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Year: 1877

We have been frequently asked ''What
is the difference between railroad dining
ear and a Pullman Hotel car % That there
is a vast difference is well known by those
who have had occasion to use either 4; but
the untraveled public are not fully advised as
to the points of difference The old fashioned
railroad eating house is, alas ! too well
known It's peculiar, hastily eaten meal have
been partaken OF by teo many thousands to
be forgotten. The dining car, then, is this
well-known eating house placed on wheels,
attached tie the train at the usual meal hours.
and hauled along for thirty, forty or sixty
miles, until the meal has been served, when
it is set off on sde-track, and is by the next
train hauled to It's starting point and so it
runs few miles for each meal To get
meals in this'car the passenger has to work
his way through the train while it is under
full mOtion-pass from car to car, running
the risk Of falling between the platforms. and
finally finding the Car at the rear of the train
Then comes the meal, which must be hurried
through with to give chance for other hungry
passengers to take your place, and YOU must
force your way back to your seat and again
run the risk of your platform passage while
the train is at full speed. In such cars YOU
pay seventy-fve cents for each meal, even if
you take or need only cup of coffee and a
cracker. Bear in mind, in no case do these
cars accompany che train from starting point
to destination. They are always "cut off +"
and taken on MS we have described With
the Pullman Hotel car the case is different
in every respect. These cars are sixty to
sixty-six feet long, have sixteen wheels under
each, are built strong SO as to insure steady,
quiet running, without the usual unpleasant
side motion. Each Hotel car contains, in
the order named, the following compart-
ments


1st. cosy, neat and clean little kitchen.
fitted up with range, an ice and meat box,
rows OF shelves covered with bright silver
and brighter glass ware, and all the appli-
ances needed IN preparing a sumptuous
meal.


2nd. 4 compact china and glass closet. in
which Is hept the table ware and table linen,
cutlery, etc.,


3rd. a passage way, cutting off the kitch-
en- and China closet from the rest of the car,
and forming an air-chamber to prevent the
smell of the cooking vctuals from reaching
the saloon part of the car.


4th. The grand saloon This is fitted up
with twelve, fourteen, or sixteen sections,
with space for tables between each, and IN
these the meals are served. You, while on
this ear own the space you occupy as much
as you do your room at home, and no one
can hurry you while at meals, nor arc you
forced to give it up to allow any other per-
son to occupy it. At night, as if by agic,
this saloon is changed into boudoir, and
here your couch is prepared, and mere you
rest yourself isoloted, and as separated from
your fellow-travelers as you would be in your
own bed chamber


9th. An elegant drawing-room, with room
for six or eight persons. This is found
aloRe in these magnificent cars In it YOU
and your family or party of friends may be
Year: 1877

REvENGE.-Banlsh all malignant
and revengeful thoughts. a spirit
of revenge is spirit of the devil,
than which nothing makes man
more like him, and nothing can be
more opposite to the temper which
Christianity designs to promote. II
your revenge be not satisfied, il
Will give you torment now; if it be.
II viii give you greater torment
hereafter, None is a greater self
tormenter than a malicions and q
revengetul man, who turns the
poison of bis own temper IN upon
himself.
Year: 1877

Every one wants to see bet
ter times and is squealing because
some one else does not make them
better, unmindful of the fact that
all are interested in the work, and
no one should wait for the other to
strike out first. We must all help
and encourage each other, not lie
croUebed down seeking whom we
may devour-and thereby cause all
the harder times by the scares aris-
ing therefrom. Remember that men
make hard times, but hard times do
not make men. The longer we con
tinue entertaining thoughts about
suing and breaking down men, de-
pend upon it, just 50 long we may
expect the times to remain hard, and
affairs TO remain as they now exist
without confidence. If you want
to see better times, begin to i'm
prove them yourself. Don't wait
for some one else to start first; roll
up your sleeves and strike the
monster, panic, on the head, first.
Your neighbor won't be behind il
he sees you striving; his nelghbor
will not be- outriyaled +; the next
neighbor Will come forth and the
next still won't be behind so all
along the line will the revival extend
until there is a complete revolution
all around. Begin as though you
were beginning over again after a
disastrous failure, with all the de-
termination Of "fresh man." and
then you will soon see the result,
and be happy.
Year: 1877

In THE SWEET BY-AND-BY-Can-
not but ba the happy thought as the


fortunate recipient of the "RocKY


MOUNTAIN TOURIST scans It's won
derfully attractive pages and peruses
its fascinating descriptions. Most
beautifully embellished with new
and highly artistic engravings, its
letter-press a model of typographical
richness and the arrangement
throughout simply superb the
Rocky MOUNTAIN TOURIST is worthy
Of comparison with Picturesque
Year: 1877

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company has its eye towards this
northern country, and strong efforts
have long been made TO obtain cor
troll Of the Wisconsin Central in or
der to tap the Northern Pacific at
the n. 2. Junction, and in this they
will doubtless succeed In due time.
and now the Pioneer Press informs
us that the same company is seeking
a connecting link with St. Paul or
Minneapolis in order to tap the
large and growing Minnesota trade,
and that, if successful, it may con-
clude to open another and indie
pendent thoroughfare to the north
west. Let them come.
Year: 1877

OF the thousands who pay periodical
visits to doctors, and run up yearly bills,
few appreciate the fact that they could
avoid all this expense and trouble by
taking every day little gymnastic ex-
ercise. 1t is not necessary to devote
much time daily to this species of exer-
tion. One hour day, adhered to per-
tinaciously, as habit of life, will ac-
complish wonders. The majority of
people are nothing more than grown up
children when they begin to undertake
acourse Of athletics. Not one in fifty
has the sense to begin properly. Most
OF them plunge into it,apparently think
ing that if a little exercise is good
thing excessive exercise is great deal
better, forgetting that violent and long
continued exertion is possibility that
has to be steadily and patiently ap-
preached. Hence the disgust of those
who make blind rush at the thing.
The muscles, not used to this unwonted
demand, get extremely sore, and the
embryo athlete drags himself home te
his easy chair vowing that nothing shal
ever tempt him again to seek healtl
through such a dolorous pathway.
Year: 1877

TELEGRAPH1Ne is cheaper in Switzer-
land than in any other country. Being
part of the postal system, the tele-
graph is as common as the post office.
There is not village, however small,
or wherever situated, even in the
highest regions CT the Alps, that has
not government telegraph working
night and day. The charge for a
message to any part of Switzerland is
only ten cents.
Year: 1877

THE executive council of the Board
of Trade of Philadelphia have adopted
resolution declaring the tax imposed
upon the capital, deposits and circula-
tion of national banks is onerous and
should be reduced, and that memorial
be presented Congress to that effect.
Year: 1877

Peace has il, arts as well as war; and it is
pleasant, while certain portion of the cOun-
try is full OF Distractions to find body OF
men gravcly cor rsdering certain humanizng
influences By which the peace and happiness
of the future may De promoted. The Southern
Postal Convention at Fortress Monroe rightly
Judges that nothing is more likely to secure
the material and moral prosperity of the South
than a well-orderod mail servIce-that flower
and crown OF civilization and public enlght-
enment. The Civil War must have done much
to demoraizc the Postal Service at the South,
nor had it previously been in the most efficient
condition. The attention of the Department
has already been directed to existing deficiencies,
and we are encouraged by the assurance that
everything will be done to secure fast mail
trains, and the appropriations by Congress nee
essary for their support.


There was something worthy of attention in
the letter sent by Mr.. Key to the Conven-
ton. He expressed himself profoundly graft
fled at the orderly an a.niable condition o.
"affiirs 1T the South, under an excitement so
general over many States Of the Union" 1t
is our turn now, iC seems, to harn0nlze dls-
cordant clements, and to learn how difficult 1t
NAV sometimes be to keep eXcitabe pOpula-
tiOns in good order. 1t is possible that our own
experiences may make US a little more chari-
table. At least We can understand that a method
combining respect for law with good VIII
and kindness, beautiful as it ia in theory, is 'y
no means practically impossible.
Year: 1877

the appearance Of the grasshopper and potato
bug. They do that naturally, and from the force
of habit. But the conspicuous thing about this
Convention, that which gives it its distinctive
character, is the patent fact that it has not
only no case, but nothing upon VIII ich to pre-
tend to have one. The whole affair was as
limpsy and feeble and purposeless as meet
ing of creditors of a dcfunct sewing society !;
and they tell us this is the initial demonstra-
ton of great party which is about to rev.
olutionize the country and oust the now dom
inant party from power under the overwhelm-


ing pressure of public indignation. Nonsense
It hasn't the sufficient show for a grievance
to even pretend to get mad about it. That Is
not the kind of beginning that makes a
campaign successful Too feeble and fiabby
bu laIf
Year: 1877

Everybody Knows that mob is q coarse, fierce
and unscruulous i'd beast, for the time being and
as such must LIE dealt with. But how are to
characterize without dong wild beasts lniustce the
mob at Pitts1urg, which actually carried cotnD to
the house of Gen. Pearson and told Mrs Pearson that
they intended to kill her husband and put him into
it' She was there with her children her mother
and her sister, and with protection No wonder
her h.r grew white in Il gle night. 1t is curious
tha these mob characteristics should be always the
same.
Year: 1877

There is lull in war news both south Of
the Danube and in Armenia. The Russians are
buslly engaged in bringing forward troops to
the advanced positions on the path TO Adriano-
pie, and the Turks are Withdrawing then
forces from outside to interior lines of defence.
4 great battle is said TO be imminent IN Ar
menia, but there is reason for dJubting whether
either side is in a position for attack.
Year: 1877

The noble horse leads life of whoa.


It is wise COW that knows its own
fodder.


The language of the suspender is sup
posed to be, Brace up ~


In the case Of Sitting Bull, absence
makes the hair grow longer.


Any kind of weather suits Michigan,
so the bureau needn't be backwards.


If Sitting Bull could have his way
about it, the American nation would
have no Indian summer.


A person wha had been listening to a
very dull address remarked that every
thing went off well-especially the au-
dience.


"Is it proper to say, see the sun
rising, or 1 see the sun rise ?" he
asked. "Sir, the proper thing is to get
home before it rises, replied his friend.


A mob in Winnemucca, New, threat
ened to destroy the railroad station and
a train of cars if the company did not
remove passenger who had the small
pox.


The lady whom Stanley was to marry
has welded another. What shall 1t
profit man if he finds 15, 900, 600 hea-
thens and losses his best girl ?--N. y
Herald.


A Chicago inventor recently made a
small fan-wheel, to be placed in the hat,
to keep the head cool in warm weather
He set it going in his own hat, and the
first thing he knew his hair was wound
up in the machinery. The spring was
very stiff, and before he could release
himself part OF his hair was pulled out
by the roots.


A contemporary tells young ladies
how to arrange their hair in fashion
able style. Let it all down." il says,
" and comb it out with a crosscut-saw.
Then go up on the roof of the house,
and there stand still while the wind
plays (whatever is appropriately with it.
Then catch up the black with bow of
ribbon, and allow the front to stay as it
is"


"Simplicity" is the sweet title of an
association of ladies just formed at
Leipsic, Germany. The object of this
association is to promote simplicity.in
dress, and to make war upon luxury.
Members must pledge themselves not to
have any trains or false hair, not to wear
tuniques, pol naises or other frivolities.
The dresses must be plain, and only a
simple embroidery OF trimming at the
end of the costume is permitted.
Year: 1877

A Washington letter has this A lady
whose husband held one of the highest
places in the government stood in her
magnificent home attired for her weekly
reception. Chow gladly would l give
up all the finery, show and insinceTity
of this public place and go back to the
rooms / lived in when we were first
married. l would throw my silks and
diamonds away and sit down to my
supper of chip beef and tea at sunset,
and afterwards take a long quiet walk
with Will, and rest on the stump in the
moonlight, and tell my little plans for
the future, and what l had done every
hour while he was gone, and know that
we were alone in the world, living only for
each other. Those days seem like days
in heaven. l work harder now than any
slave often three hundred calls to re-
turn in single week, receptions or
parties every night; see the same
people, hear the same talk, eat the same
things, come home disgusted, wonder
what i am living for, where l Will go
when / die. Bette, must have
Hon. --- and Secretary - here to-
morrow must get their influence
you must talk music to the secretary,
and you must ask Hon. -- about mono
lith monolith is his hobby. Do your
best. need their help. So it ia
always. Help, influence, power


smile in my face, interest in my maa
ner, living At lie; feeding my sQp' ~
bualu %
Year: 1877

Leisure, the highest happiness on
earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect
satisfaction except in solitude. Indo-
lence and indifference do not always
afford leisure, for true leisure is fire.
auently found in that interval of relax.
alton which divides painful duty from
an agreeable relax-recreation toll
some business from the more agreeable
occupations of literature and philosophy.
Year: 1877

Two Waterbury Conn teamsters
we're 80 mad because one wouldn't turn
out of narrow courtway for the other
that they sat on their wagons facing
each other all day, and unhitehed the
horses after dark, leaving the wagons
still there. But about daylight next
morning each stole around and took his
cart out OF the way.
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, Dec. THE Ways
and Means committee are already
husily at work in laying the fotrnda-
tions of the new tariff and internal
revenue bill. The bill will not prob
ably be reported before some time in
FEBRUARY, as the Ways and Means
committee desire to delay its compile
tion until the appropriation bills are
repol ted. When the appropriation
bills are all in it will then be seen
what the expenditures OF tue govern
ment are likely to be, and the tariff
and tax bill will be framed to meet
those necessities. The whole tenden-
cy of the tariff bill will be toward
lighter duties and free trade. Con-
versations with members OF the Ways
and Means committee confirm very full
ly the views heretofore expressed in
these dispatches that the new bill will
reduce the taxes 10 the lowest point
compatible with The proper admins
traion OF the government and the pay
ment of the public obligations
Among the propositions which are
likely to receive the favorable consid-



sion for six years of the sinking fund.
1t is said that according TO the repor t
of tie S cretary of the Terasury it is
shown that the reduction Of the pub
lie debt and the accumulation of the
sinking fund is in n much greater ra-
ito than re equire6 by law, and that tho
operations of this fund may be sus-
pended for six years without any in
convenience. If this is done and the
duty on tea and coffee is restored. as
is proposed, it is calculated that it will
make a difference of 0,000.0O0 an
nually, and that burden of taxation
may be lI9htcned to that amount. 1t
should be understood that it is as
sumed the reimposition of the tea and
coffee duty will not add to the cost of
the consumer in this country, as the
export tax in the countries where
these articles are producted would
probably be lifted.


It is probable that the internal tax
on whiskey will be reduced TO so cents
per gallon and on tobacco to 10 cents
| per pound. The duties on iron, steel.
silks and woolens will all be largely
duced. The object will be to SIM
plify as much as possible the internal
revenue and tariff system, and to con-
fine the taxes to as few articles as
possible. In any event the free list
on the tariff billwil be much enlarged.
1t may be that the tariff bill will be
reported in sach shape that the FREQ
| list will he omitted entirely and the
bill will specify only such articles as
a duty il to he levied upon, with the
rates. This is, however, subject To
future consideration, but it is believe!
that the above gives clear outline OF
the character of the bill that will come
from the committee.
Year: 1877

WIEN TO Bow.-A well-bred per
son instinctively bows the moment
that he recognizes an acquaintance,
at the instant of the first meeting of the
eyes. According to the rules of courts,
and of good society everywhere, any
one who has been introduced to you.
or any lady to whom you have been
introduced. is entitled to this mark OF
respect. A bow does not entail a
calling acquaintance, and to neglect
it, shows neglect of early education,
as we'll as deficiency in cultiva ion
and in the instincts of a gentleman
so that the truth of Saint Loup's as
sertion, that the bow is the touch
stone of good breeding, is made good


The one introduction that entities
to recognition, having been once
made, it is the dnty OF the younger
person to recall himself or herself to
the recollection of the elder person
by bowing each time oc meeting, un
til the recognition becomes mutual.


AS persons advance in life, they
look for these attentions upon the
part of the young, and it may be il
some instance, that it is the only way
which the young have of showing
their appreciation of courtesies ex'
tended to them by the old or the mid
die aged.
Year: 1877

CFrom the Cincinnati Commercial


1t has been remarked that very few
who get into journalism start out with
such Intention. They drift in acci-
dcntally, and are promoted as they
develop capacity. Money, wealthy
parents, and influence are of no sort
of service in getting young man a
place on a newspaper. There is no
business that is SO entirely lndepend
ent Of all considerations as this. A
wealthy faCher can get his son loca-
ton to read law or medicine, or push
him forward in almost any walk OF
life he may select; but he is utterly
powerless to do anything for him in g
journalistic way. To be sure, he may
buy newspaper, and set up his hope
ful in that manner, but unless there
is something in the youth called jour
nalistic knack, natural knowledge
of what to write; and how to write it
he will be a failure in that line, ane
all the money and influence Of weslthy
and perhaps powerful relatives viii
count for nothing.


Some fond parents educate thei
sons with especial view to making
journalists of them, but it is rare tha
we hear of these young men after fev
wears. Meantime some scrub, borl
among the hills, having nothing but


common school education, and th
knowledge scraped up in n countr.
printing office, will advance to from
rank in the profession. He has th
Year: 1877

Some one has truly said that at no
time do young men feel so much the
inspiration of virtuous love as when
beginning the battle of life. Early
marriages are permanent moralltles.
and deferred marriages are tempta-
tions TO wickedness. And yet every
year it becmes more and more difficult,
concurrent with the reigning ideas OF
society, for young men TO enter upon
that matrimonial state which is the
proper guard Of their virtue, as we'll
as the source of their courage and en-
terprise. The battle of life is almost
always at the beginning. There it is
that a man needs wedlock- But
wicked and ridiculous public sentiment
puts a man who is in society, or out
of society, for that matter, largely on
the ground of condition. and not OF
disposition and character. The man
that has means wherewith he can Wis
IDLY live amply, is in good society, as
general rule. The man that has
virtue and sterling manliness, but has
nothing withal external to show, is
not usually considered in good socie-
ty. Ambitious young men VIII not,
therefore, marry until they can
meet their expenses; but that is
deferring for years and years the in
dispensable virtue. Society is bad
where two cannot live cheaper than
one and young lhen are under bad
influences who, when in the very
morning of life, and better fitted than
at any later period to grow together
with one who is their equal and mate,
are debarred from marrying, through
scores of years, from mere prudential
considerations and the heart and the
life are sacrificed to the pocket. They
are tempted to substitute ambition
for love, when at last, over the ashes
ard expiring embers of their early
romance, they select their wife.
Year: 1877

1t is curious to note the slight point
upon which human hangs in the bal
ance of reason. Persons having all the
appearance of perfect sanity have been
known as suddenly as flash, to develop
traits of lunacy. In other instances, a
chance assumption of rank, kept up
from day to day, has marked veritable
belief. The fiction worked upon the
brain until it became fact, most diff
cult to reconcile with hallucination.


A remarkable instance of such imag-
ination is recorded in the life of Curran,
the Irish barrister, who with his gay
companions, was in the habit of spend
a day in the Dalkey Islands, and indulg-
ing in the frolic of electing King of
Dalkey and the adjacent Islandsp A
gentleman of middle station in life, a
genial, whole-souled, and convivial man,
was elected to fill the throne. He en-
tered into the joke and enjoyed the
pastime. A journal was kept called the
Dalkey Gazette, in which all public
proceedings were recorded, and which
was source of constant amusement to
its supporters. But at length the mock
pageantry, the affected loyalty and as
sumed homage began to tell upon and
ex ite the Imagination of King john" !"
as he was styled. Fiction became real
ity and he fancied himself every inch
a King" His family and friends, in dis
may and grief saw the delusion assume
such hold upon him that nothing could
shake it. He-spoke on no other subject
save his Kingdom and its government,
and delighted to dwell on the various
projects he had formed for the benefit OF
his people. He never could divest him
self of his regal pomp, and exacted the
utmost Difference to his royal authority
When his last hours drew nigh no re
turning CLEANS of reason broke upon his
mind; to the moment of his death ht
believed himself King, and all hi
cares were for his subjects. He SPOKE
in high terms of the officers of his mimi,
court, recommending the care of hi
kingdom to them until his successor wa
chosen, and demeaned himself with
dignified calmness well becoming tn
last hours of a puissant monarch. Whel
he came to relinquish his crown, he sait
with tears: al leave it to my people
whom l have so loved" His feeling
were gratifed, up to his death, b,
thinking of the good of his fellow-crea
lures, which seemed, in his madness a
in his saner life, to be prominent featur
of his disposition.