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Year: 1877

A dilapidated stranger came into the
Office yesterday morning, and with an
air Of profound mystery confded TO us
the information that he was quite
wealthy, and a great collector OF Cen
tennial relics, but being temporarily
embarrassed and away from home, he
wished to dispose of a shirt that Wash
ington had one worn, for 81 70. He
showed us the shirt, but as it appeared
to be the only onet that Washington
ever had, and that he had worn it with
great assiduity for a couple of hundred
years, we hesitated about investing.
The man said:


You won't give me 81 70 for shirt
that was once worn by the Father Of his
Country {"


We said no at least not unless he
could bring us afidayits to show that
the Father of his Country washed his
neck at least twice during the Revolu-
tionary war, and that the tint on the
neck-band of the relic was caused by its
being used as washer for the hnch-pin
of Centennial cannon.


"You can stand there, the man said,
and look at this priceless bit of linen,
venerable with the dust of ages and the
darkening stains of Times indelible
pencil, and not feel your heart Durn
and throb and your eyes grow dim and
misty With the memory of Valley Forge
and Lundy's Lane, and the battle OF the
Nile You can stand there and refuse
to give "a rs for this sacred emblem ?"


We blushed, and felt very much dis
concerted, but the truth was strong
within Us, and we managed to indicate
that we would even refuse to give .
greater sum for it.


"Then," he said, will you lend me
fifty cents omit, and keep it for me nm
til send you draft for S35 from New
York;"


We had to say that we would not ac-
cept the trust. He tucked the sacred
emblem under his arm and closed his
eyes for moment, and then lifted his
eyes TO heaven.


Ny rebuke is Just" he said solemn
ly, and 1 am highly rebuffed and in
suited, trampled my manhood, honor
and convictions in the dust when Of
fered this talisman of liberty to alien
hands for base dross; / go; / may
starTe (; I may die in the street but I
never will part or offer to part with it
again. viii die with it in my clinging
arms. and when / am dead You will find
Washington written on my heart.


He went. We watched him disappear
down the stairs, and then we went to
the alley window and saw Kim go back
into an adjacent wood shed, where he
peeled his closly-buttoned coat, and in
serted himself into the talisman Of lib
erty. And he was seen no more.-B,tr-
ii"gtOn Ha'0keye.
Year: 1877

Gold, Silver, Copper or Lead, will bo made at highest possible rates for account of owners. My long experience and con neciion with buyers in the different mar kets give me a very decided advantage over any one in the Territory in making sucn sales to the profit of those entrustins them to ma Correct and responsible assays obtained and submitted when deslres'
Year: 1877

/ A minister in Lexington lately said in the pulpit that he had seen pack of cards and backgammon board in the parlOr of a member of his church. and after services seventeen men scOlded their wives for carelessness.-BOSt0fs 7rdUeller.
Year: 1877

"There is a good time coming is an
old promise 50 oft repeated that it is
almost threadbare and its verifcation
has been so frequently postponed that
people generally despair of ever seeing
its ful6lment. We would moi. like to
undertake to say that good times or
even better times, have actually ar
rived, or are about to come. Yet the
business outlook on every hand il de-
cidedly better, and there are abundant
indications Of a revival in trade, and
of a healthier tone in the industrial
/. interests Of the country. In the large
cities business has perceptibly picked
up, and business men of every class,
but particularly the merchants, are
up to their eyes in work. The coun-
try merchants are pouring into the
cities for their fall goods, and the
wholesale merchants and jobbers are
as busy as bees night and day, while
the retail stores are daily filed with
ladies engaged in their favorite pas
time of shopping In the country
the time for the fall trade has hardly
arrived being delayed by the warm
weather, which causes people to defer
tha n11rehase Of their winter sl1nnlies
but the healthy condition Of things in
the cities viii soon reach the towns
and we may confidently look for a bet
ter and more lively season than We
have had for several years.


In speaking of the business outlook
in that city the New York Worlc
says Among the merchants anc
jobbers Of the city the universal opin
ion was found to be that trade ha,
shown an unmistakable movement
and that business was more brisk thar
had been the case at this time Of tn,
year for several years past. Some re
serve was exhibited in speaking on til,
topic, and the Improvement was rathe
understated than exaggerated, " andth
Philadelphia Sunday Times says 9Th
hotels of that city are filling up witt
strangers, and the streets are radian
with gaily dressed ladies in their Fal
attire. All the places Of amusemen
Year: 1877

The news comes TO us from Essen that
the Russian war Office has ordered an.
other batch Of 300 guns from The famous
factory of Herr Krupp. The cannon
will be employed doubtless TO strengthen
the field batteries In Bulgaria, which on
many occasions have proved themselves
inferior 10 the Turkish ordnance, and
also 10 replsoe the guns of the Gnard
now passing the Danube, whose weapons
are said TO be, for the most part, of an
old bygone type. The Turks, as we are
well aware, are provided well nigh
throughout the whole of their artillery
with steel breech leaders from Herr
Krupp's factory and they have also pur-
chased large number Of siege guns Of
the mme pattern for tte defense OF
Adrianople, Erzeroum and Kars. In
fact, the Constantinoplc war Office showed
q good deal Of discretion when il selected
an arm for the service which stood the
German host in such good stead during
their campaign in France, and partic-
ulsrly before Paris. Previously much Of
the riAed artillery In the Ottoman service
was OF the Armstrong breech loading
type, but lately instead of following Great
Britain, and adopting muzzle loading
weapon of steel and iron, the Turks took
the independent course of selecting an
arm for themselves, and how wisely they
acted recent events have shown. Despite
the significant fact that we were their old
allies, and that they have for many years
past come 10 this country to purchase
ships. and guns and ammunition, they
seen 70 have been resolved to have their
own way In the matter, and went TO the
Westphalian gun foundry for their can
non. II would not, rerhsps, be unwi.e
on our part II we acted in the same
impartial spirit in a matter of such
Importance. The last European war, as
the present one, has shown the value of
breech- loading cannon in the Geld, and
yet We are content TO 60 on arming our
men with muzzle-loading field pieces. 1t
is not, too, as il We had tried the new
steel weapons and found them wanting.
On the contrary, We believe there is not
st the present moment single breech-
loader In our service of the latest Krupp
pattern; we are quite sure there is none
heavy enough for siege purposes such as
might be tried practically in comparison
with our own cannon. And yet we are
always boasting Of our money and ability
u command anything we want. We
only hope that we may never be called
upon in actual warfare to test the
relative value Of the iron mu.zle loader
and the Krupp weapons, in which most
of the European powers put their trust


- London Duiiy Ners
Year: 1877

Sitting Bull has formally decided TO
put himself under protection of the
+" White Mother" Queen Victoris), and
the white Mothers" mounted police
are going Ia have a pretty rough time
watching the new ward, as he Is brim
full Of fight. After General Terry's
benevolent and elaborate speech to the
savage at Fort Walsh, in behalf Of the
commission, Sitting Bull advanced to.
ward him with uplifted finger, Shrek
ing, You camc here to tell us lies"
He then said:


For sixty-four years you have kept
me and my people, and treated us bad.
What have we done that you should
want usf We have done nothing. 1t is
all the people Of your side that have
started us TO do all these depredations.


We could not 60 anywhere else, so we
took refuge in this country of the Brit.
ish II was on this side of the country
that we learned to shoot, and that is the
reason came back to il again. Why do
you come here In the first place, did
not give you the country; but you fol-
lowed me from one place to another, 20
had 10 leave and come over to this
country. ! did not give you any coun
try, but you took il away from us. /
was born and raised in this country, with
the Red river half-breeds, and | intend
TO stop with them. was raised hand in
hand with the Red river halfbweds, and
We are going over TO that part Of the
country, and that is the reason why !
have come over here Shaking hands
with the British officers, he proceeded :
That is the way was raised in the
hands Of these people, and that is the
way ! intend TO be with them. You
have got ears 10 hear, and you have got
eyes TO see, and you see how live with
these people. You see me. Here am.
II you think I am fool, you are bigger
fool than am. This house il a medicine
house. You come here to tell us lies,
but We don't want 10 hear them. Idon't
wish any such language used to me, that
il 10 tell me such lies in my mothers
house. Don't you say two words more.
Go back home where you came from.
This country is mine, and intend to
stay here and to raise this country full Of
grown people. See, these people here
we're raised with them (agsin shaking
hands with the British ofiiccrs). That
is enough. See me shaking hands with
these ps ople. Tsat part Of the country
you gave me you run me out Of Ihave
Year: 1877

A writer in the London Garden says
that the best remedy for the phylloxera
Is to keep the soil very loose and open
around the stem Of the vine, allowing a
free ingress Of air to the roots; then give
a good soaking with water impregnsted
with tar or carbolic acid.
Year: 1877

Use great care in picking them from
the tree, and when transferring them
from the basket to the barrel handle
them like eggs. Get the best granulated
sugar barrels TO keep them in, and when
the barrels are full cover them with thick
paper 10 keep them from the air. Then,
with barrel.hcader press the heads in,
and keep them out OF the cellar "A late
as you can without having them freezs.
Pat them In the drycst and coolest part
OF the cellar, and raise them from the
ground three feet or more on kids, and
do not open or disturb them until they
are wanted TOR use. II exposed TO the
air BY opening the barrel TO pick them
over, some Of the apples will rot and
others will wither.
Year: 1877

THE IMPROBABLE IN WAR. The New
York Erening Post says: Every man who has
ever been in the thick OF fight knows that,
to all appearances, the escape of any man so
placed is utterly improbable, if not well nigh
impossible also. Bullets fly around him thick
as hail shells burst and solid shot scream
around his head for hours That some one
of the thousand missiles shall hit him seems
to be almost inevitable, and yet IN very few
battles does one man In ten sustain any sort
of Larm- The writer OF this article has seen
a l3-inch mortar shell fall and explode In a
mortar pit l5 feet square, in which eight men
were standing, without doing harm to any
one OF them. Ninety y-nine times In hun
dred such an occurrence would kill every
man so exposed, but in this case the utterly
improbable thing happened. In another case
within the writer's knowledge caisson with
seventy-fve pounds Of powder in it, exploded
without injuring a man who was sitting on
it at the time. Improbable things of a con-
trary sort happen not less frequently. To
draw still from the writer's observation, a
man lying In mortar pit fourteen feet deep,
lying close to the revetemen., too, was killed
by a musket bail which came from distance
of not less than a thousand yards, and passed
through the mans lungs. 1t had probably
struck pebble OF some other object In front
which caused it to fly upward, and afterward
to fall behind the high parapet At any rate,
it killed the man.
Year: 1877

NEEDS EXPLANATION. settler In Pacific
county. who took up tract OF land, or
rather settled uponit in 1873, recently went
to New Tacoma to purchase his lands OF the
Northern Pacific railroad company. He
writes to inform US that the land department.
marnanimously offered to sell HIM the land
fos 81 90 per acre, cash down, according to
new rules. He wants TO know If there Is
any law that eompels him to pay such prices
for wild mountain lands, etc, the only I'M
provements upon which have been made by
him. As we understand it, he must now pay
the railroad company for the improvements
Congress donated his claim 70 TIE North
ern Pacific railroad company IN the land
grant which they have earned by building
the road from Kalama to Tacoma, although
it is quite certain that the building Of that
branch did not in the least enhance the value
of lands situated where he has made settle-
ment. The whole matter needs explanation,
and we hope people will demand some ex.
planation OF it from Congress. ss.-Astoridn.
Year: 1877

KEST whlIe a1ter preak1ast as Weu -
after dinner Do not begin work the in
slant you rise from the table, if it is pos
sible to avoid it. Irving said at is de-
liehtful to breakfast leisurely then go
out and saunter in the garden; walk down
to the water and give the dogs swim !;
sketch out kite, to be completed in the
evening to stick up new oclored pic
ture in the nursery; and to do this and
more with the sense that there is no neg
lect-that you can easily oyertake your
days work
Year: 1877

The school board of New Orleans has
decided that black and white children
shall be educated in separate schools:
One of the colored members advocated
the separation, on the ground that it
would tend to the benefit Of his race,
Year: 1877

SIsrERLY FosBEARAScE--"You boys
ought to be very kind to your little sisters.


l once few little boy who struck his
sister blow over the eye. Although she
didn't slowly pine away and die In the
early summer time, when the June roses
were blowing, with words of sweet for
giveness on her pallid lips, she rose up
and hit him over the head with the roll
ling pin, so that he couldn't go to Sunday
school for more than month, on account
of not being able to put his best hat on r
Year: 1877

THE appointment of General Anderson,
late of the Louisiana returning board, as
deputy collector of the port of New Or
leans, is causing some very lively emo
tons among the Southern democracy.
There were SO many good patriots who
would have willingly taken the place, too.
Year: 1877

Cle0patra's Needle is to be removed at
last from Alexandria to England, and the
following account of the method to be
adopted is given by the London Times.


1.-THE sand is to be cleared away and
the obelisk set square parallel with the
existing sea wall. An iron cylinder,
finished off to a chisel edge, with suf-
flcient diaphragm to give it strength, is to
be constructed round the obelisk, which
is to lie in the long axis of the cylinder,
and TO be wedged and calked where it
passes through the diaphragms so as to
divide the cylinder into watertight COM
partments.


"The cylinder is be be ninety-five feet
long by fifteen feet diameter, and will
have a draught of nine feet of water when
af1oat. All being riveted water tight, it
will be rolled into the sea and across the
sandy bed of the water till it floats. 1t
will then be turned over and the man
holes at the top opened and about thirty
tons of ballast put on board to keep
the ends vertical so as to act like
stem and stern. 1t will then have
two bilge keels, q rudder, light spar
deck, mast and lug sails attached, and be
provided with an anchor and good chain
cables, and, if necessary, pump in case
of leakage. The cylinder ship will then
be fit to go to any port of the world with
its freight and in any weather.


The cost of this operation will amount
to about $4,000. The obelisk in its case
will be towed over during the summer
months and laid aside the Thames EN-
bankment on a platform properly pre-
pared for the purpose and lifted high
enough to clear the parapet, and, the bilge
keels and other additions being stripped
off, the cylinder will be rolled to the pro-
posed site and then stripped off the
obelisk, which will lie ready to be ele-
waited TO its pedestal, an operation which
will be simply effected by means of few
balks of timber and two small hydraulic
rams. The whole cost is not to exceed
$50, 900 and that of the obelisk at Paris is
said to have been $400,000.'
Year: 1877

generally have pockets under flaps on the
hips, and an outside breast pocket with
welt. Edges bound narrow with plain
silk braid. The one and two button
morning coats, both with and without
flaps on the hips, though older in style,
still find much favor, and will be gener-
ally preferred by those desiring quieter
style of dress, and who do not really adopt
the --latest modes" The waistcoat to
correspond, if the material be plain
coating, should be cut single breasted, to
button rather high. of good length, and
with small step collar; or if the figure
be very slender, the waistcoat may be cut
double breasted with advantageous effect.


For suits of dittos the single breasted,
three button sack coat, introduced two
seasons ago, will still be very fashionable,
made with such improvements in style
and cut as the correct taste may suggest.


Vest single breasted, without collar.
Trousers will be worn trifle smaller at
the knee, and a little larger at the bot
tom, SO as to fall well over the boot.


For better wear, the double breasted
frock-coat is still pre-eminently the only
garment in which gentleman who de-
sires to be well dressed will feel comfort
able. 1t will be cut rather shorter in the
skirts than has recently prevailed, and
may be made with or without silk breast.
facipgs, and edges finished with narrow
silk braid Satin bindings have become
common and vulgar looking, and are too
suggestive of the sporting element to be
gentleman-like


The frock-coat will also be fashiona-
BILE garment this season, made from
light self-colored material, with trousers
from the same cloth, and is the correct
costume for Jerome Park and similar oc-
casiOns.


A waistcoat of white duck should be
worn with the frock, and is better
double breasted for most figures.


The trousers may be either from
striped or checked pattern, and medium
in color.


For spring overcoatings there are some
very choice goods of worsted make of
fancy feather diagonal, in new colorings.
The single breasted Chesterfield will be
the style generally worn, made with a
cloth collar and silk facings to the front,
edges double stitched, but the silk turned
in and felled plain.


There is no lack of variety in the new
goods for the coming seasons, which are
elegant in design, beautiful in color and
superb in quality.-N. 7. Home Journal.
Year: 1877

The prevailing styles of the new goods
for spring and summer wear are checked
patterns and fancy mixtures for entire
suits, with checks and stripes for trousers


In checks the patterns are not so large as.
have been worn heretofore, but are verv
clear and bright in color Morning coats
will principally be made to button three
buttons, moderately cut away from the
lower one. IF medium length in the waist.
and rather shorter in the skirt than mas
hean worn during the winter They will
Year: 1877

"A pleasant instance of true generosity
and its reward occurred, lately, at Rock
port, Mass. A woman who Supported her
two children by hard work was asked bv
a fellow workman in the mill to aid in
making purse "for poor woman. +"
She had but sixty cents left to carry her
and her children through the month, but
she gave twenty-five cents. A little later
the person returned and told the woman
the purse was meant for her, and handed
her twenty-five dollars.
Year: 1877

Tryon Edwards, in Scri6ner's Month
Ly says: The Jews, Protestants and
Romanists all agree In receiving as
canonical books ofour Old Testament.
But as the Romanists would add to
these the apocryphal books, so the
Jews insist on adding their oral law.
They say that when the written law
was given to Moses, inscribed on two
tables Of stone, God also gave another
and verbal law explanatory of the first
which he was commanded not to COM
NIT to writing, but to deliver down by
oral tradition. When Moses came
down from the Mount, they tell US
that he first repeated this oral law to
Aaron and his sons, and then to the
seventy, and finally to all the people
each of whom was obliged to repest it
In his hearing to insure its correct re-
memberance. Just before his death,
they say, he spent q month and six
days in repeating 1t to them again /;
and then, they assert, hecommitted it
in special manner to Joshua,
through whom it was impaired to
Phineas, and so on through the long
line of prophets, and afterward Of
teachers, down to the time of Judah


the Holy, who lived in the second
century, by whom it was committed
to writing lest 1t should be lost. This
work consisting of six books, is the
famous Mishna of the Jews, which
with its Gemara, or commentaries,
constitutes their celebrated Talmud
In which is oOmprehended all their
learning and much of their religion as
people. The whole work is held by
them in far higher esteem than the
Bible, so much SO, that they say the
Bible Is water butth Talmud Is wine t;
and they even declare that he who
studies the Bible when he might read
the Talmud does but waste his time /;
and that to sin against the latter is far
worse than to sin against the former.
So implicit is their confidence In this
oral law that it IS almost useless to
reason with Jew out of the Old Tes-
lament for he is ever ready with an
answer from the Talmud, with the
authorityof which he is fully satisfied
Year: 1877

Areriwit In lie Courier Medical, on
the use of milk In hot weather, states
that his attention was directed TO the
subject by noting the value of milk In
dysentery, ulcer of the stomach, and
various acute and chronic grastrO-in-
testinal affections, and he therefore
employed milk IN the treatment OF
these gastric arrangements so fire.
quently induced by high temperature.
In very hot weather small draughts
of milk are found to relieve thirst and
to render unnecessary the drinking
of many fluids, which, though they
may sllay the thirst, are liable to pro-
duce some disorder at the same time.
A case Is cited in which, during the
fearfully hot weather of last summer,
gastric arrangement was produced In
the patient, with great thirst and
cramping IN the bowels laudanum
had been taken without success, but
relief followed the administration of
warm milk-a small cup every quar-
ter of an hourly the next day.
Year: 1877

There are people in every commu-
atty who think that every newspaper
man is dead-hesd. The New York


Evening Post hits this class of people
q severe back handed blow which we
think they well deserve. "In case
snything happens to a person, he
hastens to the nearest newspaper and
demands that the editor shall WELD
his pen and shed Ink in his vindica-
tion and defense. And If the jaded
editor does not with elacrity espouse
the cause of his patron he will make
an enemy for life. Members of the
press are literally hunted down by all
sorts of people who have axes to
grind. The managers of public meet
ings who do not find reporters at the
desk suffer pangs of disappointment; ;
the judge who sonoriously blows his
nose before reading his opinion. looks
aDxiously for the stenographer; the
preacher who descants upon some
special subject, loses spirit If the rep
aresentavies of the press are not there;
even the burglar on his way to States
prison, covets a talk with the news
paper man. Yet the outside barbarian
thinks all newspaper men are dead
heads" and envy them the fine times
they have in the way of free tickets
TO all manner of shows. There never
was a greater mistake. People don't
seem to realize that on the part of the
1t is merely a matter of
business that the reporter goes to
these places, 60 attractive to outsiders,