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Year: 1877

The Royal Society for the Protection o


Life from Fire bss Published its diTection'


to its subordinates, and some suggestioni
for others who msy be at free in London, the


following of which are applicable every


where:


Every householder should make each
person ia his house acquainted with the beat


means of escape, whether the hre breaks
out at the top or at the bottom.
| Inmates at thei first alarm should endeA-
| vor calmly to reflect what means OF escape


there are in the house. If in bed At the time,
| wrap themselves in Q blanket or bedside


carpet open neither windows nor doors
more than necessary shut every door after
| them. (Tbis is most important to observe }
In the midst of smoke it is comparatively
clear toward the ground, consequently
progress through the smoke can be made
on the hands and knees. A silk handker-
chief, worsted stocking, or other flannel cub
stance. wetted and drawn over the face,
permits free breathing, ssG excludes, TO
q great extent, the smoke from the lupgs.
A wet sponge 10 alike eHicscious.


In the event of being unable to escape
either by the street-doof or roof, the persons
la danger shoald Immediately make their
way 70 o front room window, taking care to
close tho door after them, and those who
nave Tue Cu0IEO OI 6bO uUuDCuVlo oJiOuiu ~
certain that every individual is there as
ssmbled.


Persons thus circumstanced are entreated
not to precipitate themselves from the
window while there remains the least prob
ability OF An assistance; and even 10 the
last extremity, Q plain rope 10 invaluable,
or recourse may be had to joining shests or
blankets together, fastening one end around
bedpost or other furniture. This will
enable one person to lower all the others
separately, and the last one may let himself
down with comparatively little risk. Select
a window over the doorway rather than
over the area.


Do not give vent to the fire by breaking
into the house unnecessarily from without,
or, if an inmate, by opening doors or win
dove; make point OF shutting every door
after yoU as you go through the house. For
this purpose doors enclosing the staircase
are very usefal.


Upon discovering yourself on FIRE, re-
feet that your greatest danger arises from
draft to the flames, and from their rising
upward. Throw yourself on the ground,
sud roll on the flame, If possible on the rug
or loose drugget, which drag under you
the table e-cover, a mans coat, anything of
the kind at hand, will serve your purpose
scream for assistance, ring the beli,' but do
not run out of the room, or remain in an
upright position.
Year: 1877

Mr.. Bayard Taylor, writing of animal
nature, in the Atlantic, tells this story Of
a parrot owned by friend in Chicago ::
When the great FIRE was raging its owner
saw that she could rescue nothing except
what she Instantly took in her hands


There were two objects equally dear, the
parrot and the old family bible, and she
could take but one. After moment OF
he-itat;on she seized the bible, and was
Fastening away. when the larrot cried
out in Il loud and solemn voice, Good
Lord deliver Us No human being
could have been deal to such an appeal;
the precious bible was sacrificed and the
bird saved. In the home to which he was
taken there were among other visitors
a gentleman rather noted for volubility.
When the parrot first heard him it lis
tened in silence for some time, then to
the amazement Of all present it said very
emphatically, "You talk toe much -
the gentleman at first embarrassed,
presently resumed his interrupted dis
course. Thereupon the parrot laid his
head on one side, gave an indescribably
comical and contemptuous " Hm-m -
and added, There he goes again -
Year: 1877

Great was he amazement OF all Eng
land when at the close of the last
century William Murdoch discovered
the use os combustible air or gas. So
little was the invention understood and
believed in 10y those who had not seen it
in use that even great and wise men
laughed at the idea. ''How could there
be light without wick ," said MEM
Der of parliament when the subject was
brought be ore the house. Even Sir
Humphrey Davy ridiculed the idea of
lighting towns by gas and asked one of
the proprietors if they meant to take the
dome of st. Paul's for gas-meter. Sir
Walter Scott, too, made himself merry
over the idea of illuminating London by
smoke, though be was glad enough, not
so long after, to make his own house at
Abbottsford light and cheerful on wintry
nights by the use of that very smoke.
When the house of commons was lighted
by gas, the architect imagined that the
gas ran on FIRE through the pipes, and
he, therefore, insisted on their being
placed several inches from the wall for
fear of the building taking fire; and
members might be observed carefully
touching the pipes sith their gloved
hands and wondering why they old not
feel warm. The first shop lighted in
London by the new method was Mr..
Ackerman's in the strand, in 1910, and
one lady of rank was 50 delighted with
the brilliancy of the gas-lamp on the
counter that she asked to be allowed to
take it to lcr home in her carriage. Mr..
Murdoch was, however, too busy with
other pursuits to continue the study ol
gas, and though he was undoubtedly the
first to apply it to practical purposes,
many Others laid claim to the honor,
and other people quickly reaped the
benefit of his cleverness and ingenuity
In this he shared the general fate o.
inventors.-C Coal Trade Journal
Year: 1877

1t must be confessed that there are no


women more charming than the Ameri-
cans. First, they are pretty in proper


tion wholly unknown in Paris. Out of
a hundred women who pass by ninety


are attractive. Besides, they know how


to dress themselves. Their toilet is per-
feet in taste, full of tact and truly ele-
CANT. One would think they had come
from Worth. / will only crit;cise one
thing in their costumes; it is the pocket


placed at the height of the knee. This
pocket has an exclusive use. 1t carries
the pocket handkerchief At distance.


when the corner of the white cambric is
seen in this opening, one asks himself if
the beautiful lady is not the victim of an


accident, and if q is not very par
tieular resemenf that is seen through the
rent. These young girls may be seen
setting out at midnight and entering
alone elegant restaurants, where they
take their lunch with as little inquietude
as an old Bachelor il Europe. Others
wait at the corner of Fifth Avenue, o.
some other place where they have ap-
pointed to meet their carriage, to take a
drive in Central Park. Strange thing,
for depraved Partisan who loves TO fol-
low women; no one in New York or any
other town in the United States would
permit himself tC take significant step
behind a yankee girl, and still less to
address word to her, even to offer his
umbrella. To offer her this object an
introduction is necessary. But don't
imagine that the formalities of an in
PRODUCTION are very terrible to fulfill.
If no mutual friend can be found, an adj
vertisement in the Herald suffices. The
first time saw Central Park was in COM
pany with an American well known at
New York. AT every step be met some
of his friends. remarked that he
saluted certain persons very profoundly,
while to Others he scarcely raised his
hat. | asked him the explanation OF
this. He answered me in the most
serious manner, That gentleman l just
saluted so respectfully is a very import
ant msn in New York society; he is
worth one million dollars. This one
who is now passing is worth only one
hundred thousand dollars: so he is not
so much thought about as the other. |
salute him with less ceremony. These
are the distinctions observed in America,
where there is no other aristocracy than
Aa--A- % tabor and the dollar" The news
papers in America enjoy much greater
Importance than in Europe. We must
Year: 1877

Mr.. Moody, in the progress of die
course at Chicago, a few evenings ago,
delivered the following edvice is un.
employed fnen;


And now word about work. Earn
the bread you eat would rather earn
five cents than some one give me five
dollars. There is no hope of mans re-
formation who does not go TO work
Laziness belongs to the old creation.
don't know what to do, and / don't see
what God can do, with lazy man. If
you can get only twenty-five ceiits dag,
go TO work for that. Some one once
tried to abuse a senator by saying that
he used to black boots. Didn't | black
them well?' he answered Work is
honorable. ANY honest work is better
than idleness. Black boots, or carry a
hod, or carry in coal, and if you can only
earn Eve cents day, live on Ave cents
day. Don't 60 in debt


Some of you think it is hard that
there is no work to be found that peo-
pie are 50 suspicious of you. Well, they
have reason for it; you afe only just out
of the rum-shop; you are Just getting up
to the fist round of the ladder; but if
they find that you are really a true man,
then there will be people to trust you
and give ven employment. 1t Is because
there are so many hypocrits in the world
that people are afraid to put confidence
in you, and predict that you viii not
hold out. Don't think you are stopping
because you have to work for less than
you got before. Do your poor rough
work well, and you will find better work
to do.


" Another thing Some of you are in
the habit of lying. I have heard of one
who professed to be a reformed man who
has been lying ard what a disgrace that
Is to good cause. Now, let me say to
you, be truthful If you have to tell
the@Sorst about yourself, don't lie. Own
up @-7tne truth, tor IL Is better ana -afs5.z
that the worst should be known Here
is man just ont of the penitentiary
who gets place of trust, and one of his
cid pals comes in and threatens to blow
on him unless he puts up S25. But if
he can answer, Ny master knows all
about me, he is free man, in spite of
his past disgrace.


Il want you to take this advice kindly
give it from my heart. If you don't
get on az well as you wish, don't go
back into sin. One of the young con-
verts was tempted to go to sell liquor
again but let your. motto De, Trust in
God and you can resist temptation, and
come of victorious over the world, the
flesh and the devil"
Year: 1877

An advantage over ordinary tsa, at
tributed to mate tea of Paraguay, is that
its excessive use does not occasion any
nervous disorder. A beverage supe-
rior to coffee as usually prepared is said
to have been introduced into Aus
tralia lately. Il is made from the leaf
Of the coffee shrub, Instead Of from the
berry.
Year: 1877

Or the fifteen thousand men who are
wearing away their drcary lives in the
mines OF the Schuylkill coal region, ten
'thogss1d at least are unmarried, and
sive Thousand live in miners boarding
eouses. They call them all men, these
gnones, but ma9y of them are boys.
Not less than five thousand are boys,
little fellows, who in any other commit
nifty would be in school, but who here
are kept day after day in filthy, black
kennels, muffled up in old coats and
scarfs to shut the cold out, till all the
young life is worn out of them, and they
are dwarfei little men before the first
signs of beard break through the black
crust on their faces.
Year: 1877

GUARDING AGAINST THE RINDERPEST.
The commission OF the House of Commons
on The rinderpest have agreed to recommend
a series Of the most stringent measures with
view to the prevention OF the spread of the
disease. Among others, all impOrtatlOns of
cattle from Germany, Russia and Belgium
are absolutely prohibited. The infectious
character of the plague is described as being
most remarkable, and IL is said that too
much caution cannot be usel 10 guard
against its approaches.
Year: 1877

THE CAPITAL OF WEST VIR9INIA-The
INTEL lgence from West Virginia is that the
total OF the return from the various counties
of the state indicate that CnarlestOwn has
been chosen as the permanent seat OF the
ktate government. by the terms OF the law
submitting the question to the people the
capital remains remains at Wheeling until
Nav, 1882.
Year: 1877

DISTRICT COMMISSIONERS PHELPS AND
BRYAN, in company with Col. Lubey, Wis
tied the new District workhouse today to
view the new improvements made there the
past season. Judge Bryan is suffering some.
what from sprained ankle, an accident
sustained some week since in front of the
Morrison building when about to get into
his carriage.
Year: 1877

LACK OF EMPLOYMENT IN CANADA
The Montreal Witness of Thursday says:
"Continued Inquiries show that there are q
very large number of unemployed working
men in the city; contractors are being be-
sieged for work a butcher at the East End
say there is no demand for meat as people
canrOt afford TO buy. A woman who came
asking for pound of beef said her husband
had Just got work, and hadn't tasted meat
for a month before These sta ements seem
almost iDcred ible. As II is feared that the
corporation will have to start relief works
next winter, Alderman Thibault, to prevent
outsiders claiming help in pre- ference TO des-
titufe TAX payers, will give notice of motion
at the next council meeting that relief work
he afforded first of all to those whose names
aplea Oh the list of water rates"
Year: 1877

MONTGOMERY. Ala. Dec 3.-Yesterday morn
ing the bodies of Antonio Ricrosia and Miss
Aurelia Sharp were found in the cemetery with
q pistol ball hole In the head of EACH They were
deetly in love with each other, and it is sup
posed to be a case of murder and suicide.
Year: 1877

The Liberal League will hold its usual
meeting Tomorrow morning in the McClary
building, third floor, and will discuss 1.-The
cause and cure of panics, and their relation
to capital and labor, which involves strikes
and their remedy" The discussion will ba
opened by Geo. R. Roberts. AS this Is now
the popular subject, and this meeting Z
place where all are welcome, and free to
express whatever opinion they may have on
the subject 1t is expected that large and
Interested audience will be present.
Year: 1877

Anybody can soil the reputation
of any individual, however chaste,
by uttering a suspicion that his en-
emies will believe, and his friends
never hear of. A puff of wind, can
take a million of the seeds of this
tie, and a work of mischief which
the husbandman must labor long to
undo, the PARTICLES being too fine to
be seen. and too light to be stopped.
Such are the seeds of SANDER, so
earnestly sown, so difbcult to be
gathered up, and yet 50 pernicious
in their fruits. The slanderer
knows that many wind will catch
up the plague and become poishned
by its insinuations, without ever
seeking the antidote. No reputa-
ton can refute a sneer, nor any
human skill prevent it.


And yet we often hear sneers cast
upon the reputation of the most
chaste in the country, and known
the life of many pure woman
blasted by the sneer of the indis
Greet person who bore no malice,
but INDUCED in a wild and rolling
conversation. We cannot be too
careful how we speak our thoughts.
If they are not kind they should re
main buried in our bosoms. Let no
indiscreet word injure the good
name OF our neighbor.
Year: 1877

stores and mails with telegrapnlc
service, the net earnings OF the road
and a deposit of $4,000 in bonds for
each mile of completed road, with
the Secretary of the Treasury, TO be
sold in case of any delay or default
in paying interest BY the Company.
This should be enough to secure
the risk four or five times over; so
that instead of a subsidy, they ask
nothing but the friendly recognition
of the Government Then comes
the saving to the country of several
millions year in the cost of border
protection, the securing of the
trade of Mexico. now being diverted
nto other channels; the saving to
the people of many millions in ex-
orbitant charges levied by the pres
ent Pacific road; the development
Of the rich mineral fields of Arizo
na and New Mexico, and the settle
ment of the labor question by giving
pleasant homes and employment TO
a vast multitude of people, at the
same time reviving the languishing
industries Of the country by large
annual expenditure, not only in the
reconstruction of the road, but in
the iron works and machine shops
throughout the country. This road
completed would pour great tide
of the worlds commerce through
the South to her Atlantic ports, vi
talizing the industries and interests
of that long oppressed and war
cursed country.


OUR FoRBIGN COMMERCE.


The channels of commerce al
ready alluded to have reference to
internal trade, but the West and
South must have full access 10 the
markets of the whole world. Hith-
erto their shipments Of produce have
been made in foreign ships, at great
loss and damage to both producers
and merchants. A strong effort is
being made to revive our shipping
interest, and restore to the country
its old supremacy on the seas. A
bill has been introduced in the SEN
ate authorizing and directing the
Post Master General to contract
with lines of steamships to carry
the foreign mails on terms not
higher than those allowed to rail
roads for similar distances. While
this would be no more a subsidy
than the act of supplying mail ser
vice to thirty peopled States for less
than half the amount returned in
postage, it would secure the estab
lishment Of ocean lines to South
America and sustain other lines al.

ready in existence; thus giving US a
respectable merchant marine, in
creasing our foreign trade and our
domestic revenue, and contributing
largely to promote the material in
terests of the country. The West
and the Southwest are becoming
united in these subjects every day.
With perfect unity of action these
sections can secure their rights;
without it they will still remain the
humble vassals of the money kings
of the North and the greedy monop-
olists of the North west. j. L. T.
Year: 1877

On board Boston train recently
"a young gentleman was asked by n
lady to hold her baby while she
went back to the boat for her shawl.
He did so, but the train starting he
rushed out of the car with the
baby just as the mother rushed IN
at the other door. The train car
ried off the lady leaving the gentle
man and baby in the depot.
Year: 1877

The present financial condition of our
country should teach US the true value
of our economy. No man or woman
who can buy one dollars worth ofgoOds
with fifty cents should think of spend
ing the dollar, yet it is done every day.
Bailey's Saline Apperient is warranted
equal to the best in size and quality and
is sold at only 90 cents. 1t is just as
pleasant as soda water. no29-4t
Year: 1877

The pencil marks you sec around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scription is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested to pay up at once. We
would take great pleasure in extending
credit TO our friends and patrons, but
cash alone will Yay our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to n strict cash
rule. We hope you win comprehend
and appreciate the necessity OF such a
course, and lrenew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


EB- We enter no new names on our
books without the money In advance.
Year: 1877

The Leipsic police are making
war on ladies' trains in the street.
Notice has been given through the
newspapers that all persons whose
dress is found trailing on the side
walk will be fined from and %
marks
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, Nov "a, 1877.


Party politics make but a poor
show in ,he present Congress.
Nearly all the measures introduced
work directly to the material inter
ests of the country, and party lines
are becoming somewhat confused
under the paciicating policy of
President Hayes. The democrat re-
mains a democrat still, but when be
sees republicans pitching into Hayes
on account of his disposition to do
justice to all sections he swears a
great oath to stick by Rutherford
as long as Rutherford sticks to his
policy.


THE WEST AND SOUTH


In Congress there will be a
stronger effort to establish a sound
and first national policy than to ad-
vance partizan politics. The West
and South have at last obtained a
popular supremacy, and they intend
to use it, not to injure the North,
but to secure justice for themselves.
The Western and Southern States
and Territories covering about
nineteen -twentieths of the whole
Republic, have hitherto Jared badly
in the administration Of national af-
fairs. Covering a vast space, with
an immense productive capacity,
and having little diversity of occu
patton, they have suffered great loss
in transporting their products to
market, and have all the while been
under a sort of vassalage to the
moneyed power of the North The
North and the North west have had
nearly 5000, 100000 IN money and
100,00O,000 acres of land lavished
upon them for public improvement,
while the West proper and the
South, entitled to more aid than
those sections, have received less
than one tenth of the amount. The
West and the Southwest are nearly
unanimous upon the subject of
national
Year: 1877

The members of the crowd yesterday
expressed themselves as being very
happy over the dispatches from Wash
ington, received the night before, and
assumed an air Of gaiety, which sat i'll
on them.


THE RtJMp
met, but did nothing OF interest, and
will meet again to-day to continue the
performance.
Year: 1877

We CLEAN as follows from the State
Journal:


The State Fair which is to open mex
week in this city is concentrating
all the attention of the western coun.
try.


We understand the board of manag.
ers of the State Fair have prohibited
the selling of pools on the fail
grounds.


The recent order of the State Fair
managers prohibiting the selling OF
pools will have the effect of keeping
away from the city large mum ber of
sporting men. We presume the pools
will re sold in the city, or outside of
the grounds.


A private letter from a citizen of
Butler county, who has spent ten days
travelling in Seward, York and Butler
counties, says: 1.-The whole country
is taking an unusual interest in the
State Fair this year, and you can tell
your people that they may look for
the largest throng of people ever gath
cred together in any city or town in
beautiful Nebraska"


We heard an Omaha gentleman say
yesterday, that the coming State Fair
would be more largely attended than
any Fair ever held in the State.


There are no drones at the fair
grounds now. The place Is alive with
carpenters, teamsters and teams and
laboring men, all busily engaged in
their various occupations. The steam
engine was taken to the grounds yes
terday. and will probably be in work
ing order before night. The floor in
Floral Hail is being covered with dry
sand the inside wall of the building
brushed of cobwebs and treated to a
coat of whitewash /; the fruit. fancy
articles table, &C., &C., placed in their
proper positions, and everything put
in readiness to display to good advan-
tage the thousands of articles that
will be placed upon exhibition. Out
side of Floral Hall the carpenters are
engaged in putting up large and COM
modious poultry eoops, arranged in
sections, with roofs, feed and water
troughs; and we can assure our poHl-
try fanciers that their property will
receive as good care and attention as
they would at home. The cattle sheds
on the east side of the grounds are be-
Year: 1877

ing reroofed, and about one hundred
and fifty stalls added. The pig pens
have also been increased and roofs
put upon them. The management, in


making these new improvements,


have had the sole object of the comfort
Of stock in view, and the convenience
of exhibitors and the public. We can
assure our country cousins that every
thing is being done to make the Ne
braska State Fair of 1877 perfect sue
Year: 1877

The Daily Kedr7aey Press has been
enlarged TO six column paper; and
we take this occasion to say that it is
q special favorite of ours-being the
spiciest, newsiest, and best edited
daily local paper we ever knew. The
publisher has our thanks for its daily
visits.
Year: 1877

A Tribune reporter admits being
paid ten dollars oy Father GrOgan to
keep still about that Bible boomerang.
The poor fellow had not had any
money for so long a time that he told
the story at once, keeping the money,
of course. 1t was better than a Dutch
fortune. But what does Father Gro
gan think of such cheap silence p
Chicago Post.
Year: 1877

But by all means attend the County
Fair, and show that one can be a
farmer and gentleman.-KenesGw
Times.


Don't attempt it. Prof You might
overstrain yourself in attempting
something you're not used to. Your
best hold is to lie about your cotempo-
raries