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Year: 1877

Hon. r. @. MILLS had the courage
to take bold ground upon the floor of
Congress against what he at once
recognized as an infamy-the creation
of partisan board to decide who
should be president. In his memora-
BILE speech upon the consideration of
the bill creating the commission, he
spoke as follows: ..-


For myself, will stand by the Con-
stitutlon and sovereignty of the peo-
pie, and leave them to determine
whether or not they will abandon their
government to bold, insolent and
palpable fraud. Concessions to fraud
never added to the right, and only de-
fers the evil we would avoid, and,
while deferring, increases its strength.
If we are right. then let US stand by
the right, for the sake of the right.
If the Constitution is assailed by q
powerful combination for its over
throw, we can best do our duty by
rising to the highest courage in its de-
tense. In the language of great
AneIiCaA staIesAan1 leI US CInB W
the Constitution as the mariner clings
to the last plank In the shipwreck
when night and tempests gather around
him." Let US initiate the high courage
of that other great American name,
and adopting his motto, "Ask nothing
but what is right, and submit to moth
ing that is wrong" These, sir, are the
lights that fall along my pathway, and
these are the lamps by which my feet
are guided, and will follow them with
the faith and devotion that the philos-
ophers followed the star that lead them
to the author of truth.
Year: 1877

ST. LOUIS doctors have been expert
mentlng with blue window panes and
determining their effect upon health
and nerves. The learned gentlemen
state that positive and marked i'm
provement in the health and strength
of persons suffering from various dis
eases and complaints have been effect
ed. The cases reported are those of
neuralgia, nervous debility, marasmus,


bronchitis, liver complaint, erysipelas
rheumatism. Although it Is true that
the cerulean theory is not practically
applicable to all ailments, the cases al
ready known to have been successfully
reached by it are sufficient to give it
such standing in the court of medi-
cal science as to entitle it to an early
and attentive hearing. The first favor
able effects of the blue light were OBJ
served in its action upon vegetation,


but later experiments have made it
even more marvellously applicable to
animal life. A st. Louis physician,
engaged in experimenting with it, al
though at present disinclined to COM
municate results, is free to admit that
Gen. Pleasanton has done q most be-
nevolent deed in giving his discovery
to the world, for he could not expect
to profit by it except from the sale of
his book. To show that he works for
the public good chiefly, he extends the
request to all those who make use of
his discovery that they shall commu-
nicate to him the results Of their exper-
imenting, so that he may come into
possession of an accumulation of
facts in regard to the blue ray
theory which will tend to set
tie whether human maladies can be al
leviated and cured, what are the con-
ditions most favorable for the applica-
ton of the blue, light. The testimony
that comes from st. Louis is certainly
encouraging. The experiments of Gen.
Pleasanton with the grapevine in his
conservatory are exceedingly interest
ing. And so is what he tells Us in his
book about the remarkable stmosphe-
ric effect produced by even q few blue
panes of glass in room in mid-winter.
Now he asks, and We wait for, such


facts as general experimenting will
yield either for the corroboratlon of his
theory or for its overthrow. The
bass on which he rests it is his obser-


vation, or, We should say, his refec-
ton, that "the blue color of the sky,
so permanent and all-pervsding, and
yet SO varying in the intensity of color,
according to season and latitude, must
have some abiding relation and inti-
mate connection with the living organ
isms on this planet" Striking as the
idea may be, it may yet be of more ap-
parent than real value for founding g
IneSiy uPon. a sSieHanS Sen1ienAn
in st. Louis, who is experimenting
with the blue ray, repudiates the asser-
ton that Gen. Pleasanton originated
the idea of its very peculiar properties.
He says that the blue ray is the SYM
pathetic color with electricity, and that
IN passing through the blue glass it
assumes its chemical properties while
the heating portion of the sunbeam is
arrested by the glass-a fact that seems
to have been clearly established. The
same gentleman adds that I'VE are
pigmies in the use Of electricity there
is no telling what win De accomplished
in time with this wonderful power"
Year: 1877

OUR facts and figures may be as
founding, but they are denied only by
the ignorant or the designing. To the
former we say examine for yourselves,
and you will say with the Queen of
Sheba "the half had not been told
me-" to the other class we say, your
dollar is dearer to you than your own
or the community's good, and so we
have with you no controversy. We
cannot join with you in your efforts to
further impoverish this whisky-Iidden
country,
Year: 1877

WHAT is mostly the matter with the
Democrats in Congress is that they
need leader, some bold and fearless
man who could become 3 match for
Morton. Lacking this, defeat attends
the Democratic cause.
Year: 1877

BLUE JEANS WILLIAMS promises to
make one of the best of governors.
The Indiana Republicans begin 10 dis
cover that instead of being the boor
they painted him, he is q very clever
fellow, as shrewd as he is simple, WHO
bids fair to make one of the best and
most popular governors Indians has
seen in 9 quarter of q century.
Year: 1877

Forgive and forget-it is better
To ding every feeling aside,
Than allow the deep cankering fetter
OF revenge In thy breast to abide;
For thy step through life's path shall be
. When the load from thy bosom is cast,
And the sky that's above thee be brighter,
; When the cloud of displeasure is pass'd.
Though thy spirit beat high with emotion


To give back an injustice again,


Let 1t sink In oblivion's ocean,


For remembrance increases the pain,
And why should we linger In sorrow,


When Its shadow is passing away?
Or seek to encounter tomorrow
The blast that o'erswept us to-day:
Oh, niemory's varying river,
And though 1t may placidly glide,
When the sunbeams OF JOY DER 1t quiver,
1t foams when the storm meets its tide.
Then stir not its current to madness,
For its worth thou wilt ever regret


Though the morning beams break on tn,
sadness,


Ere the sunset forgive and forget.
Year: 1877

Harrisburg Pdtriot says that all the
cases of the doubtful electors should be
carefully and thoroughly investigated, and
if it appears that the inquiry canno5 be
concluded before the fourth of March the
house should In due time pass bill pro-
viding for temporary President and
fixing an early date for new election.
Year: 1877

Not only is the cone very steep, but it is covered with ashes, so that one has no firm hold for his feet, but sinks deep at every step. Thus he makes slow progress, and is soon out of breath. He can only keep on by going very slowly had to stop every few minutes and throw myself down in the ashes to rest. But with these little delays, kept stead

 ly mounting higher and higher. As we neared the top, the presence of the volcano became manifest, not merely from cloud, which always hangs above it, but by smoke issuing from many places at the side. It seemed as if the mountain were a vast, smouldering heap, out of which the internal heat forced it's way through every aper- ture. Here and there a long line of smoke seemed to indicate subterra- mean Assure or vein, through which the pent-up fires forced their way. As we crossed these lines of smoke the sul- phurous fumes were stifiing, especially when the wind blew them in our faces, But at last all difficulties were con- quered, and we stood on the very top, and looked over the awful verge into the crater. Those who have never seen volcano are apt to picture it as a tall peak, a slender cone like a sugar-loaf. with round aperture at the top, like the chimney of blast-furnace, out of which issues fire and smoke. Some thing of this indeed there is, but the actual scene is vastly greater and grander. For, instead of a small round opening, like the throat of chimney, large enough for one flaming column, the crater is, should think, nearly a mile across, and half mile deep; and one looks down into yawning gulf, a vast chasm in the mountain, whose rocky sides are yellow with sulphur, and out of which the smoke issues from different places. At times it is impos- sible to see anything, as dense volumes of smoke roll upward, when the wind drives towards us, so that we ourselves are lost in the cloud. Then they drift away, and for an instant we see far down into the bowels of the earth. The point where we stood projected over the crater. The great eruption three years since had tore away half the cone of the mountain, and now there hung obove it a ledge, which seemed ready at any moment to break and fall into the gulf below. AS I stood on that "perilous edge," on the crumbling verge of volcano, seemed to be in the position of a human being exposed to danger vast and unseen, to powers which blind and smother and destroy. As if nature would fix this lesson, by an image never to be forgotten, the sun that was declining in the west, sud- denly burst out of the cloud, and cast ing my own shadow on the column of smoke that was rising from below. That shadowy form, standing in the air, now vanishing then reappearing, with every flash of sunlight, seemed no inapt image of human life, a thing of shadow floating in cloud and hover ing over an abyss !-Dr. Field.
Year: 1877

Many years ago heard Rev. Hosea Ballou preach sermon on the subject of Filial Love, from the text-'tHonor thy father and thy mother''-in the course of which he related the follow ing story. Very likely it has been in print. If it has it will bear printing again:

 Dana was the chief jeweler of Asca- lon and eminently distinguished for his exemplary life and many virtues. On a certain occasion a committee of the elders called upon him for the purpose of purchasing precious stones with which to ornament the ephod of the high priest. Diamonds were the stones they sought, and having thus informed the jeweler, they offered him what they considered fair price for the gems. Dana told them that he could not at that time attend to them, and bade them call again later in the day. The elders did not wish to be thus put off; and moreover they suspected that this was only ruse on the part of the .jeweler to increase the price ofthe stones. They persisted ill the demand for immediate attention. Diamonds such as only Da- ma possessed were necessary to com plete the ephod, and they offered double and treble the price they had at first proposed. But Dana was immovable and they finally went away greatly dis appointed, not to say wrathful.

 Later in the day the elders came again, and Dana placed before them the diamonds they desired, and when they had made their selection they rendered to him the highest price which they had last offered ~

 "No," said the jeweler. tYour first offer was all that the stones are worth, and that only will I take.''

 "Why, then," exclaimed the chief of the elders in astonishnent, ''did you not close with the offer this morning?"

 Because" answered Dana, "my father had the key to the chest in which the diamonds were deposited, and he was at that time asleep. He is aged and infirm, and the hours sleep was of more worth to him than was your in creased offer of price to me. My father has not so many comforts that I can knowingly deprive him of single one of them."

 The High Priest, when he had heard the story, came to the jewellers house, and laid his hands upon Dama's head and said:-

 "Blessed be thou by Him who hath said Honor thy father and thy mother,' and in the time to come may thy chil- dren honor thee as thou hast honored the author of thy being"
Year: 1877

Never deceive for the sake of a foolish jest, CT to excite the laughter of few companions at the expense of friend. Be anxious when you relate anything to tell it just as it occurred. Never vary in the least degree. The reason why our ears are so often saluted by false reports is because people in telling real things add little to them, and as they pass through a dozen mouths the original stories are turned into some. thing entirely different. So when you attempt to tell anything that you have seen with your own eyes, relate it cor rectly in every particular, and as you grow older you will reap the advan- tages of this course.
Year: 1877

Do not live single hour of your life without doing exactly what is to be done in it, and going straight through it from beginning to end. Work, play, study, whatever it is-take hold at once, and finish it up squarely and clearly, and then attend to the next thing, without letting any moment drop out between. It is wonderful to see how many hours prompt people contrive to make of day; it is as if they picked up the time the dawdlers lost. And if ever you find yourself where you have so many things upon you that you hardly know how to begin, take hold of the very first one that comes to hand, and you will find the rest all fall in file and follow after like a company of well drilled soldiers; and though work may be hard to meet when it charges i'll a squad, it is easy vanquished if you can bring it into line. No man ever largely succeeded who just looked his work in the face.
Year: 1877

The breaking strength and amount of stretch are determined by testing one foot samples taken from both ends of each coil, and by testing five foot sam- pie from every fifth coil. The samples exceeding the testing dimensions stuff

 ciently to allow of firm gripping, are placed in the jaws of the testing appa- ratus, and subjected to pulling strain produced by weight placed on long scale arm, the weight being increased until the wire breaks under the strain, The wire before commencing the test ing proper, is subjected to prelimin- ary strengthening strain of 400 pounds.
Year: 1877

BRoILED BREAST OF MUTToN.-Trfm and lay it ill stew pan with a slice of fat bacon; add some pepper whole, an onion stuck with cloves, sliced carrot, some celery cut up and a bundle of sweet herbs; moisten with water and let it praise an hour; when done enough, pull out the bones and lay the breast between two plates with 8 weight on, to get cold; brush over well with melted butter, cover with bread crumbs, broil on a clear fire and serve hot, with the juice of lemon under it, and sprinkled well with pepper.
Year: 1877

LEMON PE.-One lemon, two-thirds of cup of sugar, two eggs, three table spoons of flour, one cup of milk. Crate the rind, then add the juice, the yolk of the egg, sugar and flour, leaving the milk until the last. Line the deep tins with paste. place in the oven to brown before filling, then add the custard. When cooked spread over the top the whites of two eggs beaten to a froth, with four tablespoons of powdered sugar and return to the oven to brown.
Year: 1877

LIME IN REFRIGERAToRs.-F un- slaked lime in small quantities placed in refrigerators will absorb much of the moisture thereby rendering the at- mosphere dry so that meat and other articles, sensitive to moisture, may be kept sweet and fresh for some days. A little experience will enable one to know how much lime to use, and when to renew it. a.-
Year: 1877

BAKED CABBAGE.-Boil firm white cabbage for fifteen minutes, then change the water for more that is boiling, and boil until tender; drain and set aside till cold, than chop fine and add salt and pepper, one tablespoonful of butter, two eggs well beaten, three table spoonsful of rich milk or cream; mix well, and bake in a buttered pudding dish in modern oven till brown. Serve hot.
Year: 1877

AFTER sitting on the beach and seeing the breakers roll in will come the change, when vacation is over, of figur- ing how much it cost per breaker, and wondering if they could not have been got 8 little cheaper at wholesale.
Year: 1877

Ar AN INN in Sweden there was the following inscription in English on the wall-s'You will find at Trollhathe ex- cellent bread, meat, and wine, provided you bring them with you" This might be copied in many place of enter tain ment for man and beast.
Year: 1877

(WHICH is the most valuable-ex- perience or instinct?" was the subject of a discussion at a country debating society recently. One member said experience taught us how to set skunk trap, but when the animal was ohce caught it required instinct to tell us what to do in the premises-that is if we could stay on the premises to do it.
Year: 1877

THE WAR WITH WEEDs.-Agricultur is perpetual conflict with aggressive plants; conflict which must even con- stitute a material part of the labor necessary to be expended in we'll con- ducted farm. It Is therefore necessary, with view to the economy as we'll as the final success of the operation, that such labor should be wisely directed. Here, aselsewhere, knowledge is powe A knowledge of the general nature and the peculiar habits of the plant to be operated on is indispensable to direct the operator how properly to adapt the means at his disposal to the intended purpose. All plants become weeds in an agricultural sense, when found grow ing where they deteriorate the crops, needlessly exhaust the soil, or other wise bring loss to the agriculturist. Every plant out of place,
Year: 1877

ONIoNs.-Few if any crops in the market or farm garden, taken for a term of years together, pay as we'll as onions, if managed with skill and energy. Celery, caulifower, and some other vegetables in but small demand, pay larger return per acre; but no other crop having large and certain sale pays so much profit on the capital invested nor offers so many inducements for extended culture. The past season having been unusually favorable to the abundant production, the price fell to the lowest figure known for many years, and, in consequence many grow CTS will this year withdraw from the business. It is my experience that the succeeding year the price will be as much in excess as it has last season been below an average, so that it will doubt less next year be one of the most profit able crops. Sow early in rich, clean, well-prepared clay or loamy soil.
Year: 1877

ELY PAPER.-Powdered black pepper is mixed with sirup to thick paste, which is spread by means of a broad bush upon coarse plotting paper. Com- mon brown sirup will answer, but sirup made from sugar is preferable, as 1t dries quicker. For use, piece of this paper is laid upon a plate and dampened with water. The paper may also be made directly at the mill by adding pepper, and rapidly working it into a porous. absorbent paper.-Rural Neso Yorker.
Year: 1877

FRUIT FOR A SUMMER DIET.-The Herald of Health makes the following timely remarks: "Now that the warm season of the year is at hand, it may be worth while to call the attention of our readers to the fact that if-they wish to keep we'll, they should add as much fruit to their daily food as possible. It will save doctors bills, and, what is more important much illness. Of course there are many who cannot, or think they cannot, eat fruit. The cause often is spoiled stomach. In such cases 1t takes time and care to habituate this organ to the change, and sometimes 1t cannot be done at all. Leaving out such cases, we advise the liberal use of fruit from this time on, wherever it can be obtained"
Year: 1877

Nature and Electricity.-We learn that a new hypothesis as to the nature of electricity has been offered by Professor Renard, of Nancy. He considers an electric current to be produced by lon- gitudinal motion of the ether particles, which at the srme time have general forward motion. When the molecules of body are surrounded by greater ether atmosphere than the normal, the body is in a condition which we call positively electric; when the ether at- mosphere about each molecule Is less than the normal, the body is negatively electric. He has sought to explain various electrical phenomena thus: for example, the magnetization of steel needles by electrical discharges, regard ing which Savary has shown that, ac- cording to the position of the needle, it acts in one direction or the other.
Year: 1877

TRIUMPH IN PHOTOGRAPHY San
francisco photographer has taken q
photograph Of tho celebrated horse,
Occident, when lie was trotting at q
speed Of thirty-six feet per second,
or mile in two minutes and twenty
seven seconds Tho image Of tho
horse was impressed upon Tho paper
in loss time than the one,thousandth
part of a second. The spokes Of the,
sulky attached to Occident were
taken separately, 80 that they can
be counted.
Year: 1877

To be devoured by a wild beast,
is to each of us an odious thought; (;
but it does rot follow that to be
killed by a tiger Or bya lion, is
peculiarly painful. On this topic
DR.. Livingstone has given us his
own valuable experience. A lion
leaped on him, seized him by the
shoulder, and tossed him in the air
as dog tosSes rat. The tossing
caused a delicious deIrium, which
precluded any sense of pain; had
he then died, it would have been a
mercilul death, but we should not
have known that it was so. How
ever, his companions shot the
lion, who thereupon dropped his
intended victim, and took to
flight. DR.. Liyingstone's life was
saved, and he endured much
pain in the healing of his
wounds, though he had none
while in the lions jaws. The skill
with which all rapacious animals
kill their quarry, has often been
noted. Evidently this is no acci-
dent; it pervades nature. The toss
ing of a rat, or of a man, in the air
might have seemed sportive caprice
in the victorious beast, whom we
cannot suppose to do it from any
design; but when we learn that it
causes the captive to swoon, and
benumbs pain, we seem to read a
divine mercy beneath the animal in
stinct. Young lions are said to
bungle in their first attempt to seize
large game, and to need instruction
from their parents; but to Judge by
young hounds, there would bo no
bungling, if they did not usSail
game disproportioned to them.
With great accuracy a young dog
bites asunder the fatal artery of a
rabbit or leveret; and it isnot with
out reason that we ascribe to all the
carnivora an effective skill in kill
ing, which man with much training
rarely equals.
Year: 1877

of the country we have been sin
gularly free from any pauperism
but that which we have imported
from the great European reposito-
ries of pauperism. But matters
have changed. The tramps are not
all foreigners. They are, to a very
considerable number, our own
American flesh and blood, aud un-
less we are willing to see the coun-
try drift into the condition of the
older peoples of the world, where
meudicancy has grown to be a
gigantic burden and curse, and
pauperism a thing of hopeless
heredity, we must do something to
check the evil, and do it ut once.
Year: 1877

A few weeks ago the English
journals caught up and gave to the
carrier winds the pitiful story OF
Miss Pether, the orphan daughter
of a not unknown landscape paint
err Her poverty was extreme.
When her parents died she hired a
cottage containing four rooms, one
of which, after some effort and de-
lay, she succeeded in letting for
seventy-fiye cents a week to blind
man with a little dog, and another
for thirty-seven and a half cents a
week to an underfed shop girl.
The two remaining rooms she re-
served for herself. Soon destitute
niece, dying of pulmonary con-
sumption, sought refuge with her
and shared her quarters. Ayoungcr
sister was already on her hands.
Miss Pether bravely set to work
sewing, after the "Song of the
Shirt" fashion, and providing
board for her dodgers and kinsfolk.
But her nerves not being wires, her
eyesight gave out ; her dodgers did
not pay their rent her nourish-
ment was limited to oatmeal. By
and by the grocer refused to trust
her even for that not absolutely
luxurious article of diet. With
starvation driving her to the wall,
her sick niece managed to crawl
before a police justice, and to paint
in court picture of domestic life.
He at once declared that "he had
never heard so shocking a story in
his life" and directed the imme-
diate payment of two guineaS out
of the poor box. The matter of
course got into the newspapers, and
a public subscription made Miss
Pether comfortable again.