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Year: 1874

perior piety, surely it is ours Moreover,
both the federal and State governments could
join hands in promoting and perfecting the
existing institutions of higher learning, as
well as in preventing inferior institutions from
disgracing the name of college or university


Let the federal authorities be liberal in
facilitating the introduction of books and sci
entiic materials by the establishment pre-
vously authorized by their respective States
to do so, and by these alone. And let the
local legislatures revise the charters granted
to collegiate establishments, and recall them
when they are not justified by the working of
the institutions themselves. At any rate it is
infinitely to be desired that the denomina-
ton of university and college in every State
should be restricted to very, very select few.
There was a time, in our own State of New
York, when the Legislature generously aided
collegiate education by annual grants. With
the growing influence of the democratic party
in the Legislature these grants yearly dimin-
ished. At length, when Tammany became
omnipotent, they ceased altogether, and for
the last twenty years and moro no aid has
been riven to any but the common schools
This Is founded on wrong principle. In
a country like the United States the highest
university and scientific education, just like
that impaired in the lowest primary school, is
for the people and by the people. 1t is the
interest of every man, woman and child in
the community that there should be schools
for the teaching of the highest knowledge in
every conceivable form advantageous to society
The great universities, where statesmen. minis
tiers of religion, lawyers, physicians and
scholars are formed, work just as much for the
turn out skilled engineers, mechanics and
manufacturers
Year: 1874

TIE SPANISH GOVERNMENT has taken
measures to stop flibustering expedition
against Porto Rico, of which It has informa-
ton, and the intended cession Of the island to
Germany is Indignantly denied at Madrid.
But this denial we were told to expect, and
of the report If some Marco Polo would find
his namesake this interesting question might
be settled
Year: 1874

The REGATTA WEEK at Cowes was more
successful than was anticipated, and on both
sides of the Atlantic the yachting season has
been brilliant. The incidents of the race for
the Queens Cup are fully described in our
correspondence
Year: 1874

KATE SroDDARD demands her personal
property from the District Attorney of Brook
lyn in such peremptory manner that we
presume it will be instantly surrendered. If
she had had both her revolvers she could not
have written a more defiant letter.
Year: 1874

The SEARCH FOR CHARLEY Ross has re-
suited in many strange mistakes of identity,
but nothing stranger than the story Of sham
detective, which we publish to-day. There is
no evidence that the right clew has yet been
found, notwithstanding the extraordinary
efforts that have been made in all parts Of
the country
Year: 1874

BAzAINE's EscApE.-New and unexpected
facts concerning Bazaine are given in one of
our letters from Paris to-day, and reasons are
given for the conjecture that his escape was
not without the connivance of the govern
ment-indeed, that he was not really i'm
prisoned The political condition of France,
especially in regard to the theory that strong
democratic empire is better than weak repub-
lie, is ably analyzed, and the necessity that
any government must maintain the present
system of land tenure is clearly shown These
are some results of the first French Revolu-
ton that no changes can now destroy, and the
land system is one of the principal.


MIR. JOHN l. DAVENPORT does not intend
to be removed from Office and insists upon
being let alone. His correspondence else
where on that subject is not of nature to in
duce his opponents to comply with bis desires.
Year: 1874

tered over vast territory, but formed dense


agricultural population, and the management


of the soldiers enlisted from among them bore


no resemblance to the great problem with
. which we are confronted of reducing fierce.


savage tribes to habits Of steady labor and
civilization. =. = ".'-'3rss--


We are convinced that little is to be gained
by the study of foreign precedents. The task
before us is unique and peculiar, and we must


depend upon the original and unborrowed


wisdom Of our statesmen applying strong
common sense to the facts of situation which
is too new to derive much aid from prece-


dents. The few precedents which are appli-
cable must be drawn from our own past history
in dealing with the Indians. The reservation


policy is not new, being forty years old in


practice, dating from Jackson, and sixty years
old in theory, dating from Calhoun's reports
on Indian affairs, when he was Secretary of
War, and the Indians were under the exclusive
control Of that department The policy
which the opening OF the whole trans-Missis-
sippi country to settlement will inevitably


compel us to adopt requires the reinstatement
of the War Department in it's former control
of the Indians, since it necessitates so much


purely military work. But this will be merely


the beginning and first stage of great re-
form which will call for higher exercise of


sagacity and humanity IN its progress than


any duty which has ever been laid upon the


government.
Year: 1874

AN UNPLEASANT SITUATION. An unpleas-
ant situation was that of Patrick Macarthur, on
the Grand Trunk Railway. He had started to
walk down the track. He had on stout, new
boots. He unluckily trod in frog" and was
held as in a wise. Unavailingly he turned and
twisted The boot was strong, aud lifted the
foot we'll, and the wedge was too tight to be
broken. He shouted, bnt it was no use.
Every moment he iancied the approaching rat
tie Of train, and the perspiration started, and
a desperate twist OF the leg wonld show how
hopeless matters were. Finally the whistle OF
freight train was but too obvious. 1t was
yet long way off, and he had little time to
think He had match box in his pocket. pa
signal the train. Tearing the paper Oft his
bundle and getting at a number of letters, he
rolled them iuto a heap, aud for fear that the
flame would die ou. too suddenly he added two
flannel shirts from the bundle. The bundle
was then made fast to the end of his walking
stick, matches produced, aud he waited until
the head light Of the locomotive should appear
up the track. 1t 6pally greeted his vision,
looking like bright white star, as it giisteued
atar off, The rumble of the train grew louder,
the star grew longer and brighter. He struck
his match. The fame blazed up brightly, but
a. he moved it toward the bundle a little gust
Of wind blew it out. Was there time yet p? Up
the track he could hear the thunder of hun


drcd heavy wheels, and the great light of the
locomotive gared at him like the fiery eye of
some wild beast Another match-an instant
of fear aud doubt-and then the paper blazed
up and curled over and around the bundle, and
swayed right aud left with the night wind. He
waived the signal of fire back aud forth, aud
just when he was ready to believe that death
under the wheels was certain be heard the
whistle for brakes. 1t was pear thing.
Year: 1874

to his own warm home, how often
he stopped to kiss her pale cheeks


'Dora," he murmured TO her,
pressing her close, as if he feared
that she would again escape him,
chow could you be so mad, so reck-
less, so cruel, as to rush out into
this wild night:"


81 was mad" she said family.
E.Did you not hear what she called
me? 1t seemed to me as If all the
world had turned against me, and !
wanted to die"


"'But you will not die. You will
live for me, Dora, will you not:"


Her head nestled in closer to his
bosom and she said nothing; but her
heart was so near his in that mo-
mcnt, that l have no doubt it told
him all he wished for.


Need / tell how wonderfully Hal
bert illuminated his bachelor home
that night? what splendid wax can
dies he lit, what a roaring fire he
made, and how he produced his most
tempting stores in order to tempt
little Dora Dee to catI How he
made wonderful coffee for her in a
magical self-acting coffee pot, and
how, when she grew wearied out,
he retired discrectly to a neighbOr-
ing hotel, which he left at . o'clock
the next morning in order to have
an interview with a clergyman? l
know | need not describe all this.
Your kindly Imagination will sup
ply all those thousand details which
crowd around every such domestic
romance as that which | relate.


There is one fact, however, which
it is important that you should
know. Important, because such
events are generally supposed to be
the end of romance and the begin
ming of reality; and as L never wish
to trespass much on the domains of
the latter, like to finish of the first
with n flourish.


la the morning they were mar
ried!
Year: 1874




Never wish a thing done, but do it.


Those who blow t 9e Goals of others
strife may have the~Parks fly IN their
own faces.


\ man should never be ashamed to
own he has been in the wrong, which
Is but saying in other words, that he
| is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.
Pope.


1t IS a heaven upon earth to have
the mind move ia charity, rest in
providence, and turn upon the pole
of truth.-Bacon.


Our life is determined Tor Us; and
it makes the mind very free'when we
give up wishing, and only think Of
bearing what IS given US TO do
George Eliot.


Verse alone is not poetry. Poetry
is ideas. Verse is only an elegant
dress upon a beautiful body. Poetry
can be expressed in prose. It is only
the more perfect under the grace and
majesty of verse. IT Is the poetry Of
the soul which inspires noble senti-
ments and noble deeds as well as no.
bic writings.


Religion is not confined to devotion
al exercises, but rather consists in
doing all we are called and qualified
to do, with a single eye to Gods gIo-
nv and viii, from a grateful sense Of
His love and mercy to US. This is the
alchemy which turns everything into
gold, and stamps lyAlue upon CON-
mon actiOns.-J. Newton.
Year: 1874

There is 4 proposal in England
to have 4 superior class carriage on
railways to the first, which is not
quite first enough for the better
class of travellers. If the directors
would have padded carriages, sim
liar TO the padded rooms in which
violent lunatics are kept, so that
passengers would not be likely to
be hurt during the now necessary
collisions, the innovation would
pay well. The chance of escape
would be worth large sum to any
traveller.
Year: 1874

o words Of lasting hope! O golden link
Whose mighty strength still binds this


SHINING world
To God! How dark this life; how dread


ful death;
How cold the yawninS grave would DC,
Without YOUR blessed consolation
Year: 1874

A letter from Constantinople, under


date of September 25th, contains the fol


lowing: 1t was mistake to suppose that


the appropriation of the building ground


around the Sultan's palace of Dolma-


bagtche was dictated by His Majesty s


esthetical feelings or his taste for i'm


provement. This act was simply the


result of the great terror His Majesty


had experienced on the day when the


fire approached 80 close to his palace


and he became an eyewitness of its


destructive powers His Majesty's ner-


vous system received shock that day


which he has not yet recovered. The


mental irritation into which il has thrown


him is displayed in various ways more
or less unpleasant to those around him.


His architect has received orders to
remove from the construction of the
palace all inhammable materials, and
thousands of workmen are employed in
taking downiwooden roofs and hoors and
substituting iron. Useless draperies
have been abolished curtains, etc,
pulled down and pitched into the sea.
The inmates of the palace are con-
demned to comparative darkness at an
early hour, the only light allowed being
sort of night lamp of very simple
design, lighted wick in basin of
water, the invention of the Sultan,
and warranted in consequence to be
quite safe. Simplicity itself could
go no further, and yet it appears
that Feiza Pacha, the First Cham berlain,
committed some error in connection with
this new light. The imperial wrath rose
and waxed greater and greater until it
surged over into one great explosion.
Had the Sultan dared the head of the
Chamberlain would have rolled there and
then at his feet, or 500 lashes applied to
the soles of his feet would have made a
lasting impression on the erring man.
Since beheading and the bastinado have
gone out of fashion in Turkey His Ma
jesty was compelled to take the punish
ment of the Pacha into his own hands,
and gave him right down good thrash
ing. According to the court regulations
the Paoha was bound to acquiesce in the
Sultan's wish in this as in others matters,
and with head bent and hands crossed on
his bosom he meekly stood still as tar
get tOT Tue lmpeIlhl UiOWo' OSd1luR nle
Chamberlain till he was black and
blue, with blood pouring from his nose
and mouth, seemed only to excite His
Majesty to greater fury. Snstching up
big vase, he flung it at his victims
head; but Turkish endurance will stop
short of having its brains smashed, and
by timely swerve ofthe head the Pacha
avoided the vase, which went whirling to
its own destruction to the other side of
the room. Feizi Pacha probably took
advantage of this pause in the perform
ance to place himself out of the reach
of the Imperial stick, for we next hear
of him as being confined to his bed,
sorely bruised in mind and body. The
birth of young prince, which took
Dlsae yesterday, will, it is to be hoped,
divert the Spltan's mind to pleasanter
subjects, and re-ndjpst his mental equi
librium.
Year: 1874

From Scribner's Monthly


While certain forms of table etiquette
may seem altogether conventional, even
fantastic, the forms usually observed are
founded on good sense and adapted to
general convenience, Table etiquette
is not, as is often alleged, merely mat
ter of fashion, although some things
that were in vogue a generation or two
ago are no longer deemed polite. The
reason is that manners and table furni.
ture haye undergone so many changes;
have really so much improved, as to re-
quire a mutual readjustment. For ex
ample everybody was accustomed twenty
or thirty years since to use the knife to
carry food to the mouth, because the
fork of the day was not adapted to the
purpose. Since the introduction of the
four-tined silver fork it has so entirely
supplanted the knife that the usage OF the
latter, in ihGt way, is not only superiu-
Gus, but is regarded as yulgarism.


Another example is the discontinu-
ance Of the custom of turning tea or
coffee from the cup into the saucer,
Although small plates were frequently
employed to set the cup in, they we're not
at all in general use; and even when
they we're used, the tea or coffee was
likely to be spilled upon the cloth.


The habit, likewise, OF putting ones
knife into the butter arose from the fact
that the butter knife proper had not been
thought OF. Such customs as these,
once necessitated by circumstances, are
now obviously inappropriate.


Certain habits, however, are regulated
bv good taste and delicacy of feeling,
and the failure to adopt them argues a
lack of fine perception or social insight
One of these is eating or drinking audi
bly,. No sensitive person can hear any
one taking his soup, coffee or other
liquid without positive annoyance. Yet
those who would be very unwilling to
consider themselves ill-bred are con
stantly guilty OF such breach OF polite
ness. The defect is that they are not
SO sensitive rs those with whom they
come in contact. They would not be
disturbed BY the offehse; they never
imagine, therefore, that any one else can
be. II is for them that rules of etiquette
are particularly designed. We're their
instinct correct they would not need the
rule, which from the absence of instinct,
appears to them irrational, purely arbi-
trary.


To rest ones elbow on the table is
more than transgression of courtesy
it is an absolute Inconvenience 10 ones
neighbors. All awkwardnesses of posi-
ton, such as sitting too far back from or
leaning over the table, are reckoned
rudeness, because they put others i'll at
ease through fear Of such accidents as
are liable to happen from any uncouth-
ness.


Biting bread or cake, instead Of cut
ting or breaking il into mouthfuls, is
unpleasant, since 1t ofepds our sense Of
form or fitness.


These and kindred matters are trifes;
but social life is so largely composed OF
Year: 1874

triAes that to disregard them wholly is
a serious affront. We can hardly realize
to what extent our satisfaction or dis
satisfaction is made up of things in
themselves insignificant until their OBJ
servance or non-observance is brought
directly to ns.
Year: 1874

The progress of civilization in the far
West is instanced in the case of the lit
tie village of Snohomish, Washington
Territory, which has library of several
hundred volumes, constantly increas-
ing scientific collection, and lyceum
before which there is lecture every
Year: 1874

they have 80 cleverly walked into. And
believe that if you look close, you'll find my
imitation of poor old Jacob Shelmire's writing
a great deal better than theirs"


This was virtually the end of the case. The
jury began to cast indignant looks at Mr.
Bledsoe and his companion, both of whom
turned white and red, and looked very uncom-
Portable. The judge simply told the jury that
it remained for them to say, from the evidence
whether Jacob Shelmire had executed the
will in dispute; and without leaving their
seats, they found that he had not.


One of the most remarkable things connect
ed with this trial was the sudden disappear
ance of Bledsoe and Passmore. Within fif
teen minutes after the verdict, l had war
rant for their arrest, on charge Of perjury
and forgery, in the hands of the police; but
they never found them.


Some days after the trial, said to my
clerk, "Well, Will, our client, Virginia Gar
vim, will not be Of age for some months yet
and it is necessary to have an administrator
and a guardian appointed. Do you know
whom she would prefer?


II have no doubt, sir" Will solemnly re:
piled, "that she would prefer me. And as
am to become her husband in two weeks, you
will concede the propriety Of the suggestion


I did more shook the splendid fellow by
the hand, and wished him whole century Of
happiness. And I was not above acknowl
edging to him, then and there, that his adroit
ness had saved Virginia's case, and that there
was peculiar fitness in her choosing him fol
her life. guardian.
Year: 1874

TypE1N A NEwspApER.-The Poughkeep-
sic EaoZe, in an article on chow mistakes hap.
pen in newspapers" figures up the number Of
type used in newspaper the size OF the rage
at 100000, i. e., the actual number of bits OF
metal arranged and rearranged every day IN
preparing a newspaper of that size for the
press. -.


In making type, variations that might be
allowed in the finest machinery would render
the type useless. 1t is very rare that type
furnished by two separate foundries can be
used together without great deal OF trouble,
though they try to make it after the same
standard.


We read, once in a while, of a wonderful
piece of cabinet work, or mosaic work, con-
tanning ten, twenty, or fifty thousand pieces,
the maker of which hasspent months or even
years of labor in producing it, and people go
to see it as great curiosity but the most
elaborate and carefully fitted piece ofwork OF
this kind ever made does not compare with
that which the printer does every day, tor
minuteness of detail and accuracy OF lifting.
The man who does the first is looked upon as
an artist-a marvel of skill-and if hun
dred of his pieces are put in wrong side up,
or turned the wrong way, it is not observed IN
the general effect but if the printer, in fit
ting ten times as many pieces together IN
sing gle day, puts one where another should be,
or turns one the wrong way, everybody sees 1t,
and is amazed at the stupid carelessness OF
those printers"
Year: 1874

EXPLANATION OF BLUsHING.-An emo.
tion-sometimes pleasurable, sometimes pain
ful-takes possession of the mind, and there
upon hot flush is felt, the skin grows hot,
and according to the intensity of the emotion,
these changes are confined to the cheek only,
or extend to the "roots of the hair," or call
over"


What is the cause of these changes? The
blood is a red and hot fluid; the skin reddens
and grows hot because its vessels suddenly
contain an increased quantity Of this red and
hot fluid; and its vessels contain more because
the small arteries suddenly dilate, the natural
contraction of their muscles being superseded
by state of relaxation. On the other hand,
in many people extreme terror causes the skin
to grow cold, and the face to appear pale and
pinched. Under these circumstances the sup
ply of blood to the skin is greatly diminished
in consequence of an excessive stimulation OF
the nerves of the small arteries, which causes
them to contract, and so cut off the supply Of
blood.
Year: 1874

when others have deserted, hand of hope
when all others refuse, and heart to feel your
sorrows as her own. Perhaps smiling cher.
up with prattling glee and joyous laugh, M VIII
drive all sorrow from your brow, and inclose
it in the wreaths of domestic bliss.


No matter how humble that home may be,
hoy destitute its stores, or how poorly its in.
msses are clad; if true hearts dwell there, it
is yet home-a cheerful, prudent wife, obe-
dient and affectionate children, will give pos.
SCISSORS more real joy than bags of gold and
windy honors. The home of temperate, in
dustrious and honest man will be his greatest
joy. He comes to it weary and worn, but the
music of the merry laugh and the happy voices
of childhood cheer him. A plain but healthy
meal awaits him. Envy, ambition and strife
have no place there, and with clear con.
science he lays his weary limbs down to rest
in the bosom of his family, and under the pro,
tecting care of the poor mans friend and
helper.
Year: 1874

at the smell of it. Better by far to tell him
the simple truth, that 1t is disagreeable, but
necessary for his health, and you desire him
to take it at once. Ten to one he will swal
low it with half the trouble of coaxing and
worry of words, and love you better for your
firm, decided manner :,


Don't teach the children by example to tel
white lies to each other and to their neigh
bors. Guard lips and bride your tongue. II
YOU desire to have the coming generation
truthful. Truthfulness is one of the founda
ton stones of heaven. Remember the old
old Book says, mo liar" shall enter within
the gates of the beautiful city. There is nc
distinction between white lies and those OF
dark hue. The falsehood is an untruth
whether the matter be great or small.-hs'ra'
Ne1p Yorker.