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Year: 1878

or athlete can make up for lacking bono
blood, muscle and nerve. and there is no
reason why the same rule should not hold
good in a sermon. IT any preacher doubts
it let him look over his congregation to-day
as he approaches the end OF long dis
course; let him observe the empty Seats
the sleepy men, the decorously languid
women and the frantic or sullen children.
Then let him go into his study with the
manuscript Of his sermon, exhaust from It
every particle Of wind, and candidly de.
termine whether the remaining constituents
do not embody everything that is creditabls
to himself. honorable to his profession and
useful to his hearers. In another column
an eminent preacher indicates some of the
results of long winded sermons in tho
western half OF the country; what they are
here can be estimated by any one with even
the most defective eyesight
Year: 1878

These well known individuals have
reached town again, with the other tramps.
They are not vulgar. dirty and uncouth,
like their fellows who infest area doors and
street corners. They wear good clothing.
use excellent English. have refined tastes and
never operate below the parlor floors of resi-
dences or outside the inner Offices of business
men but they are beggars and tramps all the
same. Not all of them resemble the vulgar
OF laziness and in the firm intention of reap
ing where some one else has sown they are
all that can be desired. Their present in
tention is to enjoy the whole round
Of select winter amusements, wear ire
proachable clothing. move in the best
society, and particularly whore dinners.
lunches aud wines are the best, and to do
all this without rendering any equivalent
but that of their own personal presence.
How they live Is great mystery to some
people, but their good-natured. long-suffer-
ing victims have no doubts on the subject.
In one respect they differ notably from
those among whom they move-they never
borrow care, finding il as easy and far more
pleasant to borrow other things, ranging
from party dresses to greenbacks. Many
of them excite tho interest Of impression
able great-henrted people, but let these latter
endeavor to improve the condition Of the
genteel tramp and straightway they fnd
that il Is as useless as TO offer work To
sturdy beggars. To give them, somewhere
outside OF New York. the opportunity to
earn their own livelihood, is to outrage
their tendercst sensibilities. Their forte is
not 10 gather honey for themselves, but to
be Jolly drones in the hive and devour that
which others have industriously stored up.
Each one OF them costs society as much as
a score of vulgar tramps, each is as plainly
marked as any other habitual pauper. but
how to rid society OF them is as puxzling .
question a. that Of the personality Of Mr..
Kelly's candidate for Mayor. They are AZ
invulneable TO snubs rs they are TO honor.
able incentives. and TO privately swear at
them Injuries no one but the sweerer. What
is to be done with them2
Year: 1878

AMo AusoTn ASAOH"A - ASASs ~A~sSsss


If there was ever any prospect or prob
ability that the game Of cricket would be-
come popular in this country it has, it is
safe to say. been destroyed by the events Of
the last two days in the match between the
Australian champions and the Philadelphia
team in our sister city. The peculiar tao
tics on the field Friday were not specially
commendable. while those of yester.
day will have the effect Of disgust
ing nearly every unprejudiced person
with the game. First of all the
contest resulted in draw, and, in the Sec
ond place, dispute took place between
the teams which came very near putting an
end to the contest before it had reached its
very unsatisfactory conclusion few hours
later. A game with SO many possibilities Of
failure at the end Of two days playing cam
not, it is very certain, ever attain popu-
larity among us. The only satisfactory cir
cumstance about the struggle yesterday is
the good play of the home team. An easy
victory everywhere was generally conceded
to the Australians, but they seem to have
encountered in the Philadelphia clubs foe
men not to be easily conquered.
Year: 1878

Sptes@s0 nay ~ Jerome Farks


To say that the opening races Of the fall
meeting at Jerome Park yesterday were
very great success Is TO bestow upon them
exceedingly faint praise. Everything COM
bined TO make this interesting event in tho
world Of our metropolitan fashion and
amusement attractive. exciting and brill
liant In the first place the day itself was
perfect. 50 that no ono could object on the
score Of the weather. Then the attendance
was large and fairly representative Of all
classes Of our society. The more fash
ionable portion Of il, having re-
turned from the famous summer re-
sorts of our own and other countries
was out in large force, and the picture on
the grounds was one Of surprising beauty
and ioveliness and in every way thoroughly
American. The third essential of success
the racing-was superb, while the fourth
and last-the arrangements OF the course
could not have been better. 1t is exceed
ingly gratifying 10 be able to write Of the
American Jockey Club, the public and the
owners Of the great racing stables in this
commendatory way. IL requires the coop
cration Of the three to make this branch OF
sport here the great success that il is
in all the great cities at home and
abroad. Jerome Park holds deservedly
high position among the well known
race courses Of the world. There is no
place where the good name and honor Of
the turf are more jealously guarded; and it
Is encouraging TO find that these public
spirited and patriotic efforts are rewarded
and appreciated as they should be by the
public at large. From the opening yester-
day il is evident that the present meeting
will be one Of the most brilliant that has
taken place in many years. In no way can
n day be more pleasantly spen, than at
Jerome Park on one OF the three racing
days this week.
Year: 1878

THE STORY of the unfortunate "stowawayr
who made the voyage from Liverpool TO this
city in the hold Of the City of Chester forms u
chapter of human suffering and misery which
has few parallels. The unfortunate man was
twelve days without food or drink, and when
discovered was reduced to almost q skeleton.
Year: 1878

CONGRESS, at its last session, took care that
the scandal Of the employment of troops in our
elections, particularly in the South, should not
be repeated this year. No one will he more re-
joiced Mt the order just issued on the subject by
the War Department than the army itself
Year: 1878

Or THE OSE HUNDRED AND Ten MILLIONS
OF IMPORTS into China during the past year the
fraction of a little more than million and
half only fell to the share of the United States.
And yet fiity-four years ago our trade amounted
to four and half millions.
Year: 1878

Grand Jury. who are a very respectable
body Of men. ought to have considered that
at this stage Of the proceedings it is little
too late to attempt to take away what the
whole city already sees to be one of its
most important means of communication.
Year: 1878

IT SEEMS the present Postal laws are far from
satisfactory to the book publishers. A conven-
ton looking to a combined assault on Congress
in favor of reform will be held here next
Year: 1878

AT THE AMATEUR CHAMPION GAMES of the
Montreal Lacrosse Club in that city yesterday
several of the prizes were borne Oft by some OF
the New York Athletics, who had merely
dropped in to see what was going on.
Year: 1878

THERE Is FAINT HoPE that we shall have
the end OF the Billings trial by the end of the
month. One of the counsel for the defence, who
has already spoken nine hours, begins again to
morrnx
Year: 1878

An exchange thinks this is an
agreeable world after all. If we
would only bring ourselves to look
at the objects that surround us in
their true light, VIC should zee beau
ty where before we beheId deform-
ity, and listen to harmony where we
before could hear nothing but dis
cord. To be sure there is a grea,
deal of anxiety and vexation TO
meet; we Cannot expect to sail on a
summer sea forever; yet Is We pre-
serve calm eye and a steady hand,
we can so trim our sails and man
age our helm as to avoid the quick
sands and weather the storms that
threaten shipwreck. We are men,
bers Of one great family /; we are
all travelling the same read, and
shall arrive at the same gna... We
breathe the free air, we are subject
to the same bounty, and we shall lie
down on the bosom of our common
mother. It is not becoming then
that brother should hate brother;
it is not proper that friend should
deceive friend it is not right that
neighbor should injure neighbor.-
We epity that man who can harbor
enmity against bis fellow he loses
half The enjoyment Of life; he em~
bitters his own existence. Let us
lear from our eyes the colored me-
dium that invests evsry object with
the green hue Of jealousy and sus-
picion; turn q deaf ear to the tale
Of scaadlc; breathe the spirit OF
charity from our lips and from our
hearts let the rich gushings Of hu-
man kindness swell up as from q
fountain, so the golden age" will
become no iiCtion, and the ''island of
the blessed" Lloom in more than
Hesperian beauty.
Year: 1878

When things don't go to suit you,
And the world seems np side dowr
Don't waste. your time in fretting,


But drive away that frowD;
Since life is oft perplexing,


'1is much the wisesl plan
To bear all trials bYavely,


And smile whenever you can.
Why should you dread Tomorrow,


And thus despoil ia day ?
For when you borrow trouble,


You must expec. to pay
Iti<a d good old maxim.


Which should be often preached
Don't cross the bridge before you


Until the bridge is reached.
You might be spared much sighing


IL yon would bear in mind
The thought that good and evil


Are always here combined:
There must be something wanted,


And though you roll in wealth,
You miss from opt your casket


That precious jewell-health.
And tho'h you're strong and sturdy


You may have empty purse
And earth has many trials


Which ! consider worse;
But wherever Joy or sorrow


Fill mp your mortal span,
Twill make your pathway brighter


So smile whenever you can.
Year: 1878

The forests, orchards and
shade trees will soon be strip
ped of the foliage which has
lent them their verdure dur
ing the long, bright summer
and early autumn. After a
few days of dying splendor
the leaves will be cucumber


ing pathways or whirled into
windrows. But if properly
employed they can be render
ed extremely valuable to the
farm aud Garden. Dead leaves
are rich in mineral constitn


ents Of plant growth. If they
are gathered mp and securely
housed they may supply bed
ding in the stables and pig
pens, and then when thrown
out will aid valuable ele


ments to the compost heap.
They may also be scattered
freely under the roosts Of the
poultry house, where they will
ming:e thoroughly with the
drOppings. There il no better
bedding for horses and cattle


Straw is too valuable for this
purpose, and, besides, dry
leaves are more comfortable
ard are less liable to be push
ed to one side of the STALL
They are great ahsorbents of
liquid manure, and are thus
donbly useful as tedding and
fertilizer.-HOm journal.
Year: 1878

To PREsERvE OUNCES. Choose
large smooth specimens of the fruit,
and remove the skin with smootli
knife, some persons scald them for
the purpose of rendering them more
easy to peel, but Others ind this on-
ly increases the difficulty. Cut out
the cores, laying aside all those
that are not rotten. with the sound
peelings, to use afterward in make
ing jelly. Leave the pieces for pre-
serving as large as you can, and
carefully extract with the point of.
your Knife every dark spot or Bit
of decay. Weigh your fruit. and to
each pound allow ,hree-quarters Of
pound of any fair sugar. Put the
fruit into The preserving kettle
without sugar, and keep. the I'D of
the kettle closely down all the.
while When tender enough to be /.
stuck through with q straw, pour
off most of the water, leaving only
enough to form syrup, and add the
sugar. Simmer slowly for at least
two hours, with perforated pre-,
serving ladla, lifting out the fruit,
lew pieces at time, every now and
then, and exposing it TO the air on,
large fiat dishes When quite ten
der, and Of bright rcd color, the
preserves are done. If the syrup,
looks at all thin, you can boil it
down somewhat. and afterward add
to the Fl uit which las teen already
removed from the kettle, pouring it
over while still boiling hot. Do,
sure not to throw away the water
used in parboiling, but pour it over
the peelings and cores laid away
for jelly.
Year: 1878

The best possible thing for man
to do when he feels too weak to CAL
ry anything through is to go to bed
and sleep as long as he can. This
is the only recuperation OF BRAIN
power, the only actual fscupera-
ton of brain force, because during
sleep the brain is in state OF rest
in a condition to receive and ap-
propriate particles of nutriment
from the blood, which take the
place of those which have been
consumed by previous labor; since
the very act of thinking burns up
solid particles, as every turn OF the
wheel or screw Of the steamer Is
the result of consumption by lire
of the fuel in the furnace. The
supply of consumed brain sub
stance can only be had from the
Il


nutritive particles in the blood, OBJ
tanned from the food eaten previ'
ously, and the brain is so constitute
ed that it can best receive and ap
propriate to itself those nutritiv'
PARTICLES during the state OF rest
of quiet, and stiffness OF sleep
Mere stimulants supply nothing il
themselves they goal the brai'
and force it to a greater consump


ton of its substance, until 1t Is s.


exhausted that there is not powe
enough left to receive supply.
Year: 1878

"And they were all talking so
unkindly of you, Louisa, and
"Aud what were they saying E
"saying that you painted your face
and told them that it was untrue
and that your color was only cry
.;nelns"
Year: 1878

The Cedar. Worries Company.-A large
force was engaged yesterday in cleaning up
around the cedar-works. It is expected
that the contract for all OF the work will be
given out in few days. and the factory
pushed forward to speedy completion.
The action OF the Council in granting the
terms asked for by the company is generally
approved, Certainly by the working class of
the community.
Year: 1878

Not long since, says Peck's Sun,
the following utterance of Bob In i
3ersoll went the round of the papers,


Colonel lngersoll says he keeps "a
pocketbook in an open drawer, and
his children go and help themselves
to money whenever they want it
They can eat when they want to-
They may sleep eli day if they
choose, and sit up all night if = ey
desire. | don't try to correct them.
I Gever punish, never scold. They
buy their own clothes, and are mas
ters of themselves.


A gentleman living on Marshall
street, who has a boy that is full as
kittsney as his father, read the ar
ticle, and pondered deeply. He
knew that Col. Ingersoll vas a snc-
cess at raising children in the way
they should 60, and he thought he
would try 1t The boy bad caused
him considerable annoyance, and he
made up his mind that he had not
treated the boy right so he called
tie boy in from the street, where he
was putting soft soap on the lamp
post in order to see the lamp.lighter
climb it, and said to him.


"My son, | have decided to adopt
"A different course with you. Hereto
fore l have been careful about giving
you money. and have wanted go
know where every cen. went 20, and
ny supervision has no doubt been
annoying to you. Now, l am going
20 leave my pocket book 10 the bu>
reau-drawer with plenty Of money
in it, and you are at liberty to use all
sou want without asking me. I want
YOU to buy anything you desire, but
your own clothes, and TO feel as
though the money was yours aud that
YOU bad not got to account for it.
just make yourself at home now, and
Try TO have g good time, !"


The boy looked at the old gentle
mao, put his hasd ca bis head, and
bought he had "got 'sD sure" and
sent out to see the lamp-lighter
climb that soft soap, The next day
she stern parent vent out iuto the
country shooting. and returned on
he mid night train three days later.
He opened the door With q night
Key and q strange yellow dog gra abb>
ed him, a. be said, "like the sgne. !"


The dog barksd and cheEed until
the son came down in his night-shirJ
and called him of. He told his fa>
thsr he had bought that dog of a
fireman for eleven dollars. and it Was
probably the best dog bargain that
had been made this season. He
said the fireman told him be could
sell the dog for q hundred dollars. if
hs could find a man that wanted that
kind Of dog.


The parent took off bis pants, what
the dog had not removed. and in the
hall he stumbled over a birch, bark
canoe the boy had bought of an In
dian for nine dollars, and an army
musket with an iron ramrod fell down
from the corner. The boy had paid
six dollars for that. He had also
bought himself an Overcoat with a
seal-skin collar and cuffs, and cons
Year: 1878

through to point. Instance this:


1t seems to us the STATE is making
"much ado about nothing" The
amendments to the Constitution re-
quire the minimum number of the
House to be reduced to 100 and the
Senate 50. How we are working un-
der the amended Constitution in this
respect, or how we are to have bien-
nial sessions until this is accomplished
we do not see.
Year: 1878

The Rev. DR.. Deem's sermon against
Modern Spiritualism about which
Judge Black made such a stir in the
Vanderbilt will case, is to appear in
the January number of Frank Leslie's
Sunday Magazine, with a history of
the discourse by its author.
Year: 1878

A mandatory of paper bricks has
been opened somewhere in Wisconsin.
The bricks are said to be exceedingly
durable and moisture proof. They are
also larger than the clay article. Paper
is now also used for making barrels
Straw pulp is run into mould IN the
shape of half. barrel, cut vertically
The ends are Of paper, but are protected
by wood. The barrels are lighter, and
two-thirds cheaper than those of wood
and flour will not sift out Of them whilt
in transit. he slaves are three-eights
of an inch chick.
Year: 1878

vJ,O WHOM IT MAY CONCERN No
i tice l. hereby given that ut the approach
ing sessions of the General Assembly of the
State of Delaware, will make application Tor
an act OF Assembly for IL divorce Of the bonds
OF MatrimOny from my wife Ann NJ Shaw.
HENRY N. SHAW, Riddles Bank, Del


cl
Year: 1878

The San Francisco Alta, sayr:-The
proposition Of Delegate y vampbell to iu-
corporate fioggipg as one of the punish
ments proper under the law, will conf
mend itself to those who watched the
growth of crime as one of the most effect
ual correctiveness that can be devised
for certain offenses. For instance, the
common practice of garroting; two reck-
less fellows resolve to "stick up" citi-
zen returning to his home late at night,
and they proceed to carry their plan into
execution by suddenly pouncing upon
the inspecting person, compelling him to
deliver up his valuables under threats of
taking his life: or they overcome him,
and by blow in the stomach and COM
preston of the throat render him power
less for time-long enough to permit
the rIfii ng of his clothes. If the garroters
succee they are tolerably safe from
detection, and If they fail and are cap
tured there is very little terror III the
prospect of punishment,so little that they
frequently think 1t not worth while TO
make any effort to prevent conviction.


If entenced to State Prison the con-
vict, are apparently asked what kind of
idleness will be most agreeable, and that
soft billet which suits the aesthetic tastes
of a agentlemanly garrotor will be assigned
him. Instances have been gwen within
few days of forgers officiating as book
keepers and general managers and en-
b, zzlers acting as chaperous for visitors
not even the badge of the prison garb to
Inform the visitor that the "gentlemanly"
conductor had taken his employers
money or had deprived the city OF Its
revenue by appropriating it to private
use through the agency of forged docu-
ments. If, instead Of consigning the gar
roter, the forger, and the mean embez-
zler to the comforts of the State Prison
and the luxury of good clothes and easy
work, they conld be sent to the public
whipping pest to receive thirty or forty
lashes, the number of criminals would
speedily decrease, and citizens would feel
indefinitely safer, both on the street and
in their counting-room.


The degradation of tt e fiogglng would
be tenfold greater punishment than
close confinement or hard labor In the
prisons, which many of the prisoners
very curiously avoid. Some tender
hearted people say the punishment is
cruel, but they should remember that
there is nothing very csnsoliDg or sooth-
ing about the actions of the garJoters,
and if reckless men will jump upon an
unsuspecting citizen and choke him into
Inseusibility, with the aid of terrib BILE
blow in The stomach, they should expe-
rience little taste of cruelty, if nothing
else will work reformation.
Year: 1878

WHAT SILVER is DoING.-The Phila-
delphia Press says: The report that the
Great Western line of steamers between
Bristol and New York had been discon-
tinued, was yesterday contradicted by the
London Times. If our exports continue
10 increase there will be freight enough
for all the lines, one way at least, and
there is no reason why emigration to this
country should fall off SO much as to
compel the suspension of the Great
Western. We have 20,0OO,000 silver
dollars now.
Year: 1878

A PETITION is in circulation and being
numerously signed, in opposition to the
proposed increase of the police force.
This is matter over which the Council
should exercise the greatest wisdom. Ii
the people demand economy until our
debts are paid, their demands should not
be unheeded. Mayor Almond, we know
is not man to shirk any duty to keep
the city in order; and will not finch
from another three years trial with the
present force, if the people declare them.
selves in favor of the risk.