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Year: 1877

Every franchise that is granted by the
city, government to be utilized for profit
able purpose should return to the city a
revenue proportionate to its value This
simple truth seems to be recognized now
by the city authorities; but difficulty
arises us to the principle upon which the
value Of the franchises shall be de-
termined. In the case Of the ferry leases
it has been determined to sell them, start
ing from an upset price fixed at five per
cent of the receipts This is objected to in
court by citizen who holds that it is not
just system of valuation. The habit
of citizens objecting in this way
should be encouraged. If their motives
are good they can do q great deal
to defeat those collusions by which the
city is so roundly robbed. But these objec-
tions themselves will stand scrutiny, as
they may be part Of the collusive scheme
intended to exhaust legal remedy. In
this case it should be noted the five per cent
system does not really pretend to fix the
value Of the leases It only gives a astarting
point. The value will be ascertained by
the bids and that will certainly be ''s mar
ket value"
Year: 1877

DR.. Draper and Professor Holden are the
fortunate discoveries Of another satellite
OF Mars, this making the third moon of that
planet. The attention attracted to the prin-
cipal stars of our solar system and
the increased telescope power available
for their examination will doubtless bring
within the range Of observation many
interesting celestial bodies hitherto I'M
known to astronomers The exciting news
of the first discovery by Professor Hall has
put all the scientists of the world on the
All viue, and new impetus has been given
to astronomical research. When we con-
slider that the superb instruments now in
use are but Improvements on the telescopes
of Newton and Herschel and are them
selves susceptible of improvement. the
future of astronomy promises grand
results to science. The depths OF the
heavens will be explored and new worlds
brought within the range of human vision.
Those already known will be examined with
greater exactness, and the variations of
their surfaces will become 10 q measure as
familiar to the student as those Of the earth
itself. Science makes no retrogression all
is advancement and gain /; and if knowledge
enters into the measure Of earthly happi-
ness then future generations will be happier
than onrs
Year: 1877

Suleiman Pacha's own report of the opera
tions on his front, in which he claims to
have captured important positions, frankly
admits that he has not captured the main
works of the Russians, and thus fatty con-
tradicts the story from Shumla published
yesterday. On the contrary it comedies in
all substantial points with the reports Of the
Russians themselves that as result of all the
fighting to Sunday night they have not lost
any ground that is essential to the success
of their operations in defending the pass.
Suleiman Pacha reports having found one
thousand Russian dead in the positions taken
by him, and the Russians, who declare
themselves ign GRANT Of the number Of their
dead, admit the loss of nearly three
was SO persistent and desperate that
the Turks were able to infict SO
severe q loss as this upon the Russians,
covered as these were by the nature of their
position as we'll as by their Notifications,
what was probably the loss inflicted on the
Turks, compelled to storm the position and
necessarily to advance tor some distance
without cover This loss We shall never
know, but it is probably double that Of
the Russians. As the battle seems to
have simmered down to mere
exchange of sharpshooters firing, it
would be interesting to know precisely what
the Turks are up to. An enterprising
commander in charge Of the Russian force
would have some curiosity on that head


They may be planning mischief at another
quarter, or they may be anxious in regard
to how they shall quietly get away from
shipka. The report that they are fortifying
points in the Tundja Valley likely means
that thew wish to cover their retreat.
Year: 1877

There is no longer any doubt that the
French government intends to prosecute NJ


Gambetts for words spoken in his speech at
Lille. It is charged that In that speech he
insulted the President. Various reasons
are given why this form is given to the
prosecution. One reason is that the charge
of exciting the people to hatred of the gov
ernment would have to be tried before u
jury, and would consequently be less under
the control of the Ministry, while it would
not be legally possible to prevent the report
of the trial in public journals. Another
reason is that this form is given to the trial
by the special provision OF the Duke
de Broglie, who it is said foresees
that the republicans will triumph in
the elections, and that M. Gambetta
will, by that result, be designated as
the necessary Prime Minister er-whose &C.
cession to office may. however, be prevented
by his conviction for insulting the Presi-
dent, upon the theory that the Marshal will
never accept as head Of the Ministry man
convicted Of insulting him. AS the trial for
insulting the President is before function
ary likely to be subservient to the Ministry
it is possible that it can not only secure
conviction, but also the imposition of the
extreme penalty of the law-which would
be imprisonment for one year. That would
be more serious obstacle to the elevation
OF tho republican leader to the Ministry
than the presumed difficulty OF the Presi-
dent on point of personal prejudice.
1t is probable that the Marshal is narrow
minded enough. however, to. put his
small conceptions of what is due to his dig
nifty in the balance against the known will
Of the country. That is in all lands and
under all systems one. of the chronic OBJ
stacles to good government 1t is the COM
mon bane Of monarchies, and our own ex-
perience is in evidence that it may be not
less fragrant source of scandals in republic.
That such prosecution as this is possible,
and that such motives can be alleged for it, ore
painful evidences to what degree France is
still the victim of desperate adventures in
politics. This species Of shameful abuse Of
power explains, however, if it does not
justify, the passions that are excited on the
opposing side and that sometimes fame out
80 terribly when the victims obtain absolute
possession Of power.
Year: 1877

A familiarity with the horrors Of the
famine Mt present raging in British India
makes the statisticinns almost fippant in
their accounts Of its progress. After in
forming the world that already half o
million of human beings have died of hun
ger and disease in the stricken districts they
warn us that 1.-The first big tragedy" is likely
soon to occur at Mysore. That bigger
tragedy is impending in one district than
the loss of half million Of lives seems at
the first glance to be an exaggeration.
But when we are told that the death
rate in the relief camps Of Madras amounts
to over one per cent day, and that
this awful loss Of life is taking place in
advance of the ''big tragedy" We cannot
refuse credence to the sinister prophecy. A
we'll informed writer states that fully six
millions must perish in Southern India
Yet, notwithstanding the fact of the famine,
the importations of Indian wheat into Eng
over one hundred thousand tons since the
famine has attained its present terrible
phase. Is it possible that the Indian gov
ernment can permit this export of food
from starving India? Surely famine prices
at home might satisfy the Indian specula-
tors in grain. AS cannibalism has COM
menced in the famine districts the statis-
ticians already quote children as worth a
rupee, or about fifty cents, each. At this rate
o hungry mother can have one days ration
Of rice by selling her baby.
Year: 1877

putting this policy in force it is found that
the lions skin is too little and the foxs Is
necessary. Mean cunning takes the place
of brave and magnanimous demeanor.
The Mexican authorities who take up the
pursuit take it up just enough to stop our
troops with a show of their activity, but not
enough to catch the rogues.
Year: 1877

CURIOUS REPoRTs.-If current rumors in the
coal regions true the miners are not the only
lawlcss persons in that section. The charge is
that some of the leading operators have done
their utmost to stir up strife among the work
ingnen and that the Molly Mag,iires have been
employed for that purpose. The object was to
advance tho price of coal ut the seaboard. These
charges should be investigated by compe-
tent authority, and if railroad men and capital
ists have been guilty, charged, public opinion
will demand their prompt punishment.
Year: 1877

The EXPERIENCE Of the new cab company
shows that fortune awaits some enterprisng
gentlemen in this line. With rapid transit and
cheap cabs in all parts of the city New York
will he the most delightful city in the world.
Year: 1877

poor? It's custody Of gold and greenbacks
in large amounts is o mere convenience to
the private individuals who deposit them,
but its custody of the money of the poor
would not be n matter of convenience but
of protection and safety. The rich are
competent to guard their own money, but
the poor are constantly defrauded and
robbed by trusting their scanty savings to
institutions Of whose solvency they have no
means of judging. By adopting the Eng
lish system the government would make a
handsome profit over and above the small
expense of conducting it,


A suitable rate Of interest for the govern
ment to pay on such deposits in this coun-
try would be 3 65-100 per cent, a rate which
would be fair to the depositors and conven-
lent for computation, being precisely one
cent day on hundred dollars, or one mill
day on ten dollars. The deposits could
be invested in four per cent bonds, and
the government would gain the difference.
The average deposits in the savings banks OF
the United States are at least twelve hundred
million dollars, and when the new system
Sot hiIiy III oPerdtioH uot AesS tIiah n'o
hundred millions would be constantly on
deposit with the government. The thirty
five one-hundredths Of one per cent which
the government would gain would amount
to the handsome annual sum of one million
six hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
which would be clear million more than
the system could cost, rs there would be no
additional expense either for rent or officers.
AS the government takes custody of the gold
and grecnbacks of the rich for nothing,
there is no reason why it should not keep
the money of the poor for handsome profit
Year: 1877

1t may not be generally known that
when person is drowning, if he is taken
by the arm from behind, between the
elbow and shoulder. he can not touch
the person attempting to save him, and
whatever struggles he may make will
only assist the person holding him in
keeping his head above water. A good
swimmer Can thus keep man above
water for an hour. If seized any where
else the probability is that he will
clutch the swimmer, and perhaps, as is
often the case, both will be drowned.
Year: 1877

SIDNEY BAPTIST CHuRCH.-Four beautiful
building lots joining this church and two nearly op-
p0site will be sold this Afternoon by DICKINSON
CHEwNISc. This property Is certain to enhance In
value. Persons wishing to put their money where 1t
will be safe and bring more than ten per cent? should
attend this great sale Of valuable real estate.
Year: 1877

A GREAT SALE OF VALUABLE LoTs.-Thi'
afternoon DICKINSON e CHEwNTyG will gel
twenty-five OF the most valuable BUILDING LoTt
around Monroe Park. Some Of the lots are on Frank
lin street, and within square of the Park.
Year: 1877

The poor crow finds every mans hand against him, notwithstanding the service he does to those who till the ground. If they do not kill him on sight, 1t is only because he is usually a match for even the most sharp sighted gunner. He is quite as fond of bugs and worms and little field mice and young snakes, as he is of the farmers corn. He is good policeman about the farmhouse and drives away the hawk, who can do twice the amount of damage he is guilty of. He hunts the grass fields and pulls out all manner of pests, and probably saves many other crops, if he is hard on the corn. A gen. tleman had tame crow who trotted out after him as he went out to wage his annual war on the squash bugs. His sable attendant put his head on one side and watched him few minutes, as if to see how he did it. Comprehending the business at last, he went for those bugs with will, and cleared the patch in fine style. He took it for business the remainder of the season, insuring a fine crop.-Oar Dumb Animdls.
Year: 1877

We sometimes hear of building houses on paper, but building house of paper is something of a novelty. Yet there is large manufactory in Wisconsin that keeps three mills constantly running on building paper, having capacity for the making of sixteen tons per day. The business was started by Yankee, of course; or rather by two of them. As long ago as 1857 the company began the manufacture of paper for building. The idea that paper could be cheaply and advantageously used in the erection of buildings-especially the home of the prairie farmer on the bleak plains of the Northwest-originat with them. They expended money freely in mills, machinery, patents and advertising, believing they had discovered the most effective and cheapest method for mak- ing building warm, dry and healthy, and that the paper would meet with public favor and find ready sale. They have now been manufacturing it nine years, and during that time have made and sold more than twelve thousand tons. It has been tested under all cir cumstances, and has been decided success.

 The paper used for building purposes is thick, hard paste board, wound in rolls of twenty-five to hundred pounds each, and usually thirty-two inches wide. While in process of manufacture it is subject to pressure of hundreds of tons, which compress the fibers together into one solid body, thus mak- ing an absolutely air-tight sheet, and as paper is one of the best non-conduc- tors known, it resists the action of both heat and cold; and SO building lined with it is made warm in winter and cool in summer. It does not shrink like lumber, and is not affected by frost, cold, heat or damppess, and it is known that it will not burn as readily as wood on account of it's hardness and solidity and by it's use house can be made al most, if not absolutely tight. It is far better for the retention of warm air in a building than an inch board.-Pape, Trade Reporter.
Year: 1877

Remember that in all things, if you do not begin you will never come to the end. The first weed pulled up in the garden, the first seed in the ground, the first dollar put in the sav- ings bank, and the first mile travelled on a journey, are all important things they make beginning, and thereby a hope, a promise, a pledge, an assurance that you are in earnest in what you have undertaken. How many poor, idle, hesitating outcast is now creeping and crawling on his way through the world, who might have held up his head and prospered, if, instead of put ting off his resolutions of industry and amendment, he had only made begin ning.-Ee.
Year: 1877

"Nobody ever repented of eating too little" was the sage remark of an old gentleman on the verge of ninety. next to whom the writer had the pleasure of sitting at dinner the other night. The host was pressing him to take more, and urging him in the usual phrase, "Why, you have eaten scarcely any thing" Now it is to be assumed that the old gentleman's words indicated one of the byways to good health along which he had travelled through his long life, and to which he owed his present remarkably hearty condition; so it was suggested to him interogatively that he had always been small feeder. "Yes," he answered. lever since 1 was two or three and twenty; up to that time was weakly fellow enough, and used to make the great mistake of trying to eat and drink as much as l could, in the hope of becoming strong All my friends and the doctors backed me up in my error, but fortunately I found it out in time. and" knocked off -as your modern slang has it-more than half of my usual amount of food and stimulants. I gave up the idea of making myself strong and merely strove to make myself, well. and so I was contented with eating just as much as could digest and no more. Of course it took little time and experi- ence to discover the precise limits; could not adopt the golden rule of al- ways leaving off with an appetite, be- cause never began with one. but by consistently erring on the right side I got hold of one of the great secrets of life-the secret of knowing when one had enough, and after year or two became so much better that used to find myself keenly ready to eat at meal time, and by degrees actually acquired an appetite. Then, once found, never destroyed it but always determinately rose with feeling that should like to eat more. Naturally the temptation for while grew greater as my diges- tion grew stronger, but was firm; did not behave ungratefully to my stomach, immediately presume upon it's increased powers by overlooking it, l did not live to eat, but only ate to live;

 

 and behold me! l have no need to be very particular as to what I eat, even at my time of life; I have only to be careful not to eat too much." Here in- deed is the secret of great deal that is amiss with many of us. We are in the habit of eating to much, more than our digestive powers can tackle. and that which is not assimilated more or less poisons. The system becomes overcharged, and gives any latent ten dency to disease within us every faci- lity for developing itself. The question is, not so much what to eat as what quantity to eat; and nothing but g sharp lookout kept by ourselves car give us the. answer.- Tsnslev's Maga. Sfnp
Year: 1877

HANDLING wood is always in demand. No one need fear that more will be pre- pared than can be consumed in an eco nomical manner. Hence, cut every old hoop into short pieces and split up every piece of worthless board and pile them up neatly beneath some shelter. Never allow old boxes, old tubs, old barrels that are ever ready to tumble down, nor other rubbish to accumulate in the eel lar, attic or barn. Reduce all such use- less articles to kindling wood, and thus keep the premises clear of old things that will never subserve better pur pose than fuel. Wood cut and split fine and properly dried is often more conve- nient and economical in hot weather than coal, especially when one needs but little fire.
Year: 1877

SOUR MILK CAKE.-One cup of sour milk, one cup of sugar, one half cup of butter, two cups of flour, one egg, one level teaspoonful of soda, half cup of raisins chopped, and spice to taste.
Year: 1877

Erplosiue Po,uer of Water.-Philoso- phers assure us that when they are en- abled to explode pure water without converting it into steam-as is believed to occur when an unusual volcanic eruption happens-a destructive in strumentality will have been made manifest which will utterly dwarf all our previous experience of explosives. Professor Piazzi Smyth said that he had momentarily caught this terrific power on one occasion, when, having pushed a single drop of water into 8 large ladle- full of melted lead, the whole of the metal was instantly dispersed in the air. Probably, also, the recorded de- struction of 8 certain copper foundry. through a workman splitting into a cauldron of molten copper, was due to the same awful Dotentiality.
Year: 1877

To MAKE Coop COFFEE. - French cooks are famous tor the excellence of their coffee which they make so strong that one part of the liquor requires the addition of two parts to reduce it to the proper strength. This addition is made with hot milk. The large proportion of hot milk In the place of so much warm water, gives the coffee richness like that made by the addition of cream in the ordinary way. By this means any housekeeper desirous of making good coffee, can have it without cream.
Year: 1877

To KEEP NAILS FROM RUsTING.- When nails begin to rust, it is almost impossible to stop them from becoming eaten away in very short time; in this case prevention is better than cure. Mix two pints of linseed oil with two ounces of black lead, stirring until the whole is thoroughly incorporated heat the nails red-hot and steep them in the mixture. They should then be well drained and shaken up in an old nail- bag until dry. The linseed oil and black lead cover them with a film of varnish which is impervious to wet. The above proportions will serve for an almost indefinite quantity.
Year: 1877

To SELECT FIsH.-In selecting fish see that the eyes are clear, the fins stiff and the gills red and hard to open. The sooner your purchase is cleaned the better; put it on ice if not used immedi- ately. It is difficnlt to tell how long it takes to cook fish, everything being conditional; at least, it ought always to be thoroughly cooked; when this is the case the flesh easily comes of the bones, which may be found out by trying it with sharp knife. To cook fish whole a fish kettle should be used to prevent breaking; this is long kettle with a false perforated bottom. The four principal ways of cooking fish are to boil, bake, fry and stew; though some are better broiled than fried, others are better roasted. Almost every fish is improved by sauce.
Year: 1877

Raindrops and Mathematician the particles of water or ice which consti- ute a cloud or fog are all of the same size, and the ar in which they are sus- tained is at rest or is moving uniformly in one direction, then these particles can have no motion relatively to each other. The weight of the particles will cause them to descend through the air with velocities which depend on thelr diameters, and, since they are all of the same size, they will all move with the same velocity.

 Under these circumstances, therefore the particles will not traverse the spaces which separate them, and there can be no aggregation so as to form raindrops or hailstones.

 If, however, some of the particles of the cloud or fog attain a larger size than others, these will descend faster than the others, and will consequently overtake those immediately beneath them; with these they may combine so as to form still larger particles which will move with greater velocity, and more quickly oyertaking, the particles at an increasing rate.

 Under such circumstances, therefore, the cloud would be converted into rain or hail according as the particles were water or ice.

 The size of the drops from such a cloud would depend simply on the quantity of water suspended in the space swept through by the drop in it's descent, that is to say, on the density and thickness of the cloud below the point from which the drops started. This is the actual way in which rain drops and hailstones are formed,-Na- | ture.