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Year: 1878

A New CEMENT.-A new and reliable
cement for broken glass vessels of all
kinds, and for the manufacture of water
proof cloth and paper impenetrablc to
moisture. has been given TO the public. 1t


is known as chromium glue, and is II con-
centrated solution of gclatine, TO which has
been added one part Of chromote of lime in
solution for every five parts Of gelaline.
This mixture has the property, on expo
sure TO light. Of becoming insoluble in
water II result due to the partial reduction
of the chronic acid 10 II lower degree of
oxidation. To apply it, the surfaces of the
vessels to be mcnded are cooked as uni
formly us possible in the freshly prepared
glue, and are then pressed firmly together
and held in this position by means of
thread. The vessel is then exposed to the
light for several hours, ut the expiration
of which time the operation is complete.
Boiling water does not cause the article
treated in this way to separate, having, in
fact, no effect upon the new combination.
To render cloth water proof, the fabric is
stretched upon frame, and immersed two
or three times in the preparation, and then
exposed to the sun. Damp-proof paper is
prepared by simply brushing over the sur,
face with n thin solution of the chromium
Glue.
Year: 1878

That was brave lad who found himself
suddenly adrift in dilapidated schooner
off Atlantic City, n. j., the other day. He
was little fellow, but when he saw the
surf boat which had put out 10 his assist
ance turn back TO shore, the cruel crew
probably concluding that it wasn't worth
while to make much of an effort for only Il
boy, and when he fully realized the peril
of his position, he didn't drop down and
sob he didn't despair, nor did he lose his
head. But he set resolutely to work and
prepared his crazy craft as best he could
for the struggle with the waves. The first
night out, he says in his homely narrative
" II heavy sea broke over the vessel and
rolled me over the wheel. The rigging
and deck were covered with ice, and it
was with difficulty that l kept myself
from freezing" The next day he thought
he was near the Gulf Stream. There
was about foot and n halt of water in
the hold, and heavy sea rolling. The
pumps gave out, and | was forced to bale
o'clock the next night he was hailed by Il
barque, which cleared the schooner by on
ly about ten feet. But the barque SAILED
away, though the little fellow promptly
hung out signal light; and his struggle
continued. The next morning the plucky
lad sighted land near Beach Haven. "Af
ter beating about all day." he says, 81
headed up abreast Absccon Light. The
sea was very rough, and, failing to bring
the vessel into the inlet, and as the water
was up to the cabin floor, l beached her on
Little Brigantine Shoals, where | was
taken off after having been without SLEEP
for four days and three nights"
Year: 1878

A clergyman was preparing his sermon
for Sunday, stopping occasionally to re-
view what he had written and to erase
that which he was disposed to disapprove,
when he was accosted by his little son
" Father, does God tell you what to
preachP" " Certainly, my child" Then
what makes you scratch it out?"
Year: 1878

was heard to the north, and the crash shook the heavens and made the rocks tremble. This continued for a long time, and the north wind began to grow cooler and cooler until at length men died by the fire from cold. The Esquimaux knew then that the ice-felds of the north had broken loose. Their traditions told them that, and they hastened to the shore with their wives and children and sailed to an island to the northwest. The strangers mocked them as they left Many, many years after this the Esqui- maux returned only to find that the ice had overwhelmed the strangers and swept the meadows and even the streams into the sea, leaving nothing behind but naked rocks and huge mountains. From that time forth the land was cold and dreary.

 These traditions quantun. ualeant, account very satisfactorily for the sudden disappearance of the Norsemen; but it is just possible that Lieutenant Sehwatka may set them at naught by the discovery of Morse monarchy or republic be- heath the pole.
Year: 1878

A Boise City (Id.) telegram says that Tambiago, the Bannook Indian who mur- dered Alexander Roden at Fort Hall, was hanged in the yard of the Penitentiary, near that city. He begged for 8 respite for another day, saying he would will ingly die if he could have one more sleep. On the scafold he bore himself like the stoical savage that he was and seemed only to regret that he was oom- pelled to go alone and without seeing any of his people. His brother, who IS in the Penitentiary for shooting three teamsters near Fort Hall last summer, attempted to commit suicide, but was discovered and the attempt failed. He and Tambiago had asked as a special favor that if one must die the other be permitted to die with hlm. This re- quest was of course refused, hence the attempt at self-destruction. Some ap- prehension was felt that there might be an attempt made by some prowling band of Indians to rescue Tambiago, but there was no evidence of the presence of In diasn in the vicinity.
Year: 1878

After all, the great problem of irri gating the great Colorado Desert may be accomplished by natural means and without the expendit Ire of vast sums of money as has been proposed. The sur veys made in 1878 of the desert lying west of the Colorado River and extend ing into Mexico demonstrated fully that it was cut off from the Gulf of California by the sediment deposited by the Cobra do River. The old shore lines are dis tinctly recognizable away up in San Bernardino county, and great beds of oysters and other marine shells attest the presence, at no very remote day, of sea water at places from which it is now 15O miles distant. The Southern Pacific Railroad crosses this dried-up part of the gulf, running for over sixty miles at lev els from to 240 feet below that of the sea. The Colorado River has deposited sand and mud along its course until its bed is, Tn places, fully 400 feet higher than it was in the old days when it emptied into the Gulf at least 100 miles nearer Yuma than it does now It con- tinued to pile up sediment until dam was formed reaching across the Gulf to the lower California shore. The head of the gulf thus became lake of salt water, 1 and being fed by no streams gradually dried up. This dam now averages only a height of 27 feet above mean high tides. The Colorado now flows to the south of it, but some trifling changes in its currents may yet cause it to cut away the dam to the north, and to re-convert the desert into lake. This does moi seem as impossible as that the river should abandon it's old bed north of For' Yuma, and force it's way through rocky hill yet we can all see that the lattel has actually contradictions Sen tjseeI.
Year: 1878

The Haverhill Mass, Gasette tells this story:-Perhaps tue reader has noticed while journeying upon the Boston and Lowell Railroad, at Willow Bridge, Somerville, & plain but sub- stantial neat brick house upon the hill, only moments walk from the station. It's doors have not been opened for twelve years. Twelve years ago one of the brightest and smartest mechanics in our bustling city-young, handsome, whose only apparent fortune was his daily wages of which he was very care full, saving all he could for the one bright object of his life, which was to marry her whom he had won, as soon as they could get money enough to commence housekeeping-was engaged to charm ing young girl. She was conscientious to fault, brought up in the most puritanical of Puritan families, good, pure and beautiful. One bright morning in spring he invited her to take drive in the suburbs. They halted after about hu uOuI D OiANO HI AAoho VI oA1AS AASNsS'' He asked her how she liked it. Of course she wished it was theirs they could be so happy if they only had q home like that. He invited her in. The house had just been completed, and very nicely furnished. Judge of her surprise when he quietly informed her that the property was hls, that he owned 1t. Why, she was completely dumbfounded, and, of course, wanted an explanation. How, when, did he come in possession of so much property? He tried to avoid the question, but she was firm. He finally told her that he drew $40, ,000 in some lottery scheme, and with its funds built and furnished this home for her She turned upon him as though he were the veriest gambler, vowing then and there that she would never be his wife until he gave back the property which he had gained by what she termed un lawful means. She scorned all efforts o his to induce her to occupy the house They separated; parted at the door which has not been opened since

 The furniture remains the same to day US when they left it twelve year ago, except what age has done. Boil are wanderers upon the face of the earth both lives blasted.
Year: 1878

A fashionably-dressed man went into a large iewelry store in Bond street, London, selected articles worth $4,0OO, and rendered thousand pound note in payment. The storekeeper ascertained that the note was forgery. Just as he was about to summon assistance, & cab was drawn rapidly up and two men in police uniform hurriedly entered, saying that he man was an old offender of whom they were in search. Directing a porter to place the jewelry in the cab and to come along with them as 8 wit ness, the men in uniform said they would inform the firm when their attendance would be required to press the charge. Then they drove off with thelr prisoner, leaving the jewellers loud in their praise of the proficiency of the police. Next day, however, their porter, brutally beaten, returned with the information that the two supposed police officers were thieves in disguise.
Year: 1878

In the cornice over the Utica Court House is 8 very large colony of spar rows. Last week one of the number committed some offense and was brought up before one of the older birds and a large jury. The offender must have been guilty beyond doubt, as the trial was brief one. Within an hour the wicked bird was seized by four others, and in spite of his struggles cord at tached to bracket was twisted around its neck when all was secure the bird was dropped and it quickly strangled. The victim's body still hangs from one of the pillars of the temple of justice, a warning to all other offenders against the laws of the spaggows.
Year: 1878

How many Aprils have roamed beside thee
O'er the brown hills where now alone l


tread?
And though far realms of wonder now divide


thee


From our dim world, cannot deem thee


dead.
And held thee in my arms while life was


failing,


Close in my arms and watched thy fluttering


breath,
|Till the red sunset in the west was paling
And twilight yelled the awful calm of death.
In that white calm 1 saw then and forever
The grandeur of thy spirit and its power;
Fen as its mortal vestment seemed to sever,
saw the immortal bursting into flower.
That soul, so lofty in its isolation
So strong in weakness, resolute in pain;
$50 self-reliant in its reprobation
OF servile arts and customs iron reign;
/ Mid alien crowds alone, with none to know
thee,
With nothing left behind to regret,
lSave one sad heart that loves sweet debt doth
owe thee,
One lonely heart that never can forget.
Year: 1878

THERE is young lady in this city
i who says she has more parents and
STEP parents living than any one she
ever heard tell of. This is the way she
tells the story:


You know papa and mamma never
could agree, and so finally they got di-
vorced. don't say whose fault it was,
but mamma really did behave ugly some
times, and even could not get along
with her. So when the separation came
went to live with papa. Shortly after
wards mamma married again, and papa
was not long in following suit. L did
not like it very well at first, but my STEP
mother turned out to be first-rate and L
got to like her splendid. Then papa
seemed to get infatuated with another
woman that he got acquainted with and
she wheedled around him until she made
trouble, and the result was another di-
vorce, and papa soon married the woman
that made the trouble. When the sec:
ond separation took place ] went with
my stepmother, because L loved her and
because my services were necessary to
help take care of the baby. Then what
does she do but go and get married. L
declare never saw so much marrying
in my life. 1t only happend little while
ago, and my step-stepfather-I suppose
he is-treats me in very kindly sort of
way, as if he felt he couldn't help him
self, but didn't exactly likeit, and L don't
like it bit. can't go back to mamma,
because she is mad with me for going
with pa in the first instance, and 1 can't
go with pa because of that wheedling
woman, and 1 can't bear to stay where
1 am. 1t is too bad that girl should
have father and mother and two step
fathers and two stepmothers, all living at
once, and not a home that she can feel
at home in."-&. Louis Republican.
Year: 1878

g7T A good wife is to man wisdom,
strength and courage. A bad one con-
fusion, weakness and despair. No con-
dition is hopeless to man where the
wife possesses firmness, decision and
economy. There is no outward proprie-
ty that can counteract Incidence, ,extrav-
agance and folly at home. Nospirit can
long endure bad influences. Man is
strong, but his heart is not iron. He
needs tranquil home, and if he is an
intelligent man, he needs its moral force
in the conflict of life. To recover his
composure, home must be place of
of peace and comfort There his soul
renews its strength and he goes forth
with renewed vigor to encounter the
labor and troubles of life. But If at
home he finds no rest, and there is met
with bad temper, jealousy and gloom, or
assailed with complaints and censure,
hopes vanishes and he sinks to despair.
Year: 1878

When taken off The skins are sailed,
and sent home in that condition. On
arrival they are properly cured, and
then comes the preparation needed for
their conversion into what is popularity
called the 'seal-skin." 1t is difficult
to conceive how that beautiful article
OF dress can ever be manufactured out
OF the unattractiye object the skin pre-
sents at this juncture. 1t is hard and
unyielding as board, and the stiff,
coarse hairs cover the fur SO completely
that its very existence might be doubt
ed. The problem to be solved is how
to separate the hair from the under fur.
For many years each individual hair
was plucked out seyerally, at, of course,
great expenditure of time and money,
until II lucky accident revealed 10 the
dressers that the roots of the hair were
more deeply seated than the roots of
the fur. Now, therefore, after prelimi-
nary preparations, the skins are laid.
hair downward, upon Il wooden block
with a curved surface, and pared down
with knife until the roots OF the hairs
have been cut through, and the skin is
very little thicker titan kid glove.
All the coarser hair can then be brush
ed of with the hand, leaving the fur,
which is then seen to be arranged in
small curls of a light brown color, vary
ing slightly in shade in the parts. In
consequence, nearly all the seal-skin"
is dyed before it is sold, and in the pro-
cess of dyeing the curls untwist them
selves, and the fur becomes smooth and
ready for use.
Year: 1878

We bury our youth, our health ard
our strength; and we only come TO grief
when we try to resuicitate the dead and
forget the chain of years that we have
forged between then and now. The
long walk, the days hunting, the
nights dance, the cold bath, and the
half hours swim, this imprudent food,
and the reckless exposure To the sun
and the rain, the wind and the snow
all these things are among the buried
dead of our possibilities, and we must
accept them as memories only, never
again to be living facts. And why not
bury the remembrance of past pains, past
enmities, of the quarrel that has been
verbally made up, the offence once Of
fered and since atoned for? Some peo-
pie never bury these things. They
say that they forgive, but they keep
their dead displeasure, as the dwarfs
kept Rosered's pretty body, with glass
window in the coffin, by which they
could look in and watch her whenever
they chose. No; there is no good in
that. Collins with glass windows in
the mare mistake. Let us bury the dead
things of life deep in good honest soil,
plant flowers on them, so that the place
where they lie shall not be barren nor
disligured; make of each mistake, each
sad experience, means for future
good and truth and beauty; and go on
always on-till we come to the end,
when we ourselves shall be among the
dead and buried, some of us remain
ing as beautiful remembrances, ever
enshrined in honor and delight; some
of us standing out i'm the backward
vista, as but sorrowful mistakes, like
blind creatures who have missed their
way; or children of sorrow, brought up
under the hard tutelage of pain, and
never suffered To escape the hand of
that stern teacher, that cruel monitor.
-Quesn. -
Year: 1878

Two African farmers, returning from
hunting the hartebeest, reused leo
pard in mountain ravine, and imme-
diately gave chase TO him. The leopard
at first endeavored to escape by clam
bering up precipice: but being hotly
pressed, and wounded by musket ball,
he turned upon his pursuers with that
frantic ferocity peculiar to this animal
on such emergencies, and springing on
the man who had fired at him, tore him
from his horse to the ground, biting
him at the same time on the shoulder,
and tearing ore of his cheeks severely
with his claws. The other hunter, see
ing the danger of his comrade, sprang
from his horse and attempted to shoot
the leopard through the head; but,
whether owing to trepidation, or the
fear of wounding his friend, or the
quick motions of the animal, he unfor-
tunately missed. The leopard, aban-
doning his PROSTATE enemy, darted with
redoubled fury upon his second antag-

onist, and so fierce and sudden was his
onset, that before the boor could stab
him with his hunting-knife, the savage
beast struck him on the head with his
claws, and actually tore the scalp over
his eyes. In this frightful condition
the hunter grappled with the leopard,
and struggling for life, they rolled to-
gether down steep declivity. Before
the man who had been first attacked
could start to his feet and seize his gun,
they had fallen together down the bank.
In a moment he had reloaded his gun,
aud rushed forward to save the life Of
lis friend. But it was too late. The
leopard had seized the unfortunate man
by his throat, and his comrade had only
the satisfaction of completing the de-
struction of the beast, already exhaust
ed with the loss of blood from several
deep wounds by the knife of the expir-
ing huLtsman.-Penny Magazine.
Year: 1878

The snowdrop is usually considered
the first spring flower The bulb is
small, white, producing two or three
narrow linear leaves, which are
short at the time of Towering, but
which afterwards grow much longer;
usually green, bus often edged with yell
low or white. The flower is solitary.
nodding on stem about four inches
long, and possesses a delicate agreea-
ble perfume. The bulbs are so small
they should never be planted singly,
but always in clumps of thirty or more,
or i'm triple rows. AT first planting
place the bulbs an inch and half apart,
and about two inches deep; they will
soon grow together from offsets and
from large clumps. The beds should
be in the warmest. sunniest places, with
clumps in other parts of the garden,
that a succession may be kept up; it is
well TO protect them during the winter
by covering ofEtwo or three inches of
coarse straw or litter; they do not re-
quire this, for the bulb is very hardy,
but the more the frost is kept out of the
ground the earlier will be the spring
bloom.
Year: 1878

The spirit or soul of man knows it
self to be capable, will not say of un-
limited, but of continuous progress
and development. However vigorous
the tree or the animal may be, it soon
reaches the point when it can grow no
more. The animal may have done its
best, it may have reached n high con-
dition OF strength and beauty, but when
its limit is reached it can grow nomore.
With the soul OF man as living and
thinking power it is far otherwise-he
has neTer exhausted himself. When
the mar of science has made some no.
bic discovery, when the literary man
has written a great book, when the
statesman has carried series of impor-
tant measures, we cannot say that he
has exhausted himself. The spiritual
man is indeed dependent on the mate
rial man, and rs the body moves OF
toward decay and dissolution it extends
something of the innIence of its weak
ness and incapacity to its spiritual COM
pallIon; but even then the soul resists
this and asserts its separate existence;
the mind of man knows that each sep
arate effort, instead OF exhausting his
powers, tend to strengthen them, and
SO he will go on continually making
larger and nIobler and more vigorous eff
forts. SO, toe, is it with conscience and
duty; with these there is no finality.
One great act suggests another, one
sacrifice makes another easier; the vir-
tuous impulse in the soul is not
like the growth in tree-a self-ex-
hausting force-but it is always mov-
ing on, always advancing. 'Be not
weary i'll Interchangeable is the Ian
guage of the Eternal to the human will;
butneyer is ''Be not weary of growingn
said to the tree or the animal, because
organic matter differs from spirit in
this: that it does reach the limit of its
activity and then turns backward
towards non-existence.-Canon Lid
do,
Year: 1878

No man conceives what woman
will do or dare for him until he has
surprised her nature by the largest
abnegation of which his own is capa-
BILE. Let him but venture the expert
ment, if he will find himself van-
quished by her III generosity to the end
of the sweet warfare. Then first he
knows what he has won; for then only
does she suffer him to know. 1t is not
not till then that reverence and surren-
der radically begin their life in her.
Nay, then he is the man, he only among
men who understands what a woman's
tenderness is. With her he is a crowned
creature; but with him she is a free
Year: 1878

The Shoe and Leather Reporter has this to
say of the industry of which 1t is an organ :
There are significant indications on every
hand that the merchants Of our trade are res.
olutely bent on adhering to the conservative
policy which they have been pursuing for
some months past. The propensity to force
business urnaturally seems TO have received a
very effective check in all quarters. The tam
ners have had some painful experiences of
the perils consequent upon excessive produc-
tion, and some of those who have hitherto
rushed in with an impetuosity that nothing
could restrain evince commendable DISPOSE
ton to act with moderation and caution.
We have evidences of this change of feeling
in the tranquil condition of the hide market,
which has been remarkably free tor several
weeks from those spasms of preternatural
activity which have made an exhaustive drain
upon the capital Of the men who were lured
into the extensive purchases of them. The
season is drawing to close. Sixty days
from now the time will be over for working in
dry hides with safety. There will be enough
to supply all demands meanwhile, and some
to spare. There is not the slightest occasion
for uneasiness but that all parties will be able
to get as many as they can possibly want, and
more than they will probably need. If the
dealers do not have their own way for the
brief remainder of the spring it will be no.
body's fault but their own. They realize, by
the disastrous results of the sales they are
making now, what mistake it was to pay
the prices they did last fall, and how much
loss they would have avoided if they had
adopted the sensible course then which neces-
sity is compelling them to follow now.
Year: 1878

THE fight over the repeal Of the Resump-
tion Act will be opened In the Senate to-mor-
row Immediately after the expiration of the
morning hour. The anti-resumptionists who
60 In for outright repeal will first attempt to
defeat the substitute offered by the finance
committee.