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Year: 1878

ARRIVAL OF SKILLED LABoRERs.-
The wide spread commercial and in
dustrial depression in England and
Scotland is already adding materially
to the supply Of skilled labor in this
country. The agents of some of the
Fall River and other Eastern mills
state that within the past thirty days
there have been considerable access
sions of this character to the indus
trial forces there, and at this moment
men are employed in some Of the
higher departments who but few
months ago were at work in Lancash-
ire, Glasgow, Paisley, etc. 1t may
also be stated that with the increased
emigration from British ports a
great many skilled mechanics and ar
tisans who have been unable to find
anything to do at home have arrived
at New York, and the movement
promises to continue in augmented
volume until the business situation
over there takes turn for the bet
ter. 1t has been suggested that if
these new corners would push on
West, where there is said to be good
market for their industry, and not
stay in the seaboard cities, where the
labor supply is still largely in excess
of local requirements, they will do
much better than by waiting for work
East that may be long while coming.
Year: 1878

WHEN Miss Mary Anderson was at
Hartford last week young fellow
who thought to cultivate her ac-
quaintanoe sent her an invitation to
dine with him after the performance,
to which the young actress replied
that she was not on foraging tour;
Year: 1878

New YORK, Nov. 18.-Ex-
Mayor A. Oakley Hall to day as
sumed the post of city editor of the
New York World.


The police to-day say nothing
new in either the Stewart body
robbing or Manhattan Bank rob
berry, and no new arrests of suspi-
cious persons have been recorded.


Gov. McClellan's thanksgiving
proclamation recommends in every
church in New Jersey that an OPP
portunity be given every one to
make an offering of money for the
relief of the fever sufferers in the
South, both as thanks Offering to
God for His abundant mercies to-
ward US and as a pledge of our
fraternal love to our afflicted fellow
citizens of the South.
Year: 1878

The American Minister to Mexico
writes concerning the disastrous
effects to that country of the re-
cent decline in the price of silver in
the London market. That although
the double standard of gold and
silver the latter being an unlimited
legal tender for all debts, public
and private, in Mexico, and
although gold is constantly coined
in the mints, it has ceased to be a
circulating medium and the coun~
try has been almost completely
drained of it, it being very hard to
purchase even a few thousand dol
lars in the city of Mexico at pre-
MUM of from Il to Is per cent.
according to the fuctuation of the
London silver market.
Year: 1878

THE New Orleans Observer says:


"Next to General Grant, Senator
ConkliDg can do more 10 rehabili~
tate and bring forward the suppressed
Republican strength of the South
than any other nominee. Under such
q political leader Republicans will not
fail Of victory
Year: 1878

THE Enterprise tells us that the eight hundred pound bell furnished by T. J. Morgan for the new court house of Yava- pal, was tested on the plaza and found to possess full, rich tone.
Year: 1878

TALK WrrH TIE BoYs.-No words of
counsel and cheer pay better than those
spoken to boys whom you meet OCCASION
ally on the street, or at your home, or in
your place of business. Boys like to be
recognized by those older than themselves.
And boys are u great deal more impressi-
bic than they commonly have credit for
being. If you see Il boy doing some fool
ish thing, or some wrong thing putting
at u cigar that is Il little shorter than he is,
reading u dime novel or flash paper,
making sport of some poor unfortunate, or
quarreling with comprehension pass
him with u sneer wondering that boys
will be so silly or so vicious; but stop and
say wise and kindly word to him. Tell
how he can do better, and why it is worth
his while to try it. He never had such a
word as that from you-possibly from no
one else. A word of that sort Just now
may shape his course for life. Or, if you
see boy doing n manly or gentlemanly
act, interfering to protect some weaker
one, rising to give Il seat to some one older
than himself, or showing himself attentive
to his mother, say word of hearty COM
mendation to him. Let him see that his
well doing is noticed and approved. There
are sure returns for such work as this
Sli1dHy School Times.
Year: 1878

TIE BRIDE AND Her DowRY.-A
clergyman was sent for to visit a girl who
was seriously i'll. The illness proved fatal
and the mother was left bereaved of her
child as well as her husband. A few days
after her child's funeral the widow called
and requested TO see the clergyman. She
put into his hand small package, con-
tanning money. which she begged he
would give to some society which was
sending the gospel to the heather world.
He opened the parcel, and to his amaze
ment counted out twenty dollars. He at
once demonstrated with the widow, told
her that, gaining her precarious living as
a laundress, she surely ought not to give
so large sum. With firmness she urged
him to take it, and then said; How
came to have this large sum is Just this ::
When my child was born, | thought
She'll live to get married some of these
days and thought | would begin to put
by u little sum to be store for her then,
and | began that day with sixpence. You
know what happened last week. Well, l
thought to myself, The Heavenly Bride
groom has come, and lie has called her
home to be His bride; and rs lie has taken
the bride, it is only right He should have
the dowrY.'"
Year: 1878

HOME RELIGION.-Home religion is a
thing of the heart-which is the same as
saying it is thing of love. 1t may exist
/ in connection with forms; and it may ex-
ist in its sweetest unfolding Independent
of forms. 1t may say grace at the table
and it may not say grace at the table. 1t
may be gifted to sustain family altar !;
and it may not have the gift requisite. But
if the heart be right, there shall be grace
and prayerfulness albeit forms be lacking
in the family. There is way of eating
your food which thanks God better than
any formal grace-saying that can be devils
ed. There is way of kissing the wife
after the meal, and the husband is leaving
for his Office, which covers the whole
ground between husband and wife intend
ed to be covered by the influence of the
family altar, We have known n man to
ask a blessing on food which he himself
condemned in the very next breath. To
thank God for food, and. scold your wife
or the cook in the next breath because the
steak is over done, or the cakes not brown
ed TO your suiting, or the tea too strong,
is something more. friend, than impety
it is indecency. Home religion should be
loNluS lliSt III tll, anu l'tSL Vi dll IL SuOulV
believing. 1t should be very patient,
too especially on those days when it is hard


to be patient. 1t should be cheerful, es-
pecally when it takes wit to invent occa-
sions of mirthfulness. 1t should be brave,
not to face the troubles that are without,
but the troubles that are within. A kind
ly word, a pleasant speech, cheerful or
sympathetic look, touch of the hand in
the old tender fashion of the courtng days,
Il stroking of the check and the soft move
ment of the palm over the hair-"Foolish
trcks?' You are fool if you say it,
frieml. You didn't think they were fool
ish tricks once, and you were wiser then
than you are now you have dropped them.
A little more courting in married life
would keep marriage life what courtship
is. The foolishness of love is wiser than
the wisdom of hate; and the more foolish
you are in these directions, the happier
will your homes be and the sweetcr will
be your home religion.
Year: 1878

Are you willing to be rs the dew, to
steal abroad in the darkness and carry
blessings to mems doors which shall enrich
them and do them good and give them
joy, and steal away again before they
wake TO know what hand brought the ben
ediction? Are we willing to do great
favors to others and not have them know
to whom they owe them9 Are we willing
to work without gratitude, without recog-
milton, without praise, without re!prn2
Are we content to have our lives pourcd
out like the dew to bless the world and
make it more fruitful and yet to remain
hidden away ourselves; to see the effects
of our lives all about us-in the homes
and characters Of others, in beauties and
Joys springing up, and in benefits prepared
by our hands and enjoyed by others-and
yet never hear our names spoken in praise
or honor? And yet is it not thus that we
are to live9 Self is to be utterly forgot
ten. Praise is not to be sought. Every
thing is to be done for Christ. All the
honor is to be given to Him We are to
seek, like the gentle dew, TO bless the
world, to breath inspiration everywhere,
to shed quickening influences upon other
lives, TO impart helptullness and noble i'm
pulse to all we meet. But, like the dew
again, we are to do all these things quietly.
We are to strive to give help, without an
nouncing ourselves.-EWngcliSt, .
Year: 1878

WIFE KHD CHItD.-One man described
to me his night of peril-twe!ve hours in
the water clinging to the masts, after a
day of great labor, beat about by winds
and waves. One of their number was
washed away. -" We threw him rope
and would have lashed him to the mast,
but he was too weak to hold on" How
did you feel when you saw him going
down?n some one asked. 90, did not
mind much, for thought we must all 90,
soon; | did not believe we could hold out
long for every time the waves rolled up
we had to duck our heads under water so
as not to be swept Off" lie stopped talk


ing for minute us if it were more than
he cared to think about. and then he said !:
" But that man was the only single man
among us. He had no wife and no chill
dren, and that, believe, is the reason that
he could not hold out. think it was my
wife and my home which kept me alive
that night. If | had not remembered
them | should have let 90 many times. y
Boston Transcript.
Year: 1878

SOME SEAsoNABLE AUvICE.--IIall's
Journal of Health has these directions rs
to the wearing of flannel: Pat it on at
once Winter or summer nothing better
can be worn next the skin than n loose,
red, wooden flannel shirt; loose for it
has room to move on the skin, thus caus-
ing Utilization which draws the blood to
the surface and keeps it there, and when
that is the case no one can take cold;
red because white flannel fulls up, mats
together and becomes tight, stiff, heavy
and impervious; 'woolen,' the product of
sheep, not of u gentleman of color, not
of cotton wool. because that merely ab-
serbs the moisture from the surface while
woolen flannel conveys it from the skin
and deposits it in drops on the outside of
the shirt, from which the ordinary cotton
shirt absorbs it. and, by its near exposure
to the exterior air, it is soon dried without
injury to the body. Having these proper
ties, red wooden flannel is worn by sailors
even in the midsummer of the hottest
countries. Wear a thinner material in
sulhihel' ..u.
Year: 1878

There are said to be many indications of
a general railroad war in the west. The
present cutting of rates is said TO have its
origin in breach of faith on the part Of
the Pan Handle railroad. 1t is not likely
that the trunk lines running out of New
York. Philadelphia and Baltimore will be
embraced, nor possible that the hostilities
can long continue, rs passenger rates have
been reduced below the cost of transporta-
tion.
Year: 1878

The Judgment of child is u terrible
tribunal. One can face the world and
ones equals. knowing all that is in one S
favor, and feeling the full force of ones
rights But the secret verdict of a boy or
girl, whom natural respect will prevent
from expressing it or even defining it to
themselves--what u thing that is to en-.
counter Mrs. Oliphan
Year: 1878

A SPLENDID WIEE.-We once knew .
man who was always praisng his wife.
On the corner, down the street, in the post
office, at the race track, in the skating
rink, at the theatre, in the sal-that is, al
choir meeting, he was always telling what
"A happy man he was, just because he had
such = splendid wife, and he talked every
man he met into perfect frenzy of envy
about her. Well, one winter morning
when it was not yet too light to make one
appear over ostentatious, we sneaked into
that neighbor's yard to steal fence board
for kindling, and had to wait before we
could safely obtain it. until that mans wife
came out and sawed a couple ofarmfuls of
wood, shoveed out three snow paths, fed
and groomed the horse and cleaned out
the COW shed, and then when she went
into the house and we heard her call to her
husband that the sitting room was warm
enough for him to dress in it, if he wanted
to get up now. and we were so amazed
that we forgot what we were waiting for,
and went back and kindled the fire with q
corn cob and a pint of kerosene. e.-Howk-
eye.
Year: 1878

~" This is Neptune said the professor,
placing his finger on the outside ball of the
system, land we arc now two thousand,
seven hundred and fifty millions of miles
from the sun" Rheumatic student on
the back seat turns up his collar and
shivers perceptibly -u b,
Year: 1878

CONTINUED


The Otoliths, or ear-stones found
in a Gods head. make the Vibrations
of the fluid contained in the bag more
powerful. If we fill bladder with
water, and give it gentle tap, we
may feel tremulous motion run to
and fro within it. But if we put into
1t a few marbles, and then tap it,
these will give a much more distinct
sensation. But by examination a
Gods or Salmon's head (Which may
be cooked not only may the ear :
stones be discovered, but also the
ear bag. And it will be noticed to
have a very remarkable form. 1t is
no longer, as in the lobster, a mere
roundish bladder at first sight it
might almost be said to resemble a
large white spider. 1t has body
and limbs, but the limbs are peculiar.
From the central sac, which consists
of two portions, there pass off three
tubes, which return to the sac again,
near the point from which they start.
at one end each tube has an enlarge
ment; it seems to swell out into a
bulb, and here, as we'll as in the GEN.
trail sac, the nerve is distributed
Now because these tubes pass from
the sac and return to it again. the
sack is called a vestibule, or common
hall and the tubes are called the
semi-circular canals (though they are
not exactly semi-circular) and this
with another superadded part con-
tinues to be the form Of the nerUou;
portion of the ear IN all animals ana
ia ourselves. The superadded par
is like common snail shell, with
tube winding around central axis
and growing larger as it winds The
reason for this form we shall se'
Year: 1878

The latest discovery in dentistry is
that teeth can be transplanted from
one mouth 70 another-a tooth that
has done service for years or decades
being put into vacant socket in
jaw and made to grow, The impor--
tant part of il is that the teeth need
not have been recently extracted. 1t
requires rare skill. but the conditions
of dental disease and life are being so
earnestly studied and SO thoroughly
understood that it is believed that
trausplantation and grating will soon
supersede the present clumsy artificial
eontriN ances.
Year: 1878

The immortal Edmund Burke
must have been a Forcible Reads
iuster. We invite Newberry and
our funder friends TO read the fol-
lowing from his pen /:


"It is to the property Of the citizen
and not to the demands of the credi-
tor of the State that the original faith
of society is pledged. The claim of
the citizen is prior in time, para
mount In title, superior Sn equity"
Year: 1878

Senator Johnston has our thanks
for a bound copy of the Congress
sional Record, which we have ex-
amined with great interest, and
will have an abundant use for as
il furnishes and immense and fruit
tul field for reference on the cur
rency question.
Year: 1878

STOCKTON, who was major gener-
al in the Rebel army. recently enlist
ed in the Federal army as a private
The war Department has detailed him
as a clerk therein. Why should not
the bloody shirt wave, why should
not freedom shrek at this recognition
of the Confederacy?-C Chicago Times.
Year: 1878

The Memphis AUdldnche tells OF
one of the rich men of Memphis, who
Is now absent, and left white and
black woman in charge of his private
house. The white woman got SICK,
and when the rich lhan OF memphis
heard OF that fact, he sent letter 70
the colored woman as follows; oeHu
the white woman to the hospital
Don't use any of the sweet milk
dent use any of the eggs or chickens,
but help your self outside" That
last expression undoubtedly means go
TO the Howards or the Relief Commit
tee,
Year: 1878

Variety is the space of life. An lr-
ishman is reported as saying that he
had nothing to live on but potatoes,
and for the sake of variety he ate the
large and small ones together. That
son of the hod understood the "phi-
losophy of common things"
Year: 1878

When q country editor. who is strug-
Cling along trying to rear large fami-
ly and build up town on an income
of five hundred year, discovers that
a base ball pitcher hauls in four thou
sand dollars for the season, it makes
him sit down on a roller-box and
fhir, Il
Year: 1878

No brighter page in the yet unwrit-
ten history of the yellow fever scourge
now desolating the Southern cities
can ever be written than the simple
record of wOman's noble devotion to
self-imposed duty, and her heroic
death in the midst of such surround
ings as we, at our safe distance. can
not realize.


The brief telegraphic announcement
that sister Agatha and sister Beatrice
are on the death-roll is so small an
item as to be hastily read and imme-
diately forgotten. But who can de-
scribe or appreciate the unselfish la
bors of these noble women, who
breathe an atmosphere of death and
finally go down to unmarked graves,
dying at their posts, and ministering
to the last to the wants of the suffer-
ing and helpless?


In the great future, where all are
Judged according to the deeds done in
the body. there must be a happy re-
fuge for these noble heroines, whose
names should shine as the stars for
ever,
Year: 1878

This gentleman has declined
the nomination for delegate at
large, rendered him by citizens
irrespective Of party in Eastern
Washington. While the people
have cause to regret the absence
Of such a man from the conven
tien, Judge Wingard has himself
furnished the highest evidence
Of his fitness to make law, by his
careful regard Of existing law.
The Organic Act of the Terrific
ry absolutely prohibits any per-
son holding a commission under
the United States from holding
any office created by the Terri
tory, and as the Office of member
Of the convention is one of the
highest legislative character, it
follows that the judges are ineli-
gible. Not alone this, but the
U. S. revised statutes provide
that whenever any person hold
ing a commission under the
United States shall accept Ter
ritorial Office, his federal Office
shall at once cease.


Judge Wingard, doubtless,
having proper regard for his
official oath to support the con-
stitution and laws Of Congress,
has given such proof of his feal
ty to law as to merit the regard
of his fellow citizens.
Year: 1878

Egypt has caught the enthu-
siasm of the western countries of
Europe in It's reception of our
ex7 President. At Alexandria he
has been received with all the
honors at its command, while at
Cairo a palace has been placed
at his disposal by the Khedive
and special steamer to give
him an opportunity of seeing
the famous river which the he
role Stanley has forever linked
with the name Of the United
States. 1t was, by the way, q
curious incident that the illus


trious soldier and the indomi-
table explorer should have met
and exchanged greetings on
the border line, the one
coming out of that myste-
rious land crowned with
glory as the other was prepar-
ing to enter it IN a blaze of Off
cial splendor as the guest of it's
ruler. That General Grant
should have taken special pans
to meet the distinguished journ-
aiist and hear from his own lips
the story Of his marvellous
achievement was as high a recog-
milton as he could give of the ap-
probation in which he holds Mr..
Stanley's services to the cause
Of Science and ultimately, we
hope, Of civilization. The ex-
President seems to be delighted
with his tour, and he is certain
ly fortunate in being so many
thousands of miles away from
the wretched wrangling at
Washington and the seemingly
interminable Louisiana squabble.
Year: 1878

That some men will oppose
the formation OF State govern
ment is to be expected. Outside
of those holding office under the
general government who of
course dislike to be jostled out
Of their comfortable positions
there is class Of men who will
be frightened by the bugaboo of
taxation. But it can 5c demon
strated that the burden will, in
fact, be diminished, instead of in
creased. The very fact that a
convention has been called to
frame constitution has started
an increasing flow of immiSra-
ton to Washington Territory,
and by the time the State will be
admitted, we shall have three
men to pay the taxes where one
now has to bear the burden.
1t was the experience of Oregon
that the rate of taxation was ac-
tually diminished after the State
was formed, and a similar eX-
perience was the lot Of most if
not all the North w estern States.


The first move of the obstruc-
tionists has already been made,
and that is an effort to prevent
the passage Of. an enabling act
by Congress. The bill introduced
bv Jacobs has been referred to
the appropriate committee, and
has not yet been reported to the
House, and probably never will
be if Jacobs follows the lead of
disappointed and selfish men
here at home. He'might just as
we'll know now that the people
will hold him responsible for the
failure to pass this bill at the
present session Of Congress, and
that it will in this event be
passed at the next session with
out his aid and in spite of his
opposition. But we do. not be-
lieve he is so weak a man as to
be led by the ohstructionlsts at
home, in Il matter of such vital
Importance to the people Of the
Territory. His constituents were
we'll satisfied with his ARGUMENT
before the committee in favor of
the enabling bill, and will not
believe him capable of going
back on his word at the beck of
a few disappointed aspirants at
home.
Year: 1878

This might be used as an ar
gument by persons who are op-
posed to temperance reform:
A Philadelphia workman, who
was booked for passage to South
America On the unfortunate Ne
tropolis, stepped ashore to take
a parting nip with a friend. The
ship sailed without him, and
while Its passengers were the
sport of the waves he was at
home safe and we'll.
Year: 1878

This is a good season of the
year ~l-.-Ar0idnche. The man
that was found with another
mans wife in his y saw ~ soon
after.-Nuclens. Very clever f..
They should both be framed in
j and hung upon the wall
Telegram. The perpetrators of
such stuff ought to have a ! run
into then.
Year: 1878

A Chicago inventor recently made n
small tan wheel, to be placed in the hat,
to keep she head cool in warm weather.
He set it going Oh his own hat, and the
first thing he knew his hair was wound
up in the machinery. The spring was
very stiff, and before be could release
hlmself. pert of his hair was pulle d
out by tie roots.
Year: 1878

A Minneapolis boy was sent
by his teacher, q woman, to tha
Superintendent to be whipped.
The lad suspected the contents
of the note and hired q boy he
met on the street to deliver it,
giving HIM ten cents. The So
perlntendert did not discover
till after the castigation was
over that the boy he had fog
ged had not seen the inside Of 4
school house for month.
Year: 1878

"KNAvEs AND FOOLS" is the polite
term the Epery Evening and Commercial
applied to all the Democratic Represen-
tatives in Congress who voted for The sill
yer bill. The language is not quite par
liamentary, TO he sure but AS it is her
aided from second or third class two
penny paper that assumes to be the or.
gan Of Senator Bayard here in Delaware
it is eXcusable. How the people outside
of the State will like it is not II question
that concerns us.