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Year: 1874

The moment that Dickens felt his
invention failing in the least degree,
the prospect of retaining the public by
reading the older stories, and tasting
by nearer and personal contact the pun
gency of popular applause. was fasci
mating and overpowering. His pleasure
in it, as one of the English critics say,
is little humilating in q man of his
great genius. 1t is the more so when
he listened intently for the chink of the
guinea as well as for the murmur OF
delight; Yet no man needed money
more. nor might more rightfully earn it.
His family was very large, his estate
was costly, and his manner of living
profuse. But the reader presently sees
with sorrow that, as with his great pre-
decessor, Scott, the chief question gra-
dually came to be how much money he
could ma.5 out of his genius. And as
with Scott, although in smaller de-
gree. the sum was enormous. By his
readings alone Dickens made nearly a
quarter of million of dollars, one hun
dred thousand of them between the 1st
of December and the 1st of May in the
United States. The physical labor and
exposure of travelling, and the nervous
exhaustion of the readings, with the
tremendous pace, as he would have
called it in another, of the rest of his
life, were enough to destroy any man.
During all his travels, both in the ear
lier and the later day, when he ran over
to the Continent or cOursed about Eng
land to find inspiration or seclusion or
excitement, he constantly wrote the
most copious letters, full of fun and
shrewdness and fine fancy, and walked
miles and miles, and devised entertain
ments, and acted plays, and presided at
meetings and feasts, and made delight
full speeches, and seemed to have all the
occupation of q very active and busy
man before considering the real business
in hand at the time. Such animal
spirits as in his earlier years were GER
tainly never known. They bubbled
about him and overhowed all who cam.
in contact with him. They affected his
style of writing, and despite the saga
cious Taine, they gave his descriptions
much of their singular vitality and
power.
Year: 1874

DID you ever hear of the lost king of
France, the unfortunate little son of
Marie Antoinette, and Louis XVI? He
was taken from his parents, in prison,
shortly before their execution, and was
never really known to history after. His
keepers testified to his death in prison,
but there have been several persons
who have claimed to be the lost dauphin
Louis XVII. One of them lived and
died in our own country, and was a
missionary 70 the Indians In northern
Wisconsin.


The latest story concerning this un-
fortunate character is creating a good
deal of excitement in France, which is
Just now without king, you know,
though a good many are claiming the
kingdom. One of these claimants is
Adelbert Waundorff, who says he is the
son of the dauphin, who was taken from
prison after being put into deep sleep
by opium. A deaf and dumb child was
left in his place, and he was carried into
one Of the high towers of the temple.
Here he was placed in a coffin, but on
his way to the burial place, he was taken
out. stones and earth were put into the
coffin aud it was bnried. The dauphin
was taken out OF the country, first to
Rome, and was then shipped to Eng
land, but the vessel was captured on Its
way there, and he was again thrust into
prison, where he staid for seventeen
years. His life was a series of escapes
and captures, and he died, at last, in
Holland, after having been recognized
by his old governess and many who
were public officers in his fathers reign.
he left one daughter and the son who
has Just lost his case in the courts.
Year: 1874

Small is the sum that is required to
patronize a newspaper, and most amply
remunerative is tte patron. l care not
how humble or unpretending the gazette
which he takes, it is next to impossible
to fill sheet fifty times year without
putting into it something worth the
subscription price.


Every parent whose son is off away
from him at school, should be supplied
with newspaper. 1 well remember
what a difference there was between
those of my schoolmstes who had, and
those who had not access to newspa-
pers. Others being equal, the first we're
always decidedly superior to the last. In
debate and composition, at least. The
reason is plain, they had command of
more facts. Youth will peruse a news
paper with delight when they will read
nothing else.-Judge Longstreet.
Year: 1874

Having much of one of the effective
faculties, we do not like to be exposed
to the acute exercise of the same fac
ulty in others. A person with large
veneration shrinks from being an Oh
iect of veneration to others. (TO one
with large self esteem the veneration
of Others is, on the contrary agreeable }
One with large acquisitiveness detests
being subjected to the action of power
full acquisitiveness in his neighbors. 1t
has often been observed that individu-
ais who are much given to jesting at
the expense of their creatures
cannot endure tObe the subject of other
peoples jokes, and that great censurers
and reprovers hate to be in the least
Iebuked or found fault with.
Year: 1874

We are all hunters in the field of life.
Some ot us bring down our game but
most of us end in a wild goose chase.


Were it not for the clouds that darken
us. there would be no rainbow In our
lives.


When you read, read the best books
it costs you no more and what you get
will correct and help to build you up. A
good book is like voice from nature OF
from God. Do not confound this voice
with the utterance of falsehood.


A child is often the hyphen connect,
ing the uncongenial husband and wife,
80 common about you.


1t is not in placing the words that
the effect of the good writer consists
it is in the thought bringing its own
word, that leaps to it like the particle
TO the magnet.


We are shining when we think we are.


Perhaps the greatest good next to
doing good to your "neighbor," is to
benefit your enemy. But some people
heap Goals of fire on their enemy's head
to scorch him, thus making use of a
Christian precept to do evil.


Idleness is the great slough into which
the vices of the world drift and settle,
to rise again in miasma.


1t should not discourage us II our
kindness is unacknowledged 1t has its
influence still


We govern our passions but in
general we let the passions hrst have q
trial.


- o0nrQ6afQ 0I
Year: 1874

Discoveries of borsx in California
and Nevada have been made to such an
extent as to warrant the belief that
from these sources the markets IN the
east of the American continent will, at
no distant time, be able to draw their
chief supplies.
Year: 1874

The JACK RABBITS. is O little
girl who lives on farm in Nebraska.
Que day her father came home from a
IN his hat he had four-what do you
think he had ? You little Eastern chill
dren could never guess; but perhaps
some of the prairie children who read
this true story will guess 'Jack-rab-
bits ;" and they will guess right.


"What are ''Jack-rsbbits ?" asks the
little Boston boy. Well, 1 will tell you.
They are really hares, which live ON the
Western prairies, and are good deal
larger than common rabbits.


They run very fast,-so fast that few
dogs can catch them, and little boys
would have to look very sharp to keep
them in sight. But Dora's father had
found four young ones, SO small that
they scarcely filled his straw hat; and
he thought Dora and her two little
brothers would like them for pets.


Dora put the rabbits in box which
her brother Dick had made on purpose
for them, and fed them on fresh grass
and milk. For few weeks Dora and
the boys were very happy with their
pets.


But, as the rabbits grew larger, their
box seemed to be rather crowded. So
one warm night Dora left them out on
the floor OF the shed, where they could
hop and play as much as they pleased.


Now, it happened that there was a
large crack between the boards In one
corner of the shed, which was so con-
cealed by rubbish, that Dora had not
noticed it. When she came to lock at
her pets in the morning, not one of
them was to be seen.


They had all run away. Dora was
very sad at first but she frightened up
at once when her mother reminded her
that the rabbits were much happier
frisking about in the open fields than
they could possibly be as anybody s
pets.
Year: 1874




We surrender a considerable space in
our paper this morning TO the report made
TO the City Council Of Cincinnati by the
committee appointed to visit New York
Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore, with
view of cleaning information as to the
best and cheapest method OF paving
streets. The time IS at hand, If not imme.
distely upon us, when this city must under.
take extensive improvements Of this char.
Acter, and therefore the report Of the Gin
cinnah committee Is deserving Of atten.
ton from members Of Council and all
others who will be called to deal with the
question, as well as from tax payers gen.
rrslly.
Year: 1874

We were favored yesterday with call
from the Rev. MAXWELL P, GADDIs, a
gentleman who Is temporarily sojourning
ln the city, and who Is extensively known
throughout tho country as preacher and
author. Some Of his works, especially
v0s giving his experiences as an ltineraut
minister, have had an extensive sale.
Year: 1874

~ The tide ofimmigration is steadily set
ting in, and the first thing eastern people do
is to throw away their New York Hats andbuy
n new one of DESMOND. They say there is no
comparison between the two. 21a,
Year: 1874

An average Atlantic steamer consumes
fifty tons of coal in twenty four hours.
Therefore, if five tons Of coal are sufficient
to feed an ordinary CRATE in our dwellings,
during the entire year, the coa!-consumed
on board a steamer in one day will last a
small family, burning one fire, ten years.
If load of coal is left out of doors, ex
posed to the weather, until it is burning
one great-say a month-it looses one
third of its heating quality. If ton of
coal is placed on the ground, and left
there, and another ton is placed under a
shed, the latter loses about twenty five
per cent. Of its heating power, the former
about forty seven per cent. Hence it is
great saving Of coal to have it in dry
place, covered over, and on all sides. The
softer the coal the more it loses, because
the N ost volatile and valuable cOBstituents
undergo slow combustion.
Year: 1874

The first requisite is plenty of water,
this is even more essential for coored
than for white clothes 1t should not be
hot enough to scald, and should have a
moderate suds of hard soap before the
garments are put in. Very white and
nice soft soap is preferable to hard for
fannels-does not shrink them as much ;
but the latter is best for cotton goods.
Wash calicoes in. two waters, using but
little soap in the second. When clear,
rinse them two or even three times in
tepid water. Good laundresses always
assert that the great secret of clear mus,
lins is thorough rinsing.


The qantity of starch used also affects
light colors, and for muslin dresses especi.
ally only starch OF the purest quality
should be used. When no great stiffness
is required, it is good plan to stir the
starch into the rnsing water it assists
in setting the colors where they show a
tendency to run. For setting the colors
Of fading goods have used OK gall, alum
borax and salt-all with good results,
through they will not "cIeuch" green and
blues that are determined on taking
French leave.


One beBeft 10 using strong solution
of alum water is that it will positively
make cotton FIRE proof. Mothers who
''sit on thorDs" at school concerts and ex
hibtions, watching the dangerous prox.
unity of gossamer dresses to the foot
lights, wiIappreciate this advantage And
so far from iDjuring the looks Of the mus
lin, there is no other treatment that will
SO brighten and improve the eolors.


Colored clothes should be wrung very
thoroughly dried in the shade, and turned
about two or three times while drying.
Year: 1874

A clerk in a city book store, thinking
to annoy Quaker customer who looked
as though be was fresh from the country,
handed him volume, saying: "Here is
an excellent essay on the rearing of
calves" "Thee had better present that
to thy mother, young man, vas the
spontaneous retort of the Quaker.
Year: 1874

There are many novel and interesting
features in the graphic sketches Of the millen-
NAL celebration in Iceland which we publish
fair readers will learn with surprise that there
exists in the icy regions of the far North
people singularly gifted in musical point of
view and speaking a language as melodious
as that of Sunny Italy. The specimen Of their
music which we give in another column is
full of rich melody, and brilliant enough to
find place on the opera stage. There
breathes spirit akin to the ode which Verdi
once composed in honor Of the Sovereign
Pontif. The description of the fashions of
the Icelandic bellies will also be read with
interest by the ladies OF the metropolis of
America particularly that Of the headdress,
which DR.. Hayes calls ''the cunningest thing
imaginable" A New York modiste would
be apt to look with disd.in on helmet
of white silk as high as an ordi-
nary stovepipe hat, which is carried
forward on the fair wearer's head and pinned
to the hair, while the wide-spreading veil falls
from the base of this strange headdress,
enveloping the form like mantilla. Yet over
the gold-embroidered jacket the effect Of such
diaphanous cape can hardly be unbecoming.
The excellent map Of Iceland which we also
furnish will enable our readers to trace the
course Of the gentle Prince of Denmark from
the capital to the wild lava plain Of Thing
valla and the 'Law Mount" The Icelandic
poster, announcing the order Of the millennial
festivities and the hymn, ode and greeting
from America, are curious examples of the old
Morse language. Altogether the narrative is
as strange and interesting as chapter from
the arabian Nights Entertainments, and is
striking example Of the power of the press
and OF the comprehensive talents and re-
search of the celebrated Arctic voyager, DR..
! L L Hayes.
Year: 1874

markable man is called by DR.. Hayes
''the Bismarck of Iceland" and, he
adds, would be chosen Chief Magistrate were
Iceland free to elect her ruler The very in
tensity with which the Icelanders have striver
to obtain the constitution, the love and
respect they have for the King who gave il
them, proves that they are not q dead
nation, from which the ancient spirit has de-
parted, as from the innumerable extinct vol
canoes the fires have faded which once made
pallid the auroras of the north.


Nor is it likely that Christian TX, who by
one act has sought to atone for centuries OF
Danish injustice, will fail to do more for Ice
land when the wisdom Of this experiment
has been proved. The interview which Dr..
Hayes, as the representative of the HERALD,
had with the King OF Denmark is additional
evidence that he is q monarch who would
rule, not by divine right merely, but by
the right of intellect and zeal for the
general good. He inteligently explained
the differences between the old govern
ment and the new, and expressed that
principle which formerly oil kings
held in horror, 'that in all constitutional
governments the people must have a system
attic representation and local form Of admin
istration." The sovereign who could speak
with this wisdom could not fail to appreciate
the purposes and the uses of our modern
journalism, and it is not surprising that
Christian *, should have been polite enough
to tell our distinguished correspondent, in
English, that he considered it great compli-
ment that the world should care to know his
opinions through so popular journal as
the HERALD. 1t is pleasure and an
honor for US to report the plans of SO polite a
monarch but Christian * should know that
there are many kings whose remarks the
HERALD could not consent to publish, unless
they were paid for as advertisements.


There is lesson in this celebration of the
thousandth anniversary of the birth of q
nation SO small, so weak, SO for away in the
Polar seas. Why should the busy, whirling
world pause to look upon this plain and unpre-
tending holiday in Iceland? 1t is because
amid those extinguished 6res those eternal
SHOWS, Liberty sat enthroned. Liberty
hallows the lava-strewn plains and the rocky
shores. Liberty has been the sole possession
of the people, and SO long as they love her
they will not be forgotten by the world.
Year: 1874

A BURGLAR SHoT.-Officer Nicholson ad-
ministered lesson to noted burglar yester-
day which he is not likely soon to forget
Discovering the thief in the act of robbery he
pursued aud captured him. The burglar ev;-
IDENTIFY disliked to lose his freedom Of action
and made a bold effort to escape, but the
officer pursued him with much perseverance,.
bringing the fugitive down with shot Just as
he was about to place garden fence between
him and his pursuers.
Year: 1874

The LONG BRANCH SWIMMING MATCH hav-
ing been twice postponed, to the disappoint-
ment of a great multitude of travellers, it is
to be hoped that the affair will surely come
Of tomorrow, for with another disappoint-
ment the assembled crowd of distinguished
visitors will be apt to pronounce the Long
Branch method of drawing custom an impo-
sition upon the public and fraud.
Year: 1874

The OARsMEN are mastering at Saratoga for
the international regatta. All the crews are
now on the ground. The graphic description
given by our correspondent of the different
crews and their styles Of rowing will be
read with interest by all interested in manly
sports.
Year: 1874

The ISLAND OF Porto Rico has been visited
by its periodical earthquake. The duration
of the vibrations was considerably longer than
has been experienced on late occasions. The
most remarkable circumstance about the
whole matter is that this shocking quake
should have occurred so soon after the publi-
cation OF The Abbe McMasters diplomatical
theorizings.
Year: 1874

DAMAGE TO THE Long BRANCH RAILROAD. -
Considerable uneasiness and annoyance was
felt at Long Branch on Tuesday evening,
owing to an accident which occurred to the
road, which, being unprotected from the
Sea, is liable to be damaged when the
waves ara high. In the present il
stance the track was rendered impossible,
to the annoyance and discomfort of the pas
yengers. A similar accident happened at the
yame spot last year, yet the Jersey Railroad
Company have taken no serious steps TO pre-
vent its recurrence.
Year: 1874

mouth Park Meeting.


We are getting to be nation of horse
racers, and soon the turf will be with US, as
national sport. Our jockeys are showing
year after year decided improvement in
their riding, and our horses are beginning to
prove their excellent qualities as more atten-
ton is paid to their care and training.
We have already this season beaten the best
pirant tor fame, Fellowcraft, and we ore be-
ginning to learn that it only requires devo-
ton to the sport and proper spirit in the
lovers and patrons OF the turf to show the
world that we can breed as good if not better
blood horses than are to be found in Eng
portance Of training. A horse, four years old,
that has never accomplished anything Won
derful before, suddenly runs four mile
race as such a race was never run by
the most famous horses on the turf. What is
the explanation? Simply that Fellowcraft at
Saratoga was in as perfect condition as racer
can attain, and in sporting parlance eft to
run for man's life" The fact that we are
paying more attention to the care of our
horses has been manifested in every succeed.
ing meeting this year, and in none more than
in the August meeting at Monmouth Park,
the first day Of which is recorded in our Long
Branch correspondence to-day.


1t is desirable that the love of the turf
should bs encouraged among our people, for
there is no more interesting and harmless
sport than horse racing, provided We can
profit by the lessons of experience
and avoid it's evils. There is no
reason why the turf should be prosti-
tuted to gambling any more than yacht racing.
Both are the sports of gentlemen, if gentlemen
will take them in hand and properly control
them. The spirit that has ruined hundreds Of
homes and broken hundreds of princely for
tunes in England will never, it is hoped, be
encouraged in America. Indeed, the people
are differently constituted here, and we should
seldom find Marquis Of Hastings on the
American turf. But the improvement Of the
breed and in the care and training Of horses is
very desirable, and nothing can accomplish
this but lively interest in the turf. We are
therefore glad to record the success of the
Monmouth Park August meeting, and we can
see no good reason why the prediction Of our
correspondent should not be fulfilled, and
Monmouth Park track become to New York
what the Derby course is to London.
Year: 1874

We publish in another column an interest
ing interview between the celebrated Sioux
chief Red Cloud and our correspondent.
There are the usual complaints against the
Agent No doubt the dislike of the
Indians is well founded. There is no
reason why supplies should be short, as
the sums appropriated by Congress are
more than enough to maintain the tribes in
luxury if it were honestly distributed. Most
of the small troubles that arise with the red
men are directly the result of dishonesty in
the Indian Ring, and until the government
takes steps to put an end to the present sys-
tenn all efforts to reconcile the tribes to civili-
zation must fail 1t would be much better to
place the Indian administration in the
hands Of the army officers, who would be pre-
served by professional pride from the mean
nesses TO which the present class of agents so
frequently resort. The fear of dismissal and
degradation which the officer would have
constantly before his mind in the event of any
scandal would also exercise deterrent effect
OH military agents inclined to be dishonest. 1t
is evident that tho adoption of system of
Justice in our dealings with the Indians would
insure peace and render the civilization of the
tribes comparatively easy. Under the present
system it is not to be wondered at that, finding
himself plundered and having no means o.
redress, the Indian should put OH his war
paint and seek to execute vengeance on his
oppressors
Year: 1874

TIL AMERICAN BASE BALL PLAYERS. The
progress of Americans in field sports is well
marked by the visit OF the Boston and Phila-
to be expected, perhaps. that in their base ball
contests with the Britishers they would be
successful, because it is so distinctively q
national game but not alons have they main-
tained the superiority of Americans in this
sport, but they have carried off the palm Of
victory in the truly British sport of cricket.
The last match was played in Dublin, where
the same success attended the American
visitors as in England. They are now on
their way home, having covered themselves
with GLORY.
Year: 1874

Massacre ef Negroes In Tennessee.


Sixteen colored prisoners were taken out Of
Trenton Jail yesterday by band Of armed
men and murdered in cold blood. This
atrocity was committed by the white men Of
the district without any provocation
which would give to their cowardly
act even the color of justification.
the white men in the South
imagine that acts like these will be tolerated
by the nation they are sadly mistaken. The
spirit which led the masked band at Trenton
to invade the sanctuary of the law and commit
a cowardly and brutal crime may yet
bring on the South countless mis-
cries. The men who hate most bitterly
the negro race can scarcely hope that they
will be allowed to massacre the colored people
without interference; and acts like the pres
ent point to the necessity of making the
law respected at all hazards. revival of Ku
Klux outrages will inevitably lead to the
adoption of such repressive measures
as may be necessary to the security
of the peaceful inhabitants in the
disturbed district. In the present case the
duty OF the government is clear. Unless the
local authorities Immediately arrest and bring
to justice the perpetrators of this cowardly
massacre the general government should take
the matter in hand and see that fitting punish
ment be meted out to the murderers. Such
crimes are blot on our civilization.