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Year: 1867

"Ican't' never crossed the Alps or raised
an acre Of corn.


Uneasy and ambitious gentiltty is al
ways spurious. -.


Habit is a cable. We weave thread
every day, and at last cannot break It.


People having the most contracted minds
are naughty to interiors and obsequious to
superiors.
If you desire the common people to treat
you as a gentleman, you must conduct
yourself as a gentleman should to them.
! 1t is surprising how little love wecan be
well content with, when that love is more
than the person giving it gives to anybody
else. .....


Use the best language IN your common
conversation at bone, and you viii soon
acquire the habit of using it on all occa-
sions. ..r'


Mental and physical integrity are es-
scntial requisites to higher development in
ourselves, and support of noble feelings in
others. "


lie who would acquire ftme, must not
show himself afraid Of eensure. The dread
of censure is the death Of genius.


Would you touch a nettle without being
stung by it? Take hold of it stOutly. Do
the same to other annoyanees, and few
things will trouble you.





A sound head, an honest heart, and an
humble spirit-these are the three best
guides. They will ever suffice to conduct
us in safety in every variety of circum-
stances. ..r ..-.


Lord Bacon beautifully said-'sIf man
be gracious unto strangers, it shows he is
citizen of the world, and his heart is no
island cut off from other lands, but con-
tinent that joins them" I


The sweetest wives are those who pos
sess the magic secret of being contented
under any circumstances. Rich or poor,
high or low, it makes no difference; the
bright little fountain of joy bubbles up
just as musically in their hearts.
No statue that the rich man places Os-
| tentatiously in his window is to be COM
pared to the little expectant face pressed
against the window, pane, watching for its
father. when his days labor is done.


Passionate reproofs, says Dodd, are like
medicines given scaIding hot, the patient
cannot take them. If we wish to do good
to those we rebuke, we should labor for
meekness of wisdom, and use soft words
for hard arguments.


Keep up a sensibility IN small matters
that you may not deceive in greater, but
the better to dispose yourself to perform
things of weight and moment. A promise
is just debt, which you must take care to
pay, for honor and honesty are the secu-
! rity.


Socrates used to say to his friends that
his wife was his greatest blessing, since
she was a never-cea ing monitor of pa
thence, from which he learned so much
within his own doors, that the crosses he
met elsewhere were light to him.
Year: 1867

She is a good mother who brings up
her children to wOrk-tO work in the
kitchen ifyOu please. We shall never
have good puddings and pies, chowders
and fricassees, while the ladies are
taught that it is a disgrace to learn to
cook. The time may not come when
the daughters of wealth shall be Oblig-
ed to take their stand in the Kitchen
but should they not know how to bake
and wash? What is a young woman
fit for whose mother allows her to lie
in bed till ten o'clock and who, when
she rises sings a song or two, and sits
down to the last new novel ? She
may answer for the wife of wealthy
fOp: and a miserable life-miserable
indeed-wilI she live. Far better for
her, no matter what her condition in
after life may be-whether she mar
ries a fortune in gold, or fortune in
real wOrth-if she is brought up to
work. Her life, in comparison to one
brought up in idIeness and folly,
would be a season of real enjoyment,
and the influence she exerted would
be glorious indeed. What mother
will be 50 unwise as to teach her
daughters that work is degrading,
while lying in bed, dressing in fash
iOny and reading mere trash, is elevat-
ing and dignifying ?-[The Ladies'
Repository
Year: 1867

What state is high IN the middle and round at both
ends? Ohio O.. -.- ...
Why is a fire Iaradoxical? Because tho more it is
called the hotter it gets. ..


Who first introduced salt pork into the navy NOah
when he took Ham into the ark. ....


Why are two young ladies kissing each other an
emblem Of Christanity2 Because they doing unto
each other they would men should do unto them.


Why is a young lady from boarding school like q
building committee: Because she is ready TO receive
p.uIcsas.
Year: 1867

Hear is something for the brains of the little folks
Send in your answers


young man asked old gentleman for his
daughter in marriage. The answer was: Go into the
orchard and bring parcel Of apples Give half
of the whole number and to the mother Onehalf Of tho
balance and half apple over, and to the daughter
of the remainder and half apple over, and
have one left yourself, without cutting apple,
then if she is willing you have her. He solved the
question and how many did be bring ~ Exchange.
Year: 1867

Many a true heart that, like dove
to the ark, would have come back af-
ter its first transgression, has been
frightened beyond recall by the angry
look and menace Of an unforgiviDg
spirit.
Year: 1867

Sixty federal soldiers of the Jewish
religion, now buried in the National
Cemetery at Chattanooga, and who
fell in the battles about that place, are
to be reinterred, according to the rites
and ceremonies Of their faith, in the
cemetery of the 1sraelite5, near that
city. A suitable monument is also to
be erected to their memory by the He
brew societies Of the West.
Year: 1867

ELOPEAfEST EXTRAORDINARY
fond parent heard his daughter and
her fellow plan an elOpement. The
next day the old man waited upon
the young one and addressed him
thus: "YOu are fine, brave youth,
and don't object to you for a sOn-in-
law. Here's a hundred dollars to aid
in an elOpement. May you live hap
PLY in the same house, and may no
accident occur to throw the least
shade on the sunshine of your life.
All l request is, that you elOpe with
my daughter-she's a mighty fine
girl, you know, but somehow her
mother and l could never travel
smoothly with her; we don't know her
good points; elOpe with her to such Il
distance that she won't return to her
loving father and mother any more.
Good buy, sonny, and may you be
happy" There WIS an elOpement
that evening, OfOne. The young man
went, unaccOmpanied. He thought
everything could not be entirely right
when the old man was so anxious to
get rid Of the girl. The father looked
upon his act. as very neat bit Of STRAIT
egy.
Year: 1867

'tSir William Wallace and the Maid OF Orlean
,erished on the scaffold, loaded with every badg
# ignominy, and Knocked with every insult whic
corn and hate could utter. What names i
history are now more ilustrIous than these p


Anon.
MAKE treason odious!' make the sparks
Fly downward to the earth
Make rivers re- ascend the hills
In which their springs had birth
Make the Blue Mountains bow their heads
At Stewards little bell
Make Lee ard jackson infamous
Like Wallace and like Tel -
Reverse tn Omnipotent decree
And wash the negro white
Raze out the written rolls OF Time
Quench Gods eternal light
Then hOpe-but not till then-to hide
The truth from mortal eye
To blacken those immortal names
That were not born to die.
The hero of the Eastern tale
TOiled on his mountain path,
Deaf to the voices that arose
In ribaldry and wrath )
And thus the noble Of the earth,
whose goal is fixed on high,
Despising false and foul rrproach,
Shall mount beyond the sky.
Year: 1867

THE COMING ELECTIoSs-A NEW IRON ORE COM


PANY.


OF TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE


MONTREAL, March 2l-Nearly all the present mem
bers OF Parliament in Lower Canada will be returned Tor
the House OF Commons large number are as yet un-
opposed II Is understood tho elections will not take
place until mid Summer An irOn-Ore company has been
formed here carry operations the north shore OF
the ST. Lawrence River from Quebec 10 the division line
OF Canada and Newfoundland The stock Of the company
is $4,000,
Year: 1867

On Tuesday the I'd day of April there is to be n
convention OF Union men at Little Rock. The Helena
Shield says: ---


movement OF this character, that has not for It's oh
the overthrow OF the State government and
that will take extreme positions that serve 10
cOmpcate rather than ADJUST the unfortunate differences
that exist IN the country, cannot but beneficial
and must meet with the hearty concurrence of all reflect
ing friends OF the Union of the State.
Year: 1867

Elsewhere in this issue will be found
the prospectus of the Chicago Republican,
for 1868. We have been in receipt of the
daily Republican for the last year, and have
been a careful reader of its columns. 1t is
in our humble opinion very ably edited.
It's publishers are not lacking in that very
essential clement, enterprise, but are thor
oughly up to the times in local, CONNER
cial, home and foreign news, and appear
to spare no pains or expense to make theirs
the leading paper of the west 1t is the
standard bearer of the protective tariff par
ty of the western states, and in this and
many other particulars it is the oracle and
leader of the great Republican party.
Year: 1867

KEEPING HOLIDAY WEEK.-Wc observe
that several of the papers of the State are
taking a vacation, and suspending the issue
of their paper during the holiday week.
This we don't propose to do, but shall fur
nish our readers with their regular paper,
but if it should reach its destination few
hours later than usual, we ask that they
will be charitable, and consider that it is a
holiday week.
Year: 1867

Rsg~ We wish those who think that a
railroad to this place would cost more than
it would be worth, would visit Mineral
Point some market day, and compare the
streets of that city with the quiet streets
of our village. and thus by the comparison
of the superior natural advantages which
our village possesses over Mineral Point,
they might form some kind Of an idea of
what our village would be if we had a rail-
road. A reversion Of opinion would IN.
doubsedly speedily ensue.
Year: 1867

Ggy3The essay Of a District School Stu
dent ON the Importance of Mental Gull
ture," must for the present be laid aside.
The ideas and arguments advanced are
very good, and show beyond doubt that
eur free school system is an incalculable
blessing to the young and rising generation.
The style in which it is written is hardly
up to the present standard of literature
and its being laid aside should not deter
or discourage the writer from trying again.
Year: 1867

@-Members of the Masonic fraternity
who contemplate taking Masonic publica-
ton the coming year, are requested to call
at this Office and examine copies of the
National Frsemason," published in New
York. 1t is away ahead of any other Ma
sonic publication in this country both in
the style in which it is issued and value OF
contents. We can most heartily, recon-
mend it to every member ofthe fraternity.
Year: 1867

w-J. G. Cover of the Grant County
Herald Indignantly repels the insinuation
that he is candidate for Congress, and
strongly insinuates that he can't be in
tuced to forego the pleasures Of the sane
tum for q seat in Washington.
Year: 1867

POETRY AND INsuRANcE.-The following
doggrel is said to have been inscribed over
the doorway of one of the early insurance
offices in England, about tho year l777 =
Come all yon jolly Britons who love your blooming


wives,


Insure large sums your precarions lives,
So that your widows may be rich when you your


selves rotten,
And they may live In happiness when you are quite


forgotten
Year: 1867

Asg% 1t is a pleasure to note that the
thriving village Of Arena has greatly i'm
proved during the last year. 1t is now
quite an important business point. 1t is
pretty generally known throughout the
county that it is steadier market, and a
more uniform price is given the year round
for farmers produce of all kinds than at
Mineral Point. Quite number of build
ings have been erected during the past
summer. and the place is getting to be an
important point in the county. Another
improvement we are glad to note, the grog
shops in that village are not as plentiful as
formerly, and the quantity of poor whis-
key drank at that place has diminished
materially within the year.
Year: 1867

~ A movement is on foot to procure
funds for the erection of monument over
the remains of the gifted poet and gcolo-
gist. Percival, at their last resting place at
Hazel Green, Grant Co., Wis. At present
there is nothing to mark the spot, and
considering the valuable services rendered
by him as state geologist, it is fitting that
an appropriate monument should be erect
ed. We trust that this movement, will
not, like most others of the kind, fall thro'
but that it will be pushed TO successful
termination.
Year: 1867

ns7F- The Plover Times reports that on
Thursday morning, as a German named
Roberts was engaged in taking the curbing
out of new well which had been dug to
the depth of so feet, the well cavcd in ard
buried him to the depth of GA feet. At
last accounts he was still in the well. Ell.
forts were being made to extricatc him,
but the probability Of his being found alive
was very remote.
Year: 1867

~ The Primitive Methodists of this
village intend holding their annual tea
meeting on the lst of January, 1868. AS
they are in need of bell, and the proceeds
of the tea are 10 be appropriated for that
purpose, we do hope our citizens will turn
out and give the ladies full house. We
can assure them Of bountiful supply of
all the good things the country affords,
and got up in the best style, and every
way calculated to satisfy the taste of all.
Let all attend the tea.


To make the evening pass off in the
best possible way, there will be speaking
ard singing by men who are calculated
to please and satisfy all.
Year: 1867

THE SLATE TRADE OF LAKE SUPERIOR
The Superior City Gazette of the l4th
says: During the past eight or ten
months, an element of wealth, destined at
no distant day to enter largely into the
business resources of this section has been
in the prsccss of development, the products
of which will we think, add materially to
the exports from Superior another season.
The slate veins in the neighborhood of the
St. Louis Falls, the value of which for
building and other purposes but few here
appear to have q true conception of, are
now being opened, and the metal prepared
for commercial purposes. Laboring under
the disadvantages of almost impossible
roads, panic prices for supplies. labor, and
transportation, the parties embarked in
the enterprise have stuck manfully to the
task, and are now in position to supply
dealers in the article with roofing and OH
er States, of metal unsurpassed by any in
the world"
Year: 1867

CHARCOAL FOR HORSES WIND.-Many
years ago Remember = horse being
brought into the yard of Joseph Big
nall, q celebrated man for keeping hun
ters, at CroydeB. The horse was very
much affected in the wind, and could
hardly move from distress. In a very
few days this animal did its regular
work as a hunter, with perfect ease and
comfort to itself Tar water was the
cure. Tar is carbon, and charcoal is
also carbon; charcoal in powder is more
easily given than tar water. / have
tried it with most beneficial effect, and
i think it stands to reason that the re-
movsl of nOxiOus gases aud hatulence
from the stomach of the horse must inn
prove his wind and condition.


Tar is frequently given with benefit
in cases Of chronic disease of the respi-
ratory organs; but its effects are totally
different from those produced by char
coal carbon. 1.-THE LoRdos Field.
Year: 1867

AyALUABLE HINT.-A correspondent
of the New Hampshire Farmer says ::
Repeated trials on as many different
pieces of land, and each trial a complete
success, have convinced US that Decem-
ber. the time that We invariably cut
brush, is the best season, as at that time
the growth of the year is evidently at
an end. A piece of valuable pasture
and of ours, overrun with bushes which
had been many times cut over by q
former owner to no purpose, because
cut in the summer season, was by US cut
over in December, 1861, and to this time,
a period Of nearly six years, not bush
has srrouted or started, and the land,
though moist, is well stocked down to
grass.
Year: 1867

BELLS will prevent the depredations
of dogs among your sheep. The reason
is plain. A dog that knows enough to
kill sheep, also knows enough to be sly
and still about it. The great noise
caused by q nsmber of bells makes shim
fear for his safety, and he leaves with
out doing damage. The bells also would
bring the friends of the sheep to their
rescue. A dozen bells in flock of q
hundred would be ample. In flock of
twelve sheep half of them should wear
bells.
Year: 1867




rage by the following proposition.


suppose a.man a is married to q
woman ., and man Q TO a woman d.
In Christ the union of the whole four
is first in Importance, and the UNION Of
the pairs secondary. It's not enough
that a is married TO B, making the
dual unit A B, and c to ID, making the
dual unit G ID. The unit A b ought
to be married to the unit @ d, making
the quadruple unit A B G d. In tho
approach and mar iIgo of the pair 4 B
to the pair g d, it is the dictate of Tho
duality and self evident demand Of
nature that the man Of each pair
should face the woman fthe other.


Physiologically they deem marriage
productive of great evils. They sum
up their charges against it as follows:
l, II provokes to secret adultry, actual
or of the heart, 2. 1t ties together un-
matched natures 3. Iteunders match
cd natures.


BY the custom Of tho world, mar
riagc in the average Of cases takos
place about the age Of fourteen. COM
pick marriage, US they call their system
out of obedience to regard for public
opinion which has lately influenced
them, is the grand remedy. Not that
marriage is usful, they say.


In the outside, selfish world, it is OF
the greatest necessity. Shakerism is
the one extreme of wrong, marriage
the other. Tho true mien is 'Gree
love. -l
Year: 1867

quality in II, but that quality ie 10.
opposed to an Interchange Of patsners
II is not an inevitable requisite VI /
the same man should keep che Hasae
partner throughout theiestivity. Tho
dance goes on as well without such .
prohibition. Hence the argument of
the original quality of mankind, of Tho
quality ofthe sexes as inopplicablo
Such IN analogy would restrict con-
versation and every mode ofinter.
course to pairs. A man could talk on
ly to his wife and the wife only to her
husband.
Year: 1867

The father Of a deceased officer applied
for pension under the act of June 8.
1888. The mother of the officer claimed
and received a pension under the act of
July IA 1862 and the commissioner of
pensions rejected the application of the
father on the ground that the act OF July
9, 1866, excludes the father rom the hen
sfits OF the pension laws If dependent
member be living at the time Of the son s
decesse, and that, under the pension
laws, the survivorship of a dependent
mother is a bar to the claim for pension
Of any Of the heirs Of the officer, soldier
or seaman Of whom the mother takes
precedence. It is believed that the
mother having been peDsioned by reason
Of the service and death of her son, on
whom she was dependent fer support, all
right to o pension terminates with her
death or remarriage, ard does not vest in
any other heir of the soldier.


Under this decision an appeal was
taken to the secretary Of the interior.
who says: " Under the circumstances,
am Of the opinion that the father is not
entitled TO pension, and your decision
is accordingly confirmed
Year: 1867

COuOver, one OF the witnesses en-


ployed by Judge Advocate Holt tn swear
10 the completely of Jefferson Davis with


the assassination of President Linepin,


il on trial this week in Washington be-


fore the district supreme court for per
Jury. The charge Of perjury grows
out Of the testimony given by him
before the bureau OF military Justice
abuut the time of the assassination
trial. He and other witnesses sw0re
falsely and have since confessed 1t under
oath. The testimony given last summer
before the congressional committee
which was sppoin' ld % inquire whether
there was cause for holding Jefferson Ds-
Wis for trial as accessory 10 the murder of
Mr.. Lincoln, disclosed such lagrsnt wick
edness in the means used TO organize
evidence against Mr.. Davis, that the
country was shocked. The testimony
given showed money pad freely to bribe
witnesses, and proved the manufacture
of the brecise testimony which was to
be given by the witnesses. They re-
hearsed il, as II for a dramatic perform
ance, in their private quarters. This
they swOre to sfterward and charged
themselveqWith perjury. The agency of
Judge AdfeDcate Holt in this criminal
business does not fully appear, although
the testimony points directly to him as
the dispenser of gold which went into
the hands Of these abandoned men who
accepted the price of blood and attempted
to swear away the life of an innocent
man. Whether the testimony before the
court this week will disclose the relation
of Holt to the criminal as confederate or
patron, remains TO be seen.
Year: 1867

A deaf negro, the indianapolis Herald
says, who had been out hunting, was
walking along the railroad track, in the
neighbOrhOod Of Camp CarrinntOn, a
few days since, when the down train
from Lafayette came along. TIE eagi-
neer whistled, but the sable hunter being
deaf did not hear. Before the engine
could be stopped the negro was hOisted
by the cowcatcher and tumbled into a
promiscuOus heap by the side Of the
track, good deal bruised and eOnfU .ed
but not much hurt. His gun was dis
charged by the shock, the shot killing a
hog that was foraging near. The owner
Of the hog will bring suit against the
road, while the road will have recourse
on the negro.
Year: 1867

This new discovery is calculated to take the
place of all other illuminating oils or fluids in
use at the present day. The brilliancy of the
light it produces; its perfect safety a non-ex-
plosive; Its freedom from any disagreeable oder
and its cheapness-being nearly TWO HUNDRED
PER CENT. LESS than the present price of Hero
sene Oil-cannot fail to commend it to the favor
able patronage of every Householder 1t needs
no trimming of wieks for months, and lasts long
than Kerosene Oil, and burns in all Kerosene
Lamps.


This oil can be obtained as easily as kerosene
and the supply of materials is inexhaustible.-
When once you have the recipe a barrel can be
made in two minutes. 1t can be made by the
single barrel for less than twenty-five cents per
gallon, and in large quantities for twenty cents
per gallon. Every merchant having this oil can
sell for greatly increased profits and supply the
consumer for twenty-five per cent. less price than
he is now paying for kerosene orany other burn
ing material.


/ take the following method of introducing my
oil to the business men of the United States and
Territories:


On receipt of TES DOLLARS I will send you a
deed and reeipe to prepare the oil for individ-
ual or store right. The money can be sent in
Post Office orders or cash by mail or express at
my risk. Address EDWIN HOYT,


Box 252 Stamford, Conn.
va Please'give your name, Town, County
and State aad Post Office address in plain legi-
BILE hand, and your deed will be made out cor
rectly and sent by mail to you with dispatch.


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