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Year: 1879

A gentleman who has visited St.Peters-
burg pictures the life of the Gar of
all the Russias as something to be by no
means envied. He says that the Winter
Palace, which is the Cars ordinary res
idence, is but a splendid prison of state,
where 5000 titled jailers stand between
him and the outer world. 1t is town
within a town. It's inmates are a YER
table population, duly graded in the
minutest subdivisions of official rank.
The Gar often breaks bounds, and, in
deed, up to a late date, he continued
the habit of all his predecessors of going
out on foot every day. But the re ent
attempt on his life has changed all that
and make him more lonely that ever.
He has now fallen completely into the
hands of his advisers, and their advice,
in default of better, is, that he shall in
crease the distance between him and
human nature The late attack on his
life by the Nihilist Solovieff would have
been successful but for the fact that he
wore shirt of very strong chain mail
under his coat. 1t was made for him by
Leblanc of the Boulevard Magenta, a
well known Paris armorer, who supplies
the theaters for their mimic wars, but
who also knows how to turn out work
that would bear the brunt of real
one. Leblanc's first Imperial custom
er was the Emperor Napoleon Ill,
and it was probably through the recon-
mendatiOn of some friend of the En-
perOr that Alexander, at the beginning
of the present troubles, was led to apply
to Leblanc for one of his patent safety
suits. The armorer's own story is that
gentleman sought him out, and with
some mystery asked if he could make a
coat of mail that would turn revolver
bullet. He was doubtful himself of his
own powers in this respect, though he
had already provided Napoleon with an
undershiTt warranted to turn the edge
of a knife. But an experiment was made
with one of his best suits, and it was
found that even a Colts army revolver
made no impression on its serried rings
of steel. This explains the miracle of
the Emperor's preservation. Leblanc
has other illustrious customers, among
them Prince Bismarck, and the conf
Dental distribution of his business cards
seems to be a common courtesy among
the pOtentates of Europe. But the
wearing of coat of mail can hardly be
conducive to unallOyed cheerfulness and
haDDineSS
Year: 1879

A comely young maiden, fresh from
the shores of old England, arrived in this
city on her way West to join her brother,
who lives in a small town in Ohio. When
she arrived here she concluded to stop
over one train and visit her cousin, who
is employed at the coke ovens on Mount
Washington. After the greetings were
exchanged, she went to the depot and
found that she had missed the train. As
she was a stranger in the city she deter
mined to return to her cousin 5 boarding.
house and await the next train. She
again ascended the mountain, and while
on her way she passed around the cor
ner of a stable and stumbled against a
stalwart peddler, who is likewise a Ger
man, and bears the name of Lather-
baugh, and who was going from the op-
posite direction. He apologized for the
accident, and, being struck with the En-
glish maiden's appearance, stopped for
a moment. Then conversation was
had which ended by Latherbaugh ac-
companying her to her cousins house.
In half an hour after they had reached
the clearinghouse they were betrothed.
The happy German Immediately started
out in quest of a minister, and in a few
moments the silken knot OF matrimony
was tightly ytied.-Ptttsbarg Gazette.
Year: 1879

A letter to the Boston journal says:
A large number of the New York pas
tors are very wealthy men. This is al
most always true of the Catholics, and
has been true of nearly all the older
pastors. DIR. Spring was very rich
man, and in old age married a very
wealthy woman for wife. The elder
Tying is millionaire; William Adams
has always been rich since he has been
IN New York nr Beveair of Trinity
Church has an estate IN nIilss.tian to-
day. A large portion of the clergy are
poor Two or three of the denomina-
ton are rich. Nearly every successful
doctor has a fortune. 1t is the same
with eminent legal practitioners. When
the minister gets poor, as he does at the
last of his life, the lawyer and the doctor
become rich. When he Outlives his use
fulness, as he does when he becomes
old, the lawyer becomes "A Judge, and
the doctor a professor. / asked an emf
nent physician, the other day, Why is
this? He replied: 1t results from the
way we begin. Nearly every practicing
physician and lawyer at the start Is
poor. He has his fame to get
and his fortune to win. He spends
years in laying the foundation OF his
fame He studies economy and rigidly
ipOhS OttJ iOI IllC ioppCtos IL A74A -
auired to entertain any body, and no
body expects he viii maintain the style
of a successful merchant or rich lawyer.
He travels little, and earns his money
before he spends it. A minister takes
his position ut a bound. The younger
he is the more popular he is. He takes
a rank with a lawyer and merchant and
doctor at the start. He is flush in funds,
and imagines his bright day viii always
last. The money that he should lay up
for his waning hours he spends in trips
to Europe, and visits the places of fash
ion and culture. When the pastor has
got to the summit and looks down the
western slope, he has spent his money,
Just as the doctor and lawyer have the
foundations of their wealth laid and fame
and usefulness secured. There Is not
a profession in New York III which it is
so easy to lay up competence for the
future as the ministerial one. The av-
erage pay is larger than any other pro
fcSSiOn.
Year: 1879

Flour is peculiarly sensitive to the at
mospheric influences, hence it should
never be stored in a room with sour
liquids, nor where onions or fish are
kept, nor any article that taints the air
of the room in which it is stored. Any
smell perceptible to the sense will be
absorbed by flour Avoid damp cellars
or lofts where a free circulation of air
can not be obtained Keep in cool,
dry, airy room, and not exposed to a
freezing temperature nor to intense
summer or to artificial heat for any
length of time above 80 to 10 degrees
Fahrenheit 1t should not come in con-
tact with grain or other substances
which are liable to heat. Flour should
be sifted and the particles thoroughly
disintegrated and then warmed before
baking. This treatment improves the
color and baking properties of the
dough. The sponge shoa.d be prepared
for the oven as soon as the yeast has
performed its mission, otherwise fer
mentation sets in and acidity results
american Miller.
Year: 1879

A woman's glove is to her what a vest
pocket is to a man. But it is more ca
pacious, and in ninety-nine instances out
of hundred it is much better regulated.
A man will carry 5000 worth of small
change, four matches, half Il dozen
tooth-picks, short pencil, and yet not
be able to find nickel, or a match, or
a tooth-pick, or pencil or a card when
he wants it. Not so with woman.
She has the least bit of a glove, and in
that glove she carries the tiniest hand,
and wad of bills, and the memOran-
dunn for her intended purchase of dry
goods, and car tickets, and matinee
checks, and may be diminutive pow
der bag. We have no idea how she
does it-hOw she manages to squeeze
those thousand and one things into that
wee space. But she does it every time,
and the glove never looks the least dis
composed or plethOric or ruffled. And
when a woman wants any article con-
cealed about that glove, she doesn't seem
to have the least trouble in the world
getting at it. All that is required is a
simple turn of the wrist, the disappear
ance of fairy fingers, and the desired
article is brought to light! 1t is won
der that no savant can explain.-B0St01a
Gazette
Year: 1879

Were not we born TO light?
Aye, and we saw the men and women as saints
Walk in a garden All our thoughts are fair;
Our simple hearts, as dOvecotes tull of doves,
Made home and nest for them. They hut
And fiocics of them few white about the world.
And dreams were like to ships that noated us
Far out on silent floods, apart from eaftn,
From hfe-so far that we could see theirlights
In heaven, and hear the everlasting tide
All dappled with that fair refected goiur
Wash up against tine city wall, ana SOD
At the dark bows of vessels that drew on,
Heavily freghted with departed souls
To whom did spirits sing; but on that song
Might none, albeit the meaning was right
Impose the harsh captivity of words.
Full excellent was morning.; whether deep
The snow lay keenly white, and shrouds of
Blurred the gray breaker on a long foreshore,
And swarming plover ran, and wild white
And sea pies printed with "A thousand feet
The fallen whiteness, making shIill the storm
Or whether, sOOthed of sunshine, throbbed
The mill atween its towering maple trees,
And churned the leaping beck that reared and
A diamond dripping wheel


The happy find
Equality of beauty everywhere
To feed on. All of shade and sheen is theirs;
All the strange fashions and the fair wise ways
OF lives beneath mans own. He breatheS Ge-
Whose soul is fresh, whose feet are wet with

And the melted mist of morning; when at


watch,


Sunk deep In fern, he marks the stealthy roe
Silent as sleep or shadow, cross the glade,
Or dart athwart his view as August stars
Shoot and are out, while gracefully pace on
The wild eyed harts to their traditional tree
To clear the velvet from their budded horns
There is no want; both God and life are kind
1t Is enough to hear, it is enough
To see the pale wide barley field they love,
And its weird beauty, and the pale wide moon
That lowering seems to lurk between the


shcavcs


So I'm the rustic hamlet at high noon
The white owl sailing drowsed and deaf with


sleep,


To hide her head In tuITets Drowned of moss
That is the rust of time Aye so the pinl1s
And mountain grass marked on sharp sea


cliff,


While far below the northern diver feeds;
She having ended settling she sits,
Like vessels water logged that sink at sea
And quietly into the deep go down.
II is enough TO wake, it Is enough
To sleep; with God and time he leaves the


rest.


But on day Death on the doors step sits,
Waiting, or like vciled woman walks
Dogging his footsteps or athwart his path
The splendid passion flower, love, unfoldS
Buds full of sorrow, not ordained to know
Appcosement through the answer OF Il sigh
The kiss of pity with denial given,
The crown and blossom of accomplishment
Or haply comes the snake with subtlety
And tempts him with an apple to know all.


jean IHgelot0.
Year: 1879

in getting hold of the reins and throw
ing all her weight on him, thus some
what checking his speed. Just then
the stirrup gave way releasing
Ethel, who, with the exception of a
sprained ankle and some bruises, was
uninjured.


The horse, now completely maddened,
reared aud plunged until her hold re-
laxing, Annie was dashed violently to
the grOund-One heavy hOof crashing
down upon her chest. Ethel dragged
himself to where she lay and raised her
head tenderly upon his breast. For a
long time she lay so motiOnless that he
feared life was entirely extinct; but
after while there was a shuddering,
then faiht moan escaped her, and her
eyes opened slowly. A bright smile
oyerspread her countenance, showing
that she was perfectly conscious.


care you much hurt, Annie It
was wrong for you to risk your life as
you did," The words were uttered in
the kindest tone, and Ethel felt at that
moment that he would give worlds had
he possessed them, to lie in Annie's
place and suffer as he knew she suffered.


The white lids partly yeiled the eyes
as she murmured, she chides me for
saving his life, and he so dear to me
that Heaven will be dreary without
him." The long lashes dropped down
on the pale cheek, there was "A twitch-
ing about the mouth, and Ethel Wynne
was alone with the dead.
Year: 1879

An old song, an old cong But the new are
not 80 sweet
Sweet though they be with honeyed words,
and sweet with faneies fair,
With thrills OF tune in silver troop OF an
sweIing echoes feet,
With tender longings slumberous upon en-
chanted air.
An old songi But ACROSS its verse what view
less voices sing
Through all its simple burden what human
pulses stir
More intimate with grief aud joy than any
precious thing
That the years have wrapped in franklin
cense and myrrh
Lovers have sung il, summer nights, when
earth itself seemed heayen
Sailors far of ON lonely seas have given
it to the gale
Mothers have hushed its measure on the quiet
edge Of even,
While soft as falling rose-leayes dear eyelids
dropped their veil
Long since the sailor made his grave between
two rolling waves,
The lovers and their love are naught, moth
er and child are dust;
But tonight some maiden lifts it, tonight its
sounding slaves
Are blowing from the strollers lips on this
balmy blossom gnst
A part of life, its music flows as the blood
flows in the vein
Laughter ripples through it, tears make its
charm complete
For the heart Of all the ages beats still through
this old strain
An old song, an old song, but the new are
not 80 sweet
Year: 1879

Two years elapsed. Annie still fol-
lowed her old vocation In the little
schoolroom, and looking into her calm,
white face you woul never guess that
she suffered, or that she was slowly
whitening as do the flowers.


Ethel had been out to see the world
aud had returned. Riding out on
horseback one evening shortly after his
return he thought OF Annie, and a cu-
rioslty to see her selzed him. Suppos-
sng that she would be returning home
from school, he turned into the road
leading toward the school-house. He
had not gone far before he saw her APP
preaching, but while they were yet
some distance apart, his horse SHE'D
suddenly and he was thrown of, his
foot catching in the stirrup. This so
frightened the animal that he ran at
full speed, dragging Ethel over the
rough ground.


Without studving the consequences,
intent only on saving the life so dear to
her, Annie placed herself resoiutely In
the road In order to stop him. She
might as well have placed a straw there
but seeing that he was determined to
pass, she sprang forward and succeeded
Year: 1879

The Ouael,ita telegraph wants to
know what that region of country is
to expect, if New Orleans is To have
the Treasurer, Governor, Auditor,
Attorney General and Superintendent
of Public Education, while the Red
river section claims the place of
Lieutenant Governor for Moncure.
From that arrangement we should
rather think the Ouachita section
may fairly expect to he left


-Caliax Chronicle
Right!
Year: 1879

l am thankful for the patronage given
my steam Touring mill. l am prepared
TO grind wheat and corn for all who may
wish to patronize me. | will give 40
pounds to the bushel for good wheat.
want to buy wheat and corn, for which
1 will pay market price.


3-3 S.N. WHITE.
Year: 1879

A Colorado correspondent writes: "We
at the East can hardly realize the isola-
tion o tentimes attending ranche-life. A
few days since we renewed the acquaint-
ance of a young gentleman whom we
met in Denver last year. He is of a
distinguished family of Northern New
York, and a graduate of one of our
Eastern colleges. He came to this State
about a year since for the benefit of his
health, which was considerably i'm
paired. His physician advised him to
go on sheep rancho, where he would
have constant outdoor employment.
He soon engaged himself to two Scotch
shepherds to assist them in the care of
sheep, and for five months the three
men managed the affairs of the rancho,
both indoors and out, each taking his
turn in the art of cooking, and each
doing his own washing. This rancho if
situated seventy-fye miles from Colo
RADIO Springs, which is their base of sup.
plies.


The uuvarying duties of shepherd
are about as follows: At sunrise to take
his flock, usually from four to six hun
dred, accompanied by his trusty horse
and faithful dogs, to green pastures anC
beside still waters, if he can find them
and there remain all the day long will
a watchful eye over his charge, to se'
that none fall into the ditch or g
astray. When the sun goes down be.
hind the Rocky mountains it is time Il
start for home. The signal is given b.
the shepherd, the dog is on the alert
the "bell wether leads the way to tn
fold or corral for the night, and whel
safely protected from foes without, sue
as prairie wolves, the days work
done, only to be repeated day in an
day out, month after month. The do
is a valuable auxiliary in the care {
sheep. The "Scotch collie" surpasse
all others in his natural aptitude fo
this work, and oftentimes one we
trained sells for $3.50.
Year: 1879

A neat business--The cattle trade.


Chorus of the cider apples" just as
we go to press"


There must be nerve scenter some-
where in the nose.


There are we'll authenticated cases of
kittens having caught the mumps from
children.


A patent-medicine advertiser says
that fat is not conducive to long life.
A fat hog rarely lives through the win
ter.


In the olden time when a man sailed
across the seas to humble rivals fame
he brought his arms with him now he
brings his legs.


It is proposed to celebrate at Pompeii
this summer the eighteen hundredth
anniversary OF the destruction OF that
CITY by an eruption from Vesuvius.


A South American has discovered
plant which gives milk, but we don't see
where the fun is to come in, as 1t can't
turn around and kick the pail over.


In Scotland and other northern coun-
tries. seaweed is used in winter for feed
| ing horses, cattle and sheep, and is eat
en- by deer when other food is scarce.


A naturalist claims to have discovered
that crows, when in hocks, have regu'
larly organized courts, in which they
sit around and try oTenders-a sort OF
crow bar.


A native OF Marseilles has purchased
the right of extracting chlorate of pot
ash from the Dead sea, and expects to
net eight dollars ton on an indefinite
quantity of it delivered at London.


Winter is the time for planning, as
the summer is the season for execution.
Winter is the time for thought, as sum-
ner is the season for carrying thought
into action. State Register.


A farmer in Ohio was annoyed by his
sheep getting into field of grain each
time he drove them out he was unsuc-
cessful in finding an opening through
which they got in, the fence being too
high, he thought, for them to jump over,
SO he concluded to watch them, and to
his astonishment he saw a large buck
leave the flock and place himself by the
side of the fence, then one after the
other of his companions ran up to him,
leaped upon his back and over the fence
into the field the buck was the only one
in the flock that could get over without
the assistance of footstool." Is this
not more than instincts Have not ami
mails langua g of their own?
Year: 1879

Francis Atkins was porter at the
palace gate at Salisbury from the time
of Bishop Burnet to the period of his
death in 1761, at the age of 104 years.
It was his Office every night to wind up
the clock. which he was capable of per
forming regularly till within a year Of
his decease, though on the summit of
the palace. In ascending the lofty
flight of stairs he usually made halt at
a particular place and said his evening
prayers. He lived regular and tenn
perate life and took a great deal of exer-
else; he walked well, carried his frame
upright and we'll balanced 10 the last.
Year: 1879




Is Jefferson Davis capable Of being mar
plot to the ruin of his people who sigh for
peace? Is he not q statesman full of wisdom
and State craft as he Is of years. Is it safe,
while the past is not yet passed, and dangers of
bad settlement of its conflicting questions
beset, to take tyros for statesmen If we can
obtain the services Of so great and good man
to help to steer the ship of State through the
breakers of conflicting opinions? As we said,
we sigh for peace, and who more capable Of
helping to secure 1t for US than the man who
held the highest position for Us 10 the midst of
fiagrant war? As we have sometimes said, the
sending of him to the United States Senate
would be the highest evidence that Mississippi
can give of desire for the most perfect re con-
ciliatiou, and to reach the end of that past the
Vicksburg Herald insists he belongs to, and
bury it out of sight 1t ought to be so accepted
by our Northern brethren, aud, we bslieve,
woul be by the reflective and patriotic men of
that section, and that again in the seat he once
adorned he could and would expedite the
happy day more than any other man now liv-
ing. That's the reason we propose TO send
him to the United States Senate.
Year: 1879




The conviction is growing In business circles
that we have begun upon batter times. There
is increased activity, there are frmer prices.
People who have been hoping, how believe.
They lay it down as fact that business is better,
and these things are the preliminaries to conf
dence, and lack Of confidence Is one of the main
difficulties of the situation. An important con-
sideration that only here and there any one has
fairly grasped has been in the changes of popu-
lation that have been enforced By the hard
times. We have land still in this country, aud
it will support its owner II he is willing to suf-
fer the "sweat of his face" that is the pro-
nounced penalty of living. City life has been
unheslthey and abnormally developed Grad.
ually the reed Of clearing out has forced itself
on individuals, and one by one they have
"gone West and struck for the country.
This thing has been done by the tens of thous-
auds Probably its effect will sstonish people
when they gather the figures of the census of
1880. The results of the examination polit:-
ca'ly considered, offer an excellent and in-
structive line of speculation now. The social
result of this change of base, while it has been
temporarily hard for the cities, has been to in
crease largely our agricultural territory, to con.
qper deal more of land, and bring us still
nearer to the position of practical independence
of the caprices of nature in bsving whole
continent to support and supply us. while the
floods and droughts and other dire disasters are
only local troubles compared with our total area
under cultivation. That is, we are gro wing sg-
riculturally stronger. we are seeing idlers
crowded into work where there is literally o
field for them, we are producing more of what
the world must have. All these are silly en-
couraging facts. They mean demand for man
ufactured goods, and traffic for our trsnsporta-
ton lines, and those two things mean business
They are already accomplished facts, but each
year from now on is going to see them more
evidently at work. The readjustment al the
time very probably added to the disturbance it
was eventually to cure, but that part of the
process is past.