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Year: 1878

Marry in your own religion.
Never both be angry at once.
Never taunt with past mistake.
Let a kiss be the prelude Of a
rebuke.


Never allow a request to be re-
peated.


Let self-abnegation be the habit
of both.


4 good wife is the greatest earth
" blessing.


Il forgot, is never an acceptable
excuse.


If you must criticize, let it be
done lovingly.


Make marriage matter of
moral Judgment.


Marry into a fami7 ich you
have long known.


Never make a remark at the ex-
pense of the other.


Never talk at one another, either
alone or II company.


Give your warmest sympathies
tor each others trials.


II one is angry, let the other part
the lips only for a kiss.


Neglect the whole world beside,
rather than one another.
Never speak loud to one another
unless the house is on fire.


Let each strive to yield oftenest
to the wishes Of the other.


Always leave home with loving
words, for they may be the last.


Marry into different blood and
temperament from your own. .


Never deceive, for the heart, once
misled, can never trust wholly
again.


It is the mother who moulds the
character and fixes the destiny of
the child.


Never find fault unless it is per-
fectly certain fault has been COM
mitted.


Do not herald the sacrifices you
make to each others tastes, habits
OF preferences.


Let all your mutual accommoda,
tons be spontaneous, whole-sorled,
and free as air.


The very felicity is in the mutual
cultivation Of usefulness.
Consult one another in all that
comes within the experience, OBJ
servation, or sphere of the other.


A hesitating or grum yielding to
the wishes of the other always
CRATES upon a loving heart.


They who marry for traits of
mind and heart will seldom fail Of
perennial springs of domestic en-
ioyment.


Never reflect on a past action
which was done with a good mo-
tive, and with the best judgment
at the time.


The beautiful in heart is a mil
lion times of more avail, as secur-
ing domestic happiness, than the
beautiful in person.


They who marry for physical
characteristics or external consid-
erations will fail of happiness.
Year: 1878

Men and children are like peb-
bles. You know how pebbles on
the seashorc are rounded and made
smooth by being rolled against
each other. It is so with many
men. But now and then We find
person who is as crusty as one
of the crabs we fad also on the
seashore. The more he is rubbed
by others the crustier he becomes.
So, too, some Of the little stones
are made very pointed and do not
get rounded by the others. Let
US all try to have the politeness
that comes from obeying the Col
den Rule.
Year: 1878

Mr.. Lewis, the late Hobokcn
millionaire, was a singular genius
lie forbade his housc-kccpel' using
sugar in her tea on the ground OF
the unnecessary expense, ne himself
coming to the table with sugar IN
his pocket and surreptltlousIy
swectcning his own cup.
Year: 1878

Holiday week; crowds rushing
to and fro ; a big pufy-looking man
passes by with the legs of doll
sticking out of one overcoat pocket,
and the handle Of a small cart out
of the other; he looks like a bal
loon; all of his pockets are stuffed
he has a bundle in his hat and
something in each hand, and looks
as happy as if he had just picked
up one of the silver dollars Of our
daddies. It is OF no possible use
to Try and do anything on holiday
week; the plum pudding and tur-
key Of Christmas demoralzes you,
to say nothing of the mince pies
and doughnuts which immemorial
usage has tackled to the Christmas
celebration. The town seems to
have given itself up to enjoyment
for the time, and I suppose we will
have to endure this sort Of thing
till Wednesday. next, when we will
quietly settle down to the business
of 1878.


Year after year our annual cele-
braticn has been gaining ground,
till now, on New Years day, all
New York and his wife and family
give themselves up to its enjoy
ment and while occasionally
blue-ribbon man may survive the
perils of the day, I regret to say that
many of our young men frequently
find a brick in their hats about two
Or three o'clock On the morning Of
the I'd, WI ich it requires week OF
moderate industry and abstinence
to lift out.


If you would see New York in
it's holiday mood, you should go tc
Macy's, on the corner cf 18th street
and Sixth avenue. Everybody goes
there to buy everything from q
paper collar to a set of furniture
Not only NewYork, but Brooklyn and
all the surrounding towns and cities
for miles send crowds here eager
to purchase. From morning might
| multitudeS surge and heave, a living
struggling mass, all seeming crazy
to buy something ; in the majority
of cases it does not appear to mat
ter what it is, if it is only thing
that costs money. Rich and aristo
cratic carriages line the sidewalk
and their owners are jostled b,
poor women with shawls over thei
heads, whose whole Christmas out
lay is bounded by a half dollar. l
is not only the center Of traffic TO
all sorts of fancy goods, Christina
and New Years gifts, but it is ais
in these holiday times the paradls


of shop-lifters and thieves. \ sly
lish-looking lady in seal-skin sacE


trimmed with the most expenslv


otter, and all ablaze with jewelry


is examining a lot Of costly lac


collars; her young daughter by he


side is especially interested with


magnifcent Honiton set with whlc


she toys afcctionately. The mothe


has engaged the attention OF th
J II J,,o.l> 4o,, che
Year: 1878

When we pray for everlasting
life with the mouth and do not de-
sire it with the heart our cry is a
silence; when we long for it out of
the abundance of the heart our
silence is a cry which does NOS
reach human ears, yet reaches
Him. -.-.:- ..-. .r-z
Year: 1878

Never again will the roses blow
For rs, like the roses we used TO know;
And never again will the wide sky hold
Sucl, wealth Of glory and sunset gold.
And never again will whisper, dear,
The pleasant fances you smiled to hear;
Never again shall tell 10 you,
The dreams It we hoped would all come


true.


Never again, at the days decline,
Shall sit with your little hand in mine,
and look at the beauty Of sunset skies,
And the sweeter beauty Of your sweet eyes.
Never again! for the dream is done
Which a word, look, and touch begun,
And for US there is nothing but memory,
For the coming days, of what could not be ;!
Love! you are near me, and yet so far
AS the round earth is from the farthest star;
So near touch you, and yet, to-day,
Were YOU dead you'd not be so far away
Kiss me, and smile in my eyes once more,
Though your Zip should culver, and tears


run DER;


Putyour hand in mine for one moment


one!


While say-God keep you X i X The dream


is done! Girls of To-day!
Year: 1878

The sudden death OF Mr. Smith east gloom over the
Republicans OF Westchester County yesterday ana
greatly interfercd with the general rejoicing which
they would otherwise have INDUCED In. When the
sad neys was first made puolio many citizens
were ncrcduous and supposed that the statement was
hoax or A mere rumOr but when the intcl gence Was
Confirmed and real the effect was very depressing
upon political personal friends Of the deceased
closed YESTERDAY and the ags about the city were AZ
h.fmast IN respect 10 his memory. The funeral VIII
take plnce on Frd ut In consequence on thls


death Governor Robinson will be called upon 10 order
new election. II "a understood that the Democrats WIZ
past record as Kuow-Nothng deprived him OF many
yote, IN Tuesday.
Year: 1878

UTILIZING SEWER MUD.-A short time ago
English newspapers announced that certain
persons were manufacturing and selling but
ter made from the mud of the Thames river,
which is very much like gigantic sewer.
Official Investigation has shown that although
fat is really extracted from the mud it is not
used for such a purpose but in the manufac-
ture of SOap and candles
Year: 1878

SUCCESSFUL JAIL BREAKING.-On Monday
night last all the prisoners. five in number.
confined i'm the iail here made their escana
On eNamlnationit was discovered that a rope
had been fastened 10 the bars of an unoccupied
cell on the upper floor the lock of the door of
which had been picked and that the lock of
the back door of the building had likewise
been picked. The SuppOSitiOn is that by means
OF the rope, the prisoners, one by one. drew
themselves from the yard TO the window of the
upper cell, drawing the rope up after them,
and then threw il over into the lane They
then climbed from the window TO the wall q
distance Of about five feet, from which point
were the two men who had been arrested sew
eral weeks ago in Baltimore, charged with
stealing the horse and buggy of Father Gun
nlngham, OF this town. Rockville (.Md.) Ad-
COCute,
Year: 1878

MADE UP.-Judge Kelly and Representative
O'Neill have settled their differences, both
having arrived at the sensible conclusion that
a united front would better defeat the tariff
bill than an ill-tempered division of two men
having its defeat as their common object.
Year: 1878

THE EXAMINATION of forty applicants for
cadetships in the merchant marine service,
which has been going on at the Treasury for
the past few days, has been finished. There
are at present only four vacancies to be filed,
but the result of the examination will hold
good, in regular order of merit for such va
cancies as may occur between now and the
first of September next, the time at which the
course of StudieS begins
Year: 1878

The Burlington Hawkeye says


A standing advertisement in a


newspaper. set boldly out, attracts


good deal of attention and be-


comes rransfxed in the mind of the


reader. Tt may not be noticed at


first, but after awhile the lines


grow familiar to the eye and be-


come stamped upon the mind. The


advantage is made apparent in


this way: The subscriber in the


course of time wants something iu


the line OF goods kept by the man


whose advertisement he is familiar


with. He naturally visits that ad-


vertiser's store and buys what he


wants, for though he may never


have been inside the place before,


be feels thoroughly acquainted


with everything about it, and free
from that embarrassment which
no one likes to show when out on
shopping tour. A good adver-
tisement kept constantly in pa
per is like a fnger-board in a cross
road-it removes all difficulty in
finding the right place.


To which an exchange adds the
following: The above is all very
true, and we may add a little more. !
Some OF our patrons say, I don't
want a standing advertisement; Il
will invest in locals. But few men
in the hurry OF business attend to
sending in locals to weekly paper
regularly, and much of the time is
not represented. This country is
constantly being peopled with new
They come with money
and stop with acquaintance. The
country paper is the first thing
that is asked for. If the judicions
advertiser is represented with q
judicious advertisement, he may |
profit thereby; but it his face in the |
way of type has been omitted, and
the locals forgotten, as they often
are, the new conner when he goes
TO purchase his outfit will look for
The sign of the store which he saw
announced in the standing ads.
They are taken as an index to
business places just as much as the
painted sign or goods displayed in
front. Locals in connection with an
advertisement frequently changed
are good, but the two should go
together, and in the end are the
most profitable,
Year: 1878

DETROIT. There is the very
scandal oil all scandals afoat here.
and one which, while it is in the
mouths of a hundred people, has
been, from a number of reasons,
kept out Of public print. It may,
however, become public any morn
ing, and when it does, as I heard
a gentleman remark yesterday, "it
will knock the Beecher scandal
higher than a kite" The parties
to it occupy somewhat anomalous
positions. One is divine, than
none occupies higher position in
his own church, or, for that matter,
in any church in the West, The
other party is a young lady OF
heretofore irreproachable charac-
ter, and now married to a young
gentleman actively engaged in
business, and who knows nothing
whatever of the connection OF his
now wife with the disgracefll life
which can not escape exposure
after what is now known here and
in Chicago. The relations between
the young lady and the clergyman
alluded to extended over the entire
years OF I674-75, and are fully
shown BIZ bis own letters. When
confronted with the proofs of his
own guilt, presented to him by
men Of bis own church. and finding
that he had been deceived by her.
he begged for mercy and promised
to resign his Office and proceed to
Europe ii publications were sus-
pended.
Year: 1878

There's jolly Saxon prcverb


That's pretty much like this:
That man is half in heaven


When he has woman's kiss,
But there's danger in delaying,


And the sweetness may forsake it !;
So tell you, bashful lover.


Ifyou want kiss, why take it.
Never let another fellow


Steal a march on you in this;
Never let laughing maiden
See you spelling for kiss.
There's royal way of kissing,


And the jolly ones who make 1t
Have motto that is winning;


If you want kiss, why take it.
Any fool can face a cannon


Anybody wear crown
But a man must win woman,


Ii he'd have her for his own.
Would You have golden apple,


Yon must find a tree and shake it.
If a thing is worth the having


And You want a kiss, why take it.
Who would burn up in desert,
With forest running by?
Who would give his sunny summer
For bleak and wintry sky?
Oh I tell you there is magic,


And you cannot, cannot break it;
For the sweetest part of loving


Is to want kiss and take it.
Year: 1878

The Norwich Conn., Bulletin tells a
giant bass, caught in seine at Mantle.
One escaped by breaking the meshes. A
second they got upon the beach. They
had hardly dropped the cords before he
broke from the meshes, and, springing
high in the air, plunged down the shore
toward the sea. ten or twelve feet away.
The men dashed excitedly after him, and
vainly sought to stop him with desperate
kicks from their heavy fishing g-boots and
blows from such implements as they
could pick up on the beach. No one
dared to grasp the monster, as bass OF
large size, armed with its sharp fins and
razor-like teeth and gills, is one of the
fercest and most dangerous of sea fish.
The shore water was already reached,
and the bass was splashing furiously in
the desperate endeavor to gain water
that would float him. An instant more
and the prize would be lost. At this
moment Mr.. Winship threw himself on
the struggling monster, clasping his
arms around his neck, with one foot
under it's body, and shouted for help.
The struggles of the fish and its captol
had carried them into deep water; but
the stout arms of the other fishermen
we're quick to the rescue, and both men
and bass were rolled up to the shore,
and the bass was secured. The whole
party at the end of the struggle were
breathless with exhaustion, but had es
capped with scarcely wound. The fish
weighed forty-six and one-quartel
pounds.
Year: 1878

sober men, with determination written
on every face. There was no bowling,
no unseemly demonstration. On the
road they were greeted with the cheers
of men and smiles and waving handker-
chiefs by the ladies. Everybody ap-
proved the mission upon which they
were bent, and everybody knew, from
past experience, that they would do their
work well; that the fighters would either
leave the Justice and Alta mines, or the
works of those mines would be stopped
by the supreme orders of the Miners
Union.


Capt. Curtis was notified of their
coming in advance, and he ordered the
American flag hoisted over the Justice.
This demonstration was rightly taken
to mean that he had taken counsel of
prudence, and concluded not to attempt
a hopeless fghS against the union. The
vast body halted in front of the Justice,
and gave three rousing cheers for the
company. Then committee of three
entered the Office and requested per-
mission from the superintendent to de-
scend the shaft and bring up the
fighters and arms. Had he refused, an
order would have been given to the en-
gineer to lower them and they would
have gone without permission. Curtis
knew that, and so be made virtue of
necessity and gracefully accorded the
desired permit. The committee went
down the mine, cleared it out of the
fighters and the arms, and then ap-
pointed three miners out of work to
watch day and night, and report if any
attempt was made to introduce warlike
elements again. These men, the own
ers of the mine were forced to pay the
regular 81 day, and they have been
there ever since.


The same programme was carried out
at the Alta. and, having done their work,
the miners marched back to the hall and
quietly disbanded. This was an in
stance certainly, in which no one could
blame the union for using its power.
1t is the only case of the kind which has
occurred during my three years resi-
dence in the Comstock, and 1 am told
that it is only in just such extreme cases
that the union ever assumes to govern
the actions of superintendent. In thus
quietly eiecting the fighters of the
Alta and Justice, the union certainly
saved human life, and made an exhibi.
tion of their power as an organization
which was most oppressive on all OBJ
servers.
Year: 1878

A Paris letter says it is we'll known
that suffocation by burning charcoal in
a closed room is not produced by car
bonic acid. Death is caused by the
oxide of carbon, which is due to the in
complete oxidation of the charcoal.
The oxide of carbon unites with the
red globules of the blood, 80 that one
volume of oxide of carbon takes the
place of one volume of oxygen the
globules of blood cease to have the nor
NAL provision of oxygen, and suffoca-
tion ensues. Recent experiments have
demonstrated that the poisonous effects
of oxide of carbon are much more viru-
lent than was ssupposed-that is to say,
that much weaker dilution Of this gas
in air is fatal. Any man or animal that
breathes during half an hour in an at
mosphere containing 1-779 part of oxide
of carbon absorbs q sufficient quantity
of this gas to make half the red glo.
bules of his blood incapable of absorb
ing oxygen. Ifthe atmosphere contain
merely 1-1449 part of oxide of carbon,
one-quarter of the red globules of his
blood become incapable of absorbing
oxygen. Whenever there is an incom-
plete combustion oxide of carbon is in
variably produced. All cigars, and
especially all cigars that burn badly, al
pipes, all cigarettes, produce oxide o.
carbon. The smoke absorbs it; i
makes more or less of the red globulel
of his blood incapable of absorbing
oxygen. Narcotic anemia, narcotic
cardiacal diseases are probably caused
by this absorption Of the NEST poison
| GUS gas known,
Year: 1878

On Hogs Back Mountain, Bristol,
Vt, is a double rocking stone. One
rock, which weighs about twenty tons
and is easily rocked with one hand, is
surmounted by another of about eight
tons weight that also can be given a
swaying motion. Tradition says that a
third and small rocking stone formerly
capped these two and that it was tumbled
off years ago.
Year: 1878

physicians blamablc for not having called at- tention to the danger The editor of the vil- lage paper had been prompt and able in his denunciations of the poison in the bar-room decanter, but he had been slow to call atten- tion to those deaGly poisons of air and wa ter in the center of our village, of which he could not have been unaware. The Select men and town authorities too, had been ne- glectful, and the people permitting the nuisance, also. The question of drainage, Mir. McAllister acknowledged, was difficult one, and our clay soil the worst of all, to drain effectively. Still the difficulty must be met, and such rem edies as were possible, applied. He read with special approval Lord Palmerstons celebrated letter to the Scotch Presbytery, who asked for a public fast in view of the approach of the cholera in 1853. The Prime Minister replied that it would be far wiser to sec to their drains, to dsinfect the slums of their cities, and to adopt those habits of cleanliness which are the surest preventive of pestilence.

 The public owes much to MT. McAllister, for his plucky presentation of this important matter. It is very easy to preach against filth in general, but it is not so easy to say to the individuals to whose neglect the spread of disease and death is due, ''Ye are the men" If disposed to criticise his criticism, it would only be as to who ought to head the pro- cession of "responsibles." The proprietors of the premises from which the difficulty has chiefly arisen, seem to us entitled to that posi- tion, rather than those who are only indirect ly responsible.
Year: 1878

Tie trouble with this goose with wire
sauce" said guest at a hotel to the proprie-
tor, who smiingly asked if everything was
satisfactory, is that the age is 10 the goose 10
stead Of the wine.
Year: 1878

Little DO rural boys imagine that while they
arc attending school and striving to store their
minds with useful Information, bold. bad men
in New York are raising the price OF Ere
crackers.
Year: 1878

The public will please take no.
tioe that the Mechanics Store re.
ceives new goods nearly every day
aud we wish to state that the pub.
lie will find our prices lower than
elsewhere. We intend to give you
low prices at all times. and it will
be a great advantage to you to pat.
roniZe the MECHANICS STORE, As
MAIN STREET, opposite the Saint
Charles Hotel.
Year: 1878

The wheat shipping season is now
we'll under way, and, while it is too
early, as yet. to Judge Of the general
average quality Of the crop, it is Ger
tain that u considerable proportion
of what has so far come to market
has been so inferior in quality as to
excite apprehension regarding the
general out.turn. 1t is to be regret
ted that for the past two or three
wears there has been deterioration
in the quality Of California wheat, or
rather in the condition iu which it
has been sent to market. Less care
has been taken in thrashing and
cleansing. Much trash has been al
lowed to find its way into sacks in
company with good grain, and the
consequence is that the fair name of
our production has hardly been up in
fore gn markets. This year care is
especially required in sending in
wheat, for the system Of selling by
standard in England instead of by
actual samples is daily coming more
into use, and the arbltrations made
last season were so disadvantageous
to shippers from this side, that the
latter are exercising greater caution
than usual, and make a, wider
margin between grain of standard
shipping grades and inferior quail
ties. In some instances, the foul
condition of wheat is simply due to
want Of care in cleaning up thrash
ing stacks and sacking; in others, it
is to be feared that good and bad is
put up and sent to market in the
same lot in the hope that some of the
latter may slip through inspection
unnoticed and undetected. In either
case the result is about alike. Care.
lessness and dishonesty bear much
the same fruit, and it is particularly
misfortunate that the i'll effect is not
confined to those who do the wrong,
but that the whole crop actual y suf-
fers appreciabIy in price from the
failure Of some growers to put their
product into first class mel chantable
+. Chronicle.
Year: 1878

The ride home was accomplished with but
little difficulty. No casualties were re-
ported during the whole trip except the
breaking OF wagon seat on the way back.
caused by a tremendous increase in weight
Of the gustatory individual who sat on it,
and the dis'ocating Of young gentle
mans arm which got ''out Of place. so
oren that amputation Is talked OF. The
satisfaction telt by the young folks may
bc understood by the fact that they were
not home before proposition was assent
ed to looking to a repitition of the expert
mCnt.