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Year: 1878

In the atmosphere experienced here during the
summer months, the lethaIgy produced by the heat
takes away the desire for wholesome food, and
frequent perspirations reduce bodily energy, par
tcularly those suffering from the effects of debili


ting diseases. In order TO keep a natural health


full activity Of the system must resort to artif-
cial means. For this purpose Schenck's Sea Weed
Tonic is very effectual. few doses will create al
appetite and give fresh vgor to the enervaed body


For dyspepsia, it is invaluable. Many eminent
physicians have doubted whether dyspepsia can be
permanently cured by the drugs which are gener
ally employed for that purpose. The Sea Weed
Tonic in its nature is totally different from suct
arugs. 1t contain no corrosive minerals or acids


in fact it assists the regular operations of nature
and supplies her deficiencies. The tonic in its ma
ture so much resembles the gastric juice that it il
almost identical with that fluid. The gastric juic1
is the natural solvent which in healthy condition
of the body causes the food to be digested; ant
when this juice is not excreted in sufficient quaint
ties, indigestion, with all its distressing symptom
follow. The Sea Weed Tonic performs the dut.
of the gastric juice when the latter is deficient
Schenck's Sea Weed Tonic gold by oil Druggists.
Year: 1878

All the fairs give the first premiums
and special awards of great merit to Hop
Bitters, as the purest and best family
medicine, aud we most heartily approve Of
the awards for we know they deserve it.
They are now on exhibition at the State
Fairs, and we advise all to test them. See
another column.
Year: 1878

and interment; that he has frequently
heard the deceased spell his name
W-a-c-k-e-r-l-e to deponent. This
party subsequently said under oath
that he did not know the ma ne of the
man killed that he could neither read
or write; that he could not spell his
own name; that the affidavit pur-
ported to have been made by him was
not true; that it was never lead to
him, nor was he sworn; that his igno-
ran .e had been taken advantage of in
procuring it; that his only intention
was to swear to the fact OF a man
having been killed. The certificate
of death and burial gave the name OF
deceased as unknown. Mrs. Wack-
erie has also furnished several affida-
Wits in which the parties state q man
was killed on the above date, and they
have since heard, or have been led to
believe, it was William Wackerle.
In these affilavits the supposed age OF
the party killed w"s


from twenty
Year: 1878

the Cause OF the Great Loss of Life.


New YORK, Sept. 2s.-The London Whitehall
Reuie,e just received, alluding, to the. PRINCESS
that out OF some 800 people who were suddenly
submerged not a dozen should have saved their
lives by swimming, and it Is equally remark
the water second. 1t is more than evident
that very large number OF persons su able sat to
not only with the Princess Alice and the Bywell
Castle, but viii those who have rendered the
waters of the crowded Thames absolutely dead


In plain English, and it is impossible to be
too positive with the fact staring us in the face
the six hundred and odd souls we're poisoned.
charged into the river at Barking greek In a
raw condition, converting thereby the stream
into q common sewer. Now, the immediate
effect of plunging q human being into sewerage
is stupi6cation and asphyxia.
Year: 1878

'I cannot consent to serve again. only
consented because there was no other man to
represent the PRINCIPLES; but, although / was
willing then to endure the obloquy and the
ridicule. / am too old now to undertake another
campaign. I am In my eighty eighth year. and
half OF that gone."
Year: 1878

Such, tits said, was the enthusiasm With which
Mr.. Hayes was received everywhere during his
recent trip to the Northwest that at one place
alone seventeen pockets were picked IN less
than twice that many minutes.
Year: 1878

To Madame LOCQUET-LERoY and other Mourners.


blessed the desd " ho die in the Lord for they
rest from their labois and their works follow them"


The Crescent City monrneth now there's sadness in
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON. Dec. s1.-The following impor-
tant order was issued this morning to every
signal agent throughout the United States:


WAR DEPARTMENT J


Office of Chief Signal Officer, 7!


Washington. Jan. l, 1873 J
cautionary storm signal will be displayed a
occasion may require, at all active signal and
display stations Of the Signal Offlae
The signal will be displayed at and on the
sist of a whits flag with square black centre
shown above red flag with u square black
centre by day. or Q white light. shown above a
red light. by night.


This signal will be known as the eautionary
off shore signal. and will indicate when shown
that while the storm disturbance is considered
at the Office of the chief signal officer as not
passed for thasport or place at which the signal
Is displayed, and the winds may yet be high
and there may be danger the winds nre ex-
pected to blow from northern or western di-
reetion or off shore at or near the port or place
whore the signal may be.


The display of this signal will often follow
and must be distinguished from the display of
the usual eautionary signal, j. e. a square red
flag with q square black centre by day, or q red
light shown at night, which retains, whenever
shown alone. its usual meaning.


The display nf either sis,nnl will alHrats he
eautionary. The eautionary signal "a red flag
with black square In the centre by day, or red
light by night-calis for caution in view of an
approaching storm. and is also cautionary with
reference to winds blowing from any direction
with black square in the centre, shown above a
red flag with q black square III the centre by
day. or a white light shown above a red light by
nights cautfonary with reference to winds
ern direction. or off shore. at or near the place
''' '''' " ' - ALBERT J. MYER.
Brtgader General. assigned Chief Signal Off
Year: 1878

CoEsTANTtNopLE Dee. 9t.-The report that the
England causes great CONSERVATION. and the
general impres sion is that unless England
comes Immediately to The rescue there Is no al
tentative but to accept Russia's advice and treat
with the military commanders for an armstice
as Turkey is In no condition to continue the
war.


There is growing scarcity OF supplies of all
kinds, and bread riots are apprehended.
Year: 1878

A gang of men, headed by a
woman. marched into Justice
Haiues' court yesterday afternoon,
amid a great deal of discussion
and angry verbal disagreement
They arranged themselves along
the rail, and then it was n ade
known that the woman had hired
one of the men for $40 cash to
hold her husband while she com
mitted suicide by jumping into
the lake. She went at it, but be
fore she got through made up her
mind that suicide was wrong
She and her husband made up.
and now want the $40 returned.
The man who was hired says that
be had to work like a hero to hold
the husband of the fell destroyer,
and he doesn't intend 10 return
the money. Besides that, bis Ia
Dor extended over a time long
enough to admit of the suicide Of
both man and wife. and he cant
work for nothing. Justice Haines
was out of town, and the mob
pointed for Justice Meecls dis
pensary OF equity, where they be
gan suit which will be argued
hereafter. = Chicago Tribune,
Semi. 6.
Year: 1878


The witnesses we're all conveyed
to and from the Court in carriages
provided by the Church, and ev.
cry courtesy was extended TO
them.


In the mean time Mrs. Hill is
impatiently awaiting the decision
OF the Church. Her parents
strongly favor her alliance with
the family of the French noble
man, but she will submit to the
decree OF the Church, she is repor-
ed as saying, whatever it may be-
Year: 1878

Down in San Bernardino the
heathcn has been indulging in his
ways that are dark. He keeps a
store there. On o recent day be
went about town, buying up all
the rice that he could, and some
Iot the grocers thought that they
had struck a pretty good thing IN
selling out their stock at a profit.
When they attempted to replace
III, however, they found that ow


ing to the drputh in China, rice
had advanced So SO per sack, and
John had a corner in rice. They
were compelled to pay au advance
on what they lad sold for. The
grocers of San Bernardino are now
willing to admit that ''the Chinese
must go" San Francisco Call.
Year: 1878

The way it will be done in
Maine is as follows:


The House Of Representatives,
which is largely anti-Republi-
can, proceeds to elect two out
Of the four highest candidates
for Governor, and then the SEN
ate, which is Republican, must
elect one of those two. Of
course, under these conditions,
no Republican can be chosen
Governor.
Year: 1878

Patrick Lanigan OF New Haven
being disappointed in love at
tempted to shoot himself through
the head. The bullet entered his
thigh--showing it knew better
than he did the direction of his
brains.
Year: 1878

This is the choicest premium
ever given to newspaper sub
scribers-somcthing of real and
practical value. The ladies viii
be delighted with it. Ii your
neighbor don't take the OBsER-
YER tell him of this offer. They
all want the paper aud book.
You get the old OBSERVER and
a capital, practical, useful book
Of 160 pages, for the price Of the
former.


Now is your opportunity.
This unprecedented offer viii
expire in a few weeks.
Year: 1878

Halls Journal of Health don't believe
in too much water, for it says on the sub
ject Of bathing: Once week is often
enough for man to wash himself oil
over, and whether In summer or winter
that ought to be done with soap, warm
water and hogs hair brush, in room
showing at least seventy degrees Fahren-
heit. Baths should be taken early in the
morning, for it is then that the system
possesses the power of reaction in the
highest degree. Any kind of bath is
dangerous soon after a meal, or soon after
fatiguing exercise. No man or woman
should take a bath at the close Of the day
unless by the advice of family physi-
clan. The best mode Of keeping the sur
face of the body clean, besides the once
a week washing already mentioned, is as
follows: AS soon as you get out of bed
in the morning, wash your face, hands.
neck and breast; into the same basin of
water put both feet at once for about a
minute, rubbing them briskly all the
time; then with the towel, which has been
dampened by wiping the face, feet, etc,
wipe the whole body we'll, fast and hard,
with mouth shut and chest projecting.
Let the whole thing be done in less than
five minutes. At night, when you go to
bed, and whenever you find yourself
wakeful or restless, spend from two to
five minutes in rubbing your whole body
with your hand, so far as you can reach
in every direction. This has tendency
to preserve that softness and mobility of
skin which is essential to health, and
which too frequent washing will always
destroy.
Year: 1878

At Rosenberg, in the neighborhood Of
Graz, a pair Of swallows had built their
nest in the floor of a peasants house.
When the door was closed, the only en-
trance to the room was through the win
dow near by. One evening at harvest
time all the inhabitants of the house
went to the meadows situated at the foot
of The mountain, almost two miles dis
tant from the dwelling. The wife forgot
to leave the window of the cottage open,
and scarcely was the work of harvesting
under way, when pair of swallows flew
around her with loud twitterings, hitting
her on the head and shoulders with their
wings. At last it occurred to the woman
Year: 1878

The maple does not shed its leaves
In one tempestuous scarlet rain,
But SOFTLY when the south wind grieves,
Slow, wandering over wood and plain


One by one they waver through


The Indian Summers hazy blue,


And arop at last on the forest mold,


Coral and ruby, and burning gold.
Our death is gradual like these:


We die with every waning day,
There is no watt of sorrows breeze
But bears some heartbeat slow away:


Up and on to the vast To Be,


Our life is going eternallv!
Less of life than we had last year
Throbs in your veins and throbs in mine
But the way to heaven is growing clear,
And the gates of the city fairer shine:
And the day that our latest treasures flee
Wide they will open for you and me.
Year: 1878

/ did not love him: Long ago,
Instead of yes, gave him No.
I did not love him, but to-day,
read his marriage notice. Pray,
Why was I sad, when never yet
Has my heart known the leastregret
Over that whispered No? and why,
Reading the notice, did sigh?
No analyst can guess the cause;
A woman's reason laughs at laws.
Sure, am glad to know the wound
I gave is healed; that he has found
Loves blessedness and peace; and yet
To-day I seem to see him stand
With every glance mute caress,
Still pleading for the longed-for Yes.
His early love for me is dead
Another lives in that loves stead:
And if he loves her well, as men
Should love their chosen ones, Why,thel
He must be glad that long ago,
Instead of Yes, gave him No.


Perhaps that is the reason why
I read the notice with a sigh.
Year: 1878

"Beg pardon, but you are carrying off
my tobacco"


So all rights all right replied the
other. II was out and you have plenty
We've got to even this business up. you
know, and you keep the box, and I II keep
the tobacco"


He was too big to lick, and the COM
munist put the empty box IN his pocket,
and refused to laugh with the crowd.
Year: 1878

that these we're certainly her swallows
and that their entrance to the nest had
been closed. In spite of the distance and
pressing work, the good woman went
back to see, and if so, to put her dear
Swallows to nights She opened the
window and had the pleasure of having
her supposition confirmed d.-Animaz
Friend, Vienna.
Year: 1878

Imaginary evils soon become real ones
by indulging our reflection on them; as
he who in a melancholy fancy sees some
thing like face on the wall or wainscot,
can, by two or three touches with lead
pencil, make it look visible, and agree
ing with what be fancied.
Year: 1878

THE premonition of frost at st. Louis,
consequent on the appearance of an in
tensely cold wave that most probably
reached Memphis, if, accurate, will soon
settle the yellow fever question in large
area some distance below Cairo. Frost
usually makes its appearance in those lo>
calities in the middle OF September, and it
is not likely the present season Will form
an exception.
Year: 1878

THE departure of the Russian steamer
Cimbria from Southwest Harbor, on the
coast Of Maine,l does not attract as much
notice among seafaring men as did her ar
rival at that lonely port half a year ago
Nevertheless, the move Of interest, as we
hear the Cimbria is to drop anchor at
Philadelphia for the purpose of putting a
crew Of officers and men into one of the
Russian cruisers there, now ready for sea-
The Russians have recently displayed
great tact in disposing their naval ship,
for political and diplomatic effect, and il
may be worth while 10 watch their vessels
now readyor getting ready at Philadel
phia to see in what part of the world they
will turn up after leaving the City o
Brotherly Love and Centennial shows.
Year: 1878

If there ever was terrible example Of
the evil effects Of fintemperance, it is shown
in the case Of the man, who, while asleep
in car, had baby imposed upon him by
woman placing it in his arms and telling
the conductor, as she got off, that he w's
her husband.
Year: 1878

During the hot-spell l removed my
writing materials to the front porch, +,
overlooking the lake, and a bright view
of shining water, broken by islands of
oak, hickory, magnolia and the far line
of crankling coast, with tree trunks
visible in the clear air, two miles away.
Try to distinguish such objects across
the Ohio, at Cincinnati, dark mass of
foliage, not light background. There
are mockiDg-birds nestled in the orange
trees all about me, who keep up a con-
slant medley of song. One fellow es-
pecially, likes to perch on the castles
Uopmost peak and sing his very heart
out. My appearance on the porch this
morning was a signal for rapturous
shout among them. for these birds learn
TO know that you like their voices, as
well as any prima donna at Springer
Hall. One voice l distinguished, par
ticularly, by the rapidity with which its
troulGdes ran from one 10 another; wren
finch, linnet, chick, partridge were all
run together IN q marvellous phantasy
of notes. AS the hearing of one ear is
slightly affected, was at loss TO get his
position, aud stepped from the porch to
see if he was on his favorite perch on
the peaks, "a did so, l saw has grace


full gray coat snd white lining fluttering
on pine. But soon as the gay fellow
saw that ] noticed him, he went mad
with vanity and conceit. Down he
jumped on lower branches, until he was
just above my head, executing variety
OF fantastic trills, and fluttering and
throwing his body about in state OF
intense excitement. A fellow likes TO
be appreciated, and know it, in this
world. whistled back and he stopped,
cooked his head aside, as if to say" Fry
that again old fellow, but you don't do
it right; here's the way" then of he
went. They are very fearless. One
flew into the room and l caught it on
the window pane. In five minutes or
less, holding it by the feet, it was eating
rice from my open hand. But the wild
bird dies in confinement; and even OF
the young taken from the nests, five out
of six are lost in raising. IL is pitifui
TO see the mother bird come 70 the cage
to feed those taken in this way; and a
popular superstition asserts that the
mother bird poisons her young, cap
tured and Gagged, if you let her at them.
Poor thing! Isuppose the worst TO be
said of her is, that in her over anxiety,
she over-ieeds them.
Year: 1878

Yer from his belt and quick as thought
sent ball after ball into the card, till
there were six balls in spot not much
larger than a silver dollar.


By this time the school-bouse was
half full Of large boys and girls. The
little ones were afraid to come.


Then the teacher walked half way
down the room with the bowie knife in
his hand and threw it with so true a
hand that itstuck quivering in the very
center of the card.
He left it there and put two more
knives of the same kind in his belt and
quietly reloaded his yet smoking pistol.


''Ring the bell; l am about TO open
school ~


He spoke 70 the cross-eyed boy, the
bully of the crowd; and the boy rang
the bell without word.


"The scholars will take their seats; l
open school with prayer" he said
sternly, five minutes later.
The scholars sat down silent almost
breathless.


After prayer the teacher cooked q
revolver and walked down the floor.


ave will arrange the classes" he
said. "All who can read, write and
spell. will rise, of them we Will form the
first class"


Only six got up. He escorted them
to upper seats, and then he began to
examine the rest. A whisper was
heard behind him. In a second he
wheeled, revolver In hand.


"No whispering allowed here" he
thundered, and for an instant his revOl-
yer lay on a level with the cross-eyed
boys head.


"I'll not do so any MORE" gasped the
bully.


"See that you do not. / never give a
second warming" said the teacher, and
the revolver fell.
IT took two hours to organize the
classes, but when done, they were well
organized. Then came recess. The
teacher went out too, for the room was
crowded and hot. A hawk was circling
overhead high in air. The teacher
drew a revolver, and the next second,
the hawk came tumbling down among
the wondering scholars.


From that day, on, Harry kept school
for two years in Cranberry Gulch, his
salary doubled after the first quarter,
aad his pupils learned to love, as well
as respect him, and the revolvers went
out OF sight within a month.


They had found a man at last who
could keep school. This is fact.
Year: 1878

An exceedingly learned but somewhat
stately Clergyman, who preached last
Sunday evening, in one Of our very
costly and fashionable churches, told,
by way of illustration, one of the most
remarkable snake stories that ever found
its way into the American pulpit. He
said that he had read it some where, but
he omitted TO say where, IL was to the
effect that an eagle, spying from his
lofty perch a snake which was crawling
on the earth, swOOped down for the
reptile, caught it in his beak and began
TO soar aloft. The eagle was proud of
his prize, but the snake objected to thus
being made game of, and began TO wind
itself around the extended and widely
Tapping wings of the noble bird. The
noble bird thereupOn found himself
crippled and powerless TO fy according
10 his customary manner. The hiceOus
reptile wound itself more and more
around the wings of the noble bird.
Noble bird found it more and more diff
ticult to fly. Hideous reptile took a few
more turns around noble birds wings
and pinioned them almost to his sides.
Noble bird struggled and could hardly
fig at all. HideOus reptile took some
more turns around noble birds wings,
and noble bird was unable TO make any
motion of his wings whatever. There
upon noble bird, made a captive by the
creature he had pounced upon for his
own, tumbled lifeless to the ground. A
lawyers little daughter, who had list
ened with breathless interest TO the
narration, turned to her father and
asked, spa, what became Of the
snake?"
Year: 1878

The sword-fish weighs from 100 to
COO lbs. Their only known breeding
ground is in the Mediterranean. There
the same fish are found weighing half
a pound; from that they go up to very
heavy measurement. It is naturally
inferred from this that all our sword
fish are Mediterranean products. What
mysterious ocean current guides them
over here: Or is it the instinct that
teaches them that mere they will tind
the mackerel and menhaden that they
feed on: One can almost imagine that
the game Of flight and pursuit kept up
bv these two species starts at Gibraltar
and is run TO Block Island every year.
The sword-fi-h darts upon a school of
its prey, and by skilful use of its sword
wounds those that it afterward captures
and eats. Until this season nobody ever
thought OF catching it except by har-
poons. This year, however, il has tax
en- the bats of the trawls-bottom lines
of the Cape Ann cod fishermen, and
many sword-fish have been caught in
that novel way. What they come up
and sleep for is one of the puzzles Of
their nature. They come and go as the
mackerel and menhaden do. and from
that il is naturally concluded that they
spend their time chasing these small
| fish. What with sharks, sword-iish.
pOrpoises, bluefish, sea-guIls, eagles
and seines, and all the rest, after them,
the fish of the herring tribe have led
such lives of flight and terror that it is
no longer a wonder that the movements
of any school of them seem always
guided by an inherent idiocy. IL is less
strange of them that they are all the
while victims than that being caught
By millions yearly. they should steadi-
ly increase. There were never more
menhaden on our coast than this year.


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