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Year: 1877

S. became impatient. shouted what
10 the h--ll do you live on? Not
till we landed did we get anything.
Nothing ofimportance occurred of
an unusual character until we
landed, except running over a cow
or two the evening we landed.
Our driver had taken a litlle too
much of what makes you stay 80
late. The writer was in the car
siage and it frightened the wits out
Of him, but before they had made
many jumps he had the horses
by the bride We landed at our
destination after dark. ! tell you
old meat and corn dodgers were
delicious with good hot c,ffee. So
ended our down trip; sill ce then,
one of our company is dead, two
still living here, and one is gone
to West Tennessee, who will rec
ognize this article as part of bis
history. II.


(Io be continued.)
Year: 1877

A certain lawyer in Lewis
county, KY, was appointed


Judge of the criminal court,
being a much younger man than
had ever before held the office.
He was brilliant, honorable
fellow and sound jurist, thor
oughly competent for his office
except that he drank hard. The
other day, in opening court, he
was so much under the infiu-
ence of liquor as TO be unable
to transact business. The next
day being sober, he came into
court, and in a few manly, di-
rect words acknowledged that
he was a victim to a vice which
had disgraced him. 81 am un-
worthy of the honor and trust
conferred upon me-" he said,
sand, being unworthy Of my Of
flee, I have resigned it. My


judicial integrity and official
acts are blameless, thank God !!
/ am no longer judge Of Lewis
county. May God keep me in
my effort to reform" There
was not q sound in the crowded
court as he spoke. No one
could look at him and not know
that the struggle through which
he had passed before he could
so humiliate himself, was worse
10 bear than death. But there
is no one whose heart would
not warm to an offender who is
man enough to acknowledge his
error. and to go honestly and
humbly to work to regain his
lost place. "When the judge
entered the court" says the pa
per from which we borrow the
story, '.thc public feeling
against him was that of anger
and contempt; but when be
went out, every man there was
his friend, and ready to hold ont
a helping hand to him." We
have faith in the future of a
man who, having fallen, could
thus make firm ground under
his feet for a new path in life.
Year: 1877

The New York Ledger un-
dertakes to tell show to win a
woman's love- The most SIM
pie and Elective way, if a man
can't afford diamonds, is to take
some refreshments along and
sit the other fellow out.
Year: 1877

that day nor that nj ght, and the next
morning everybody was nearly dead with
thirst and exhausted with hunger. The
pioneer and myself carried wife and lit
tie ones nearly half a mile over the bak-
ed and smoking ground to creek, and
were fortunate enough to find the half
roasted body of deer in the blood-warm
water The animal had lain down in the
in the water to avoid the heat, and had
been literally roasted alive, as the water
was not over six inches deep, and the
heavy fringe of bushes on either side of
the creek had blazed fiercely.


1t was a walk of eleven miles to a
hamlet-a place which had escaped only
by a change Of wind and the continued
efforts of desperate men and heroic wo-
men. Thousands Of acres of valuable
timber had been ruined A green will
derness, through which the deer bound
ed and the fox and rabbit softly made
their way, had given place to such pic
ture OF desolation as the human eye sell
dom rests upon. Dozens Of pioneers
had lost everything. Dozens Of capital
lists had suffered severe losses. The
lowly thorn apple, the towering pine,
the cabin, mill and village had melt
ed away before that awful wall of fire,
and it had circled away to create furth-
er desOlation.
Year: 1877

We have just perfected an invention
which will probably relieve us in the fu-
ture from the persecution of life-in-
surance agents and book canvassers. 1t
is in the nature of patent combination
reflex action door-scraper We fasten
it down by the side of the lowest step
in front of our house, and wait until a
book canvasser comes along, which one
is tolerably certain to do within fifteen
or twenty minutes. The canvasser stops
to scrape his boots, while he thinks up
some new and vigorous exaggeration
with which to impose on us. AS his
foot touches the iron, two clamps fly
over his instep and hold him fast, steel
claw suddenly shoots up his leg and
grabs his trousers; trap fys open i'll
the pavement, and the victim is hauled
into coal-cellar, where we have an in
furiated Irishman engaged to mellow
him and fatten him out with a scoop
shovel. We allow the Irishman royal
ty on the remains, and he seems to be
animated by an earnest desire which
promises rich results If the machine
works well we shall either buy grave
yard or found medical college. In the
meantime persons in want of bodies for
dissection or other purposes will please
apply.
Year: 1877

Ntl:tIlSull courier.


The sixth court is situated at the bot
tom of the great ocean north of the
Wuchiso rock. 1t is vast, noisy Geh-
emma, many leagues in extent, and
around it are sixteen wards In the
first ward the souls are made to kneel
for long periods on iron shot. In the
second they are placed up to their necks
in filth. In the third they are pounded
till the blood runs out. In the fourth
their mouths are opened with iron pine
ers and filled full of needles. In the
fifth they are bitten by rats. In the
sixth they are enclosed in net of thorns
and nipped by locusts. In the seventh
they are crushed to jelly. In the eighth
their skin is lacerated and they are beat
en- on the raw. In the ninth their
mouths are filled with fire. In the
tenth they are licked with flames. In
the eleventh they are subjected to moi
some smells In the twelfth they are
butted by oxen and trampled ON by
horses. In the thirteenth their hearts
are scratched. In the fourteenth their
heads are rubbed till their skulls come
off. In the fifteenth they are chopped
in two at the waist In the sixteenth
their skin is taken off and rolled up in
to SOillS
Year: 1877

new Ofk lr1bune-


Since we now have an active volcano
in the United States. the subterranean
disturbances of our neighbors will begin
to be OF some interest to us Many Of
the Mexican volcanoes have been silent
ever since the discovery of America,
and others are on record as having fam
ed out for the last time shortly after the
Spanish invasion.


Among those that have been longest
quiet was the mountain Ceboruca: but
in 1870 it broke forth after sleep of
centuries 1t has been noticed that earth
quakes. formerly freqeut in its vicinity.
have not taken place since its last erup-
ton, and there is notion that the vent
given by the volcano has served as relief
to pent-up gases and materials that
would otherwise have caused disturb
ance. If this theory holds good, Cali
fornia may be saved from another
earthshaking by the activity of the yet
unnamed volcano in her southeastern
corner, The eruption is said to have
taken place about sixty miles north of
Yuma That place always had a queer
reputation. There is a story of the
ghost of dead soldier being imterogat-
ed by the spiritrapping process as to
whether his present abode was hot
Yes, was the reply, its awful; but
it isn't any hotter than Fort Yuma
Year: 1877

a recent English book on Turkey has
the following:


We passed through busy hive Of
reapers, who were cutting the product
Of these chemical substances, and who
were nearly all Bulgarian women We
were going up hill at the time. and
had left my internal machine to en-
JOY the pleasure Of stretching my legs
and counting my bruises when | saw
several OF the young women fastening
toward me. Feeling that it would be
ungallant to turn my back upon so fair
charge, | stopped, determined to see
it out at all hazards. On they came
with laughing lips and sparkling eyes,
as L stood wrapt in expectant wonder,
Tor they were so many. Soon | was sur
rounded What light be the customs
OF the country. or what mi ght be ex-
pectcd of me, | knew not. and | felt
that, could my folks at home see Inc at
this moment, my situation would be lu-
dlcrous in the extreme. But now my
hands were kissed. one foot was raised
and the sole of my foot was rubbed with
ears of corn to signify that it was the
desire of these brown damsels that |
might forever walk on plenty This po-
etical consideration for my welfare de
served some return, so | distributed
some small coins among them and was
laughingly released.
Year: 1877

nod, as if by way of making up to him
for all the annoyance of his arrest. I
shall always maintain that he was SO
flattered by the nod of Royalty that he
got several bars behind the rest. But he
says that is false, so 1 will not insist up
on it. Anyhow, if you wish to be quite
certain, or wish to know more about this
anecdote, go and ask Chollet, that great
tenor Of our Opera Comique, who made
his reputation in the part of the Postiz-
lion de Lonajumedu, for he is the hero
of this story; good man and great
actor, who loves to tell his friends about
the vicissitudes and troubles he went
through the early part of his profession
al career.
Year: 1877




Yesterday great curiosity was placed
on our table-a deer's heart containing
the flint barb of an arrow. Last Sun
day Mr.. E. Sharp, of Arcata was out on
Boynton's Prairie on a deer hunt. He
saw large five point buck and brought
it down with his rifle. Taking off the
hide and securing the heart and other
rare bits, he started home. On arriving
Mrs. Sharp boiled the heart, and when
the meal was ready placed it on the ta-
bic. In attempting to cut the
heart, the knife struck against some
thing hard The lady split the heart
open, and in the flesh part the flint barb
Of the arrow was found 1t must have
been there long time, as the flesh was
calloused all around it, and the scar,
where the barb entered, is plain to be
seen. This is quite curiosity, as only
a few such instances are known to be on
| record.
Year: 1877

A boy while fishing in Lake Butts des
Morte, the other day, felt nibble, and
drawing his hook towards the shore, OBJ
served a half gallon fruit can trailing on
the bottom. Having secured the vessel
he was greatly surprised to find that a
large catfish had taken up his abode
therein, and remained until his increased
dimensions did not admit of egress. He
had evidently Topped around in his tin
parlor until a hole was made in the rust
eaten bottom, through which his tail
protruded. In this condition the catfish
had power to navigate from one place to
another, and must have been regarded
by his aquarian neighbors as a kind Of
iron-clad monitor.
Year: 1877

1t has been reserved for a German
lady. Fraulein Marie Won Chauvin, to
accomplish one of the most remarkable
feats in evolution on recOrd-the chang
ing of an amphibious gilled double
breathing animal into one that is lung
breathing and land-inhabiting The
subject was the Mexican gilled salaman-
der or axolOti. Fraulein Won Chauvin
owes her repeated success to gradually
accustoming the the animal to life on
land and exercising constant care as
to its health and diet. Five strong AK
olotis were selected and were first kept
in shallow water. Here they did not
thrive. and the bOlder measure of put
ting them directly ON land was resort
ed to. Tepid baths twice day kept up
cutaneous respiration, and during the
intervals between the baths wet moss
was packed against the bodies. II is
stated that the gills and tail fin seem to
shrivel by actual drying, through the
action of the air, and that they were
not absorbed by the vital processes Of
the animal itself This is considered by
Professor Huxley to be a most interest
ing point, as it shows how the first air
breathing amphibia may have been
evolved from double breathers by sue
cession of dry seasons, that is, by pure
ly mechanical causss.-ScieRtidc Ameri-
Year: 1877

Lovers of bric-a- brae-and the phrase
designates large number of very in
teresting people-are ap: to make an
important mistake. They transform
their homes into museums. They bring
together and pile up a collection. Now,
the interest with which a visitor regards
a home is very different one from that
with which he regards a collection.
To find scattered about home. just i'll
the right nooks and places, objects OF
art and beauty, is an exceedingly de-
lightful thing. To examine collection
for the collections sake-leaving its
consideratiOn-may be interesting to
some people who are " up"-as we say
in those things, but it is not at e"
interesting to those who do not see tn.
use of it. That is-anybody can see
that beautiful object in barren place
serves purpose, while great many
beautiful things, shut up in cabinet,
serve no purpose except by their num-
bers to cheaper one another.


An object of art in a home is entirely
and always out of place wheI ever 1t
shows that the interest of its owner is
in the object rather than the home.
collection usually betrays passion or
taste which subOrdinates the love of
home. a person possessing this passion
and enthusiastic in his pursuit of its
object, >poils his home by transforming
it into shOw-place for euriosities-
The true policy is, never to buy an
object OF art, of any sort, without know
ing just where it will fit into the house
Just what uninteresting spot it will
illuminate-just what vacant shelf or
barren surface It will adorn. Cabinets
may be very interesting pieces of furni-
ture, but they are Ofteu used In such a
way as to degrade or destroy the home
idea.-Seribner's Monthly.
Year: 1877

Edward King writes from Paris to
tthe Boston .JourRdi:-Among the many
stories told of Theodore Barrier, the no
ted writer of comedies, since his death,
none is more exciting than that which
recites surreptitious visit once made
by him TO the executiOner. Barrier had
been tormented by a desire to see this
remarkable parsonage, who, in coun-
try where capital punishment is so rig
orously enforced as in France, is nat
urally surrounded with a certain repul-
sive atmosphere for ordinary human
beings. l remember that at the execu-
ton of Traupman | saw this manager
of the guillotine for the first time, and
was very much impressed by him as
striking and awe-producing figure.
Barriere went to see the predecessor of
the present incumbent. His name was
Heindreich, and he was an Alsatian of
herculean proportions. His neck was
almost as thick as that of a young bull,
and his hands were enormous, and well
fitted to crush almost any criminal.
Nature seemed to have nodded the man
expressly for the curious and CHASTITY
profession which he had adopted. Bar
riere was introduced to him by an actor
who was very fond of the executioner's
society and who dined with him as Of
ten as twice week. They found the
strange man in his house, charming
little cottage in the midst ofa pretty gar
den. The executioner did not object
to talking of his trade, and said that he
was firm believer in capital punish
ment. There were men in the world
for whom it was useless and foolish to
have any pity; they should be sharply
suppressed. But he admitted that an
order from the "upper authorities" to
execute criminal always caused him a
certain disagreeable thrill of excite
Year: 1877

Whenever we see the term ''interest-
ing" applied to a character, it excites
an especial curiosity. Perhaps there
are few epithets so flattering; but when
we attempt TO define il we find il I'M
possible to treat the subject apart from
one's self, TO make it other than a per-
sonal question; we cannot say what is
interesting in the abstract, apart from
what is interesting to us. Of course,
indeed, il is this alliance between the
interesting and the interested that gives
the epithet its meaning, and constitutes
its charm. In all notable public exam
pies the element of mystery carries it
over everything else in exciting and
sustaining interest. We see this con-
spicuOusly in Swift, so profoundly in
teresting to the last century, though in
his case the mystery did not admit Of
resolution into contradictory excellen-
ces. Descending TO the domestic and
social standards of this equality We
would say that in family life those are





known to the observer, whose intrica-
cies of character have been Il long study ::
while in social life il is the new and un-
familiar which has to be guessed at that
exercise to this vein of observation
The lovers of new acquaintance are al
ways expecting To make discoveries of
more than meets the eye, of depths un-
suspected by the careless and indiffer-
ent; but they are impatient and often
miss what they are looking for. The
really interesting character grows in
interest, and only fully reveals itself to
the constant sympathy of kindred ma
ture. We think il may be observed
that the epithet is oftener applied to
man than to woman, which may be eX-
planned by the fact that women in their
easy unscientitic way are much oftener
students of character than men; and as
men play the more conspicuous part in
the world they are naturally the objects
of this study. But also il may be that
mystery, if we may so apply the word
belongs rather to mems organization.
Those who do not take pains in the
choice of their epithets, but use those in
vogue, will call woman charming
where they would call a man interest
ing; both epithets connect the object of
admiration with the admirer. The man
felt her charm and believes himself to
be the object of an intention TO please.
The praise of moral and intellectual ex-
cellence may be bestowed without this
condition, but there is always subtle
affinity between the interesting man and
the person interested, between the
charming woman and the person charm
ed.
Year: 1877




When the theory of selection has done
its worst, still cling to the belief that
the relation between dog and man was
as much foreseen and intended as that CT
sun and planet. Man has succeeded in
demonstrating several other animals,
but where else has he found his spirit Of
unconquerable fidelity? 1t has not
been developed by kind treatment; it
has not been sought for in itself, or
made an aim in breeding, Ladies make
pets of their dogs; but all the shepherds
see around me pay them in kicks and
curses and starvation. What does the
obscure member of pack of foxhounds
know of his masters love? AS much
as Prussian private in the rihe-pit
knew of the tender heart of Moltke. L
have seen a great deal of the life of the
French peasantry /; but never to this day
have L seen a peasant caress his dog
otherwise than with a stick or wooden
shoe. There is well known picture.
by Decamps, called the Kennels
which represents huntman visiting
his hounds, and he is lashing with
ponderous whip. Thousands of dogs
whole generations of them have known
men in no other character than that OF 4
merciless commander, furnishing the
slightest error without pity, yet bestow-
ing no reward. There are countries
where the dogs are never fed, where
they are left to pick up a bare existence


amongst the vilest refuse, and where
they walk like gaunt images of famine
living MISUNDERSTANDING dry sticks
in the wintry moonlight, doing Natures
scavenger-work like rats Yet in every
one of these miserable creatures beats
the noble canine heart-that heart whose
depth of devotion has never yet been
sounded to the bottom; that heart which
forgets all our cruelty, but not the
smallest evidence OF our kindness. IL
these poor animals had not been made
TO love us, what excellent reasons they
would have had for hating us! Their
love has not been developed by care
culture, like the nourishing ears OF
wheat; but it rises like warm, natural
springs, where man has done nothing
either to obtain them or deserve them.
Year: 1877

In marrying, men should seek happy
women. They make a terrible mistake
when they marry for beauty, or for tai
ent, or for style. The sweetest wives
are those who possess the magic secret
of being happy under any and every
circumstance, Rich or poor, high or
low, it makes no difference, the bright
little fountain bubbles up just as music
ally in their hearts. Nothing ever goes
wrong with them-no trouble is too Sc
rious for them Ito make the best of il.
Was ever the stream of calamity so dark
and deep that the sunlight of a happy
face falling across its turbid sides
would not wake an answering CLEAN
Joyous-tempered people don't know the
good they do. No matter how cross
and grabbed you feel-nO matter ifyour
brain is full of meditation OH 'aiflicting
dispensation, and your stomach is fill
ed with medicines, pills and tOnics-
just set one of those CHEEKY little wO-
men talking TO You, and we are not
afraid TO wager anything she can cure
YOU. The lOng-drawn line about the
mouth will relax-the cloud of settled
gloom will vanish, nobody knows where
and the first thing You know you will
be laughing. All, what blessings are
these happy wOmenl How often their
little hands guide the ponderous ma
chine of life with almost an invisible
touch. How we look forward through
the weary day to their fireside smiles
No one knows-no one ever will know
until the day of judgment reveals-how
much we owe to these helpful, hopeful,
uncomplainng happy women.
Year: 1877

y JOINT CAUCUS OF THE DEMOCRATS of
the two Houses will be held tonight to
decide as 10 the length Of the session, and
whether any general business other than
that for which Congress was specially called
snail be transacted. The western democrats
VIII insist that some act ion shall he TAX n oa
the currency question, and a lively session
is tXpeCtI1.
Year: 1877

The Nation has come to the opinion, in
view OF the "wasteful and wicked achieve
ments OF the extra session., that "it would
be difficult for party seeking to prove its
capacity for directing government in which
it has had no hand for seventeen years, to
prove the contrary in SO short time as the
Democrats of the House have DONE" In
this opinion the people seem inclined to con-
Year: 1877

GUYoT MoNTPAYRoUx, editor of the
Courier de France, has, say the European
correspondents, become insane in consequence
OF political excitement. Why does not some
one base on this an argument against politics
Whenever man goes mad because of relig-
ious excitement other men hasten to the public
prints and condemn religion. Why not hold
politics to as strict account?
Year: 1877

CONGRESS alone stands in the way of the
appreciation of greenbacks to par. Nothing
out hostile legislation can now prevent the
disappearance Of the small gold premium.
Unless the Treasury is hampered in its opera
tlons the greenback dollar will be as good as
the gold dollar by January 1879.
Year: 1877

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate couDtersigned by Stanley L.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent
Year: 1877

we do not read anonymous etters and commune
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1877

WHEN one reads the debates of Congress
and takes in the sage talk of the silver men
and the infationists he is forced to Balzac's
conclusion, that it is better to be little giddy
than take SO much pains to be wise.
Year: 1877

Snow is an enemy more to be feared than
the Turk by the Russians in Asia. The
heavy snowfall near Erzeroum is notice to
the invading army to go into winter quarters.
The result of the campaign so near its close
is this: the Russians have recovered the
ground they lost during the summer, and
hold about the same positions they did last
Nav
Year: 1877

having sold out their stock of retail
goods on Middle ST.. and taken the pleas
ant and spacious store ON CONGRESS-
SFREET. nearly opposite City Hall,
respectfully invite all their former
customers and the ladies in general to
Fancy Goods, Hosiery, Dress Trimmings,
&c. Every article new and fresh and OF
the latest style and pattern, which, on
account of their extra facilities for buy
ing, can be sold as low as the lowest in
this city. Remember the place, nearly
opposite City Building, Congress Street.


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