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Year: 1879

INDIVIDUAL WORK. cannot help
thinking that if there was little more
individual work, little more moral cour-
age in the world TO save men, the world
would not be so much of wreck as it is
to-day. If you saw that friend, brother,
was taking wrong course, what would
you do? Would you merely say, Dear,
dear, dear! how painful it is that so many
men are going wrong.-Just as sure as he
continues that course he is lost man; but
he will go-dear, dear, dear' and when
you hear the despairing cry coming up
from the depth and, 81 told you SOL"
Now what should you do? Should you not
lay your hand on him and say, My friend
you are going wrong What if he swears
ut you? Never mind; save him you can.
Many man hasn't got so far from your
sympathy but that one word kindly said in
his ears: MY friend, you are going
wrong" will check him. The difficulty is
that we let men go so far from our sympa-
thy that we cannot reach them. Now, it
is this individual work that | believe is to
reform the world and bring it back to God.
John b. cough.
Year: 1879

striving to do more than the others. and
the little home will keep their hearts pure
and their minds free from giddy thoughts
Each Sabbath day they will gather there
to feel that it is home, and visit with and
advise with each other, and letters from
father and mother across the wide ocean
will be opened and read again and again
through fearful eyes. Are there four
other such girls in all this land?-DetroH
Free Press.
Year: 1879

SExToNs.-A great deal can be done for
quietness in churches by the sexton. The
most perfect sexton ever knew was an
apostle of silence. His eye and ear and
hand were everywhere, and his genius for
forestalling and suppressing confusion was
wonderful. Before service he always ex-
changed his boots for slippers. He glided
about the aisles rs noiselcssly as ghost
He made bookkeeping a fine art. Doors
and windows were fixed that they would
never be heard. He took care that no
sound should come from the furnace or
gas-iixtures after the service began. The
fact was that this was not II mere instinct
of propriety or crafty measure Of success
in his office; it was Il constant answer of
his believing and humble heart to the sol
emn sentence, The Lord is in His holy
temple What II contrast to the clumsy,
fussy, hcavyshod brother, in charge of
the stoves in Il rural sanctuary | remem-
ber, who was sure TO start up two or three
times i'll the midst of prayers, sometimes
when the preacher was doing his best to
get or hold the attention of his hearers,
march round from his seat to the fire,
swing open a stridulous stove, door, punch
the sticks with a poker, and toss in an
additional supply of fuel, giving us another
shrill screcch from the hinges us finale
-BiShOp Huntington.
Year: 1879

A novel war has broken out in Newark. The ops
posing forces the city authorities and corpors
ton calling itself the American Union Telegraph
Company Last month the Common Council granted
authority to the company to erect line in the city.
Soon after it was ascertained that the company
not chartered and the Council rescindcd its pre-
vious action. Then the company obtained
charter under the state law, aud again
applied to the city for permission to
go on. II was granted, with the proviso that the
consen. the owners of the soil should be obtained
first, and that the work be done under the super
vision of the street Commissioners without com
plying with these provisions the company resolved
to go ahead. Between midnight and seven o'clock
yesterday morning they put up more than mile
and half OF the line. When citizens saw
this they were very indignant. and the
matter was brought to the attention of the
Mayor and City Council. They declared the pro-
cceding utterly Illegal. and the Street Commissioner
was ordered to remove the poles. The company at
first seemed disposed TO show fight. but yesterday
afternoon the Commissioner called upon the police
to help him. and the Mayor authorized the swearing
in of additional policemen. Seeing that the city
determined to assert its authority the company
backed down and the Street Commissioner proceeded
To cut down the poles erected.
Year: 1879

uting to the restoration of these establishments
unless compelled to do so by the police. In most
of the schools there is great nsuiicency OF books
and other means aud material of instruction.
while the salaries of the masters are exceedingly
low-from about 100 to $50 rubes year. 1t is
not astonishing therefore, says the report that no
good teachers be had the instruction OF youth
being mostly confined to retired soldiers, sacris-
tans dismissed for drunkenness and theft,
broken down quack doctors and the like.
sometimes ignorant even OF the veriest rudiments
of learning The popes or priests scarcely
ever enter the school rooms of their districts and
the religious instruction of the young therefore. is
entirely neglected. Finally. the official report says
that though the lumber of the school going youth is
exceedingly small in proportion to the population,
yet part of them are pretty regular in their at


tendance The do not 60 to school at all in the
long winter partly for want of warm clothes, partly
because the pedagogia too far from their homes.
The above particulars not the hasty generalizs-
tons of passing traveller; they the wellauthen


tcated statistics of an official report Those who
ponder them carefully may probably come to the
conclusion that in Russia there would be less Mill


ism il there were more knowledge; they will like
wise TO wonder at the possibility of dictator


ship by General Gourko or by General Todleben.
Year: 1879

Who was it that said very beautifully Of a man who
had just died that he had "gone over to the ma
jortyY


1t was Hood, of pleasant memory who ex-
posed the peculiar weakness of every sportsman by
saying What he hit is history this story and what
ne missed is mystery (my story"


Douglas Jerrold not only witty. but exceed
lngly impertinent He hated that overwhelming
sonceit which prompts to walk the street with
the air of one who has just foreclosed heavy
gage on the universe and bought the property at
auction. Whenever he happened across such a one
he actually did what would all like to do IL we
dared. e.. he went up to him. took his hat off re-
spectfully and asked, "Pray sir you anybody in
PARTICULAR


1t requires a certain capacity for good in yourself
to appreciate the good in others; and the converse
is unhappily true also for if you constantly the
bad in Others you may safely conclude that you
not exactly what you ought to be yourself.


Charles Lamb once said that the greatest pleasure
he knew was to do a good action by stealth and to
have II found out by accident.


There is nothing the planet more solemnly
solemn than conventional party in England. 1t is
like assemblage of automatons. The utmost
gravity prevails, and the decorum is imported
pressly from the frigid zone Adistinguished diplo
matist OF America, VINO resided in England, was
once taken TO Nine. Tussauds gallery of wor-
thes in wax, and being asked what he thought of
IL replied with quaint but sharp sarcasm, Well. it
struck me being very like any ordinary English
party"


sympathy is that divine something which draws
us all together. We cheerfully give it to those who
in distress. and demand IL when we are in
distress ourselves. 1t is great satisfaction to feel
that we pited, with one remarkable exception
and that is when we are pitted by the smallpox


one small line OF poetry tells the whole story OF
human history. AS the world consists of those who
sleep cemeteries and of those who are by no
means getting ready to sleep there, of graveyards
and Cities we just cut the line in two and let the
FIRST half Hoat over the one while the last half aoats
Year: 1879

The Pilot Commissioners yesterday received


information Of the loss OF the pilot boat A. Lecgett
which was run down accidentally at sea by the steam
ship Naples, from Liverpool for Philadelphia. The
pilots and crew were taken of and landed at Phadel
phia The Leggett was ab0ut $50 miles tt sea during
heavy nOrth-nOrthwest gale on January 26, when Il
steamer sighted. SuppOsrg Der he bound for
NeWNOrk the pilots set the usual pilot signals and the
steamer change her course in the direction
of the Legge The latter kept across the steamers
bow and then wore around under the stern nding
send pilot board when the steamer drftCd TO the
leeward taking the wind out Of the sails OF the plot
boat. As the wind blowing strong gale with ter
rife sea- the steamer rolled against The Dcgget, break
ing her sides so that she fast filling with wafer In
five minutes after the were transferred to the
steamer the LCSgctt sank.
Year: 1879

Did you ever know a barber TO own
up that he had cut you? They never
do it; they simply go for chunk of
alum and casually remark. Well, /
guess l have shaved ,ha. spo. trifs
too close"
Year: 1879

CONSIDERING the charges of dishonesty
and want of veracity brought against poll
ticians and newspapers, the following de-
scription of the trading man, taken from a
religious weekly, may be edifying if not
pleasing to some of those who find fault
with public prints and public men, 1t
gives description of goods whose label on
every box is a lie from beginning to end, and
of goods being sold by samples, by misrepre-
sentations and downright lying, and of a
merchant tailor who kept only the best kind
of English cloths, proving it by the labels
and wrappers, and of finding the same cloths
with reams of labels and wrappers manufac-
tured to order for an American mill. These
manufacturers and agents know these things
are frauds and the labels falsehoods, yet
these manufacturers and agents would have
felt outrageously insulted had any one
charged them with lying, or dishonesty, or
want of integrity in business. The follow
ing suggestions are made: Are there two
standards of truth, of integrity, of honesty,
one for the ways of business and another for
other spheres of life? Are such examples in
the lines of business likely to do good to
young men, or to corrupt their principles,
destroy their manliness and make them
mean? At the bar of conscience, is not a
commercial lie as bad as any other kind of
living?
Year: 1879

SENATOR CHANDLER put Southern preten-
sion in ridiculous light in his speech on the
New Army Bill last week. ''After the close
of the Rebellion he said, ''you claimed that
you were poor and suffering and we found
you poor and suffering; we found you ragged
and poor, and we clothed you; we put upon
you the robe of American citizenship, which
you had forfeited, and we killed for you the
fatted calf and invited you to the feast, sup
posing you, after being clothed, were in
your right mind. And when we invited
you to the feast you said: cove have always
owned that calf and you have no interest in
IL
Year: 1879

THERE is danger that the supervisors may
interfere with the freedom of elections! !!
While the Democratic Congress was making
this complaint Senator Butler was introduc-
ing bill ordering the Secretary of War to
give the Marion Artillery Company of South
Carolina battery of four Napoleon guns.
Can't the South Carolinians shoot down ne
groes fast enough with rifles? This latest
request seems unreasonable
Year: 1879

THEY have got so far civilized in Tennes-
see that they enforce upon dead men the
law against carrying concealed weapons. A
coroner in that State has just collected
$25 from the estate of a man on whose dead
body pistol was found. There is hope for
Tennessee yet.
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publica
tion but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1879

A CHICAGO hide-dealer has received ga lot
OF Chinese dry hides" The skinning was
probably done in San Francisco, and now
California has adopted the new constitution
the trade ought to be a flourishing one. The
hides are said to be Somewhat smaller than
ours, but in excellent condition" Eastern
dealers should turn their attention to this
new industry. There are a dozen or two
Cinnamon here-enough to experiment upon
and as they, after the economical manner of
their people, have already gone and got
their hides tanned, our traders will certainly
save something in bark Let us skin them.
Year: 1879

The Springfield (Mass.) Union says:
The control which q good locomotive
engineer has over his engine is something
remarkable. A long time ago some of
the depot attaches noticed that the 1:15
train from the south seemed to stop
daily at TIE seltsame spot when coming
to standstill at the depot, and about
two months ago a mark was made to
designate the precise locality. Since
that time the train has not varied six
inches from the mark, and some of the
friends of the engineer have presented
him bouquet in acknowledgment of
his skill.
Year: 1879

the order of the postmaster general
regarding the prohibition of all letters
addressed to lottery companies from the
mail, is being rigidly enforced. All such
Letters are sent to the dead letter Office.
The department Is pursuing an investi.
CATION as to the extent Of the business
done, and the methods BY which the
statutes and the recent order are evaded
BY the lottery companies, with view to
determining whether any postmaster At
any Office of delivery, who has judicial
notice of the business engaged in by the
companies and their agents, can hold let-
tern which arrive in large numbers ad-
dressed to person whose connection with
tho lottery company is not openly
stated.
Year: 1879

TIE story is we'll known of Senator
Sharon stepping in and assuming
Ralston's debts For q time he was 80
crippled with this burden that it was .
toss from day to day when he would go
under, but q hard struggle has brought
him slowly out from under the $ll ,0OO,.
600 debt cloud that hung over him. For
this reason he spent little of his time in
his seat in the senate. Absence at certain
times would have lost it all for him.
They say he only draws his pay, but he
spends all of it and more in entertaining
his congressional friends at Belmont,
some of whom 60 up to bed in the eleva-
tor between two servants, and some save
themselves from aiding under the table
BY stumbling out by the kitchen door.
Year: 1879

All families are not supp led with
scales and weights. and therefore the
measures gwen below will be found
convenient:


About sixty drops Of any thin liquid
will fill common sized teaspoon.


Four tablesroonfuls, or half gill,
will fill common sized wine-glass.


Four wne.glasses will fiji half pint
measure. u common tumbler, or q
large coffee cup.


Ten eggs usually weigh one pound
before they are broken. Eight large
ones will weigh one pound.


A Tablespoonful Of salt will weigh
about one ounce.


One pint of water or milk will
weigh one pound.


One pint of molasses will weigh
one anu quarter pounds.


Three tablespoonfus of baking
powder should weigh one ounce.


One quart of flour weighs one
pound


One quart of Indian meal weighs
one and u quarter pounds.
Year: 1879




A lady writes thus very handsomely
to Western papers


Make home u home, and make II one
In every sense of the word. Ny hus-
band Is n great smoker; he loves to
play cards, dominocs aud chess; he Is
ut perfect liberty to smoke In any part
of the house, and am always ready and
willing TO join him In the different
games. cndcavor In every way to be
not ONLY u help mate, but companion
to him, and the result has been that
have and enjoy Jlis society. cannot
understand why women will run the
risk Of losing their husbands society
ahd love, merely for the sake of gratify-
ing nm oycr-fastldous taste. rthey do
not like tobacco, did they object to his
using 1t during the days Of courlship2
And If they objected then aud did not
succeed, why did they marryp If men
VIII not give up such habits Mt the So
licitHilons of their ewecthcarls It Ia not
likely they will be persuaded ont Of
them by their wives; therefore, I think
1t unwise fora woman to risl her hap
plncss by qlarrellng with her husband
over ycnlOl fault the existence and ex-
tent Of which she knew and perfectly
understood before she took upon herself
the duties of n wife.
Year: 1879

AN ALLEGED CURE For CANCER
Our attention has been drawn to an ar
ticle in the New York Sun in which II is
set forth that a certain cure for cancer is
found in the tea made Of the blossoms Of
red clover. 1t is said that the seasons
when the clover Is not in bloom, the
dried flower will answer us well as the
green, and that the tea Of the blossom,
when either green or dry, drank for six
or eight weeks, will cure the worst Of
cancer. Names are given of persons
who claim to have been cured by this
means, and several physicians testify to
the efficacy Of this remedy. While de-
clining to vouch for this recipe we give
i, for what it is worth, since 1t will, at
least, do nobody any harm.-NcrS


aa
Year: 1879

The Duty OF HATING.-Let us hate
more. Hating is, perhaps, sufficiently
permitted by us as an impulse. 1t may
easily be toomuch INDUCED in as moral
luxury. But there is not enough of
good hating done as point of duty. /
want to says word in favor Of hating on
principle.


Few men look with actual complacen-
cy on bad deed. But few, again, if
self interest does not engage their emo
tions, look on Il bad deed with condign
abhorance. The attitude of most men
is apt to be the attitude of Indifference.
But moral Indifference toward wrong is
n pregnant mistake. We ought to hate
wrong with conscious and vehement
passion Of resentment and resistance
Abhorance of evil is vital alike to our
safety and TO the yigor Of our good in
iluence.-The independents
Year: 1879

largo octave volume Of noted speeches by Daniel
Webster has been issued by Little. Brown Co., the
avowed purpose Of the work being "to call attention
to the genius and character of Daniel Webster
lawyer. statesman. dplomatist. patriot and cit
izen." and "to revive public interest in the great
body Of his works." 1t is a compliment to the read
ing public that any publisher should credit them
with such fondness for sound. strong material as
arcnewed interest in Websters work would imply.
yet there Is American statesman who can be road
with greater benefit to and literary taste.
Webster was not only o wonderful logcian but
master of the English language; very few scholars
OF the present day would attempt to revise any of
his speeches with view to improving their rhet-
prc. aud fewer could begin the perusal OF any ono


Of the arguments reproduced in this volume without
being impeed to trace the line OF reasoning to its
conclusion. although tho subject of the effort may
have passed entirely out of the political field. An
Interesting feature Of the book is introduction.
several times rs long the average essay.
on 'Daniel Webster Master Of English STYLE
the author being Edward X. whipple.
Year: 1879

a never-fslling remedy for ague IL


the breast, is to wear avery small bag
filled with alum. 1t must be worn
continually while nursing child. a
neighbor has practiced it for twenty
years, and is now nursing the sixth
child. After the birth of the last child,
she did not at first think Of using the
alum until reminded of it by her hus-
band one day, when she Immediately
had a bag made, holding about q
thimbleful of the alum, and attached
it TO a string, suspended it about the
neck, slipping it down next the skin
between the breasts. She now wash
es in colo water, and does all man
ners of imprudent things, such as
hanging up clothes, bare-headed, bare
armed, bat has had no return of the
ague. A number of others to her
knowledge have used it with thesame
good result. This simple remedy Is,
indeed, worth being known by the
masses of the people, when we con-
slider how much some women suffer
with this distressing and sickening
complaint,-Erchdnge.
Year: 1879

Ing very near New London and the
shores must be lined with hen coops.
For fellows who had been pulling al
ternately at the oars and the bottle all
night, they were in uncommonly
good spirits. About the time the bot
tie was empty day began to dawn and
the fog suddenly lifted. The land
was right behind them, and the wharf
had strangely familiar look. Well
il might. They hadn'i cast off their
stern line. Then they drew in their
oars, and one said, "Well, we've (hic)
had the exercise all same. Let's go
ashore" They went, and as they
went "a bantam rooster on a wood-pile
tapped his wings and crowed again.


The Democrats in Congress have
not made any progress, but they have
had the exercise, and now that they
are about TO go ashore, there will be
Growing and Tapping of wings by the
Illinois State Register and the other
little bantams of the Democratic
press.-IHteT Ocean.
Year: 1879

The Cincinnati Enquirer joins IN
the Democratic howl against Senator
Bsyard. Reference to his position on
the silver bill, the Enquirer Gays
This action does not reach the digni-
ty of veto, but instead it Is a sort of
snatch game in politics. It is per-
formance utterly contemptible, and
unworthy of @ man calling himself a
statesman. Mr.. Bayard should re-
sign his position and retain the re-
spect of himself and of the party, or
at least that OF being possessed of
honest convictions" This is one view
of the matter. It saddens one to know
that about one half the Democratic
party are as vigorously abusive on the
other side.
Year: 1879

A caution to plpe-smOkers Is cor
tanned In the experience of French
porter, who recently cut the forefin-
ger of his right hand with knife
which had been cleaning out his pipe.
The next day the fiuger swelled and
the arm became inflamed, while tu-
mors appeared under the arm-pits.
The medical men called in recognized
poisoning by nicotine, and, seeing
that amputatlon was necessary, sent
the patient at once to a hospital,
where at last accounts he was lying In
u very precarlOus condition.
Year: 1879

disinfecting the bedding of those who
cannot afford to have it destroyed.''


When the reporter referred to the
published statement that the household
of the Princess Alice, Grand Duchess
of Darmstadt, were made more suscep-
tible to the contagion of d1phtheria by
the habit of kissing among it's inmates,
and asked Prof. Barker whether inhal-
ing the breath Of scarlet fever patient
by kissing OF otherwise, was dangerous,
and should be avoided, the doctor re-
piled: Most assuredly, the disease
might be communicated by mother
kissing her child, who has either scarlet
fever or diphtheria.' -


If diphtheria complicates a case of
scarlet fever, does this necessarily make
the case fatal2"


SIT is a severe complication. but by
no means necessarily fatal, as I've often
known cases to recover in which both
diseases existed. Last winter young
girl of IA had diphtheria. After the
diphtheria was palpably subsiding, the
child continued to have a very high
temperature, leading to the suspicion
that some other poison was disturbing
the system. Suddenly a very intense
form of scarlet fever was manifested.
The child was extremely i'll for several
days, and then, during desquamation,
the diphtheria again appeared. But
this young girl perfectly recovered.
Diphtheria, therefore, while causing
grave apprehension, should not be re-
garded as necessarily terminating
fatally. A child sick with scarlet fever
in a house which is exposed to sewage
gas, or in which there is defective
plumbing, would be likely to have the
disease complicated with diphtheria. .


''Does the term scarlatina mean
mild form of scarlet fever?''


''No the two terms are precisely
Identical. "
Year: 1879

The Princess Louise, it is predicted,
will work notable dress reform among
the women of this continent. Her at
tire is very simple, and she makes no
display of jewels. At recent enter
tainment at Rideau Hall she wore no
ornaments whatever, not even brooch.
Her manners are charming; herguests,
whether he be prime minister or a
trembling child, she places instantly at
ease. She is a most gentle and kindly
young lady.