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Year: 1877

ANOLD LocUsr SToRY.-There lived
in the town OF ~ an old gentleman
who was very wealthy, and in addition
to his luxury aud wealth he had one of
the tairest daughters among women, and
she was not oaly fair and graceful, but
she attracted great atte ntion OF the Young
men. And the old gentleman being
aware of this fact. he proposed that the
young man that could tell story that
would never give out or soon come to an
end should have the daughter as wife:
but if the story was soon told or came TO
an end they were to forfeit their heads.
So numbers Of them sacrificed their
heads and failed to get the daughter
And another one came and said he
wanted to try his fortune, and the old
man told him TO 60 on, and the young
man said: "There was a couple OF
masons that built large granary out of
brick, and they filled il with shelled
corn, and they closed il so tight, leaving
but one hole large enough for locus TO
crawl in at the top. And then came a
great swarm of locus and settled on the
granary. And then a locus went in and
fetched out a grain OF corn, aud then
another locus went in and fetched out
grain of corn, and then another locus
went in and fetched out grain Of corn,
and then another locus went in and
fetched out grain of corn. And after
the old man listened patiently he asked
the young man what happened after
ward. But the young man SAID to the
old man to hold on, he was not done
with the locus and the corn. Then the
old man told him TO go on with his story.
The young man said And then an
other locus went in aud fetched out
grain of corn" After the old man saw
that the young mans story would never
end he :old the young man to take the
daughter. "And another locus wen, in
and fetched out a grain Of corn, and
then another locus went in and fetched
out a grain Of corn. and then another
locus went in and fetched out grain of
corn"
Year: 1877

perhaps not less than Aty feet from this blu have
been washed on and still the works its way
sands OF ago many miles her present
seaboard. No doubt IN preceding period age Of
the earth most Of the region Of the present seaboard
counties OF Jersey was under the But the drft
washed up land OF tho later epoch the has for
many years been washing of again. and If measures
meantime DO adopted 10 arrest this work, within the
next fifty years the whole limo Of these hotels. from
the East End 10 tho West End will DO reached ana the
buildings will DO undermined and washed away. But
the remedy IL very simple, rs tho property holders
concerned Will discover Inspection the devices
adopted Tor tho oil the seashore railroad
the beach fronting the Navesnk Highlands BY these
devices this road will In a few years have building
lots 10 sell from land by the allings IRON
sea-


TIE GRAND UNION ISDgRDIcr


against tho Prime Minister England Ii not here In
force. These hotel men have wisely decided that
neither In obedience TO the Fourteenth amendment nor
In OF their interests they called upon to
make any determinations whereby they would Lose
some OF their best customers Walk the piazzas Of
these caravansarics az the hour OF tho Afternoon
cession OF fast horses Ocean avenue and you will
house to house that tho cqu hotel privileges
OF the Civil Rights Bill, excepting Uncle eiom. hero
duly respected. Andy Johnson was right when he
said that the constitution Is good thing 10 90 by
you want TO go TO Congress, but


HAVE WE TOUCHED porToMg


Is still the inquiry OF these hotel Is this
Hayes withhis rctenchmcnts his cheese parings and
candle ends his Southern peace poiicy OF dropping
Uncle fom his incomprcbensble system OF civil
vice reform his internal improvements, his Mexican
game and his scheme OF forcing specie resumption-s
this man Hayes, they ask going TO make our general
condition OF business better or worseY This is tho
main questiouherc, us u everywhere In this land ana
while tho country is waiting for Long
Branch VIII have tn walt tor the dawn oil better times


Never were our summer crops better than they have
turned out this season. never has the couutry had
brighton prospect Tor tho crops OF autumn especially
Indian corn never was tho country SO rich It Is
to-day, and yet never was the general depression
business so severe here, ana through all the land
This Is the riddle which Congress Is called upon TO
solve. and three months yet lie between us tho
meeting OF Congress, when the business depression
and alarms OF the country call Tor the immediate
IL O O O hQuScS
Year: 1877

The i'll effects of soda on linen
have given rise to a new method of
washing which has been extensively
adopted in Germany, and introduced
into Belgium. The operation con-
sists in dissoIving two pounds of soap
in about three gallons of water as
hot as the hand can bear, and adding
to this one tablespoonful of turpen-
tine and three of liquid ammonia,
the mixture must then be well stirred
and the linen stepped in it for two
or three hours, taking care to cover
the vessel containing them as her-
metically as possible. The clothes
are afterwards washed out and


rinsed in the usual way. 1he soap


and water may berepeated and used


q sooond time. but in that case halt q
teasnoonful of ammonia must be ad-
5ed This process is said to cause


GREAT economy of time, labor and fu-
Il The linen scarcely suffers at all,
and its cleanliness and color are per-
feet. The ammonia and turpentine,
their defensive action Is
very great, have no injurious effects
on the linen; and while the former
evaporates Immediately, the smell OF
the latter is said to disappear entire
ly during the washing of the clothes.
Year: 1877

A laugh is worth a hundred groans
in any market, and the old maxim,
3" laugh and grow fat" would be
equally proper if read laugh and
grow good" A genuine and hearty
laugh can never come from a man
whose soul is corrupt and whose brain
is filled with evil principles and
wicked projects. Even the astute
and cynical Carlyle has said: "NO
man who has once heartily and Who'll
ly laughed can be altogether ire
elaimably depraved." The widest
inauguration cannot conceive of
Cassius as being jolly, Or Brutus as
a funny man. Shakespeare speaks
of Cassius as being lean and hungry,
of course he never laughed, but was
solemn as an owl. People cannot
live upon tasteless mental food any
more than they can be satisfied with
bodily nourishment that is unsea-
soned. Genuine and innocent wit is
the flavor of the mind, and hearty
laughter is the expression of its di-
gestion. The lugubrious parsonage
who frowns at pleasantly, who can't
take joke on any terms, is either a
mortally stupid character or the
most likely man on earth to sheathe
poniard in your body on a dark
night, either for purposes of robbery
or revenge. Is not the moral an OBJ
viOus one


Extremes are reactionary. Tho all
philosophy teaches us that laughter
is a property of reason and wisdom,
still its excess Is a mark of folly.
"For my own part" says the Rev.
DIR. Bellows, Il say it i'll all solem-
nifty, | have lived to become sincere
ly suspicious of the plety of those
who do no love pleasure in any form.
| cannot trust the man that never
laughs; that is always sedate; that
has no apparent outlets for those
natural springs of sportivness and
gayety that are perennial in the hu-
man soul. know that nature takes
her revenge on such violence" In
nocent pleasures and popular amuSe-
ments are worthy of all encourage
ment. Anything is better than the
dark, dead, unhappy social hte-a
prey to ennui and morbid excitement
which results from unmitigated
puritanism and which is apt to Ii.
Year: 1877

cense Infamous folly. "He who
laughs" said the mother of Goethe,
can commit no deadly sin" " l
am persuaded" said Sterne, that
every time a man smiles-but more
so when he laughs-it adds some
thing to his fragment of life" Doug
las Jerrold, the prince of modern
wits, exclaims: "Let materialiSts
blaspheme as gingerly aud acutely
as they will, they must find confuS-
ION IN laughter" And yet laughter
is KIN to weeping, for true humcr
Is closely allied to pity, paradoxicaI
as 1t may seem.


Heaven has especially made us the
merriest of the creation-angels are
supposed to be more serious, and we
know that although animals can
weep they cannot laugh. Mirth has
been said to be Gods medicine; eve
rybodv ought to bathe in it. 1t will
lubricate the joints of the body and
radiate sunshine in the brain. A
certain divine once said: " Praying
can no more be made a substitute for
smiling than smiling can for pray
ing" a truth we'll worth remember
ing. Bolingbroke, the brilliant En-
gliSh orator, politician and author,
says: " l have observed that in COM
edy the best actor plays the part of
the drOll, while some scrub rogue is
made the hero, or fine gentleman.
So in this farce of life, wise men
pass their time in mirth, while fools
only are serious" Cheerfulness is
Just as natural to a man in sound
health as color is to his cheek, and
bears the same friendly relation to
the mind as to the body, and as
nothing will supply the want of sun
shine to flower and fruit, so nothing
can take the place of mirthfulnesS in
the ripening and nOurishment of the
human heart. God is glorifed not
in our groans but by our thanksgiv-
ings. GA merry heart doeth good
like a medicine" says the sacred vol
ume. Register G Tribune.
Year: 1877




Previous to the railway strike bus
mess at Ashtabula Harbor was eX-
cellent, considering the general dull
ness prevailing. The docks of the
AshtabuIa, Youngstown & Pitts
burgh Railrond Company were well
filed with iron ore, and there was n
large quantity of coal being received
from the interior via. either the line
already named OF the Franklin
branch of the Lake Shore and Mich
igan Southern Road. The Lake
Shore Company did not seem to ex-
ert itself as much "a its competitor
to obtain freight in that section. A
number of frame buildings for busi-
ness purposes have lately been added
to the collection of structures Of this
class at Ashtabula Harbor. As these
buildings do not long remain empty 1t
is evident that other business besides
that of simply unloading and ship,


Hing iron ore and coal by boat and
! is transacted. Real estate at


AL, abula Harbor is moving slowly
Asu'' Cleveland Post.
Year: 1877

We feel like preaching alittle to the tenn
perance public. and how could it better be
accomplished than through the columns of
blue ribbon paper. My subject is the
failure Of this same temperance communi-
ty to patronize the dramatic entertainment
given last week for the benefit of the Tenn
perance Union. The officers and members
of this society recognize the necessity of
having money in the treasury, to carry on
this enterprise, and have appealed to the
public to assist them. A number of ladies
direct connection with, or personal inter
est in the foundation of the society, were
solicited, and cheerfully consented to give
their time, and studied to prepare an elab-
crate entertainment for the benefit of the
7. U. Society. Business gentlemen, earn
estly engaged in trade, feeling the necessi-
ty, these hard time, of devoting every mo-
ment to careful attention to business, Ia
dies as actively busy with cares of their
household, gave attention to such call
with what result?


Where are the crowded houses that gath
cred so recently to enjoy temperance
speeches? What has become of the ankle
ty which was displayed, for the fitting up
of a suitable reading room for the Blue
Ribbon Boys of Ashtabula? After much
careful study and conscientious prepara-
ton, the announcement was made that a
Dramatic entertainment would be given
for the benefit of the Temperance Union.
And what came of it? A truly admirable
and amusing entertainment was given to a
''beggarly account of emptY"-benches-
the receipts being too small to announce
publicly.


We had the pleasure of attending this en-
tertainment and although some time has
elapsed since, we would like to give a
little account of it.


There was very little to criticise and
very much to approve. The selection of
the plays was good, giving an opportunity
for the display Of much versatility Of talent,
as in several instances both farces were
played by the same persons. Two eharae-
ters more diametrically opposed than that
Of 'Job Wort" in Blighted Being, and
"Dehnis, the Irish inn servant, in Naval
Engagement, could not well be found, and
it would be difficult to say which was
played, best by Mr.. E. l.. Wells. as in
both instances his makeup Of dress and
Year: 1877

1t | a pond in Ameriky. We've got


lakes In our country into which Won


could put the whole of this island


and nothing could be seen of it. and
then a navy could swim over it.'' I
gave my companion up and drove
back to the hotel with the resolve
never again to be civil TO an Ameri-
can. When you came l thought
you were a person of the same sort.
Your manly way of repelling my
rudeness won on me. You must 90
home aud be my guest" And was
compelled to reply.
Year: 1877




Steele's women are the women of
mediocre eighteenth century comedy
and they have at times a rather
alarming family likeness 10 Lady
Steele and Lady Warwick, as far as
we can Judge of those two ladies
from the extremely small means at
our command. But Addison and
Steele seem to have suffered from
the same domestic trouble. Addi
son, his detractors say, used to take
refuge from the wife of his bosom
Buttons where he took more wine
than was good for a delicate cOnstl-
tuition like his; he could not always
stand Lady Warwick. Steele was
in the same trouble. We lind HIM
writing dearest Being on Earth
Parpon me if you do not see me all
eleven o'clock, having met a school
fellow from India by whom [ am to
be informed in things this night,
which extremely concerns your ODE
dient husband, Richard Steele. We
hope, for the sake of peace, Lady
Steele was asleep when he got home,
and that he remembered to take off
his boots before going to bed. a
bullying wife is apt to make ly
ing husband, and we do not believe
in the school fellow from India.


Addison had to take so much
drink To make him talk brilliantly
he could never speak in Parlla-
ment-that Steele was generally
fuddled before Addison began; con-
seouentlv the suggestion about the
boots is not out of place. 1t is not
widely possible that Lady Warwick
and Lady Steele might have kept
their husbands mt home by a differ
ent course of treatment, and not
driven them to the taverns for the
sake of society, by simply assisting
them to entertain their husbands
friends at home, and listening to
the best conversation of the century,


Severl dozen canary birds Ill
gilded cages, made Trinity Ae'nG-
dist Church, Chicago, vocal "Iln I
their singing on the recent ouhGay I;Iiy
which was appropriated to the child child
rem The birds made such a NOISE
that they really took the lead IN the
sarviccs. The music Of the organ
and the singing of the congregation
had an unexpected effect on the
feathered songsters, who pitched
their little pipes and screamed as if
to try to drown all music but their
own. The children laughed, the big
people were disturbed, and it was
generally agreed that the celebra-
ton of the next "Children's Day"
should take place without the aid OF
canaries.
Year: 1877

Wildness is a thing girls cannot
afford. Delicacy is a thing which
cannot be lost and found. No art
can restore to the grape its bloom.
Familiarity without love, without
confidence, without regard, is de-
structive to all that makes woman
exalting and ennobling.


g The world is wide, these things are small;
They may be nothing, but they are all.


Nothing? 1t is the first duty of
woman to be a lady. Good breed
is good sense. Bad manners in woman
is immortality. Awkwardness may
be ineradicable. Bashfulness is con-
stutional. Ignorance of etiquette
is the result of circumstance. All
can be condoned and do not Danish
man or woman from the amenities
of their kind. But self possessed,
unshrinking and aggressive coarse
ness of demeanor may be reckOned
as a State prison offense, and certain
ly merits that mild form of restraint
called imprisonment for life. 1t is
shame for women to be lectuTed on
their manners. 1t is a bitter shame
that they need it. Women are the
umpires of society. 1t is they TO
whom all moote1 points should be
referred. To be a lady is more than
to be a prince. A lady is always in
her right inaliehably worthy of re-
spect. To lady, prince, and pea
SAINT alike bow. Do not be restained.
Do not have impulses that need re-
straint. Do not wish to dance with
the prince unsought; feeldlfferently.
Be such that you confer an honor,
carry yourself so loftily that men
shall look up to you for reward, not
at you in rebuke The natural senti-
ment of man toward woman is rev.
erence. He loses a large mean Of
grace when he is obliged to account
her being to be trained into pro
priety. A mans ideal is wounded
when a woman fails in worldly wis
dom; but if in grace, in tact, in SEN
timent, in delicacy, in kindness, she
should be found wanting, he receives
an inward burt Gail Hamilton.
Year: 1877

Sr. LOUIS, juno 16.-A divorce case OF
a strangely sensational nature was de-
cided in one of our circuit courts this
week, but the court and the lawyers con-
spired 80 successfully to make it tame
affair that it received scarcely passing
notice in our city papers. The plaintiff
was John Baptists Charles Lucas, the
wealthiest young man in st. Louis, and
u member of one of our best families.
The defendant, his wife, was formerly
Miss Mary Commins Morton, Ken
lucky belle of great beauty, and for
some time brilliant star in the social
circles of Louisville. About two years
since Lucas met her by accident in the
usual way, and conceived such an ad
miration for her that he at once made
siege upon her heart. In time the cita-
del was taken. A fashionable marriage
took place in Louisville at the house of
the bride. The happy husband returned
to st. Louis with his beautiful wife,
and with her he was tho toast of the
town for several weeks. In three
months loves young dream had faded,
however so far as the husband was con-
cerned, for he discovered that his Blue
Grass beauty would become mother
before that period which young married
people look forward to as the shortest
possible time within which they can
achieve legitimate posterity A big row
ensued. The husband swore and tore
up things generally. The wife vowed it
was all regular. Doctors and mothers
in-law were called in, and they pro.
nounced the suspected wife's condition
very suspicious. The husband left his
splendid home. his wife remained, and
within five months after the marriage
gave berth to bouncing hoy. A divorce
suit followed, and last Tuesday Judge
Gottschalk set special hour in the
afternoon TO hear the case. Nobody was
present except the court officers and law.
yers for plaintiff and defendant; the case
was calIed, the evidence given in scarce
ly audibls tones, and an absolute decree
of divorce granted. The evidence con-
sisted OF the marriage certificate and the
the testimony OF DR.. Hodgen that the
child was delivered by him. and that it
was healthy nine months infant; that
1t could not have been even q seven
months product. The wife was repre-
sented by attorneys, but they filed no
answer. They first proposed to fight the
suit by proving like adultry on the
part of the husband, but he agreed to
donate her 500, 900 and endow her with
life annuity of $1,000, and they agreed
to let him get the divorce by default.
The wife ia with her relatives in Ken
lucky. She still swears that it was all
regular. but it is stated that the paternal
author is we'll known in Louisville.
The secret manner in which the divorce
proceedings were conducted has given
rise to much unfavorable comment here,
and especially in view of the fact that an
attorney named Beall had been so re-
Gently debarred for advertising to obtain
divorces without publicity.
Year: 1877

If Collector Arthur is asked to resign, Mr..
Simmons of Boston would be apt to glance
over his shoulder to see if the hand
of the Administration was fooling
round the back of his chair.


There is man in Georgia who can write
thus TO the editor of his local newspaper: 'I
am willing to vote to disfranchise myself un-
til am worth as much as $1,000 of taxable
property, If, by so doing, can help to rid the
state OF this evil OF universal suffrage"
A trusted correspondent of the Jackson
(Miss.l Times writes that after Judge Chisolm


was mortally wounded by the Kemper Coun
ty mob he called Mrs. Chisolm to his bedside
and said: "My precious wife, am innocent
OF any crime. and when am dead want
you to tell my children so, and train them up
to know that their father never did an act for
which they need to blush or feel ashamed. I
have been murdered because am Republi-
can, and would live free man."


"Sionara," the Japanese critic of American
civilization, writes in the North American
Recieao for July-August, of all Christians,
both American and European: "People who
know how TO make money by trying to get it
from each other they call civilized; people
who have not learned all the tricks by which
money can be made out of each other they
call uncivilized. After much consideration, I
can find no other distinction but this"
The President may have to pray for dsliv-
erance from injudicious Ohio friends. Their
zeal in the matter of patronage is ineligible
if not disnterested, but they go little too far
when they assume right to dictate the poll
cy OF the Administration on the financial
question, and to shape it with exclusive ref
erence 10 their conception of the party's in
terests in their own State.-N. Y. Times.
An Erzeroum correspondent of the New


York Times MAY 23), speaking of the im.


portance of that "wretched place." says: Too
much stress cannot be laid upon the danger
of this conquest, and public attention with
out being diverted by affairs on the Danube,
ought to study events near the Euphrates
with that keen interest with which men
watch over what concerns themselves,
Russian ambition has long cast longing ewes
towards Erzeroum. The last letter of The
sagacious Fuad Pasha to the Sultan pointed
out with great accuracy the dangers of its
acquisition by the Gear to Turkey as
we'll as to England. But 1t is only
political blindness which can look upon the
capture of the capital of Armenia as the


seizure of wretched place and hardly wor-
tny oil attention. When Erzeroum is In the


power OF the Gar, there will not-with the
the exception Of Diarbekir, scarcely msriting
SO respectable name-be single strong or
even fortified place between the Russian
iroDtler and Constatinople.
Year: 1877

Thursday last eleven men came to the end
OF The rope in Pennsylvania. They belonged
to the infamous order of Molie Maguires,
an association of incendaries and assassins
which has terrorized the mining districts of
Pennsylvania for many years. 1t was said
by the advocates of capital punishment that
the hanging of these leaders who had been
convicted of murder would have so great an
effect upon the other members of the band
that outrages would cease and society be
freed from apprehension. Certainly if
capital punishment deters from crime the
spectacle of eleven men hanging by the neck
ought to make community rigidly virtuous,
at least in all outward appearance.


What aoas the result? On the very night
after the execution two men were murdered.
To-day bands of armed and masked men still
infest the mountains, and kill, whenever
they are found, the witnesses who testified
against the Mollie Maguires. The plan of
civilizing that community by terror has
utterly failed, and the peaceful inhabitants of
the mining districts are fleeing for safety.
The much vaunted method of reformation
by hanging is anything but success. In
consideration of its complete failure in
Pennsylvania and elsewhere would it not be
well to try some other method? Certain ly
no worse result could follow.