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Year: 1879

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We cannot undertake to return preserve COM
mumcatIons that are not used
Year: 1879

COLONEL BRowNLow, son of the famous
Parson Brownlow, says the Union men of
the South hold that the Government in a
time of peace is as safe in the hands of the
men who defended it as it was in their
hands in a time of war, and adds that chow
ever loyal reconstructed rebels may be now,
their loyalty as compared with that of the
Union men of the South when war was fla
grant is as a whisper to the roar of Spring
time"
Year: 1879

The enterprising thief who stole the
Presidents message did not forward it in
time for full publication in the Portland
papers yesterday morning, though the mos
important portion was received and printed
The remainder, consisting chiefly of sum-
mary of the recommendations of the heads
Year: 1879

The Industrial Society, interesting it
self in considering the too generally sad


condition of the wage-worker when the
season of his activity had passed, saw


that it can hardly be expected that dur


ING his wor ing season he could make,


without assistance, adequate provision


for hls old age, since the amount he could


possibly save from his wages ~as made


quate, and, besides, the wage " or. er has
seldom the opportunity to become an ex


pert in the techpicalitics of investment.


AS result of their Investigations, in 1851


an association, which now consists of nine
firms, was formed to meet the difficulty
Their rules are rs follows; The worH-
men from the age of sixteen are given
the opportunity to deposit three per cent.
of their wages with the state treasury,
and at the same time the employers, tor
the purpose of encouraging this saving,
and to increase the amount deposited,
agree to contribute also three per cent. of


the wages paid the workers Of both sexes
in their employ who have reached the
age OF eighteen and sixteen. Tive
thirds of this last sum are to be added


to that deposit by the workmen, the


other third being used as fund fer


paying the expenses of the accounts, to be


distributed for the assistance of aged or


infrm employees, and finally for increas-
ing the pensions, which were too small


to support their recipients. To further
tle objects of this association. from funds
collected by subscription, a large build


ing has been erected to serve as an asylum
for aged and invalid workmen, and it


now shelters 256 such-men and women.


The funds thus raised, invested, and on
! hand to invest. amount to very nearly
Year: 1879

"Whcrc are you golng?"
The new man told him.


.'Do you mean to tell me that you arc
going down there to fix that pipe withou,
examining it, he gaspcd.


"Nhy, am gong to look at it when !
get there, said the man.


.'Why, said the proprietor, catching
hold Of the desk for support, ''can it be
possible that you would do Job of work
at one visit! Don t you know your trade
better than that? Have you no pride il
your business: Why, you'd rum the en-
tire community i'll less than year.


And the speaker burst into tears. As
soon as he grew calmcr he explained tC
the new man that he should first visit tho
house and make a thorough examination
OF the building, get the lay Of the streets
find the location of the nearest hydrant
go upon the roof Of the house, and thel
return thoughtfulIy to The shop for his
tools, keeping an accurate account of tho
time
Year: 1879




OThcre probably isn't a woman in North


America who isn't afraid of cows, and


there is not q COW in North America


which would harm one hair of any wonl-


ans head if it had the best chance in the


world and no other Job on hand. We'd


ncsday forenoon a stray COW, per APPS from


the country for taste OF baled hay, foantis
Il gate open and entered a yard on Second


street. The woman came to the front


door dressed to 60 out. but seeing the


COW she uttered scream and hurried


buck. There wasn't i, thing in the yard


for the COW to damage or eat, and being
tired she raised her cud, lay down and
began to chew away as If she had gos
home from long visit to Europe. The
woman next appeared at side window
and called upon the COW to s.gct out"
A dog might have "got," but the COW
didn't Then the woman threw rag al
the COW and called for the dog. The
dog didn't come and the rag didn't
scare. Then the woman shook q pill


low at the COW and peremptorily or.
| dered her off the premises, but the bo
Year: 1879

If there is any class OF persons who
need sympathy, tenderness and encour-
agement, it is the tired women of our
pleasant land. Weary limbs and hearts,
puzzled brains, all attest the fact There
should be special privileges granted to
them as much as to invalids. IT'S said
"Over all pathways the clouds must lower,


Under all feet some sharp thorns spring


Tearing the flesh to bleeding wounds,


Or entering the heart with their bitter sting:
Upon all brows rough winds must blow.
Over all shoulders q cross must be ain
Bouing the form in its lofty height


Down to the dust in bitter pain


True, into all hands there are duties
thrust, and into all arms some heavy bur
dens given; to women doing double work.
anxious, scheming, planning and econe-
mizing how they can manage every de
tail of domestic lite with least expense
Doing double, Oh! triple work themselves
TO save for this and at until their nerves
are strained and shattered to degree un-
bearable to themselves. and particularly
offensive to others. But into all hearts
and homes and lives Gods dear sunshine
| may be brought, gliding the ruins OF
life's great plain, if only husbands or
fathers would but deal gently with the
wife or mother, cheer and brighten her
| life by all the means in their power, for
she needs your help, and your sympathy
does much to buoy ner up, that she may
be nerved with fresh vigor to impart sun
shine in her heme and to all who are a
constant drain upon er life and energies.
believe it to be a woman's duty to be a
cheerful companion, making her home a
model one, a place where her husband
delights to be- And if trials come &c
will find him ever ready to sFmpathizc
and assist IN making the pathway of life
smooth, and when cur time on earth has
expired we have woven golden crown.
Year: 1879

NOT so FAST-THE END rs NOT YET.


EDITOR HERALD: / again, and
hope for the last time on this Issue,
claim the indulgence of yourself
and such Of your readers as have
given any attention to the tilt that
has been going on for some days
past between the cypress and my
self.


On the 16th instant the Express,
In an extended editorial, stated
Year: 1879

1.-THE editor of the HERALD is in no
sense responsible fer anything which APP
pears under the above head, and COM
munications only carry the endorsement
of this journal when the fact is so stated.
EDITOR II ERALD
Year: 1879

We hereby notify our friends and the public generally that from this time forth we will cease to sell for credit on any terms whatever. We are aware that in order to do this we will have to sell cheaper than our neigh bors, and we are prepared to do so. As we are building we are very much pressed for cash, and therefore 1t will be better for us to sell for cost than to sell on ever so short a time, no matter how good the buyer. The facts in the case are just these: 1t is a necessity with us to have our goods or to have the wherewith to buy more. Of course we do not expect to do so much business, but we are de-. termined to do what we can.

 Our Lumber Yard is now full and nearly com plete.
Year: 1879

We stated in our brevities on Thurs
day that "Joe Seal, was disc0nsolate.
The Indian Doctors head covering
brings him down. Try again, Joe!"
This morning we cast our eyes down the
stairway leading to our sanctum, hav-
ing been attracted by what might have
proved first class apparition. The
queer thing worked its way on up the
stairway, and then We thought there
must be strong power behind that
huge un.umbrella that was gradually
being forced up between the siies of
that wide stairway. Up it came, and
when the last step was taken, the front
part of that queer h-ad-gear went up
wards toward the ceiling at an angle of
about forty five degrees, and beneath
were the merry twinkling eyes and
smiling humorous phiz OF Captain Joe
Seal. In look and laugh that ex-
planned all, he asked US if that would
do? We assured him that it would,
and that he had completely overed the
Indian medicine man. Now is the time
for the Indian doctor.
Year: 1879

We are informed that one of our most
extensive firms is suffering little in
convenience from their desire to turn
out NEST excellent work, and thus keep
up their own character and that of
their nsighborhood. They, when iron
was plenty, refused any but the best,
and returned inferior iron to the maker.
Now the iron men knowing they are
50 particular delay their orders, and
send their iron to manufactures that
are not as careful of their reputation.
They are thus filled with orders, but
delayed for want of good material.
These things generally remedy them
selves. The erection of new iron
works by this firm to supply them
selves with really good article is with
in the bounds of probability.
Year: 1879

The Alumni Association of the Boys
High School contemplate offering an
Alumni prize to the High School to be
awarded to the one who proves most
proficient in certain studies. What the
prize will be has not been determined
upon, nor has their been any formal
movement made in the matter. The
unpreced success of the recent
re union has encouraged the association
and an effort will be made next year
to give public reunion at the Opera
House to be directly followed by the
usual society banquet.
Year: 1879

The quarterly reunion of the Sun
day schools connected with the Central
church will be held to-
morrow Sunday evening at So O'Clock at
the church on King street below Eighth.
The regular session will be postponed
at the Rodney Chapel and the scholars
are requested to meet at the chapel at
5.45 so as attend the reunion in a
BODY,
Year: 1879

This morning at 1l.30 as a young lady
from the country was vending her way
through the King street market, when
near Fourth street she missed one of
her gold bracelets. She does not know
whether she lost it or whether it was
stolen from her.
Year: 1879

A defeated candidate for the Office of
Clerk of the Market, openly proclaim
ed this morning, that having an 80 in
your name or keeping saloon and sell
ing whisky" are the Democratic requi-
sites for office, and not being in that
category he had not the slightest
chance for position.
Year: 1879

This morning about nine o'clock the
Sabbath school of st. Andrews church
met at the school rooms and in cars
provided by the city railway company
left Sth and Market SITS. for the banks
of the Brandywine, where the day is to
be spent.
Year: 1879

We are informed that the Harlan X
Hollingsworth Co. have now employed
l, 400 men, which is q many as they
ever employed. No man we are III
formed in this city. is out of work who
deserves it.
Year: 1879

The handsome Pepper property will
ba disposed of this afternoon at three
o'clock. The stable, in connection with
the mansion, and fifteen lots on the
hill, will also be sold. A hack will
le ave the Clayton House.
Year: 1879

That the conhagration that is to con-
sumo the world has begun is believed
by many residents of Reading, Pa.


While some gentlemen were shooting
on the farm of Henry Miller, near the
city, one of the party killed part
ridge, which fell in an adjacent field.
TO the surprise of the gentleman his
dog refused to fetch the bird, and he
went for it himself; but at the spot
where the bird had fallen he suddenly
sank several feet in a bed of fire and
ashes. The burning track is a square
in length and half square in width.
Miller says the fire began burning about
three weeks ago, and travels several
feet day. 1t emits no smoke except
ing now and then when turf of grass
is being consumed, or when trees are
burning, but the heat is intense. The
fire has extended into a green wheat
field, which is gradually being des-
troyed. The roots Of oak trees burn
off, and some trees two feet and half
in diameter have fallen over.
Year: 1879

OF the habits and characteristics Of
the Zulu race mentioned by. the cor


respondent of the Paris Figaro some of
the most notable are to. be seen in their


matrimonial relations. The juvenile


male Zulu is obliged to work for his
father until he is about eighteen years
old, when he goes on SO, of grand tour


to make his fortune in the world. Al
though he. is not much of workman


where industry or activity is needed he
j., nevertheless, very keen in pursuit of


filthy lucre, and is not above practising


a strict economy, while he employs
every meapsy fair or foul. of scraping


together hoard of money. Thieving


is his especial forte, and what with this
and an occasional spell Of more honest
labor he acquires sooner or later suffi-
cient pocket money to enable him to


purchase wife. The price of a help


meet in Zululand seems to be from ten
to twenty five head of cattle, according
to the rank of the, woman, anG as soon


as the first wife lis secured the bride
groom begins to enjoy for the first time


some degree Of leisure and ease. He
| makes the unfortunate woman work in
the fields and earn fresh hoard, with
which he procures secbnd wife, and


then is enabled to begin life of com
parative LUXURY. Children are bern
to him, and of these the males are sold


so that the father has nothing to inter
fere with his natural tastes for beer,
| tobacco and idleness. The Zulu mother.


in-law appears in a strange light in the


account given by the Figaro. Her name


is never mentioned by the son-in-law


and if the two happen by i'll luck te


meet, the woman hides with all speeo


behind the nearest bush, while the mar


turns his head away and pretends not tt
Year: 1879

Elizabeth IN. J.) Journal


Recently humming birds nest was
found by some person who had sufficient
natural curiosity to overcome their
compassion, and who captured the nest,
two young hummers and the old one,
took them home and had them stuffed.
They are to be sent to museum of
natural curiosities in London. The nest
is built on little twig, and scarcely the
size of half an English walnut. Both
nest and twig are covered with little
patches of lichen until it is almost i'm
possible to tell one from the other, and
the nest looks like kind of natural ex.
crescence on the twig. The nest is plia.
BILE, like tiny cup of velvet, and the
inside is lined with white substance
as rich and soft as white silk. The
little birds are about the size of humble
bees, very pretty, and they sit on little
perch just outside the nest, with oFer
bills, while the old bird hovers ovel
them to feed them. +.-g .........
Year: 1879

ACCORDING to the London Lancet it is,
doubtless, in the first instance, as the
cause of local skin disease that paper
collars prepared with arsenic in some
form are deleterious; but when once the
cuticle has been removed the toxic effect
may become general, because the alb
sorption is then very likely to take
place, and the whole system may be
poisoned. 1t is impossible that arsen-
ious acid can be used unwittingly. As
q matter Of fact, white paper is often
prepared with this poison, and if it is
brought into close contact with any alb
sorptive surface evil consequently may
ensue. It is time that the process of
manufacture should be placed under
official inspection, if, for the sake Of
cheapness or to give artificial luster to
their goods, makers will use dangerous
dye and dressings, regardless of every.
thing but their own commercial success
Year: 1879

AN aged farmer named Carpenter
died in Vernon, Iowa, recently. He
left will, bequeathing to bis son an
old chest that had been an heirloom in
the family. On opening the chest the
con was surprised to find that it con-
tanned nothing of value. He so reported
to the remaining members of the family,
when they persuaded him to make fur
ther Investigations, which he did in
taking the chest apart. In doing so,
two cleats, each half an inch thick and
perforated with augur holes, were dis
covered. Tearing off these cleats the
young man found that they were hollow


and that the space between the lid and
the bottoms of the cleats had been filled
with gold coins by the thoughtful
parent. How long they had be I
stored in such singular manner in tha


old chest is mystery. 81
Year: 1879

The Reno (Nevada) Journal says that
railroad trains, in crossing Steamboat
Valley, in that State, make a peculiar
rumbling sound, as though going over
a bridge. 1t says that this noise is ac-
counted for either by supposing that the
ground Is Of very porous nature or that
there are subterranean caverns formed
by boiling waters. There are numerous
hot springs in the neighborhood that
have a very sulphurous odor. 1t is said
that during an earthquake the land of
this valley "rolled like ribbon in the
win l."
Year: 1879

TEA tasters are well aware of the
dangers to which they are subject, and
few Of them can carry on the business
without running their health. Moderate
draughts of tea NAV produce an agree
able exhilsratioH of mind and body,
without any noticeable reaction; but the
effects of its excessive use are declared
by doctors to be palpitation of the
heart, an absence Of exhilaration, Sc
we're headache, dimness of vision, and
dullness and confusion of mind. Cases
of severe neuralgia are frequently the
result of over-much tea.
Year: 1879

The recent investigation by two
French doctors of the influence of
mental labor on the growth of the brain
and skull was full of interest. They
measured the heads of persons OF many
different pursuits, educated as we'll as
illiterate. The results were in favor Of
educated men leading an intellectual
life; that 10 to say, the heads OF these
men were much more fully developed
than those of other men. twas found
that both halves of the head were not
always symmetrically developed. In
students, for example, the development
of the left frontal region was fuller than
that of the right; but in illiterate sub
jects the right occipital region was
larger than the left. IN the students
the frontal region was more developed
than the occipital in illiterate subjects
the occipital region was the largest.
Year: 1879

They say the best cat preventive is a
long tube such as is used by boys for
blowing beans. With paper of tor
pedoes and this implement a man can
clear back yard of these animals in an
incredibly short time. When struck by
torpedo the cat never stops to say
good bye, but vaults over the garden
fence with the rapidity of thought. The
best of the matter is that it does rot in
jure the animals. Even those most
friendly to, them may use this weapon
without qualm of self-reproach.-Tr Troy
Times
Year: 1879

"IT must be a beautiful, dreamy sort
of life that you live here in the country"
was the remark of city boarder to
Farmer Robinson, as he sat in the shade
waiting for his dinner. Well, not
werry," was the reply. You see we
get up before daylight and work till
after dark, and get so used up and tired
that we sleep right through soundly


Why, haven't had respectable sort of
dvcam since the planting season begun"
-NeD Haven Register. ga 7af '1i-
Year: 1879

LATE railroad decisions by courts
having proper jurisdiction are; l. Evi-
dence that a street-car approached a
public crossing at an unusually high
rate of speed, and ran over and killed
man, is sufficient to take the question
of negligence to jury. 2. While the
contract which is implied from the sale
of a ticket is that of safe carriage of the
passenger and his personal baggage, the
passenger cannot recover for merchan-
disc carried by him in his trunk as a
travelling salesman. 8. A person ap-
preaching a railroad crossing is bound
to look and listen, and, if he fails to do
so, and an injury ensues, he and his
representative are without remedy !;
or il he sees or hears an approaching
train and tries to cross in advance of it,
and fails, the company is exempt from
all liability.
Year: 1879

= We have two recollections of this unfor.
tunste Prince, to which his cruel fate has
given pathetic significance. One was the
opening of the Legislative body in the year
1866, when the Emperor first associated his
son with him officially. The splendid
Thorne-Room of the Louvre was crowded
with the most brilliant company of Christ
endom, with the great officers of the state,
of the army, and the imperial household.
The Emperor entered and took his place on
the diss at his left sat the stout Prince
Napoleon jerome and in an episcopal robe
of violet silk The young md Apollo-like
ecclesisstic, since Cardinal Bonapsrts, SON
of the Prince of Csuiuo; while on his right
sat the little Prince, then ten years Of age
IS sweet aud gentle child as ever delight
ed mothers heart. A year or two after.
ward, on the reserved terrace of the Tuil-
cries, we saw two boys playing with their
velocipedes, and keenly enjoying the air
and the exercise. One OF them WAS the
Prince Imperial, and the other Don Alfonso
of Spain; the former seemed secure in the
prospect Of the most conspicuous throne in
the world, the other had just been driven,
! finally as II seemed, from q land which


had decreed eternal Punishment 10 his race.


We can not fathom the immutable will that


rules the event of human fortunes; who


could have dreamed that in these few yesr


one of those boys would be lying dead in an


African corn-feld and the other, We know


not how firmly, established in the palace o


his ancestors !-Hdrper's Magazine for DE


cen,ber
Year: 1879

The main cause ofnervousness is indiges-
tion, and that is caused by weakness of the
stomach. No one can have sound nerves
and good health without using Hop Bitters
to strengthen the stomach, purify the blood,
aud keep the liver and kidneys active, to
carry off all the poisonous and waste matter
of the system. See other column.
Year: 1879

Pain in the right side, under the edge OF the ribs,


ncreascs on pressure; sometimes the pain is in the
left side; the patient is rarely able to lie on the left
side sometimes the pain Is felt under the shoulder
blade and 1t frequently extends to the top of the
shoulder and is sometimes mistaken for rheuma-
tism in the arm. The stomach Is affected with loss
of appetite aud sickness the bowels in general are
costiye sometimes alternative with lax; the head IS
troubled with pain, accompanied with dull, heavy
sensation in the back part. There Is scneraUya
considerable loss of memory, accompanied with
painful sensation of having left undone something
which ou.ht TO have been DONE A sllsnt, dry cough
is sometimes an attendant. The patient complains
of WEAKNESS ard debility he is easily startled, his
feet are cold or burning, and he complains of
prckly sensation of the skin his spirits are low;
and although he Is satisfied that exercise would be
beneficial 10 him, yet he can scarcely summon up
fort!tude enough try il. fact, he dlstrusts every
remedy Several Of the above symptoms attendthe
disease but cases have occurred where few OF
them existed, yet examination OF the body after
death has shown the LIVER TO have becI extensive
Is Gcranged.
Year: 1879

Nails grow more rapidly in children
than in adults, and faster in summer
than in winter. Those of the right hand
grow faster than those of the left, and in
proportion to the length of the fingers.
the quickest in growth.