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Year: 1874

Belle Palmer Wheeler, of East Meadow
/ l., who had just married young man
named Wheeler Of the same village, met
an awful death. She had just been
placed in light carriage by her husband
who was preparing to follow her, when
some person fred off a gun in close prox
unity to the horses head as parting
salute to the young couple.


The sudden report frightened the
spirited animal, who gave a bound for
ward, broke from his fastenings and rush
ed at terrific pace down the deserted
street, the light wagon careeniDg from
side to side in meuacing manner. In
attempting to round short curve the
carriage was overturned .and the young
lady thrown, and, becoming entangle in
the harness, was unable to extract her
self, aud was dragged for about half a
mile over the rough road, where the horse
was brought to stand by falling into a
ditch by the roadside.


Here the unfortune young lady was
found by the relatives and husband a
short time after Her bead was nearly
torn from her body, and every limb was
found to be broken ia a mum ber of places.
She was dead when removed, but look
of unutterable agony was fastened upon
her still handsome features, showing what
terrible suffering sac must have endured
Year: 1874

One of our force quit smoking few
days ago, and as soon as be threw off the
shacklos be became Jealous reformer,
and there is not smoker in the Office he
did not visit and wrestle with, as the
worldly minded say. He said that smok
ing was killing him and he was bound to
break it up. And break it up he did,
and already felt so much better that he
thought tia pity, and was much surprised,
beside, that anybody smoked. He got to
talking with the doctors about the habit
He would say Now it is all lie, amt
it, that smoking helps digestion ?" And
they would say 'Certainly - The hearti
ness of the indorsement invariably took
his breath to that degree that he could
not family respond, "Of course" and
drop his ayes in triumph. Attera pause
be would say: "A very little pipe full of
tobacco, or few whilfs OF cigar-a
mild cigar, remember-alter a hearty
meal, au't OF no benefit to digestion, is
it =? Aud they would say "CertainIy
net y And be would strive SO hard to
conceal his qualification from the eyes of
the miserabiy ensiaved about him as to
appear in actual pain One would think
to look at hin, that he was disappointed
partly, so delicate was his feelings for the
unfortunate On the ftth day of his new
and bstter existence he asked us in con
tiience if there were any doctors handy
besides those VINO frequented the Office.
He said he wanted to convince the boys
as thoroughly as possible. But there
were no more doctors Then he said cake
disagreed with him alfredy, and he
would eat some cake at tea and try for
himself whether little temperate smOk
ing right after eating aided digestion
Cake still disagrees with him, but he ate
it at breakfast the next morning, aud also
at noon, and again at night. He ordered
it far the next day. The third day he
sent out for it between meals He ate so
much cake on that day as to require the
consumption OF thirteen cigars, and he is
becoming so ravenousIy fond Of cake that,
a corner in the article is really imminent
and some few nervous people, also fond
of cake, contemplate calling a town meet,
ing -DdHJury NelcS.
Year: 1874

Realize, my reader, says New York
paper the anguish of a lady compelled to
stand by another lady wearing larger da-
monds than her own, or more point lace,
or longer train? What will the world
think, as under the chandelier this pain
tul contrast comes cut ? Such moments
OF deep humiliation cause sleepless nights,
and the next day result 10 bills that be-
come as crushing as criminal indictments
to poor overWorkcd men Under the i'm
pulse Of such trying scenes as these, many
matrou has gone forth on Broadway
with from lips and eyes in which glowed
ine1orable purpose, and placed upon her
arms or fingers, that might have helped
her husband forward. the gems that would
be miiIstones about his neck There arc
many phases Of horOism but if you want
your breath taken away, go to leading
and fashionable store and see some large
sUuled women, who will cot ever count
the cost or realize the dire consequences
but like some martyr of the past who will
show to the world the object of his faith
though the heavens iaiI, she marches to
the counter, selects the costliest, and says
in tones of majesty, Send the bill to my
husband -
Year: 1874

A good reHed dy to remove warts is a
tincture of cantharides, with few drops
of iodine. Apply to the warts with a
small brush three or four times day. In
a short time they will disappear.
Year: 1874

A brave women of Boston, who refuses
to have her name made public, was left
in charge of several children, Il few nights
ago, aud one OF them being taken sick .,
she summoned woman servant to carry
a prescription to the apothecary's for
some medicine ; but the servant came,
frightened out Of her wits, saying that
there was burglar concealed in a certain
closed. The woman went straight to the
door aud said: If there is anybody in
this closet, let him come out )" where up
on a big, sinister looking negro stepped
forth. The woman then, with the ut,
most GOODNESS, handed him the prescrip
ton, saying, "Take this to the nearest
apothecary's and get it filed. There is a
sick child in the house" The black
burglar left without word meanwhile
the woman, who began to feel little
faint, called a neighbor. The latter was
about to 20 to apothecary's for the medi.
cine when clerk called with it, saying
that negro had brought the prescription
and then disappeared.
Year: 1874

The rules of poiiteness are never at
variance with the principles of morality


N !ateyer is really inpolite is really i'm
ua:al. We have no right to offend peo-
pie with oar manners or conversation.
We have no right to deal with or be
influenced by gossip about tue people we
meet. Their private affairs are none of or
business. If we believe man to be unfit
company for us, then we must not invite
him but if we should happen to meet him
where he has been invited by others, we
must treat him with ciyility. If we know
man or woman to be Il grave offender,
we must not think Of using that knowl-
edge to injure him or her, unless we know
it is absolutely ly needful for the protection
Of others. The greatest and best men in
the world have more or less been assailed
with calumny. The purest and nob!cst
do not always escape it. We cannot see
any way to investigate-as a rule we must
dsregard-al SANDERS. Where very great
offences become notorious, the offenders
must always be excommunicated In all
Of the other cases we must give every one
the benefit Of doubt; also apply charita-
BE constructions, live and hope for the best,
and consider every one innocent until he is
proven guilty, as we would otherwise often
find that we had spoken too haSIuv.
Year: 1874

We do not study sufficiently the art Of
color; and hy this ncg5cc. the Eject Of many
an expensive wardrobe or Ella bolatc piece Of
furniture is di~agrccah,c. One or two colors
should be dull, and not too pale this is not
generally known. or it is forgotton, and the
result is the coarse ani Vulgar contrasts that
we see round us Blue is GlvOri,e color,
yet it is rare in Nature; there are bat few
blue flowers there is no blue in the human
race blue eyes many fancy they possess,
but clear blue is the rarcst thing in Ma
ture. Green is becoming in itself because
it Annals any tinge Of green which may be
latent to the complexion. Deep, heavy
reds are much used by the old Italian artists
for drapery, but they need to be cont.&sted,
MS it would be difficult to do in dress iel-
low is an unjust.y @rspi~ed color; it las
many beautiful sha lc-. and only when too
pure proves unmnmgeablc. \ browni~h
yellow is more suitable for elderly persons.
A brunette should wear green yellow
Pale green is trying to the majority OF
faces.
Year: 1874

A French chemist is said to have con-
densed the body OF his wife into the space
of an ordinary seal, and had her highly pol
iShed and set in a ring. He made nice
income by betting with apidaries and others
that they could not tell the material of the
set in three guesses, and, after pocketing
the money, would burst into tears, and say;
" 1t is my dear, dead wife. | wear her on
my finger to keep alive pleasant rcmcmbran-
ces of her.
Year: 1874

Some men never lose their presence of
mind. In Milwaukee last week man
threw his mother-in-law out of Il window in
the fifth story of burning building, and
carried feather bed down stairs IN his
arms.
Year: 1874

|


The message was signed by both


the maiden name and married rame


Of the gentleman's mother. The


gentleman turned as white as sheet,
for he at once recognized the message


as having been written in the name


of his deceased mother. He had long


been intending to remove her remains
and those of his father from an East
ern cemetery to his vault at Lone
Mountain. He had not thought of
the matter at all that day. Foster
had never seen him before. Neither
Foster nor any one eise--not even
the gentleman's wile-knew what the
mothers maiden name had been, hence
the clearness the strange outline of
the message, and above all, the apt
ness with which il referred to his pro-
ject with regard to the remains OF his
parents, gave the astonished gentle
man something to think about for
days to come. als-3 l8 Was


He did not wait for an answer to
his tinfoil puzzle, but started away
very much in the condition of the
young man who went to church to
scoff, but finally concluded tc remain
and pray.


Next day the gentleman met his
friend, The Hon. Chas. b. DeLOng.
who had just then returned from Ja-
pan. To him be told bis remarkable |
OF TIE day before. De |
Long laughed at him for bic apparent
credulity. and secuted tie idea that
spirits had anything to do with the
message. Nettled at this the gentle
nan invited Mr.. De Long to go with
him and see Foster and judge Tor
Year: 1874

was Orange street-thoughb by any other name, even then, it would smell as sweet as it does to-day-and Worth street did not run through to Chatham square. At that time Cow Bay was the temporary dwelli ug- place of colored seamen, and on Cross street Park, be- tween Baxter and Little Water (Mission Place), was the then celebrated under ground dance-house kept by the negro Pete Williams.

 It was the scene of daily and nightly debauch and outrage, and visit 10 the place without the protection of the police was as dangerous to respecta- ble and well-dressed man as ono of Sam Patch's jumps over Genesee Falls. Although the Five Points region is still squalid, it is thousand per cent. bet ter in every respect than it was twenty, and even fifteen years ago, and in 8 few years longer, it IS to be hoped, not one single trace of it's old character will cling to it to disgrace the age.

 In the open space at the intersection of Mission Place, Park, Worth and Baxter streets, the Department of Pub lie Works are now making Paradise park ready for use. The name was given to the plaza as term of con- tempt at time when murders and sui cides and sudden deaths and desperate fights were common within its limits 1; but when the fountain begins to play, when the trees give their grateful shade, when the grass is green where no grass has grown for more than half 8 century, and when the birds begin to sing in the tree tops and bathe in the sparkling water, then to the heated, tired, thirsty, dirt-begrimmed children of the Five Points it will be Paradise Park indeed.

 A peculiarity of tie Five Points, at- tributable no doubt to the dirt that always abounds in it's open places, and that fills the air day and night, except during rain storm, is that its new buildings, of which there are few, be- come old in very short time. Build ings erected five years ago look as though they were twenty years old i; and houses erected twenty years ago would be readily taken by the stranger as specimens of the handy work of some of the young carpenters of New Amsterdam in the days when Maiden Lane was COW path and Fulton street was out of town.
Year: 1874

Ballad. Why is it so with me, false Love, Why is it so with me7 Mine enemies might thus have dealt; feared it not of thee. Thou vast the thought of all my thoughts Nor other hope had |; My life was laid upon thy love; Then how couldst thou let me die? The flower is loyal to the bud, The green wood to the spring, The soldier to his banner bright, The noble to his king; The. bee is constant to the hivo, The ring-dove to the tree, The martin to the cottage caves Thou only not to me. Yet if again, false Love, thy feet To tread the pathway burn That once they trod so well and oft, Return, false Love, return; And stand beside thy maiden's bier, And thou wilt surely see That I have been as true to love As thou vert false to me.
Year: 1874

THE warm side of human nature as
found in the hearts of more than 200 of
Wisconsin's lumbermen displayed itself
during the past week in search after a
train-b0y although man in years. in
business on the Wisconsin Central Rail
road. The young man was employed on
the runs between Menasha and Marsh
field. His residence is at the former
place, where live his wife and one child.


And it all came about in this wise: On
Friday, the 9th inst, he conceived the
novel idea of hunting partridges with a
revolver and in order to give shape to
his thought left the upward bound train
at Mill Creek station, some fifteen miles
northwest of this city. 1t was his inten-
ton to return on the first incoming car,
which was due one hour from the time
he entered the pinery. Alas for human
purpose and expectation! A few rods
from the station and he was as thoroughly
bewildered as though hundred miles
interviewed between him and civilization.
His hunt for game proved fruitless, as
we'll as effort to retrace his steps. The
eastward bound train signalized It's ap-
proach, but in his dismay he failed utterly
to recognize locality or appreciate dis
| tance.


All around him giant forest trees
spread their branches in mute mockery,
night drew near, the cold air swept by
with bitter means, and alone and despair
| ing Jos. L. Robinson realized tnat he was
| lost


His agony may not be pictured. His


wife waited in vain for his footstep, and
his infant child for his wonted kiss and
| caress. But stout hearts were painting
for the search and brave men making
ready to relieve him.


The down train brought the news and
the next conveyance took twenty OF
thirty to aid in the rescue. No success
attended their efforts On Monday the
services of the Wisconsin Central were


brought into requisition, and specials
ran hither and thither as occasion re-
! quired. All who had commenced the
/ search remained in the woods during


Sunday and Monday


On Tuesday morning the excitement
| was intense. Another extra was sent UP
/ with nearly seventy men under the direc.
ton of W. G. Hinman


Another party of twenty took the reg.


ular train to Section 10, and started
from the track in northerly direction
These were under the charge of w. B


Buckingham, ESQ.,, cashier of the Cen


trail Bank of this city.


Other parties from Kenosha and othel
points were at the same time vigorously
| prosecuting the search in other direc
tions.


i 1t were utterly vain to convey any


conception of the prevailing excitement
Te1egrams were sent here and there al


along the line. The shrill whistle of tht
Year: 1874

1t was not until a Bridgeport woman
read the recipe in halfa dozen different
papers that she concluded to give it a
trial. We refer to that recipe which
says that "a tablespoonful of sawdust
placed in each boot will keep the feet
both dry and warm The husband of
this Bridgeport woman was always
complaining about cold feet, and so the
other morning she poured two table
spoOnfuls' of sawdust into his boots.
The result rather surprised her. He
slipped on his boots, ate his breakfast,
and started for his place of business.
He had not gone twenty-five yards
from the house before he retraced his
steps and commenced to crate on pro-
fame history. As soon as he got into
the dinning raom he assisted one boot
off with the toe of the other and kick
ed it against ten-dOllar mirror, while
its mate struck his seven-year-Old-sOn
on the headan made him yell Justify.
His wife, seeing that something allied
her husband, asked, Whats the mat
ter dear::' He said something that
sounded like Jam it!' gathered up his
boots and after emptying out the saw
dust, replaced them on his feet, and
shot out of the house, with his feet
warm clear up to the hair on his head.
His wife thinks maybe she used the
wrong kind of sawdust.
Year: 1874

PAPA, DoN'T BURY Me DEEP
In the spring of 1869, little girl died
in Vermont, of consumption, aged
eight years and three months. A few
days before she died, she called her faith
er to her bedside and said: Papa when
l die, don't bury me deep,-not more
than so Deep holding up her emaci-
ated arm, aud measuring from her
shoulder out. oh, it is SO hard to be
put down so deep in the cold ground!
and please don't put any marble slab
on my grave, it will be so dark under
it, and press so heavy on my little
breast. Sod my grave nicely and plant
tree at its head, so the wild birds
can come In its branches and sing for
me-" After a pause she continued:
But it seems to me would rather
have our birds. Couldn't you let
brother Willie and sister Emma bring
our cage of little birds out to the ceme-
terry, Sunday morning, and leave them
to sing to me all day? Then when you
are all at church it won't seem so lone
some out there by myself A few
days after Anna died, and her affec-
tionate parent did everything as she
requested.
Year: 1874

In his autobiography Ia Ten Min


ute Talks Elihu Burritt tells how he
studied mathematics. He couldn't af-
ford to attend school, 80 he used tn do
problems Sin his head while hammer
ing away at his anvil; here Is one Of
them: How many yards of cloth, three
feet in width, cut into strips inch wide,
and allowing half an inch to each end
for the lap, would 1t require to reach
from the centre of the sun to the centre
Of the earth, AID how much would II
all cost at a shilling a yard?' He wo'd
not allow himself to make o single fig
ure with chalk or charcoal in working
out this problem, and he would carry
home to his brother all the multiplica-
tions in his head, and give them of to
him and his assistant, who took them
down on their states, and verified and
proved each separate calculation, and
found the final result to be right.
Year: 1874

cannot close this basty and made
quate, yet fervent and hearty tribute,


without calling to your memory the
reverent spirit in which he pursued his
scientific labors. Nearly forty years
ago, in his first great work on fossil
fishes in developing his principle OF
classification, he wrote: "An invisible
thread in all ages runs through this
immense diversity, exhibiting, as Q
general result, the fact that there is q
continual progress in development,
ending in man. The four classes of
vertebrates present the intermediate
steps, and invertebrate are o constant
accessory accompaniment. Have we
not here an immense mind, as power
full rs prolific, the acts of an intelligence
as sublime as provident, the marks Of
a goodness as infinite as wise, the most
palpable demonstration of the existence
of a personal God, the author of all
things, ruler of the universe, and dis.
penser Of all good? This, at least is
what read in the words of creation"
But it is what he ever read, with pro-
found ave and admiration. To this
exalted faith he was invincibly loyal.
Now laws of nature were to him as the
eternal word of God. His repugnance
to Darwinism grew in great part from
his apprehension of its atheistical ten
dency-an apprehension which, at best,
/ cannot share, for ] forget not that
those theories now In the ascendant are
adopted by not q few determined Chris
tian men, and while they seem to me
not only unprOvable, I could deem
them truth without parting with one
iota of my faith in God and Christi
Yet l can best sympathize most hearth
ly with him in the spirit with which
he resisted what seemed to him to
lessen the majesty of the Master and
supporter of the Universe. Nor was
his mere theoretical faith. His whole
life, in its pervading spirit of service,
in its fidelity to arduous duties, in its
simplicity and truthfulness, bespoke
one who was sincerely fulfilling mis-
sion from God to his fellowmen.-Dr.
Pea6ody's Memorial Sermon.
Year: 1874

Tom was strapping, healthy boy,


with great appetite. He lived up In


the mountains among the charcoal


burners until he was 10. Then he


went down into the valley and hired


out to farmer. Tom was a scullion
and drudge, and fi,st along the farm


er hesitated to trust even the hogs to


his care. But there was a glimmering


of something in him that showed Just
u little through his uHcCuthneSs. After
iaborer-a broad-shouldered, deep
chested, powerful fellow, who made
himself clumsily useful. Well, about
that time the farmers daughter came
home from school. What revelation
she was to Tom. He never knew until
then what it was to worship anything,
nor how awkward and coarse be was.
He would have given all he had,
which was not much, to learn how to
get into q room without hitting the
door, or what to do with his hands, or
how to sit down right. He began to
change his clothes for better ones when
he came in from the days work, and
there was about him the dawning of
Finally the great day
came. He stood trembling before the
farmers daughter, the hard word was
spoken, and she did not repulse him.
think there Is nothing IL the life of q
man which so rouses and stirs him as
owe. Tom went to the wrestling
and what q vim there was in
him. He read, he went to church, he
wanted to see how good people acted.
And when, after good life, he grew
% be an old man, and talked In q trem-
bling voice to his grandchildren, he
lsed te say, 'Oh, what q wife she was


% me, Whatever became she made
ne.' The world is full of just such in
tances of blessed influence.
Year: 1874

A Bourbon paper says that most Of
the brains Of the Republican party came
out of the Democratic ranks We
knew the latter party had lost them,
but this Il the first confession OF the
fact, 90 far a. we have remarked.
Year: 1874

TIE FLowKR MISSION is In successful opera
ton In Baltimore, and the ladies propose, when
dowert and fruits begin to be scarce, to turn
their attention TO the furnishing Of proper
clothing, substantial food and other necessariee
for the aged and infirm.
Year: 1874

Done at the RECORD ofice in the best style
known to the art; and must be paid for ON de.
livery. unless persons having the work done
have standing accounts with the Office. No de
Walton from this rule.
Year: 1874

the cotton exchange has done great
deal to bring men in contact with each
other, and so pleasant are these "gather-
ingsS that whenever leisure hour is at
a merchants command he seeks the
change, for here he meets the buyer
and the factor, the agent and the manu-
facturer, oftentimes the planter from
some remotely fertile vale, and the Wis
itor from long distance. Each day
but increases the interest manifested in
the cotton exchange, which comprises
an array OF
Year: 1874

RwHEN DIR. Cox was living in Brooklyn
he kept a large do. in kennel in the
rear OF the house, the dog being some
what given to biting. The Doctor placed
over the kennel the admonition: Teeth
inserted here
Year: 1874

Between Oi,rselVeS, Lasaies-The
most inestimable of your charms Is a pe.fec
set of teeth, and nothing under the sun is as
certain to perpetuate that charm ask the daily
Use OF SOz0dSnt