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Year: 1878




Human nature ia the same the world over
as the following incident will serve to show
A Danbury insurance agent called on TIVE
OF his customers whose premises adjoin, fol
renewal Of their policies. The first one
is a grocer. The agent said to him


"I suppose. Mr.--, that you will re-
new your policy which expires next week
I have called to see about it.


"Well, suppose I'll have to-" said the
grocer. GAS far as am concerned there
is NO need whatever that should insure.
am here all day to look after things, and
there amt bit Of danger Of fire from my
place. But there's no telling what that
fellow next door will do, and as longs he's
there I've got to keep insured"


The agent called ON the customer next
door, who is a baker. He could not help
reasoning that if the danger in that estab-
lishment was so great there was possibili-
ty of having the amount of its policy doub-
led at least.


He told the baker why he called, and
limited that there be desire to increase the
policy.


"No," said the baker, scratching his
head thoughtfully, SCI don't believe I'll add
any to it. wouldn't insure at all if !
wasn't where am. You zee am up all
night baking and can watch things, 80
there's no danger here, but there's no tell



ing what that chap next door will be mp to.
If it wasn't for him, wouldn't insure .
cent. But as it is I've got to do it,
Year: 1878

The following receipt for imparting to


stoves fine, black polish, which will


neither burn off nor give put an offensive


smell, will prove acceptable to some of our


readers. Lamp-black is mixed with water


glass "a solution of silicats of soda) to the


consistency Of syrup, and applied with q
brush as thin, even coating, then left "a


hours to dry. Afterwards graphite, or
black-lead, mixed with gum water, is ap-


piled, and polish is obtained by rubbing
in the usual manner.


From study on the subject, German
doctor has come to the conclusion that the
monollths of Egypt decay with rapidity in
European climate. Observations on the
Luxor obelisk shows that within the past
% years it has suffered gradual change
in the atmosphere of Paris. Gradually
the red color of the syenite has become
duller and lighter, and now the obelisk
wears white film OF kaolip, the last pro-
duct of the decay OF granite. In 36 years
the stone has received moro damage from
the atmosphere of France than during as
many centuries in Egyptian air. The in
Jury which the moist climate Of England
will effect upon Cleopatra's needle win be
yet more rapid. g


An elaborate series Of measurement of
human lsgs has been mads by DR.. j. s.
Brooklyn. In the proceedings of Kings
County Medical Society, the results of tho
Investigations are very fully given. 1t ap-
pears probable that not over one in three
persons has legs of equal length, and that
there are about twice as many left legs as
right legs of extra length. Ths average
superiority Of one leg over another is about.
. quarter of an inch. The inquiry arose
from discussion as to the amount that
limb may be expected to shorten after
treatment for fracture of the thigh. The
conclusion is that the average Inequality
of the limbs after good treatment of such
fracture is about three-quarters of an
inch.


In country schools q good blackboard
is sometimes not easily had. The material
for the following composition may be had
anywhere, and when applied either to a
ard, smooth-fnished wall or to smooth
boards answers admirably One quart of
shellac dissolved in alcohol, three ounces
pulverized pumice stone, two ounces pull
verized rotten stone, four ounces lamp
black. Mix the last three ingredients to
gether, naoisten portion at q time with
portion of the shellac and alcohol, grind as
find as possible with knife or spatula,
after which pour in the remainder Of the
alcohol, stirring often to prevent settling.
TIE preparation dries immediately, and
the board may DO used within an honr, if
Year: 1878

The perils of the personal column, which is
feature of many of our city papers, have
had recent unhappy illustration in Ohio
The 18-year-old daughter of a well-to-do
farmer near Cleveland, idl.ng over Gin
cinnati paper, became interested in the
fascinating mysteries of the g personals. !"
There was . spice of strangeness and ro-
nance about them that excited her imagi-
nation. One of them in particular, which
solicited correspondence with some young
lady, appealed to her fancy. She hesita-
ted, and then in a adventurous mood sat
down and briefly answered it. A reply
promptly came, dated from Chicago. Il
was fattering and respectful, and the
chirography was very beautiful. A. cor
respondence ensued, and the mutual
warmth of expression increased with each
succeeding letter. The vanity Of the sim
pie country girl was pleased to think that
at last she had real city beau, and when
one day he appeared at her home clad in
the most approved city apparel, her cup of
triumph ran over at the contrast of his ap-
pearance with the homely, awkward coun-
try fellows upon whom hitherto she had
bestowed her coquetries. The old folks
were disposed to be dubious about this
fash young chap from the city, who talk
ed SO plausibly and so boldly sued for their
daughters hand, but finally gave their con-
sent to the marriage. Then the united





couple joyoasly sped for the city, carrying
with them generous purse bestowed up
on the young wife by their father. The
sequel is sad and short. Two months
later the young wife sought her fathers
home tired, careworn woman. Her pre-
cious husband proved to be gambler.
He readily suuandered all his wife's money,
and then she found herself the victim of
cruel want, and fortunate it was good
country home was open to receive the dis
consolate waif. The girls husband, one
Wilson, was formerly stock k-broker with
promising prospects, but gambling ruined
all, and his heartless ruse of the newspaper
personal was but the cunning ruse of u
desperate man to obtain the means of in
dulging in his besetting vice. Doubtless it
will be repeated, however, and some other
silly girl done for in way like this Ohio
farmers daughter. -
Year: 1878




From the New York Herald


| We copy from a San Francisco paper -


the Alta Californta-a decision recently


rendered by the United States Circuit Court
| denying the right of Chinese immigrant


who had applied for citizenship to the priv
ilege of naturalization. This decision will
surprise no intelligent lawyer the only
surprise is that such an application should
have been made. The idea of the San


Francisco paper that the case ls likely to be
appealed TO the Supreme Court only proves
that the writer did not perceive tho force of
Judge Sawyer's reasoning. His argument


is SO conclusive that no appeal will ever be


made from the decision it supports.


The question csula not have been brought


before a court at all had it not been for an
oversight in the Revised Statutes. The
original naturalization law confined the
privilege to free white aliens. In 1870 1t
was so amended as to admit persons Of
African birth and African descent, but it
was left in other respects unchanged, men
of color besides Africans being still exclu-
ded. When this change was made, MIR.
Simmer proposed to strike out the word
"white from the naturalization laws. 1t
was objected that this would bring in the
Mongolians as well as the negroes, and ON
this ground Mr.. Summers proposition was
rejected. The only change made in the
former law was to except Africans from the
general rule by which colored aliens were
excluded. But the revisers of the statutes
fell into the blunder of omitting the words,
being free white person." 1t was
blunder, because they had no authority to
change the law, but only to put it into
more convenient shape. The omission of
that phrase would make the naturalization
laws apply TO Mongolians and ali colored
aliens /; but Congress afterward corrected
the oversight Of the revisers. By an act
passed In 1875 to correct errors and sup
ply omissions - in the Revised Statutes the
omitted words were restored, with the
avowed purpose Of excluding Asiatics from
naturalization. An appeal from the opin-
ion of Judge Sawyer would be futile, the
law being too clear to admit Of any reason
able difference of opinion.
Year: 1878

ward across the body, and her hand
poised with all the coy innocence
Of womanly delicacy, and with her
right arm closely bent drawn across
the emotional seat and holding a
white napkin which fell in graceful
folds in front, was tableau mat
uraD which we shall never forget.
During this increasing little eere-
mony we took occasion to follow
the movements of several others
who had finished their bath and
were rerobing. One was seated in
front ola highly FURNISHED metallic
glass, with the assistance of an at
tendant, arranging her toilet;
Others were enyeloping themselves
once more in the habiliments of
their sex. One young woman of a
score of summers, having COM
pleted her toilet, stood for a mo-
ment chatting with a lady friend,
both laughing heartily and enjoy
ing the subject of their converse
tion. Like some of our fair sex,
Japanese ladies are fond of gossip.
The little woman soon left, evi-
dently feeling A l, to use COM
mercial term. She went out as
quietly and modestly as the other
came in. 1t is to be said as in evil
dence Of the proprieties observed
that the men and the women never
hold any conversation here, and
come and go as quietly as if the
other were not present.


REFLECTIONS.


We must admit that the thirty
minutes we passed in this place
suggested many thoughts pregnant
with interest and philosophy. Can
there be immodesty when there is
no sense of wrong or imagining OF
impure things? Do not the lasciv-
iouS touches of the modiste's art
excite these tendencies to excesses
in mode and manners which do not
appear the nearer we approach ma.
ture in our dress and lives. The
feverish excitements of the dance,
bare shoulders, bodice la pompa
dOur, eel-skin waists and pull-bacE
shirts are infinitely more detenora
ting in their influences than thu
child-like simplicity we have shown
A beautifully rounded ankle and
pretty foot vaguely visible beneath
the laminated folds of a dozel
skirts would set a whole communi
ty agog at home, whilst Who'll
form nude as nature and NOR
beautiful than an angel would no
SO much as attract a passing glanc
| in japan.
Year: 1878




AS we were about TO leave, a lady
Of elegant attire, and attended by o
female servant bearing her toilet
apparatus and another with other
Inquiries Of the bath, entered. We
thought tho license Of stranger in
foreign parts would warrant us In
lettering a triAe In order to crafty
a little curiosity. Our new arrival,
after giving some directions, with
the assistance Of her maid, began to
arrange hOraelf for the bath. There
are many points Of radical differ
ence between the human gendeFG,
psyehologically, mentally, morally
and intellectually, and all in favor
of the gentle sex. And 50 in their
general habits. A masculine dis,
robing for the bath filings his
clothes in all directions, and
boances into the water with an ill-
petuosity and violence anything
but graceful. Our Lady Godiya,
Cor such we will call her for short,
with her GlRid, neatly folded and
laid away on o cloth in a clean
place each particle of her apparel
as it was removed. First the silkon
ebe, then the flowing gOwn-like
robe Of purple, then the neither gar
ments Of white, until we reach ma
ture's own. 1t is said that Gstrop-
omers frequently level their tele-
scopes at ono star in order to see
another; we levelled our sight ap-
parently at . pretty little creature
in the bath, but by IN obliquity Of
vision took in the other scene un-
observed. Aa gently as a zephyr
playing upon the fslisge Of the
trees shO stepped along toward the
water. Her beautiful rounded
lorm and poetry of motion woald
have been worthy Of the sculptor's
ehisel. e


SIS VENUS AT THE BATH


could not have been more beauti.
Cal, making that -divipely shapon
curvature Of the body with her loll
arm extending obliquely aud down.
Year: 1878

a MISTAKE THAT WILL HAVE TO BE
CoRRECIRD.-The silver bill was passed
over tremendous opposition. The
money power and the executive power
We're both combined against the people.
This would not have been SO tremendous
had not the weight of odium, which the
Northern politicians hasvebeen trying to
heap up against the South and to sustain
it by the worst OF lies been at hand to
help the money power Under other cir
cumstances the Bland bill should have
been passed.


We believe the old system by which
the government got the expense of coin
ing money either of gold or silver through
the difference between the metal and the
alloy is far preferable and more equitable
and safe to all parties.


If man took a hundred pounds of
pure gold to the mint, he received 100
pounds of standard gold in coin. Tho
government being amply paid in the al
10y, which in gold coin is about IL per
cent, or eleven pounds to the one hun
dred. To one hundred pounds of pure
gold the mint adds about IL pounds of cop
per. This is found to make q stronger and
more durable coin than pure metal In 100
pounds of silver the mint adds about 81
pounds of copper, which makes the coin
harder and more difficult to clip, and
changes pure silver into standard silver;
the impression put upon it giving it the
character and worth of coin. In former
lays all persons who had gold or silver
bullion could take 1t to the mint and get
it coined on these terms, and it was wha
was generally considered "free coinage
They got the same weight in gold or sill
money; but the mint was well paiC
through the per centage in the alloy.


1t was great mistake to change thi


ystem. 1t was impartial and just; an,
I then made no difference to the gov
ernment whether bullion went up O.
lown. The sooner Congress gets bacI
10 the old system the better it will be TO
Ill. We believe it was a great mistake
to depart from it and the mistake w1l
have to be corrected, otherwise the min
will become brokers' shop for bulliol
dealers-and perhaps be a second gol,
gambling room.
Year: 1878

ALL reports to the contrary, we know
I to be fact that business isreviving all
around us slowly it is true, but it ap-
pears to be safely and surely coming up


There is less of credit and disposition
20 pay the money down. Credit is a
eurse; it is bad for all and the most DANA
gng is the example of government
Year: 1878

Perhaps Sherman used his official posi-
tion as Chairman of the Senate Commit
tee on Finance for his own personal prof
it, and perhaps this accounts for the fact
that, although he entered Congress few


years ago poor, he is now worth several


millions of dollars. 1t is no secret that a
man occupying his position can exercise a
powerful influence on the money market
especially during times such as then ex-
listed, and an INSCRIPTIONS man could
use that influence in such a manner as
to increase his bank account by hundred
of thousands of dollars in the course of a
year. Perhaps John Sherman would
disdain to use his influence for such pur
pose, but the probabilities are, in view of
his past alnuous conduct, and his past
poverty and present wealth, that he did.
Year: 1878

About 1900 employees of the Reading
Railroad and Coal and Iron Companies
from Reading and its vicinity visited the
Permanent Exhibition and the Geological
Garden yesterday, at the expense of
their employers.
Year: 1878

RmtfeF Ia Not Decentralization HEiHa and


Back Bay TO Run with Haoad.


BOSTON, Nov. 3-Denis Kearney delivered
an unusually violent and inCendiary speech
to several thousand men on the Common last
night He said it WAS the intention of the
capitalists at the election Tuesday to intimi-
date their employees in voting against But
ler, and he advocated the hanging of EN-
ployers or others who should attempt any
bulidOzing. He said the time for revolution
had come The worklngmen were ready, and
If their ends were not accomplished on Tues
day next by ballot, they would draw blood.
He advocated attacking the United States
supervisors and other officers Of the law who
stood around the balEot~boxes to debar men
from voting, and at the conclusion of his
address he put men under oath as q self-con-
stituted police force to carry out the measures
he proposed.


A set Of incendary resolutions was adopt
ed, proposing, in the event of Buffers defeat
by ballot, to seat him by force, and to kill and
destroy the mnions Of capital.


Much excitement prevailed, and his hearers
dispersed with the understanding that they
should meet for work on election day.


Kearney announced n similar meeting on
Independence Square, South Boston, to-mor-
row.


After the close of the meeting Kearney said
to the World correspondent that he meant
business, and that II Butler WAS not elected
Beacon street and Back Bay would run with
blood, as tho resolutions that had been adopt
ed proposed. He said that all the military
power in the United States could not put
down the workingmen, and that Massachu-
setts would never be safe until the blue boods
were hanged to lamp posts, two on every post
On being asked whether he did not fear the
authorities, he said he hoped they would in
terfere He was ready for them, and willing
at any time to sacrifice his life in this cause
He said that perhaps there was q need that
some one man should die, but the crisis had
come, and the men who created the wealth of
the country ought to control it..
Year: 1878

COME WITH Us AND WE WILL LEAD
YOU ON TO EQUALITY, RESPECTABLE
AND PROSPERITY."- u Extract from the ad-
dress of the Citizens Conservative Association
to the colored voters Of the parish Of Orleans
Year: 1878

The legal whiskey suckers turned the
House of Representatives into a disre-
putable club house scene and bacchana-
lian revel, on Tuesday night. While this
was the case the negro representative,
Raney, was discharging the duty white
man was given to do; the white man had
turned himselfinto demijohn, and it is a
pity some one did not give it kick SO
that its contents would have gone into the
gutter or some other place more appro-
pirate than the halls of Congress.
Year: 1878

Congressman IL. b. Wright, of Wilkes
barre, Pa, sent this astonishing dispatch
to the Washington Post announcing his
nomination by the "laboring men" for re-
election: "You have always been so kind
TO me that cannot refrain from sending
you the glorious news of my nomination
for Congress by the labor convention of
my district by acclamation. | always
distribute bread every New Years Day
TO the deserving poor of my district, and
they do not forget small favors. shall
make a vigorous campaign, and be elect
ted by 10000 majority. The toiling mil
lions will have in Inc faithful friend. ;,
Year: 1878

CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES ought
10 be set down as one of the recent modes
Of peculating upon the people. Formerly
such thing as Congressional Commit
tees setting to do business after the ad-
iournment of Congress was unheard of;
but since they have been paid such ex-
travagant expenses, their number has been
rapidly increasing. And at the rate they
are increasing Congress will soon do all
its most particular business through COM
mittees. Their popularity is increased
because of their choosing the most fash
enable resort for their sittings. The COM
mittee to whom the changes in the army
were referred at once announced that it
would sit at BED Sulphur Springs. They
will keep up the work all summer doubt
less and with their clerks and waiting
men will present a very pretty bill for the
people to pay. Committees too form the
mode in which all the attempts to reduce
expenses are defeated. 1t was a commit
tee that put the rascally salary grab upon
us; a committee that raised Grants salary
to $4,000 and committee that in oppo-
sition to the vote of every Democratic
State Convention, defeated the demo-
cratic proposition to reduce the salary to
$4,000, which is more than any man in
the government service is worth; and too
much to be given to fraud. For in fact
now it costs the President nothing to live.
His table is furnished, his stable supplied,
and every State dinner prepared without
his consultation at the public expense
Palace cars are put at his disposal, and
elegant rooms secured and prepared, and
>umptuous dinners furnished at the cost
of others. But it does not end here
His sons and his daughters; his brothers
and his wife's brothers, aunts, neices
nephews and cousins are all, in thes,
days, made to feel the invigorating in
tluence of station and official patronage


and consequential dignities are showere'
all around through the election to thi


office; and if the salary was but $1,000


it would handsomely pay the men VIII


hold the place. In late years howeverthe


have rarely equaled theirSecretaries, who's


pay has never been more than 5000 an


who usually come out of the Cabine


much richer than they so into it. W


maintain a reduction of the President


salary to S25, 900 ought to be made.
Year: 1878

FINEssE IN RAscALITY has been prac-
ticed more deeply in the United States
Senate within the past eight or ten years
than in any other body in the country.
Mr.. Stanley Matthews is as safe in the
hands of his colleagues, as one bandit
would be in the hands of another. The
shielding of one is the shielding of
others. The exposure of the rascality of
Matthews might result in the exposure
of others. And it must be very disa-
greeable committee to have to deal
with. 1t will be seen, however, from its
refusal to allow Anderson to have coun-
sci, that the committee is wholly in the
interest of Matthews. AS he is.however,
himself legal eel, there is hardly doubt
that he will not escape leaving his slime
on the hands of the committee. 1t will re-
quire rubbing to get it OFF
Year: 1878

DELAWARE will not send a professed
lobbyist and gambler to represent her in
Congress Certainly not, and our cor.
respondent may rest assured of this I;
neither will she send dimijohn there to
loaf about the House unable to talk to a
gentleman because of the detestible smell
of whisky.
Year: 1878

HE EXPECTATION that Hunter would
be placed upon the stand yesterday to
testify i'll his own defence in the Camden
murder trial was disappointed. Thus far
his defence is an alibi, which rests mainly
on the testimony of one witness.
Year: 1878

ing this same line to the Gulf of Cali fornia and to the City of Mexico, there

 by opening up profitable trade 10 onl country with eight millions of people

 whose trade is now principally mo nopolized by foreign governments

 This is but mere hint at the greal work these remarkable men have done and propose to do in the future, nol does the death of one of the firm, in the least interfere with the prosecution of these great plans. Young men are constantly being trained to take the place of the older ones, as in the death of Gen. Colton, President of the company in this Territory, c. F. Crocker was put in his place, and al- though he is but twenty two years of age, being possessed of excellent good common sense and having applied himself closely to the studies of his duties, there are few men of middle age better qualified to discharge the duties of the position. There is and has been in small envious minds, much feeling of hatred towards these people because they have been successful, but in Arl- zona we are happy to note that the people are determined 10 meet the company in a liberal friendly spirit, and we are assured that the company fully reciprocate this feeling.