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Year: 1879

lie who is starving does not look to
sec if the profFered loaf be fresh or stale.


Those who have made mistakes anc
suffered for them are the ones to help
others to show that any error can be
atoned for.


You may m md rent in damaged
reputation 30 that it may not show, but
you can never make the reputation quite
whole again.


Beauty may attract love at first, but
it alone cannot retain affection. 1t is
the sterling qualities of the heart and
mind that win in the long run.


V love our friends all the time
when we are 80 absorbed in working for
them that we seldom think of them, as
we'll as when telling them of our regards.


Weaao not, in our own minds, have a
secret contempt for the work of the
great man we do not know intimately,
but we have for the work of the one we
do know.


Flow beautiful is youth A little moon
shine, a few musical water-drops, the
strain of song, and the young heart
experiences poetry as it never could be
entrusted to paper.


1t is a dreary sensation to find ones
self wholly forgotten by mere acquaint-
auces; but to find that we have no place
in the thoughts of those We love, seems
in q certain sense like being annihilated.


The profoundest calm always seems
to come inst after the most terrific
storm. The exaltation OF spiritual rap
ture follows fast after far descent into
the gloomy Hades OF the soul. Life is
q series OF alterations st best and he
who mounts highest to-day sinks deep
est tomorrow.
Year: 1879

The popular cure for warts, and other


like excrescences, are very numerous,


and vary in almost every county. One
mode of charming them away is to take
an elder shoot and rub it on the part;
then cut as many notches on the twig as
you have warts, out it in place where
it will soon decay, and, as it rots away,


the warts will disappear. This IS a
southern charm. In Yorkshire, and
throughout the north generally; the
cure for warts is to take black snail
and rub the excrescences with it, then
impale it on thorn, and leave it to per-
ish. As it dries up and disappears, the
warts will vanish. According to another
form of the charm. the warts must be
rubbed with fresh snail for nine sue
cessivo nights. Still another wart
harm is to take the shell Of a broad
bean, and rub the affected part with the
inside thereof; bury the shell, and tell
no one about it, and, as it withers away,
30 will the warts.--AW the Year Round.
Year: 1879

A very successful merchant in large
New England city once remarked to the
writer: II always advertise most when
times are dull. In busy seasons it is
only necessary to keep my name bsforo
the public; I am sure to got my share
of the spontaneous traffic. But when
business is light then I illuminate my
broadsides of special bargains, and then
is just when special bargains are sought
for" This remark was recalled recently
by the complaint Of a gentleman who
was making purchases in this city for
fitting up house, and who remarked
the scarcity OF advertisements of articles
of which he desired. II of course
know" said he, "the names of several
large houses which sell carpets, but I
find comparatively few of them men,
toned in the columns OF any OF your
New York newspapers. In buying
crockery have groped almost entirely
in the dark. I have found few adver-
tisements of furniture Zone of the firms
has profited from me by it's announce
ment), but I have passed by scores OF
other HOUSES which I did not enter be-
cause had not even q newspaper &C.
quaintance with them; while in buying
other thinps-a refrigerator, for instance
Il had to learn from friends where they
are to be found"


Our merchants must decide for them
selves the lesson of such complaint,
and how much of it applies to each OF
them. The newspapers are, of course,
glad to print their advertisements; that
is part OF newspapers business. But
the fact that all our daily leading news.
papers have been able to pass through
the period OF financial depression with
out lessening their enterprise in the mat
ter OF news, while they have confessedly
felt temporary loss Of advertising busi-
ness, is proof that they have perma-
nent constituency of readers to rely
upon; and this gives them greater conf
dence in maintaining that their columns
are the best means of communication
between the public and the class OF
people who have wants to supply and
money to spend-New York Evening


pna}
Year: 1879

In Moscow, Russia, q goodly sized
book Was published recently in 7indi-
cation OF the rights Of the subject. The
work contained stipging sarcasms aime.l
at the venality of the officials, with
satirical and humorous allusions to
bribe-taking and other iniquities. Even
the czar himself WAS handled without
gloves, his acts were fearlessly de-
nounced, and powerful argument was
adduced in behalf of the rights OF his
subjects. The mal-administration OF
law was set forth in strong, plain Ian
guage.


The book attracted general notice
but this was bad for the author. He
was arrested and thrown into prison.
After a short and summary trial his
production was pronounced libel, and
he was condemned "to eat his own
words" or suffer the punishment OF the
knout. This terrible instrument OF tor
ture is in the shape of long whip or
scourge, and is composed OF many
tough thongs of thick, hard skin, plait-
ed together and interviewer with strands
of stout wire. The criminal is stripped,
and is firmly bound to two stakes which
are sufficiently wide apart to admit the
free motion of the head. The blows are
laid upon the bare back, every stroke
cutting like knife, and soon the victim
OF the scourge is a shapeless mass OF
blood and flesh. One hundred blows is
equivalent to a death sentence. This
was the alternative OF the unhappy
author.


The day fixed for carrying the SEN
tence of the court into execution arrlv-
ed. A large platform was erected in
one of the public. squares OF the city.
Bound hand and foot, the victim OF des.
potic power was seated in the center OF
the platform. An immense concourse
Of people had gathered to witness tho
strange spectacle. The imperial pro.
vost, the magistrate, the physician and
the surgeon of the czar were in attend
ance. The obnoxious book had been
separated from it's binding, and, as an
act of grace, the margin had been cut
off. The leaves were then rolled up,
not unlike cigar lighters. And there
they wers-a bssketful Now the meal
began. Amid roars of laughter from
the ignorant and degraded populace,
the provost served the author leaf By
leaf with his own production, putting
the rolls of paper one by one into his
mouth. BE slowly chewed and swal-
lowed one-third of his book, when the
medical gentleman concluded he had
received into his stomach as much of the
innutritious material as was compatible
with safety. he was then reconducted
to his cell to digest his meal. The two
following days the same scene was en-
acted, until every leaf was swallowed,
and as matter Of fact he was compelled
to literally eat his own words and feast
on his own fun.
Year: 1879

To ascertain the length OF the day
and night any time OF the year, double
the time of the suns rising, which gives
tho length OF the night end double the
time OF its setting, which gives the
laDgth of the day.
Year: 1879

much discussion about Congress, and as
test of its Importance, is being sent broad
cast by the special correspondents, who
have also interviewed other Senators as to
its merits. The common remark among
Democrats is that it is bill which, while
possibly faulty in some details, is on the
whole one on which the Democrats can
unite that it is calculated to unite all op-
position to the Republican party on the
question, except the fiat money people and
the extreme gold men.
Year: 1879

The Board met in regular session. all the
members present and President Bell in the
chair.


The Engineer was directed to stake off the
line of Mill street, from Front street to the
Ohio River.


The Contractors weekly bills were Or
dered paid.


A resolution directing the Clerk to trans
NIT to Council an ordinance appropriating
the sum of $500 from the General Fund for
printing the report of the Committee ap-
pointed to investiga the Southern Rail
road affairs, was adopted.
Year: 1879

The Committee on Commerce had another
meeting this morning on Harrison's bill
for free ships. Ex-Congressman Lynch, of
Maine, made speech in opposition to the
bill. No action was taken by the Commit
Year: 1879

The facilities OF the HERALD Steam
Printing House for doing job work are not
surpassed In California outside of San
francisco and Sacramento. All work en-
trusted to Us will be executed with neat
ness and dispatch at the lowest living
rates.
Year: 1879

Unmarried ladies of uncertain age are said
to be interested in marry time events.


Boatmen never row with their roars of
laughter, though they are usually merry
blades.


Another young man missing. But then the
sleighing and moonlight naturally turn q
young mans fancies to thoughts of love.


The irony of the law is shown when black
smith is sentenced for forgery.


When man gets bald in Colorado they say
his head has got above the timber line.


There is believed to be only one thing slow
er than molasses in January and that is a la
dy making room for another lady in street
car


When you can't remember what your wife
told you to bring home, get hair-pins. They
are always handy in the house.


A gossip ought not to rank as the equal of
a sagacious clam; for the clam knows TO
nicely when TO shut up, but the gossip does
not.


How do you make a Maltese cross ?" was
the question before the institute And one
of the school-marms answered; Tread ON
her tail.


Pants for s. ?" said eedy-looking man,
reading the sign in the window of a clothing
store he was passing-"so do /. never pant
ed so for 50 in all my life"


physicians little daughter, called upon
for a toast, gave The health of papa and
mamma and all the world" But she sudden
ly corrected the sentiment, mot all the
world, for then papa would have no pa
tients."


Hostess Whispering to distinguished
amateur)-'I want you to sing next" Dis
tinguished amateur (whose voice is not quite
what it used to be)-"I thought l wasn't to
sing till quite the end" Hostess "Ycs-but
there are not ices enough, and want some of
the people to 60"


A great many years ago poor beggar ex-
planned his ragged appearance by observing
Il have no money to buy new clothing, and
mend can't" And his class have been call
ed mendicants ever since.


The dreadful peryersity of types is again
illustrated by the case of a sentimental novel
ist who, describing his heroine as one who
always kept modestly in the background"
was Mortified to find it recorded in print that
she always kept modesty in the back
ground"
Year: 1879

GEN. "JoE' HooKER.-The third command
er Of the Army of the Potomac, Gen. Joseph
Hooker, is living in even more obscurity than
either Burnside or Mcclellan. He has cor
ner room in A. T. Stewards hotel at Garden
City, n. V, with servant in a room adjacent,
and there the old General who has paralysis in
one side and walks with some difficulty, sits
down with his secretary and reads works ON
military science and the memoirs of the va
rous Generals. Federal and onftderate who
have been publishing since his day. Hooker
is quite well of that is, he has an income of
perhaps $4,000 year and 10 posterity or
wife. He lives with young man who acts
as his clerk and groom. At the close of the
war he married lady of amiable mind and
excellent character and Independent fortune,
the sister of Mr.. Groesbeck, the Cincinnati
lawyer Not long after the marriage he was
stricken with paralysis His devoted wife
nursed him so faithfully that she broke down
and died leaving him her heir, and making
the old soldier independent for the remainder
of his broken days * Cor. Exchange
Year: 1879

Colliery mules sometimes live MANY


years without seeing daylight, as theIy


are only taken out of the mines when


work is entirely suspended. The mules


are used in hauling cars of coal from
the various parts of the mine to the foot
or slope of the shaft, from where it is


hoisted to the surface by steam. The
mules 60 to work with the miners and
continue until evening They are sta
bled in the mine and are carefully at
tended to. Strange to say, coats of
mules working in collieries are singular
ly smooth or glossy-and miners attrib
ute it to the coal dust that settles on the
hair and polishes it. The lead mule in
team always carries miners lamp
attached to his collar; but miners say
the lamp is unnecessary, as the mules
never get off the track in the dark. In
some places where it is not convenient
to haul the cars, mules are trained to
push them, and it is not uncommon to
see dozen of the animals working in
that way. In pushing cars the mule is
provided with heavy breast-pad in
stead of the ordinary harness. The
ample time mules have for reflection
does not, however, seem to improve
their dispositions, as every mining re-
port contains accounts of men and bows
who have been kicked to death or Sc
verely injured by them Owing to the
teasing of driver-boys, mules
occasionally become so savage. that they
can not be approached at Miners
Journal
Year: 1879

Prof. f. L. Harrington of this city has


invented, completed, and tried satisfac-


torily Il machine which is certainly a


novelty in the way of locomotion. In


appearance on side view it presents


considerable resemblance to bicycle,


but 1t Is intended to run on the water


instead of on land. The wheel is four
feet in diameter and seven inches
through. Near the outer rim are six
teen paddles, similar to those used on
the paddle-wheel of steamer. The
interior OF the wheel is supplied with
air-chambers for buoyancy, and with
water-chambers for balance. The sad
die is placed further back and lower
than in the improved land-bicycle.


Ireadles for the feet are provided, and
these are connected with gearing attach
ed to crank turned by hand, SO that in
propelling the machine either the hands
or feet or both together may be used.
The buoyancy of the wheel is about 400
pounds. Running back of the wheel are
shafts, connecting, not as i'm the bicvcle
with smaller wheel, but with two arti-
flclal fish OF cedar resting on the water
side by side. These fish serve the same
in balancing the machine as the
small wheel does in the bicycle, and also
serve as rudder to guide the direction
OF the machine. The whole weight of
this novel apparatus is about seventy
pounds. MIR. Harrington has tried It
successfully, and finds no difficulty in
it OF keeping it balanced i'm
the water, though its possibilities as re-
CARDS speed have not yet been fairly
tested. He will soon exhibit it on the
river, and will give an exhibition of its
powers at Orion Lake next Friday
Detroit Post
Year: 1879

put large handful of hen manure, or about
one-fifth as much phosphate. The Wyman,
too, was total failure. The heads seemed
diseased; they would grow to q reasonable
size; not very hard, but rather soft; and
would commence rotting on the stump be-
fore the head was fit to use. did not get
five per cent. OF good heads from the Wy
man. There was no question about the fer
tility of the soil. Next was the Early Sum
mer (Henderson's). This cabbage may do
we'll in warm climate; it makes a fine


looking head quite round and reasonably
bard. There was some doubt in my mind
about the fertility of the piece where this
sort grew. The Stonemason did not do well
for me, and find by talking to gardeners
around here that neither the Stonemason or
Wyman seems to head well. The Flat
Dutch is reasonably good cabbage, but
may do better with me another year under
more favorable circumstances. Last and
best comes Fottler's. put this out at the
same time did the previously mentioned
sorts, and it was but little behind them in
point of eariness, and in quality it was
extra good. Too much can hardly be said
in its favor. TO say the least think lost
800 the last season by difference in variety
Of cabbages. The first load of Fcttler's
cabbages took to Cory was Sept. A. My
customers said they were the incest cabbages
they ever saw. They asked what made
them so heavy; it seemed as if they were
full of stones. They were the finest in fla
vorI ever saw. sold at two cents per
pound. Imagine one of IS pounds, and not
q very large one either! One popularity
aRa1it them that | noticed was that however
large or small, they were sure to be hard
and healthy and not one do remember as
being lousy.-Cor. Country Gentleman.
Year: 1879

WE would urge our farmers, and espec-
tally those who are not well enough fixed
to lose one season, not to devote themselves
too exclusively to any particular branch of
husbandry, as mixed husbandry is surest.
and taken one year with another, pays best.
The prospect is that we are to have splen-
did grain season. But little trouble is an
ticipated from grasshoppers, and those who
SOW will in all probability reap largely. Tt
is also fair to presume that prices, though
perhaps less than are realized at present,
will he good. Should such prove true, grain
raising would perhaps pay best, but the
wisest predictions often fail, and for fear
this might be one of the instances, we think
it would be best to diversity the crop as
much as possible.


The profits Of farming are small, but men
prefer to follow it on account of its certain
ty. If then we would follow q calling for
this reason, it is certainly logical to pursue
the safest course known to that calling. One
OF the principal aims Of the farmer should
be to make his farm self-sustaining-pro
duce all the necessaries Of life as far as pos
sble-it gives him independence. The
greater the variety the better this is accom-
plished.
Year: 1879

wards Him who giyeth rain and fruitful sea-
sons. 1t curbs inordinate ambitions, by
yielding moderate remuneration for toll.
while at the same time it imparts feeling
OF quiet confidence in the future, from the
declaration that while the world stands seed
time and harvest shall not cease. The youne
man brought up to till the soil begins to feel
gradually that the rewards of his toll are
proportioned to his labor. and this imparts
by degrees aspirit of self-reliance, which
begets independence, and an amount of in
dustrions activity worth more to that young
man IN his after conflicts with the world
than the Inheritance Of unearned thousands.
Year: 1879

At this season of the year there are a great
deal of trimmings and prunings which come
in we'll for pea sticks if only thought of in
time. Of late years it has been thought too
much trouble to look after these things. and
to foster this feeling the seed men have in
trodtlced dwaris and other varieties which
need no stalking they say; but which never
bear half as much as those which are pro
v;ded with these aids to the young pea in
its efforts to get on in the world. The idea
also that peas need no stalking prevails be-
cause those who grow them for market let
them trail on the ground as they will But
this is only because it suits their particular
style of culture best, and not because it will
yield the most peas. Besides if this We're
not the case it would be hardly possible to
get sticks Or labor enough to cover acres of
ground.


1t may be as well to remark that in pea
culture it is an important element of success
to get them in the ground early. They are
tolerably hardy. A little frost will not hurt
them. and they like to get well on before
eaiS ""i la WCtets'Ci CoiiicS' IHuceu tiiC Pea
does not like warm weather. 1t is native
ofcool climates, and as soon as hot and dry
weather comes it gets mildewed or other
wise diseased. The best playground is
therefore cool strong soil, and if the pea
stakes can be provided, so that the luxnri
ant growth will not close in and sutfocate
all together, good well-decomposed manure
helps the crop wonderfully. The best writ
ers on garden vegetables claim that for peas
it is best to have the ground well-manured
the year before the crop is sown, so as to
have it we'll decayed, as rank manure makes
more foliage and less peas, while well de-
composed manure seems to help the seed
more.--G Germantown Telegraph.
Year: 1879

WASHINGToN, August THE Prcsi-
dent and Secretary Of State are firmly
convinced that no sXigency is likely to
arise through the Darien Canal project
which can cause disQuietude or make II
necessary for this Government to take
steps for the protection OF American in
terrstS. They believe NJ. De Lesseps
and the Paris Congress have selected an
impracticable route and that the scheme
will eventually fail through the lack OF
financial support and American cooper
alton.


New GoEK, August THE subscrip-
ton list for stock OF the Inter-OceaniC
canal closed this afternoon at the office
the NeS NOrS Agency of Credit Sec
retary Maillard stated that he conld not
tell the number OF shares subscribed iOr
i'm this city, because there were other
agencies here besides the one he was
connected with, who reported directly
to DeLesSepS, at Paris. He thought
however. that the amount OF stock sub
Sribed for here was every small.
Year: 1879

the railroad and general agent OF the
Volcanic Company, and Mr.. Staples,
manager of that company, inform us
that the buildings belonging to that cor
poration will be put up again at an early
DAY. Threats have been made that the
rest OF the town will be burned soon,
and the citizens are on the alert.
Year: 1879

PROVIDENCE, August THE Wallace
Committee began its investigation here
by inquiring into the operation OF the
provision OF the State constitution CIV
ing suffrage only to such foreign born
citizens as possess real estate valued at
S13l q
Year: 1879

Everybody should take notice of the an
nouncements made for sport at Jerome
Park on Tuesday next. AS election day is
holiday, and one that is likely to be su-
premely dull to the citizen who only votes
once and does that early, the thoughtful
ness OF the Jockey Club in providing an
extra days racing to save the lives of all
those VINO would otherwise die of ennui is
worthy the consideration of the humane So
ciety. and should meet with an enthusiastic
recognition on the part of the public.
Jumpers are especially favored, as the pro-
gramme shows a mile and quarter handi-
cap over hurdles and a grand handicap
steeplechase on the long course, which
should be a picturesque and exciting race.
All the clubs, the American Jockey Club,
the Coney Island and the Coaching clubs
and the Queens County Hunt. will
turn ont in force. 1t will be a
good day SO far as the arrangements
of committees can effect result OF that
nature. Favorable weather and the pres
ence Of the public, or Of fair majority,
are necessary elements of great success
in such cases, and if the public will turn
out freely it is believed that arrangements
are made, or can be made, for weather
of the right kind. Unless the weather man
miscalculates his own powers or betrays
those who have dealt with him this point is
certain
Year: 1879

endeavor to perpetuate sectional disputes
and animosities the people are at work;
capital and labor are combined once more
for the increase of the country's wealth;
the cotton crop, greater than ever before,


bellies the assertions that the South is
idle and demoralized; the immense grain


crops prove that the necessary redis-


tribution of industry has been going
on healthily during the period of de-
preston and that multitudes have re-
turned to the land for their living. Every
circumstance shows that the great prostra-
ton was wisely used by the people, and
that we to-day produce and manufacture
more cheaply than ever before, and are
thus prepared by the hardships, happily
passed, to secure q large share of the worlds
commerce whenever we choose to reach out
for it. Who cares what the politicians say !?