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Year: 1879

There is no difficulty to him who
wills.


An open countenance, but close
thoughts.


We live no more of our time than we
spend well.


Never mind where you work; care
more about your work.


There is nothing so fatal to comfort
rs well as to dccorum, rs fuss.


1t is the best proof Of the virtues of a
family circle to see happy fireside.


How few faults are there seen by us
which we have not ourselves committed.
The heart is book which we ought
not to tear in our hurry to get at its con-
tents.


BE not affronted at a jest Ifone throw
salt ut thee, thou wilt receive no harm
unless thou hast sore places.


Hannah Moore said to Horace Wal
pole" If wanted to punish an enemy
it should be by fastening on him the
trouble of constantly hating somebody


Times of general calamity and confu-
sion have ever been productive of the
greatest minds. The purest ore comes
from the hottest furnacc-the brightest
flash from the darkest cloud.
Year: 1879

The following cruel disclosure of one of the secrets of the Chinese toilet in humble life is made by correspondent of the Celestial Empire: II have lately discovered the way in which Chinese girls paint their faces in Pekin. They first take a quantity of sugar candy, which they rub lavishly over their hands. They smear this delectable cosmetic over their cheeks and forehead till they are as shiny as the moon and as ticly as though they had washed thems Ives in treacle. The surface thus prepared, they proceed to lay on the white powder, which they spread thickly from ear to ear; and then they put on the rouge. Their subsequent sensations may be imagined. I never heard them described
Year: 1879

The fact is we'll understood that the M EXICAN MUS TANG LINIMENT is by far the best external known for man or beast. The reason why becomes an "Open secret" :" when we explain that s' Mustang" penetrates skin, flesh and muscle to the very bone, removing all disease and soreness. No other lini- ment does this, hence none other is so largely used or does such worlds of good.
Year: 1879

been in the South, the people not being accli-
mated.' Now, l venture the assertion that
the people OF no portion OF tho Union are ac-
climated for yellow fever, and that the people
Of the West are as much acclimated as those
of the South. Indeed, tho sanitary condition
OF the West is far superior TO that of the South.
That the people of the South are not acclimatcd
is attested by the havoc yellow fever has made
among them. Acclimatization for yellow fever
is impossible, unless IT be in the midst all the
timo. Hence there Is no such thing as our be.
coming accimated 10 Il. Mr. Young well
knows with what lavish hand the North
East and West responded last year. and that
nearly every hamlet and Sabbath school con.
tributed.


lie undoubtedly knows what Senator Vest
said In Missouri in relation to the donors rs n
section, and how the request for information
by gentleman who had given literally to the
sufferers concerning relatives who had become
victims of the scourge, was met also the sent
iment of large class that no thanks are or
were due for the generosity displayed. He
desires that the association assume n national
character, because he is so apprehensive the
fever will reach the West and Northwest. He
does not have so much concern for the South
(slo being acclimated), and why2 Simply bc-
cnuso IL is quite evident he desires to create a
sympathy In favor Of the West and Northwest
on the hypothesis that tho South will be the
more benefited. Let me say IL is not likely that
the fcver will reach tine West and Northwest,


VERI'rAS,
Year: 1879

water consumers, who are now called upon
to bear excessive burdens which have been
caused thereby. The public expected, and
had right to expect, showing Of the ac-
count which would justify the adopted water
rates of the Commissioners. 1t will he diff
ficult under this showing to placate public
sentiment The consumers of water for the
present year cannot readily see any propriety
in making them pay for the previous mis-
management of the water fund, which had
o clearly defined Office to perform, and,
had the law been strictly observed, there
would be no necessity for the excessive bur-
den now imposed. ..


After reading the explanation of the Com
missioners we are more and more convinced
that the water supply should be provided
for in the general taxation Of the city,
where the chance of legerdcmain in man
aging the fund would be somewhat dimin-
ished, if not entirely overcome. We are
more and more satisfied that the manage
ment of our water supply has not been, and
is not now in strict accordance with the re-
qurements of the statute If this conclusion
is justified the courts will scarcely sanction
the action of the Commissioners under \
tngN
Year: 1879

of the earth they may have been born
There has been q sort of tempest in tea
pot excited in New York by the edict of
the CoRBGNs, who are engaged in hotel
business at Coney Island aud in railroad
traffic between New York city and that
point, which edct expels the Jews as
class both from their road aud their hotel.
The Jews, though deeply insulted, are
behaving very sensibly aud properly under
the insult, leaving public sentiment TO vim
dictate them from this bigoted, needless,
and cruel affront. We notice that hotel
keepers do not all coincide in the line of
conduct adopted by the CoRBINs in this
instance. MIR. BREsLIN, one of the pr opri-
etors Of Willard's Hotel in this city, and
also connected with the Brighton Beach
Hotel at Coney Island, in alluding to Cor
BINS anti-Jew ukase, holds the following
sensible view of the matter:


There isn't any joke about this, is thercH If
it's sober fact it's great mistake. have boon
in this business all my life, aud have never
yet found IL necessary or wise to discriminate
against any class of men. We don't cater for
Jews we don't cater for Yankees. If Jews
come and behave themselves as common cater
ers we supply their wants. The same with
Milesaus, Brazilans, Afghanistans, English
men, and Turks. Some of our best custom
ers are Jews. i know them US well as any
hotel man in the country. l would scorn to
Keep jew house or an anti.Jew house. A
mans man all the world over. Decent men are
always welcome; roughs we don't tolerate. We
were asked to-day what we would do If rush
Of Jews should be made on us. To which
Major SWEET considerably answered, Sup
pose we wait till the rush comes" The fact is
that Mr. CoRBIN has either been misrepre-
sented or he has made great mistake. He is
a common carrier, and it is simply absurd for
him to attempt discrimination in favor or
against any class from whom his company
makes its money.


The American people, who are q sort OF
human conglomerate, are the last to get NJ
shapes under class prejudice, for we are one
people under our institutions, each one ol
us is entitled, regardless of birth and lin
cage, to the full measure of respect that we
merit by our individual lives and conduct
and that man who proscrihes a class be-
| cause he does not chance to belong to il
will sooner expel himself than anybody
else from the respect of the community.
Year: 1879

The American people are the last in the


world to raise race questions and create
race prejudices. All the nations of the
earth are invited TO come with us and en-
Joy the blessing of freedom, equality, and
Justice, aud that invitation has been ac-
cepted until our population represents every
civilized nation on the globe. 1t therefore
lilly becomes us to raise a race question
against any portion of the American people,
no matter under what geographical division
Year: 1879

IT is recorded in the personal Intelli-
"gence of the New York Herald that Mr..
CoNGER, Of Michigan, is wit. Now that
the entire Democratic press of the country
arraign the Herald us a Black Republican
sheet of the most incendiary proclivities
The idea that Mr.. CoNGER is anything but
q stupid bore could not have originated else
where than in the bitterest Radical brain
But to make the matter worse tue Herald
also accredits Linn with being parliament
ary lawyer.
Year: 1879

"HoME RULE" is illustrated in Louisiana,
as it has been in every other Southern State,
by practical repudiation. This is not, it
will be admitted, calculated to promote the
restoration of the Southern Democracy to
supreme control in our National nffnirs.
Year: 1879

SOME time ago The NATIONAL REPuB-
LICAN took the trouble to explain away
and deny certain groundless charges against
Consul MosBY regarding his social conduct
in Hong Kong. This was done in discreet
and satisfactory manner, and should have
served as a complete refutation of those
charges but MosBY has taken the matter
in charge himself and has, we fear, illus
trated the truth of the old adage about the
lawyer being his own client. He says in
his own defense exactly what we had said
for him-that the tales about his disregard
of social and official etiquette were false ;
but he adds that he has accepted social and
official invitations extended to him by the
English officers at Hong Kong, mot as a
"matter of pleasure (for they were great
bore to mel, but because l regarded them
simply as my official duty" He means
by this, Of course, that the acceptance of the
invitations in question was an official duty.
We very much doubt, however, if this ex-
PLANTATION, when it is repeated in China, as it
certainly will be, will make matters any
smoother for him. He is certainly very
frank, and consequently not very diplo-
matte, in his pOint-blank assertion that the
social relations he is forced by q sense OF
official duty to hold with JOHN BULL are O
bore to him. j. b. will not relish this noI
will our fastidious Department of State be
apt TO overlook it.
Year: 1879

A sad and singular story comes to US

 from Chicago. In southern suburb of that city, known as Hyde Park, three

 maiden sisters have been living in good style on the income derived from prop erty bequeathed to them by their de- ceased mother. It is alleged that their father, who was joint beneficiary with them, has recently succeeded in obtain ing possession of the whole estate and has left them penniless, although it does not appear in what manner he has appropriated the money. As. the story goes two of the sisters determined to die together, and proceeded in 8 most de- liberate manner to make preparations for double suicide. They are said to have spent Sunday and Monday in pre- pairing for death, and at six o'clock on Monday evening carried their plans into operation. Having confined themselves, by mailing up the doors and windows oi their house, they drove heavy spikes into the easement of the folding doors, and, fastening ropes thereto, were dis covered hanging side by side when the alarm was given. The youngest sister, a dwarf, seems also to have contemplated suicide, but not to have had the courage to carry out the determination. A sharp knife was found in her room when she called for assistance, which was not until after her sisters had been dead fol three hours. There are indications thai all the sisters were of unsound mind, although they had only been regarded by the neighbors as eccentric in theil manners. The survivor is said to be il a state bordering on actual insanity

 The people are naturally excited over the event, and it is to be hoped that the father of the unfortunate women will b, able to explain his conduct in a manner that will relieve him of the terrible re

 sponsibility for the tragedy implied il the statement given of it's alleged cause
Year: 1879

A gentleman accompanied by his wife arrived at this place last night, says the Niagara Falls Gazette. They were on their way from New London, Conn.,, to their home in Minnesota, and deviated 8 little from their direct route in order to visit the great falls. Arriving so late they concluded they would not go to a hotel, and waited in the Erie depot un- til after 4 o'clock, when they started down town to see the sights. They strayed first down to the bank of the river just below Winners mill. Here the gentleman attempted to bathe his face, when he suddenly became dizzy and feil helplessly into the boiling rapids. The screams of his wife at- tracted the attention of Wm. Dinan, who was watering his horses near by. Dinan tied his horses to tree and rushed after the woman, who WAS running toward the Cataract House. Dinan says that he could just distinguish the form of the man in the rapids, and he told the terri fled woman that it was of no use to at tempt the rescue, that he would cer- tainly go over the falls. The woman ran through the gate leading to the little park between the Cataract House and the old River Hotel and hurried down to the bank to the raceway below.

 Dinan followed a moment later, and his astonishment can hardly be imagined when he saw the dripping stranger sit ting on the steps in the embrace of his weeping wife. After falling into the water the gentleman said that he hardly realized where be was for moment. He could not swim, but he struggled as best he could to reach the shore. As good luck would have it, the drowning man was hurled against the bulkhead of the pier enclosing the raceway back of the Cataract House, and was carried into the quiet water, where he managed to secure hold on the masonry, and climbed out upon teaw0 fama0. The mans escape from death was little less than miraculous. He hardly realized at first the magnitude of the danger he had escaped. He had not seen the falls, and he asked MT. Dinan whether he would have been killed to certainty if he had been carried over the cataract.
Year: 1879

A man with wooden leg is we'll armed. A one-legged man was recently charged at the Birmingham Police Court with using that weapon of defence to good advantage. The police officer, hearing cries of "murder and "police" proceeding from the prisoners house, rushed to the spot and found the pris- oner stamping with his wooden leg on his wife, she being prostrate on the ground. On his interfering to protect the woman from this violence, the pris- oner turned on him, caught him by the whiskers, and tore his overcoat; then, dezterously taking off his wooden leg, he was about to attack the officer with it, and it was not without severe strug- gle that h was ultimately overpowered and conveyed to the police station. "He oould," said the policeman, "use the leg very well."
Year: 1879

The secret of the steadiness of large compass is the longness of it's vibrational period, and a small card would have the same steadiness as large one if it's vibrational period were the same. How this is known is illustrated by the methods of procuring steadiness in com mon use. In some Gas in the Admiralty "J" card, provided for use in stormy weather) there is swelling in the mid dle of each of the steel needles to make them heavier; in others heavy brass weights are attached to the compass cards as near the centre as may be, being sometimes, for instance, in the form of small brass ring of about an inch and half in diameter. Another method, scarcely less scientific, is to blunt the bearing point by grinding it or striking it with hammer, as has not unfrequent- ly been done to render the compass "less lively" or to fill tho cup with brick-dust, as is reported by the Liver pool Compass Committee to have been once done at sea by captain who was surprised to find afterward that his con- pass could not be trusted within couple of points. All these methods are founded on the idea that friction on the bearing point is the cure for unsteadi- ness. In reality friction introduces a peculiar unsteadiness of a very serious kind, and is very ineffective in remedy ing the proper unsteadiness of which something is essential and inevitable in compass on board ship rolling in g heavy sea and steering on any other course than due east of due west.-,SS, ". Ihompsoaa.
Year: 1879

The Detroit Free Press says The murder of Mrs. Hull has developed g fact which some people didn't know be, fore-that every detective has from one to half dozen theories to chase every criminal with. A farmer out beyond Springwells had probably posted him. self on this fact before visiting the Gen. tral Station yesterday to give notice that some one had stolen his only hog.

 "My theory" he said, after leaving the item, {" is that the thief took that hog from the pen about midnight, run him into the stock-yards, hung around till daylight and then sold him to a butcher, but, of course, you police can work on any line you see fit."

 He went away to look into several butcher shops, and in about an hour re- turned and said:

 "Say, I've got different theory in that hog case. I've been thinking it all over and I've concluded that the hog was chloroformed, put on wheelbarrow and taken down and dumped into the river by some one who wanted revenge on me. Yes, I believe that's the correct theory, but if you police don't think so you can go ahead as you ike."

 He went away again, and this time he had talk with stall owner in the Gen. tral Market. The result was third visit to the station, and the farmer said |: "See here, I've got one more theory about that hog. I believe two of my neighbors down there stole him and butchered him and divided the meat, and I'm going home to get out search war rant"

 He departed for home and the station took rest till about sundown, when To 1! the man drove up in buggy. When asked if he had any further news, he replied:

 "I rather guess I have Iguess I've got another theory about that hog. My fourth theory is that he got out of the pen last night and rooted his way into the oat-tield across the road. That's where I found him when I got him, and you police needn't bother any more about it. "
Year: 1879

The work Of compromising the city
bonds is progressing favorably. The out
look is satisfactory. The pre-ent arrange.
ments are all right, and the only thing
necessary to the complete success of the
undertaking is TO let the work go right
along as il has started, and stop all talk
about making any changes in the plan
We are satisfied, from conversations had
during the last few days with prominent
business men of Chicago and other places
that the whole debt could readily
have been funded at twenty fTe cents; bu
it is too late now to make any ch hanss; hav
ing offered forty cents Hat, the only thin:
for the Mayor and Council 10 do is Il
stick TO the offer, and treat everybody
alike.
Year: 1879


The grand rise that will float the good
ship Of war Wachusett 20 ST. Louis is now
on the way down from the headwaters of the
Mi-aouri, and will be at the jstties on time.
Il brgins to look as il the navy would hang
its recruiting shingle out under the shadow
the big bridge after all.
Year: 1879

~.
member of the American Union that tn,
people thereof are part Of the American ma
ton that there is no right on the part OF thi'
State 10 secede, and that all attempts, IRON
whatever source or upon whatever pretext
TO dissolve said UBion or TO sever said nation
ought to be resisted with the whole power o
the State.


Mr.. INGALLS,. Mr.. President, am eI
ceedingly glad to hear that, and l an


obliged to the Senator from North Caro-


lima for calling my attention to 1t. ltgivei


me sincere pleasure to know that In the


constitution of the revolted States there hs:


been a recognition Of the indissolubility oi


the American Union, OF the supremacy o'
the national authority.


III i, be true that that il the case, then
the Representatives on this floor and IN the
other House from the State Of North Caro-
lima could not, it appears to me, logically
deny the authority Of Congress to pass an
act authorizing the President under proper
circumstapcs not only to Use the Army but
all the national authority for the purpose
of maintaining the Constitution
and preserving the laws OF this
country upon election day and at the polls
a. we'll as upon every other day in the
year and at every other place in the land.


The observation that made with regard
to the condition of public sentiment in the
S,uth was derived from conversations with
several Senators upon that subject, Who as.
sured me in response to sn expression OF
wonder when this great question was before
the people Of the country, when it was ad-
mitted that the war fought for the preserva-
ton of the Union and to denounce and
destroy the ides that the Urion could be
destroyed, why it was that an amendment
had not been offered to the Federal Consti-
tuition declaring that the Union OF States
was termarent, indestruchble, and indis-
soluble, stated to me that in Gaze such an
amendment were now to be offered they
believed 1t would be rejected by the people
of their States as device on the part OF
the Republicans for the purpose of &C.
complaining some political result.


But to return, Mr.. President, was say
ing thst there is no sectional animosity or
hatred in the North toward the people of
the South. What has the North ever done
that could be said to have been actuated
b. sectional hate? To what appeal for aid
or synpsthy have they not responded ?
Year: 1879

who would admit that this was
likely To be the case. Still the ne
gro mind has been somewhat unset
tied by events since 1870. RevOlu-
ton and counter revolution have
dazed him. He is in an expectant
attitude just now. "Some say de
Norf done gone back ON us" is an
expression frequently heard. 1t is
a vague feeling, which the Demo-
Gratis would be glad to see growing
into a vigorous belief.
Year: 1879

THE evangelist, Moody, talked to
the women Of Baltimore recently on
his plan for PeclaiminG men who
have fallen prey to the appetite for
strong drink. He puts it in his
hlunt, fureible style, thus:


cit Is no use to Whitewash men
addicted to strong drink; Fegener-
alton for them Is necessary. Moth
ers are the best people to remedy
this evil. The drunkard should not
be wantonly condemned he should
not be told he Is making a fool of
himself; he knows he is a fool. He
wants some one to lift him up and
sympathize with him and give him
backbone. To the ladies of this
temperance union he gave the ad.
vice to rent q hall or shop on some
thQrQughfare and throw 1t open to
drinking men. If Il Is wanted to
catch fish, the fishermen must go
where there are fish. There let
these godly women plead with
drunkards as they plead with their
sons. They will come i'm if such a
place Is open to them. Some people
say these men will not hold out TN
their professions of reform. That Is
the DEVILS own lie. Some will 20
back, but ia no greater proportion
than sinners OF any other class. "
Year: 1879

THE decision in favor of the heirs
of Gen. Lee In the Arlington elec-
ton suit will probably cOnstrain
Congress to pass the bill introduced
by Senator Johnston, Of Virginia,
to buy the Arlington property. This
is all the claimants dCsire-simply
to establish their property rights,
and then be content 10 have the
Government pay fair equivalent
for the ground occupied. The ease
has been appealed by the United
States to the Supreme Court, bat the
Attorney-tieneral Is Of tho opinion
that the decision of the lower court
will he allowed to stand.
Year: 1879

The Washington Fire Company will
go on the excursion to Cape May to-
morrow. The "Thomas Clyde" has
been chartered and will leave French
street wharf at six o'clock in the NOR
ming. The company has made every
arrangement looking to the pleasure and
comfort of the excursionists. Those
who attend cannot fail to have a
pleasant time. The boat on its return
will leave Cape May point at four O'Clock
and thus give those attending ample
time to enjoy brimy dip and view the
city.


The usual tripto Ocean City will be
made by the Delaware Railroad to-
morrow morning. The train will leave
at six o'clock. The Patrons of Hus
bandry will attend all through the
State, so that the excursion will be q
large ore. The train will leave the
beach at five P. NJ, thus giving six
hours on the beach. The prices are al
usual.