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Year: 1877

DYSPEPSIA AND HOT BREAD.-Dr. II. V.
Redfeld, who has been travelling through
the South, says: "a physician in North


Alabama, having large practice in the
rural districts, and of necessity stopping
among his patients, tells me that nineteen
OF twenty meals he sits down tc are of fried
meat and hot bread. Yet dyspepsia does
not follow to the extent one would supnoso


He thinks they escape the disease which
such diet would seem to invite. bv the
outdoor life they lead. This physician
says dyspepsia would be an unknown dis.
ease in the South if it was not for hot bread
and the frying pan. Army life during the
late war cured more dyspeptics than bullets
killed. | asked the physician why it was
that in the Eastern States, where hot bread
as steady diet is almost unknown, dvs.
pepsia was even more prevalent than in
the Southern States. He said that it was
pie and cake which played the mischief in
that quarter. Pie and cake worked the
same injury to the stomachs of the Eastern
people that hot bread and the frying pan
did for the Southerners. If anything. IL
was worse. He thought he would rather
risk his digestion upon Southern biscuit
than New England pie. The pie was the
greater curse, and annually killed more by
slowly breaking down their digestive powers.
Year: 1877

SHORT DREssEs-It is stated that short
walking dresses are now the mode in Paris
and as American women are the slaves of
the fashions set in that fine city it would be
well that they be not too long in finding
out the facts about the short dresses. Let
US congratulate the fair" that between the
practice of dragging their dresses through
the mud and this other extreme of carry
ing the long skirt in the hand, Paris has at
last hit the true average by introducing
dresses that will neither sweep the pave.
ments nor impede the wearer when walk.
ing.
Year: 1877

Revenge is fever in our blood, to be
cured only by letting the blood of another;
but the remedy too often produces a re.
lapse, which is remorse-a malady far more
dreadful than the first disease, because it is
incurable.
Year: 1877

A Pennsylvania butter maker tests his
salt by dissolving little in glass tumbler;
1t the brine formed is clear and free from
bitter taste, he pronounces the salt good;
IT. on the other hand, it presents milky
appearance, leaves any sediment or throws
scum to the surface he rejects it.
Year: 1877

Every man ought to aim at eminence,
not by putting others down, but by raising
himself; and enjoy the pleasure of his own
superiority, whether imaginary or real,
without interrupting others in the same
felicity.
Year: 1877

OF our gold and our silver, most of us are
careful, but of our time, when once lost
can never be recalled or regained, we lavish
a large portion, even while we are uttering
complaints of the quantity allotted to us.
Year: 1877

1t is not by the exertion of corporal
strength and activity that the momentous
affairs of state are conducted. 1t is bv cool
deliberation, by prudent counsel, and by
that authoritative influence which ever at.
tends on public esteem.
Year: 1877

The MISTAKE OF MARRYING BRAIys.-Tt
IS very gratifying to woman, and TO q
young woman more especially, to find a
man who IS hard headed, downright logical.
and Just touch cynical to the rest Of the
world, all gentleness, and consideration
and sympathy when he is with her alone !.
ana II we suppose that he has any object
In advancing himself with her-in otbcr
words, that he is slightly in love with her
he Will cOntrlve to make still more nm
parent to her the contrast between his dis.
regard for others and his Difference to her
such man may be very agreeable and
charming, but that is no reason for falI;ng
IN love with him, much less for marrving
him. That in him which is delightful NAV
De mad without any other marriage Ger.
cmony; and, indeed, you will get more of
IL from him as stranger than as hus
oahd' A brlllient man is always less bril-
Iiant ia, with his wife than with anybody else.
why this is So must leave to philosophers
to explain. But such is the fact In nloin
words, you cannot marry q mans wit. br;l.
liancy or learning, for these belong IN
everybody. Love and attention from =
great scholar are no more than love and ot.
tentlon from a blockhead. And if the
bloekhead can pay his wife practical and
tangible attention, in the shane of n do.
lghtiul and commodious home, while the
erudite person can only wish he had the
means wherewith to confer one, the block.
head seems to me to be the most desirable
husoand.-Ottrer Wendell Holmes.
Year: 1877

The late ChiefJustce Chase is said TO
% have quite unconscously conquered an
9nlo county by dinner of bread and milk


Mhile ne was a candidate for Governor he
speech. Among his auditors was an honest
farmer who had come from ten miles away
to satisfy himself in regard to his candidate


ms mind was not set at rest until he had
aihed with Chase, and, as he said, " seen
what he would eat" Mr.. Chase. who bod
not been well for a day or two, happened
to order only bread and milk for his dinner
and the farmer was delighted. "Cbase is
the man for Governor" he said 10 his
ITlehds' w hle only eats bread and milk.
lie is no stuck-up feller. He il like ne


lie Is the farmers candidate by all means );
AND the good old farmer told the stcrv on.
Enthusiastically throughoutt the country side
and when the votes were counted IL was
found that the bread and milk had won a
larger Wing majority than that county had
ever known before.
Year: 1877

a SAD SToRY.-President IIaves has lust


pardoned Mr.. Graham of New York. He


was sentenced to a long term of imprison.


ment Tor embezzlement. He has served
only small portion Of the term for which


he was committed, but he is sick unto
death, and those interested in his incar.
ceratlon have plead for his release. lie
was one OF the most eminent men in
Orange county, a banker, with wears of
repute upon his head. lie used the funds
OF the bank to accommodate his friends.


They put upon him worthless securities.
ana through a series Of transactions that
dld not benefit him one dollar, and through
lack OF moral courage he became ban<rupt
In fortune, in character and in health.
was IN court the day he was convicted.
Fullerton defended Graham and had great
confidence that he would clear him. An
witness turned up with vouch-
ers, and at the close of the testimony Ful
lerton took his client behind screen and
advised him to plead guilty. When Graham
came back into court he seemed to have
added ten years to his life. lie stooped.
his step was feeble, he shook all over as if
touched with the palsy. His plea of guilty
was scarcely audible, and he sunk into his
chair, convulsed with sobs. TO CRAFTY
men who deserted him in the first hour of
his calamity, he flung away the charm of
an elegant home, a repute dearer to his
children than gold, and an honored posi.
ton. He received the felon's brand. and
will soon be born to his burial, and will oc
cupy grave which no bow of honor spans
- BlT(eigh IN Boston Journal
Year: 1877

LoNG LlFE.-Peoplc who live calm and
easy lives, and who are sure Of daily en-.
Pioylneht, arc apt to outlast the fcycrish
oraln-workcr, who exists by the use of his
wits. Scarcely anything has such an In.
luence IN promoting longevity as an assur-
ance felt to well grounded, Of comfortable
provision for life, for all the ordinary wants
OF our station. Not long ago man died
IN the workhouse, where he had been
taken care Of ninety years. lie had no
anXletlcs for tomorrow bread; he had no
quarter day to provide against, in
default OF which wife and children would
be turned into the street from the elegant
mansion. lie had no bills to meet at the
bank, which ifnot paycd by day and am
hour, would involve protest and public
rum lie was happy because he was free
from care. An aching brain is more tryino
than weary arm. The man who handles
tools often sings at bis work, but there is no
music IN the contingencies. where the
capitalist weavcs the web, and unravcls the
tough knots Of a great and complicated
business.
Year: 1877

Il BosToN lady who had recently ar
rived in this city, told young man who
works in the mines that she could indulge
10 the ecstasy of osculation with an adult
male Of genus homo with feelings Of graf
ihcation nnslogical to quafIing the nectar
OF the gods and after be had consulted
the authorities he was mad at himself be-
cause he had not kissed her-AuStiu Re
9,ejIIo
Year: 1877

WHEN a small boy with a prejudice
againt yellow dogs observes an old oys-
ter can in a condition of inactivity, he at
once begins debating whether it was Gre
ated to point moral or adorn tail. The
dog gets the first news Of the decision.
Year: 1877

In his recent speech in Ohio Secretary
Sherman made the following striking and
just remarks in regard to specie pay
ments, which may help to show to those


who need instruction what specie pay
ments are and why it is desirable to reach
them.


''What do we mean by specie pay
mentsp Is it that we are to have no pa
per money in circulation ? If so l am as
much opposed to it as any of you. Is it
that we are to retire our greenback circu-
lation l am opposed to it and have often
so said. What / mean 10y specie pay
ments is simply that paper money ought
to be made equal to coin, so that when
you receive it, it will buy as much beef,
corn, or clothing as coin. Now the i'm
portance of this cannot be overestimated.
A deprecated paper money cheats and
robs every man who receives it of a por-
ton of the reward OF his labor or produc-
tion, and In all times ii has been treated
by statesmen as one of the greatest evils
that can befall people. There are times
when such money is unavoidable, as dur
ing war or great public calamity, but it
has always been the anxious care oil
statesmen to return again to the solid
standard of coin. Therefore it is that
specie payments, or specie standard,
is pressed by the great body of intelligent
men who study these questions as an in
dispensible prerequisite for steady business
and good times. Now, most of you will
agree to all this. and will only differ as to
the mode. or time or manner; but there
is large class of people who believe lha,
paper can be and ought to be made into
money without any promise or hope OF
redemption; that a note should be print
ed. This is dollar and be made a legal
tender, regard this as a mild form of lu-
macy, and have no disposition to debate
with men who indulge in such delusions
They have prevailed to some extent at
different times in all countries, but their
life has been brief, and they have ever
shared the fate of other popular delusions.
Congress will never entertain such prop
osition and. If it should, we know that the
scheme would not, stand a moment
before the Supreme Court. That
court only maintained the constitu-
tionality of the legal-tender prom.
ise to pay dollar by the divided court
and on the ground that it was issued dur
ing the war, as in the nature OF a forced |
loan, to be redeemed upon the payment
OF real dollar; that is, so many grains of |
silver or gold. therefore dismiss such
wild theories, and speak only to those who
are willing to assume, as an anxiom on
this subject. that gold and silver, or coined |
money, have been proved by all human
experience to be the best possible stan.
dards OF value, and that paper money is |
simply promise TO pay such coined
money, and should be made and kept
equal to coined money, by being convert !
ible on demand"
Year: 1877

The Piscataquis Observer says: The
Republican party in this county has al
ways stood as firm as the mountains in its
fidelity to the organization. They will
keep steady front. and hold on to their
old principles Of Justice and right; and,
with the gallant General Connor at the
head of their ticket. give larger major
ity than is usual in the off year
Year: 1877

Philadelphia Press.-The Ohio
.elec ion has proved that the quickest


way to defeat the Republican party
lis to vote Independent, Greenbaek,
Labor and Temperance tickets, thus


showing that the intelligent men who
want reforms Of all kinds are Repub-
Iicans. Would it not be better to
support the great party Of progress,
land trust to its making as brilliant q
record IN the future as it has IN the
lpast, rather than to turn the country
lover to the Democrats, who have
always opposed every measure de
signed to benefit the people 2
Year: 1877

General Fremont is going to NOrtl
Carolina to superintend some cop
per mines, and has sold his house


hold effects in New York at yer!
great sacrifice. As an early explor
er of almost unknown regions of th'


West, the first Republican candidate


for President, and a General in tn,
war of the Union, his name will g
down into history, though it ha
.been so seldom mentioned of lat
wears that one might infer that h
Twas not in the land Of the living.
Year: 1877

To PURIFY THE CO1pLEzIoN.-Ea
an orange or two every morning be
fore breakfast, drink plenty of lemon
.ade not sweetened never drink tea
coffee, nor any kind of stimulants
do not use soap on the face or neck
take a sponge bath every morning
either cold or tepid, in water mad
soft with borax, a teaspOOnful in
basin Of water.
Year: 1877

"Time works wonders as the woman said
when she got married after a thirteen years
courtship.


We have lost good deal by our religion -
a woman said to her husband So Yes,'' replied
her husband Is you lost bad temper and l lost
a bad habit of drinking and ragged coat"


There are some delicate impulses that good
woman cannot resist she cannot help putting
three hairpins and spare shoe-string into the
first shaving-mug she sees. Women are no better
than men in this respect.


Why is it that two young people never do get
so diyinely spoony and sentimental over hot
oyster stew as they do at the same table, in the
same restaurant, over plates of ice-cream? We
DONE know why it is, but they never do.-Bur-
hngtOn HGarkeye


When bachelor calls a married friend,
nothing pleases him so much as to be invited to
hold the baby In this situation, however, it is
a weak man who is not Immediately seized with
the diphtheria, which is generally known to be
contagious.


We are glad to see that the ladies are again
forming reading clubs for the Winter. The
reading club is Organization that discusses the
character of Shakespeare's Portia for fifteen
minutes and the best manner of cutting a bas-
que on the bias for hour and a half, and
rarely fails to be OF great proht.-Nortcich 6EI-
Ltin.





(Me0 Journal saw in Gardiner he thus des-
cribes maiden from the rural districts march
ing through Water street with a carpet-bag IN
one hand and shotgun in the other was a
sight to be seen one afternoon of this week. You
NAV believe that no fellow winked at her.


A couple made this singular wager: IF Hayes
is elected the woman agreed to build the fires
this Winter and if Tilden elected the man
was to build them. Thursday after the election
the woman took the benefit OF the doubt and
has obliged him to build the fires ever since
Their Oldest daughter says " 1t don't make no
difference if the Angel Gabriel is elected, ma
never did build no fires, and she never will You
can bet on that good deal safer than on elee-
tion.''


HIS FAT SAVED HM.-The advantage of q
generous corporosity was illustrated at Palermo,
italy, recently. A half dozen brigands made an
early call ut the residence of one Benedetti Mar
clio, with intent to flee with him to the noun
tains They found him standing, like Hiawatha,
lonely in his doorway, but when they contem-
plated the bulk of his person they must have
thought that they had on hand contract for
moving Mount Yesuyius on short notice. Moth
ing daunted, however, they laid violent hands on
him and sought to force him into carriage.
He simply sat down at the garden gate and re-
fused to bulge, but did not neglect to make
( violent outcry. The united strength of the
diavolos was unequal TO the task of his removal.
Kicks but increased his cries. and when a son of
the mountain of flesh appeared at the balcony
and commenced practiciDg on the abductors with
shotgun they hurriedly dispersed. Thus the
advantages cf being man OF weight in the COM
munity are sometimes offset. 4E
Year: 1877

1t was the policy Of II celebrated and
successful General to break his retreat
ing army into detachn,ents, as though
they were demolished and broken to
pieces by the enemy, and then to re-
unite ut Il given time and place and turn
upon the careless and loosely arrayet1
pursuers. We take it that such is the
policy which the Republicans propose
to adopt ut the South. Protesting to
be Clisbanded in Mississippi and Ger
tain other States, they simply await the
disintegration OF the Democracy in
order to turn and beat them in the cleo
tions of 1878 and 1880. 1t is tho quint


esence of madness to suppose that the
Republican party is dead. II is not


dead Mt the North and it needs a por-
ton Of the electoral votes of tho South
to carry the next Presidency. A par
ty that has lived Il quarter Of \ centu-
ry, and has held national power sixteen
years, and is still holding the Chief
NIngis!racy and the army and navy,
will not die in II day. IA, ........
Hence we are not surprised to know
that Blaine and other Republican lead
ers are in correspondence with stalwArt


Republican allies looking to the entire
reputation of Hayes by the lsepabli-
can party. If by the time Congress





ed up 10 ensure II respectable following,
Blaine is to lead OFF and charge Hayes
with apostasy, reputation Of its prin-
ciples, and utter disregard Of tho pre-
cepts and doctrines which have given
it the upper hand for the past sixteen
years. The malcontcnts have agents
whose sole duty seems to be compiling
the elaborate record ,.of all the
appointees made from the South,
and the influences which induce Hayes
to make them. The outlook is that
Blaine will get n respectable following,
at all events sufficient to make a vigor-
Gus attack on tho Administration; and
the belief is that il the Democrats do
not come to his support and uphold


him, so far as his own party is concern


ed, he will be like Il shepherd who has
lost his flock. NOhio goes Democratic,


which is about conceded on all Sides it
will afford Il tcxtupo which illustration


will be made that Hayes is rePudiated


in his own State, or that the only sat
isfaction for the future OF the Republi-
can party is to read him out OF it, and
thus he aloof from any responsibility
for his official acts. If indications are
worth anything as showing tho way


the wind blows, they Enthusiastically
point to the fact that the President is
| ioosing ground with his party each
passing day.-7fo0ife Register.
Year: 1877

REPUDIArIoN.-ALo London special states
that profound Apprehension and anxiety
exist in financial circles IN that city re-
specting Reputation movements IN VIZ
ginia and Georgia. 1t is feared that these
movements, taken in connection with ,all-
road strikes, will impair American credit
III Europe The London special Is some
What comprehensive in his conclusions OF
in his apprehensions American credit
should be distinct from the credit OF any
State or coroporation. The American
people are only remotely responsible IN
moral point of view for the action Of
State. Why should Massachusetts,, which
has voluntarily paid the interest GA her
debt in gold though legally payable in cur
rency, be held responsible for the delin-
quencies of States. Ike Virginia which
were half ruined by the war and still furth-
CT Frustrated by corrupt legislation after
the war was overt Both are American
States, but one State is no more RESPONSE
bic for the action of another than IS one
bank or commercial firm responsible for
another. Reputation is one Of those Of
fences against integrity which may be al
tentative of financial ruin. We do not
know that Georgia or Virginia are in such
straits, although it has been deemed ad-
visable not recognize portion Of the
debt in each State which WAS created by
corrupt legislation Several other South
ern States have done tie same thing. 1t
is the only redress the people have against
such legislation Is was forced upon them
by the political rings which came into
power after the war. The facility with
which the bonds then thrown upon the
public were sold was prime cause of this
indirect robbery OF the people, Very
many purchased the bonds as specula-
ton, paying thirty, forty or fifty cents on
the dollar and taking the chances which
accompany all such investments. These
Spectators would nov ike to see the
States assume the bonds and pay interest
on them, although such debt would i'm
poyerish the people and impair materially
the value OF real estate We do not defend
nor excuse Reputation, but we do not
greatly sympathize with SPECTATORS who
purchase at half price bonds they know to
have been fraudulently issued in the hope
to brin, 2 pressure to bear on the people
to induce them to assume the debts.
Year: 1877

MORALITY II PoLIEICs. two chief
consp:rators in the crime OF the Louisiana
returning board, Wells Nand Anderson,
are wal.zing about the country on their
way to Washington, when they ought to
be On their way TO the penitentiary. The
better part Of the people Of the United
States will never rest satisfied until these
men, and al connected with them in the
perpetration Of the crime they committed,
are made to devote the balance of their
ili-spent lives to the service Of the state
Of Louisiana as convicts in her peniten-
tiary. If there be any morality IN politics,
or virtue In the laws for the maintenance
OF good government, or power in the pop
liar voice, eypiatlon viii have to be made
for this great public wrong. If criminals
and scoundrels, and men who have sold
themselves 10 the devil for the gratifca-
ton of selfish purposes are to influence
and control the politics OF the country, it
is high time the people We're preparing for
4 campaign OF thorough and complete ref
orgaation. Portland Telegram.
Year: 1877

BA.BsRrsM IN MAKYLAND.-An official
report made upon the condition and treat
ment of the insane poor in the charitable
institutions of Maryland disc!oses con-
dition of affairs so horrible and revolving
as to be almost beyond BELIEF In a large
number of the almshouses the insane and
idiotic of both sexes and Of ali colors are
permitted to live together indiscriminate-
ly ; idiotiC children are born of idiotic
mothers. while the sanitary are even worse
than the moral surroundings of the in
mates. How such 4 condition Of affairs
could exist for SO many years in an other
wise fairly governed State.is beyond COM
prchension-
Year: 1877

TEE INDIANS N MoNTsSA.-The latest
from the seat Of war is more favorable than
the first report, yet when We contemplate
tt,a. every third man of the httle band was
either killed CT wounded, we must confess
thai the battle Was among the most desper-
ate fought in modern times. and, save the
Custer fight. the most bloody on record,


taking into consideration the slaughter on
both sides. General Gibbon and his little
command have accomplished wonders-bad-
ly whipped a superior force of well drilled
and well armed Indians in fair fight. Gen.


Howard has it now In his power to fol-
low and annihiiate them; but if IT Is done it
must be done quickly or the foe viii be be-
ycnd striking distarce. Helena Independent.
Year: 1877

Sitting Bull having got upon British
soil is disposed to stay there. The Pee
ple of Montana would ike % have him
stay there, hnt the Cabinet ~ Washing
ton seems determined to bring him lack
ipossiblc For what purpose they way:
him and his gang OF InUrdcrcrs We car
not tell.
Year: 1877

The seed which the aged sire had
sown had fallen upon good ground.


When winter came Luke Tramway
found relaxation and recreation in pub
lie charities and social duties; and bye
And-bye his life came to wear a brighter
phase than he had ever known.


He found that life's heartiest, truesi
joys are in dwelling-joys resulting
from duties truly done-ioys accepted
from the Great Giver with trustful
gratitude.


Verify he found sunshine wherever
he went, and his home was a haven OF
peace and rest.