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Year: 1878

Shall the Coroner presume TO instruct an
English rector ecclesiastical law An innkeeper v-
ing near Consett poisoned himself short time ago The
Jury pronounced him insane ut the tine but though the
coroner pointed ont TO the vicar that tAe deceased was
entitled to receive the rites OF the church, the reverend
gentleman persists In his refusal to read the burial SER
vice


The telephone has begun its pretty prattle
In Persia. railroads in the empire, hut tho
wires of the Indo-European Telegraph Company run
from end end. Soon after tdings o. Professor Bells
invention received in TabIeez, OF the officers
welshman to work TO make the instrument ana 20
well did he succeed that he has conversed satisfactorily
with another officer nearly 400 miles Tho export
mcnts were made in the middle OF the night when gu
was quiet and traffic had ceased. aud his friend M I'M.
heard mis- voice and 9nswered all his questions Ihcy
only talked, but sang, the music being heard very
distinctly


The barristers of the ancient city of Lyons
are strike. Three weeks ago young advocate
while pleading in the Court OF Appeals, was pulled up
with short turn by the President after this manner;
NJ Met you abuse the patience or tho court ana the
confidence your client places Ia you Surely when you
only get brief once month you might have leisure
enough TO frame something like methodical argument
instead OF the crude and unintegible observations
with which you have been wearying fOr a long time"
The bar a body. took up the case. The Council OF
Discipline resolved THAI the profession at large had been
nsnlted by the judge, ana that unless he ade written
apology they would decline 10 attend his court. Tho
president refused to comply with THIS requisllo' anu
acc0rngly when the list called no advocate
appeared. The court adjourned ior week, giving an
ntmaon that II at the end OF that time the Dairisers
did appear in their places, the attorneys would DO
called upon TO plead.


The old superstition about the fatal number
thirteen has accepted acardnal doctrine Of faith
In the circles at Wyoming, in this state Last sea-
son charming young lady, who had been recently
graduated from seminary. visited some friends M their
Summer residence, Hillside" One dag, on returning
from ride she found twelve persons ut table, ana az
she took her seat of her friends reminded her that
she made unlucky thirteenth, and laughngly sg'
gested that she would better sit at sidetabe by her
self. The suggestion unheeded. aud few days
afterward she taken sick, and was soon on Der
deathbed The day before her death her physician oc
cuped her seat and happened to be the thirteenth az
the table few days aerward brother of the hostes
a Southern planter, entered the dningroom when
twelve were seated. The guests begged him TO bress
the spell by occupying seat at another taoe put ne
laughed at their and persisted IN ieGann!
with them On his way home, Few weeks iaer IN 'as
Year: 1878

siasm in their natures, who will ask OF what I'M
portance it is to establish the fact that man can
walk 500 miles, to say nothing of the supplementary
Yards in five days. to say nothing OF the nineteen
hours C,i bono? they will sneerDgly inquire, es-
pecially if they have won no money on the event.
If everybody could walk in that magnificent way
would it advance the moral, religious. material nap
piness of mankind Can Mr.. OLeary with ms mlrac
ulous legs, be regarded as benefactor OF MANKIND
Sometimes there is mania for this and sometimes
for that. few years ago, Mr.. WinshIp was aston
ishng everybody by lifting enormous dump-peiis
but. although considerable excitement was occa-
stoned the match between specific gravity and avolr
dupois became neither permanent nor general ino
world contents itself with averages.


The world has no special use for man WHO can
walk an almost incredible distance without breaHihg
down vet there is lesson III such feat WHICH Is
worth considering. 1t Is true. undoubtedly, that
the ease of modern civilization has led to physicai
deceneratlon but is equally true that the average
of mortality has decreased. The Homeric hero VINO
could throw stone which six men Of 1878 would
be unable to lift was likely to meet another
Homeric hero capable of throwing much
bigger stone, and that, too, with fatal pre-
cision, We have so little use for enormous
physical strength that have forgotten the health
of which it is the outward and visible slgn IL Is
well occasionally to consider the possible power
which sleeps in these muscles of ours tho exquisite
machinery by the operation of which we live ana
move, and by the arrangement of which we suffer
and die The professional athlete shows OF what
the human frame is capable We can do better than
bet our money upon bis achievements. Wecan imi-
tate in measure the short lived example ofrational
living which his preliminary training affords.
Year: 1878

cjsed and vindicated, and Congress was
again arraigned for niggardly appropriations
In this way the popular attention was dissi-
pated. and soon the popular interest began 10
die natural death, until. when we were toid
that fragments of the wreck, picked up along
the shore, were so rotten that they couih De
picked to pieces with the fingers, everybody
listened to the story as matter OF course
and wondered if the President would veto the
Silver Bill.


All this happened but yesterday, and yet it
now sounds like chapter of Ancient history,
and exctes no more interest than the story OF
the loss of the Royal George. A theatre or
factory or tenement-hOuse burns down, anu as
the ghostly list of the dead appears Id
the papers, there is a clamor TOR more
stringent legislation for the protection
of human life, and demand that some one
should be held responsible. But the dead are
buried out of sight and the newborn zeal soon
burns itself out or lies smOuldering and lneifect-
i've. to be rekIndled into brief activity by the
next calamity. Could we be reasonably aston


shed if tomorrow brought with it repeu-
ton of the piano factory horrorf HOW
much safer are our public resorts than they
were before the Brooklyn fire. Have no uh-
seaworthy and oyerladen vessels left our ports
since the wreck of the Metropolis But few
days ago complaint was entered against
Staten Island ferry boat for carrying more pas
sengers than erliccnse permitted, but even tnis
was not done as a protest against the 'ioii-
ton of law and the imperilling OF liie' put
only for the purpose Of forcing the company
into granting some transit privileges. Ii
proved, however, what everybody knew al
ready, that the safeguards which law has
tried to throw around human life are wantonly
violated every day. 1t would seem that
reasonable amount of attention is given
to these matters only so long as the news
papers keep up the discussion which some dis
aster excites, and in view of this it may be
desirable for the press to do some work
between times as q preparation for the next
slaughter.


In other matters we are growing wiser.
The recent imprisonment of some Insurance
presidents in this State, and the punishment
of some bank officers and treasurers,
and the prosecution of some more presidents
of insurance companies in New-Jersey, will
have tendency to make corporate property
more secure. Human lives will be safer
as soon as some ono is punished for
sending men to sea in rotten shlps, or
packing them by hundreds in little ferry boats,
or shutting them up IN tinder-boxes to be
roasted. But no one will be punished IL all
notice OF these periodical saughters drops out
of the newspapers. and therefore ont OF the
public mind, as soon as the funeral services
nIc oyer
Year: 1878

Father Walsh, of Long Branch, and Mr.. John
HOey, seem to be waging vigorous war upon
the places of evil resort in that place. Inc
police magistrate who has been charged with act
ing in cOllusiOn with the defendants in the arson
cases, is now accused, on other grave counts
by the State prosecutor, and has been sus-
pended from his office, pending the lnvesti-
CATION. Father Walsh's sermon. yesterday, was
very pointed demand for thorough work IN
breaking up these nests of criminals, and, as
he works as well as talks, it will be safe to
look out for reforms


Prince Bismarck continues to make valiant
effort TO consolidate German unity, by remodel
ling the constitutional measures on which 1t Is
based. His failure to pass the Tobacco Tax Bill
has not repressed his energy, since he is now
promoting an imperial railway scheme, which
must encrOach considerably on vested inter
ests and State rights. He threatens to resign
if it is not adopted but unless be tries con-
ciliation, the National Liberals are likely to
continue as uncOmprOmising as they were
when they found that Prince Bismarck wished
to give the German Government exclusive
control of the tobacco trade.


Colonel Thomas A. Scott furnishes q COM
mittee of the Pennsylvania Legislature with
striking reminder of the cost of last years
riots. The loss to the property of his COM
pany he puts at $4,000 900, and when mer-
chandise is included, at So, 100000. This was
the damage done to single corporation, and
yet this was only fraction OF the
whole 1oss bv destruction of DrOpcrty,
and the latter total was small amount
compared with the loss to wOrkingmen i'll
wages and merchants in business, all over the
country. When any large number of working
men are tempted to enter again into such a
criminal demonstration, they may reflect that
it does not pay to diminish tho wages-Daying
power of the men to whom they look for sup
port.


The cause of the explosion on board the
Magenta, which has cost four lives, ana
severely wounded number of persons, Is
plainly to be seen in the defective condition
of the boiler. The testimony of the fireman
who was in charge of the engine at the time
Of the explosion, shows that there was greater
pressure of steam than usual, and an eXamlna-
ton of the boiler since the accident shows 1t TO
be so cOlroded that the plate is at some points
scarcely thicker than knife-blade. The cap
tain and engineer admitted what they could
not well dispute when confronted with piece
of this corloded iron. 1t would be interesting
to know what inspector pronounced this boiler
sound. The responsibility for this loss Of
life and this in1iction of terrible suffering
would seem to rest upon him.
Year: 1878

Among the results of the recent
election it is found that more than half
the Republican members of congress
who voted to repeal the resumption
act failed To secure reelection. This
clearly indicates that the Republican
voters are sounder on financial ques-
tions than their representatives were,
but they should have made clean
sweep while they were about it,
Year: 1878

EVERYBODY who was anybody saw wash
ington on chicken" " at Philadelphia during
the Exhibition season. II was one of the most
conspicuous objects in the main vestibuie of
Memorial Hall-a half-length statue of the
father OF his country perched upon the typical
bird OF the same. Sign0r GuarneriO executed
the work expressly for the centennial and he
expected not only that it would make great
hit in America, but also that the government
would pay literally for the figure. In the
opinion OF certain cOnn0SSeurS 500 or $500
would not have been an unreasonable price
for the artist to ask for the model when it was
in his studio: 1t was transported to the gates
government, but the work ofsaremoving it
thence and placing it in Memorial Hall cost
about $9G Upon the opening of the Perma-
moved and placed upon an immense pedestal
in the southern section of the main buildings
principal transept, where it has since re-
mained. Last Saturday it was sold at auction


only dollar was bid for it.-IN Y. Tribune.
Year: 1878

The Saturday Reuieu is of the opinion
that there must be some men whose ideas OF
Heaven IS that of a place from which an in
Vulnerable company of drunkards who have
placency upon the tortnres of moderate
Year: 1878

THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT IN CANADA.
meeting OF the dominion alliance was held
prominent temperance advocates. The do
mlnl0n secretary read a letter i'm which he
fecommended the raising of 100000 for the
purpose OF placing the temperance Question
before the country. Several members of par
nament were present and expressed them
selves In sympathy with the movement. They
stated that 1t was altogether likely that the
government will introduce a measure which
VIII be acceptable to all temperance men,
Year: 1878

THE SILVER QUESTION IN CANADA-Tbe Do
minion senate will inquire whether, i'm view
OF the reconciliation OF silver in the United
States, measures will be taken by the Domin.
ION government 10 prevent a recurrence of the
abuses and loss which were formerly occa
stoned by the circulation as a medium OF ex-
change of silver coins whose conventional
value was below their real or market value.
Year: 1878

Many of the new dresses are made en-
tirely without Innings.


Checked cotton braids are used for
trimming linen dresses.


The military jacket is one of the latest
styles for young ladies.


Ladies in mourning wear black lace
mitts with q cuff Of Grape.


Velvet overskirts, with polonaises Of
delicate fabrics, are largely worn.


Wide belts embroidered in gay colors,
like those worn generation ago, are
now fashionably used with black silk or
grenadine dresses.


Lisle thread stockings are growing in
favor on account of the perfection of
their fit. They come in all the desirable
shades, and are very durable.


The coolest and most desirable tie for
ladies is the sheer-lawn tie, which has
the ends handsomely embroidered in
colors. These ties wash to look as well
as when new.


Bonnets grow smaller, and the capes
on them grow larger. Some of the re-
cent importations in the capote shape
have large capes made of foundation
covered with shirred silk or gathered lace
ruffles.


A favorite style of dress for yourg girls
is the "blouse polonaise. 1t is made
loose to the figure, is held in by belt
and is sometimes fitted in front with two
darts. Thin materials make up very
well in this way. The fronts of this
style of dress are sometimes left open all
the way down and a puffed front insert
ed. They have small mantillas added
for street wear. Many pretty effects are
given to the simplest dresses by the pre-
sent taste for embroidery. A princesse
dress for a young girl of dark blue
linen, has front or plastion of light
blue zephyr, embroidered in dark shades.
The hOunce and ruffies are also en-
broidered.
Year: 1878

It is estimated that the number of
settlements on public lands this year
will be nearly double those of last year.
The land Office at Washington is hard at
work in consequence of the increase.
Year: 1878

The territory which Turkey loses by
the Treaty of Berlin is roughly estimat-
ed by the London Daily Nea0S at sew
enty-one thousand five hundred square
miles, or more than the whole area OF
England and Wales. The loss in popu-
lation amounts to more than three and a
half millions, or somewhat more than
the entire population of London.
Year: 1878

From We Phttddetphid Times.


The truth is that retribution has come
upon the Republican party with swift
ness and force that it is almost impossi-
BILE to withstand, and the sarcasm of des-
tiny is seen in the fact that the hand that
deals the blow is the hand of him for
whose promotion to place and power,
as the representative of the party, a
great crime was committed. The con-
sciousness of this crime ranking in the
breast of every Republican who witness
ed the electoral frauds without protest
makes the situation more critical. As
man after man becomes alienated from
the Administration he falls into line with
the opposition and tries to calm his con-
science by condemning fraud even louder
than the regulation Democrats. The
yell of "fraud" is becoming so general
that it browns all other party cries and
political watchwords.
Year: 1878

Within the coming month we ex'
roct to send ont a numbsr Of bills
to parties who are delinquent
for subscription and advertising 1t
;s boned none of these bills will be
sent in vain.


While we have undertaken and are
DETERMINED to faithfully sustain our
part in this enterprise, it remains for
our patrons Gf they would enjoy the
greatest benefit from it) to do THEIR
part by promptly paying their in
debtedness to us. Remember that
though your particular bill may not
amount to more than a few dollars,
and may not be deemed actually es.
sential to attend to the matter at
once, there are many Others in just
your situation and these small
amounts aggregate hundreds.


We pay lawful interest on all our
bills of more than thirty days stand,
ing, hence it will be readily conced
ed to be an injustice to allow the
hundreds of dollars which we have
credited out to lie idle.
Year: 1878

FROM the proceedings Of the Re
publican party organization in King
county it will be seen that Mr.. Irving
Ballard, Of Seattle, is their choice
for prosecuting attorney Of the Sd
Judicial District. From what we
can learn, he will most likely be the
candidate Of the party, as there
seems TO he no other aspirant who
has as much backing.
Year: 1878

Our friend, of the Olympia eek
pertinent, should whet up his per,
ceptive faculties so as to enable him
to distinguish an intentional parody
on the frequent and indefnite y
worded paragraphs about the wealth,
er for a mere news item.
Year: 1878

Santa Claus is stocking up. A knowledge of keramics is sign of kul- ture.

 Thou shalt not be found out" is not one of Gods commandments: Among the wicked people of Newark cer- tain Baptist church is called the Aquarium.

 Secretary Evarts will publish one of his sent ences in book form for the holiday trade.

 There is a man in Slawson whose feet are so big that he has to put on his stockings over his head.

 When girl begins to take an interest in a young mans cravat it is a sign she does not love him as sister

 Ann Eliza Young is going through Massa- chusStts with her Horrors of Mormonism." one of whom she is

 The average coal-hole cover is getting on it's winter polish, preparatory to slipping from un- der the unwary pedestrian

 An old bachelor explains the courage of the Turks by saying that a man with more than one wife ought to be willing to face death

 From western journal we learn that the tramps have their social roots down deep in civilization. In fact, they are a sore of root-a- beggars.

 We have received circular warning us to be careful when taking ten dollar bills, as so many commercials are in circulation. Ten dol lars bills? what is a ten dollar bill, anyway

 There is an article in circulation telling 't'How to avoid paying Doctors Bills" A Danbury physician judges from his bulky led ger that the people already know.

 Now does the foolish man devour the cold mince pie before going to bed, and before an other sun appears is surprised to see green tur- keys, clothed in yellow blouses, hitched to a red omnibus.

 An umbrella meuder passed up Main street this morning, faded away in the dim distance and disappeared unhamed, and thus was lost the opportunity to make more glad the pleas ant Christmas time.

 \ devoted wife. will always speak plainly though kindly, to her husband. Here is case in point: s'When dien said married man. Il want to go where there is no snow to shovel" His wife said she presumed that he would

 We noticed several new winter bonnets were broken in on Sunday. They are worn high none less than $25 They are made high in tAN nliH uctDtttGS III ITOnl, trimmed with the Old Harry knows what. Low-neck- ed bonnets with paniers are no longer worn The front of the bonnet is now invariably worn behind

 A melton is in order to have Christmas put back or New Years put forward week or two. AS things stand, man hasn't time to brace up from the effects of the first before the second is upon him. It takes very experi- enced eye to distinguish between the finish of Christmas spree and the beginning of the New Years elevation

 ''Ihe Japanese have no cuss words in their language" After seventeen futile attempts to get the joints of stove pipe to fit, the indig nant Jap goes out and bumps his head against post, kicks hairless dog twenty-seven times around the yard and then-feels better
Year: 1878

Foreign exchange was dull the high charges IN
the gold loan market seriously interfering with the
movement yesterday. We annex current quota
tOns actual selling rates being y to i cent lower
Prime bankers st6Tllnz oils DOdays.
Year: 1878

A YoNKERs woman believes in
having everything i'll re,llness. She
purchased coffin for her sick hus-
band ten days prior to his death, and
kept it in the house, she also had a
stylish mourning suit made in autici-
patton of the event. Most any man
would be willing to die if ne had
such thoughtful wife as that.
Year: 1878




for a grunblerl He reminds me Of
Il rlg-ha has got into such natural
habit Of grunting that he never does
anything else


Never mind displaying your shall
low disnIly. Mr.. Misanthrope, and
spluttering about its all being very
we'll for those to talk who have onlv
the bright side of life to b.tsk in; If
they had been plundered and sland-
cred and lied about and abused as
You have been, they would feel their
wrongs as bitterly and learn to hate
the world and mankind even as you
do.


Bah You're blockhead, if that's
your ,ogic


What would you think of your
ne'shbor if he had closed every crack
ami crevice Of his house to the blind
ing, chilling storm Of yesterday. and
swear. he will keep it closed forever,
az 1t will never cease to blow and
ram any more, although to-day s
warming sunshine falls upon his root,
and the cheering song of mellow
breeze and the soft whis, erin. of in
visible hope try vainly to find 4 lodge
,nent inside the darkened windows.
This Is big world, and yours must
be worldwide distress concentrated
in one individual, if "all the world"
is to blame for the one little storm in
your breast. Is the light hearted lad
or laSsie interested in your VOC, shat
YOU must need force a gloon upon
them BY your chesrIess visase? VIII
1t excl'e their sv vnrAtAv What ror-
tlo Of your suyrow va. occ.sionsd bv
that little happy child paving 80 in
nocehtly on the street with ito top or
hall or marbles, that yon feel yourself
constrained to XIX at his toy and
srowl at his joyous face until YOU
drive away his pleasure and excite a
disposition to give yoa what YOU riuh.
ly d+serye--a grand licking?


Did it ease the bitterness of Your
breast Dni it remove one iota OF
Your trouble. Q:l it put money in
your 20 'ket or restore q lost conf
deuce? Did it better matters ?


There are times i'll every life, I
guess, when the human heart is so
grieved and sore tha, even sunshine
seems painful intrusion; but those
seasons are sacred to yourself. Such
pain is not to be paraded; and the
traces Of 1t that leave their silent
mark upon the eountenance, have a
tendency nel'her to REPEAL n + dis
courage, but rather to ennobIe and
develop spirit to endure as we'll as
conquer the ills that come, sooner or
later to every one Of US.


When your turn comes, bear it, as
You must, bnt bear it bravely. As
soon as you begin to snarl and whine,
and blame this one and that one, and
after awhile the whole world you are
miserable Sinking coward; and since
you are determined, by your face and
manner, to make your friends and
family, and all mortal man and his
creator, help you bear the burlen,
why l really do not see Why you
should not have an unusual burden to
bear, and we may keep our heartfelt
sympathy for some one more in need
Of it. Mt for you were these lines
written:


BE still, sad heart. ed cease repining.
Behind the clouds the clouds Inc suns still


SHINING;


Tl'iUe is the common fate Of all
Into each lie some rain must fall,
Some days be dark and dreary."


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