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Year: 1879

Sometimes we feel inclined to pick flaws
in the women folks, but on second thoughts
are made to wonder that they are as good
as we find them. Supposing customs were
reversed, and Instead OF cOurtlng the guis
the girls were to court US? Supposins a
sweet creature in bows and ribbons and
poetical drapery and stepbenotis should
come to see you two or three times week,
and should discourse by the hour on the
soul-light OF your eye, the Jove-like gran
deur Of your brow, the inefable glory OF
your moustache, ETC., ETC., don't you think
you would develop into iackanapes in
less than six months, even il you were
far removed from one at the start? Fact is,
we men think nothing of telling girl over
and over again how much pretticf and
sweeter and better every way she IS than
all her sisters; and is it unnatural that she
should be goose enough to believe it after q
time? Who doesn't like to hear his own
praises sung? But after marriage these
sugar coated lies return to plague the man
that compounded them. He has taught bis
wife to believe that he can see nothing good
in her sex outside of herself. And she
never forgets her lesson. as many a married
wight could testify. But don't blame her,
friend. She is only showing her abiding
faith in your lover-vows. The trouble re-
sides in you. You have ceased lying to her.
Boston Transcript.
Year: 1879

HoT-WEATHER MISUNDERSTANDING the
port Of an Episcopal minister drawing
$4,000 from lottery and applying it to
building a church. It is untrue Wash
ington telegram Cincinnati Commercial.


MAYBE it was an advertisement
Year: 1879

THE GOD-sPEED GIVEN BY THE Ex-


CELsIOR CLUB.


Senator Bayard pad the Excelsio.
Democratic Club q visit Wednesday
evening end bid them good bye in view
of his early departure for Washington.
The room was comfortably filed with
members of the club aud their friends,
and President Eckel presided.


The Senator entered the room about 8
O'Clock aud the chairman in . few feel
ing words bid him welcome on behalf
of the club.


The Senator then made friendly and
informal speech to the club, for over An
hour and " as very attentively listened
to. He spoke Of his visit to Europe, and
said that having seen the foreign coun-
tries hs could note a great difference be-
tween the people here and those in Eu-
rope. The only thing wrong with our
nation was that it advanced too rapidly,
and more care and deliberation should
be taken, everywhere,-in the walks of
manual labor as In the Legislative halle.
The Senator went on to speak of how
much care should be taken in reference
to anything in politics, and good results
came from quiet, dispasslunate meetings
Of such body as he was now address
ing. Branching off on national affairs,
he spoke incidentally about the ques-
tions he would be called upon to take
part in considering. In regard to the
coming Presidential campaign, he said
he thought long region of power would
remain with the party that won the vic
tory. The other day he had read a
speech by ex-Gov. Collins, Of Indiana,
in which he stated that a strong hand
like Grants was needed at the helm OF
the ship OF State. He (Mr. Bayard,) felt
that such suggestions and ideas should
be discounteDanced. A man who would
level guns and artillery at the breasts OF
the people, in his strength and who
would grind people down and take their
rights, was not the one to have control.
To say that ''strong" man like that
was needed, would be to say that our
fathers were wrong. Our strength con.
sists of our obediance to our self-made
laws.


The Senator was frequently applaud
ed and at the end general hand shaking
took place.
Year: 1879

sweet was the song of the robin,


bIlthe was the hum OF the bee,
Al The day when the drift of the blossom


was light as the foam of the sea,
inen deeply was cloven the furrow,


And gayly they scattered the seed.
Who trusted that rainfall and sunshine
Would surely be given at need.
The robin hath flown to the tropic,


The honey-bee fitteth NO more,
The reaper hath garnered the harvest,


And the fruit and the nuts are in store.
The flame hath died out on the naples,
We tread on the loose-lying leaves,
And the corn that was sturdy and stall


wart


Is gathered and bound into sheaves.
And sweeter than music Of spring time,


And fuller Of jubilant mirth.
Are the strong -tided chorals o'erfiowing


From hearts where Thanksgiving has


birth.


TIE songs Of the home and the altar,


The gladness of children at play,
And the dear love ofhouseholds united


Are blending in praises to day.
For pasture-lands folded with beauty,


For plenty that burdened the vale,
For the wealth Of the teeming abundance,


And the promise too royal to fall,
We lift to the Maker our anthems,


But none the less cheerily come
To thank Him for bloom and dfruition,


And the happiness crowning the home.
Oh, the peace on the brow of the father,


The light in the mothers clear eyes
The lilt in the voices of maidens


Who walk under dream curtained skies,
The dance in the feet of the wee ones,


Aud the sparkle and shine in the air!
The year has no time lik likeThanksgiving- e


A truce to our fretting and care.
Sweet was the song of the robin,
Blithe was the hum of the bee,
In the day when the drift Of the blossom
Was light as the foam of the sea
But sweeter the silence of autumn,
That max eth a space for the strain
OF the joyance of home, when the harvest
Is gathered from hill side and plain.
From Hdrper's Bdzdr.
Year: 1879

From the Philadelphia Chronicle, March IA.


The man who buys his newspaper for q few pennies
never stops to think what it costs to produce that
mass OF printed maiter II he wore to think he could
hardly appreciate the WORK. The army of news
gathcrers scattered over the globe; the editors who
receive and comment on the news, enriching their
comment with illustration and history. showing its
bearing on to-day and its probable influence to-
morrow; tho typesetters. with hands moving ceas-
lessly from to stick through the day through
the night the driving presses. the vast machinery
for deliveryall these are ut work NJ much for the
benent Of the man who buys single copy ~ though
he the only reader bought the whole product
of the newspaper press


The NEw YORK HERALD, which is justly proud of
the enterprise which has placed it at the head of the
news gathercrs of tho world gives some facts which
will serve to illustrate the point Speaking OF
Of its wonderful Sunday quintuple editions. con-
tanning sixty eight COLUMNS of advertisements, the
HERALD says:-


Apart from the great amount Of extra labor re-
qured to set the immense quantity OF type required
by this increase OF siNe the single item OF stereotyp
ing reaches extraordinary Dimensions As fourteen
plates made of each page OF the HERALD, our
issue of to-day calls for two hundred and eighty
plates; each OF these weighs fifty pounds. so the
full set requires about fourteen thousand pounds.
seven tons OF metal from which to print this single
edition. In round numbers about three millions OF
pieces OF type have been picked up, one at IL time,
by compositors TO prepare the pages for the stcreo
typers, and more than hundred and hfty mcn'w
required to set the type. make the plates and print
the paper.


This is great feat of the publishing business.
complishcd between night and morning. II
qaires large capital, abundant and perfect ma
chinery, keen intelligence and u great directing
mind. What the HERALD does on SO grand scale is
done every day by every newspaper each in its own
degree.


II it happens that there Is nothing going on Of an
exciting character. nothing which interests him
specially. the reader IL very likely to throw bis
paper down and erowl impatiently. There's moth
ing in the papers,. As each reader gets the bcnoft
of all the work that goes newspaper. II would
the ingenuity of the ablest editor to give MIN
print worth less than the selling price.


People who never mako their way into the adver
tising columns of the newspapers need NOT hatter
themselves that they are doing much to keep In mo-
ton this great engine OF enightenment. The moro
subscription money is OF comparatively small mo-
ment. for buyer would be wiling to pay tho cost
or producing the sheet no reads. newspaper
must have readers, Just eiiiice must have
roof; but stands In need OF advertisers, just
as a building must first have q foundation.
Year: 1879

From the Philadelphia Ledger. March III


The New YORK HERALD Of yesterday is remark
able ISSUE for that journal of quntuple sheets
1t contains over seventy columns Of advertisements
the greater number only two three lines length
the total number Of notices being 3,4A7. Tho work
dono in few hours to prepare for such edition of
newspaper is more noteworthy than the number Of
miles tramped by pedestrian In six days. for it
illustrates the high point OF excellence to which the
business of printing great newspapers has been car
ried. Tho HERALD stereotype plates for Quintuple
edition require about tons OF metal which has
to be cast for tho presses after moulds have been
taken from 30Oo0O0 separate pieces Of type picked
up and put in place by the compositors ono by
These details relate only to the mechanical work OF
getting the forms ready for the presses less than
day, and take account Of the work OF preparing
fifty columns Of reading matter or Of printing the
edition.
Year: 1879

yesterday in consequence Of the disagreement with
regard to the Union secretaries The representatives,
of other branches of the trade throughout North
and Northeast Lancashire piodgod their word that
the operatives would not resist five per cent re-
duction.


The Preston operatives held meeting yesterday
and unanimously declared that any other wages
list than that now existing in the town was
unjustiHable. resolution in favor Of remaining
atwork under protest was hooted down. resolution
that the operatives and each individual firm should
make their own lists independently of the Blackburn
list was carried amid great cheering. The meeting
very disorderly. The Blackburn operatives are
divided upon the question Of accepting the compro
mise. They will hold mass meeting shortly.
Year: 1879

BIZ TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.


LONG BRANCH. March Is, 1879
Thomas McKenna summoned to appear before
Justice of the Peace Lane this afternoon to answer
complaint made by tho Rev. James A. Walsh for
speaking in loud and insulting m9nner during SER
vices in the church Sunday last thereby disturbing
the worship and publicly insulting the pastor in
the pulpit. At the appointed hour McKenna ap-
peared before the Justice and claiming that he could
ut that time produce his witnesses. waived exam
May term Of the Circuit Court ut Freehold.
whereupon the complaint withdrawn and Nc
Kenna discharged. The entire community arc
greatly excited over the arrest and the many at
tacks on McKenna and Hibernians are the prevailing
topic Of conversation here.
Year: 1879

what In home without mothcrg tho old and
ular ballad Truly what Is home without hcr she be
bright sunny faced woman hcaithfu hopeful happy. al
ways looking the bright side of life the beloved
Of her children sending her husband out Into The
world morning with cheerful word of
nient and meeting him at night with welcoming Kiss


hpDe Is indeed made dcsoate by the loss Of such wife
aud Many mother is not this bright and shin
ing home light less because of her disposition than be-
cause deranged body aud BRAIN


making her irritable pccvish aud fault hnding even to
those whom she best loscs DR. PikuckS FAvOnirH PRK
scRirriox is never failing remedy for female Diseases


Hundreds Of happy homes their aud attract
ivcness this remedy which transformed their wives aud
mothers from oespondeat feeble nvalds into heathfu
hopeful women
Year: 1879

OTTAWA, Ont, March IL, 1870.
This being tho anniversary OF tho birthday OF
Princess Louise tho royal standard is flying from
the tower at Parliament House and large number
of private buildings display bunting. A dinner
of the OCCASION
Year: 1879

The following record will show the changes in tho
temperature for the past twenty four hours in
parison with the corresponding date OF last year.
Indicated by the thermometer ut Hudnuts phar-
macy, HERALD Building No. 2lS Broadway
Year: 1879

The undersigned takes this oreurn his thanks
to the people of Yankton particularly and to his
friends Dakota and for the
patronage which has been bestowed the late firm Of
DUDLEY HAWLEY through the many years in which
that rm has carried on business in this city, and he now
desires to call the attention Of these friends and that of
the people generally to the enlarged facilities een
sive assortment comodious roo which the late
firm had provided and which of Dudley
& Hawley, possesses.


In the line of trade, manufacture
OF Tn Copper and Sheet Iron Ware he claims
tabshment equal in all respects anything north
west occupying three grand roos each
tent.


In the future, by constant application business
to see the Hardware trade of the which tr
utary to to this point centered here and shall spare
make it for the interest Of the people within this REGION
chase their Hardware Tnware Copper and Sheet
Stoves, and all other articles this line from


Yours gratefully and respectfully


GEO. e. HAWLEY,


Union Block, Third st.
Year: 1879

The Interior tells of smart boy who
was an adept in measuring liquids:


Yon remember the eight-Quart jug was
full of vinegar. The grocer had an order
for four quarts, but had only three quart
and five-quart measure in his store. TIE
hoy was not allowed to pour out and waste
any of the vinegar, and he had no other
vessel.


So the first thing he did was to pour the
three quart measure full, and then empty
it into the five-quart measure. Then he
poured his three quart measure full again
and filled the ive-quart measure out of it.


Then his vinegar stood thus Five quarts
in the five-quart measure, one In the three
quart measure and two in the eight-quart
jug.


He scratched his head a moment and
then emptied the three-quart measure back
into the eight-quart jug.


Then he poured the one quart which he
bad in the three-quart measure into the
five- quart measure. Next be poured bis
three-quart measure full again out of the
eight quart jug and emptied it into the
fiye-quart measure, which had, as we have
said one quart in it.


This made four quarts in the jug, and
four in the fve-quart measure.


Next, our smart boy offered to do all the
measuring with the two measures and the
jug.


AS will be seen in the above, he had
measured one quart, two quarts, three
quarts, four quarts, five quarts, six quarts,
seven quarts, eight quarts, all with nothing
but his three, five and eight-quart measures
to do it with.
Year: 1879

The day is come, and the carpets


Are dragged outside of the house;
AS man is dragged to the station
At the close of a big carouse.
see the wife and her handmaids
Wade through the suds and the dust:
And feel as though the pie of my life
Was nearly all under crust.
Come, give me a club with handle
AS long as the month of May;
And will waffle the carpet


The whole of the livelong day.
WELD the stiel. theu have hrnnnht mo
With flap. and thud. and hiss
o, better a year and half of sleep
Than fifteen minutes of this.
Year: 1879

Lavina Goodsel. who has attracted good
deal of attention in Wisconsin by drawing
up bill to the State Legislature providing
that no person should be refused admission
to the bar on account of sex, and securing
its passage seems to be possessed of unusual
energy and of decided talent for law. She
owes her success and reputation entirely to
her own unaided exertion. Some time ago
she was employed here on fashion journal,


but conceiying that she could do something
better, she resigned her position and went
to GAINESVILLE, Wis.,, where her aged parents
resided and needed her assistance. Arrived
there she determined that she would not
settle down to washing dishes and making
over gowns, as most women do. She had
long had a fancy for law, and had con-
vinced herself that she possessed business
head. Therefore she began to study law,
kept at it for three years, applied for ad-
mission to the Circuit Court, passed bril-
liant examination and was admitted. She
gained Der first cases, and one of them
having been carried to the Supreme Court
her right to plead there was denied on ac-
count of her sex. She reviewed the Su-
prcme Judges decision in legal journal
and got the better OF him in argument, and
then went to work upon the Legislature,


with the result already known. Some of
the ablest lawyers In the State admire her
acnmen and learning, and declare her to be
born barrister. She is represented as
entirely feminine, Notwithstanding her
profession, and one of the best of women


in all the duties of life.--New York Times.
Year: 1879

A couple may now set up for them selves with very few utensils, scarcely any provisions, and next to no know ledge of cookery A gas or oil stove takes the place of costly and cumbrous cooking range. Coffee is bought not only parched but ground. Spices and pepper come all prepared for use. Every kind of bread, cake and pastry can be purchased at a slight advance on the cost of the materials they contain. If one wishes the sport of making them, self-raising flour may be had in any grocery Fruit of all kinds, all ready for the table, can be purchased about as cheaply as that which must be pre- pared. Not only Holsters and other shell-fsh, but salmon may be bought cooked and ready to be served at a price but little above what the crude articles cost, and cooked corned beef, tongue, and pigs feet and ham have long been on the market. There are also canned soups, that only need to be diluted ]; mince meat all ready to put between pie crusts, and roast meats and fowls of all descriptions. Some grocers keep mush prepared for frying. Boston baked beans, put up in cans, have had a great run during the past few years. English plum buildings are also on the market. Last summer witnessed the event of fried potatoes as an article of commerce. And now comes the report that a char tered company has been engaged in the manufacture of fish balls for the market.

 It is no longer necessary to be a cook in order to keep house. It requires scarcely any cooking utensils to provide warm meal. A can opener. frying pan and coffee pot are the principal re- quisites. Even the last is not absolutely necessary, since a mixture of prepared coffee, sugar and cream may readily be obtained. It is even practical now for the novice to dispense with cook book, as the label on every can tells how to
Year: 1879

One day, just before harvest, an Ohio farmer went to Cincinnati to buy a reaper A delighted agent collared the granger and dragged him into his ware house. As they walked down the we'll stocked room the farmer, in meditative mood, quoted the line: "There is a reaper whose name is Death," but be- fore he could start the second line the agent broke in: ''Ah, yes, I know it, sir; know it like a book. We handled that reaper one season, sir. and I'd take $5,000 out of my pocket this minute if it would undo the damage that reaper did our business in that one year. You don't want it, sir. You don't want to look at it. The machinery is compli- cated; it gets out of order easily; you have to send clear to Akron for new piece of gearing; it doesn't cut clean, and it nearly kills the horses; jams their shoulders all to pieces, sir. I know that reaper, sir. It's an old, old style, sir. and you don't want it. Now here, sir, I can show you reaper that-"se But the astonished farmer just interrupted him to say that the reaper he mentioned was an old style, but he was certain it did it's work well, though, all the same it wasn't the kind he wanted, and he had no idea of buying it to work on his farm. He bought another reaper, blood thirsty as d Cossack, and red as an autumn sunset, and the agent told how nicely he sold a reaper to an old fellow who came in there just dead set for some old machine that he had never heard oi before
Year: 1879

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is peril ous.

 Friends are as companions on jour ney, who ought to aid each other to,per- severe in the road to happier life.

 When the millions applaud you, seri- ously ask what harm you have done; when they censure' you, what good.

 Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things in which smiles and kindness and small obligations given habitually, are what win and pre- serve the heart and secure comfort

 Misfortune is but another word for the follies, blunders and vices which, with a greater blindness, we attribute to the blind goddess, to the fates, to the stars, to anything, in short, but to ourselves Our own head and heart are the heaven and earth which we accuse and make responsible for all our calamities.

 There is this difference between those temporal blessings, health and money; money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied; and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious, when we reflect that the poorest man would not part with health for money, but that the richest would gladly part with all their money for health. IF
Year: 1879

sheets are then sent to the surface presses to have the seal and the date imprinted These machines each turn out on an average 12,000 impressions per day. They are then sent to the numbering division, where each machine averages 4,00O impressions per day. The backs are usually printed first and go through a long process of wetting down and dry ing.
Year: 1879

We are sorry to see that some
father has gone to the newspapers,
because his boy was whipped. There
is law, and if his boy was NAL
treated, why did he not apply to the
Justice? He must have been afraid
that he had no case.


We are not acquainted with either
of the parties in this controversy,
and know nothing of the case except
what has been published in the
News, so we claim to be disinterest-
ed, and we would ask any candid
man to say what his opinion must
be, from the perusal of the two com
munications.


It is an absurd idea that some peo-
pie get into their heads, that the
teacher is thirsting for the blood of
their children. Mr.. Robinson may
be such a man, but we are not pre-
pared 10 believe it on the testimony.


Mr.. C.'s first mistake is, when he
thinks his boy ought to fight when
he is called a liar. We don't pre-
tend to be an anger but that would
not make us feel like fighting asn5e88
| the assertion a0ere true.


His next is, where he seems to
think a switch less than one half
inch in diameter and five feet long
is a "terrible weapon" We know
that he says it was ''nearIy an inch
and a half in circumference" but
thought will show that he might
have used the smaller figures. Why,
we have seen small boys take a doz-
en- blows ''well laid on, from a larg-
gr switch, and then laugh at the
teacher; and we would remark, Just
here, that if corporal punishment
becomes necessary, it should be
''well done"-it should not be trifed
with or held up as a threat.


Again, Mr. c. admits insubordi-
nation where he says his boy "got
loose from him (tbe teacher) and
started home, and we do not blame
Mr.. R. for doubling the dose"


As to the language eused by the boy,
Of course we know nothing, but,
Judging from the tone of the father s
communication, nothing that the son
could say would surprise US much.


But we have already said too much
concerning this.