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Year: 1878

Obi grant my prayer, and let me know,


That Pm as dear as thou to me;
There is no 10y, no grief. no woe,


My heart would fail to share with thee.
II sorrow dim thy gentle eyes,


Or hope should yield to doubt or fear;
My love would soothe thy grief and sighs,


And wipe away the falling tear.
At morn, at noon, and at the night,


No matter what Affections came,
You be my joy and my delight,


And l would try to be the same.
And if, being Grieved, thou should'st impart


a word, a look, in anger cast,
Still, still my warm, devoted heart


Would fondly love thee to the last.
In shade or shine, in calm or storm,


In Joy or grief, in smiles or teals,
My love would twine around thy form,


Tho oil the lapse of coming years.
Oh! best of friends, grant this my prayer,


ask, and ask and ask again,
Thy life, thy love, thy lot to share,


And / will bless thee for it then. l.. N.
Year: 1878

The difference between a man
and a woman in buying things is
said to be this: A man gives fifty
cents for a twenty-five cent thing
which he wants, and a woman gives
twenty five cents for a fifty cent
thing which she dosen't want.
Year: 1878

1t is rarely we see a delicate and
tender conception embodied with
such felicity of diction: Sweet love; /;
If you was dog, and was a hog,


And got into your masters yard,
And your master was to set you on me,


Would you bite me very hard!
Year: 1878

Ladies, we beg your pardon,


We acted wrong, we know,
By leaving you at the ball last night,
We're forgiven; please say it is 50.
You know we were in a bad humor,


For W-got the shake,
While c. was feeling very bad


From eating too much cake.
Yet We hope you will forgive US,


1t shall never happen again,
An we hope the next party you give,
1t will not be in the rain.
Now we hope our apoloRy's accepted,
And no i'll feelings are existing at all,
And we assure you the next party we attend
Well not leave the girls at the ball,
But we are all liable to make mistakes,
And do what Is not right.
But this was our first, we hope we're ex


cused,


And now bid you fond good night.
Year: 1878

OF all the asses that ever brayed
since the days of Balaam there is
none like unto him who expects to
effect an equitable adjustment of
the State debt by the traductiOn,
abuse and denunciation of the own
ers and holders of the Indebtedness.
Just think of it for moment.
Year: 1878

The pencil marks you sec around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your SUBJ
scription is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested 70 pay up at once. We
would take great pleasure in extending
credit to our friends and patrons, but
cash alone will yay our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to strict cash
rule. We hope you win comprehend
and appreciate the necessity OF such a
course, and renew your su scription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


CB- We enter no new names on our
books without the money in advance.
Year: 1878

There are two classes of men
who hehitually carry concealed
weapons-cowards and fools. The
coward, if he knew it, is much safer
when unarmed than when armed,
With no pistol of his own, he is
very sure not to provoke the use of
anybody else's.-Courier Journal.
Year: 1878

a lady who is very deaf, stopped
n milk man as he was passing her
house the other day and asked him
what he charged for quart of milk,
and then put her ear trumpet up TO
catch the reply. The man drew a
quart of milk, emptied it into the
trumpet, and the result is that he
has TO go three miles out OF his
way to keep out O. sight of the lady
who sits on the front porch with q
doubled barrel shotgun waiting for
him to pass.
Year: 1878

Two to four extra freight trains
every night on the Cincinnati Short
Line are required for the rush north
of fruit and potatoes. While sec
tional Republicans up that way are
squealing bloody conflict" over the
Congressional investigation of their
wickedness, the bloody South Is
shooting them In the stomach with
strawberries and potatoes Amer.
Year: 1878

A juror once sBOred 50 loudly
that he awoke the judge, and the
latter was SO indignant that he fined
him $40 and sent HIM out Of the
box, after which the case adjourned
the defendant refusing TO proceed
with only eleven jurors. Snoring
accordingly is a contempt Of court
unless the Judge does it himself; 50
that about the only thing the aver.
age juror knows how TO do well is
taken away from him.
Year: 1878

The schools and colleges are de
liverIng their products TO the world
in this summer month of June, says
the Courier-J ournal.


There are crowded chapels,
through which the perfumed air
flows from wood and meadows and
stirs the blue ribbons and fleecy
muslins of the flock of girl gradu-
ates on the platform. How lovely
they all do lookl And the world
cries "Give! Give" for it would be
crowned with the beauty which has
fingered years within the cloisters
of learning,


What will you do with all these
girl graduates, oh, World2 They
stand with their feet in the entrance
of land in which it seems to them
it is ever afternoon. They speak
their aspirations, and they are very
great and noble. These young
things deserve a better fate than TO
be the mere creatures of attitude,
the dressmaker and the parlor.
Yet nearly all Of them will drift as
gold and crimson and purple and
violet seaweed drifts upon the Ian
guild waters of some oceanic cur
rent, borne they know not whittier;
careless of whittier, just so long as
the sunlight and the blue sky
abound, until perhaps some trans
formed, apocryphal new voice calls
to them, and they suddenly remem
ber that the sun is high; it is nearly
noon, and they arc nUt-married!


That follows; but such girls do
not all go out in the rain when the
husband is bound To them by
hooks of steel. They may have
fallen like ripe peaches into the
first basket that is handy.


That is not always wise. The
"sweet girl graduate" who looks a
goddess on the commencement plat
form may therefore dritt into pale
drudge, with a flock Of children
hanging to her hands and skirts, and
nothing more. The world is TO
blame for this, and it has evil ways
and evil counsels-that world. The
June graduates had better be sus-
picious of it, and be natural and
safe. So may they still be the con
temptuous.


"Who's sorry for Rgnat or gRlf


---ss-.--


The first thing to visit inside the
Kremlin is the church where the
Emperors are crowned. From the
first Romandof down to the present
Alexander H., the coronation cere-
mony has taken place in this same
place in this same church, on this
same platform in the center of The
building. The cathedral is more
than rich. 1t is literally glittering
with gold and jewels. There is not
one square inch in floor or ceiling
or walls which is unornamented.
The screen at the back of the altar
is of solid gold. The icones have
necklaces and tiaras Of diamonds,
emeralds and pearls. The chande
liers are of silver. The walls are
covered with paintings and mosaic
work of Siberian marble. Splen-
dor CLEANS from every corner. No
words can express the riches Of this
church. 1t IS said that all the
wealth OF all the Russias could not
bay the contents Of this one lit
tie church, Moscow Letter in
Boston Advocate.
Year: 1878

PAINT FOR FARM IMPLEMENTS -
suppose that there are many farmers who
never used a paint brush, and l can i'm
agine how their old rusty wagons, plows,
etc, look, the wood work badly cracked,
and going to ruin rapidly. 1t is of as
much Importance to keep pfarminstruments
well painted as it is to paint house, and
every farmer should have an "outft" of
painting materials on hand so as to be
prepared to do any job in that line that
may be necessary All that is necessary
is a two gallon oil can, a couple of brushes
of different sizes, and the necessary paint.
but that can be bought as wanted, yet it
is better to buy 25 pound keg of white
lead and 4 can of oil (half boiled and hall
raw as they viii keep long time For
plows, harrows, and the running gear OF
wagons You need only red lead and oil,
but for other colors you viii require the
white lead. If you want common black
paint, use lampblack and oil, but for a
carriage body get black coach paint at the
wheelwrsht s, also some varnlsh to finish
with. You would be surprised to see the
nice work that You or the "boys" can dc
after little practice, and when YOU get
in the way of doing Your own painting
your keg of lead won't remain on your
hands long Why, there is money m
paint-actually bank bills, and gold and
silver dollars! For instance, you buy a
new farm wagon, and keep it well painted
and under cover when not in use. Now,
your neighbor buys one at the came time,
and doesn't paint it for 10 or II years,
and what is the resuItl Worn out decay,
ed wood work, split and cracked, must be
thrown aside as FUSED up" while yours
is as good almost as when new You have
found 500 in your paint, but your neigh
Dor, poor man. got, perhaps to stint his
family IN the neeessaries of life to pay foI
a new wagon"
Year: 1878

AFAcr WORTH KNOWING. pitcher
of ice water in room inhabited, and in a
few hours it will have absorbed nearly all
the perspiration gases of the room, the
air of which Will have become purer, but
the water utterly filthy This depends
upon the Fact that the waterhas the faculty
Of condensing and thereby absorbing near
ly all the gases. At ordinary temperature,
a pint OF water viii contain pint of car
bonic acid gas and several pints of ammo
MA. This capacity is nearly doubled by
reducing the temperature to that of ice.
Hence wafer kept in room awhile is
always unfit for use, and should be often
removed, whether it has become warm or
not. And for the same reason the water
in pump should be pumped out in the
morning before any is used. That which
has stood in pitcher over night Is not fit
for coffae-water in the morning Impure
water is as injurious to health as impure
air, and every person should provide the
means of obtaining fresh, pure water for
all domestic Uses.
Year: 1878

They tell of well in Western town,
A wonderful gap in the gaping ground;
Where the water flows from stream far down
With a gush, rush and roaring sound,


And blast Of freezing air.
The water leaps forth from its hidden spout,
And it never lets up for inmate,
Yet freezes as fast as it bubbles out;
And the well takes all that gathers in it


And safely retains it there.
OF course it's all right, though We cannot see
How the ice water steady keeps running,
And think that the chap who tells it must be
Either lying in earnest or funning,


Though lying, out West, is rare.
Year: 1878

SENATOR Bruce, of Mississippi, has
expressed the belief that he would be the
last of his race to hold a seat in the
United States Senate We are inclined
to think that Senator Bruces prediction
will be fulfilled to the letter The time
when negroes may be chosen to fill the
highest positions in the country has been
left by the cruel tide of time, stranded
high upon the rocks Of the past The
colOred statesman was not success, and
is not considered a necessity by the
American people, who will therefore dis
pense with his services in the future. We
may also add that the time is not far dis
tant when radicals, either white OF black,
will be very scarce in our national halls of
LEGISLATION and that time will bring with
it wiser and juster laws. and swindling
legislation will cease. The people are
fully tired of ignorance and knavery in
high official places.
Year: 1878

The SILVER KINGS WIFE--We have
read a deal lately concerning John Maekay
intending to assume a French OF Italian
title. Now, as far as John Is concerned,
this bosh makes no difference whatever,
for all who know him are well aware that
he is the same John Mackay as when he
worked In the mines rs a prospector.
There is no shoddyism abont him, and We
question il he would not feel far more
happy with his old and early friends about
him than to be feted and petted as Grant
has been by ali the crowned heads of Eu-
rope. Be it understood that John Mackay
is no illiterate scrub, but solid business
man; and this We state not because he is
millionaire, but because we know him
to be a square, honest man. 1t is about
the remarks mace concerning Mrs. Mackay
that We have to speak. The idea of the
bonanza kings wife keeping high state in
the city of Paris, the centre of attraction
for the creme de la creme Of society of the
civilized globe, was made the subject of
much comment, and the lady spoken of
as shoddyite and parvenue, but such is
not the case, for the lady in question Is
the equal of any one that breathes on this
continent in point of education and train
ing The daughter of Major Hungerford
and his wife, as finely an educated lady
as ever graced ball room in the capitol
of the United States, Mrs Mackay re-
ceived most thorough education in al
the modern languages, and is finished
French scholar and fine musician The
young widow Of DR.. Bryant, physician
of great ability, she was left IN poor cir
cumstances, and in almost an impecunious
condition, was, with her young family,
introduced to the rising nan, John Mac
kay, and made the partner Of his rapidly
improving fortunes, and is as suited to
grace the habitation of millionaire as
any princess in Europe. Chicago Tribune.
Year: 1878

THIS characteristic little letter Of Horace
Greeley's has just got into print, written
to a Hartford man who wanted to engage
him for lecture nine years ago: Il
prefer not to lecture in so large place as
Hartford unless l am really wanted there
and the fact that / am asked to lecture
for half price convinces me that l am not
wanted. So let me wait a year OF two,
till 1 shall be more in demand in your city
than now am"
Year: 1878

THE Republicans who voted to send
General BUTLER TO Congress now ask him
earnestly to resign his seat Willie do it?
Not if he knows that anybody wants him
to resign. In his disposition he is exceed.
ingly perversc, AMI no doubt if he lives will
lie found in his seat when Congress meets
Year: 1878

TIE good people Of Philadelphia are said
to Lc greatly disappointed ut the decision Of
General GRANT to return tOthls country by
the way of the Pacific. They had hoped to
give him a reception on his arrival worthy
of his importance as the foremost American
citizen Of the age, and one that would de-
monstrate that the high estimation in which
he is held by the crowned heads and potcn-
tatcs Of the Old World is more than equalled
by the regard Of his lollow-citizcns They
would have brought ont all the Centennial


bunting, aud covered tho delaware from
Cape May to the city wharyrs with gayly
rgged vessels, while the city itself would
have been deckcd in it's graudcst holiday
attire, and the honors bestowed upon mm
would have more than cquaiIed thooc he
has received abroad. 1t is hardly probable,
however, that he will escape this renewal oi
Year: 1878

Scarcity of money makes labor the
slave OF capital.


An abundance Of money makes cap
ital the servant of labor.


Scarcity OF money concentrates
wealth in the hands OF few-leaving
the masses destitute.


An abundance of money distributes
wealth equitahly among all classes OF
people.


Scarcity Of money strengthens the
aristocracy at the expense OF the
common people.


Scarcity of money eventuates in
the destruction of free institutions,
by degrading the people below the
standard Of self-government.


It's path is toward feudalism for
the few and harbarism for the many.
1t is incompatible with progressive
civilization AMI human freedom.
Year: 1878

DIR. Dennlsun writes that the board
of education of the city Of Faribault
have unanimously adopted the state
textbooks for use in their schools.
This is us it should be, and it is hoped
many other cites will follow this ex-
cellent example.


This is significant. 1t must be re-
membered that the city Of Faribault
is special school district AMI does
not come under the operation of the
school book law by force of the law
itself. That it should now voluntari-
ly adopt the Merrill books is striking
testimony to their cheapness and ex-
cellence; and that too after desperate
efforts on the part Of the Book Ring
to underbid them.


- 1t will be but Il few years until ev-
cry city in the state will have adopted
the Merrill books, and the fearful
battle Of last winter will be remem
bered only as the dying agony of Il
great monopoly.
Year: 1878

i St Paul at disre ontable house. We


shall be stating only what the people


of this state have for a long time


known to be true, when we say that


Ignatius Donnelly is one of the most


notorious liars and infamous SANDER
ers that ever trOd our soil. We hurl


the vile and dirty lie back in the vii


famous slanderer's face, and challenge


him to prove his statement.
Isn't that pretty? If we have SIAN


dered Liberty why does he no. bring
his action for libel? We can then
have an opportunity to call our wit
nesses and prove the truth Of our
statement.


But before the suit was half tried


Liberty would step forward and ad-


nit that he had been at Mrs. Morse .


establishment. but that he went there


because he understood she was a


grasshopper sufferer, and he wanted


her influence in the next congressional
contest!


And then Liberty gets off this
m0rcedM:


But what does Donnelly care for


being called liar and slanderer! He
is used 10 it. Might as well att~mpt
to kill rhinocerOs or IN alligator by


shooting peas from a aropgun at his


horny back. He has lived and fat
tened Gil a reputation, that would
have sent a Sioux Indian. blushing to
his grave.


Now we consider this good. It is
choice. 1t has rhetorical point and
finish. And it contains an unwilling


tribute to the vigor and vitality


which have resisted the pop-gun fusil-
ade of such men as Liberty Hall for


twenty years past.
But why does Liberty spare us
Why does he not give the particular


acts which go to make up that most


horrible reputation Out with it,


Liberty!


We would paraphrase Robert
Burns.


"Spare not thy vengeance, Hall,
Nor quiet let me live;
Task no kindness at thy hands,
For thou HIST no"eto CIV"
Year: 1878

employed men to do their farm work
while they are devoting time and mon.
ey in the advancement Of the green
back cause.


Think of well-to-do farmers giving
up their farms and devoting their
whole time to such labor of love as
THIS It reminds one of the old Anti
Slavery furore, when the Hutchin-
sons travelled from town to town
kind]ing large audiences to passionate
enthusiasm by their campaign songs.


Evidently the people are becoming
very much in earnest.
Year: 1878

The southern newspapers are NUT
tering wrathful imprecations against
the men who have plunged the coun.
.ry into bankruptcy and ruin. AS a
sample utterance we give the follow.
ing from the Missouri J.Aersoniun


We are now on the eve of another
war, and such another as the world
never before witnessed, else Liberty
is gone forever; for, nothing so far
suggested by any parry, or any plan
of relief proposed for poverty
stricken people, can answer the pur-
pose.


The eastern politicians, with the
only exception Of Ben. Butler are
solid against any measure Of relief,
and even the Greenback Convention
assembled at Toledo the other day.
proposed no remedy that is applica-
bic to the demands Of reason or the
wants of mankind.


Therefore, the people must prepare
for state OF anarchy and war. else
they mus. sit quietly and silently
down and await the chains of slavery
and poverty that has been brought
about by the rascality of bondholders
and moneyed despots.


We trust matters have not reached
such desperate pass as is here sug-
gested. Minnesota at least, thanks
to her sparse population and large
crops, is infinitely better off than the
rest Of the nation. But there can be
no doubt that the country has been
previously misgoverned.
Year: 1878

AT Bodie, Mono county, on Tues
day afternoon, Jack BrasIan and a
man named Blair, who have for some
time. been in partnership in their bus
iness Of mining aud prospecting, met
in the bar room Of Pollock's boarding
house and commenced an angry dis
pute concerning the terms of a GER
tain location they had recently made


They were both under the Influence
of liquor, BrasIsn more so than Blair.


After quarrelling for some Zine
Braslan exclaimed that be was chief.


which claim Blair disputed. saying
that he was willing to fight him at
any distance, from a handkerchief
length 20 forty PAGES. This chal-
lenge Braslap-whose pistol and


belt were lying on the floor short
distance from him-accepted. asking
for tine to heel himself - which he
proceeded to do by buekling on his
belt. The two men went out into
the street, appearing more pleasantly
disposed toward one another than
they had been at any time during
the day. Placing themselves less
than eight feet apart, at signal from
one they both fred effectively, Blair
being struck on the shoulder and
Braslin in the side. After the first
shot they both fred rapidly, until the
reviewers, cash six shooter, were
emptied After the smoke of the
twelve rapidly fred shots cleared
away both men appeared riddled
with shot, blood from the wounds
crimsoning the snow at every step
they took. Neither seemed to have
been satisfied with the result, each
starting for fresh pistol. Braslin
returned 10 the bar room and Blair
started around the corner Of the
house, where he secured another pis-
tol from an acquaintance, with which
be returned to the bar room and shot
Braslan in the abdomen, inaicting
wound of which Braslan died in


about fifteen minutes. After firing
the last shotBlair fell to the floor
from the great loss of blood. He
was moved to the cabin of a friend.


where, upon examination, be was
found to have been shot in four diff


ferent places.-Nerada Transcript
Year: 1878

When you see barn larger than his
house, it shows that he will have
large profits and small Affections.
When you see him driving his work
instead of his work driving him, it
shows that be will never be driven
from good resolutions, and that be
will certainly work his way to pros
perity When you always see in his
wood house a suificiency for three
months or more, it shows that be
will be more than a ninety days
wonder, in farming operations, and
that be is not sleeping in his house
after a drunken frolic. When mis-
sled is housed in summer, and his
farming implements covered in both
winter and summer, it plainly shows
that he will have a good 40 e over
his head in the summer Of his early
life and the winter of lis old age.
When his cattle are properly held
ed and fed in winter, it evincss that
be is acting according To scii jture,
which says that "a mereifil L. IN is
merciful to his beast" When be is
seen subscribing for a paper and pay
ing for it in advalee, it shows that
he is speaking like a book represent
ing the last improvements in agri-
culture, and that be never gets his
walking papers to the land of power
tu
Year: 1878

An old man OF experience says:


/ have seen young man sell
good farm, turn merchant, and die in
the insane asylum.


/ have seen farmer travel about
so much that there was nothing at
home worth looking at


have seen a young girl marry a
man of dissolule habits and repent
for it as long as she lived


i have seen a man spend more
money in folly than would support
his family in comfort and independ-
eDce.


l have seen an old man depart from
truth where candor and yeraeity
would have served him to a much
better purpose.


| have seen the extravaganza and
folly Of children bringing their parents
to poverty and want and themselves
to disgrace.


| bave seen prudent aud indus
trious wife retrieve the fortunes of
family when the husband pulled
hard at the other end of the rope.