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Year: 1874

Henry A. Roberts, cashier Of the East
Boston National Bank, is a defauiter.
The directors found the deficiency TO be
less than $4,000, owing in a great part
to the negligence of the cashier. The
bank examiner says there will be no de.
lay in the operations of the bark, as i
is amply secured No tidings OF the
missing cashier.
Year: 1874

I II you want TO realize the heights 10
which feminine eloquencc can mount,
90 home and find your wife In company
with table covered with Jars Of can
ned fruit, and ask her why she has her
hand wrapped in cloth.
Year: 1874

Americans are gradually waking up
to the fact that oatmeal is by no means
an unimportant article of diet. AS a
food, the merits of which have stood
The test of centuries, and which is cal
culated to promote the sanitary inter-


ests of the nation by laying the foun-
dation for more hardy and vigorous
constitutions for the coming generation,
let us regard its general adoption as an
article of diet as nothing short OF a
national good. Its phosphorestce,nt
qualities act as a gentle and healthy
stimulant to the brain, and on no other
food can one endure so great or so pro-
longed mental labor as on oatmeal por-
ridge. Properly cooked it is not only
a most healthful and nutritious food,
but it is decidedly palatable, as is fully
attested by its wonderfully rapid adop-
tion as a popular diet by the very fas-
tidious palates of our American people.
Year: 1874

Some OF the ancient laws OF Massa-
chusetts are worthy Of consideration at
the present day. In 1642 there was
law providing that "those who do not
teach, by themselves or others, their
children or apprentices, so much learn
ing as may enable them perfectly to
read the English tongue, and knowledge
of the capital laws. shall be fined twenty
shillings for each neglect therein" In
those days it was also thought proper
that no interference should prevent
suitable marriages. A law OF l64l
reads that "if any person shall wllifuliy
and unreasonably deny any child timely
or convenient marriage, or shall exer-
else any unnatural severity toward
them. such children shall have liberty
to complain to authority for redress IN
such cases."
Year: 1874

Paralysis, according to an English
writer, is rare, much that passes for
paralysis being durable, especially
through the imagination. The opinion
is supported by the statements of one
of the best medical men in Paris, who
in 1s49 was a physician in the great
hospital there, the Hotel Dieu. In
that year this hospital was particularly
famous for the cures effected in it, and
many were the hypochondriacs whose
imaginations sent them home well after
q stay in its wards. One odd case was
that of a young girl in the department
of the Ain, whom a sudden fright had
rendered dumb and paralyzed. Local
physicians could do nothing for her,
and at last asserted that only the doc
tors of the Hotel Dieu could cure her.
Firmly believing this herself, the girl
was sent to Paris and admitted to the
hospital, where the hurried physician
merely examined her as a matter Of
form, promising to return on the next
day. WheA he came he heard to his
astonishment that the patient was in
clined to speak. He spoke to her, and
she answered instantly that she thought
that she could walk with little help,
and she did walk twice around the ward
very easily. The next week she re-
turned to her native village as well as
ever. 81 knew" she cried, "that the
Hotel Dieu would cure mep It would
be hard to find more striking instance
of the mysterious power of the imagi-
nation, and OF strong belief upon the
physical structure.
Year: 1874

The cormorant is largely employed as
an assistant to the fisherman, and is
carefully educated to its work by pro-
fessional trainers. When thoroughly
trained, pair of birds is worth forty
dollars, the high price being explained
by the cost and labor of instruction.


During the first seven months OF its
life, the cormorant is left with the flock
and is taught by its elders how to feed
itself on small fish. After that age,
however, a collar is fastened about its
neck so that it cannot swallow its prey,
and to one of its feet cord, some two
feet long, is attached, terminating in a
bamboo float.


At a signal from the fisherman, whose
sole implement is q forked stick some
ten feet long, the cormorants plunge
into the water and search for fish, each
bird, as fast as he catches one in his
beak, rising to the surface. The fisher
man then hooks the birds float with his
stick and draws it towards him, taking
the fish away flom the cormorant as
soon as it comes within reach OF his
arm. =,


When the fish is very large and
weighs seven or eight pounds, for ex-
ample, the cormorants will assist each
other, one catching the fish by tail, an
other by the head, etc. They rarely
catch anything less than quarter OF q
pound. After every capture small bit
of fish is thrown to the bird as reward,
the piece being sufficiently little for the
bird to swallow in spite of its collar.


Chinese fishermen keep their feath-
cred assistants at work as long as day
light lasts. Occasionally the birds be-
come tired and refuse to dive, O pro-
ceeding which occasions a series OF
frightful yells and beating OF the water
with stick by their msSter, which
frightcns them to such an extent that
they resume labor instantly.


This mode of fishing, which is not in
terrupted even by severe cold, is quite
lucrative, as twenty or thirty birds can
readily catch about dollar and a half
worth of fish per day. In general the
fishermen are associated, and the birds
belong to q society which marks them
with peculiar brand of it's own. Oil
of sesame is said to be the panacea for
all ills of the cormorant, which con.
tinues it's career of active work until
about ten years of age.
Year: 1874

There's jolly Saxon proverb


That is pretty much,like this,
That man is half in Heaven


When he has a womans kiss;
But there's danger in delaying


And the sweetness may forsake it;
So tell you, bashful lover,


II you want kiss, why take it.
Never let another fellow


Steel q march on you in this;
Never let laughing maiden


See you spelling for kiss;
There's a royal way to kissing,


And the jolly ones who make it
Have motto that is winning


If you want kiss, why take it.
ANY fool may face cannon


Anybody wear crown,
But a man must win woman,


If he'd have her for his own;
Would you have the golden apple,
You must find the tree and shake it !;
If the thing is worth the having,


Aud you want kiss, why take it.
Who would burn upon desert,


With forest smiling byi
Who would give his sunny summer
For bleak and wintry sky?
Oh! / tell you there is magic.


And you cannet, cannot break it;
For the sweetest part of loving


Is to want kiss, and take it.
Year: 1874

WOMEN IN THE GRANaEs.-One Of the
features of the Oranges is that not Ia
single one can be organized without the
companionship of women. No charter
will be issued to organize Grange,
even il a hundred of the best farmers
want it and ask for it, unless certain
number of women Join.
Year: 1874

THE PREACHER AND THE TUR-
KEY.~-A correspondent sends the
following story to an English paper,
and vouches for its authenticity,


Half a century ago, when the in
come ofa Dissenting preacher was
not very large, his salary was often
supplemented by bountiful supply
of provisions, from the well-to-do
members of the congregation. The
grandfather nf our correspondent
was a Baptist minister in Hertford-
shire, and at Christmas-time he use d
to be positively inundated with ham,
pers filled with good things. On
one occasion an enormous turkey
was sent to him by the thoughtful
kindness of neigboring farmer,
but as the minister's family had al
ready provided for the Christmas
dinner, the bird was sent into the
market and sold. A passer by, see-
ing this fine specimen ofpoultry, said
"What a splendid turkeyl just The
thing for the parsons Chrtlnas-din-
ner," and to the parson it was sent.
The prudent wife sent it a second
time to the market. Another friend
singularly struck with the magnifi-
cent proportions of the turkey, pur-
chased it, and also sent it to the par
son. Not wishing to fly in the face
of Providence, the good parson said
at last, 1T is very clear that the
Lord means us to have this turkey"
and with the entire appreciation of
the family, it formed part of tn e
Christmas dinner.
Year: 1874

There were people enough to en-
Wy Millicent Haughton when she
was married to Radcliffe Gates. She
was only a district school teacher, at
so much a month, without home or
parents. He was a wealthy banker,
who seemed to have nothing on
earth to do but to indulge his whim
and caprices to their uttermost bent,
and the world in general announced
its diction that Milly Haughton chad
done uncommonly well for herself"


But Milly did not look happy up
ON that golden July morning, with
the sunshine steaming through the
oriel window of the great breakfast
room at Gates Place, aud scattering
little drops of gold and crimson and
glowing purple on the messy ground
of the stOne-colored carpet


She was dressed in a loose white
cambria wrapper, lOOped and button
ed with blue, and a single pearl ar
row upheld the shining masses of her
lovely auburn hair. Her eyes were
deep, liquid, hazel; her complexion
as soft and radiant as the dimpled
side Of an early peach; and the little
kid-slipPered foot that patted the
velvet ottoman beneath was as per-
feet and iaPcring as a sculptor could
have wished it.


Mr., Gates, from his SIDE of the da-
mAsk-draPed table, eyed her with
the cOmPlacent gaze of proprietor
ship. She was his wife. lie liked
her to look well just as he wanted
his horses properly groomed and his
oonScNaiories kept in ORDER aud he
Year: 1874

A Sothern journal issues the follow
ing notice: "Many people ask for pa
pers at this office who would scorn
to beg for five cents; yet that is the
price charged for copy. We hope
they will see the point"
Year: 1874

DON'T FRIGHTEN THE CHILDREN.
1t is an old warning, but as treat
ell anew in Seri0ner1s may not be
without effect: Never frighten chill
drem don't shut them up in dark
rooms never let them ever cOmpre-
bend what tightening is. or thunder
or take any notice of either in their
presence. 1t is one of the mOst
painful things in the world to see 4
child run to hide itself from a than
derstorm, and in nearly all eases
where il does so some one has blum
dered. Never attempt to control 5
child by making 1t believe that some
thing terrible will happen to it
Bogie" will catch it, or tho "blaek
man will come for it, or some terri
bic spectre or other will haunt it,
Those children who have been shut
upm dark rooms as a punishment
frequently feel the effects of such
torture until late in life. It is strange
how these terrOrs cling TO the per,
son in after life-beeome, as it were,
sngrafed into them, and so firmly
fixed that reason cannot disl0dge
them. A mother, therefore, that
will use such means to compel ODE,
dienee is weak, cruel and unwisc; a
nurse who employs them is simply
unfit for her position.
Year: 1874

We would respectfully suggest to all
former slave owners to preserve a cor
rect list of their slaves, and have their
names recorded in the Clerks office of
their respective counties This will re-
qure but little trouble and expense, and
a day may come when a nations return
ing sense Of justice might make this a
wise, present precaution. Stran ger
things than the payment, by the general
government for our emancipated slaves,
has happened, and improbable as it may
seem yet it may be. Let the record be
made. 1t may serve as a contribution to
history, if not step towards securing z
our just and correct deserts.


We take the above from the North East
Georgian, published at Athens, Georgia.
The suggestion contained in the above
extract is an indication of what may be
expected from the Democracy, should it
ever again come into power 1t will be
seen that the hope of the Democracy is
that the general government will pay for
the emancipated slaves. Or, in other
words, that all the people in the United
States are to be taxed, including the late
slaves themselves, to pay the robber for
taking from him that to which he had no
right and restoring it to the proper
owner.


If the general government has any
money to invest on account of slavery,
it could not use it more justly than in
eXpending it for the advancement of the
late slaves and not for the benefit OF the
shareholders who, for centuries have rev.
elled-under the protection of the gov
ernment-in the fruits of the unpaid
toll of the negro.


Our people in the South are struggling
hard to overcome the disadvantages un-
der which they labor. because OF their
former condition as slaves. Those who
are fortunate enough to be able to save
little money above their daily wants, are
endeavoring to educate their children so
that the main dsadvantage-ign
may be overcome. To do this, the fl
nancial resources of the negro, in most
cases, are taxed to their utmost limit,
and this is an endeavor to qualify them
selves for enterprising and useful citizen
ship.


Our people throughout the South will
do we'll 10 reflect seriously on such sug
gestions as the above from the Georgian,
as they surely indicate the ideas and
policy Of the Democratic party, as does
the vane the direction of the winds
Neso National Era.
Year: 1874

The fact that Mosby, the chief of the
guerillas and still an enemy of the gov
eminent is permitted free access to the
floor of the House and Senate while
equally prominent, brave and able Union
officers are invariably denied that privi-
lege, has excited considerable indignant
comment. And no wonder. Such dis
elimination in favor of rebels against
all union officers, is gross insult to the
latter. But it seems to be in character
with the course of Congress, our courts,
and rulers have adopted toward rebels
in TOO many cases. 1t is beginning to
be understood that rebel applicants for
offices and rebel claimants for damages
stand quite as good a chance always for
consideration as loyal men, and some
times a much better one. Our rulers
seem to consider that it is necessary to
conciliate our opponents by favoring
them in all possible ways in order thus
to siren gthen the administration. They
seem to think Republicans will stand by
them any how, no matter how much
they may be sighted. But they are
making grand mistake. The party
that stands by its friends through thick
and thin will be sure to maintain its as
tendency. The party that forgets in
desire to win enemies is sure to go into
hopeless minority. They lose ten
friends for every one made in that way.
-NeU National Era
Year: 1874

Landlord said transient guest at a
crossroads tavern, as he drew near the
end of his dinner, Wont you give me a
little more pork to eat with this potato 2"


A little later he said There was
more pork than he wanted; let me
trouble you for a little more potato to
eat with the pork.


A short time after: WELL 1 declare,
I've got some more potato left. and it
seems pity to leave it-just small
piece of pork, if you please.


1t ran on so for some time. At length
the landlord stopped short in front of
his guest, and remarked:


Look here, stranger 'taint no use
I'm willing to do anything in reason to
make that pork and potato come out
even, but I've made up my mind. the
way you eat, it can't be did. You re
bound to lap over on one or the other
every time. Now, just make up your
mind which you d rather leave, and leave
it and quit. I've got enough pork and
potatoes, but if you keep on you'll
burst"
Year: 1874

In looking over each week the immense
number of our weekly exchanges from
every part of the United States, we al
ways feel pride in the weeklies in our
state, While many well-edited, hand
some newspapers are received from other
States, some few perhaps larger and more
pretentious than any of ours, yet upon
the whole in point of ability, variety,
enterprise mechanical appearance, and
everything that goes to make the first
class country weekly, Ohio is in our
opinion far ahead of any other State.
This speaks well for the general distribu-
ton of intelligence and education over
the State and shows that newspaper
ability and influence is not oontied in
Ohio to the journals of its large cities
simply, as in many other States, and that
the rural press has a voice of its own,
aside from the influence of the metropo-
Titan press Cincinnati Times.
Year: 1874

On Monday evening, while the ladies
of the Portsmouth League were holding
religious services on Market street, oppo-
site the Fountain Saloon, the crowd in
the building commenced to sing and
howl, while others held up beer and
drank to the health of the ladies. While
at prayer crowd rushed out and cried
fight, fight" Similar demonstrations
were made on the opposite side OF the
street. Mrs. PEBBLES, the leader of the
band was threatened with violence, for
talking to boy One of the band says
if she had not known she was in Ports
mouth she would have thought it was
hell let Portsmouth Tribune.
Year: 1874

REaARKABLE ATTRACTIoN-A Massa-
chusetts farmer says: My cattle will
follow me until leave the lot, and on
the way to the barn yard in the evening
stop and call for a look Of hay"


Smithson says there is nothing re-
markable in that. We went into q barn
yard in the country.one day last week.
where he had not the acquaintance OF
the cattle, and the old bull not only fol
lowed him until he lett the lot, but took
the gate off the hinges and raced with
him to the house in the most familiar
manner possible. Smithson says he has
no doubt that the old fellow would have
call ed for something if he had waited II
little while, but he didn't want to keep
the folks waiting dinner SO he hung one
tail OF his coat and piece of his pants
on the bulls horns, and went into the
house.
Year: 1874

The REASON WHY.-A handsome young
Yankee peddler made love TO buxom
widow of Pennsylvania He accompan-
led his declaration of love with an aliu-
sion to two impediments to their union.


Name them, said the widow.


THE want of means to set up retail
shop" replied the young peddler-


They parted, and the widow sent her
young lover check for ample means.
When they met again the peddler had
hired and stocked a shop, and the smil-
ing widow begged to know the other i'm
pediment.


al have got another wife" blandly said
the young man.
Year: 1874

The question oi authorizing the use oi
the city's credit for the purpose Of obtain.
ing funds ior carrying out the provisions
Of the ordinance in relation to certain
street pavements Is before tho people OF
the city o'day, The matter has attracted
but little attention thus iar, and 1t remains
to be seen whether the vote Of to-day will
indicate any lively interest in the subject.
The question Is Of real importance to the
citizens Of Wheeling, not so much on sc-
count Of the amount involved, or the
work proposed to be done, but from the
TACT that 1t involves tho last dollar Of the
clty's credit II the people who pay taxes
do not desire this exhaustion Of the city's
borrowing resources they should say SO.
1fthey feel that tho proposed improve
ment is . good Commensurate with and
worthy Of such an exhaustion Of credit
they should speak decisively on the
question. 1t will be q delicate matter
for the gentlemen Of the City
Council 10 decide whether or not
the improvements shall be attempted IN.
less there shall be to- day hearty cxpres.
sion Of public sentiment for It. We are
informed that the subscription Of the city
to the Marietta 6 Cincinnati Railroad was
made on very light vote. The city is
not yet done with the bonds Of that road,
and she has never been benefited by their
issue to the amount Of one cent. In fact
the whole history OF the bonded indebted.
ness Of this city Is rcplete with inadequate
results. She was young in such enter
prises once, but 1t is not SO now. She has
grappled with hard, grinding, usurious
fate since then, and has grown in wealth
and importance under much adversely.
With such experience In the past we
think the result Of today's balloting
should not be manifestation Of indlfEer-
ence. Let there be decisive yes or no.
Let the Council feel that whatever Is de-
cided upon is a reliable expression Of the
will ot the people.


The object to be attained is one which
the people have long felt the necessity for
and recognized as in every way desirable,
and the burden of responsibility for the
attempts to make this valuable improve
ment should not be thrown upon the
shoulders Of a few people. Let all who
are interested in this proposed valuable
improvement, both as business men and
tax payers give full expression to their
sentiments at the polls, We have no
doubt but that all want our leading
thorougtares put in good permanent
condition yet II they stand back and
tacitly withhold their assent by refusing
to vote on the subject and thus there
should be but a meagre vote, we opine
that the Council will feel very much like
letting the Improvement go by default IN.
til the people feel enough interest in the
matter 10 give an encouraging affirmative
opinion.


We have no desire to dictate either 10
the voters or to tho Council what they
should do, but the question oi bonds is be.
fore US and the voice Of the people is what
Is wanted, not the voice ot few.
Year: 1874

The congregation Of the Church OF
Atonement Is considering proposition
Of withdrawal from tho Convention OF the
Protestant Episcopal Church., that they
may unite with their late rector, Rev.
Alr. Sabine, OF the Reformed Episcopal
Church, and ask him to resume his pas
Year: 1874

The effects of fresh air upon the human
system are well known to be renewed
strength, increased vital force, and hight
ened complexion; but.the fetid atmosphere
of close rooms produces pallor. weakness.
and diminution of the mental capacity.
1t is remarkable that the same body air.
should have such diametricallv opposite
effects under but slightly altered condi-
tions.


After the discovery. in the last century,
of the composition of atmospheric air
which is about one fifth oxygen and four
fifths nitrogen-it was ignorantly believed
to be the absorption of oxygen by breath
ing, and consequent relative increase Of
nitrogen, that made the air of crowded
rooms noxious; but analysis abolished this
idea, and proved that the relative proper
tions of the two gasses are always the
same. The oxidation of the carbon sup
piled by our food causes the gas eXhaled
from the human frame to be largely COM
posed of carbonic acid; but the chief i'm
purities of the air, which cause decay and
putrefaction of organic matter, are the liv-
ing vibrios. which multiply so rapidly
that, were it not for the eternal compensa-
ton of natural forces, they would soon
suffocate all other life of the earth. Their
fell enemy is ozone, which is oxygen in a
negatively electric state. and exists in our
atmosphere in II proportion varying from
one-ten-thousandth to one one-hundred-
thousandth. Ozone is generated by light
ming flashes, which have been truly said.
from time immemorial. to clear the air.
The evaporation of saline solutions also
disengages ozone. which is always found
in increased proportion on and near the
sea. Being more dense, and one and i
half times more heavy than oxygen, i;
descends to the earth. from which the vib-
rios ascend. 1t has also strong phosphO
ric smell, and has the important property
of combining with all bodies, except gold
platinum, and water This property is it:
great weapon in the destruction Of the vib
ricus.


The open air is the space in which ozone
continually rules, while the vibrios hav,
the supremacy in close and fetid place


where ozone is very seldom or never re
cognized. Every breath we take in sucI


places begins to poison and to weaken on


system, while every breath in the open ri


neutralizes poisonous agents and renew


strength. Scientific 4nlerican.