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Year: 1877




A correspondent of the Baltimore
american says that at Titusville, Pa. =,
Senator Anderson's beautiful grounds,
on the suburbs Of the city, present a
splendid sight every clear night during
summer. The great attraction is the
fact that they are brilliantly illuminated
by natural gas from the Newtown
we'll, about four miles distant. This
we'll yields nothing but gas, and when first
opened the roar Of the escaping gas
could be heard, it is said, for distance
Of seven miles. The gas has since been
confined so as to be conveyed in pipes to
the city and is used extensively for
cooking and heating purposes. In the
house Of Senator Anderson not stick
of wood or lump of coal is used during
the year either for cooking or heating.
He uses the gas in cooking stoves and in
open CRATES in his parlors, sitting rooms,
and chambers. Itgives too much smoke
to be used for light indoors, and simply
takes the place Of fuel. There are about
twenty standards on the lawns and
around the fountain and lake in the
senator's grounds, and one magnificent
arch, the innumerable jets from the
pipe each throwing out fame about
twelve inches long. There are about
twenty standards in all, with about thirty
Jets, each jet throwing out fierce fame
from twelve to eighteen inches long.
The portion of the grounds illuminated
is to the extent of about four acres, and
is as light as day in every part. The
fountain is magnificent work of art,
surmounted by o nymph pouring water
from an urn into goblet, and four
swans, each throwing streams into the
basin below, while there is beautiful
floral display at the base of the foun-
tain and on the ground surrounding it.
The lawn is kept in splendid condition,
interspersed with variegated flowers,
and the effect Of this brilliant illumina-
ton may be imagined amid such scene
of floral attractions. The gas is also
used for heat in the conservatory, and
we are informed by the gardener that
the entire cost Of the gas used for domes-
tic purposes and illumination Of the
grounds is but 800 per annum. The
force Of this gas is so great that recently,
in tapping tho pipe to put in q service
pipe for dwelling, the particles Of iron
were forced out with such velocity as to J
enter the flesh Of the plumbers arm.
The gas from the Newtown we'll is extern |
sively used in Titusville in place of
fuel, similar to its use in the mansion OF
Senator Anderson, and there is some talk
of using it for the general lighting of the
city.
Year: 1877

NEXT week will be given full nc
count OF our visit TO the Renton mine
and what We saw two Thousand feet un-
der ground. This article, with u great
amount OF other original matter is
crowded out this week. Within tn.
past year we have carefully examined
three OF the leading coal mines Of the
Sound region. Newcastle, Talbot, ana
the Puyallup mines will be visited as
soon MS time can be found for the pur-
pose,
Year: 1877

Upon the table, the canvas back
makes royal dish, though few can dis
tinguish between it and the red-head
when both are in season. Only those
very familiar with the birds can tell
which is which when alive, and, when
served, it becomes almost an impossi-
bi1ity. The celery flavor is more marked
in the canvas back in the best of the sea-
son. 1t is seldom served precisely as it
should BE- anywhere out of Maryland.
# allowed to remain in the oven five
minutes too long, it is unfit for the ta-
bic. A goo1 deal depends upon the
carving. A good quick oven will cook
full-sized duck in twenty-five minutes.
1t should never remain in over twenty
FIVE After a duck is picked and drawn,
it should be simply wiped dry. Water
should never touch it, and it should be
fairly seasoned before going to the fire.
When done, the birds should be placed
in pains in hot, dry dishes. There is no
need to prepare a gravy; Immediately
they are cut, they will fill the dish with
the richest gravy that ever was tasted.
One canvas back to each "cover," is
considered fair allowance at Mary
land table, but, when the bird is only an
incident of the dinner or supper, of
course half bird is sufficient for each
person. Slicing the bird is unheard of.
The tTo-probged fork is inserted dag
onally astride the breastbone, and the
knife lays half of the bird on each side,
leaving the "carcass" on the fork be-
tween. The triangle of meat an inch
thick comprised between the leg and the
wing, with its apex at the back and its
base at the breast, is considered the
most delicious morsel of meat that ex-
lists. The canvas back in Maryland is
served with large hominy fried in cakes,
celery, and dry champagne, or bot
tie of Burgundy that is Burgundy
iScrih,le7. for. November
Year: 1877

The style in silk hats is regulated by
an association, and it is this regulation
which insures their being uniform, or
nearly so, throughout the country. The
fashions in tall hats are changed twice a
year, and the association meets semi-an-
nually for the purpose of determining
what the styles shall be. At these meet
ings manufacturers who belong to the
association (or as many as see fD each
hand III a model hat for the consideration
Of those present The various hats
handed in are considered by the mem
bers, AMI any variations in the models
which strike the fancy of any of those
and it is then determined by vote what
shall be the style of the fashion for the
season.-BostOn Herald.
Year: 1877

The Canaan On. H.) -ReporteT says !:
" A farmer saw two men trying to drive
a hog past his premises few days since,
but the brute appeared so obstinate that
they at last told the farmer that they
were having so much trouble with the
hog that if he would kill it for them he
might have half for bis trouble. Ac-
cepting SO generous an offer, he soon
had the hog dressed, when the men took
haif and drove away. Not long after he
went to feed his own hog, but the pen
was empty, and it did not take him long
TO figure out that he had killed his own
hog, receiving half of it for his trouble. !"
Year: 1877

THE TRIBUNE Office is the only one i'm the CITY
run by steam power, and has the largest and
best appointed Job Printing Department.. Par
ticular attention paid TO orders for fine work
Year: 1877

OLD fogies may talk till their jaws ache
about the weak spots in republican
form Of government, but the sons of
freedom on this side of the water can
take little children on their knees snd
tell them that never IN the course of a
century has the ship of state been in
trusted to the guidance of a man who
pared his hair in the middle.
Year: 1877

ing 10 same, now tia: be had set the
example and shown me the way. A
long time l worked, longer than the
panther. for my paws were not soUsed
to digging; bat at last the hale vas
sufficiently large for me to work my
way through; and when had done 90.
dragging my rife after me, / fonnd my
self in . narrow passage OF nearly the
same length as that which l left. II
LED onward for somo distance. turning
more than once: and you can imagine
my JOY when I saw the rays Of the
morning sun without. and knew that
night and danger were passed.


l was saved-and to the panther l
owed my salvation.
Year: 1877

There was flying marriage on the Union
Pacific Railroad week ago Saturday. A
San Francisco widower had been in cores
pondence with Leavenworth widow, to
whom he had been betrothed in his youth
and from whom he had been separated by
cast-iron fate. Her husband had had the
good grace to die betimes and his wife had
been equally considerate, and the surviving
partners, after an exchange of compliments
and regrets, resolved to console each other
permanently. The bride went on from the
East arrayed in brown travelling gown
and the bridegroom went on from the
West with pair of three-button black kid
gloves. They met at Sacramento. AtGalt
a minister got on the train and the restless
bridegroom whispered to the bride, "Why
not now? The coy lady blushed, but did
not say to him nay. The impulsive bride
groom dispatched the peanut boy for the
conductor and held brief consultation
with the minister. The loving pair clung
to the ends of the seats and to each other,
and the minister took his place in front OF
them and married them. In the excite.
ment Of the moment the lady released her
hold of the seat and was shot into the arms
of the conductor, who kissed her before
restoring her to her husband. Running
| time-40 miles an hour.
Year: 1877

The Washington Star notes that there is
already change in the aspect of society at
the National Capital. The men who give
big dinners are no longer in the ascendant,
but more modest people have a chance.
The Hayes family does not take kindly to
mere wealth and show, nor to people whose
principle merit is that they can eat and
drink long and deep.
Year: 1877

Many a man talks of what the country
owes him, whose services would be well
repaid by six feet in the corner of a
cemetery, and who would be overpaid if a
fve-cent sign was stuck up to keep people
off from the grass.
Year: 1877

The scientists are running down blue
glass at dreadful rate. Why don't they
take somebody of their size, let blue glass
alone, and tell us why nothing on earth
will keep cats tail from doubling in size
every time she gets mad, except cutting it
off close up to the cat.
Year: 1877

A man in an American rural settlement,
who has been an inveterate smoker for
twenty years has suddenly and permanent
ly given up the practice. He knocked the
ashes of his pipe into keg of blasting
powder.
Year: 1877

A Chicago man insists that he saw red
and black snake forty feet long, and as big
round as barrel of whiskey. We have no
doubt that he did, but he unquestionably
saw the barrel of whiskey before he saw the
snake
Year: 1877

Better give the baby rattle. He can
get lots of fun out of revolver, but it is
apt to go off and hurt somebody. When
you see the baby in the back yard with
revolver, and a reporter looking over the
fence and whistling 81 hear an angel
Calling" it is well to go out and take the
weapon away from the infant.
Year: 1877

Here are a few extracts from Don
Quixote:


Beauty in a modest woman is like fire |
or sharp word at a distance; neither
does the one burn nor the other wound
those that come not too close to them.
The absent feel and hear every ill.
Selfpraise depreciates.


The dead to the bier; the living to good
cheer.


Virtue is always more prosecuted by the
wicked than beloved by the righteous.
Every one is the son of his own works.
Wit and humor belong to genius alone.
The wittiest person in comedy is he
who plays the fool


We are all as God made us, and often
times great deal worse.


1t is easy to undertake, but more difficult
to finish a thing.


BY the streets of "By and By" one arrives
at the house of Never"


Between the ayes" and the "No" of a
woman l would not undertake to thrust
the point of a pin.


Other mems pains are easily borne.


A bad cloak often covers good drinker.


Pray devoutly and hammer on stoutly.


When a thing is once begun it is almost
| finished.


Lay bridge of silver for flying enemy


The jest that gives pain is no jest.
Year: 1877

NOR of similar kind attached.
This fact does not seem to have
been suspected before the diagnosis
made during his last illness. The
left kidney was contracted. There
was a cyst in his liver. The heart
was fatty. The walls of the aorta
were nearly penetrated by several
alterations. His ribs were as soft
as cartilage, so that they could be
easily cut with scissors. But trifes
like these did not at all affect his
general health. He was at last
brought down with a congestion Of
the lungs, contracted by exposure
in storm. From that complaint
he was slowly recovering, when an
abscess formed in his thigh. Three
operations were performed for the
relief of the abscess, and thirty
two ounces Of fluid were withdrawn;
this proved too much of a drain
upon his system, and he died of
asthenia, i.e., general debility. As
he was a soldier of the First Napo-
leon, be might have quoted that
generals famous remark about the
Peninsular War: "That ulcer in
my extremities ate out my life" f"
Year: 1877

People who attain extreme old
age have usually q certain tough
ness of constitution which tri-
umphs over injuries that weaker
natures cannot survive. The au-
topsy Of the late Captain Lahrbush,
whose age has been stated at Iii
years and twenty-five days, furnish
es new and remarkable evidence on
this point. For sixty-one years he
had been an opium eater; at the
age of ninety his daily dose of gum,


or crude opium, was estimated at
ninety grains (Troy); but the ply
sician who attended him shortly
before his death represents the old


mans daily allowance as only half
that quantity. Captain Lahrbush
had a full allowance of the ills that
flesh is heir to, but seems to have
been strangely unconscious of them,
He had no symptoms of renal dis
ease, and yet his right kidney was
gone entirely, its place being occu-
pied land considerably more than
occupied) by a tumor the size Of a
child's head, with a smaller tu-
Year: 1877

Any person desiring information as to
the standing and responsibility of the
members OF the firm will, on request, be
furnished with satisfactory reference in
his vicinity or Congressional district.


decl9.tf
Year: 1877

Sleep, DIR. w. A. Hammond says, may


be defined as general repose. Almost
all the organs rest during sleep. The


heart, popularly supposed to be in per-
pectual motion, is at rest 6 hours out of
the "a, the respiratory organs s, and the
other organs more or less. The brain
alone is constantly employed during
wakefulness, and for it sleep was form
ed and made needful to it's preservation.
1t is true that sleep does
not give the brain a total
recess from labor; imagination and
memory are often vividly active during
sleep, and unconscious cerebration like
wise takes place, but enough rest is OBJ
tanned for the renovation of the brain,
and that which has been torn down is to
certain extent rebuilt. Sleep is a most
wonderful power-often stronger than
the will, as in the case of the sleeping
soldier-and more mighty than pain, as
when sick persons or tortured prisoners
sleep in the midst of their suffering. No
torture, it is said, has been found equal
to the prevention of sleep. The amount
of sleep needed differs according to the
constitution and habits. Big brains and
persons who perform much brain labor
need large amount of sleep. Children
need more sleep than grown people be,
cause construction is more active than
decay in their brains.
Year: 1877

One thousand shingles laid four inches
to the weather will cover over one hun
dred square feet of surface, and five
pounds of shingle nails will fasten them
on.


One-fifth more siding and flooring is
needed than the number of square feet
of surface to be covered, because of the
lap in the siding and matching of the
floor.


One thousand laths will cover seventy
yards of surface, and eleven pounds Of
lath nails will nail them on.


Eight bushels of good lime, sixteen
bushels of sand, and one bushel of hair
will make enough mortar to plaster one
hundred square yards.


A cord of stone, three bushels of
lime and q cubic yard of sand will lay
one hundred cubic feet of wall.


Five courses of brick will lay one
foot in height on chimney. Nine
brick in course will make flue eight
inches wide and twenty inches long, and
eight bricks in a course will make flut
eight inches wide and sixteen inches
long.
Year: 1877

The following war incident during the
Peninsula campaign is told by a cores
pondent of the Weldon IN. CO. Neecs:
One dark, drizzly night when everything
seemed portentous of some evil, both
armies doubled their picket lines, and
after dark picked men were sent out be-
tween the picket lines to watch more
closely the movements of the enemy and
to prevent surprise. The most impress
sive orders were given to all the pickets,
and especially to those occupying the
outposts. At Deep Bottom one North
Carolina regiment was on duty, and one
of its picked men was sent to the front
to occupy an important outpost in a for
est of pines. The extreme darkness of
thick pines rendered his optics of little
use to him on this occasion, hence
his auditory faculties were on double
duty.


1t is said that when man is deprived
of one faculty others become more acute
and this case was not an exception to the
rule. The only thing that operated
against the free exercise of the organ ol
hearing was the humping of the heart
which he more than once mistook for the
approach of many heavy shod footsteps
He was in close quarters with the enemy
could hear the Corporal whispering hi
orders to the men on the line confronting
him. whether or not they were advanc
ing upon him he could not tell he rathe
thought they were and was making VI
his mind to this conclusion, when, from
few feet below his head, burst out ter
rible scream. The brave mans nerve CAV
way, he let fall his gun and clasped hi
hands over his head for protection, sal


something he don't recollect what-ha


surrendered and was about to beg fo


quarter, thought dozen Yankees wer


about him, but second scream disclose


to him his mistake-he had surrendere


to screech owl.
Year: 1877

ALTHOUGH the late M. Theirs was not
himself man of science he was anxious
TO possess some knowledge of the several
science as an aid in the writing of a
work on philosophy on which he was en-
gagged during a number of years. His
teachers were chosen from among his
academicians; NJ. Leverrier being his
instructor in astronomy and M. Charles
Saint Claire Deville in chemistry. He
began to write his work under Napo-
Icons rule, desisted when he resumed
his political career, and worked it up
again when he resigned his president
ship. 1t is not yet known whether il
will be published in its present imper-
feet form. AT the time of his death he
was revising what he had written in
order to bring it up TO the level of new
scientific discoveries.
Year: 1877

A RECENT letter from the Custer bat
tle-ground on the Little Big Horn River
states that the graves of those who fell
in the battle are now in good condition.
When Colonel Brackets force examined
the field in September they found twelve
human skulls and some bones above
ground. These had been dug up by In.
dians or wolves. They were collected
and reinterred. Bones were scattered
over the field in every direction. But
they are not human bones. The soldiers
remains seem to have been inferred with
care, and the writer of the letter, who
went over the entire battle-ground
says 1T is unseemly for people to sa,
that the bones of these men lie bleach
ing in the sun and without decen
burial" because such was not the case
and is not now.
Year: 1877

The story is told of a woman who
freely used her tongue to the scandal of
others, and made confessions to the
priest Of what she had done. He gave
her ripe thistle-top, and told her to 90
out in various directions and scatter the
seeds one by one. Wondering at the
penance, she obeyed, and then returned
and told her confession. To her amaze
ment, ne bade her go back and gather
the scattered seeds; and when She OBJ.
jected that il would be impossible. he re.
pied that it would be still more d;ff;cui,
70 gather up and destroy all evil reports
which she had circulated about others
Any thoughtless, careless child car
scatter a handful Of thistle seeds before
the wind in a moment, but the stronges
and wisest man cannot gather then
again.
Year: 1877

Passengers on the deck of large
pleasure steamboat, running through the
narrows of New York Harbor, several
years ago, were amazed and greatly
alarmed by seeing large cannon ball
pass over the boat. The ball was from
cannon in Fort Hamilton, which the
gunners had supposed was aimed at a
target nowhere near the boat. The resi-
dents of the quiet village of Minton, in
England, have also had an experience of
bombardment in time of peace At
midday, sixteen-pound shell fell in
the middle of the main street, and
plowed up the turf long distance.
Another shell fell into garden near by,
and third entering the roof of barn,
utterly demolished the building. The
frightened villagers fed from their
homes to the open country. 1t was soon
ascertained that the Royal Horse
Artillery were practising gunnery upon
a lofty eminence some two miles dis
tant, and that the gunners had put
their targets in a line with the village
A mounted messenger informed tn,
officer in command of the village catas
trophe, and the firing ceased.


THE man who said he was out on
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Year: 1877

A LITTLE chap had dirty face, and
his teacher told him to go and wash it.
He went away, and after a few minutes
came back with the lower part of his
countenance tolerably clean, while the
upper part was dirty and wet.


"Johnny," said teacher, "why didn't
you wash your faceY'


81 did wash it, sir"


You didn't wipe it all over then"


"I did wipe it as high up as my shirt
would go."
Year: 1877

A FOREIGN journal says that the war
in Bulgaria has had one very curious
effect which will greatly interest natu-
ralists. The swallows which left Raab
and some other places more than two
weeks ago, have come back in a state of
great excitement, and retaken possession
of their old nests with much clamorous
indignation. 1t is generally supposed
that they have been frightened back by
the noise Of the artillery.
Year: 1877

1T was little hard on the boy, for he
meant we'll, and had sincere admira-
ton for the girl. They were sitting at
the table with company of Others, and
AS he passed her the sugar he murmured
in an undertone, "Here it is, sweet,
Just like YOU" The compliment was a
little awkward, to be sure, but he meant
it, and it seemed more than cruel when,
in a moment later, she had occasion to
pass the butter to him, she drawled,
here it is, soft, just like you.n
Year: 1877

A MAN and wife at New Britain, Con-
necticut, made an agreement some time
ago, by which he was to stay at home and
care for the children while she went
away to work at mill. Things worked
satisfactorily for some time, the man
getting goods on credit for the family
use and his wife settling the bills
monthly. Recently, however, the
monthly payment failed. The man was
sued by the storekeeper, and Judge Beach
has Just decided that he is not liable for
the debt.
Year: 1877

IT would seem that not only is the eli
mate Of Iceland growing so cold that
grain cannot ripen there, but that of
Scandinavia and Western Europe is be-
coming more severe. This is due, it is
supposed, TO the steady descent of the
ice Of the far North upon the shores of
Iceland. IL has been ascertained that
the temperature of Greenland was once
much more mild than at present. Plants
have been discovered in fossil state
there which cannot now present a sign of
of life. In the Atlantic, also, ice has
been found much further south than
formerly. Is another ice age slowly max
ing its approach?
Year: 1877

A NEBRASKA judge decided to give
horse thief one more chance to reform.
As the fellow left the neighborhood to
begin newer and better life he took along
the Judges horse to help him.
Year: 1877

PHILADELPHIA is considerably excited
over the average juryman. Not many weeks
ago Furman Sheppard, Esq, the District
Attorney of the county, refused to send any
more Bills of Indictment before the Grand
Jury, as they had been ignoring them at q
rate which cut largely into his fees. And a
few days ago United States District Attor
ney Valentine said he would try no more
cases before the yenire for the term.
A fec for conviction is creamier than one
where there is verdict of Not Guilty. Can
any one see where self comes in The
conduct of these gentlemen is commended
by the unthinking but We look at it differ
emily trial by jury is a right which has
come to US unctioned with the blood ard
travail Of twenty generations of men, and it
i'll became prosecuting officers-still less
judges-wno are always, fond of usurping the
functions of jurors, to assume that panel
of jurors were not tt to perform their duty.
Is one man wiser than twelve!