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Year: 1877

The Picnic ot the brotherhood OF St.
Michael came off yesterday at Parlor
Grove under the auspices OF Rev. Father
Qualman. Not less than seven hundred
persons were in attendance, who, with
one accord, pronounced this the most
enjoyable picnic OF the season. Too
much credit can not be given to the COM
mittee in charge tor their complete
arrangements for the comIoIt and pleas
ure OF all in Attendance. Prof. L. War
wood furnished the music for the occa-
sion.
Year: 1877

A resolution directing the City Audi
tor to advertise for proposals for doing
the City advertising in accordance with
the previous resolution was adopted by
vote Of aye Is; nays none.
Year: 1877

w HEELlN0, NOVEMBER IL. loti.


Correspondence of the Register.


A few days since l wrote you few
lines in relation to how not to do it, since
then see our city authorities have found
how to do it, They have laid and relsid
the crossing at Bookings corner some two
or three times and have succeeded in not
only laying it very crooked but also in
leaving large square hole in the center
Of the walk trihe less than foot deep.
At the crossing at the Oglebsy corner the
Elm Grove Railroad are making boom
Il think 1t isl for catching all the logs and
DRIFT that come down Twelfth street and
prevent it being lost by running into the
river. heard suggestion today which
| think is good one, that the name OF
Chspline street should be changed to
canal street rs it hss very much the ap-
pearance Of acsnsl along the Elm Grove
track between Twelfth and Fourteenth
streets. The track is lower than
the street and thus obvistes the necessity
OF any water running near the curbstone.
This is emphsticslly the age of en-
glneering and science and Wheeling is
the head centre. CITIZEN.
Year: 1877

the country during the past year, affecting


the safety of 90 many interests. have start


led the public mind and gone far TO shake
all public faith. I y
i Has it not come to pass that swindling
ia more banelul among ns than even the
violent firms of robbery Is it not time
that society in self-protection should turn
upon swirdlers with some of that .loathing
and hate Which it has hitherto reserved
for the burglar and highwayman? Should
not every enlightened community deal
with the dishonest defaulrer in the same
spirit in which the frontier village deals
with the horse thief, employing of course
more legal and moderate methods II
wreaking its vengeance? ?nars...
Year: 1877

THE Republican seems to have taken
great offense at the GAZETTE because it
encouraged the President and denounced
the Radical carpet-bag dog Chamberlain
for his impudence and audacity and lied
directly in the face of facts well known to
all intelligent persons. The GAZETTE is
Independent enough to sustain the Presi-
dent while he is pursuing a conservative
and peaceful policy toward the South.
That he should be scorned and denoun-
ced for this by such papers as the Repub-
licdn, that is always in the market for a
job. is to be expected. Now let him re-
cognize Nichols and thus establish peace
and our own city, with all the rest of the
country, will soon feel the effects of it ir
the revival of better, safer and more
permanent trade, If the RepuJHcdr
goes for Phillips, Rutler. Blaine ant
Wade and is against Hayes, let it say so
We are for neither, but will do what we
can in urging Hayes to do right,
Year: 1877

THERE is an impression at Washing
ton that the anti-Hayes faction ofthe Re-
publican party will be commanded in the
next Congress by Blaine and Butler, the
former to bu lldoze the Senate and the
latter to bully-rag the House. The COM
bination would beat any circus ev er or.
ganized, which is about the best thing
that can be said for it.
Year: 1877

Among the most unpleasant people one
is compelled to rub shoulders with on lifes
highway, are the class whose minds take
hold Of everything, as it were, the wrong
end foremost. They are usually as obsti,
nate as peryerse; and the false differences
they draw from Inexperienced premises,
they adhere to with as much tenacity as
if they were gospel truths. One knows
not how to deal with such incorrigibles.
GoOd-humored rallyiug they are as likely
as not to mistake for studied insult; en-
deavors to instruct and convince, for airs
of superiority; and whatever one may do
or say with the view of benefting them,
for insidious attempts to get on their blind
side. Their field Of moral vision is filed
with mist of suspicion which distorts
everything, aud it is vain to reason with
them--tor you can no more do away with
their absurd impressions than you can
wipe out craven letters with sponge.
Error, we suppose, is to them what truth
is to rightheaded men and women, and
they cling to il because they believe in it.
They are objects of eommiseration; yet,
being unabatable nuisances, it is prudent
to give them wide berth. 1t is really
sad thing to be predisposed by nature to
misconceive and misconstrue; but il is
equally unpleasant to be misunderstood
and misconstrued. Therefore make it a
rule to have as little as possible to do with
inyeteratc wrongheads.
Year: 1877




Now that the harvest is over, farmers
should make it a matter Of prime impor-
tance TO see to it that their reapers, NOV
ers, hay rakes aud tedders are carefully
put away, aud not left to exposure in the
fields where last used A correspondent
of the AmericaH CahiUator gives this i'm
pressiye advice upon this subject:


"We cannot too strongly urge the ne
cessity Of proper care Of farm implements
This care especially consists in housin q,
painting and repairing; in return for which
which we have tools that are better, that
will wear longer, and that will be less La
bic to break as well as vastly more conve-
nient to use, the total result of which is
economy.


EVERY farmer should make it rule to
keep his tools under cover when not in
use. There are always corners enough in
the barn, where hoes, shovels, plows aud
harrows can be stored away at any time
without being in the way, At trifing
expense shed can be built, in which may
be kept the wagons, carts, moving ma
chimes, ETC.; it will take no longer TO run
them under the building than to leave
them in the field.


Furthermore, every farmer should see
that his tools are kept in good order
When any part Of an implement gets out
of place or is broken, the adjoining parts
sustain greater wear and in a short time
are beyond repairing. Nuts, bolts and
screws become loose, admitting dust and
gravel, and causing unnecessary friction,
which is more wearing than actual work.
As soon as any part becomes weak it should
be repaired at once. We once knew a
thrifty farmer who made it q rule to re-
pair everything before it was broken, and
we presume that he was thereby saved Of
many vexatious delays. Another impor-
tant matter not to be overlooked is the
use Of paint; good coat of brown paint,
that costs but little, will exclude the mois-
ture TO a considerable extent and prevent
decay


"Proper care and neat look will insure
better tools and better handling, since
everyone prefers to use an implement that
is bright and polished to one that is rusty
and weather-beaten, and in the matter Of
service the one will last until liteally worn
out, while the other is liable to give out
when least expected.


at has been stated that implements are
not made Of SO good material as formerly
and that many of them are too light for
hard service; but we believe these, espe-
eially the former, to be mistaken ideas.
The material is of small consequence COM
pared with the treatment the tool receives.
1t is true that good steel and good wood
work are better than poor; but rust aud
decay will destroy either. Many of the
best and toughest varieties of timber, if
exposed to the weather, will decay quite
as soon as the poorest.


Economy is term which we have seen
used in almost every journal that we have
read for the past three years, and doubt
less every shiitless farmer in this country
thinks he is really economical, but when
we pass their houses and see expen-
sive implements aud wagons standing out
in the hot sun and soaking rain, we are
prone to remark that with such, at least
economy is a farce"
Year: 1877

The history of bee culture and money
making in California is a curious one.
The first bees introduced into the State
came from the Atlantic States, and we be-
lieve were taken into the Santa Clara val.
ley. Not long after this, however, other
importations followed, and they were taken
to tho vicinity of Sacramento. The sue
cesses attending all the bees that were
finally saved out of the early importations,
in the way of increasing in numbers and
making honey, were such as to awaken the
highest hopes of the bee and honey bust
ness in the State. Fresh made honey on
the coast was new thing here, and COM
manded very high prices. The quantity
that could be taken from n good, strong
swarm or stand in season warranted the
anticipation and the belief that California
was one of the best bee pastures in the
world II was thought that the market
for honey could not be glutted, and that,
therefore, the bee and honey business must
prove very lucrative. The accounts of the
wonderfully rapid increase of swarms and
their unprecedented performances in the
laying away of honey called public atten-
tion to the business, and the price of bees
went up fabulously. This stimulated their
importation and multiplication until in
many localities in the central portions of
the State the country actually became
overstocked, and the pasture too short for
their prosperity


Disease also resulted from causes con-
nected with their importation, or after
treatment, or was brought along with them
from the East, and there came in a few
years reaction, and prices went down
again to a mere nominal standard, or to no
standard at all. Then the stampede to
get out of the bee business was as great as
it had been few years previous to get
into it. If sales could not be made, the
owners of many apiaries allowed them to
60 to destruction for want of care until
the numbers became greatly diminished.
Notwithstanding this fact the good pas
lures and large accumulation of honey
never came again, and the bee business
remained at low ebb


A few years since, however, the extern
sive bee pastures of tho southern counties
were discovered, and some of those who
had retained their apiaries, and by hard
labor succeeded in making the business
pay small profit, moved them to these
localities. The experience of central Cali
fornia has in the last few years been re.
peated in southern California, and the
home and Eastern markets have actually
been overstocked with California honey.
But just at this period in the business
comes the present dry season, and destroys
the pasture and the bees. The losses to
the bee owners in Southern California have
probably been greater, in proportion to the
money invested, than to any other class.
So thorough and complete has been the
destruction of bee feeding plants that it is
now doubtful if the business will ever
be oyerdone, but it is just possible that it
will gradually recuperate and become one
of the permanent industries of the State,
paying fairly for the capital and care re-
quircd to carry it on to reasonable extent.
San Francisco Bulletin.
Year: 1877

A writer in the n. Y. Times thinks
"that the road to a revival of our national
prosperity lay in the development of our
agricultural resources. / do not think .
he says, "that in this matter we viii be
allowed choice, for in the near future
labor and capital will be driven to the soil.
1t is no longer the question with our
young how to get rich, but how to get
living. There is at the present time no
trade, profession, or business that is not
over-crowded. In all our country villages
there are more storekeepers, blacksmiths,
shoemakers, doctors and clergy that can
possibly obtain decent living, and we see
trades-people and work people roaming
from place to place, leaving one over
crowded locality for another, in the vain
hope Of finding vacancy somewhere. How
it is in our cities need not tell You. The
only occupation which is not overdone,
which never was and never viii be over.
done, is farming. The force Of the whole
argument is condensed in this picture -
On the one hand, every avenue closed; on
the other, abundant room for all. Under
these circumstances things must eventually
adjust themselves, and it would be need
less TO recommend what must perforce
happen, were it not by recognizing the
fact in advance Of its forced acceptance,
the proper equilibrium may be established
easily, instead Of through crisis.
Year: 1877

Who hath not treasured something of the past
The lost, the buried, or the far away?
Twined with those heart-affections which out


last
All save their memories-these outlive decay
broken relic of our chilhood's play,
A faded flower, that long ago was fair
Mute token of love that died untold
Or silken curl, or lock of silvery hair
The brows that bare them long since in the


mould
Though these may call up griefs that else had


slept,
Their twilight sadness oer the soul to bring
Not every tear in bitterness is wept,
While they revive the dropping flowers that


spring
Within the heart, and round its ruined temples


cling.
Year: 1877

How TO PACK BUTTER-The recent number of the California Patrons contains the following instructions, which cannot be too generally circulated for the benefit of butter-makers and consumers: In packing butter in bulk, care should be used in hav- ing your frkin saturated with strong hot brine; this course will prevent the wool from extracting the salt from the butter, and thereby looscqiug its keeping qualities. Before you commence, and while you are packing your butter, put a quart of strong pure brine in your firkin, then if you fail io pack your butter solid, the space will bc filed with brine instead of air, which soon becomes vita,ed and spells the butter. When the irkin is filled il should be immr- diately headed up and strong brine poured through the hole at the top to hll up the space between the butter aud the head of the firkin.
Year: 1877

the rest of the boys" was good enough for him. The next day they were all exchans- ed, and at parting General Forrest returned to Ingersoll his horse, with a note sdressed to the "man who saved his life by a joke in the face of death"
Year: 1877

Work was stopped yesterday afternoon at
3 O'Clock on the Cool Spring Reservoir in
consequence of some misunderstanding, re-
lative to the Clay used for pudding. There
will be meeting, this morning of the con-
tractors and the Water Commissioner, for
the purpose of adjusting, any difference
that may be between them. Then 1t is to be
hoped the work will be goue on with ras
pidly. ..
Year: 1877

At the last meeting of the Board of Dr.
rectors Of the Wilmington and Northern
Railroad Company 1t was resolved that
meeting Of the stockholders of this road be
held at Coatesville, Chester county, at the
general ONCE at 1.3O p. m, on Friday, June
lot, to vote on the question of increasing the
indebtedness Of the company creation of a
first mortgage of 81 ,5C0,0 by the protect
mortgage bonds to be issued on the security
of the same.
Year: 1877

There is vast difference in people,
However moralists and metaphysicians
may class them, there are opposite
points among the most similar which
are broad contrasts-sweet and sour,
winter and summer-or any other pro-
verbal antithesis. To some folks the
leaves of q forest are all alike, and a
school full of boys presents only so many
fao-similies of each other. Such person
ages regard all mankind as so many bi-
peds of the difference between them
they are scarcely conscious.


Some people soothe one like strain
of music, while others agitate every
nerve with the irritating power of dis
cord. How much might be said about
the difference of people in their charac-
ters and actions. There are those who
turn pale at the sight of cheese, and 9TH
ers who shudder at the mention of car
rots this one prefers hard eggs to soft,
and that one does not like buckwheat
cakes. These marks by which some of
our race are distinguished from the rest,
are but few of those which crowd the
mind. There are people who actually
detest children these who never have a
moment to spare and those who don't
know how to get through the day. Your
touchy people who are always pricking
up their ears to catch the first faint
sound of an insult, and your people
without humor who can never either
furnish joke or understand one. There
are two causes of the great difference
perceptible in people. Much may GER
tainly be ascribed to education, but
much also to constitutional dissimilarity.
Here is one ON whom good music acts
like enchantment; he cannot sit still
while hearing it !; his eyes fill with tears;
he forgets all his troubles, and when the
tune has ceased it is still in his mind,
bursting out at intervals in fragments
and EXPLANATIONS, and keeping him
awake in the night by its busy mental
repetitions. Who shall say that his ma
ture is the same as that of another who
finds in the Italian orchestra only dis
agreeable scraping, whose lips cannot
hum, whose imagination cannot contain
a tune? And thus on through life and
in every day intercourse if we but OBJ
sereve a lite carefully, we will scarcely
ever find two people ali1e--even those
pursuing the same avocations and united
by the closest ties, are oftentimes the
most dissirnilar in their natures.
Year: 1877

The following is from the diary of the
late Mr.. Adolphus, the barrister and his
torian: "May s, 1910: We had dinner
party, among them Mrs. Matthews and
Curran, who told an amusing story of an
agent to q nobleman in Ireland. 1t was
known to some ruffians in the neighbor-
hood that he had collected a large sum
for rents due to his employer. In the
middle of the night he heard thieves
breaking into his house. He jumped
out of bed, and arming himself with a
carving knife stood behind the door, and
closed it, SO that only one could enter at
time, which one would be shown in the
moonlight while he remained in the
shade. -Four of the thieves entered,
and were dispatched one after another,
those without not knowing what had
happened. The fifth saw the CLEAN of
the blade in the moonlight, seized the
man, and tremendous scuffie ensued.
The agent struck several blows with his
weapon, but made no impression. He was
got down and his antagonist over him,
when feeling the knife, he found the point
was bent. He had the presence of mind to
press it strongly against the floor, so as
to turn it back, stabbed his adversary
dead, and, as he was alone in the house
and could have no assistance till the
morning, retired to bed. He was
knighted for the exploit Some one
said to him: I wonder you could go to
bed while there were on the floor the
corpses of five persons whom you had
killed?' His answer was: 1t did make
me very uneasy; I could not get wink
of sleep for nearly an hour ="
Year: 1877

A paper read by M, Bouilland before
a recent meeting of the French Academy
of Sciences gives an account of his fur
brain. In his former communications
he demonstrated that the loss of speech
was due to malady OF the third circum-
volution of the left anterior lobe of that
organ. He now goes farther, and as
serts the three fBcultias which essential
ly distinguish man from other animals
speech, reading and writing-are each
controlled by separate portions of the
brain. In his researches he discovered
that the paralysis of one of those func-
tions could exist without the others be-
ing effected, and he gives as an example
a case ein-which--he-was called to con-
sultation on young man, whose avoca-
tions compelled him to write continually.
At first the patient had felt slight
weakness in writing, then great diff
Guilty, and finally, an absolute loss of
the faculty. The result of the closest
examination could not detect any defect
in the muscles of the arm or hand, the
latter retaining all it's sensitiveness and
power for every other purpose than that
of writing, and all his other functions
being moral and in good condition. The
conclusion arrived at was that the source
Of the infrmity must not be sought for
in the external organs, but in the center
itself of nervous action-the brain. The
young man was advised to write with
his left hand, which he rapidly succeed
ed in doing. The defect from which he
suffered had long been known as writer's
cramp, just as the loss of speech was for
centuries termed paralysis of the
tongue. Both designations were equal
ly erroneous, both being now attributed
to maladies of certain portions of the
brain.
Year: 1877

Three and half pounds of milk are
equal to one pound of meat; and only
estimate COW to give 1000 pounds Of
milk in a year, this would make the
cows product in milk equal in food
value to 1000 pounds of meat, and this
1000 pounds of meat would require a
steer, under ordinary feeding, four years
to produce, so that the COW produces as
much return from her food in one year
as q steer in four.
Year: 1877

4 Girl who makes herself to cheap is one
TO be avoided. No young man, not even
the worst, excepting for base purpose,
wants anything 10 do with cheap young
lady. For wife. none but fool or ras-
cal will approach such woman. Cheap
jewelry nobody will touch if he can get
any better. Cheap girls are nothing but
the refuse; and the young men know II,
aud they will look in every other direction
for life long friend aud companion before
they will give a glance at the pinchbeck
stuff that tinkles al every turn for fasclnat-
ing the ''eye of any that will look" You
think it quite the correct thing to talk
loudly and coarsely. be boisterous and hoy
den.h in in all public places; to make
yourself so bold and forward and common
place everywhere, that people wonder II
you ever had a mother. or home. or any
thing to do. So be it. You will probably
be taken for what you are worth, and one
of these years, il you do not make worse
than a shipwreck OF yourself. you will be
gin TO wonder where the charms are that
once you thought yourself possessed of.
aud what evil spirit could have befooled
you. Go on; but remember, cheap girls
attract nobody but fools and rascals.-
Boston TrQHscript.
Year: 1877

"Piety." remarked an Arkansas preach
er to his congregation the other day,
does not consist in noise. The Lord can
see you gives to the needy just as easily
as he can hear you pray the roof of.
Year: 1877

The people Of this vicinity have long felt the
necessity Of having larger and better assortment
Of carpets TO select from than has ever been Kept
IN the place before. That want Il now fully sup
uliel- We LaXe -eaur.l Tho eNclLI-lEe use of
Year: 1877

Mr.. and Mrs. James Hill, who lives
on the Wireman place, about six miles
south of this city, met with sad be-
reayement Saturday. Their little
daughter, aged about Is months, had
been playing in the house while Mrs.
Hill was busy with her work. In
some way she managed to get out of
the house unknown TO the mother,
and not hearing or seeing the child


Mrs. Hill became alarmed. After
searching some time and not finding
her, Mr.. Hill was sent for, and after a
hunt of half hour or more the child
was discovered in the well near the
house. Her father ut once descended
into the well, but ere the body was
recovered lie was extinct. 1t is sup
posed that the child had fallen in
while playing round the well, and
that she had been there nearly an
hour before her body was recovered.
The we'll was some forty feet deep
and had several feet of water in IL.
No bruises was found on The body,
and that the child was drowned there
is no doubt.
Year: 1877




publican domination for a failure to
contribute towards tho running cx-
penses of the party, and we do not
believe that there has been man in
Office who was fit or worthy for his
place, who has not contributed freely
his share towards maintaining the
pure political gospel.


Hence the assaults of the Sun, and
the defense Of the President by the
Chicago Tribune, are gratuitous, be-
cause there is nothing in the matter
justifying abuse or requiring defense,
when looked at from reasonable
and common sense standpoint.