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Year: 1879

Fans are made to match the coz
tune.


Black is the best color for phe
graphing.


Poppieg are much worn Or eDarae,
heavy straw hats


Rings 10 match the color Of the neck
lace are new fancy.


Pearl necklaces with several rows
are worn with high dresses in Paris.


New sasbes are Of rich brocaded rib
bons in Persian colors and designs


Dainty Swiss ties for ladies are FIN
ished on the ends with colored guipnre
embroidery.


Very full plaitings and ruchings Of
Breton lace are used TO garnish summer
costumes.


inexpensive fans are made Of mum
my cloth and have all the effect Of The
fine satin Pomiadour fans without the
cost.


Many fashionable dreases are made
with the fan whist in favor many years
ago, and IS 20 becoming TO slender sg-
ures.


The polonaise reappears this season
under the name Of q matinee, and Is
welcomed by the la5ies with great sat
isfaction. It Is short and buncby in
shape.


A fayorite way Of wearing the broad
sash so popular at present Is TO place it
around the waist to form belt, and to
tie it carelessly ON the left side in
large loose knot.


The new Breton lace dresses are made
over the finest French nainsook and are
very handsome for evening or dinner
wear.


The latest round lat is low crowned
with straight brim about four inches in
width; it may be worn over the face or
set back on the hair.


Shirring is becoming very popular,
and many new costumes are seen with
the front and back Of the basque or
polonaise shirred. These dresses are
only becoming to slender figures.


Nearly all Of the newest costumes,
either for street or home wear,a made
with the square neck corsage. or with
the corsage Ia Vierge or v shape,
filed with full plaitings of lace or crepe
lisse.
Year: 1879

the labor which remains. Out Of
what remains when you have broken
down the monopoly there will arise
fairer prospect, and II is not possible
that I shall live to see 1t, tIme will
come when you will have homes Of
comfort and Observation-Disclosures
tho land of England, which will at
test forever the wisdom and blessed
ness Of tho new policy you have
adopted. loud cheers.
Year: 1879

recommend the original
riddle to the cheerful
consideration Of those of
our readers who think it
means them. By care
full and continued appli-
cation for a time, it may


be solved, and we cannot
but think, when solved,a
Year: 1879

very great length OF time VII not
elapse before the benefit of this solution
will be felt in q way that we can really
appreciate. This conclusion may be
problematic, but we shall anxiously
await its determination, trusting it may
be in our favor.
Year: 1879

We are told that o duk, of Tuscany
was the first possessor of this pretty
shrub in Europe; and he was 80 iealously
fearful lest others should enjoy what he
alone wished to possess, that strict
injunctions were given to his gardener
not to give a slip, not so much as single
flower, to any person. To this command
the gardener would have been faithful,
had not love wounded him by the
sparkling eye of a fair but portionless
peasant, whose want of little dowry,
and his poverty, alone kept them from
the hymenial altar. On the birthday of
his mistress he presented her with a
nosegay. and to render the bouquetmore
acceptable, ornamented it with branch
of jasmine. The porera .fglia, wishing
to preserve the bloom of this new flower,
put it into fresh earth, and the branch
remained green all the year. In the
following spring it grew, and was
covered with flowers. 1t fourished and
multiplied so much under the fair
nymph's cultivation, that she was able
to amass little fortune from the sale
of the precious gift which love had made
her; when, with q sprig Of jasmine in
her breast, she bestowed her hand and
wealth on the happy gardener of her
heart. And the Tuscan girls, to this
day, preserve the remembrance OF this
adventure, by invariably wearing nose
gay of jasmine on their wedding day;
and they have proverb which says a
young girl worthy of wearing this nose
gay is rich enough to make the fortune
of a good husband.
Year: 1879

Last Thursday morning o rattle was
made up by some of the citizens of Paris
for box of five hundred cigars. There
we're twenty-five chances at one dollar a
chance. The plan was that known as
the shotgun plan, in which each man
taking q chance puts his mark on the
blank paper surrounding target. The
target is placed on pivot and whirled,
and while thus whirling is fired at with
a gun loaded with small shot. The mar
whose mark comes nearest being hit
takes the prize. In this case George
Lefiis took chance, but would. not put
down his mark until all the other marks
had been placed around the target. He
then went to each of the rafflers and
said "You and T have each got a
chance in this cigar rattle let us 60 in
'cahoot' If you get them divide with
me, and if I get them I'll divide with
YOU" This arrangement he made with
eighteen of the chance holders, telling
each to keep their partnership a secret.
To prevent any possibility, as he
thoug ght, OF winning the cigars himself.
he made His mark az far from the target
rs the paper would allow. He then felt
sure OF half the cigars, and already, in
imagination, was putting the fragrant
weed, and laughing in his sleeve over
the sharp trick and excellent joke he had
played the "other boys" But, alas
the Joke was soon turned, and visions OF
a cob pipe foated before his astonished
eyes. The gun was fired, and stray
shot knocked the center out of Georges
mark. Eighteen men stepped up and
said "I'll take my half now." Letiis
thus found himself booked for $500
worth of cigars. He compromised, how
ever, after some wrangling, by dividing
the cigars equally among his partners.-
Paris (Isnn.) Inteltigencer.
Year: 1879

The sure way to miss success is to
mis- the opportunity.


Philosophy, if rightly defined, is
naught but the love of wisdom.


Hypocrites are beings of darkness dis
guised in the garment of light.
He that keeps his temper is better
than he that can keep carriage.


Though fancy may be the patients
complaint, necessity is often the doctor.


He who will not reason is a bigot,
he who cannot is fool, and he who
dares not is slave.


If all the year we're playing, holidays,
to sport would be rs tedious as to work !;
but when they seldom come, they are
wished for.


Vanity is our dearest weakness, in
more senses than one o man will sacri-
flee, and starve ont all his inclinations to
keep alive that one.


There is nothing evil in life for him
who rightly comphrehends that death is
no evil ; to know how to die delivers us
from all subjection and constraint.


Like many virtues, hospitality is
practiced in its perfection by the poor.
If the rich did their share, how would
the woes of this world be lightenedl


We die every day ; every moment de-
prives us of portion of life and advan-
ces us a step toward the grave :; our
whole life is long and painful sickness.


Death opens the gate of fame, and
shuts the gate of envy after it !; it un-
looses the chain of the captive, and puts
the bondsman's task into another mans
hand.


Many nm honest man practices upon
himself all amount of deceit sufficient, if
practiced upon another, and in little
different way, to send him to the State
prison.


By what strange law of mind is it
that an idea long overlooked and trod-
den under foot rs useless stone, sud-
denly sparkled out in new light, as q
discovered diamond?


Death alone of the gods loves not
gifts, nor DO you need to offar incense
libations. He cares not for altar nor
hymn the goddess of persuasion alone
has no power over him.


Persons who practice deceit and arti-
fee always deceive themselves more
than they deceive others. They may
feel great complacency in view of the
success of their doings but they are in
reality casting a mist before their own
eyes. Such persons not only make o
false estimate of their own character,
but they estimate falsely the opinions
and conduct of others. No person is
obliged to tell all he thinks but both
duty and self-interest forbid him ever to
make false pretences.
Year: 1879

Together We walked in the evening time,
Above us the sky spread golden and clear,
And he bent his head and looked in my eyes,
AS if he held me Of all most dear,
Grayer the light grew and grayer still.
The rocks fitted home through the purple


shade


The nightingales sang where the thorns stood


high,


AS walked with him in the woodland glade.
And our pathway went through fields Of wheat
Narrow that path and rough the way,
But he WIS near and the birds sang true,
And the stars came out in the twilight gray.
Softly he spoke Of the days long past,
Softly Of blessed days to be;
Close to his arm and closer prest-
The cornfeld path was Eden to me.
And the latest CLEANS of daylight died;
Ny hand in his EMBODIED lay;
We swept the dew from tfe wheat as We passed,
For narrow and narrower wound the way.
He looked in tho depths OF my eyes and said:
"sorrow and gladness will come for us, sweet ;
But together we'll walk through the fields Of


lifo


Close as VIC walked through the fields Of


wheat"
Year: 1879

Out on the Indian Valley road, in
Nevada, there is pine tree, with q
diameter of nearly two feet, in which is
an oak limb growing which has already
attained q considerable length and a
diameter of three inches. 1t does not
seem to thrive in it's strange Quarters.
The theory is that m acorn by some
means got lodged in the bark Of the pine
tree, and dust settled around it in suftl-
cient quantities to make it sprout, and
that it gradually became a part Of the
tree itself.
Year: 1879

TEXTS FROM THE TAIMUD.-If thy
wife be small, bend down to her, and
speak to her; do nothing without her
advice. Everything in life can be re-
placed; thy wife of early days is ire
placeable An honorable man honors
his wife; contemplate one despiseth
her. The loss Of q first wife is like the
loss of a mans sanctuary in his lifetime.
Year: 1879

From this it seems that the great dan
ger and disgrace in the management of
municipal matters is confined to our
large and densely populated cities, the
facts and figures presented certainly in
dicatine that such is the case.
Year: 1879

If I should have void darkness In my eyes
While there were violets in the sun to see;
II I should fail to hear my childs sweet cries,
Or any birds voice in our threshold-tree'
II should cease to answer love or wit:
Blind, deaf or dumb, how bitter each must


be!
Blind, deaf, or dumb-I will not think Of it.
Yet the night comes when I shall be all


three
Year: 1879

life. I would like to have seen the body as
1t was taken from the water. Then we
could more satisfactorily examine the PIN
ION and bandage. While it is quite possible
he might have been foully dealt with. think
the evidence points in the other direction.
We shall know more tomorrow. In all
probability some one will come forward by
that time to tell US who he has been, and
the post.morten will relate the rest OF the
story"


"Don't you think 1t curious that he had
no papers nor anything on him?"


i" Certainly. 1t is curious case alto
gether-a mysterious one. The absence Of
papers and other means OF Identification
might be accounted for and explained In
many ways. That circumstance aids the
theory Of murder to considerable degree.
A suicide also would be likely to remove
all signs rs to who be was. When man
is rushing into the other world Of his own
accord he is likely to desire to conceal who
he is, particularly il he were man in good
position, and whose loss would be severely
felt by others. Who knows the body was
not found before 1t was thrown up
on the Battery wall? II he had
a pocket-book that contained money and
letters the birds Of prey upon the river may
have taken all. The watcb-pocket OF the
waistcoat was made OF cbamois leather.
This argues watch, but understand there
was nothing found in any OF the pockets.
Then, again, il the body had fallen into
the hands OF river thieves, they might as
we'll have taken the clothing as any valu-
ables about the body. No, on second
thought. am convinced we have the man
as he fell into the river. Nevertheless. it is
an interesting case, and most mysterious
one ,, sE~.t-. II
Year: 1879

The APIToL.-The Governor was at
work on his annual message to the General
Assembly when he was called away from
the city by the serious illness of bis mother.
lie has also sick sister and brother.


Sixteen of the double desks are TO be
taken out Of the hall OF the House of Dele
pates, the number OF members having been
reduced from 1872 to 100. Both legislative
chambers need new furniture and thor
ough securing and cleaning. The latter, at
least, Colonel Harrison will probably in
sure.


Most il not all Of the annual reports OF
the heads OF departments and boards OF STATE
inStitrtions are in the hands OF the printer.


The Board OF State Canvassers will meet
on Monday next, and il nothing Interrupts
them, will be able to complete their WORK
in day or two, the returns having already
been tabulated In the Office OF the Secretary
OF the Commonwealth.
Year: 1879

The TEMPERANCE PEOPLE, we have
no doubt, accomplished some good in
W.lmi ngton in the last two years, by
the employment Of Mr.. butcher, the re-
formed temperance orator; and good
was probably effected by other speakers
and workers in the cause. But these
men required support, and like agitations
kept up in this way subsided when the
money run out. During all the time it
was difficult to curb the disposition to
quarrel among the leaders, and would
be orators-Dutcher, Lee, Hall and
Bryaut,--and when the restraint of solid
men had to be withdrawn, these feeble
men of infirm purpose soon began to ex-
pose each others present characters.
They had of their own free will told suf-
ficient of their debasement by drink,
and what rum drinking and rum selling
had done for them. But siLce they
have been left each to the tender mercy
of the other, they have been drawing
aside the curtain and threatening to dc
20 and expose to the public gaze
such acts of criminality as should bring
the blush of shame and disgust to the
cheek of every good citizen. These mel
openly say they have been hiding thu
shame of each other, and that mucl
more could be told of their erring ant
debssed lives than has yet been mad
known.


We know nothing Of either. The,


NAV each lie about the other; or the
may each tell the truth of the other
INT whether truthful or not we ar
heartily tired of their wrangling, an
having opened our columns to sewers
Year: 1879




The significance of the development
of the export trade of the United States
is fully appreciated in France. At
recent meeting of the Council-General
at Havre committee recommended that
the Government should give up all
treaties of commerce and navigation,
and adhere exclusively to general Gus
tom tariff. Such tariff should be
adopted as soon as possible, and should
be constructed in such a way as to in
sure to ali branches of national labor a
compensation for the charges they have
to bear and the development of activity
which alone will be able to mainta ain the
wages of labor at a really paying rate
The report referred to the results of pro
lection in the United States, and asked
"What will the export trade be in few
years hence? The American natioI
does not walk-it takes giant steps"
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON. August %. 1872
SITTING BULLS STATUS sFrrLED BY 9 MADAM


ACCEPTANCE OF HIS DEPENDENCE.


The Secretary of War says that our government
did all that was required under international Law
years ago in sending commission to treat with Sit
ting Bull and request him to return to the United
States At that time he in Canadian territory.
and he refused to accept the proposition made BY
General Terry and Commissioner Lawrence. The
Canadian officials have since assumed the respons-
biity OF taking of our refugee Indians. and II
they prove troublesome the burden rests upon them
No demand can now be made upon the Unitsd states
to receive back Sitting Bull and his followers.
Year: 1879

To THE EDITOR THE HERALD


The officials of the Street or Health Department.
whichever it may be- whose province and duty it 10
and report the conditions of the Streets
seem to have their range of vision SO widely ex.
tended that the smaller streets and alleys escape
their notice. while larger streets and avenues ara
seldom if over overlooked and promptly and
faithfully attended to. The little street alley
known Temple street, next west of Broadway and
extending from Liberty to Thames street, is. or ap-
pears to be, one of this unfortunate and neglected
kind About two months ago it was properly
paved by the authorities with granite block. Since
then, however, the sand with which IL
covered to fill the interstces has been allowed
to remain through wet and dry weather, til by the
addition OF slops and garbage thrown from restau-
rants. Liberty street is coated with althy muck and
dust, and is anything but pleasant spectacle to
strangers and others passing up and down town. and
to and from the ferry the latter street. Why do
the police prevent the throwing of sops and all
kinds OF refuse street. especially one so
row, and yet and noticed by many this
one called Temple is? OBSERVER.
Year: 1879

INorg.-Letters intended for this column must oe
accompanied by the writer full name and address to
insure attention. complainants who are nwilin2 10
comply with this rule simply waste time in writing.
Write only on one side of the paper.-ED HERALD.l
Year: 1879

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


The people of the Twenty-third ward claim as
right that the Tenth District Civil and Police courts
should be located centrally instead OF being at the
extreme end OF the district. No mans self-in-
terest should be served at cost of time trouble and
expense to large population who have either 70
abandon cases or go to courts located most incon-
veniently by one man power. SUFFERER.
Year: 1879

To THE EDITOR OF THE HEHALD:-
That wooden gutter at the crossing of Front
and Montgomery streets is in very bad condition.
Will the Board of Public Works be good enough to
look to ana repair 1t before it gives one the
opportunity to sue the city for damages?


TAXPAYER.
Year: 1879

To THE EDIron OF THE HERALD:-


am owner of two cigar stores. have lived
twenty years in Paris. but many
loafers ana beggars using such dirty language as
every day in my stores. II the police do not
do their duty will not he responsible for any act
on my part for shall not be any more insuted by
such filthy class of people. They are disgrace
to the American nation. A CONSTANT READER.
Year: 1879

TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


Cannot West Fifty-second street, between Sixth
and Seventh avenues. be protected by the police
finest in the world) from a gang of rufians that
infest it? II not respectable citizens will have to
take the law in their hands and rid the neigh.
borhood Of the most dastardiy crowd in the city,


A PROPERTY OWNER.
Year: 1879

To THE EDITOR THE HEnALD:-


Cannot you publish something in your paper to
stop reckless butchers from driving furiously
through the streets. as they often endanger life?
was almost run down myself the other day, and
there is not q day passes without our hearing of
accident from wagons, ice carts or butcher wagons.
Your publication of article to denounce this will
have the desired effect EDNA.
Year: 1879

did while with us is asfresh to nightas if it


were but yesterday, so will it be with


all our young readers as time sets its seal
on passing years, the merry times they
have had upon the blessed anniversary
will flash 10 their mind as an oasis upon
the desert of life Winter is here, chill
aud severe, singing ears and aching
toes makes the boys and girls bound
along the streets, but as we write, the
laugh and shout as they are returning
from the Christmas tree at the church
reaches US. and looking out into the cold
night we heartily return their salutation
of a Merry Christmas. Yes, Yes, that not
only tomorrow may bc a merry one for
you, but that many, many merry one
may roll over your heads. casting a Saw
iours blessing, drawing you nearer to the
fellowship of him whose birth you are
rejoicing over, is our heartfelt wish.
Year: 1879

New phases of the so-called Democratic
and Greenback fusion in this County, make
the swindle more and more noteworthy. 1t
has been charged that the nominees were Of
ficious and influential in intiicting the coali-
ton upon the Greenback Conven ion that Mr..
Chaplin, by superior parliamentary skill sue
ceeded in getting his minority report substi-
tuted for the report of a majority of the COM
mittee who were opposed to the sale OF the
party. This majority consisted of the most
judicious and sagacious men of the conven-
ton, but were not skilled in parliamentary
tactics. The management on the part OF
Chaplin was not dishonest. He was only at
work, by legitimate means at his control, for
his private advantage; but it is charged also
that Rev. Mr. Eaton was swindled out OF the
nomination to which the actual vote OF the
Convention entitled him. When the whole
history of the fusion intrigue shall be writ
ten it will be political epic. County eau
cuses packed by hired agents dispatched by
interested Democrats of Portland to secure
delegates in favor of fusion; the basis OF rep
resentation arbitrarily changed SO as best TO
secure the same result, done at Portlan ;the
report of the majority of the select commit
tee of the Convention, which was opposed TO
fusion, set aside by parliamentary tricks ana
the minority report made by one member OF
the committee; minority programme can
didate declared nominated without regard to
the roll-these are the chief features OF that
show
Year: 1879

THIS from the New York Tribune: THAT
astute political observer, Senator Chandler,
gives it as his opinion that the Republicans
will carry Maine on the popular vote if
proper attention is given to the back dis
tricts. The Senator's experience with the
Greenback element in Michigan, gives his
statement more than ordinary weight. He
says the country places are the chief strong
holds of the Greenbackers. and it is there
that they must be met and their positions
assailed To use the Senator's own words !:
''You must smoke these people out OF their
holes" In his tour of the State he has
found the people more anxious to hear about
the Southern question than any other. The
Senator expresses great admiration for the
earnestness and enthusiasm of the Maine
Republicans, and the reception given him
wherever he has spoken"
Year: 1879

11dTK WICH tIIc IOIIOWII5'


viii our genial neighbor, the Press, bear with us
a moment while say in the most gentle way pos
sible that in a letter from prominent citizen from
oxford County we are informed the Democrats and
Greenbackers in Fryeburg and adjoining towns are
making great gains from the Republican ranks, and
that they "haye the radicals on the rum and pro-
pose to Keep 'em skipping. "-Ayus


Will the Argus bear with us moment while
we ask if the letter "from prominent citizen
from Oxford County" was not written by one
of its own editors.-PresS


Will the Press and Argus both bear with
us for a moment while we write from the
seat of war to say that Fryeburg and adjoin-
ing towns are going to make great Republi-
can gains from last year. Don't give us any
more Of your brag, Mr. Argus; come up and
Year: 1879

A SHEET filled with Misrepresentation
made by the Maine Standard, and probably
printed in that office, is circulating in this
CITY, The statements it makes are false
hoods and have been refutea over and over
again. Any man who believes word Of
them should be put under guardianship.
Year: 1879

The main question, as viewed in the light
of Honest Truth, is: ''Shall the Greenback
enemies Of business prosperity die this year,
as they certainly will with Republican vic
tory in September; or, shall they live to assist
the Confederates in their menace to the Ma
tional life in 1880? AS distinct party, the
Greenback concern cannot live twelve
months on its lone dead issue. Why no'
bury it now by a rousing Republican majori-