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Year: 1879

II mas been profoundly remarked that
t"e true way of telling tOadstOol from
" mushroom Is to eat il. If YOU die, 10


was toadstooli If you live, il was a


mushroom. a similar method il eu-
ployed IN the selection of husbands


Marry him. he kills YOU. he is a had
husbandi If he makes you happy. he il
good one. There is really no other
criterion. As DR.. Samuel johnson re-
marked, the proof of the pudding is in
the eating thereof. Some young men
who seem unexeeptiOnable-ind
very desirable when they are single.
are perfectly hOrrid as soon as they get
married All the latent brute there is
in the heart comes out as soon as a SEN
sitive and delicate being seeks her hap
piness in his companiOnship. The hon
evmoon lasts a very short time; the re-
eeptions and the round parties are soon
over; and then the two sit down to make
home happy. If she has married So
ciety man, he will soon begin to get
bOred-he will yawn, and go to sleep on
the sofa. Then he will take his hat and
90 down to the club and see the boys,
and perhaps not come home till morn
ing. If she has married a man en-
crossed in business, he will be tagged
out when he comes home. He may be
a sickly man, whom she must nurse;
mOrOse man whom she must seek to
cheer; a drunken man whom she must
set up for; a violent man whom she
fearsi a fool, whom she soon learns to
despise; a vulgar man, for whom she
must apologize; in short, there are
thousands Of ways Of being bad hus-
bands, and very few ways Of being good
ones. And the worst of it is that the
poor, silly women are apt to admire in
single men the very traits which make
bad husbands, and look with contempt
or ridicule upon those quiet virtues
which make home happy. Men with


very little personal beauty or style often


make the wife happy-anG sometimes
quite the reverse. The number of
ways Of being a bad husband is almost


as great as the number Of ways of being
ugly. No one can tell, from the de-
meauOr Of a single man, what sort of a


husband he will be. Meantime, she


must marry somebody. Eat it. If you


die, il was a sort Of a tOadstOOl; if you
live, it was sort Of a mushroom.
Year: 1879

| venerate old age; and I love not the
man who can look without emotion
upon the sunset Of life, when the dusk
of evening begins to gather over the
watery eye, and the shadows of twi-
light grow broader and deeper upon the
understanding. ng.-LORqfelLol
Year: 1879

A FIRE-SCREEN.-A handsome fire.
screen oan be made at small expense.
Have n framework made first Of black
walnut, or pine, and stretch on u very
tightly black cambria. Then cut from
= yard of gay cretonne all the buds and
sprays Of flowers aud glue them on the
csmbric in the most artistic manner
you can devise. You can have no idea,
until you try ~ how handsome aud
rich-looking the complete screen Is.
Year: 1879

New York. May 16.-The Tribune
has an interview with Vanderbilt on
his western trip. When asked with re-
gard to his reported control of the Chi
cago and Northwestern railroad, and
the probability Of any change in its
management, he said this road is now
in good hands and there should be no
change. An effort was made last year
to turn out the present management,
but it did not succeed, and L hope it
will not be successful this year. have
great respect for the ability of the pres
ident and vice president of this company.
They have brought property up and
made it very valuable, and they should
not be displaced The Chicago and
Northwestern runs through fine coun-
try, and it5aoes Il large business.


In regard to the report that he was
endeavoring to lease the Chicago and
Alton road, Mr.. Vanderbilt said:


''This is all nonsense; l don't want
any more roads. The Chicago and AL
ton has been completed to Kansas City,
and it is fine piece of property. 1t is
in good hands, and l think its stock
holders are satisfied
Year: 1879

Washington, Mimi, May IA
meteor, apparently about the size Of an
ordinary football, passed over this
place about 5 O'Clock this after
noon, and descending east of the town,
exploded with report equal to the dis
charge of a 300-pounder. The concus-
sion shook the town, and the first i'm
preston among the people generally
was that there had been mill explo-
sion. The shock and report were very
great. The meteor was plainly visible
in its passage through the air, looking
like ball of fire with long train of
vapor behind it. 1t exploded just before
it struck the earth.
Year: 1879

New York, May 15.-Referring to
the resolutions laid before the Ottawa
parliament by the minister of public
works, affirming necessity of keeping
good faith with British Columbia by
building an lntercolonial railroad and
of obtaining further afSpf the corpora
tion and of the Imperial govern
ment by guarantee or otherwise, the
Times this morning says: The
dominion government, after devising a
tariff that operates more injuriously
upon the British than upon American
industry and trade, and actually con-
fesses that unless British taxpayers come
to its relief, the construction of the Pa
cific railway must be postponed indefi-
nitely. The resolutions embody prop
osition to set aside one hundred mil
lion acres of the public domain with a
proviso that two dollars shall be the
minimum price. A reasonable infer
ence is that aid is to be solicited from
British government, which will in the
first instance not fall far short of eighty
millions.


The Times thinks that John Bull, in
his present mood, with Canada's new
tariff in view, will say, No!


The intercolonial race was one of the
costly results of imperial interference;
the admission of British Columbia was
another. But for some baneful influ-
ence the Pacific railroad project would
not have been dreamed Of. 1t is at
once result of imperial influence and
an effort to consolidate imperial power
on this continent.
Year: 1879

A Michigan girl coaxed her lover to
take her carriage riding, and the horse
ran away and killed her. Showing this
paragraph to the girls will be thousands
of dollars 10 the pockets of our young
men.
Year: 1879

THE CHIYEsE.-In addition to the
choice of full ticket of State and Coun-
ty officers, there is another question which
will be submitted 10 the people at the
Septemb Der Election. An Act was passed
at the last session of the Legislature, to
provide for ascertaining the views Of the
people of Californ ia upon the subject Of
Chinese immigration. Those who are in
favor of the unrestricted imm igration of
Chinese can have the opportunity of so
expressing themselves, while those who
believe the continued influx of that peo-
Pile to be an unmtigated evil can express
their sentiments by voting "Chinese I'm
migration, No" at the polls. The cleo
ton will, of course amount to nothing,
except in so far as it will afford the citi-
zens of California the opportunity Of ex-
pressing their sentiments IS voters and
citizens upon one of the absorbing ques-
tions of the hour. 1t was urged by some
Of the bigots who favored the New Con-
stitution, that rejection of that delec-
table instrument would place the peo-
pie of California in false position, that
the rejection would be held at the East
as Ii condemnation Of the Anti Chinese
movement. 1t is rot necessary for US to
point out the sophristy of such an argu-
ment. The Article against the Chinese
should have been treated merely as one
of the provisions of the instrument re-
gardess of its effect outside Of our own
State. The idea that we should vote to
accept an oppressive and injurious organ
ic law, simply because of the effect that
acceptance or rejection would have upon
Eastern opinion, is one too ridiculous to
be seriously entertained, although we
have no doubt but this specous argument
had its effect upon unthinking men.


We can now express our views as citi-
zens upon this question, free from any
other influence. What the opinion of the
State will be is not matter of conf lecture.
1t has already been shown by the action
Of the various public bodies. But that
there may be no cavit, that it may appear
distinctly and beyond the possibility of
doubt what are the sentiments of the peo-
pie of California, we now alluGc to the
matter in time.
Year: 1879

TIE Kilkenny FIGHT.-We are only
just getting at the "true inwaIdness {"
of the constitutional fight in the good
y city of San Francisco, since the result
became known. Kearney and the
Workingmen on one hand, and the
Chronicle and its correspondents on the
OF her are making things lively for each
other, and fully exemplifying the truth
of the old saw than "when rogues fall
out honest men get their dues" Mean
Will @ :he public, with the exception of
that portion known henceforth to histo-
ry as the " Honorable Biks'' looks COM
pl acently on, taking no further interest
than to hold its nose occasionally, when
an unusually dirty piece of the pro con-
sttution linen is being washed. The
worse they talk Of each other the more
truth is told on each side, so the public
will be the gamer of that much kncwl~
edge, though the fact was pretty well
understood before, Kearney is now Just
what he was one, two and six months Q go,
a vulgar, blatant, foul mouthed creature,
an when he was then pouring his filthy
abuse upon men as far above him as the
rafters of heaven are above the mudsills
of the internal regions. the Chronicle,
and the Honorable Bilks had nothing to
say in disapproval. We want to see the
fight go on, and whichever is the corpse
shall not mourn-it will be no relation of
ours.
Year: 1879

RATHER WEAK.-Our friend Of the
Yreia Journal keeps hammering away
to try and have Anti Constitution men
black balled, but we see by the last issue
that he has "toned down" considerably.
He'll feel ashamed of himself, take his
own advice to us and bag his head after
while. But he is very weak when he
argues that prescription is not proscript-
ion, or holds up to our terrified gaze the
startling fact that Shasta, Siskiyou and
Modoc gave large majorities fer the con-
stitution, while Trinity gave but small
majority against it. That only proves
that we are in the minority, not that we
are in the wrong. Shakespeare wrote
once, "Time was that when the brains
were out, the man would de-" The
thing is reversed now, instead Of dying,
they get into the newspaper business and
advocate "Constitution PARTIES"
Year: 1879

THERE are off the coast of Kerry, Ire
land, little islands called the Baskets,
inhabited by very poor and primitive
population, whose nearest church is on
the shores of the mainland. On stormy
Sundays they cannot cross TO hear mass, )
but they kneel by their rocky coast bare
headed, in the open air; the progress of
the ceremony is made known to them by
flags, and their prayers accompany those
of the priest.
Year: 1879

The DEATH Thursday
next Dye and Anderson will suffer the ex
trems penalty of the law. 1t is good.
The crime Of which they stand convicted
is one of the most fendish in the annals
Of criminal Jurisprudence. There is no
hope of a commutation of sentence and
there should be none.
Year: 1879

In this account we have not taken into
account the balance in the treasury at the
beginning, or the end Of the year, nor the
sums realized from licenses and other
sources. The demands audited during the
wear a re as GnllnWs
Year: 1879

The last item in this list, the poll taxes
are now taken away from the county, and
placed in the State School Fund. There
fore, at the lowest figures we can name,
there must be an additional tax levy of
"a cents on each 500 valuation for the
support of the county schools, or total
levy of So co. And in the face of this
outlook there are petitions presented to
the Board of Supervisors for the establish
ment Of two new School districts, which,
If granted will necessitate levy of an
additional rate high enough 20 raise 81 600
more.


We cannot reasonably hope for an in
creased sstssment roll under the new
dispensation. We may, by the system
of double taxation, which reaches unse>
cured credits, add few thousand dollars
Mortgages will be assessed, but the
amount gained there will be neutraized
by the deductions made from the mort
gagged property, and although provision
must DC made for taxing "credits. )" if one
also be made for deductIng "debts" we
will be no better off than before. The
fight to keep the county from levying
such tax upon property as will totally
discourage property holders from trying
to create more property must be made in
the Legislature, and at once. If we are
correct in our understanding of the new
constitution, there is nothing to prohibit
the legislature from returning the State
poll tax to the counties in which it is col =
lected, or if there be, it should be put
back to the old basis as speedily as n
constitutional amendment can be made.
Year: 1879

Congress ut its last session rcctified
the blunder of u previous and Republi-
can Congress, which made the salaries
of small Postmasters dependent on tho
number of stamps sold, not on tho
number of stamps cancelled. The re-
suit was the wholesale and shameless
sale of stamps on commission below
their value all over tho county, the
Government losing in revenue over
million and Il half yearly. At tho
beginning OF tho present fiscal year tho
new system went into effect. Tho re-
turns of the first quarter arc in and
show q reduction in tho sums paid to
postInasters of $33O,OOO. This reduc-
ton alone amounts to nearly as much
as tho previous loss of revenue, ana


when the large stock of stamps now in


the country is used up, the prospective
loss of the high commission enjoyed
under the old law having led small
postnastcrs to ovcrscll the market, the
revenue will probably increase tho
amount million. 1t is extremely
likely that this simple administrative
charge, therefore, will end by dimin-
ishing the expenditure and Increasing
the revenue together to the amount OF
two millions and over.
Year: 1879

The different 'twixt tweedlcdum and
twccdIedcc is illustrated by the fact
that the rich man with great appetite
is called an epicure, and the tramp with
a great appetite is called gluten.
Year: 1879

1T Is REPRESENTED from WASHINGTON


that the President continues steadfast


IN his purpose to veto the army bill. as
II passed the House and his friends
say that all fears of surrender on his
part are utterl y eroundless, and it is al
so said that he will veto all the other
appropriation bills that have political
riders upon them. The prospects there
1ore OF tompioniso are becoming more
dismal every day, and unless either
congress or the President yield, the
result of the conflict must Prove ruin
GUS to the business int t/rests of the
country. No doubt theye is an apathy
existing amongst the bhsine-s men of
the nation and they DO not realize the
grave and disastrous of the dead lock
which must ensue tf neither the prYsi-
dent nor Conggess yields. villa. a
spectacle it WHY ybe to see ali the depart
mynts of the government, including the
post Office . fsvd on the first of July.
ana yet W is just what will occur if
the Lsg'Eati7e appropriation bill is not
passed and signel.
Year: 1879

CRITICISMS OF THE ACTION OF THE NATIONAL


HEALTH BOARD ANSWERED. ny DIR. TURNER.


letter from the State Board of Health Of Louisi-
recently received by the National Board Of
Health in this city. containing. it is said by men,
bers Of latter Board certain criticisms upon the
action of the Board and the accounting officers Of
the Treasury Department in not forwarding
to the State Board the $4,000 applied
for, to be expended at it's discretion.
The Secretary Of the National Board forwarded a
reply to the letter to-day. in which he says-"In
some respects IL is waste Of time to discuss the
matter, since. under existing laws. the National
Board of Health has authority to comply with
your wishes. even 1t disposed to do so and
you may assured OF the certainty that the ac-
counts of your Board will not be paid until they
presented in proper form" After quoting at some
length rrom the communication of the State Board
Dr. Turner says:--"It does not appear to that
public hygiene under any aspect should be consid-
cred dealt with as charity; nor that the act Of
Congress under which this Board has been endeav-
oring to prevent the and spread of yell
low fever should be considered mere sentiments
legislation; nor liz it at all evident that sound
policy demands the utmost hexibility to the work
ing machinery of any system Whatever, no matter
for what purpose intended.
Year: 1879

A FEW old fogy Republican newspapers
are trying TO frightcn the people with the
idea that as soon US the Democrats get con-
troll OF the Government, if they ever do,
they will annex the northern half Of Mexico
to the United States, and thereby increas c
their power in the Senate by adding large
number of new States TO the Solid South
The better way to deal with this problem is
to go about the annexation business at
once, and not wait to give the Democrats
any chance to manipulate it. Under any
circumstances it is by no means certain
that the new citizenship thus acquired
would be in sympathy with the Democracy,
for the successful Mexican leaders as rule,
have always been free soiers, and have
naturally allied themselves with the spirit
of aboltionism in this country.
Year: 1879

WHEN Greenbacker or an InAalionist
wants to say something especially terror
striking, he cries out that the Money Power
is opposing him. That cry is enough to
frghten all the idiots in the land who do
not stop TO think what the Money Poweris,
or that it is, in fact, no more of a tyancal
power than is the one represented by the
Greenbarker. The day has come, however,
when the average citizen begins to thank
his stars that this much.abused Money
Power has prevailed in the Government,
Resumption has come; the poor man and
the rich man, the unfortunate and the for
tunate, and the creditor and the debtor bear
more equal relations to each other, for there
is a stability of things upon which they one
aud all can base their calculations and the
fallacy Of Fiatsm has been thoroughly ex-
posed. In short, the people seem to have
joined the Money Power in opposing these
wild theorists.
Year: 1879

THE most active supporters of the project
tonominate THURMAN for Governor of Ohio
are among the Democrats of that State who
have future hopes of getting into the Senate
themselves. They have remote hope that
the next Senator will be Democratic, and
are afraid that If he is not killed off by be-
ing beaten eitherfor Governor or President,
he will succeed himself The unSelfshness
of their schemes is domonsiatively APP
parent.
Year: 1879

WE have already wished our friends a
happy New Year" and now the true way
to make that wish full realization is, if it
has not been done already, to subscribe for
and read The NATIONAL REPUBLICAN, the
only morning newspaper in Washington.
Year: 1879

THIS is exactly the kind of weather in
which Democratic Congressman are sub
feet to malarial attacks in Washington.
Everything is frozen up tighter than a drum
out Of doors, and the atmosphere is as clear
as bell. But in doors the hot Scotch
smokes and steams with frightlul mortality,
Verify, the Capital should be moved to some
place where our Democratic brethren would
escape the iuhicton Of that kind Of smoke
aud steam.
Year: 1879

Now the Democrats in their anxiety to
create a sympathy for Hamburg BUTLER,
who occupies the seat of Senator CoRnGN, of
South Carolina, have started Cock-and-
Bull story that some one has been trying
to prosecute Senator CoNovER, or black
mail him into voting TO oust BUTLER The
tale is very Transparent and If Mr.. CoNovER
has any regard for his reputation he will
see to it that his so-called Democratic
friends put an end to this constant use of
his name in connection with such disrepu-
table affairs.
Year: 1879

The Democracy Of Illinois concede the
election of II Republican to succeed Senator
OGLEsBY as n matter of course; but they
are anxious to select the man for the sue
ccssion nevertheless. In casting about ior
this purpose none Of them have "hit
upon General LOGAN. They prefer any
body else to LUGAN-a preference which is
LoGAN's best and strongest recommenda-
tion
Year: 1879

less charge against Senator INGALLS,, of
Kansps, that he has been in the habit of
levying assessments on his appointees to
Office OF course the charge originated with
some of the Senator's personal or political
enemies and it certainly does not look well
in the columns of reputable Republican
journal. 1t is only when such ISLANDERS as
these against Republicans are reiterated by
Republeans that they have any weight
Year: 1879

Sir John Herschel has declared that
"if he were to pray for a taste which
should stand up under every variety of
circumstances and be source of happi-
ness and cheerfulness to him through
life, it would be a taste for reading -
Give a man, he affirms, that taste, and
the means of gratifying it, and you can
not fail of making him good and happy
for you bring him in contact with the
best society in all ages, with the tender
est, the bravest, and the purest men who
have adorned humanity, making him a
denizen of all nations, contemporary of
all times, and giving him practical
proof that the world has been created for
him, for his solace, and for his enjoy
ment
Year: 1879

When we remember how, before the


war, Southern clergymen were accustom-
ed in their pulpit to find in the Bible au.
thority for human slavery, and to use the
influence of the religion of Christ in
behalf of the maintenance of that iniqui-
tous system, we need not be surprised to
find clergymen in California giving their
sanction to the measure for the Danish
ment of the Chinese. Among the minis
ters who have signed an appeal to the
President to approve the bill are Bishop
Kip, of the Episcopal Church, and Jew
ish rabbi. Bishop Kip represents a
church which has expended tens of thou
sands OF dollars upon mission work in
China, work which can be performed far
more effectively among Cinnamon who
are in this country. But Bishop Kip
evidently believes that the way to con-
vert a Chinaman is to keep him as far as
possible from the influences of Christian
civilization; that the way to impress him
with the superiority of the true religion
is to spit upon. insult and oppress him,
and to repudiate solemn treaty obliga-
tons made in his behalf; and that the
way to reconcile the Chinese government
to the presence of missionaries in China
is to refuse Cinnamon the right to live in
this country.


The Jewish rabbits conduct in the mat
ter, however, is even more saddening.-
At this very moment in Roumania the
people of his race are being treated as
he would treat the Cinnamon. and Chris
tian Europe is coming to their rescue
For eighteen hundred years they have
been subjected to race prosecutions, and
for the very same reason that the China
men are now attacked. because they were
peculiar people, because they did not
assimilate, because they refused to en-
brace Christianity, and because they were
thrifty when other men were idle and
negligent. The Americans who stand by
the Cinnamon to-day are the very men
who would battle hotly and as valiantly
for justice to the Jews if they should be
assailed in this country, as they are in
Roum ania, by those who yield to preju-
dices of race. The Jews stand high in
civilized countries now, because liberal
men have recognized their equal rights
with other men to life, liberty and hap
piness. The battle in their behalf has
been fought and won, and if the race has
won for itself glory in literature, art, sci
ence, commerce and statesmanship, it is
because the vile spirit which denied
them their rights has been beaten down
by the enlightened men who have cham
pioned their cause. We do not believe
that the Jews of this region approve of
the action of the California rabbi any
more than the Episcopalians approve of
the conduct of Bishop Kip, and it will be
well if the disapproval of both parties
finds prompt expression.