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Year: 1878

FRITTERED AwAY.-IIow much time
we fritter away without doing anything
for ourselves or The public gOou! For such
omissions it is too much the habit with US
all 10 excuse ourselves on the plea OF Il
want of time; whereas, in truth. this is
seldom II good and sufficient ground of
justification. Nothing is easier than to
ritter away time in matters of no use 10
ourselves or any one else. The habit is
readily formed. 1t grows upon one una
wares. Keep strict account oil every
hour of your own Time for II single week,
setting down correctly the exnct m 'nner
in which every hour is spent, and see
whether, when you come to review the
record, YOU do not find it full OF admoni-
lion and instruction. In this simple way
one can readily understand the secret oi
his wants in time. lie will discover that
he has given hours to idle talk, 10 indo-
lence, and to inconsiderable trihss, which
have Welded him neither profit nor pleas
ure. What is the remedy? Arrange your
work in the order of its comparative I'M
nortance. Attend first TO the things which
are essential TO be done, and let the unes-
sentials take chance afterwards. lhe
difference in the amount OF WORK accom-
nli.bed will be astonishing. Duty before
pleasure. Those who practice this precetPt
have plonty of time for p easure, and ENJOY
far greater satisfaction tnan those WHO re-
verse this rule
Year: 1878

Whenever a newspaper says u kind
word for man that man seldom discDv-
ers tho favor, or. If ho does, the editor
rarely knows it; but If II newspaper ham
dies man little roughly the man finds
il out by eight o'clock the next morning
Year: 1878

The strongest attachment of sub
scTibeTs TO well conducted newspaper
is fully confirmed by publishers.
stop my paper of dread 10
beginners in business-lOSe their ter
Tor after paper had been established
for a term of years. 30 long as a
paper pursues just. honorable and
judiciOus course, meeting the wants of
its customers in all respects, the ties Of
friendship between the subscribers
and the paper are as hard to break by
an outside third party is the link
which binds old friends in business or
social life. Occasional defects and er-
TOrs in newspaper are overlooked by
those who have become attached 10 il,
through its perusal for years. They
sometimes become dissatisfied with il
on account of something which has
slipped into into its columns, and may
stop taking it; but the absence Of the
familiar sheet at their homes and Of
fees for few weeks becomes an in
suppOTtable pTiyatiOn. and they hasten
TO take it again. and possibly apologize
for having it stopped. No friendship
on earth is more constant than that
contracted by the reader for a journal
which makes an honest, an earnest ef.
fort TO merit its continued support
Hence a cOnseientiOusly conducted
paper becomes a favOrite in the fami
".
Year: 1878

Louise. who recently married Mark
LOrne, was the best girl Queen Vic
tOria ever raised, and was always kind
10 her mother. 1t wouldn't make any
difference how late she would be out
TO shin-dig, she would always get up
early In the morning and help her
mother get breakfast and wash the
dishes before she would start to school.
-YelCpOIt Local
Year: 1878

y stranger dropping into the Mem
phlS Of to-day can see no evidence of
the fearful ScOurge that for three
months has been destroying our p=O-
pie. The streets are thrOnged as
Of yore with bright-eyed business
men intent on the main chance.
and also with more than the usual
number Of idlerS. with nothing 30 do
but to hold up the lamp posts. Politi-
clans, too, crowd on the corners Of the
streets, and buttOnhOle the reporter
and pour mOurnful mOnOdy into his
ear that if the great Democratic party
fail to elect the next Speaker of the
House of Representatives the country
IS gone to the demnitiOn bOW-wowS.
HpIlDHiS Ir1IODcTe.
Year: 1878

1t has been stated from time to time
that the Harvard Boat Club intended
to issue Il challenge to the Oarsman of
the two English Universities for race
next summer in eight-Oared boats, and.
already, in anticipation of its accept
ance. active steps have been taken at
Headquarters to provide the funds re-
Guisite for the complete outfit of the
crew, so that they may go with every
arrangement necessary for the success
which is expected, if the members of
the crew are equal to the Self-impOSed
task. Without stopping to discuss the
advisability Of the proposed race, or
the relative merits of the Harvard four
of 1869 (whO were beaten by the Ok
ford FOUR with the eight of 1879, it is
sufficient to say that the crew it is pro-
posed to send have shown their ability
Individually and collectively, and that
they and their friends are enthusiastic
in the determination that they shall 90
to England, if the race can be arrang-
ed, wipe out the record of 1869, and
show how an American eight-Oared
crew can row. Three-quarters of the
fund requisite for the enterprise have
already been subscribed in Boston and
its vicinity, and the members Of the
Harvard Club, of this city, propose to
see what they can do towards further
ing the object by a series of entertain
mentS to be under their auspices,
which have already excited attention
in fashionable circles, and which
promise to be among the notable
events of the season. 1t is understood
that the entertainments in question
are to consist of two evening perfOT-
mances and one matinee, to be given
soon after the Christmas holidays at
the Theater of the Union League Club.
The performers will be selected from
the graduates of the last year OF two,
(whO have already given similar enter
tainmentS, which have been very suc-
cessful) and will include among their
number gentlemen from other cities as
well as residents of New NOrS.-NetC
York Times.
Year: 1878

What the President has TO say of the
enforcement of a conformity to a prin-
ciple that lies at the very foundation
of representative government, and its
necessity to secure acceptance Of the
decision of the ballOt-bOX, is eminently
Just and timely, and the more impress
siye that it is devoid of partisan spirit
and passion. Ii is addressed to the in
telligence of every American citizen
who hopes for the perpetuatiOn Of the
representative system of government
by the fairly ascertained will of the
majority. BY the political conduct of
the men who carried the elections in
South Carolina and Louisiana, and in
our judgment must remain paramount
to all others till il is settled in favor of
the right of unintimidated voting and
Il free exercise of the ballot by all, re-
gardleSS Of race or color, or previous
condition, who are entitled to it under
the amended Constitution.


The message. like all the State papers
of President Hayes, is a straightfOr-
ward business document. We miss
from it the stately pOmp of rhetoric
which was once thought necessary to
the dignity of State paper. There is
no attempt at swelling sentences and
rounded periods, while it suffers moth
ing in force by reason of its simplicity.
Its recommendations are generally
such rs both Republicans and Demo
Gratis can approve without suspicion of
unfaithfulnesS to party standards or of
want of fidelity to the best interests of
the ecountry-CincinRGtj Commercial
Year: 1878

Mrs. NJ. y. Armstrong. writing on
'PreVentIble Disease eXclaimS
Every woman who reads thiS-I may
almost say every woman in the United
StateS-can, if she likes, save i'm the
next six months three or four human
lives. There is, for example, a large
class of diseases which are known to a
physician as 'bad-air Diseases : that Is,
diseases which are directly caused by
bad air, and which are never caused by
anything else. | wish | could write
in letters of fire the great truth that
no human being can be strong and
healthy, able to do his or her work
well and cheerfully, or able to enjoy
life, without 4 full supply of pure air.
Mrs. Armstrong suggests that those
who fear draft can pull their win
dOwS down from the top. and tack a
piece of cotton over the aperture
COHrier-yOUTnGL


An elegantly dressed lady entered a
Chicago store last week, and purchas-
ing some silk, rendered a hundred dol
lar bill. Not being satisfied as to its
genuineneSS, boy was sent off with it
to the bank, who returned with "aS
good as gOld"' The lady was highly in
dignant at thus being suspected with
rOgUery, and taking the bill said she
would not purchase the goods. She
was finally prevailed to accept the az
ticles cut off. After she had gone it
was discovered that she had changed
the genuine bill first rendered the clerk
for another, a counterfeit.
Year: 1878

The young man who was married at
some time during the past spring or
summer, and who has been so devoted
ever since, discovers the quality of his
affection feaTfully strained when, hay
ing turned out the gas, he jumped into
bed and finds his shivering form used
as 4 hearthstOne for her dear little feet,
whose touch suggests the sepulchre of
Sir John Franklin, and whose every
movement eXcites anew the miserable
husbands susceptibility TO climatic
changes. But he should remember
that it IS such episodes as these that
try married SOleS, and it is the heroic
endurance of these ills that set upon
the Benedict the true mark of true no
bility. Let him suffer and lie still, and
he will have his reward IN a hereafter
where all is warmth and sunshine, and
where there are none but angel feet,
which it is generally conceded are not
of the character that produce frigidity
accompanied by chills and shiyers.-
Troy Times.
Year: 1878

4 DECLINES TO BE A CANDIDATE.-1t will De


seen from his card in another column taat


Captain James NJ; Tyler, City Sergeant, dc-


clnes to be candidate for reelection "be-


cause in the revision OF tue criminal laws


the General Assembly have so reduced the


income from the office that with the utmost


economy it will be impossible properly to


keep the eiailand discharge the other duties OF


the Office Without incurring a heavy debt,


For eleven years Captain Tyler seryed.as an


officer In the city police until bis election as
Sergeant in 1876, and was one OF the most
faithful and efficient men IN that service. :
In the position he now holds he Won the


warlnest commendation Of the late Judge


Of the Hastings Court, and all who are sl as s.
sociated with him, or have had BUSINESS fe.
lations with him, as well as the people gene
rally, viii regret that he will retire from


the Office OF Sergeant after tue 1st OF dus
next.
Year: 1878

ENCOURAGEMENT. - There will al.
ways be enough in the events which be-
fall Us to relax the spring of our ress-
iutions. and to moderate our best aims.
Why should We enervate one anotae.
by silence when we should speak, by
dis9aragement when we should praise.
by shaking Of the head when We should
be patting on the shoulder. by gloomy
vaccinations whea we should incite to
enterprise. by plAtitudinizing about
the vanity of all things human when
we should be stimulating generous and
noble motives. There is not too great
an exuberance of life in any of US; al
belt Vhere there is most, it may be ILL.,
regulated or unwisely directed. and the
influence which systematically lowers
the action of life can only be mischiev-
Gus. Brightness is hsalth-giving as
we'll - pleasant; and whatever imparts
an impulse to the current Of hope and
gladness in our soul tends to make
them more like. or more likely to be-
come, what they should be-
Year: 1878

THE great charm of conversation con-
sists less in the display of ones own
wit than the faculty Of drawing forth
the resources Of others. He who leaves
you after a long conversation, pleased
with himself. and the part taken in u
long discourse. will be your warmest
admirer.
Year: 1878

A person to be 3 qualified elector must first have resided in the Terri tory lone year next preceding the election, sndsiR the county or precinct in which he claims his vote ten days and whose name Is enrolled on the great register of the county.
Year: 1878

Most, if not all, native tribes in South
Africa are snake or spirit worshipers.
With the Zulus it is a specially. If
certain kinds of snakes are found in O
kraal, Zulu would no more dare to kill
them than he would to take his own
life. The poor native is often horror
struck by witnessing the unceremonious
destruction of somebody's grandfather
by the fearless viii to man. Zulus 60
so far as to say that they have seen a
serpent with one eye, and that it must
be the embodiment of the spirit of an
old man who died in Zulu land long ago,
who had been deprived of one of these
members. When argued with on the
impossibility of the spirit serpent CROSS
ing the numerous rivers between Zulu
land and the place where it was seen Git
not being water snake), they reply,
"It surely crossed some how"


According to Zulu theology, good and
evil are attributable to the benevolent
or malevolent agency of the ancestral
spirits. If prosperous in any undertake
ing, lucky in hunting, harvesting a good
crop, or returned safely from long
journey, thank-ofering is paid to the
friendly spirits. If unfortunate, seri-
ously i'll or bereaved, a propitiatory
sacrifice is offered. A fat COW or sheep
is slaughtered and portion of beef or
mutton laid aside for the offended
spirit, which is taken (the Zulus say) at
midnight.
Year: 1878

I found the governor or chief of the
Passamaquoddy tribe at the house of
one of his people, where had been in
vited to dine. T was ushered into the
dining. room by small papoose, who
took it upon himself to lead me to the
governor without first obtaining his per-
mission, and came upon the party un
awares. 7 cannot say but what the
governor was just little chagrined at
my intrusion, but he hastily rose from
the seat which he occupied on the floor
and gave me cordial welcome. The
"cloth "was laid upon the floor, though
table was in the room. and six of these
dusky people we're sitting around enjoy
ing their repast. Gov. Solomon Fran
els is now chief OF his tribe. He is
eighty one years of age, and his position
entities him to a further annuity Of fifty
dollars, which he considers a very small
sum. inasmuch rs his father many years
ago received $3.50 for occupying the same
position. he is chosen by his people,
with life term of Office, and bis duties
are to maintain order and quietude
among the Indians under his jurisdic-
ton. His son, an intelligent youth of
about twenty years, was given me as a
guide, with instructions to conduct me
to those families where correct idea OF
the characteristics and manners OF the
people might be observed.


He led me to the cleanly looking
dwelling of Lewis Francis, who was
then on q porpoise expedition, but his
squaw. white woman of very respecta
bic family connections, was busily
engaged in preparing dinner. This
woman is possessed of more than ordi
nary intelligence, with flashing eyes and
a proud bearing. Her twenty-three
years of married life and association
with his tribe seems not to have had the
effect of destroying the refinement and
teachings of her early youth. She speaks
the Indian tongue Auently, and is an
adept in the finest branch OF basket
making. She appears to be happy and
satisfied, and when I asked her If she
ever had cause to regret her marriage,
her quivering lip and subdued manner
betokened her answer, and III the words
OF the fair Desdemona, she could have
said |:


"The heavens forbid


But that our loves and comforts should increase
Even as our days do grow


She is the mother of eight children,
all girls but one, and fine looking, the
Indian blood being scarcely perceptible.
The wife assured me that her affection
for her husband and children was such
that she would willingly risk her life to
save them from danger. She experienced
very little difference in her mode OF
living from that which she had been
accustomed in her earlier life. It is
true she had married without the con
sent of her parents, but this offense had
long since been condoned and family
visits exchanged, and her father dying
recently, bequeathed to her fifty acres
of land Immediately adjoining their
village Correspondence Baltimore Sun.
Year: 1878

There is a growing feeling in every
healthy community against the jour-
nails which make it their special object
to minister to perverted taste by seek
ing out and serving up in q seductive
form disgusting scandals and licentious
revelations. There is good reason to
believe that the clean newspaper is
more highly priced to-day than it was
four or FIVE years ago. It is also safe
to predict that as people in all ranks of
life, who protect their own at least
from contamination, become more con-
scious of the pernici' us influence of q
certain class of journals, called enter
prising because they are ambitious to
serve up dirty scandals, they will be
careful to see that the journals they
permit to be read in the family circle
are OF the class that never forget the
proprieties of life. Already men and
women of refinement and healthy
morals have had their attention called
10 the pernicious influence of bad
literature, and have made commend
able efforts to counteract the same by
causing sound literature to be publish
ed and sold at popular prices. These
efforts are working silent but sure
revolution. The best authors are more
generally read to day tkan ut any pre-.
vious time. The sickly sentimental
story paper and wild ranger and pirate
story book are slowly yielding the field
to worthier claimants. To the praise
of the decent newspaper, it may be said
that where it has place in the family
and has been read for years by young
and old, it has developed such healthy
tone and such a discriminating taste
that the literature of the slums has no
admirers. Fortunately, the number OF
such families is increasing in the land,
and as they increase, the journal that
devotes itself to sickening revelations of
immortality will be compelled to find its
supporters solely among those classes
that practice vice Or crime or are am
bilious to learn to follow such ways
Boston Herald.
Year: 1878

The natives of India are usually
brown, but some of them are nearly
black. Their hair is usually straight
sometimes gracefully curled, seldom of
woolly appearance. The native women
of Calcutta wear their hair long, and
either loose or braided. The men gen.
orally part theirs in the middle. Shaving
tho head is common, especially among
what appear to be of the lower classes.
Some shave off every hair others leave
enough for topknot only others make
themselves comical-looking by shaving
patches here and there, according to
their fancy. Their BARRIERS are generally
located at irregular intervals along the
principal streets and lanes. A barber
spreads his bamboo mat on the pave
ment, near the wall, for him and his
subject to squat on during the work |;
and while he uses the tools, the man
having his hair or beard dressed holds
small mirror in his hand and watches
closely every movement of the razor or
shears. The mirror is seldom more than
six inches in length. The barber is very
deliberate, and may spend half m hour
on one head or face for cent and half.
Besides these street BARRIERS, there are
those who have shops for Europeans and
Baboos, and charge twelve cents for cut
ting Europeans hair. There are also,
along the streets, native cobblers, with
their little kits of tools, repairing shoes.
Oil is much used-not only on the head,
but also the whole body is well anointed.


The Indians of this country, like their
American cousins, are very straight and
erect. Round or stopped shoulders are
80 rare among them that they attract
attention at once, if the possessor is on
his feet. These people carry nearly all
their burdens on the head, and this de.
velops a straight form. If one wants
pianoforte, a bedstead, tea-set, or any
article transported with perfect safety
to another part of the city, he calls
enough coolies for the job, and commits
the articles to them, sending servant
along to oversee them. Small articles
are put into large basket, which the
coolies always have. The basket is
made of bamboo pieces tied together, is
lined with the coarsest sackcloth, semi
spheric in shape, and without any handle.
A coolie can carry weight on his head
two or three times as great as he can
lift. When on the street awaiting or
ders, he frequently gets into his basket
and goes to sleep, or inverts it and
makes a stool out of it. Passing along
the street at night, one sees many serv-
ants and coolies, especially the latter,
sleeping on the asbestos, stone, or Nc.
Adam pavement, with no bed between
except single cotton blanket worn on
the body during the day. Many Baboos
and men of other classes of the natives
of Bengal never wear any covering on
their heads except that given by nature.
Some of the Baboos are as noble-looking
specimens of humanity as I ever saw,
and,h have as good brain as Drawn.


The head-coverings worn are usually
either little hemisphere, often beauti-
fully embroidered, or large turban
consisting of many yards of cotton cloth
wound around the top of the head. The
latter is good protection; the former
seems to be worn only for ornament.
Year: 1878

ment feeling more eXclteu anu moie Joy-
fully hopeful. Presently the action OF
swallowing became more decided; she
felt feeble hutter at the heart, and
before long the eyes gradually opened
and closed again; but the breathing
became quietly regular and the mother
was satisfied that now no one would
dispute the fact; 80 she called her house.
hold round her, and proved to them the
joyful fact that her child was restored to
her. and that no funeral procession
would leave the house that day. Before
long the child fully recovered. The
fruit-knife with it's two blades is to this
day the most precious heirloom in the
family possessions.


"The recovered one lived to form q
deep attachment to her cousin (the
rescued boy of the first story, possibly
from the fact of the strange similarity
in their early history; but his affections
were already engaged by the young lady
whose story We are now going to relate,
the facts of which resemble somewhat
those already told. This young person
was no longer child when death SEEM
ed to claim her, but had reached the age
of eighteen or nineteen. She had been
suffering from an infectious and danger
ous fever, and when the crisis arrived,
instead of rallying, she, to all appear
ance, died. It was the custom Of the
district in which she lived to dress mar
.iageable girls as brides after death,
and to bury them in their bridal cos.
tune. The young lady in question Was
Year: 1878

mouth wash is most sana;ive as toilet article
luxury aud It's regular use from early youth to old
would tend to aud maintain beautiful and healthy
teeth is also most economical few drops upon
brush Is all thai IL needed for efficacy pssssre Sold
by Drurgsis
Year: 1878

Gen. James :. Whitney, who died so
suddenly Thursday, was personally very
agreeable and courteous gentleman Of the
old school When interviewed" by re-
porter Gen. Whitney would provide the
scribe with a quill pen and a stack Of fools
cap paper, and then proceed to dictate with
great care both questions and answers,
meanwhile pacing up and down the office
with his hand. behind him and his head
bowed on his breast When the interview
was finished the General would read it
suggest few changes, and then
smiling invite the reporter around To
Young's.
Year: 1878

our dispatches this morning indicate
that St. John is elected by plurality OF at
least 25,0O0. Reports from the northern
counties show that most OF them give
the usual Republican majorities, while
in the south and southwest Mitchell is
drawing very heavily from the Democratic
vote, while the proportion OF Republican
votes cast for him is very small