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Year: 1877

Would the diamond seem such a peerless

 gem

 lift measured one fnot aroundP Would the rose leaf yield such n sweet

 perfume

 II it covered yards Of ground? Would the dew drops seem so clear and

 pure

 Ifdew like raln should fall? Or the little woman be halfso great Ifshe were six feet tall? 'TIs the hand as soiI as the nestling bird That grips with the grip of steel; 'Tis the voice as sweet as the suic mer

 wind

 That rules without appeal: And the warrior. scholar, the saint and

 sage

 May fight and plan and pray, The world will wlg to The end of time Tn The little woman's way.
Year: 1877

TIE Mining and Scientific Press says that in case deposits of mineral are discovered upon legal subdivisions of ihe public lands, after the same have been entered as agricultural, but be fore patent has issued therefor, the parties claiming the possessory right to said mine may make application for patent for ii, and the agricultural entry will be cancelled to that portion of the tract embraced by the mining claim. This is in brief decision of ihe Commissioner or the General Land Office in March, 1873.
Year: 1877

What grows bigger as you contract it7
Debt.


Which is the ugliest hood ever worn
-Falsehood


what is the best thing to do in bur
ry 2-Nothing.


What is the greatest hardship in the
world 2-An iron steamer.


Why is a pretty lady like on oat cake I?
because she is often toasted


why is a handsome girl like q mirror ?
Because she is good looking lass


When is butter like Irish children ?
When it is made into little Pats.


Why is the strap Of an omnibus like
conscience Pit IS an inward check on
the outer man.


Why is a good resolution like faint
ing lady At a btll?-Brcause il ought TO
be carried out


when were there only two vowrls ? =
In the days Of Noah (no a). before you
and % were born.


What il the difference between q hun
CRY man and glutton i-One longs 10
eat, and the other eats too long


Why Is cloroform like Mendelssohn ?
Because IL j. one OF the great com
posers OF modern times.


What is the difference between a sailor
and a soldier 2-The one tars his ropes,
the other pitches his tents.


Why are lawyers and doctors safe
people by whom to take example BE
cause they practise their professions.


Why is Hanson cab dangerous car.
rage TO drive in 2-B-cause the coach
man always drives over your head.


What is the difference between a spi
der and a sea-gulI Zone has bis feet on
web and the other has n web on his
feet
Year: 1877

always admired the lady TO whom be Of
fered his honest heart. He was very
lonely. He bad no company but one
hired man. (He spell hired. haired


Is it any wonder that in the face Of all
these facts | got angry at Sam Starkey,
my welded husband. and that ugly, vain.
vulgar. affected old bachelor, Dock
Linkum2 All the pride OF my woman
hood was reused, and was ready to do
battle for my sex. Whatever touches
the character Of my sister woman,
touches me, and / fash like powder
Sam begged pardon this morning. and
when he took the pals so mournfully
and started off to milk. | made up
friends and let him kiss me.


Mas SAN STARKEY.
Year: 1877

Half a century ago. when the income
Of Dissenting preacher in England was
not very large, his salary was often sup
p.emented by bountilul supply OF pso
visions from the well-to do members OF
his congregation A Baptist minister in
Hrrtiordshire used at Christmas time
to be positively inundated with hampers
filled with good things. On one occasion
an enormous turkey was sent to hun by
thoughtful kindness Of neigh boring
farmer; but, as the minister's family had
already provided for the Cristmas dinner,
the bird was sent into the market aud
sold A passer by, seeing this fine speci
men OF poultry, said. What a splendid
turkey Just the thing for the parson' :
Christmas diunerT And to the par
son it was sent The prudent wife sent
il a second time to the market aud sold
it again TOR a handsome sum. Another
frirnd, similarly struck with the magnifi-
cent proportions OF the turkey, purchas
ed it and also sent il TO the "parson.


Not wishing to fiy in the face OF Prov.
dence, the good man said at last, 1t Is
very clear that the Lord means US to
have this turkey" and with the entire
appreciation OF the family, it formed part
OF the Christmas dinner.
Year: 1877

A person, in the course OF some re
marks in a prayer meeting, having sever
al times observed that he never should
forget the dying words Of his brother
the pastor suggested that II might be
well for him to repeat them wherruPon
with some hesitation aud scratch ng o
his head, he said that they had slipped
his mind.
Year: 1877

Peel aud cut in quarter 8 pounds Of np
piles. 6 pounds sugar, pound race ginger
pack the apples in a jar. layer Of apples.
then sugar and ginger. until all are put
in; next day bruise an ounce Of ginger
and iufuse u in bali a pint Of boiling
water. closely covered. next day put the
apples. sugar aud ginger with The water
from the bruised ginger in a preserve
kettle and boil it for one hour. or until
the spples look clear and sirup rich. add
ing some lemon peel. cut very thin. just
before done.
Year: 1877

To quart Of siited -four add 2 tea
spooniuls cream Of tartar and Of soda
n teaspoonful salt, pound Of butter.
sweet milk enough 20 MIX it Have the
dough rather stiff. roll and bake in
sheet - soon A. baked split open the
whole cake. spread one piece quickly
with butter. cover with well swsetencd
apple sauce. pour over some thick sweet
cream, CRATE on nutm"F, place the Other
halt on this, crust side down spread with
butter. cover with apple sauce. crram
aud nutmeg
Year: 1877

Take half pint or one quart Of milk
boiled down to pint Add ! OF pound
OF powdered loaf sufar and bali tea
spoonful OF powdered gum arabic dis
solved in orange flower water Beat lh.
liquid till converted into roth. and send
to table Immediately. Flavor the cream
with vinilIa or anything preferred pre-
vious 10 beating.
Year: 1877

Ono hundred years ago not . pound Of
coal nor cubic foot Of illuminating gas
had been burned in the country. No
iron stoves were used, and no contrivance
for economiziDg heat were employed un-
til, DR.. Franklin invented the iron
framed fire place which still bears his
name. All the cooking and warming in
town and country was done by the aid of
fire kindled on the brick oven. Pine knots
or tallow candles furnished the light for
the long winter nights, and sanded floors
supplied the place Of rugs and carpets.
The water used for household purposes
was drawn from deep wells by the creak-
ing '.sweet." No form of pump was used
in this country. so far as we can learn


until after the commencement OF the pre-


sent century. There were no friction


matches in those days,by the aid ofwhich


a fire could be easily kindled; and il the


fire "went out upon the hearth over night


and the tender was damp so that the


spark would not catch. the alternative


remained of wading through the snow q


mile or SO to borrow a brand of a neigh


Dor. Only one room in any house was


warm unless some Of the family was i'll;


in all the rest the temperature was at


zero during many nights in the winter.


The men and women of . hundred years
ago undressed and went to there beds in
q temperature colder than that of our
modern barns and woadsheds, and they
never complained.
Year: 1877

The DYING Iona French officer who
has served many years in Algeria, writes an
interesting account of a dying lion. Fang
less, covered with mango, and blind, is the
king of beasts on approaching the close ofhis
reign. When not lying mournfully prostrate
and alone in some sheltered nook, or behind
some friendly mound overgrown with shrub
berry, he feebly skulks within small circuit
of bis lair in quest of morsel of prey, which
in bis decrepitude he rarely succeeds in OBJ
tanning. At this stage of bis career, if his
scent does not utterly fail him, his sole re-
source for nutrition is an occasional nest of
field mice. Inferior animals smell at him
fearlessly, and paw him with insolence, for
the forest monarch, dethroned by disease, is
incapable of resistance. Often the rustic Arab
comes upon his majesty in his utter helpless.
ness and ends his troubles with blow Of q
club, ~
Year: 1877

the announcement that the home of the Ben
ders had been deserted.


It is said, too, that Governor Osborn was
secretly apprised of all these facts, which will
account for the fact that, on the part Of the
Kansas authorities, no systematic effort has
ever been made to apprehend the Blenders,
and stories Of their capture elsewhere have
only excited an incredulous smile at the State
capital.-BoMon HeraM E
Year: 1877

"TEErH SET ON EDeE."-All acid foods,
drinks, medicines, tooth.washes and powders
are injurious to the teeth. If tooth is put
in cider, vinegar, lemon,juice or tartaric acid,
in few hours the enamel will be completely
destroyed, so that it can be removed BY the
finger nail, as if it were chalk. Most have
experienced what is commonly called teeth
set on edge. The explanation Of it is that
acid of the fruit that has been eaten has 80
softened the enamel of the tooth that the
least pressure is felt by the exceedingly small
nerves which pervade the thin membrane
which connects the enamel and the bony part
of the tooth. Such an effect cannot be pro-
duced without injuring the enamel. True, it
will become hard again when the acid has
been removed by the fluids of the mouth, just
as an egg,shell that has been softened in this
way becomes hard again by being put in wa
ter. When the effect Of sour fruit on the
teeth subsidies they feel as we'll as ever, but
they are not as we'll, and the oftener it is ss-
peated the sooner the disastrous consequence
are manifested. fH
Year: 1877

tant subject which at that moment occupied
his mind, Geraldine's pulses again throbbed
with feeling of tumultuous happiness, as
they done on the morning when he had be-
slowed on her his first caress. She glanced
timidly in his face in the momentary hope of
reading there the sign If some corresponding
emotion on his part; but be was thinking
then only of what he was about to say.


"After your own experience" he contin-
ued, "you will not be greatly startled, or in
clined to doubt my statement, when / inform
you that I, too, have twice had mysterious
visitation, evidently from the same source"


"No!" exclaimed Geraldine


II have indeed and can assure you that
have been not little troubled ip mind, to
account for what I could not attribute to .
disordered Imagination, though / tried for a
long time to believe it to be the result of this
alone. I will tell you how it happened on
each occasion. The first time, was walking
alone one evening through the long avenue
of oaks near the park. I had felt dull and
uncomfortable, I knew not why, and had
gnne out thinking that stroll in the fresh
air would be the best cure for my low spirits.
This was about four years ago, shortly after
1 had taken possession of this place. 1t was
growing late, and was about to turn my
steps homeward, when voice near by dis
tinctly pronounced my name. I stopped in
stantly, and turned to see where the sound
came from, but no one was to be seen. As |
hesitated, wondering, and fancying that had
been mistaken, the voice repeated my name
in louder tone. 1t said George George +
iu tone 80 clear and audible that there was
no mistaking it-and at that instant, I'll
swear to you, Geraldine, I felt 8 hand laid on
my arm, as plainly as I now feel your hand
in mine. I confess to you it sent culver
Year: 1877

reference to the tables of Documents A and will
show that while the receipts for the year much less than
previous the disbursements have been correspond
much less Taxes have been materially reduced and receipts
fallen below the previous but notw
standing this there quite large receipts dis
bursemen The receipts from oil sources January ls were
1891 the disbursements time S5lS,
100 o. leaving of receipts to amount of @


Out of this the Treasurer has retired certificates OF IN
debtednes 1922 54 and paid bonds and interest
am $79224 Deductng these amounts the excess of
receipts still Sl60944 % To this amount will be added
about $500 1876 yet be collected and
paid into the Treasury


the financial condition of the State to
very aerng the wisdom displayed by your Honorable
Body at session. that the efforts enconomze and
of the State which
made have been degree crowned with success
without detriment to the general public service
Year: 1877

I'D" shows the amounts and condton OF TINS
fund Under of last session. requiring all moneys
received redemption and purchase OF LANDS Tor
the proceeds of all fines and foreue
and the amount retail vnous and sprltuous


liquors. paid in currency and the proceeds to DE set
apart school fund for rata distribution there mas Deen
collected and paid into the treasury $lO4OO9 90 10 nfs
amount added the proceeds of the United states
and interest which in the treasury to credit o te
common school fund.- amounting the of s6o92O IL
making total of S164935 ST. This amount 1t VIII oe
remembered embraces only the proceeds from above
collected since the day April 1876 the date OF the
Act passed requiring all such collections and payments 10
be currency For this reason the entire proceeds OF
the wear from did not go into the common
school fund dstrbutve and did not therefore equal the
amount of the two mill tax which is s185933 o. This deli


hon nro rata to the will be made at once


The number of children in the State as per latest
reports by the State OF


h63 pon this the amount TO be distributed VIII
Year: 1877

valley that before another decade, will
prove the mos: productive wheat region
cultivated on the continent Then the OK.
tent OF that river, with upwards Of 600 miles
within the American boundaries, and OK.
tending through the Queens dominions IN
tts lakes and river connections to q dis
tance Of 1900 miles. One great artery Of
commerce, the Northern Pacific crosses
and intersects it at Fargo, and soon the
Canadian Pacific Railway will farther
down reach its banks. The time Is not far
distant when the products of that remark
able valley will seek an outlet to the Gulf
of Mexico, and capitalists whose eyes are
already turned that way, will stretch the
iron trail from that Northern region down
along the valley of the Sioux to connect
with the roads now built, bearing toward
our Southern Ocean outlet. Though now
apparently isolated and in no relation, we
are IN fact to be sooner or later benefited
by the development of that country, for it
is as sure as time lasts, nature long ago de-
fined the natural outlets for the great riv-
ers wealth, and the traffic now in opera
ton eastward will be diverted southwark
where shipping localities will be sooner
and more advantageously reached.
Year: 1877

The Supreme Court of the United States
on the 17th inst. decided that the Coch-
rane Patent process for purefying flour,
was valid. This is the case where it was


reported that there was collusion between
parties prior to the hearing, but the court
did net 80 find. And this decision in fav-
of the patentees will make every miller
pay a royalty.
Year: 1877

A NEW station has been started by R. W. Masters and H. N. Thompson on the Maricopa desert, about fifteen miles from Gila Bend. this side of the Chimneys Wells have been dug on that desert to great depths without striking water; the last enterprise of that kind was abandoned last winter at depth of nearly 300 feet, The new station will be supp lied with water hauled from the Gila river for the use of travellers and freight teams. Hay, grain and provisions will be kept constant ly on hand, and stage stock will be chang ed there The location is not far from where the Apaches jumped this same Thompson, killing one stage horse and slightly wounding him. He outran them on foot, looking over bis shoulder to dodge a string of arrows coming after him, as long as clothes line. Old Guiou was in the stage and ran without rejecting that he was fat and had taken his boots off. Stones and cacti tattooed a reminder of that trip on his feet,
Year: 1877

CARS B BURNFD.-On Monday three cars belonging to the construction outfit of the Southern Pacific Railroad Go. and used as boarding houses for employees, took fire and were completely destroyed. Sis son & Wallace's store car took fire, but thls was soon put out and nc damage done of consequence. The boarding house cars were very old and have been, in constant use since the early days of the Central Pacific. The fire is supposed to have originated from spark from the smoke stack of the steamer Gila. The brush along the bank of the river was on fire in several places on Tuesday.
Year: 1877

THE c. & A. Stage Co. are said to be reducing their stock on the road between Eh renberg and Dos Palmas; the horses being removed from every other station. This is done on account of the falling of in travel by that route. Most of the pas sengers into northern Arizona are now coming via Yuma.
Year: 1877

RAILRoAD.-The job of driving piles across the slough by Iaegers is about finish ed, the ties are now laid right up to the bank of the river opposite town. This coming week, if no detention occurs, the track across the slough will be inisbed and the rails laid to the river. The bridge material will then be pushed forward at once
Year: 1877

THE shipyard at Port Ysabel is now completely dismantled and nearly every thing of any value has been brought up here. The new shipyard and ways for overhaulng the steamboats onght to be made on this side of the river, above the bridge. There would then be very rarely any need of opening the draw in the bridge as the boats have no business below it.
Year: 1877

NEW QUARTERs.-The SENTINEL has now taken permanent quarters in the new SENTINEL BUILDING on Third st next to the Court House, and within one hundred yards of the new depot grounds. The change gave as much trouble as moving a family.
Year: 1877

In looking over the hotel registers one is struck by the large number of names signed by men from the Eastern States. When the keen Yankees come out l1 such force our Territory must deservedly at' tract much attention.
Year: 1877

There are at least four of our laws


that need particular attention at the
hands of the next Legislature They
are the election, road, school and reve-
nue. laws. The first three are almost
entirely out Of print, and, with their
amendments, are scattered through the
last five or six volumes of the statues.
At least 900 of each of them, after a
careful revision or coditication, should
be printed in pamphlet form for free
distribution throughout the Territory.
The revenue law should be amended at
least in the matter of sales OF real es-
tate for non payment of taxes. The
law should provide for procedure in
such cases similar to that in cases of
private suits for debt. = Let the sheriff
of each county report~to the district
court the names of delinquents and a
description of real estate, secure judg-
ment and an order of sale, and after
such sale again submit his report and
secure confirmation of the sale, thus
every step a matter of record
in the district court. Title thus gained
by sheriff's sale would be good, which
is now questionable and the practice OF
allowing real estate to go to sale for
want of payment of few dollars in
taxes would be far less common. 1t
is the opinion of many of our best law
yers that these sales as now conducted
do not pass title that could not be up
set whenever piece of property should
become valuable enough to be worth
while to carry the question into the
courts.
Year: 1877

The Puget Sound Aayus contains the
following timely warming


Since the opening of opposition to
the Pacific Mail Co., considerable sym
pathy has been manifested among the
people for that deserving organization.


An exchange very appropriately says,
"the sad fate of the 200 souls that went
down with the ill-fated Pacific ought to
warn every one against embarking on
any vessel not competent to carry them.
The public, the press, inspectors of
boilers and hulls, and all persons of in
fuence should protest against the run
ming OF poor class of boats on our
ocean routes, especially where the lives
of all passengers are endangered by the
vicissitudes Of the sea which often tax
ei the most staunch vessels to their ut
most strength"


We may add that the laborer, if
worthy of his hire. ought to receive it
in all cases. 1t is a sure sign of an un-
healthy state of affairs-one calculated
to bring disaster and loss in business
when opposition brings prices down to
starvation profits. 1t was opposition
among the various railroad companies
in the East that compelled them to re-
duce the wages of employees, thus
bringing on the recent strikes with
their bloodshed and wanton destruction
of property, causing depression in
business that will be felt for months to
come;it was opposition which caused the
Pacific to be put on a route she was
totally unfit for, causing such fearful
loss of life; and opposition will again
bring on the same route, not staunch,
sea worthy boats, but old vessels which
cannot be made to pay elsewhere.
Year: 1877

Speaking of the signs of the times,
the willamette Farmer discusses the
influence which inventions have had
upon the labor of this country, and
particularly farm labor. 1t suggests
the idea that after all, it may be found
that inventions have done the masses
of our people more harm than good.
1t speaks of the farmer as monopo-
list. The following is an extract from
the article referred to:


With the nineteenth century there has
come over the world such changes As the
centuries that preceded it had never dreamed
of. The railroad, the reaper and threshing
machines, the sewing machine, the telegraph,
the manifold labors of the steam engine in
all its departments. have helped what We
call progress, but it 10 very great matter
for doubt if they have not helped to make
the rich the richer, and the poor the poorer
When the great labors of the reaping machine
were explained to Car Nicholas he listened
with interest but said he did not want it.
The industries of the old countries are based
on the idea of giving employment to the
masses, while with us the great effort is for
labor saving machines, no matter how many
laborers they leave unemployed. The other
day we eaw three or four men looking on
while sell. f.binder, driven by a single man,
did the work, cutting and binding, Of at
least half dozen, and perhaps half as many
more. The farmer needs labor saving ma
chinery and cheap labor, or else even dollar
a bushel for wheat wont pay.


Our readers will resent the idea that the
farmer is becoming monopolist, but gen.
tleman of our acquaintance, who is an extern
sive farmer, while discussing the labor aues.
ton with us not long since, held up the far
for he owns the land that all depend upon
for bread, and as he drives thorugh his yell
low ripe grain, alone on his sell. binder, he
bids labor defiance and is most independent
Of all Is il not so that ownership of the soil
gives man an independence that is princely
in itself, because the soil is mother Of all
wealth, the sorce of all luxuries a. well as
all necessities!


The world as we know it and as it was
when our sires fought fer freedom, is a very
different world. Such great wealth as is
massed by individuals today, was not then
known Such means fer accumulation did
not exist. Opportunity was wanting for the
exercise Of the greet speculative faculties
that some men possess. The difference be-
tween that age and this . epitomized in the
gambling schemes of Wall street as We know
It, and the feverish excitement of life in
California. Men only needed the opportuni.
ty to make it available aad with the discov-
cry of the latent powers OF steam and elec-
tricity came all the Opportunity that human
speculation could desire.