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Year: 1874

rhcParis Figaro continues to!serve up its news
IN the toowiug tlippsut style More suicides
SIX 10 one day One of these interests us much
IL Is that of poor literary man named Prospect
Iayant, driven by misery to commit the rash
act Of self murder. Before doing so he wrote on
a slip of paper: Life is so miserable that / can
DO longer endure it, write columns Of Won
aGSruy interesting matter, but it is always re-
used, and now | shall do what the governm ent
Gid to the Figaro, suspend myself. And the
poor creature hung himself to the root OF bis
garrett
Year: 1874

Jack Starlight was stopping at q
small village in the interior of the
State, and one Sunday last summer,
having nothing to occupy his time, he
came to the sensible conclusion that
be had better 60 to church in the even
ing; and so, after supper, he wendsd
his way TO the "meetin' house"


II was q very warm evening, aud
Jack thought, as he WAS q stranger, he
would 90 into the gallery. There were
only q few people up there, so he seat
ed himself In front seat and prepar-
ed to listen.


The minister was preaching one of
those red,hot sermons country minis
ters delight IN, and was happy.


Jack was not.


The gallery was getting warmer
every minute. The people down In
the body of the church looked COM
Portable, and our hero concluded 1t
was cooler down there, and decided to
try it.


Just as he started the minister was
In the midst Of s terrible warning to
young men, and the noise he msde at
tracted the dOmlnie's attention.


Thinking Jack was about to leave
the church, the clergyman stopped in
bis sermon, and said:


"Young man, you may not be aware
of it. but you are going straight to
hell?D


Jack stopped, looked back, and see
ing he was the person addressed, re-
piled:


''Is that sOP Well, Pun glad YOU
mentioned il. 1 was going down
where you are; but II that's the case
I'll stay where I am, for it's warm
enough up here"


Jack then cOolly sat down again,
amid the rather loud smiles of the
younger mem bers Of the congregation.
The minister gave out the next hymn
immedlately.-CdrsoH City Tribune.
Year: 1874

were gazing seaward. My face must
have expressed little of the yearn-
ing pity that overhowed my heart.


rs it for me you are unhappy %
she asked doubtfully one day.


"Yes; find / have not fortitude
enough to bear other peoples misfor-
tunes.n


"YOu may easily bear mine.
have been very happy since l knew
that my waiting would be short"


"YOu have had but a dull, lonely
life, Eleanor. l cannot wonder 81
your indifference to it,"


A sudden rosy brightness transfig-
ured EleanOr's face, and for the mo-
ment she was more lovely than l can
tell.


"You are wrong, believe me-" she
said. II have had my share OF hap
piness; no woman could have more.
1t was like some great tropical bloom,
long in coming anS boon gone, but iL
was unutterably perfect"


L looked at her with wide eyes, and
the drawbridge Of her reserve fell in
stantly.


She lay still for long time, and
could hear the thud of her heart
beats.


When was leaving her, she show
ed me key on a chain that she al
ways wore about her neck.


Sometime you will use this ~ un-
lock my desk" she said, "and
find there what / can not
say to you now" Not many
days after, she went out of life as
calmly as she had passed through it


In her desk was a large packet OF
letters, bound with strip Of paper.
On this strip was written the precious
secret which she could not part with
while she lived, "Bury me with
these letters on my heart, and write
over my head only this, Eleanor
Eustaee, beloved wife of Haviland
Norton.'D


She had said on my wedding day
that she thought she might like me
very well, and 1 have reason to be-
lieve she did so, never any less and
any more, while l grew to regard her
with passionate admiration.


For long time after death, life,
alone with my widower, was a very
tame affair indeed.
Year: 1874

A worthy doctor named Slade, who


resides in st. Louis, has been for some


time past studying the most humane


way of killing animals. He Is of the
opinion that the victim should be led


quietly to the place of slaughter and


that everything calculated TO produce
q distressing effect on the nerves
should be removed as il appreciably
affects the quality Of flesh for food ;
for this reason he thinks that one ami
NAL should not be allowed to see the
death of another. Also that killing
should he permanently done by blow
ON the head causing insensibility, fol.
lowed by bleeding: or by cutting
through the spinal cord and so Destroy
ing sensation Immediately. DR.. Slade
thinks 1t is cruel to cut the throat
without first causing insensibllity. To
kill q horse without affecting his
nerves, blindfold him and tie him to
q post. The operator armed with a
heavy ak or hammer lthe doctor
thinks broad mallet the best instru-
ment), should stand to the left and in
front, aiming vigorous blow at the
forehead just between the pits above
InC CJCc. LUG VIII lh5ldAll1
fall. The head should then be drawn
back and the throat cut to the bone.
If, however, pistol or gun is used, it
should be aimed exactly at the spot
indicated, and death will be so sudden
that cutting the throat will be un-
necessary. A still easier death is sat
ursting sponge with ehlorOform and
putting it into feed-bag and fasten-
ing it close under the horses nose. In
ten minutes with frequent renewal
of the ehlOroform on the sponge, the
horse will be dead.


The skulls of all cattle are tough
er than horses and require harder
blows, they should be struck in the
center of the forehead about an inch
and a half below the base of the
horns. The reason calves are bled to
death is because blows on the head
iDjure the brain as an article of food.
Hogs should also be rendered insen-
sible by blows before their thFoats are
cut, and contrary to butchers belief,
the blood should be emptied equally
well. In shooting dogs the aim
should be close and just ovsr and ia.
front of the ear. Fish also may be
instantly killed by striking a quick,
sharp blow with a stick just behind
the ewes
Year: 1874

We find in the RHTdl World the
following enumeration of its values
and It's uses: In the first place the
flowers abound in honey, aud furnish
food for bees. The seeds contain
oleaginOus matter, and yield oil at the
rate of one gallon per bushel which
Is but little inferior TO olive oil. One
acre will produce so bushels Of seed.
1t is also valuable for horses aud
poultry. 1t has been used for bread
by the American Indians, and also in


Portugal. The leaves ara excellent
fodder for cattle. The stalks while
growing may be utilized as bean poles
where they are scarce and difficult to
obtain, and when dry may be used as
roofing, or set up against fence to
form q wind break. They contain a
large amount of potash, and are ex-
cellent for kindling fires. The seed
has also been recommended for fuel.
The reputation OF the growing flower
to absorb miasmatie vapors and pre-


venting fever and sgue Is well known.
Year: 1874

Aliens majority in the district was
1,162, which ordinarily would be re-
garded as sufficient to place the dis
trict on the Democratic list. There
can be no doubt but the Democrats
hope and except, by this gerrymsn-
dering, to secure twelve ifnOt thirteen
OF the twenty members Of Congress
from this State, and that, too, when
there is an undoubted Republican
majority of not less than fifteen thous-
and in the State. This game is one at
which both parties can play, and as
the next Legislature will probably be
Republican in politics. the Democrats
can scarcely hope TO gain any perma-
nent advantage from the adoption Of
this measure Blade.
Year: 1874

Tom was a straPpiHgI heAlIny BOY
with great appetite. He lived up
in the mountains among the charcoal
burners until he was nineteen. Then
he went down into the valley and
hired out to q farmer. Tom was
scullion and drudge, and first along
the farmer hesitated even to trust the
hogs to his care. But there was
glimmering of something in him that
showed just a little through his I'M
couthness. After q year or two he
became q full farm laborer-a broad
shouldered, deep-chested, powerful
fellow, who made himself clumsily
useful. Well, about that time the
farmers daughter came home from
school. What revelation she was
to Tom He never knew until then
what it was to worship anything, nor
how awkward and coarse he was.


He would have given all he had,
which wasn't much, to learn how to
get into a room without hitting the
door, or what to do with his hands,
or how to sit down right. He began
to change his clothes for better ones
when he came in from his days
work, and there was about him q
dawning Of improvement. Finally
the great day came. He stood trem-
bling before the farmers daughter,
the hard word was spoken, and she
didn't repulse him. I think there is
nothing in the life Of q man which so
rouses and stirs him as love. Tom
went to the wrestling matches, and
what a vim there was in him. He
| read. he went to church he wanted
to see how people acted. And when
after good life he grew TO be an old
man, and talked in trembling voice
| to his grandchildren, he used to say


30, what a wife she was to me.
The world is full Of just such instan-
ces of blessed influence.
Year: 1874

Mr. Scott, of Pope county, offered the
following resolution in the Convention,
on Wednesday. 1t was referred without
debate to the committee on railroads


Whereas, 1t has been represented that
the Little Rock and Fort Smith railroad
company are largely indebted Tor labor
done and performed in the construction
of said road. and for material and sup
plies furnished and whereas, many good,
hard working and honest men are almost
ruined and broken up by the non-pay.
ment of sums of money due them for
their labor on said railroad, as well as
for material and supplies furnished said
rail- Dad company in the construction of
the same. and that some remedy may be
prescribed, be it therefore,


Resolved, That the committee on rail.
roads and internal improvements be re-
ques,ed to ascertain what amount of in
terest the state has or owns in said rail.
road. if any the amount of their assets
and liabilities and the means OF liquidat-
ing their Indebtedness to laborers and
other parties who have advanced material
and supplies in its construction aud the
propriety Of making some constitutional
provision securing to them lien upon
said railroad, the rolling stock or prop
erty of the company, aud to prevent the
sale, transfer or conveyance thereof to
o.her parties with view to defraud or
procrastinate the payment OF their liabili-
ties, and further To secure and enforce
the payment Of damages in killing, GRIP
plng or wounding stock or persons.
Year: 1874

MIR. QUINLAN's wagon train ar rived here last Tuesday evening on its return from Tucson, having or board ten tons of silver ore from the Picacho mine situated about 40 miles North. West of Tue son. This ore was shipped by Fully & Brown, of said mine, and we understand that it goes to San Francisco for reduction. This mine is spoken of by men who have seen it. as being of extra ordinary richness and extent. We expect that the owners will get & splendid return for this shipment.
Year: 1874

A Brooklyn man who sat down to mediate in his sweetheart's lap had occasion to caution her about looping up her skirts with pins. He found that the consequences had a tendency to disturb his mental poise.
Year: 1874

PGive us a call. Price our Goods and inspect our STOCK. We will mako It to your advantage SURE to do so. Our Goods are FRESH and NEW. Our Prices LOW. Our facilities SUPERIOR and we are always ready and prepared to satisfy everyone of these facts.
Year: 1874

There has been considerable stir among steamboat men this week. What it means. we don't know, snd a. it is th8iF 0w1 prf- vata business we don't consider it -OuF province to enquire. A great many men have been discharged, and 6 nuTnher Of them have left for California We gre sorry to nara theaa men leave the river, as we had become acquainted with most of them, and we must say that they are as dne set of men as ever run on any river, and good social fellows ashore. We have no doubt that the 0. s. N. Co.,, fully understand their business, and that they will conduct it in such a manner as to promote their own interests and at the same time give the public all ths accom- mediation that is possible under the circumstances. We hope Jhat business will soon revive and that they will have enough to do in the carrying trade to employ all their steamers.
Year: 1874

Under the heading Of Estate House Cos.
sip the Pcoyans amuses it's readers with
an account that some wag has given its
reporter of ian important caucus" that is
supposed to have been held last week. The
Pic has been played upon so often by the
wags of the State House that it is wonder
that it will continue to be decei7ed by their
small talk, and hash it up as something
palatable for it's intelligent readers. The
idea that they can be made to believe there
is any misunderstanding between Governor
Kellogg and the Legislature is too timsy to
be seriously entertained by the paper that
makes room for the rumors to that effect
The story about that important caucus has
not the slightest foundation in fact. 1t is
only the fiction of wag
Year: 1874

Attention is called to the notice in another
Mems Christian Association, to be held this
evening at No. 81 Campstreet. 1t is proposed
to elect board of managers for 1874, and it
is to be hoped that an energetic board may
then be chosen, as this institution has
grown to be one of the most useful organi-
cations in our city, where there is an ever
opening field before it for further work.
Year: 1874

A New York school boy, twelve years cid
missed his lessons one day last week, and
the teacher wrote his name on the black
board for the whole school to gaze at, for
punishment. The poor boys pride was
wounded, and he went home and hanged
himself with the strap IN which he carried
his books to school.
Year: 1874

Perhaps one of the most aggravating difficulties ever encountered by busy housewife is that attending the light ing of fires on still, damp mornings. The stove at first won draw even wig orous "blowing will not suffice and then when it does start, it is with sort of explosion or outward rush of air which fills the room with smoke and gas, oftentimes pufing the unpleasant fumes in the face of the operator. The trouble is caused by the. difficulty en- countered in overcoming the inertia of the long column of air in the pipe or chimney, by the small column of air that can be forced up through the in- terstices of wood and coal, at the bot tom of which the fire is kindled. All this may be remedied by simply putting few shavings or bits of dry paper on the top of the wood or coal, and first lighting that. It immediately bursts into blaze, because the air has per- fectly free access to it from all sides, the heated air forces its way in the chimney, and establishes there an up ward current. The match can then be applied to the kindling under the fuel, which will readily light, and, if dry. burst into brisk flame.
Year: 1874

A very remarkable circumstance, and an important point in analogy, is to be found in the extreme rapidity with which the mental operations are per formed, or rather with which the mate rial changes on which ideas depend are excited in the hemispherical ganglia. It would appear as if . whole series of acts, that would really occupy long space of time, pass ideally through the mind in an instant. .. We have in dreams no true perception of the lapse of time "a strange property of mind-for if such be also its; property when entered into the eternal, disembodied state, time %;n appear to us eternity. The relations of space, as well as time, are snnihilate5, so that while almost an eternity is compressed into moment, infinite space is Sraversed more swiftly than by real thought. There are nu- merous illustrations of this principle on record.

 A gentleman dreamed that he had en- listed as a soldier, deserted his regi- ment, was apprehended, carried back, tried, condemned to be shot, and at last led out for execution. After the usual preparations gun was fired he awoke with the report, and found that noise in the next room had at the same mo- ment produced the dream and awak- ] ened him.
Year: 1874

There is such thing, says an ex- change, as having anything too bad. This chromo business is having great run among cheap newspapers, and 1t is becoming annoying to the people. We have stood the constant arrival of daubs, and paid express charges without a murmu1, until this last indignity was heaped upon us, and now the lion with in us is aroused. A few days ago the gentlemanly expressman came in with flat package. Instinctively we knew it contained colored pictures of highly colored females, or impossible dogs, but we paid the charges, and at our leisure opened the package. Not con- tent with sending us one there were three pictures in the package. We have boarded those hideous caricatures for three days. They have frightened some of our best customers out of the office. We took one of them to the barn, and the COW saw it and has consistently re- fused to give milk since. That picture is terror. In the foreground is an old mare and two mule colts laying down, all unconscious that just above them two wolves are just ready to bounce upon them. The artist seems bO udN0 UASOWh BOOO OOd1 Ol 6Ou4 1AvO the ears of the smallest mule colt, and the tail of one of the wolves is woven into his hind leg so perfectly that you can't tell where the leg ends and the tail begins. The whole effect of the picture reminds the true artist of jar of preserved huckleberries spilled on the cellar stairs and stepped in by a number eight female foot in state of anxiety. (One of our frequent visitors says the picture represents sheep and two lambs instead of mare and two mule colts, and that instead of wolves there are two dogs. We'll, there is no true artistic eye but has it's faults. It may be sheep and dogs, but we would have taken our solemn affidavit they were males and wolves.) But this is neither here nor there. What we want to illustrate is the cheek of that paper. Yesterday we received letter from the supreme idiot who runs the paper in forming us that the aforesaid pictures had been sent us, and that we were ex. pected to do advertising for them to the extent of $20. Now we are nothing but poor, weak creatures, and don't want a row with a paper; but if worse comes to worse we will perish honorably, witl our face to the fee, before we will dt one cents worth of advertising -any more than this article-for those blasted | thin0s
Year: 1874



 will not stir abroad to-day, But find at home what cheer may. Old men like me are out of date: Who wants to see grizzled pate If silver hairs were locks of gold, might be as was of old For then my dead would all be here, And that would make happy Year The old man now, the young man then Are we the same, or different men? One sits at home with slippered feet The other braves the driving sleet; His light heart suits itself with wine It will not warm this heart of mine: One sees the bridal, one the bier, And each, in his own way, the Year. Where are the friends used to know Ned, Fred-not many years ago, Whose glass clinked mine amid the din Of-Old Ye0r out and Ne,o Year i,e? 'Dead rhymes with Ned" the Master

 said Himself among the Masters dead: Alack and drear, and fear, and tear Methinks all sad words rhyme with Year! Some one, perhaps, will care for me When no longer hear or see. hope my little man of ten, When he shall take my place with men, Will think about me in the grave If only for the gifts gave And say, If father was but here, It would be such happy Year !" Peace, old man, peace and cease this

 song,

 Which does the merry season wrong. You have the sweetness of regret The friendships you remember yet You have what time will not destroy The love of your remembering boy: These surely are enough to'cheer The morning of the saddest Year.

 R. H. SToDDARD.
Year: 1874



 He buried him sadly, that depot man,

 The pup with his boot-toe epurning;

 And roundly he swore as he saw the plan

 Of his own on himself thus turningl

 In this way the poet would dream over that dog-oned ceper, that the depot agent tried to play on Roys few days ago. The truth of that matter has come 10 light by their own statement in the Winsted Herald. The depot agent did after all have to bury his dog, but he found it hard work to cover up the joke played on him by the "Three Leaved Clover" The story has been told, but thinking the people have not the auth orized edition, we repeat it as follows: The dog was leisurely strolling along tho track in this village, hands in his pocket, doubt less thinking of bis Canaan friends and dreaming of no danger, when one of tn, trains going East came in contact with the physical organism of the dog and used him up so badly, that one could hardly tell whether it was dog or depot agent. AS the crowd began to gather around the mangled body, some said it was "Wall;' ; Others in their agony owned it was Frank. while the others wrung their hands in grief and sorrow, crying, ''I.'s poor 1ke!" Bnl the less excited and unimpassioned declared that it was neither of them, hut another dog. After short consultation Roberts shouldered the dog and waddled off in the vicinity ot the ''wagon park" and grinning ly deposited it under the seat of Roys wagon and turned back with an exultant, triumphant air, thinking how smoothly he had gotten out of burying the dog, which would have been so antagonistic to his physical constitution, little thinking that Roys, with his seeming blunt perceptions of
Year: 1874



 Last week Wednesday a temperance mass meeting was held in the Methodist church. Speeches were made by several persons from Poughkeepsie. The Pough- keepsie Glee Club was present and furnish ed music for the occasion..L Last Saturday MT. Henry Campbell was out driving with his sister, when turning from Maple Ave. into the street that is close by the railroad, and runs parallel with the same, one of the carriage wheels ran into one of the deep holes with which the roads,des at that place are ornamented; tho carriage was overturned, throwing out the occupants, and he horse becoming unmanageable, whirled around several times before he could be stopped. Miss Campbell was not hurt, but MT. Campbell when thrown lay stunned for few moments, he was bruised and cut some about the fa ce, but sustained no se- rious injuries. One of the horses fore feet was hurt and the carriage was badly broken. If it be too much trouble to re pair the road, we recommend that street lamp be erected by the side of each hole or some unwary pedestrian will be buried there one of these dark nights.