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Year: 1878

In one tribe through whose territory


we passed after leaving Tanganyika,


Lieutenant Cameron found the women
much more regarded than is usual among
the Africans, and consequently they


we're far more fashionable than the rest
OF their sex in that happy country. One
Of the bellies of the country is thus de
sc,ibed in Cameron's journal: "She is a
merry sort Of a person, this Mrs. PAX
wanya and really lady-lke in her man
ners. 1t was great fun showing her Q
looking glass. She had never seen one
before, and was half afraid Of it. and
ashamed to show che was afraid. She is
dressy body, double rows of rOwries
areund her head, besides copper, iron
and ivory ornaments stuck in her hair,
and lust above and in front of each ear
tasscl of red and white beads. A large
necklace of beads was around her neck


aud around her waist a string OF opal
co'ored sinsgomszzi and a rope made oI
red beads. Her front apron was a leop


ard skin and the reai one Of grass cloth


with its fringe strung with beads and
cowries sewed on in pattern bright
iron rings were around her ankles and
copper and ivory bracelets were on hel
arms; her hair was shayen little back
from the forehead, and three lines, eacl
about quarter OF an inch wide; were
painted below The nearest one 10 III,
hair was red, the next black and the mex


white. Her upper lip was perforated
and piece of stone inserted, until tn,
upper lip protruded couple of inches
giving hideous expression to the fac


and making her articulation indistinct.
Year: 1878

The Philadelphia Ledger suggests
that the benefits OF the eight hour law
might be EXTENDED to a much larger class
if it was made to apply to the working
hours OF housewives, with special clause
providing that the babies should sleep
during the hours devoted to the rest and
recreation OF the mother.
Year: 1878

RUSSIA has purchased the steamer
Saratoga, one of the fastest OF the line
running between New York and Havana.
Unless peace is soon assured Russia will
gather handsome fleet at any rate.
The United States has few more steam.
ers to sell, and we hope will soon be in a
condition TO build vessels for all the
world.
Year: 1878

A SIMPLE method of postal delivery is
said to prevail in Spanish provincial
town. Those who expect letters come
to the postoffice and form queue, The
postmaster then hands all the letters he
has received, in basket, to the first
conner, who looks through them leisurely,
takes his own, if any, and passes the
basket to the person Immediately behind
him, and this goes on until the basket is
emptied or the queue exhausted
Year: 1878

Ny son, learn not thou even the hum-
bic art of basket making or other skill
with thy hands, for by so doing thou
wightest at some future day be enabled
to provide thyself with honest bread.
Nay, rather improve thyselt in those
ancient games yclepted polo and base
ball, the exercise of the which shall
furnish thee much muscle wherewith to
break stone when in prison. Courier
Journal.
Year: 1878

approved by a menacing and ignorant public
sentiment, was laid before him for his sigma
ture. But President who confines his action
upon such vital measures to routine message
and hopeless veto, disappoints us at least as
sadly as hard-money Senator who only casts
a silent vote.


When Mr.. Hayes came into Office the finan-
cial question was the one great issue, the one
great danger. 1t menaced the honor OF the
American name, the business OF the whole
Nation, the tranquility OF society, the future
of the Republican party. The settlement OF
that question ought 10 have been the work OF
his Administration there was nothing else
cOmparable to it in Importance ; and IL he had
comprehended the situation, and possessed
any aptitude for the art of government, he
would have shaped positive financial policy
at once, and brought the party squarely up
to the support of it. But he lacks
the sense of proportion. In his eagerness
to get at the NewYOrk Custom House he for
got about the finances He strained propriety
and consistency to get a fayOrite into the
United States Senate, and the gentleman
never did anything there but attack the Ma
tional credit. 4Ie chose his Cabinet without
any regard to the one Ovcrshadowing issue,
and hence we have the extraordinary spccta-
Gle of o hard-money President at this critical
time, surrounded by mixed circle of inhar-
monious counsellors, in which the cheap-dolar
facton is strongly represented. And during
the wear of doubt and conflict III Con-
grcss he did absolutely nothing to com
mend his financial policy to the favor of the
men whose votes must support or defeat 1t.
Can we wonder that he has had "no intlucnceT
We do not mean that he ought to have johbed
out the patronage, and offered appointments
in exchange for votes. But there are hun
dled ways in which a President can exercise
Il perfectly legitimate influence upon the leg
islators of his party, and Mr.. Hayes is the
first President who has not done so.
Year: 1878

Nothing in the thrty-second annual statement
of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company
indicates any touch from the waves OF trouble
which have been beating against so many trust CON
ccrns Its business during last year does not seem
TO have fallen oil. It's assets have increased by
about one and one-third million dollars, making
their net total forv-fye millions: and providing an


abundant surplus. at the low rate for interest
with which the State law accredits the investments
10 meet future claims. The expenses of this
company have always been kept low; last year
they were only 7.14 per cent of the receipts.
neat point is made i'll the annual statement, which
is greatly to the credit of the management
Opposite to the line Net premiums in
course of collection there is simply the word
None Evidently there is no chance here for
losses such a. too many companies have had TO re-
cord, of balances in agents hands.
Year: 1878

with reserve. Were the peace terms better.
the Cubans might do well to accept them and
wait for another opportunity, but they are
now assured little more than the barren priv
ilege of representation in the Cortes as the
price of their submission.
Year: 1878

There seems TO be good deal of gusty political
weather in Boston, notwithstanding the fact that
the sun of Civil Service Reform is shedding its mild
radiance over the Custom House. Simmons has
advertised his intention to remove himself alto
gcthcr rs disturbing element, but that active gem
tlcman may find the lilies and languors OF virtue"
IN private station dull exchange for g the roses
and raptures Of politics. Indeed, it is safe to bet
that the very next convention Will experience some
manipulation from his practiced hand. and if So
blue blood is liable to be coplously spilled in the
I'm,
Year: 1878

1t is very we'll TOR the silver lunatlcs
to divert>the attention of the country
from the graver financial questions that
beset us, by raising hullabaloo about
the dollar of the daddies y but what,
we should like to know, has become of
the sausage of our sires This is con-
undrum that touches the well-being of
the people at their most sensitive point
their breakfast table. And yet, Con-
gress pays no attention to it. No West
ern statesman gets anybody to write him
speeches about it. No authorities are
cited, no essays written, no meetings
held, to ascertain the fate or demand the
restoration of the sausages of 1910, and
the times thereunto connected.


In those good old days, when there
was no national dispute as to how many
cents there are in dollar, how many
inches to foot, or how many ounces in
a pound, there was standard sausage.
1t was made directly after pig-killing
time. for good and sufficient reasons
because the thing stuffed, and the stuff
ing itself, held close relations te the
pig. The pedigree of the sausages was
not then uncertain. Faith was not es-
sential to a happy breakfast, because.
as Mr.. Weller put it in relation to real
pies, we ''know the lady as made EN-
And what jolly time the making was
The bags of sage and other pungent and
fragrant herbs were brought down from
the garret or the rafters; ''chopping
sKTftTuI C6ucn ur gffoucrntevarer-----
voked to direct the seasoning and mix
ing fathers strong hands worked "the
sutherland woe to the too curious
youngster who stood near by when some
tender skin gave way


The result was a sausage that was
neither chopped SO fine that no mortal
could tell what the meat was, nor left
SO coarse that it had-alas mo room
for doubts that wasn't peppered so
high as to destroy the favor, nor made
so fat that it fried away to few uncer-
tain crumbs. The sausages of the faith
ers was tender, juicy, fne-favored,
toothsome and satisfying. You didn't
need machine meat chopper to eat it
with, nor the pouch of an ostrich to di-
gest it. You didn't partake of it with
dubious faith in your butcher, or
taste it for thirty-six hours after eating.
The conglomerate commercial sausages
labelled country" but with the trail
of the city meat-grinder over them all
had not then been invented.


There were stomachs, too, in those
old days. Any man could flank a pile
of steaming buckwheat cakes, or gen.
erous plate of Johnnycake, with big
link of crisp sausage. moistened with the
brown gravy, and make breakfast that
would carry him through two hours Of
choring, three hours of chopping, and
perhaps a few miles of skating thrown
in for sport. The breakfast of tea and
toast, soft boiled egg, or a two ounce
/


chop, had not then come into fashion
except for sick people and city folks


We suppose there are honest and true
sausages still made; but since they be.
came the butt for jokes, and were made
by the ton, and displayed under fancy
and popular titles at every corner gro
Gerry, we have lost our interest in them


The sausage of the sires is no more !


Golden Rule.
Year: 1878

The demand for Senator VOORHEES,
great speech on the silver question, was
very great IN this city yesterday. Not
outstanding We printed the substance Of
the entire speech, filling several columns
OF the REGISTER the appetite of the
public was unsppessed, and we could
have distributed hundreds of copies OF
the full text OF that grand document if
we hsd had them.
Year: 1878

The Bsrnesville EaterUrtss thinks it
speaks well ior the property of the city
OF Wheeling that there is no delinquent
tax list in the papers. There Is no law
providing for its publication is the reason
there il no list.
Year: 1878

That gold msy be beaten 70 such a
state of thinness as to readily transmit
greenish light is fact that has been long
known and this property has been used
by the gold beater as practical test of
the purity of the precious metal, mas
much as the smallest admixture of silver
with the latter causes perceptible
change of tint in the transmitted light
At recent meeting of the New York
Academy of Sciences, there was ex-
hibited film of gold (mounted between
two plates of glass for protection against
injury) which was stated to be the thin
nest "leaf" of this metal that has az yet
ever been produced. The method by
which this remarkable result was OBJ
tanned is very simple, yet one that requires
considerable delicacy of manipulation.
An exceedingly tenuous film of gold
having been, by means OF a galvanic
battery, deposited on the surface of an
ordinary dsguerreotype plate Of copper,
the latter metal was afterwards dissolved
away by the action of nitric scid,
and the gold film caught on plate of
glass.


The property of translucsncy, when in
films, has, until q comparatively short
time ago, been regarded as one peculiar
to gold alone; the reason being. perhaps,
that but few metals besides gold can be
successfully hammered to the necessary
degree of tenuity. In this respect, in
deed, no metals but silver and platinum
have been found to approach TO gold.
The interesting discovery has been made,
however, that by means OF electricity
thin films, not only of gold but of the
other metals, can be obtained which
transmit light very readily. The method
of obtaining these tenuoua sheets of
metal is by causing electric sparks to pass
from wires of the required metals passing
into tubes Of rarefed air or other gases,
when the PARTICLES of metal, detached
from the wires by the sparks, become
deposited on the sides of the glass, form
ing an excessively thin film, quite con-
tinuous under the microscope. Or the
metallic ilms thus produced gold trans
mits fine green light; silver gives a
fine blue color; copper, a dull green
platinum, blush gray; zinc, deep
blush gray iron, tint nearly neutral,
butinclining to brownish: and cadmium,
like zinc, a blush gray
Year: 1878

Professor Rolleston gave a lecture at
the London Institution on % The History
of Some Our Domesticated Animals" +"
In introducing the subject he dwelt on
the civilization of the human race in con-
nection with the domestication of animals,
showing how civilization advanced with
the development of demonstration. IT is
difficult to conceive how man could have
made any progress in civilization till be
had bsasts of burden and trained animals
TO help him in hunting. As an illGstra-
tion of the evolution OF domestication the
substitution was mentioned Of the horse
for the OK for the beast of burden, as it
was gradually found that it was more
profitable to keep the OK IN good condi-
tion for food. The domestication of
birds appears from what evidence we
have, to have commenced long subse-
quently to that of the mammals. The
study of the remains of the human
occupancies often contributes to knowl-
edge OF the origin Of the people. For
example, the goat remains found IN the
lake dwellings point TO the people having
come from a warmer district and
having taken that useful milk-pro-
ducer with them. We have no
record, no tradition even, rs
to who first attempted domesJication !;
but there is, Professor Rolleston thinks,
sufficient reason for believing that the
dog was the first animal to be domesti-
Gated, the pig the second, and the OK the
third The methods for calculating the
history of domestication are, for pre-his-
toric times, the study of the remains of
pile dwellings and other living places,
burial places and peat moses. The stalls,
sites, kennels, stables and gardens of to-
day supply knowledge of some OF the
effects of training. Coins and monu-
ments supply useful historic evidence,
but the absence of representations Of
animals from those of any particular
period must not be taken to imply they
were not Familiarity known. In consid-
eripg the evolution of the domestication
of the dog, it seems probable that as
men used pitfalls for the capture of ami
mails for food, and these pits would con-
tain remnants attractive to dogs, the
dogs would soon be attached TO the pits,
would have an interest in their being
we'll supplied, and would join with men
in driving animals, and thus common
interest caused a mutual attachment.
In the concluding portion of the lecture
the effects of kindness in training were
referred to and kindness to all animals
advocated.-I London Times.
Year: 1878

During Wednesday nights session of
the House, Representative Kirkwood
advocated the passage of the bill based
upon the Blair resolutions to investi-
gate Hayes title to the Presidency.
lie said "He could not subscribe to tho
policy of some Democrats that it were
better to let the matter stand as it was.
He said if Congress failed to investi-
gate, it would become party to the
fraud"


We are of the unanimous opinion
that Congress can very well afford to
bear any odium -,hicL ma, attach to n
refusal to crafty the personal desire or
ambition OF few nal-coutcnts, and
the Democratic party in both Houses.
will acquire much more lasting capital
by a Ftrict attention to needed legisla-
ton for the benefit OF the country at
large, than through any amount Of
dabblIng in the late election nastiness
Year: 1878

EUEEKA Republican,: A very tall man
with a Lushy beard. tremendous
slouch hat, ared shirt on and his pants in
his boots. went into small saloon OIL
North main street, and bringing his FIST
down on the bar announced to the terri
fled crowd that he was "a monster" and
"half froze for somebody's blood"
The barkeeper hit the monster with q
beer mug on the top of the head. The
awful man was brought to by pouring q
luckot Of water over him. Then lie
sncaked out without getting the free
drink he had been playing for. -.
Year: 1878

The House, in finally passing the
Legislative executive and Judicial mp
preparation bill Saturday made no
change in any OF the Pacific Coast
items heretofore reported in these dis
patches as agreed to in committee OF
the whole. Several of them will pro-
baby be amended. however, by the
Senate.


The Senate Public Lands Committee
on Saturday heard further argument
from Judge Davis Wilson, of Iowa,
against the McGarrahan claim. and
adjourned the case till Tuesday even
ing.


At the request of Horace Davis, the
Secretary Of War has arranged that the
cadet TO be appointed from the San
Francisco district shall not be required
to report at West Point for examina-
ton until the 2Gth of August. Just be-
fore the beginning Of the new term Of
the academy, instead Of being hurried
thither for examination early in June.
in accordance with the general require
ment for nominees to report themselves
Immediately after the close of the ac-
adcmy year.


No palpable progress has been made
this week towards the selection of q
successor for Surveyor General Ames,
and District Attorney Coghlan. Sec.
Schurz says he is still awaiting the ar
rival of certain papers from California
concerning the sundry candidates for
the Surveyor Generalship.


The resolution introduced providing
for full and thorough investigation Of
the conduct of the last Presidential
election in all the States which we're
IN dispute, will not be opposed from
the Republican side. 1t is understood
such resolutions are now being pre-
pared and probably will be presented
in the House to-day.


A Washington special says the
President will allow the Pacific Rail-
road funding bill TO become law by
the ten days lapse. The bill WAS de-
livered to the President on "Wednesday.
Year: 1878

THE Times Hecie0 of the 81 says: The
Silver Prize Company commenced on
Wednesday 10 haul ore from their mine
TO the De Frees mill on the other side
Of the valley. There is ore to tho
amount of four hundred tons on the
dump, and il is the intention TO contin-
ne to haul MS fast as the mill can work
it. The stamps will start up in few
days.
Year: 1878

II is the law of streams TO run,


OF autumn leaves to fall.
And she who has been false to one


She will be false to all.
o, wild as tempest on the sea


Is that poor lovers fate. =
Whose faithful spirit, bound to thee,


Must hope. and fear, and wait.
BY surge of joy and storm Of pain


His heart is soothed or broke;
He would not rend thy heavenly cham


He cannot bear thy yoke.
There is no heaven 80 high - faith,


No he'll 20 deep A. doubt.
No haunted spectre like the wrath


Thy fancies vile o. Aout.
Alb. let that tiger heart Of thine,


BY british mercy led.
To just one pitsous act incline


And strike thy lover deadl
Then let the streams forever run,


The leaves forever fall
Thou wilt, 1t last be true to one,


And not be false to all.
Year: 1878

NEW YORK, July 3O.-The Heralds Port
land, Me-, special says: The Republican
State Convention has been in session discuss
ing the prospects of the campaign. There is
only one question that comes up prominent
ly and that is the attitude Of the party on
the finance question. The sweep which the
Greenback element has made in all the dis
tricts of the State has made 1t necessary for
the Republicans to declare themselves square
Iy The entire congressional delegation is
here, including the venerable Hannibal Ham
lin and Mr.. Blaine.


Mr.. Blaine fought for the word "coin,"
while Hamlin, Frye, Hale and Powers insisted
on the old hard money platform of gold or its
equivalent. Hamlin and his followers insisted
that the only way to serve the party was to
come out squarely for hard money, raise the
old war cry, and rally the entire voting
strength of the party for a final struggle.
Blaine, who took position in Congress in
favor of silver, maintained that the new dol
lar was now part Of our currency, and the
word "coin" would be more in harmony with
the views of large proportion Of the Repub-
Hcans, and it's platform would keep many
men. who now lean toward the greenback
doctrine, from secedlng.


The general desire is to keep this question
out OF the convention. It is understood that
the gold men succeeded in carrying their
point, and that the party goes into the cam
Daign to try conclusions with the Greenback-
ers on an out-and-out hard money platform.
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, July 26-The Republican
congressional committee still continue to
send out immense quantities of campaign
documents. They keep six or eight clerks
employed all the time forwarding campaign
literature favorable to the Republican cause
to all parts Of the country. The clerks at work
at the Republican congressional headquar-
ters are department employees. The way
they are forced inte the party traces is
this: Every clerk in a department is
given months leave of absence every year.
Those wishing to take their month now are
called upon to contribute week Of this time
in some way to the Republican cause, and If
he consents he is at once put to work in the
congressional committee room. If not he fears
the consequences. This one month, which is
the only vacation the clerk has In the entire
year, and which ne is entitled to by the rules
of the departments, Is cut down to three weeks,
and he submits tamely for fear of removal,
This fear is well founded, too, as has already
appeared in removals which have taken place.
The campaign literature disseminated by
these clerks is varied. Specimens Of the doc
uments sent out have already been men
toned. AS fast as the supply Of one kind is
exhausted another is taken up. The speech
which now seems most in demand is that
made by Congressman Frye, of Maine, re-
viewing the military services Of the corps of
alleged discharged Union soldiers.
Year: 1878

MONTREAL, July 3O.-Further information
the crime of murder on Demarible. A heavy
revolver with clotted blood has been found on
his premises, and early on Wednesday morn
ing boy and man saw a man dragging
something to the middle Of the river which
they thought was dog. Search is being
made for the spot where the crime was COM
mitted, to see whether was in the United
States or Canada If in the United States the
prisoner will be handed over to the United
States authorities.
Year: 1878

MONTREAL, July 30.-The press throughout
the Dominion express great satisfaction at
the appointment of the Marquis of Lorne as
Viceroy of the Dominion. The Gazette looks
upon it as a great compliment, that Canada
should be singled out for so great distinc-
Year: 1878

SPRINGFIELD, May 25.-The following
proclamation was issued by the governor,
this afternoon:


In obedience to custom so natural in
its origin, 30 much in accord with all the
better feelings of the human soul, so bene.
fetal in its influence that il has already
the force of unwritten law, announce to
the people of the state of Illinois that the
near approach of the Both of May, the day,
devoted to the decoration of the graves OF
the noble, and illustrious dead who laid
down their lives in defence of human free
dom aud the perpetnity of national union,
and | call upon them to celebrate it with
all solemnity and tenderness appropriate
to its observaucy. On the 23d of May the
remnants of the old flag carried by our
troops through the late war. stained and
torn. rent with bullets and cannon shot,
were removed to the new State House
The presence of Thousand veterans, who,
many of them MANNED. still survive, and
marched IN long solid column behind these
memorials of valor and patriotism unsur
passed in the annals of any nation, so moved
the sensibilities of the spectators of the
Interesting ceremonies as to impress upor
every mind the conviction that the spiri
which carried the war to successful clos
ing still liVesin the hearts of the people
aud that they will never suffer its fruits t
be wrested from them, nor cease to honor
those to whom such debt of gratitude i.
due. In this conviction issue this decla
ration. (Sigued) S. NJ. CULLoM.