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Year: 1874

ANINGENIoUs DEvIcE.-The Sui
tan's favoritc dwarf, a man about
4) years old, and 3 feet high, a few
years ago, took a notion to MARY,
and applied to the Sultan for a wife
The Sultan gave:him permission
to Ga into his harem, and take the
one whom be could kiss. The
dwarf, like all other men, WAS am
bilious to have a long wife. While
the Sultan's five hundred women,
who knew the terms according to
which the dwarf was permitted to
choose, were laughing at the man
ikin he went up to one ofthe tallest
and handsouest Of them, and
struck her a sudden blow on the
stomach. She collapsed with the
pain, and, before she could recover,
he caught her by the neck and
gave her the dreaded kiss. The
Sultan kept his word, and the tall
beauty is now the mother Of the
dwarfs children.
Year: 1874

The BLOOM OF AGE.-A good wo-
man never grows old. Years may
pass over her head, but if bene7o-
lence and virtue dwellin her heart,
she is cheerful as when the spring
of life first opened to her VIEW
When we look upon a good woman
wenever think other age; she looks
as charming as when the rose OF
youth first bloomed on her cheek.
That rose has not faded yet; it will
never fade. In her neighborhood
she is the friend and benefac-
tor. Who does not respect and
love the woman who has passed
her days in acts of kindness and
mercy? Werepeat, such & woman
cannot grow old. She will always
be fresh and buoyant in spirits
and active in humble deeds of mer
cy and benevolence. If the young
lady desires to retain the bloom
and beauty Of youth, let her not
yield to the sway of fashion and
folly, let her love truth and virtue
and to the close of life she will re-


tain thosefeeiings which now make
life appear s garden Of sweets
ever fresh and new.
Year: 1874

Ashort time since twoindividuals
were lying in one room very sick,
one with brain fever, and the 9th
er with an aggravated case Of the
mumps. They were SO low that
watchers were needed every night,
and it was thought doubtful if the
one sick of fever would recover. A
gentleman was engaged to watch
over night, his duty being to wake
the nurse whenever it became nee
essary to administer the medicine.
In the course Of the night both
watcher and nurse fell asleep
The man with the mumps lay
watching the clock, and saw that
it was time to give the fever pa
tient his portion. He was unable
to speak aloud, or to move any
portion of his body except his
arms, but, seizing a pillow, he
managed to strike the watcher in
the face with it. Thus suddenly
awakened, the watcher sprang
from his seat, falling to the floor,
| and awakened both the nurse and
| the fever patient. The incident
struck the sick men as very ludi-


crous, and they laughed heartily
| at it for some fifteen or twenty
minutes. When the doctor came


in the morning he found his pa


tient vastly improved; said he
never knew SO sudden a turn for


the better, and now both are up


and we'll. Who says laughter is
| not the best Of medicine? And


this reminds the writer Of another


case. A gentleman was suffering


form an liberation in the throat,
(which at length became so swollen


that his life was dispaired of. His
| household came to his bedside
| to bid him farewell. Each individ-
! ual shook hands with the dying


man, and then went away weeping.


Last Of all came pet ape, and
ishaking the mans hand, went


away also with it's hand over it's


eyes. 1t was so ludicrous a sight


that the patient was forced to


laugh, and laughed so heartily
| that the ulcer broke, and his life
| was saved.
Year: 1874

OPEN FIREs.-A furnace in the
cellar may be good to take the
chill from the house, and to heat it's
halls and passages, but it ought
not to supersede the fireplace in
parlor and chamber, at once the
ventilater Of the room and its GEN.
ter of cheer and joy. No appara-
tus Of ventilation has yet been de-
vised equal to the old-fashioned
chimney. Even when no FIRE is
made in the aperture, this avenue
Of the open air draws its currents
and keeps the atmosphere pure.
Where there is no open fireplace,
10 free fue, there will be a sense
ofasphyxia in those stormy nights
when the windows must be fastened
close. Every room in the house
which is used to sit iu or sleep in
ought to have a sufficient opening
into the chimney, larger than the
orifce of a stove pipe. No matter
if the heated air escapes by it; it
is better to lose half of the heated
air than to be breathing stagnant
air that is already deprived Of its
oxygen. In the spring and au-
tumn, the fireplace with wood on
the andirons giVesall the heat that
will be needed, and gives it more
gracefully than the blasts from any
"register.'
Year: 1874

time; the man who travels for safe
ty, or the man who travels to get
rest from work, or for the sake of
his health, is not wasting or abu-
sing his time, he is turning it to
good account.


Let the heart be flled with some
good principle Of action, and let
the mind be directed towards somo
congenialpursuits, and then ourin-
nocent pleasures will be as little
in danger Of degeneratlng into
criminal indulgence, as our whole
some recreations into waste of
time.-CasseZFs Maga=ine.
Year: 1874

say:


20 foolish and lmpecunious gen.
Grafton, ye seeketh after tick, and
no tick shall be given you save
the tick of the prophet Jonah"


You know; my brethren, he
tried to obey the Lord on tick, and
the consequence was that he got
ducked in the sea, and swallowed
by a whale, and walloped around
generally in the way that made
him "git up and git" Just so will
you get soused in a sea of trouble,
swallowed by a whale of debt, and
walloped about until you will look
meaner than that yaller dog that
Adam found sinking around his
kitchen, and has SUNK around the
universal creation ever since.


O, misguided brethren, are you
content to sit, like a legion Of
Lazuruses, at your merchants
doors and feed on the crumbsyo
are free born American citizens as
long as you whine after others for
your "vittles ?" Then rise, rise, ye
slothful farmers, from the bog
holes Of credit, soar aloft on the
blessed consciousness of having
raised your own "vittles," and
year after year you will rise high
er and higher, and when your
lives shall reach the 'sere and yel-
low lcaf," you will perch on the
pinnacle of independence, and,
planting the point of your thumb
on the apex of your nose, you will
be able to twist your fingers in
contemptuous defiance at th e
hordes of Shylocks who lie in
wait for the unwary farmer, try
ing to gob5le up all he makes by
furnishing him with "vittles. :"
And when the caterpillar, like the
angel of death, shall spread his
wings on the blast; and sweeping
from cotton field TO cotton field,
shall gather into his capacious
stomach the crop of the South,
then rising from his feast, like an
eagle with bloody talons, shall
startle the land with his exultant
screams of


CHILDREN WHERE'S YOUR vITTLEs ?
then you will be able to smile
with q smile that is chlld-llke and
bland" aDd shout back the defiant
answer:


II got you that time old fellow,
l raised 'em myself


Then from every hilltop and
out Of every valley between Boss
Sheppard's rancho, and tn e
Greasers of Mexico, ten thousand
times ten thousand "sperits Of just
men made perfect" will kick up
their heels and shout,


BULLY FOR YOU.
Year: 1874

It would be hard t. nd in the
history Of modern nations a more
saddening or disgustful picture
of the wreck and desolation Of So
ciety than is presented at this mo-
ment in South Carolina; and the
condition of South Carolina, we
suppose while perha aps more
picturesquely miserable, is but
type Of the social wretchedness
and the political shame which at
tach to the other States of the far
South. These are facts which
concern not alone the States i'm
mediately immersed in this civic
chaos. The nation is a partner
ship in diseases and disgraces as
we'll as in benefits with the suf-
fering of one member all the mem
bers suffer, and whatever is a blot
upon Texas or Georgia stains
through to Maine. The time has
fully arrived when all citizens
who do not believe that "our po-
litical system can stand anything
and defy anything" should conde.
scend to cast some serious glance
upon the hapless circumstances of
our friends and brethren of the
Southern States. Of this we may
be sure: that the present apathy
OF Northern people upon this SUBJ
ject is largely conditioned on their
ignorance Of the real state of the
case; and the difficulty with US
has been that we could not all 20
to the South to see for ourselves,
and that we could not thoroughly
confde in the testimony of those
who did go. 1t is greatly to be
desired that some Northern men
Of real ability, and of unquestiona-
bic repute among US, could pass
through the Southern lands and
study the actual situation, and re-
port to US in terms which we
could altogether trust.


From this point Of view, we
deem it an event to be particular
ly mentioned that one such citizen,
Mr.. James S. Pike, an old aboli-
zionist, a journalist of high stand
ing, and, by appointment Of Presi-
dent Lincoln, late Minister of the
United States at the Hague, took
| the trouble to 60 to South Carroll
Year: 1874

Iwould remark that there are
only two words in the text which
I deem it necessary to individual
ize, and to catch the true ring OF,
as the miser catcheth the ring of
his coin before he drops it into his
old sock and hides it under the
hearth, and those two words are
"children" and "meat." | opinc:
my beloved, that the word chill
dren in the text has much broad
er Specification than that segment
of the human family which the old
woman Of the country spank with
impunity, and glory in the blessed
consciousness that they can do it
again if they want to. am per-
shaded that in the full amplitude
of it's height and depth, it's length
and it's breadth, it includes every
native born American citizen,
white and black, blue, and yellow
and gray, male and female, old
and young, together with all the
rest of man and woman on the
face of this time-bound earth, and
I do not think, therefore, my be-
aighted friends, that I would be
stretching my Imagination too
far if I were to venture the asser-
ton that it includes even you.


The word "meat" meaneth not
alone the aggregated glooules
which formeth the feshy portions
Of the corporeal tabernacles IN
which the spiritual essences OF
Year: 1874

a St. Louis gentleman took a
room at a Chicago boarding house
recently, and was aroused early
the following morning by the
chambermaid, who remarked that,
as it was near time to set the break
fast table, she would have to troub-
10 him for the top sheet.
Year: 1874

ton of remedy to the people Of
that State is in the main wise and


good. He advises them to hold
on to the faith that the State can


be redeemed; to make systemat-
ic effort to attract foreign immi-
grafton to the State; to get rid Of
their hereditary prejudice against
strangers, and of their old-time
intolerance Of opposing opinions.
1t is not a war of races or of colors
that should be brought on; but
a calm, resolute patient increase
and combination of the forces Of
good in society against the force
of evil. Society needs to be turn
ed right side up; and in this ef-
fort let all men help who can,
whatever be their color.
Year: 1874

Place, it in clean porcelain bowl ,and


pour very hot water over it SO as to
cover It, Then pour oil. upon the wa


ter. The air is thus quite excluded and


the meat preserved. Jsq
Year: 1874

The romance OF Bazaine's escape is very pretty.
The knotted rope overhanging the clif and stained
with blood from the fugitive's torn hands; the
little boat waiting at midnight in the shadow Of
the crag, with brave and faithful wife at the
oar, ready with her little strength and her great
courage to bear her husband over the deep away
f.on captivity all that Is almost too prettily ro-
mantle to be true. Tie ory was, no doubt,
invented to draw attention from the real manner
OF the MarshAl's escape, which was probably
effected with the connivance of the Government,
by the very simple process Of opening doors,
without any rope-climbng or periious adventures
wha' ever.
Year: 1874

of manufactured goods could be found, and
the balance of trade has been greatly in our
favor; but still the gold has not come back
Whyf Because there is no use here for any
more gold, if we had it. But, says Gov. Hen
bricks, we owe debts to foreigners, which we
must pay and that takes our gold. We always
shall have foreign debt so long as invest
ments here are more productive than they are
in Europe, and our credit is not utterly gone
What is to prevent thrifty Englishman or
German from buying United States
bond, or a bond of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company, or from trusting the New
York merchants to whom he sells silks or
wooden goods These debts, so long as the
credit of our people Is preserved, are no OBJ
stacle to the restoration of specie payments.
We are not, even now, called upon to pay
them. Whatever Gov. Hendricks and Mr..
Boutwell, may say, we shall not pay any con-
siderable par. of them for generations to come.
Debts in other forms will simply be substl-
tuted for the debts maturing. Is 1t to be sup
posed that our people will stop building rail
roads and clearing up the country for the sake
of having Europeans what those Europeans
have no wish to receiver Neither shall we
nav orr foreign debts with gold aud silver.
This country, it is true, produces gold and
silver, and we export the surplus because we
cannot heap it up within our own borders any
more than Spain could mOnopollze the treas
ure of the New World. Gold and silver enter
into the exports and imports precisely i'll
the same way as do cotton, grain, and sugar
They are sent where and when they are most
wanted. When the precious metals are wanted
here TO circulate as money, or to form part
of a convertible currency, they will not be
sent away, and it is in all human probability
Just as easy to increase our stock OF gold and
silver now for the purpose of establishing
currency of stable value as it will be at any
time within the next ten centuries. 1t Is all
very well for the Western Boutwell, to say
that it should be our policy to increase our
supply of specie "until we reach condition
'where specie payments may be safely re-
"sumed;" but his method of doing this,
namely to pay off our foreign indebtedness
and establish the balance of trade in our
favor, and all the while keep the business
community supplied with all the legal-tender
paper money they want, is Like starting Mr..
Barnum's balloon on a voyage alter the
comets tail. 1t is of the nature of the balloon
TO come down, and it is equally the fate of all
paper money bubbles to burst, and invariably
to the great disgust of the business cOmmu-
nitV
Year: 1874

The sensible conclusion by which the Regatta
was fixed for Saturday morning the pleasant
weather which rewarded that judicious meas
ure, and the spirited and brilliant race which
crowned the training and rowing of the year,
have probably saved the University meeting
to Saratoga in future. There are so many
positive advantages i'll having the boat-race
take place upon Saratoga Lake, that it would
have been matter of sincere regret II the
unwise action of Thursday and Friday
had been followed up on Saturday, ana
had sent away at the end OF the
week disappointed and angry crowd, agreeing
in nothing except as to the unftness OF Sara
tOga for a University race. The contest on
Saturday morning, so fully and graphically
described in columns to-day, was the
complete justification of the choice OF local
ity. Nothing more convenient or more PIC
turesQue could well be imagined than tins
beautiful lake, for the purposes of gre",
intercollegiate Regatta


Tue fact that our NewYork crew bore off
the honors Of the day is especially gratifying
to us, and we believe 1t is not peculiarly dis
tasteful to our neighbOrs. The young gentle
men who so CALAMITY carried the blue and
white of Columbia College over the lake to
victory on Saturday, had previously gained
not only the good opinion of amateurs, but
what is Of more Importance, the good will OF
everybody. There is never any rancOr felt in
regard 70 the social successes of debutantc,
and something of this feeling of sympathetic
admiration was acquired by the young repre-
sentatives of the metropolis, who came so late
into the field of aquatic sports, and have won
so brilliant and legitimate a triumph. 1t is
true that some of the crews from colleges
with longer tradition of rowing may talk of
the fortune of the innocent, and explain how
under different circumstances the result might
not have been the same. But the vast crowd
which hailed the success of the New Orkers
gave their plaudits not to any luck or caprice
of circumstance, but to genuine merit and
uncomprOmising hard work. The older racing
clubs bear no malice, and the younger ones
will take new courage from this day, which
has shown them that there is nothing to fear
from tradition or the shadow of name, if
they will but put into their training the
muscle and the intelligence which compel
victory.


1t will be generally regretted that the pleas





a collision between the two crews which hold
the highest rank in our racing annals. We
give all that is known of the matter in dis
pute between them, from which it may appear
that neither is completely blameless. The
trouble from the beginning, it is worth OBJ
serving, arose from a cherished hostility,
latent in both boats, which only required a
pretext to burst into a blaze. We will not
admit that this lost them their chance of vic
tory, for this would be unjust to the victors
But tho public will be apt to say that the
reported scene upon the lake was not in ac-
cordance with the often quoted classic line
which tells us that learning "softens the
"manners and does not permit them to be
"fierce.n Rivalry is wholesome and gentle
manlke, but hostility should not exist among
scholars
Year: 1874

1t is now reported that the priest HauthOler,
arrested for completely IN the attempt upon
the life of Prince Bismarck, is innocent.
There were ten chances to one that this
would prove to be the case. Occasionally a
priest goes mad and commits murder like
other men, but in these days no church hires
assassins, and no eeclesiastc in his senses
arranges with them their criminal plans. But
the effect of this priests arrest was to set
people to thinking of the wickcdness of the
Pope and the non-juring bishops, and even
the announcement of his innocence will not
entirely do away with this. The shot con-
tinues a good one for Bismarck, if his wrist
gets well.
Year: 1874




Bishop Foster, in addressing the gradual
ing class of the Wesleyan Female College,
in Cincinnati, on Tuesday evening. said: /:
LEARN your obligations to the past; be
careful of the present, and prepare yourself
for the great future that is before you. The
reign of brain has come. Though you may
not be found on the battle field or at the
ballot-fOx, you can build up the future by
building up the men. You live in apsrticu-
lariy exciting time. when you have placed In
opposition to you one of the greatest OF
vices, and you women will conquer if all of
those of your sex who are real women will
combine. Beware of coxcombs and liber-
tines. They are fools, whel her they know
it or not. By your conduct toward them
send them from your presence. Reserve
your hearts and love for men. Be not what
is known as fashionable woman. There
is nothing so foolish as such q woman, and
mono but fools admire her,"
Year: 1874

The enchanted park in Colorado is a beau
tiful valley about mile in length, walled
in on either side by perpendicular walls
from 200 to 500 feet in height. There is but
one entrance to this enchanted spot, and
that is by very rugged and dangerous
pathway, and the footman experiences great
difficulty in the descent. Upon reaching the
valley one could hear the rustling of the
wind through the lofty pines in the cliffs
above sounding like the roar OF some ever
lasting hurricane. while the grass beneath
the feet lay as calm and as stiIl as death.
Not even the slightest breath of air could be
felt. Everything was so still that person
standing at the lower part of the valley
could distinctly comprehend persons speak
ing at the upper end.-Goldeh Age.
Year: 1874

whenever that might be. He (Butler) had
never seen Prescott three time, and did not
know him by sight. Mr.. Foster had also in


his speech alluded to him (Butler) twenty
eight times, making sixty-one times in all,
and the New York Tribune said that his
Year: 1874

A correspondent of the Vicksburg Her
aid gives an account of new invention
now i'm practical operation in the Mountain
Cotton Mills, near Bolton Station, on the
Memphis and Charleston Railroad, which,
if it proves to be all that is represented,
must have a more important effect upon
the production and manufacture OF cotton
than even Whitney's cotton gin has had.
1t does away with the ordinary process OF
ginning. converting the cotton just as it is
taken from the field into thread of superior
quality. 1t costs only $3.50, and Is at
tached to the ordinary card stand. 1t Is
said that specimens of thread made by this
machine have been sent to nearly all the
Northern manufacturers, and have been
pronounced stronger and more lustrous
than that spun by the ordinary method.
1t is claimed that thread spun by this
means will sustain fully One-third more
weight than a thread of equal size made
of cotton that passed through the pro
cesses of compression and the complicated
machinery of common cotton mills. The
great importance of the invention. how
ever. consists in the fact that by its cheap
ness and simplicity it may be introduced
into common use, the natural result OF
which will be to transfer the whole work
ofcOtton spinning from manufactures to
the cotton fields, thus effecting great saw
ing in the cost of packing and transporta-
ton. and in other expenses.
Year: 1874

PARENTS who are solicitous about their
boys giving them too much lip may be
glad to know that the evil is not wholly
irremediable. A Cincinnati man adyertlses
to furnish the destitute with lndia-ru6ber
lips more durable than the original article,
so that boys who are reeklessly prodlgal
of lip can send to Cincinnati for new
supply. --
Year: 1874

THERE is only one safe way in attempt,
ing to rescue person from drowning, and
that to approach him from behind, grasp
ing each arm firmly Just above the elbows,
bGoving him up and carefully keeping him
before YOU. This may be done by any
good swimmer who keeps his presence OF
mind. even where water is very deep. Let
swimmers while bathing practice this
method, if only for the amusement it
affords, and they will soon become ex-
Year: 1874

JOHN j. MARKS, the recent Harbor
Commissioner who was ousted from his
Office for divers populations, was recently
tried in the Municipal Court of San
Francisco, together with his son, for con-
spring to defraud the State. The jury
found them guilty, but the Judge had
to grant him new trial on techni-
caity of the statue, stating at the same
time that there was no doubt of the guilt
of the parties. 1t seems that the statute
provides that person shall not be con-
victed on the testimony of accomplices,
unsupported by other direct evidence, and
in this case, while there were plenty Of
those who had paid them on the outside
for favors to swear, the law had to ac-
count them all as accomplices, and the
evidence could not be taken as sufficient
to convict. After the trial, change of
the law is demanded.
Year: 1874

The town Of Columbia Hill, Nevada
county, is nearly mined away. There is
nothing left but narrow strip Of land,
not more than two hundred and fifty
yards wide, on which the houses are stu
ated. Were the houses removed, not a
foot of the ground on which the houses
now stand would be visible in a month
afterward. Great efforts are being made
to induce house owners to move their
houses, so that the owners of the mine
can get to wash away the gravel on which
the town is built. The house owners are
stubborn and won'tyield.