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Year: 1878

The following conversation took
place recently between young lady in
society and the representative ofa lead
ing society paper. 1t was at charity
ball; the girl was pretty and exqulsitely
dressed. She went up TO the young
gentleman and SAID: Now, Mr.,
don't you put my name in the paper,
nor tell what had on. | have worn
this dress once before and ii is horribly
old. l was going to have a French
dress from Worth's, but it didn't get
here, so / had to wear this; now mind,
don't put my name in tho paper, but it
you do, send me SIX
Year: 1878

New YORK, March IA special to
the Erening Post from Princeton, n. j.,
says: 1t has always, of late yesrs, been
the custom for the Junior class TO cele-
brate their passing of the final exsmina-
ton in logic with bontires and fireworks.
The examination took place yesterday,
but the class postponed the celebration
for fear of creating disturbance. Last
night five OF the Juniors exploded fire.
crackers on the grounds and building OF
the Theological Seminary. They were
followed by two of the seminary
students, and being overtsken one OF
them was seized. Before he could be
identified the seminary student
was assaulted, and his comrade coming
to the rescue. was knocked down several
times. This was between nine and ten
o'clock. The students OF the college
went to the lower par: of the town, and
procuring reiniorcements to the number
of eighteen, pushed on toward the semi
nary building. Here they were met by
four seminary students, to one OF whom
they gave severe beating, ending
by breaking his nose. Warrants
were immediately sworn out for
the arrest OF six OF the
asssilants, and they were served at
eleven o'clock last night, when bail was
given for their appearance this morning
to answer to three charges, two OF assault
and one of setting fire to the old Semi
nary. One of the offenders has already
been dismissed, but it is probable that
four will be bound over to await the deci.
sion of the grand Jury IN May.
Year: 1878

The number OF acres OF wheat sown
this year is equal 20 the number sown
last year. The wheat in this county Is
looking very fine, and if not Injured be-
tween this and harvest there will be
heavy yield. All other fail grain is look
Year: 1878

A Whale Towing Four Fishermen's Boat


with Astonishing Rapidiiy.


LONG BRANCH, Dec. LIN the
past three months whales have
often been seen spouting off our
coast, and the scarcity of small fish
has been attributed to their pres
ence. On Friday last three large
ones were seen three or four miles
out. On Saturday morning Capt.
Wise of the American Hotel, Sam
Maclain, Daniel Wright and Mar
tin Dangler-the three latter old
shermen--started out fishing in a
boat about twenty feet long. They
had arrived on the fishing grounds
about three miles from the shore,
bad all their lines out, and were
having splendid luck hauling in
Goldfish. Then Wright saw the fin
of a monstrous fish, and immed-
lately the boat began to swing
around. Wright shouted to the
men in another boat, about 10C
yards distant: "Look out, there is
a whale hold of u.s." but before the
men could move from their seats
they were being towed out to sea at
the rate of twenty-five miles an
hour. The monster had become en-
tangled in the long anchor rope ol
the boat. The pull on the boal
was so strong the men thought the
boat must go over every second
The men say they were very much
frightened, and the sensation was
the queerest they had ever known
All they could do was to hold OIL
and let her 60 for few minutes
Then they crept forward and Gu
the rope. They were mile further
out to sea. The fish kept right on
and they could see the wake hi
made for some distance, as hi
kept very near the surface. Th'
rope was a stout half-inch manili
one, and attached to it was an an
chor of about twenty pounds weight
The fishermen here think thu
monster was after the Goldfish, ant
that he came up to the anchor lin
with his mouth open and got th'
rope in his mouth. AS soon as h.
felt it he closed his mouth ant
swan off, towing the boat after hin
so fast that the Goldfish lines tha
were hanging over the boat pulle,
straight out on the surface, and tn
heavy sinkers, weighing poun,
or more apiece, were on the top o
the water.
Year: 1878

the use to which they Immediately
put their prize sufficiently shows
that feelings quite the reverse of
joyous filled their hearts, and was
more than sufficient to discourage
Mr.. Burke from taking the trouble
ever again to hide himself away
beneath bed to the end that love-
ly woman's quest for a man be-
meath that slumbrous structure
might be gratified.-DenUer News.
Year: 1878

William Faust. printer ana photographer, COM
mitted suicide early Yesterday morning in his office.
on the third floor Of No 80 Fulton 1t appears
that At about eight his assistant entered the
office and, surprised not seeing his employer
there. was about to proceed 70 work. On going be-
hind his he his horror the liteless body
Of Mr. Faust stretched the floor The officer on
post was called IN. and Investigation showed that
MI. Faust had fastened strap about an inch wide
around his neck and then, after attaching It 70 an
iron hand press. had thrown himself down and deo-
erately strangled himself This is the only natural in


ference. as the press not more than four feet
high, and when the body found face downward
only the head and shoulders were raised above the
floor. Near the body small empty bottle which
had evidently contained whiskey. II was reported
that for long time Mr.. Faust had been hard
drnker and had lately been indrlging even more
freely than ever His business fell away and he be-
moody detected and violent by turns. until AT
last he seized with fatal fit of despair. Coroner
Croker was notified and an inquest was held immed


afely but no other material facts elected


The remains were By order OF the Coroner. removed
to undertaker's shop in Madison street to await
being claimed by his friends Mr.. Faust has son
and daughter who reside at No 4S3 Dckalb avenue


Brooklyn, with whom it is understood he was living
Year: 1878

There was hardly standing room in the Seventh
Street Methodist Church yesterday during the after
noon exercises Brother Murphy. in his opening
marks. thanked God that. during his three weeks
crusade against rum, 1000 signatures had
been received TO the pledgs, and there
was plenty OF work yet 10 be done the field o.
vice and degradation. Pointing TO numerous needy
men scattered through the church Mr.. Murphy
said;-i do hope that you al who believe in God viii
help those who are hungry and needy so that they
may get food and clothing There hundreds here
who wish to reform. Watch and pray tor them so
that they may get employment. Give them
all brotherly hand" The Wilson's here
sang, Come. Thou Tount OF Every B.ess-
ing" at the conclusion Of which a remark
able Scene occurred young well dressed. gentle
manly looking fellow stepped up to Mr.. Murphy
shook hands with him and said God bless you
Brother Murphy. am all right now. Do you
ber me = Mr.. Murphy deiighteily said. Brother
do remember" And did all who had been at
tending the revival meetings during the past week
The same young gentleman who had ali the appear
ance OF being dry goods clerk. only week ago
staggered into one of the evening meetings. and
at that time so fearfulfy drunk tha,


in the church he rolled from the pew TO the floor
Murphy then noticed him and took him ia hand. and
yesterdays affecting scene made remarkable i'm
lression upon the vast audience He could say
more than the words given above. and before even
his name could be ascertainel he rushed out of the
church saying II must attend to business; | only
came here to thank this good man


After this scene the Wilson's sang, "Oh Now See
the Prince Indeed and young Offer ed a fer
Vent prayer for drunkaris. A Jerseyman related how
he became converted. and, excusing himself from
further remarks. finished by excaiming i'll loud
voice. "Hallelnjah' Before the collection taken
up Mr.. murphy made an appeal for liberal dona.
tions. Those people pay our board and subsist
largely Oh what eat added Mr.. Murphy smiling.
a great man on potatoes" Iaughterl The audience
then dismissed with the benedction by Rev.
DR.. Glider, and quite large number purchased
tickets for this evening grand temperance meeting
at the Cooper In stitute.
Year: 1878

CHLORoFORM IN DENTISTRY.-The
use of chloroform in dentistry is said
by the Medical Record to be always
dangerous. mo surgeon," says the
writer, "cares to assume the response
bility of giving chloroform unless be
knows that the stomach of the patient
is empty, that the circulatory appara-
tus is In good condition, and the lungs
free from disease. A previous inqui-
ry into these conditions is as much a
part of the administration of any an
aesthetic as the placing of the napkin
to the nose"
Year: 1878

A writer in the New York Tribune
argues that there is no foundation for
the theory that one breed of domestic
fowl is more tender and juicy than an
other; any fowl badly fed or cared for
is, necessarily, poor, "stingy," and
unpalatable, but other things equal,
no difference can be discovered in the
taste of the flesh of the various breeds.
Year: 1878

There Is no ridiculous nonsense
about the honest Dead woodians. The
most vigorous WALTER at a dance
there last week excused himself at
half-past IL, because he had stage
coach to rob at II. What a rebuke
this is to our giddy, procrastinating,
self-indulgent votaries of pleasure
That man is bound to rise-even il
the whole community have to pull on
tho roDe
Year: 1878

Every once In a while we hear OF
California woman killing bear. This
is all right. But we challenge the
world to ransack the pages of history
and show where a woman has ever
got away with mouse.
Year: 1878

Immoral men are to be debarred
from practioing law in some of the
courts of Ohio. What the standard is
to be, or where the line is to be drawn,
we are not advised, and we venture
the suggestion that whoever under
takes to fix the precise line of demar'
cation between the moral and the i'm
moral will find that he has trouble.
some contract.
Year: 1878

Where is the fraud yell Gone to meet Tilden
and Reform.


Everybody will understand soon why the
coparceneTs are so silent.


Isn't there in Boston journalism some Arctic ex-
plorer who dares to interview" Charles Francis
Adams


Advice to the coparceners: Sail instanter for a
country which has no extradition treaty with the
United States.


1t is a pretty general impression that if Tilden
never saw any Of those Florida ciphers until last
Tuesday, six days gives him ample time say in
"a card.


The able editors who are so backward in hearing
of THE TRIBUNE cipher revelations will be sorry for
it presently. The later they begin the harder work
will il be to catch up.


Democratic orators will have hard time Of it
Year: 1878

By this time the whole country has seized the
vital fact which the cipher telegrams reveal.
Rotten as the Tweed Ring was, the Tiden-
Marble Ring, which has been pOsturing before
the country in the name OF Reform" is still
more rotten. There was trace of manliness
in the audaciOus and high-handed robberies of
Tweed. But the crimes of the 0regOn-F Florida
cOnspiratOrs were too mean, too oOwardly
ard too hypocritical TO escape the scorn
even of those who admire bold and we'll
planned knavery. The 1Iden Ring de-
stroyed the Tweed Ring, we now see,
not because it wanted purer and better
Government, but because it wanted a better
chance to buy Democratic conventions and
nominations. Tweed, with millions at COM
mand was in the way. In the light of later
developments no other and better motive can
be ascrlbed to the men who bought Presi-
Dental nomination in st. Louis, who bought
a majority vote in more than one State. and
who tried to buy electoral votes after the
people had rejected their pretCnsiOns. Fraud
without IA mask was Tweedism. Fraud masked
as Reform was Tildenism and was the baser
Of the two and the more dangerous 10 free
institutions and the public morals.


The attempt will now be made by Demo-
Gratis to escape any part in the disgrace of
Year: 1878

This week the most of our city candidates
are to DO chosen. Conventions are looking
about for fit men TO put into office, aud every
political organization is going through a pro-
cess of self-examination. Perhaps this is as
good an opportunity as we shall have soon to
Year: 1878

Admiral Hornby took the fleet up TO
the mouth Of the Dardanelles, where at
the telegraph station he received the
command. He did not therefore pro.
coed to the forts. but returned to tBesika
Year: 1878

Within the pat few days it has been printed
in the New York Tribune. and telegraphed
breadeast. that At certain New York firms had q
forced resumption and favored the silver bill,
and would refuse to make loans to this class ex-
the fat that this alarming notice is made sim
nltaneous with Sherman's presence in New
York; it looks good deal as ii Jay Gould him
self had hit upon this plan as a very clever
means of illuminating Western merchants
against their convictions.
Year: 1878

Messrs. Walker and Laconme having for some
time past been jointly engaged in arranging for
billiard tournament have now made that suc-
cess by securing as competitors some of the best
Year: 1878

Discarded lover.-"I loved, and still
love the beautiful Edwitha Howard.
and intended to marry her. Yet, dur
ing my temporary absence at Benicia,
last week, alas she married Jones. Is
my happiness to be thus blasted for
life: Have / no redress"


OF course you have. All the law,
written and unwritten, is on your side.
The intention and not the deed. If
you call your bosom friend a fool, and
intend it for an insult. it is an insult ;
but if you do it playfully. and meaning
no insult, it ia not an insult.


If you discharge pistol accidentally
and kill man, you can go free, for you
have done no murder but If You try to
kill . man. and manifestly intend to
kill him, but fail utterly to do it, the
law still holds that the intention con-
stituted the crime and you are guilty
of murder. Ergo, if you had married
Edwitha accidentally, YOU would not
actually be married to her at all, be-
cause the act of marriage would not be
complete without the intention. And
ergo, in the strict spirit of the law,
since you deliberately intended to mar
ry Edwitha, and didn't do it, you are
married to her all the same-because.
as / said before. the intention consti-
tutes the crime. 1t is as clear as day
that Edwitha is your wife. and your
redress lies in taking club and mutil-
lating Jones as much as you can. Any
man has right to protect his own wife
from the advances of other men. But
yon have another alternative. You
were married to Edwitha first, because
Of your deliberate intention. and now
you can prosecute her for bigamy in
subsequently, marrying Jones. But
there is another phase to this compli-
Gated case. You intended to marry Ed
wItbs. and consequently according to
law she is your wife; there is no get
ting around that but she didn't marry
you, and you are not her husband of
course. Ergo. in marrying Jones. she
was guilty of bigamy because she was
the wife of another man at the time !;
which is all very we'll as far as it goes
but then don't you see she had no
Otuct uusDhuu WITCH sue uiuiticu oohcS,
consequently she was not guilty Of BIZ
gamy. Now, according to this view of
the case, Jones married u spinster, who
was widow at the same time, and yet
had no husband and never had any in
tention or getting married, and by the
same reasoning. you are bachelor, be-
cause you have never been any ones
husband; and q married man, because
you have been deprived of that wife +;
and consummate ass for going off to
Benicis in the first place while things
were so mixed And by this time I
have got myself SO tangled up in the
intricacies of this extraordinary case
that l shall have to give up any further
attempt to advise you-I might get
confused and fail to make myself under
stood. think l could take up the ar
gument where left off and by follow
ing it closely awhile, perhaps l cuu.d
prove, to your satisfaction, either that
you never existed at ali or that you are
dead now. and consequently don't need
the faithless Edwitha-I could do that,
if it would afford you any comfort.
Year: 1878

Inc companies marked tnuS III nave no SHAFT OF
their own, but by arrangement work through the
shafts of adjoining mines.


The first experience in this quartz mining induced
the belief that the Comstock lode dipped to the west
The first shaft sinking consequently only short
distance east Of the groupings, but when they had
sunk about three hundred feet they discovered


that they had passed through the vein and reached the
hard country rock ''west wall As it became
demonstrated that the lode dipped nearly fortyfve
degrees TO the east from that point it became
sary incline the shafts from the vertical in order
follow the lode As these nclines increased in depth
the difficulty of working through them became SO
much greater than that of working through vertical
shafts that the various companies found it advisable
to sink shafts several hundred feet further eastward
These shafts have in turn also reached the west wall at
depths ranging from 900 to 500 feet from the
face and further exploration has been continued by
an incline sunk from the bottom Of each shaft until
the levels given in the foregoing table have been at
tanned


SECTION OF THE LODE.


The subioined draught of a section OF the
Comstock lode will enable the reader to fully under
stand all this and what has yet to be told Of VEINS
shafts. inclines, levels and bonsnzas
Year: 1878

The Poultry World says: Gas soon as we
discover any symptoms of gapes among our
chickens, we know that there are worms
very small red worms-in their windpipes,
and we give them camphor, in their drink
ing vessels, strong enough to make quite
taste of the camphor. Then, if any get the
disease quite badly before we discover it,
we force pill of gum camphor down the
throat about the size of a small pea, and
the fumes of the dose will kill the worms.
No kind of worms can live in camphor,
hence, camphor must be powerful verm-
fuge.
Year: 1878

He appreciated the good qualities of the
man as well as the genius of the artist, and
sought to save him from the vortex into
which he had fallen.


There is something strangely fascinating
about this artist-his noble countenance,
which even dissipation could not deeply
mar; the courtly elegance of his person and
manners; his cavalierly bearing; the osten-
tation of his dress and equipage; the mag
nlficence of everything about him, like the
magnificence of his Venetian paintings; nor
was it altogether external grandeur. There
were many noble traits in his character; he
possessed great generosity of nature, and
there were latent qualities of goodness and
worth within him which awaited but the
magic influence of some good genius to
awaken into life.


There was one destined to perform all
this for Vandyck, and this was Maria Ruth
ven, daughter of Lord Gowrie. She won
him away from life of pleasure, away from
his unworthy associates, back to his better
self and better life. Possessed of personal
beauty to equal an artist ideal. and satisfy
and artists eye, her qualities of heart and
mind were equally rare. This amiable and
beautiful woman completely won the ar
lists heart, and exerted power for good
over the remainder of his life. 1t is said
the king caused a miniature portrait of her
to be shown Vandyck. Vandyck was
portrait painter, and no one could admire
beauty more-the beauty of the human
face. His attention was riveted by the
beauty of the portrait, and, after gazing
upon it several moments, lost in admiration,
he desired to know who the original was
saying he was sure the beauty of the origi-
nal exceeded that of the portrait. He soon
after met Maria Ruthven, and found that
he had rightly guessed. Eventually Maria
Ruthven, the queens favorite maid, became
the wife of the kings favorite painter
Henceforth, even to the end of life, other
associates and pleasures were all forgotten
for his lovely young wife, and in the hour of
death her loving arms supported him.


With what capabilities for good or evil is
human nature endowed! with what capabil-
tiles for greatness or meanness Oh, won
derful, terrible responsibility which God
has placed upon us of choosing for ourselves
what it shall be! And while on the voyage
of life, if we should prove too weak to al
together avoid the shoals and breakers of
human weakness, and to altogether with
stand the storms of passion, happy are we
if we may meet some other voyager, who
shall, with sweet persuasions and gentle en-
couragements, assist us to reach the great
haven, where shall exist realization of
that beauty of which earthly artists have
but family conceived, and earthly poets
Year: 1878

The silent pressure of the hand is often
of more vital good than whole volume of
good counsel; and one tear, one kiss, one
bright, encouraging smile, can help the
broken heart, the sinking spirit, where words
of advice would fall unheeded, or be an ag-
gravation to present pain. The e sence of
good counsel is understanding; and only
those are useful advisers who realize condi-
tions and measure the limits of necessity,
while also realizing suffering and measuring
the extent of it's pain.
Year: 1878

There is but one way to break up broody
hens, uccessfully-especially that persistent
class, the Asiatics, as they make up their
minds that it is time for them to try the
Matching process, for change, when the
end of their second litter of eggs come
about.


Novices in fowl raising resort to all sorts
Of methods to effect this, and most of the
plans adopted by amateurs are either futile,
cruel, or meaningless. Ducking hens in
cold water, tying them by the legs to
stake in the open air or sun, shutting them
in darkened, almost air-tight barrel,
twitching them rudely off their nests throw
ing them to the ground dozen times in a
day-all this nonsense is of no avail what
ever.


The better way, as a general rule, is to
permit The broody hen to sit few days,
say for week or two, on glass or wooden
eggs and then remove her from the nest
altogether. Keep her away from her form
er laying place few days, and she will
give it up. She needs little rest. Let
her have it. She will shortly 60 to laying
again, and forget the broody fever.


But if we determine not to allow her to
set at all, then it is necessary that she be
watched carefully; and the very first night
she is found lingering upon the old laying
nest, take her away from it entirely, before
the setting fever has time fairly to take
hold of her.


Place her in small coop by herself, upon
the ground, and keep her confined for three
Or four days. If you have two or three
birds thus disposed, put them all together
in the closed coop, and introduce vigorous
young cock to the little company. In less
than week, if they are fed lightly, they
will get over the setting inclination, and
give no further trouble.
Year: 1878

From Chelsea, VT, comes a report Of a
curious partnership, between turkey and
a partridge. A turkey made her nest about
forty rods from the barn, and soon after a
nice partridge selected the same spot for a
nest, and they occupied it in company, each
laying an egg every day till the partridge
had laid thirteen eggs and began to Sit
She is still sitting, and the turkey lays her
egg daily in the same nest.
Year: 1878

81 have brought you this bill until am
sick and tired of it," said collector to a
debtor upon whom he had called at least
thirty times. "You are, eh?" coolly replied
the debtor. eyes l am, was the response.
"Well, then you had better not present it
again. There will be two of us pleased if
you do not, for to tell the truth, am sick
and tired ofseeing that identical bill myself. R"
Year: 1878

AS general rule, audiences are patient
and confding. But when man with a
meerchaum nose, and wearing his coat but
toned up the collar, comes out to speak as
an apostle of Temperance, you can't blame
the boys up in the gallery if they sing out,
"Take in your sign."
Year: 1878

A grocer being solicited to contribute to
the building of church, promptly sub
scribed his name to the paper in the follow
in manner: 'John Jones (the only place
in town where you can get eleven pounds
of sugar for dollar)."