers anxious sight.


Where, hallway down,


Like gttcring crown,


hre-ny band have clustered


Round an Aster's lrAf-


royal chief


driven herd are mustered


Away behind,


With busy mind,


But step that is light and free


And sun-burnt face


Ca which the trace


OF hard days work you see,
Comes the farmer home from toll
Driving the cows before him.
And the ehild-eyes, strained at the window there.
We're the hrst in the house that him
All! would, when the day is done
And leave my cares behind me.
could have such pair Of Ninsome eyes
Searching the night TO find me!
Year: 1875

egTHE CRAFTY ING SUCCESS MET
WITHIN THE PAST, BOTH IN THE
SALE AND WEAR OF THESE GOOD',
WARRANTS THEN IN AGAIN CALL
ING THE SPECIAL ATTENTION OF
CONSUMERS TO THE ELEGANT DIS
PLAY THEY NOW EXHIBIT, 1T BEING
THE LARGEST THEY HAVE EVER
SHOWN.
Year: 1875

Mr.. Stephen Green, a colored man liy-
ing on Spring Street, has been sorely
troubled for months past by colony OF
bed bugs who were ia the habit of holding
a moonlight banquet in his house, with Mr..
Green for the victim of their sanguinary
feasts. Last week he came to the cOnclu-
sion that he would not be a qGartermas-
rer's department for raiding bed bugs any
longer. and so invested in box OF vermin
exterminator. On the label Of the box,
which was so big with fate to unnumbered
hosts of the enemy, were directions for the
use of the poison, and among others was
one which directed ii to BE- rubbed in the
cracks of the bed. This puzzled Stephen.
He could not understand why the poison
should be rubbed in the cracks. He argued
that the bugs did not bite the cracks but
himself, and, therefore, if the poison was
to 90 any where it should be rubbed over
his body. SO he annointed himself and
turned in. The following morning when
he awoke the bed was fairly black with
the dead and dying, AMI second expert
ment tried the next night resulted ia the
same way. And now all the surviving
bu have fled the fatal spot. and Mr.
Green is happy.-LeSiHgtsn (Ky.) Dis
patch.
Year: 1875

The struggle TO keep up appearances IS
one of the saddest things in the world,
ANYWAY, and it has an added m0urnfulneSS
when a child is the actor in the usually
hopeless eHdeavOr. just before the close
of the last session of the public schools IN
this city, an incident took place whi,h, as
an illustration. is more than touching.
Al one Of the schools numbers of the pu-
pi,s were in the habit of bringing lunch
con with them. which at noon they ate
together. Among those who did not 90
home for dinner, the teacher in parLlru-
lar room noticed little girl who always
sat looking wistfully at her piaymates
when they went out with their luncheon
but never brought any herself. The child
was always neatly but very plainly clad,
and one of the closest of students in school
hours. This odd action of the chld's
lasted for some time, when, one day, the
teacher noticed that the little thing had
apparently brought her dinner with her.
The noon hour came and the children took
their lunch, as usual. and went out to eat
it, the little girl referred to alone remain
ING in the room, with her dinner wrapped
up in paper on the desk before her. The
teacher advanced TO the child and asL ed
her why she didn't 90 out to eat with the
rest, at the same time putting OUT her hand
toward the package on the desk. Quick
as thought. the girl clssped her hands over
it and exclaimed, sebbing:


Don't touch it, teacher; and don tell,
please! It's only blocks ! ="


And that was the fact. Having no din
ner to bring, and too proud to reveal the
poverty of her family, the child had care
fully wrapped up number OF small
blocks in paper and brought the package
to present the appearance of lunch. lt
was nothing; a mere ridiculous incident
in school life, but it was sufficienttO make
a fellow who heard the story feel bad
st. Louis Republican.
Year: 1875

on the Terre Haute Bank Wookey was


hustled away TO the police station, and
subjected to fresh search. In his pocket
book, wrapped up with a water license
which he obtained only the day previous,
was found perfect ctimpression OF the back
of one Of the greenback demand notes
which had just made their way West Ii
was the first intimation that the detectives
had received of attempt being under
way TO counterfeit the new national cur
rency. The workmanship satisfied the
officers that Hill was making the plates,
and the conclusion was accepted that the
back had been finished, and that Hill must
Year: 1875

Half of all ordinary diseases would
be banished from civilized life and dys-
pepsia become almost unknown if every
body would eat but thrice day at reg
uiar times and not an atom between
meals, the interval not being less than
five hours, that being the time required
| to digest a full meal and pass it out of
the stomach.


If a person eats between meals the
process of digestion is arrested until
the last which has been eaten is brought
into the condition of the former meal,
just as if water is boiling and ice put in
the whole ceases to boil until the ice is
melted and brought to the boiling point
and then the whole boils together.


But it is the law of nature that all
food begins TO decay, to rot, after ex-
posUre to heat and moisture for a GER
tain time. If a meal is eaten and in
two hours another, the whole remains
undigested for several hours, before
which time the rottening process com
mences and the man has his stomach
full of carrion-the very idea of which
is horribly disgusting but that such is
the case the uncomfortable odor of the
belching demonstrates.


AS, then, all the food in the stomach
is in rotten condition, in a state of
fermentive decay, it becomes unfit for
the purposes of nutrition and making
pure blood in the whole body; hence
the,nerves, which feed on this impure
and imperfect blood, are not properly
nourished, and, as a consequence, be-
come diseased. "They complain " they
are hungry-and like a hungry man
they are peevish, fretful, restless. We
call it nervousness, and no one ever
knew a dyspeptic who was not restless,
fdgety, fretful, and essentially dis
agreeable and uncertain.


The stomach is made up of a number
of muscles, all of which are brought
into requisition in the process of diges-
tion. But no muscle can work always.
The busy heart is in a state of perfect
repose one-third Of its time. The eye
can wink twice in q second, but This
could not be continued five minutes.
The hands and feet must have rest, and
SO with the muscles of the stomach !;
they can only rest when there is no
work for them to do-no food in the
stomach to digest. Even at five hours
interval, and eating thrice day, they
are kept constantly at work from break
fast until the last meal is disposed of,
usually ten o'clock,,at night. But null
titudes eat heartily till within an hour
of bed time thus, while the other por-
tions of the body are at rest, the
stomach is kept laboring until almost
daylight, and made to begin again at
breakfast-time. No wonder is it that
the stomach is worn Out-has lost its
power of action. Many girls become
dyspeptic before they are out of their
teens in consequence of their being
about the house and nibbling at every
thing they lay their eyes on that is good
to eat.-HalE'S Journal.
Year: 1875

An amateur naturalist, writing of the
fondness of cruelty for its own sake OBJ
servable in the human species, says i:
4" To refer to the striking similarity OF
this passion in man to that which is man
ifested by monkeys, is not, of course, to
explain its origin but am quite sure
that it is in the monkeys that this ex-
PLANTATION is to be sought. Every one
knows that these animals show the keen
est delight in wantonly torturing others,
but every one does not know how
much trouble an average monkey will
put himself to in order that he may
crafty this taste. One example will
suffice. A friend who has lived long
time in India tells me that he has not
unfrequently seen monkeys feigning
death, for an hour or two at a time, for
the express purpose of inducing crows
and other carniveTous birds to approach
within graspiDg distance and when
one of the latter was caught, the de-
lighted monkey would put 1t to all kinds
of agonies, of which plucking alive
seemed to be the favOrite. AS am not
aware that any other animal exhibits
this instinct of inhicting pain for its
own sake (the case of a cat with a
mouse, belonging, I think, to another
category, ! believe, if its origin is ever
to receive scientific explanation, it viii
be found in some way connected with
monkey life"
Year: 1875

Few things not absolutely essential to
happiness add more to the enjoyment of
life than social interchange of evening
visits among friends and neighbors.
Indeed, we are not quite sure that it is
not essential to happiness as it is, for
we can liveto good purpose and pleasure
without many of our luxuries, without
fine clothes, costly pictures, splendid
jewels, but we cannot live to any use at
all without friends and the upbubbling
of friendly emotions and the fruitiOn of
ideas that they arouse. Our natures
would grow dry as husks If our feelings
were kindled only for our own immedi-
ate home circle, and the very apotheo-
sis of seIfishness would take place with
us isolated from outside interests and
love of our kind. Nor would our intel
Iects fsre much better than our emo
tional natures; for if genius itself is an
intermittent fountain, as Goethe said,
the source of ordinary thought and
fancy must be quite as capricious, and
our buckets must need all the replen-
ishing from the wells of our neighbors
that can be had. If it were not for the
perpetual weaving among us of the
warp and wool of each others ideas,
The varying views of things when seen
from each others standpoint, we might
as well be living solitary in the caves of
the desert or on the tops of pillars in
the town for all the good we should do
to ourselves or the world either. For
really no enc helps himself without
helping the world, too, in its great, on
ward march toward a civilization that,
we may hope, shall be as much higher
than this as this is higher than the bar
barous old days, before those giant
monsters, steam and electricity, were,
in the language of the orators, har-
messed to the car of progress.


Still we do not mean to be under
stood as advising or encouraging frivo-
lous gadding to the neglect of some
duties, but, first assuming that home
duties are already discharged, as the
greater part of them may we'll be, leav-
ing the hours of eye-trying lamplight
for lesser matters, we urge the cultiva-
ton of a social spirit to eniven the
evenings and to afford nucleus of harm
less enjoyment. We all know how
keen that enjoyment can be--the bright
discussion that on ightens even the
listener who will not take the trouble to
think the latest news, with its gay
gossiping the eager game, the song. the
reading, pretty toilets, pleasant man.
ners, cordial wordsof hosts and friends;
the CHEEKY separation the lying down
to sleep at the end of it all, well pleased
with the well-rounded day; the sense
that such evenings ought to come twice
as often as they do and that we mean
20 have them.