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Year: 1874

An INSTRUCTIVE EXPERIMENr---Ihe
principles in the circulation of the waters
of the sea. were beautifully shown before
the royal geographical society, recently.
by simple experiment. \ trough with
pls&e glass sides. about six feet long and
foot deep, but not more than one inch
wide, was filed with water. At one end
a piece of ice was wedged in between the
sides to represent the polar cold. while the
tropic heat was represented at the other
end by metal laid across the surface of the
water. the projecting end of which was
heated with a spirit lamp, Red coloring
matter was then put in the warm end. and
blue at the cold end, so that the currents
could be traced. The blue water, chilled
by contact with the ice, Immediately fell
down to the bottom. crept slowly along,
and gradually rose toward the surface of
the equatorial end. after which it gradu-
ally returned along the surface to the
starting point. The red water crept first
along the surface to the polar end. then fell
to the bottom just as the blue had done.
and formed another stratum. creeping back
again along the bottom and coming to the
surface Each color made A distinct circu-
lation during the half hour in which the
audience viewed the experiment.
Year: 1874

IRIS BErTER-It is better to wear /:
calico dress without trimmings, if it be
paid for. than to owe the shop-keeper fol
the most elegant silk. cut and trimmed in
the most bewitching manner.


Better to live in :: log-cabin all Your own
than in a brown stone mansion belonging
to somebody else.


Better walk forever, than run in debt
for horse and carriage.


Better sit by a pine-table for which you
paid three dollars ten years ago, than to
send home an extension black walnut top,
and promise to pay for it next week.


Better to use the old cane-seated chairs
and faded twO-ply carpet, than tremble al
the bills sent home from the uphOlsterer',
for the most elegant set ever made.


Better to meet your acquaintance with a
free :" don't owe You Il cent smile, than
to dodge around the corner from a dun.


Better to pay the organ-grinder two
cents for music, if You must have it, thar
owe for a grand piano.


Better gaze upon the bare walls than
pictures unpaid for.


Better eat thin soup from earthenware
if YOU owe your butcher nothing, than tc
dine off lamb and beef. and know that il
does not beleng to you.


Better have a fit of Mysteries than run in
debt for new furniture. cloth, or any thing
else You may wish for.
Year: 1874

EX-PREsIDENT JOHNSON and Senator
Brownlow again concur and cooperate
in inveighing against the civil rights
bill, and Eastern Tennessee is an ueit in
opposition TO this scheme of abomins-
tions. In fact the destruction Of the
public school system is more keenly felt
in Eastern Tennessee than elsewhere,
and the people are frantic in demon
strations Of hostility to the detestable
Year: 1874

THE New Orleans Bulletin says; "It
would seem TO be only question Of time
when the white citizens OF this State will
be compelled to arm themselves TO meet
the determined assaults Of these mis-
guided negroes, who are fed on the pap
OF civil rights by poIiticsl demagogues
until they fancy that white men have no
rights which they must respect"
Year: 1874

HAVANA, June 6.-Captain- General
COncha has issued decree intended to
arrest the rapid rise Of gold, which is
considered to be solely due to the recent
law compelling importers to pay twen-
ty-five per cent. of the duties in gold,
the treasury no longer receiving the
equivalent Of this twenty-five per cent.
ia paper, as was done at first. COncha
orders the Spanish bank to sell gold on
account of the island treasury at less
premium than that quoted on the ex-
change OF by the brokers, Coucha fixing
the amount of the premium for which
government gold is tD be sold, the daily
rate for the current day being posted at
the entrance of the bank every merning
at eight O'Clock, 80 that merchants may
make their calculations before business
hours.
Year: 1874

ELsEWHERE we publish an advertise
rnent from the governor, offering re-
ward for the apprehension Of the muir
derer Of Professor Scott, who was cruelty
assassinated in the porch Of his residence
in 1863. We hope this viii have the
effect Of inducing the very best efforts
20 ferret crime Of which our detectives
and censtables are capable, and that the
wretch, whoever he may be, who
robbed an interesting family Of good
husband and father, and the eommun-
ity Of a most intelligent, cultured, and
.higb-tOned citizen, may be brought TO
She punishment be merits. We have
always thought that our authorities
were remiss in not pressing the solution
OF this, and other equally mysterious
crimes, Nnd now that they have put
their hands 10 the wheel, we trust they
viii not let up until they have brought
the criminal TO justice.
Year: 1874

EDITORS APPEALs-The night the ne
groes are charged with drilling in Cnel-
sea last Thursday night, a protracted
meeting was being held in one of the
churches there, which was continued
until two o'clock in the morning. A
large number were there-many of the
men outside of the church and some of
them some distance from it. Some per-
son, or persons, in passing thought the
meeting at that late hour unusual, and
reported that they were drilling. This
was the only meeting of coIOred people
IN Chelses that night, as stated by all
who live in that neighborhOod. The
question regarding the arms used by the
Pole-Bearers will be fully explained at
their meeting next Monday night. They
are owned by one OF the most RESPONSE
BILE firms in the city. J. o.
Year: 1874

The Macoupin County Supervisors, who were
fined by Judge Troat for contempt of Court for
refusing to levy tho taxes in dispute in that
county, voted yesterday an appropriation Of
$4,000 out Of tho County Treasury to pay the
Hr4
Year: 1874

The President excuses himself for appoint ing foreigners to Territorial offices by saying that the Republicans of every Terri tory are divided into cliques and would not unite on any body. Some truth in this, but it is a weak excuse .-.
Year: 1874

Taken In moderation there is no
doubt that vinegar is beneficial, but in
excess it impairs the digestive organs.
Experiments on artificial digestion show
that if the quantity of acid be dimin-
ished, digestion is retarded if incI eased
beyond a certain point, digestion IS ar
rested. There is reason, therefore, IN
the vulgar notion-unhappily too often
relied On-that vinegar helps to keep
down any alarming adiposity, and that
ladies who dread the disappearance Of
their graceful outlines in curves of
plumpness expanding into " fat may
arrest so dreadful q result by liberal
potations of vinegar, but they can only
so arrest it at the far more dreadful ex-
pense of their health. The amount of
acid which will keep them thin will de-
stroy their digestive powers. Portal
gives case which should be a warning:
A few years ago a young lady in easy
Circumstances enjoyed good health she
was very plump, had a good appetite
and complexion blooming with roses
and lilies. She began to look upon her
plumpness with suspicion, for her
mother was very fat, and she was afraid
of becoming like her. Accordingly she
consulted a woman who advised he to
drink glass OF vinegar daily. The
young lady followed the advice, and her
plumpness diminished. She was de-
lighted with the success of the expert
rnent, and continued it for more than a
month. She began to have a cough !;
but it was dry at its commencement,
and was considered as a slight Geld
which would go of. Meantime, from
dry it became moist, a slow fever came
on, and a difficulty of breathing; her
body became lean and wasted away,
pight-sweats, swelling of the feet and
of the legs succeeded, and diarrhea
terminated her life" Therefore, young
ladies, be boldly fat Never pine for
graceful slimness and romantic pallor !;
but If nature means you to be Tuddy
and rotuud, accept it with a laughing
grace, which will captivate more hearts
than all the paleness OF a circulating
libFary
Year: 1874

That strange and almost brutal SEN
timent which delights, for instance, in
watching an actor feign death by poi
son with horrible comfort ons, IT ached
its extremity in England the other even
ing. At the Theater Royal, Cambridge,
the stage was coupled by a raving sort
of tragedy, IN which a murderer is
brought to justice. The actor tax
ing this character refused 20 do moro in
the death scene than appear on the scaf-
fold, and make his last confession un-
der the dangling rope. There the cur
tain dropped, but the peculiar British
audience would not be satisfed, II
Foared, it hissed, it declined to leave
the theater, and the manager solemnly
came out and apOlog zed for being una
bic TO crafty his patrons by actually
hanging the actor unless with his own
consent, which ne was hardly likely to
give. Bring him out with the rope
round his neck, shouted these pleasant
people, and their demand not being
granted they growlingly and reluctantly
left the house. A curious story is this
for the student of ethics. We doubt if
the theater-goers in a Nevada mining
town would ever attain equal sublimity
Of bFutslity.-Ne1gY York Tribune.
Year: 1874




The differences in the ordinary mete-
geological observations are not 80 much
owing to the thermometer, as a general
thing, as to the want of a proper care
in observation. 70 ascertain the true
temperature Of the atmosphere the IN
strument should never be huDg against
the walls of a building, as the heat alb
sorbed and radiated will canse q change
of several degrees, depending on the
nature Of the material of the walls, and
the sides exposed to sun or wind, as al
so the radiation from the internal heat
of the building. The best place IS IN
der the shade of an open cover or tree,
away from any buildings, suspended a
few feet above the ground. The fact
that the air may be at rest or IN motion,
will not affect the temperature. To as
certain the heat of the direct rays Of
the sun, the instrument should be Gov
cred with a coat Of lamp-black and ex-
posed to the direct rays Of the sun IN
sheltered place.
Year: 1874

A ROMANCE IN HIGH LlFE.-At the gam
ing table the Duke of Richmond incurred a
debt OF honor to Lord Cadogan, which he was
unable to pay, and it was agreed that his son,
a lad OF fifteen, who bore the title Of Earl of
March, should marry the still younger daugh-
ter of Lord Cadogan. The boy was sent Tor
from school aud the girl from the Dursery; a
clergyman was in attendance, and the children
we're told that they were 70 be married upon
the spot The girl had nothing to say; the boy
cried out, They surely are not going to marry
NE to that dowdyl" But married they we're,
A post chaise was at the door; the bridegroom
was packed off With bis tutor to make the
grand tour, and the bride was sent back to her
mother. Lord March remained abroad for sew
eral years, after which he returned to London,
wel.educted, handsome yonng man, but in
no haste to meet his wife, whom he had never
seen except upon the occasion Of their hasty
marriage. So he tarried in London to amuse
himself One night at the opera his attention
was attracted to beautiful young lady in the
boxes. "Who is that p he asked of gen.
tleman besides him. ''You must be a stran-
ger 10 London, was the reply mot to know
the toast of the towu, the beautiful Lady
March," The Earl went straight to the box,
announced himself, and claimed his bride. The
two fell in love with each other on the spot,
and lived long and happily together; and when
the husband died she also died of a broken
heart within few months. Tile GALAXY.
Year: 1874

Numbers of seven, eight, or nine figures
each are confusing to the great mass of our
citizens. They cannot without some effort
begin to comprehend their significance.
Nevertheless it is but too apparent that more
attention must be paid to the sums of tens
and hundreds of millions by which the taxes
and expenditures of the Government are
reckoned, or there will be no end to the
growing extravaganza of our public servants
masters, perhaps, we might more properly
call them. In the present article we shall
write only of millions. We shall, for sim
plicity, print 40 millions" instead of 10000
"OOO.n The reader, especially if he be a
voter, must try and imagine what Is the
meaning of million dollars. If we suppose
a tax of a million dollars to be paid in
equal shares by the men who vote
at Presidential election, the cOntribu-
ton required of each man would be about
fifteen cents. A tax of 100 million dollars
would require fifteen dollars of each man who
votes and the total amount of taxes collected
last year by the National Government is equal
10 more than forty dollars from each citizen
who will cast a vote at the Presidential cleo
ton in November, 1876


IL is no secret that about the time Congress
adjourned the leaders of the majority in that
body boasted of the economical reform which
they had introduced into the Government ex-
penditures. We were told by the very highest
authorities that reduction of not less than
80 million dollars was going to be made from
the expenditures of last year, and that these
30 million dollars were to be invested in
bonds for the Sinking Fund, which meant
that bonds to that amount were to be pur-
chased and destroyed and no more interest
Year: 1874

While the outside world is raging furiously
together, it is suggestive to see the atti-
tude of the genuine Administration party in
regard to the third term movement. The
step children may falter and even break out
into rebellion. The mere Republican papers
may CRY out in their extremity that the third
term agitation is bringing to naught all the
work of Charley Hays and all the horrors of
his Ku-Klur and White Leagues. But the
Grant papers are as unmoved in all this storm
as their mperturbable chief himself. Though
Robeson may deny the President gives him no
confirmation, and the Washington organ, see
ing somebody must be sacrificed, cruelty
throws Mr.. Parsons overheard. and hugs the
third term closer to its anguished breast.


In the confusion of tongues which in these
Year: 1874

The Anti-Tammany municipal nominations
are not launched as well as they deserve.
Mr.. Ottendorfer would make conscientious
Mayor, and his general ideas of public
duty are sound and safe. He himself doubt
less realizes that it would be better, other
things being equal, to put in the Mayors
chair q gentleman TO whom English is not a
foreign tongue. He has not sought the nom
ination, and he certainly does not want the
Office; but he stands for reform movement
in the German Democracy that deserves all
praise and encouragement. Gen. Jones, who
has been nominated on the same
ticket for Register, is far better man
for the place than Hayes, the Tammany
candidate; and we wish there were better
prospect of such combinations as might make
his election probable. He is Republican,
was good soldier and good Postmaster,
and after pledging all his property to make
good the defalcatiOn of subordinate, for
which he was nowise to blame, he is left
a poor man solely by reason OF his honest
public service. If we must have substantial
sinecures, like the Registership, it would seem
that men like Gen. Jones are the kind of
persons to whom they should be given.


The one chance for the defeat of Tammany
would seem to be the union of all the oppos-
ton on this ticket. We judge from the
adjournment of the Republican Convention,
that they have begun to suspect that fact, and
want time to think it over. We do not believe
the Custom house can make much use of
either Ottendorfer or Jones, and doubt there
fore if it could be better employed for the
c;ty than in sunnort of that ticket
Year: 1874

q mere matter of nice effects, of chrome yellow
and burnt amber. 1t really seemed a.
if the object of Divine Providence ia
creating the world had been to furnish
"bts " for this young woman to. appre-
ciate and jOt down in her notebook. Not
alone in the matter of art did Narcissa's rigid
sharp notions and system override the easy
going habit of the place, as some right tight
little martinez might fabby sauDtering
mule. Marriage she held to be an unlucky
accident in woman's life. if she were quail
fled for making money or for any better
things child-bearing and rearing necessary
evil which weak members of the sex could
attend to hence she looked down with polite
contempt on the babies and their mothers
with the incessant discussion of collie and
soothing sirups.


She has come back now to town, and will send
landscapes in water-colOrs and oil, and heads
in crayon, to every exhibition and to the shops
for sale. But they find admission nowhere.
A "wOman's lack of thOroughness," say tho
critics. Narcissa will most probably fall into
the way of doing rough work for tho engravers.
bi-scrolls and the like, and even that work
will be poorly done. But she will never ceass
to abuse the tyrant man for paying her and her
class less wages than to men workmen, nor TO
despse women who are wives and mothers
In consequence no married woman thinks SO
necessarily of the subject of marriage as she.
and the only real comfort she has Is black
and tan terrier whom she cOddles instead OF
q hahv
Year: 1874

BLOWN DowN.-During the storm
yesterday afternoon, Pusey s. Rice's
new ice house, on the Brandywine at
the foot of Thirteenth street, was all
most completely demolished by the
high wind. The men who were at
work inside sustained no serious in
jury, but one of them was knocked
into the creek. He swan ashore on a
log, and sustained no injury beyond a
thorough duckingi flIs - ~ (.
Year: 1874

A dividend OF s per cent In cash will soon be
declared by the Trustee and Committee Of the
estate Of Jay Cooke d Co. The TruBtee has
been further authorized to mako q tlnal sottle-
ment OH tho basis Of IL per cont In cash and IS
per cent In va1ioua aeeuritios held by the bank
rupt firm. In case this arrangement is carried
out, Northern Pacific wilt be put in Tor 50 per
cent Of the indebtedness, and will bo rated at 10
cents on the dol1ar.l So Northern Pacific has
not gone by the board, and there may yat be
harvest Of railroad advertising for The Advance
and The other religious newspapers.
Year: 1874

hands of hia friends,"
would like to be elevated to the
idential chair. Friends Of the candidato
lit have no better business On hand will find
employment for much spare time in asking a
categorical statement Of his viewa On the our
Fenoy question.
Year: 1874

Judgment for the Sandy Hook Pilots.


New YORK, June 24.-The general term
of the Court OF Common Pleas to-day
affirmed the Judgment Of Judge Quinn in
the case of Sandy Hook pilots against ship
owners, which was brought to recover out
side pilotage. In the First Judicial District
Court Judge Quinn gave judgment for the
pilots, and the higher court affirmed 1t.


Senator Carpenters Explanation.


Senator Carpenter publishes long letter
here this morning in regard to the 90
called Carpenter gag law, and says an
accurate statement in regard to this mat
ter will satisfy every journalist who re-
ports tbe truth, aud will diminish the
force of the Interpretation uttered by
those of the profession who do not know.
The law OF libel is no more unfavOreble to
the press than the statute against larceny
is unfrienlly to the people. The one per-
plexes thieves, the other liars; but neither
is terror to honest men, and this bill is
no more injurious to publishers than every
law must be which looks to impartial ad-
ministration of justice
He knows no reason why the District OF
Columbia should be excepted from the
operation of the general law, or why mer-
chants should object to courts in that Dis
trct while making no objection to federal
courts in other Territories aud States. He
says it is a fundamental principle in the
jurisprudence of all enlightened countries
that every trial ought to take place as near
az possible to the place where the cause of
action arose, not Only for the convenience
of witnesses, but to secure jury of the
vcinage in causes arising out OF CONNER
cial transactions and in other more transit
0ry actions.


This principle can not always be observed.
In many of the Western States important
branches of business are conducted bv its
agents: for instance, the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company might lease and operate q
railroad in Wisconsin or Idaho.


party injured upon such road oug ut TO
have the right to try the liability of the
company where the wong was committed
and where witnesses reside, and ought not
to be compelled to go to Pennsylvania to
recover for injury received in Idaho.
Year: 1874

epacting her part which | did in the hope
that these people, believing the paste to
be real diamond would nave let the
true jewel pass Poor poor Queen
AAonS Snsaune let us 60. Count, you
have served me as sovereign Of France
will you not still continue to be my
Squire as Tragedy Queen?


The Count, bowing low, raised the
fair actress hand to his lips. Then lean.
ing on his arm, and followed by her faith
lu maid, Madcmoiscllc Sainval swept
down the staircase to the carriage, in
which the Count took his scat opposite
Susannc Il. DAvEy.
Year: 1874

DICKENS LOVE OF APPLAUSE AND
MONEY, The moment that Dickens felt
his invention failing in the least degree,
the prospect of retaining the public by
reading the older stories, and tasting by
nearer and personal contract the pungen-
cy Of popular applause, was fascinating
and overpowering. His pleasure in it, as
one Of the English critics says, is little
humiliating in man Of his great genius.
1t is the more so when he listened intent
ly for the chink Of the guinea as well as
for the murmur Of delight. Yet no man
needed money more, nor might more
righttully earn it. His family was very
large, his estate was costly, and his man.
ncr of living proiuse. But the reader
presently sees with sorrow that, as with
his great predecessor Scott the chief
question gradually came to be how much
money he could make out of bis genius,
And as with Scott, although in smaller
degree, the sum was enormous. BY his
readings alone Dickens made nearly a
quarter of million of dollars one hun.
drcd thousand Of them between the il
of December and the lst Of May in the
United States. The physical labor and
exposure Of travelling, and the nervous
exhaustion Of the readings, with the tre-
mendous pace, as he would have called
it in another Of the rest of his life, were
enough to destroy any man Dnring all
his travels, both in the earlier and the
later day, when he ran over to the Con.
tinent or courscd about England TO find
/ inspiration or scclusion or excitement, he
constantly wrote the most copious letters


full Of fun and shrewdness and fine fancy


and walked miles and miles, and devised
entertainments, and acted plays, and pre-.
sided at meetings and feasts, and made
delightful speeches, and seemed to have
all the occupation Of very active and
busy man before considering the real
business in hand at the time. Such ami


NAL spirits as in his earlier years were
certainly never known. They bubbeC
about him aud overilowed all who came
in contact with him They affected hi,
style of writing. and despite the sagac


Gus Tainc, they gave his descriptions


much Of their singular vitality and power
Year: 1874

TIE LAST MAN" GETS MAD.-As the
Q O'Clock train left town last night the
inevitable last man made his appearance
at the corner Of Union aud G streets,
He had no more than marked the train
moving away and got his mouth into
swearing shape, before both Of his heels
flew up aud he took seat upon the cold,
cold ground with such emphasis that his
plug hat bounced some feet into the air.
In trying to save his hat his valse es.
capped from him and went .cooiipg down
the steep cross street. lie sat moment
and gazed at the rctreatng train, the last
car Of which was just crossing the lower
part Of the street in which be was seated,
when he made a few proiane remarks,
which may be thus represented G.! !!
-. =. - :? ~ but moth.
ing that could be called good, square
Washoe swearing until he got up and
began clearing his overcoat pocket ol
pieces Of broken bottle, whiskey soaked
tobacco and other debris. 1t was then
that he got down to his work. Virginia
City Enterprise.