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Year: 1879

Bismark' $ life is full of authentic anec-
dOtes recording his singular fcarleSsness.


As child he does not seem to know wLat
danger is. His mother is in constant fear
about him. If he does not get drowned he
will certainly break his neck. Many acci-
dents happen to him, and he often has very
narrow escapes, but somehow he always
does escape. As he grows older he becomes
more prudent, but still he does not know
fear. In GOttingen, where he went to
law, he got involved in four ducls on the
day of his arrival, because, quite regardless
of the respect due by a freshman to his
seniors, he coolly and deliberately insulted
four of these who had taken the liberty TO
laugh at him. While in the army he saved
his servant from drowning at the risk of his
own life. For this deed he got a medal,
which for many years was the only deco
ration he had. lie wears it still ; and it is
said-and We readily believe-that he is
quite as proud of it as of the numberless
ribbons, crosses and stars which now cover
his breast After lsis Bisrsark's courage
was displayed on other fields He was
among the first, and certainly among the
most conspicuous of those who, while all
around were carried away by the revolution
or despair of being able to resist it, stood
up boldly and agitated openly against it.
He took the lead of the reactionary party
and became very unpopular. The liberal
press in Prussia attacked him with great
violence. In Parliament he met with We
hement opposition. He seldom lost his
temper, but he never retracted single
word of his attack on the revolution. Some
illusions having been made to the fate
which generally awaits those who try tOr re-
sist the demands of a great people for liber-
ty, he merely shrugged his shoulders. He
is of the opinion that death on the scaffold
may be very honorable death. While
he was canvassing for his election at place
called Rathenow, an old farmer asked him
if he thought il were of any use ''to fight
against those Berlin democratsi" 'It is
better to be the hammer than the anvil, p"
replied BIsmark. He has always managed
to be the hammer. When he was on the
point of leaving Rathenow mob surround


ed the carriage in which he was seated with
his friend Mr.. Won Stechow. Stones were
thrown at him, and one struck him on the
shoulder. lie rose, and picking up the
stone that had fallen in the carriage, hurled
il back at the crowd. II was a multitude
against two men, but nobody dared to stop
Bismark's carriage. In 1850, when the
tide of political passion was still running
very high, Bismark went one day into
tavern at Berlin to take glass of beer. A
man near him, feeling himself supported by
the presence of his friends, began to abuse
a member of the royal family. Bismark
looked at him, and said quietly, ''If YOU
Year: 1879

To be sure. these are hard times, and
prudence is needful: but, my dear ladies,
that is poor economy that leads you to buy
cheap goods simply because they are cheap.
In the long run this plan does not pay.
If you buy but little, buy good material.
Everybody could contrive to have three
dresses in wear. If it is important to have
one really good dress, il is equally lmpor-
tant to have a good second best to save 1t.
MANY poor women destroy best dress by
wearing it at unsuitable times, simply be-
cause they have no other presentablc in
which to 30 ont A richer neighbor could
save her silk on a rainy day by wearing a
coarser and more suitable dress. We know
a lady who. on a small income, manages to
dress handsomely in all occasions, going
out great deal in fashionable circles 1t
takes science, but she is equal to II she
buys one good dress year, this she has
made UP in the prevailing stvle, and sets
if aside as her very best for dinner parties,
sunny Sabbath's and the like. The last
wears best dress is remodeled into an excel
lent second best, which is most used of the
set. 1t serves for afternoon wear, for gen
cr,I street wear and dull Sundays. Then
comes the third best, which is made, most
likely. of several old dresses, ripped apart
and turned to the best account. This is for
very common use, bu. looks very well even
in the street, for the materials of which it
Is made were of the best in their day, and
such goods have a perennial youth. The
other accessories of her toilet are always
elegant. She never buys cheap lace, which
wears out in a season, but procures the
real. which lasts for years. Again she
saves all her pieces-every scrap OF silk,
satin. or velvet-and is never at loss for
the materials for brightcolored bow or
headdress.
Year: 1879

g Strawberries and ice-cream. she cooed
softly, as dozen glaring signs with that
magic inscription thereon met her dOve-likr
gaze.


''Lime, hair and cement" quoth he, as
his eagle-eye despairingly took in a wealth
erbeaten shanty across the street, forming
sad contrast to the palace which, if man
once enters he is lost, if woman goes with
him.


Il haven't had any this season. said
she with woman's perception that his
thoughts we've wondering from the sublime
to the ridiculous.


"Nellie, where does your father buy his
building materials and our young man
increased his gait to eighteen laps more To
the mile.


why! what do YOU"


"Of course not, YOU know mean-yOu
know-those are mighty fine fellows who
run that lime institution over there-see il:
right across the street. Well, YOU see, I've
promised them to talk up their business.
Tbey'r re good, square boys, and | must
speak TO your father about them He is a
kind old gentleman, your father is, and en-
courages economy. IL was only the other
day he spoke to me very kindly about my
extravaganza, and brought up as an exam
pie remark he heard an ice cream dealer
make that | spent more mOnoy for ice
cream than any man in town. Your father
is such persuasive old gentleman, and ne
talked so nicely about it, that ! then and
there made solemn resolution that |
wouldn't spend a cent for ice cream this
season.


The last ice cream laboratory had been
passed. He smiled a smile Of grim salts
faction and felt he had done il well. He
tailed one for himself, and decided he was
a schemer that could match any woman
bent on having dish of ice cream at his
expense. He looked over his left shoulder
at the painting creature, whom he was
dragging along at a tremendous gait, to Ser
how she took it.


The dovc-like expression of her eve was
lost, and there flashed on him such a look
Of contempt and disgust from that lovely
face that he felt bad.


You see, Nellie, your noble father


And then it struck him all of a sudden
that Nellie's father had been dead for four
years.
Year: 1879

He that pelts every barking dog must
pick n good many stones.


Fancy runs most furiously when a
guilty conscience drives it.


Anger and jealousy can no more bear
to lose sight of their objects than love.


Act well at the moment, and you have
performed good action to all eternity
IGUdter.


Speech is noble only when, like an
honest money, it represents the gold of
thought.-W. N. Taylor.


Truth is the most powerful thing in
the world, since fiction can only please
us by its resemblance to it.


Improve the wit you have bought at
a dear rate, and the wisdom you have
gained by sad experimentation.


Don't despise the small talents; they
are needed as well rs the great ones.
A candle is sometimes as useful as the
sun.


Our striving against nature is like
holding weathercock in ones hand; ms
soon us the force is taken off it veers
again with the wind.


The greatest evils in life have had
! their rise from something which
was thought to be of too little import
ance to be attended to.


There is a great deal of unmappeG
country within us which would have tC
! be taken into account in an explanation
of our gusts and storms.


Our system of thought is often only
tn history of our heart. Men do moi
so much will according to their reason
as reason according to their will.


Feelings come and go like light troop
following the victory of the present; bu
principles, like troops of the line, ARE un
disturbed and stand fast.-Richter
Year: 1879

Milk and lime water are now fire.
quently prescribed by physicians in
cases of dyspepsia and weakness of the
stomach, and in some cases are said to
prove beneficial. Many persons who
think good bread and milk great luxury
frequently hesitate TO eat it, for the rea-
son that milk will not digest readily;
sourness of the stomach will often fol-
low. But experience proves that lime
water and milk are not only food and
medicine at an early period of life, but
also at later, when, as in the case Of
infants, the functions of digestion and
assimilation have been seriously i'm
paired. A stomach taxed by gluttony,
irritated by improper food, inflamed by
alcohol, enfeebled by disease, OF other
wise untitled for its duties-as is shown
by the various symptoms attendant upon
indigestion, dyspepsia, diarrhea, dysen-
terry and fever-may resume its work,
and do it energetically, on an exclusive
diet of bread and milk and lime-water.


A goblet of cows milk may have cur
tablespoonfuls Of lime water added to it
with good effect. The way to make
lime-water is simply to procure a few
Jumps of unslakeG lime, put the lime in
a stone jar, add water until the lime is
slaked and about the consistency of thin
cream; the lime settles, leaving the pure
and clean lime-water at the top. Great
care should be taken not to get the lime
water too strong. Keep to the direction
us to the consistency, and when the
water rises pourit off without obtaining
any of the lime. The lime-water is also
very good to apply to burns and scalds
In shaking the lime, particular care
should be taken that none of the parti
clcs fly into the eyes.
Year: 1879

A noble bloodhound in Philadelphia
made n savage assault upon citizen,
and the owner is under bonds to answer
for keeping so vicious IN animal. The
circumstance leads the Philadelphia
Bulletin to these righteous reflections:
1T is characteristic ofpersons who keep
dogs to have IL firm and illimitablc faith


in their amiability. If visitor to the
house of such n man has his nervous sys-
tenn COM pletely unstrung by two or three
dogs dashing ut him savagely us soon as
he rings the door bell, the owner in
vmiably comes out smiling with the
assurance that the animals are as harm
less as kittens; he always regards it us II
jood joke that anybody should be afraid
of beasts SO gentle, so amiable and so
fond of play. If one of the dogs hap
pens to bite piece out of somebody's
leg, or chew up a child or two into mince-
meat, the owner regards the perform
ance with painful surprise, and is wholly
unable to account for the singular con-
duct of his pets upon any other theory
than that the victim must have done
something of = peculiarly outrageous
character to irritate the noble animal y
Year: 1879

The sixth annual convention of the
United States Hay Fever Association at
Bethlehem, N. H., was the source of
much good sense and good humOr. Mr..
Muckle, in his address, gave this dismal
picture of victims to hay fever: THE
most unfortunate thing about it is that
the soberest man under the heavens is
mistaken for a chronic drunkard when
he gets about halfway through with
his attack, and no protestations will
convince his intimate friends that he
has not had an attack of the jim jams.
He is stunned like leper; his terrible
spasms and agonies of sneezing on the
public streets make him an object OF
ridicule and contempt; and if he is en-
gagged to girl it is very certain that she
will let him drop" But he added ;
THAT a remedy, and an adequate rem
edy, exists for the hay fever there cannot
be shadow of doubt. Some man will
stumble upon it some day accidentally.
1t is to be hoped that he will stumble
SOON"
Year: 1879

The infiltration system of sailing beef,
by filling the blood-vessels with brine,
is attracting considerable attention in
Australia. In some recent experiments
at Brisbane, bullocks were treated us
follows At the instant of killing the
animals heart was laid bare, and in
cisions were made in both ventricles.
Into the orifice of the left ventricle II
pipe was inserted, and a stream of weak
brine was forced through the blood
vessels, washing out ali the blood.
Pressure was obtained by having the
brine in an elevated tank. After the ex-
pulsion of the blood the right ventricle
was closed by a clamp, and stronger
brine was forced in until all the blood
vessels were full. In this way the dis
tribution OF the brine through every
part of the meat is said to be complete
and the curing perfect.
Year: 1879

SYNOPSIS OF THE MEAsURE-A NEW FORM OF RE-


MovAL DEVISED.


ALBANY, March 26.-Alr. Langbein's bill in
certain other persons appointed Office in the City Or
New York provides that all the heads Of departments
In the City OF NewYork aud all other whose
appointment to Office provided for by Section %.
Chapter 335. OF the laws of 1873, may be re-
moved for misconduct or maiversation In
which such head Of department or other person shall
have been appointed To office The Presiding Judge Of
Ist Judicial District OF the supreme Court or the
mon Pleas of NewYork and the ChiefJustce OF the Su
perior Court of the City OF NewYork are 10 hear and
determine complaints submit ted to them. Charges may
at any tine be presented TO these judges by the
Mayor or by five or more citizens. taxpayers
Ia such event the person accused is to he called upon To
file an answer within thirty days. The judges may
then appoint competent person 10 take evidence,
and N they deem the charges sustained they shall send
move the person accused In every where the said
Judges shall determine that the charges contained in
spy conpla presented TO them have not been estab
lshed To their satisfaction, such complaint shall
no further proceedings shall be taken thereon.
No head OF department or other person, removed from
Office the Mayor by this statute authorized, shall
be again appOn ted to same office during the same
against head OF the Department OF Law when the
Mayor Of the city the complainant, the
Counsel TO tho Corporation shall conduct the
proceedings IN his behalf. When the complaint
Department Of Law the Mayor shall select and appoint
special s to prosecute the same The expense OF
such special counsel aud all other necessary expenses
relating 10 said proceeding. including reasonable sum
against the Mayor Aldermen and commonalty Of said
Year: 1879

value suffered from the water which, in extraordinary
prOdigality poured the blazing roof. and
through the upper windows The Earl and the Countess
with their children. had been visit to Lady Russell
at Richmond, and their retrrn they had called at
Buckingham Palace to visit the Crown Prince and
Princess OF Germany, not knowing at tho time they
aghted at the Royal residence that their house
Ara
Year: 1879

There is great misapprehension of what
is real duty among those who regard them
selves rs the laboring class. They are hon
est in their intentions but they are too
trustful to demagogues, and are too often
misled by prejudice and false advice into
attitudes and actions that are unfortunate to
the public welfare, and hence damaging to
themselves. 1t is to be deplored that the
workers of the country have to n certain
extent, fallen into the tolls of designing
dcmagogues, who control and use them for
their own benefit, when no advantage ac-
crues to themselves. They are often goaded
on by false counsels to engage in differences
with employers and capitalists, when no
good can possibly arise to either party by o
disagreement. Their interests are identical,
and would be held in sympathy and har-
mony of action but for the interposition of
the unprincipled intermeddler who as
sumes the right to advise and control their
course.
We notice that the signs of returning
prosperity, under revival of business, are
seized upon by designing men to interrupt
and retard the wheels of enterprise and
prevent the return of the day when the
employer may be successful and the en-
ployed shall share the benefit of the change
of tide. When the country becomes pros
porous, and the wheels and spindles the
blast and the forge, and the other agencies
of business progress are in full tide of sue
cesstul operation, the occupation of these
demagogues, who have been eating out the
substance of the worker during the period
of hard times, will be gone, and then they
must join the army OF industry, or starve,
or steal for q livelihood. The lahoring class
viii have no use for such leeches when the
hour of prosperity comes. They will no
longer share their subsistence with them,
for their services will become an apparent
superhuity, and will be dispensed with.
The fear of this now prompts the leaders of
strikes to foment them, lest the prosperity
of the people shall destroy their vocation
and leave them to shift for themselves.


This class of malcontents and marplots
have set to work in Philadelphia among the
carpet-weavers of Kensington to stay the
progress of those manufactures at the
threshold of n prosperity that is opening
before them. Scarcely have the wheels
started on pressing and abundant orders
when the operatives are melted to a strike
and an interruption of the business is at
tempted, because designing men think
the wages paid are not large enough. We
contend that "the laborer is worthy of his
hire" and such wages as manufacturers
can afford should be cheerGully paid; but
the remedy does not lie along the path
of embarrassment and suspension. We hope
that workingmen in all departments OF
business will soon emancipate themselves
from machines and begin to think and act
| for themselves
Year: 1879

North of their bounden duty to do some
thing and everything in their power to oid
the party in the Old North State. The
truth is, there are about 10000 white Re
publican votes in North Carolina, a larger
number than can be found in any other
Southern State, which, added to the $4,000
colored votes, constitute legal majority of
all the votes that can be properly cast and
counted. 1t is only by fraud in the count,
or intimidation during the campaign, that
the Democrats can overcome this majority,
and it begins to be apparent that the days
of fraud and violence are over in that State,
which, naturally conservative, will be
among the first in the South to return to
the ways of peace and fair dealing in that
section.
Year: 1879

THAT the President before going West had
decided to remove Commissioner PHELPS
there is no doubt. II Is also believed that tho
Commissioner was invited to resign. But these
facts coming to the ears of those interested in
questionable claims against this District, they
have made extraordinary efforts to prevail on
the President not to remove tho Captain, as q
change would be sure to work disastrously
against their schemes, Well, this was expected;
but it also forms one of tho strongest reasons
possible for an immediate change-for the sub
stitution of known competent and honest men
for the present blunderors and squanderors
Its effects would not be limited to this District.
1t would be felt in tho coming elections if
made Immediately. Can the President and tho
Republican party afford to carry this notori.
| ously unpopular II not corrupt city govern
mept much longer? 1t is for the President,
and him alone, to decide these questions. We
shall soon see whether he or tho Ring is
| strongest
Year: 1879

PosTMAsTER-GENERAL KEY has gone to
Tennessee to attend the Jonesboro' centen-
NAL. He will make a speech on that occa-
sion, in which he will advocate the honest
payment of the debts of the State. There
upon the Tennessee Bourbons will insist
that he is double-dyed Radical. The man
in the South who advocates an honest and
straightforward execution Of the laws is
always Radical of the very worst stripe,
in their estimation.
Year: 1879

PUBLICAN Wedo not think we are mis-
taken-but If we are, IL Is not just TO inn
pute TO 1t so silly remark. We adhere to
the opinion that we are not mistaken--and
yet it is possible we may be, and hope we
may be for the character of that paper.
Year: 1879

SECRETARY SHERMAN's deep interest in
the New York campaign, about which the
Opposition has so much to say, will soon
crystalline into something definite. He has
promised to make speech or two in that
State under the direction of the CORNELL
Campaign Committee, in doing which he
will simply follow the example set by
Secretary EvARTs, who has made similar
agreement with the same committee. The
real smart young men who have heretofore
insisted that the Administration Is devoting
its energies to the cause in Maryland, to
the neglect of the party in New York, will
do well to make note of this fact.
Year: 1879

TIE North Carolina Gazette rises to re-


mark that it does not believe that State is
"at all safe for the Democratic party in the


Coming canyass,' and adds "that she is
gone unless the very best men are put for
"ward' The Raleigh Observer concurs in
this explanation of the situation, and adds
that "should Judge BUXTON be nominated
"lor Governor by the Radicals North Caro-
''lna may be wrested from us in spite of
"all we can do, and with the gubernatorlal
candidate will so the electoral vote" This
information is decidedly encouraging TO the
well-wishers of the country, who desire to
see the Solid South broken up, But it
should admonish the Republicans of the
Year: 1879

An exchange thinks the time will GER
tainly come when men will 60 flying
through the air. And so do We. 1t will
come when three or four men handle
kse Of nitro-glycerine as . baggage.
smasher handles trunk. But they will
20 flying through the air so rapidly and
In 20 many pieces that they won't enjoy
the trip worth O cent.
Year: 1879

You.LL hardly ever see q man forget q
friend that owes him. though he Is not
akin; you'll hardly ever see . woman
bet and pay the wager should the other
win ; you'll hardly ever see q pensive
goat that cannot eat q wooden cellar.
door you'll hardly ever hear an urehin
quote the "hardly ever" from the
"Pinaforo."
Year: 1879

A POET in the New York Nees sings,
with the quill OF . dove and my own
hearts red blood would write OF my
love-" We bet ten dollars he wouldn't.
But We are perfectly willing that he
should try II. AL he has to do to OBJ
tain the blood is to offer some editor q
parody on o "Pinaiore" song.
Year: 1879

OLD Cows AND THE FENCE Law
They say in Mccklenburg, N. G., that the
stock law has become SO much necessity
in that county, that the old fence lap could
not be re.estobkished ,otthot q revolution!


The tardiness, the foolish inertness of the
people of the up.country of South Carroll.
ma on the subject of the fence law. is
enough to drive away all enterprising far
mcrs.


Take any neighborhood between Green.
vile and Columbia, and it will be found
that ten to twenty miles of fencing has to
be kept up at an expense of 81 900 or So.
600 per annum to keep half dozen old
COWS out OF the fields of the farmers who
have their own cattle fenced in their own
pastures.


The people have submitted to this thing
so long that it is hard to convince them that
they have any rights to their own land not
under fence


1t is fact within our own observation,
that the single cow of an old preacher down
IN middle county in this State roamed all
the lanes for living and required the far
mcrs in the neighborhood to keep up twelve
miles of fencing at a cost of not less than
81 900 per annum.


If the farmers had bought the old COW
and knocked. her in the head, the preacher
would have bought another and another and
another as often as he could sell his old COW
for good price.


The people of this up. country have been
for thirty years paying more for fencing and
fence repairs than would pay the taxes on
their lands, and buy up, twice over, all the
poor half starved cattle of the country.


When we count the cost of the old svs.
tenn of fencing out other peoples stock. it
is no wonder that farmers cant make cot.
ton at 8 cts pound. The only wonder is,
they have not all been sold out by the sher.
iff long ago.


The township of Greenville alone ex-
pends not less than from $4,000 to 5000
per annum for want Of the new fence law,
to say nothing of the trouble and yexation
of watching and dogging the p:or cattle
that make living at the public expense.


The cost Of fencing, in the middle and
up'country of South Carolina will not fall
short 81 900, 900 per annum and vet our
people hesitate about the new stock law
GrccnUiWe News.