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Year: 1879

Most of our readers will remember the bitter and prolonged fight little Paraguay made against big Brazil. She was finally beaten ; and now, says writer in the London Times, Paraguay is 8 bowling wilderness; the only census you could take would be orange trees |" To the credit of the Jesuits it must be admit ted that they administered the country for a long time and made it very prosperous. De- cadence set in with their withdrawal and now little remains of all they did but empty stone churches standing alone in the jungle.

 The Springfield Republican calls attention to one of the results of the present tariff. The duty on steel rails is now more than their cost, delivered at New York At the time the duty was fixed, the price of steel was four times what it has become since, through the adoption of the Bessemer process. Now, the manufac- ture of steel rails is simply monopoly.
Year: 1879

jured himself, the young lady coldIy
said that their acquaintance had better
end then and there, and swept up stairs
to their room, while her two brothers,
bursting into roars Of laughter, told the
ruined assistant teacher that his trout
were blue-fsh.


1t was the end of Mr. Smiths dream
of love. Nothing could induce the
young lady to see him again, and her
brothers having told the story at the 10
cal grocery, Mr. Smith was greeted at
every turn with inquiries as to the price
of trout. His brain gave way under his
disappointment and shame, and he now
walks the streets and fields of Quogue-
wasset howling for the small-boy who
sold him the fatal blue-fish, and public
ly promising to infiict upon him the en-
tire list of tortures known to the Span
ish Inquisition.


This story teaches us that when we
90 fishing we should either buy the fish
from an honest dealer, or give them to
a girl who does not know the difference
between fresh-water and saltwater fish.
Had Mr. Smith learned this lesson in
early life, he would not now be wander
ing about Quoguewasset, a spectacle to
men and terror to small boys and nerv-
Gus women.-Ne1O York Tribune.
Year: 1879

The table upon which Napoleon III.
signed the declaration of war by France
against Prussia at st. Cloud in July,
1870, has been just added, with the
sanction of the German Emperor, to the
HohenzOllern Museum in Berlin. When
St. Cloud was bombarded and occupied
by the German troops during the opera
tions against Paris, the table was saved
and taken in the first place to Versailles
and afterwards to Berlin. The table is
round, about five feet in diameter, and
covered in the center with green cloth /;
the outer rim of the top being of ebony,
richly inlaid with mother of pearl and
various metals, and bound with an orna-
mental gold ring. Under the top of the
table are six drawers of the form of a
truncated segment of a circle, and each
provided with cunningly constructed
lock; the inner part of the drawers be-
ing of mahogany, the outside of quaint
ly carved and inlaid mother of pearl.
By the side of the table stands an arm
chair covered with green leather, which,
being a favorite chair of Napoleon Ill,
was sent to him at Wilhelmshohe.
Year: 1879

Presence of mind has lately proved
valuable in several interesting cases:
Henry Kuhn, at the bottom of Du-
buque well, drove his pickaX into the
side, and stood under it when ne saw
the earth-laden bucket falling, thus saw
ing himself from being crushed John
Carey, when lightning struck the New
Haven mill of which he was foreman,
knocked down three of the panic strick-
en- operators, who were madly rushing
toward the narrow exit, and so prevent
ed n dangerous jam on a stairway. Mrs.
Dunkin of Long Prairie, Mimi, was
threatened with an aX by her crazy son.
She said, . Well, if you want to cut off
my head, lets 90 to the ehopping-block. "
He nodded, and they passed out to the
woodpile. 1t was dark, and addressing
him with, - Now, I'll put my head on
the block she drew the white kerchief
from her neck and threw it down and
slipped away. The lunatic struck the
kerchief a heavy but harmless blow.
Julia Clarke, San Francisco factory
girl, was caught in machine by her
long hair. She seized Il pair OF shears
and cut off her long tresses SO quickly
that she was not drawn between the
wheels and killed, as she otherwise
would have been. Ten men started
down the shaft of a Nevada mine in a
small skip. The dOnkey-engine broke.
and the miners felt their vessel sink
downward with lightning speed. Death
" fear turned every face white. In the
panic most of them clutched the skip To
wait for the crash. At the first intima-
ton of disaster Patrick Mccarthy, the
engineer at the top of the shaft, seized
a heavy plank and thrust the end be
tween the pinion-shaft and the reel, from
which the cable was running off. The
drum was revolving with terrific speed


and the friction produced streams of fire
and smoke. But the engineers thrust
was exactly ut the right point, and the
end of the board soon checked the de


scent, bringing the skip to "A standstill :
few feet from the bottom.
Year: 1879

Over the fields by winding ways


We wandered on together,
Under the flashing azure skies,


In n hush of August weather
Round about US, afar and near,


We heard the locusts humming.
And the asters starring the lonely path


Laughed out 10 see as coming
Bird songs out of the sunlit oak


Fell ripping through the shadow,
Like "a spear of flame the cardinal flower


Burned out along the meadow.
Into our hearts the blithc wind blew,


It's own free gladness giving
And all things laughed in the happy earth


For the pure sweet joy of living.
Two rO0med with their eyes alight


And their hearts too still for laughter
Two in revel of golden fire,


Looked neither before nor after;
One went dreaming with dOwncast face


Through the hush of the wood and cover,
But one praised God from trembling heart
That the shadow of pain was over.
Year: 1879

Oh, he goes away, singing,


Singing over the seal
Oh, he comes again, bringing


JOY and himself to me
Down through the rosemary hollow
And up the wet beach ram
Ny heart in a fiutter to follow


The flight of my sailor-man.
Fie on n husband sitting


Still in the house at home!
Give me mariner, fitting


And flashing over tile foam!
Give me a voice resOundtng


The songs of the breezy mafni
Give me free heart bounding


EvermOre hither again!
Coming Is better than going;


But never was queen so grand
As /, while / watch him blowing
Away from the lazy land.
/ have welded an Ocean-rOvcr,
And with him l own the sea;
Yet over the waves come over,
And anchor, my lad, by me.
HarlS to his billowy laughter,


Blithe on the hOmeward tidei
HarS TO it, heart up and after;
OF to the harbOr-s side;
Down through the rosemary hollow
And over the sand hills, light
And swift as a sea bird, follow;
And hOl for a sail IN sight
Lucy LdrcOH, IN Harper for September.
Year: 1879

CoNEY ISLAND is nine miles from
New York City, yet on week days ladies
can go to the Island and return for 10
cents and children for 10 cents on one
of the numerous railroads leading there.
Trains run every fifteen minutes most
of the time. This shows that when peo-
pie want to go TO a resort the question
Of " inaccessibility and g expensive
ness soon vanish.
Year: 1879

GREEN APPLE PIEs.-Pare, quarter,
core and stew nice tart apples in water
enough to prevent them from burning.
When tender, sweeten very sweet with
white sugar; fill the pie plate, which
has been lined and edged with puff
paste: crate in little nutmeg, cover
and bake forty-five minutes. When the
paste is rolled one-quarter Of an inch
thick the pies should be baked one hour.
Year: 1879

2 A TELEGRAM from Washington to the
N. Y. Herald says The accumulation
of gold bullion at the Assay Office in
New York city is becoming so great that
the Treasury officials are concerned as
to what shall be done with it. Under
the act requiring the coinage of the
standard silver dollars the burden Of the
coin,ge falls upon the Philadelphia
Mint. Its capacity is so taxed in coin
ing standard dollars that 1t is impossible
TO coin the small subsidiary coins.
Year: 1879

Tns Republicans Lave a new wy q
breakRg up the Union. Tug have
only to Q gage some scallawag in tie
South to swear he is q Democrat and
get lin to assault a negro or attempt
the life Of, some. Federal officer, and
straighlway they will swear the Union
10 imperilled and notification rampant.
They know all these things are TO be
tried in v, s, Courts, ?, aud there Is
nothing easier Than TO put such tiia's off,
and never let them be decided SO that
their tools are sure TO escape. They
ought to apply for patent right fol
their mode Of getting up devices agaips
the Union. The people are beginning
to fnd them out at last.
Year: 1879

: THE Masonic and Odd Fellows Or
ders looked unexceptioDably well to day
as they passed through the streets on
their route to New Castle. 1t is gratify-
ing to see both of these orders united
in aid of one effort, calculated TO benefit
all the friends of morality and purer
civilization.
Year: 1879

A colored child had fall from a second
story window the other day his mother in relating
the incldeu lt grocery store, said Dere dat child
wa, acoming feet fust wild every chance of being
kiIled wnou do Lawd He TUNED him over. de chile
struck ON his head ana dere wasn't much as button
aew OF -l0snkosh Advocate.
Year: 1879

FEMALE PHYSICIANS IN FAVOR FOR THE CARE OF


INSANE wOMFN-REPORr ON THE CoNDffioS


or THE SAVINGS BANKS.


I'm the State Legislature yesterday there was
lively debate on the bill to enforce tho allowance
of fare on cotton. No definite action was taken
The bill to appoint female physicians to take
charge of the women in insane asylums was
ordered TO n third reading Acting Superintendent
Lamb has sent his report on Savings Banks to the
Legislature. A synopsis is appended.
Year: 1879

There lives family on the south
side Of the river who are sorly in need
OF help. The mother and one OF the
children are sick, and the father is
compelled to stay at home from his
work and attend the bed side of his
suffering ones Ladies, it is yt'r duty
to go TO that home and make il pleasant
for the sick ones. Think of that
woman, lying on her sick bel helpless,
and no one 20 comfort her save Il tired
and heartbroken husband, who is rob
bed of his daily earnings, 'spon which
she depends for support, by her Illness
Think Of that sick babe, left without
n mothers proper care to waste away,
and soon 70 close its little eyes in that
sleep which knows no waking. Do
something at once ladies, ere death
VIII have done its work.
Year: 1879

An old turkey has rough scales on the
legs, callosties on the soles of the feet.
and long strong claws; young one the
reverse OF all these marks. When the
feathers arc on, the old turkey cock has a
long tutt or beard; young one but a
sp,outing one, and when they are of, the
smooth scales on the legs decide the
point besides the difference in size of the
wattles of the neck and in the elastic shoot
upon the neck.


An Old goose when alive is known by
the rough legs, the strength of the wings,
particularly at the pinions, the thickness
and strength OF the Bill and fneness of the
feathers, and when plucked 10y the legs,
the tenderness OF the skin under the wings,
by the pinons and the bill, and the
coarseness OF the skin.
Year: 1879

The undersigned takes this his thanks
the people Of Yankton particularly and his many


Dakota and for the
DUDLEY & HAWLEY through the many years in which
that firm has carried business in this city, and he
desires call the attention Of these friends
the people generally to the enlarged facilities extern
sive assortment and comodous rooms
firm had provided and which Dudley
& Hawley, possesses


In the line of the Hardware trade
Copper and Sheet Iron Ware claims
equal in all anything
tent.


In the future by application business he hopes
the Hardware trade of the naturally r
uary to this point cenered spare no to
make for the interest Of the people within REGION
chase their Hardware Tware Copper Sheet Iron
Stoves. and all other articles in this line from
Yours gratefully and respectfully
GEO. e. HAWlEY.
Union Block, Third st.
Year: 1879

In the advertising columns Of the Times.
Sunday, appeared the following want:
WANTED:-An intelligent, well educated, industri-
Gus proofreader either married or single. Must be
thoroughly temperate. A good position for num-
Der one man. Address Comp, Times office.


Now, innocent as that unostentatious card
appears, it was productive Of more trouble than
anything that has appeared in the city press
for many day. There was no less than ia
received up to Sunday night, and on Monday
the number was so great that they could not
be counted up to the time of going to press


Samples of the lot are as follows:


"MR. COMP: 1 am proof-reader of some
experience, though my mother was DUTCH
men. / am well educated in the Unitd Stats,
so hope you will find me all right. 1 ain
widower."


s'DEAR SIR: I speak German, French Eng
lish, Portuguese and Spanish. Have been a
civil engineer, doctor and lawyer of considera-
BILE repute also an editor and a politician. AS
a proof-reader 1 know I would be success,
although I confess L never tried it,


HONoRED SIR: Will you give me sling at
your proofs for a day or so? If don't make it
lively for the boys down stairs, and red hot for
the boys up count me out. L am Sanscrit,
Chinook and Kanaka proof reader.


am, j. c."


"Dear Sir i am pore widower with four
small children to sport likewise one eye which
the other was lost in smallpox some time ago, i
feel as thou could give satisfaction if i tried
anything to help along in these times.
haven drunk a drop for five month having
had no money"


And so on.


Now, not one person out of ten thousand has
any idea what proof-reader is or ought to be.
So, for the benefit of those who haven't as yet
put in their application, we will givei the STAN
dard qualifications required:


1. A competent proof-reader should be WALL
eyed, to enable him to understand at first
glance sentence so mixed up by the l. c.
intelligent compositor-that no one else in the
wide world, not even its author, would be able
to understand or recognize it.


2. He must be SO unfamiliar with Shakes
peare, French, Latin and common proverbs as
to be able, conscientiously, to change and ruin
any quotation which may be made by the igno-
rant, but well meaning gentlemen who run the
editorial rooms.


3. He must be quick at punctuation, and be
able to instantly detect the exact place where
comma may be inserted so as to completely al
ter the sense of a sentence and make the author
foam at the mouth and tear his hair next day.


4. He must be possessed of calmness, cool
ness and precision, so that he may gently but
firmly meet the excited expostulations of the
city, telegraph and managing editors with that
steadfast glare which alone can render them
speechless and idiotic.


5. He must have grammar and the dictionary
at his fingers ends, that when he comes to q
particularly choice sentence he may be able
either to make it tungrammatical at stroke or so
change a word as to completely ruin the sense


Any one possessing these qualifications is
fitted for the place-none other need apply.
Year: 1879

Exchange: A small boy was seen to ap-
proachs stealthily the windows of the county
Jail at Raymond, Miss, few days ago, and
hand in through the bars something having
the appearance of an immense crowbar. The
police were informed of it, and posse of men
surrounded the Jail, while a couple OF Off GERS
proceeded to the cell to recover the weapon
from the prisoner. On reaching the cell they
found the prisoner quietly sitting on his stool,
devouring yard-long bologna sausage,
Year: 1879

New Haven Register: Blowing into the
muzzle of shotgun is a standard method of
producing newspaper items. 1t remains for
young lad down town to introduce a variation.
The street hose wouldn't work; the water was
turned on at the spiggot all right, but there
seemed to be an obstruction. He placed his
mouth completely over the end of the nozzle
and blowed just once. The pressure of the
whole reservoir suddenly broke loose, concen-
trated into that one nozzle. The lad let go
with his mouth and sat down about fifty feet
away, down the street, and he has not yet been
relieved of the impression that his brain is
Watersoaked.
Year: 1879

A HUNDRED Dartmouth students gave the
Dartmouth faculty horn serenade the 9TH
er night, and because the faculty didn't think
it amusing, the students are going to with
draw to some educational institution with
a keener sense of humor. Most of them are
now than they ever will again.
Year: 1879

SAYS the Nation, 'Mr. Edmunds took
what we believe to be impregnable ground
as to the right of the Government, at all
times and in all places, election days and
the neighborhood Of the polls not excepted,
to execute the laws with all the force that
may be requisite, and to preserve the peace"
Year: 1879

ONE would almost run the risk of being
murdered now and live in Charleston, where
strawberries are but three cents quart.
The life that is better than strawberry
must be indeed a valuable one
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publiea
tion but as guaranty of good faith


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1879

New York Commercial Advertiser: The Bos-
ton Transcript says you may lead young per-
SONS up to the piano, but you cannot always
make them practise. We find it different in
the locality where we reside The difficulty
we experience is not to make them pratise,
but to make them stop practising,
Year: 1879

The Tribune saysit was once thought that
the image of distressed buzzard and the
legend zone dollar was necessary to make
s5 cents worth of silver do duty for 100
cents, but the progressive economists who
voted in favor of the Warner bill Thursday,
have reached position considerably in adj
vance of this. They don't even ask that
honest silver shall be melted and milled into
fraudulent dollars. They now demand that
everybody who will deposit with the govern
ment $s5 worth of bullion shall receive a ne
gotiable certificate for round hundred.
There's millions in it for somebody.
Year: 1879

THE Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Times says there are some
indications among Democratic Senators of a
determination to give up the effort to
force certain con5 5iaiaps as penalty for ap-
propriating the mons ~. expenses of the
government. Senator Basafd has expressed
his opinion that the effort would not la
much longer, and he did not hesitate fo'exz
press his disapproval of the whole attempt
to force legislation on the appropriation
bills. Mr.. Bayard has never felt like taking
course in opposition to his party, but it
need not surprise anybody if he takes certain
action within a few days that will place, him
in opposition to those Democrats who
would stop the appropriations unless they
could affix such legislation as they desired
ON the appropriation bills. He thinks there
is no occasion for the bills failing in the
last Congress, but he thinks the extra ses-
sion was occasioned by the lobby. All this
may be, but Senator Bayard, who is good
grumbler, votes with his party ever time.
Year: 1879

y In Mr. Stanley's record of his African
( travels he thus describes his impressions


on drawing near the west coast and see
I ing white faces for the first time in


many long months:


"We had gradually descended some
Eve hundred feet along declining spurs
when we saw scattered string Of ham


mocks appearing, and CLEANS of startling


whiteness, such as were given by fine
linen and tWills. A buzz of wonder ran
along our column. Proceeding little
further we stopped, and in a short time


I was face to face with four white-ay,
truly white men! AsI looked into their
faces blushed to find that ! was won


dering at their paleness. Poor pagan
Africans-Rwoma and DziHji, and man
eating tribes of the livingstone! The
whole secret of their wonder and curl
Osity flashed upon me at once. What
arrested the twanging bow and the
deadly trigger of the cannibals2 What
but The weird pallOT Of myself and
Frank In the same manner the sight
of the pale-faees of the Embomma mer-
chants save me the slightest suspicion
of an involuntary shiYer. The pale
color after so long gazing on rich black
and richer bronze, had something of an
unaccountable ghastliness. could not
divest myself Of the feeling that they
must be sick; yet, as l compare their
compilations to what l now view, I
should say they were olive, sunburnt,
black. Yet there was something very
gelf-possessed about the carrisgeo Of these
white men. 1t was grand; q little self
pride mixed with cordially. could
not remember just then that had wit
messed such bearing among any tribe
throughout Africa. They spoke well
also; the words they uttered hit the
sense pat; without gesture, they were
perfectly ineligible. How strangel 1t
was quite delightful to observe the slight
mods of the head; the intelligent facial
movements were admirably expressive
They were completely clothed and neat
3lso; ought to say Immediately clean.
iaunty straw hats, colored neck-ties,
patent leather boots, well cut white
clothes, virtually clean l looked from
them to my people, and then fear
felt almost like being grateful to the
Creator that l was not black as they, and
that these finely dressed, well spoken
whites claimed me as friend and kin.
Yet I did not dare to place myself upon
an equality with them as yet. The calm
blue and gray eyes rather awed me, and
the immaculate purity of their clothes,
dazzled me. ! was content to suppose
myself a kind of connecting link be-
tween the white and the African for the
time being.