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Year: 1878

Deacon H., of r., was in his wood lot
busily engaged in preparing load for
market. On the other side of q low
fence his neighbor S. was also loading
for the same market. S. paused in his
work and watched the deacon for
while, and then exclaimed: deacon
you are q fool in being so precise with
your Load. You are altogether too par
ticular. What is the use of packing so
closely, rejecting so carefully every small
and crooked stick, and every one which
wants single inch of the required
length Look at my load; does not
contain nearly as much as yours, with
considerably larger profit" The deacon
simply answered: "You may do busi-
ness in your way L will do it in mine"


They both drove to the neighboring
city and waited in the market place for
customers. S. was fortunate enough to
find customer without much delay,
while many hours passed before the dea-
con could dispose of his load. Upon his
return late at night, his neighbor, who
had been home a long while, said to
him: 81 said you was fool, and was
1 not right? L sold my wood for the
same price you did, and, besides larger
profit, have saved much time" The
reply was, "You may do business in
your way will do it in mine"


Several weeks passed. Deacon H. and
his neighbor were again with their load
ed teams in the city, where they had
been many times for market for their
wood, The deacon was met by wealthy
merchant of the city, who said to him,
Take your load at once to my yard;
and do the same with every load you
bring, and will gladly pay your price. +"


That night deacon H. was early at
home. Late in the evening S. arrived
with his wood unsod. 'How was it,"
he said, that you found such ready
sale to-day, while L could not dispose of
my wood at any price? I"


- You do business in your way, and L
do it in mine. Who is the fool % said
the deacon.
Year: 1878

The Rev. DIR. Breckinridge, of Ken
tucky, once had a body servant who had
lived with him so long that he had i'm
bibed something of his theology, and
considered himself well posted in all the
doctrines of the Presbyterian church.
On one occasion he was attending O
Methodist meeting, and the preaching
which he there heard was so different
from that to which he had been accus-
toned that he felt it his duty to publicly
announce his dissent. Whereupon he
was told to sit down and keep quiet. He
restrained himself for few minutes,
when he rose again and pronounced the
sermon to be downright heresy. He
was arrested and taken before justice,
who found him guilty of disturbing
religious meeting. Before pronouncing
sentence the judge addressed the culprit
as follows:


Sam, have known you since you
were a boy. l knew your father and
mother. / am well acquainted with
you master and mistress, and because
of my friendship for them 1 shall be
lenient with you. The penalty for the
crime of which you have been convict
ed is nine-and-thirty stripes. The maj
esty of the law must be maintained, but
have power to mitigate its severity.
Mr.. Constable, take Sam out and give
him eight-and-thirty stripes.


AS the officer was about to carry the
sentence into execution, Sam turned to
the Court and said:


Judge, almost wish you had never
knowed my old master"
Year: 1878

National Associated Press to the Star.


MONTREAL, April 19.--Gen. Smalley, the
Receiver of the National Insurance Com
pany, and Trustee for number of impor-
tant estates in New York, is now stopping
at the Windsor Hotel under the assumed
name OF R. G. Henry. The General is a
man of very gentlemanly bearing, about
fifty years of age, with black mustache and
beard He has been here over fortnight,
and has been living very fast and indulging
freely in drink. He met your representa-
tive in very frank spirit, and admitted
that he was the missing man. He accounted
for his disappearing from New York by the
pressure brought to bear upon him by po-
litical opponents, who had been harrassing
denied being defaulter, but admitted
being in debt He said, however, that the
commission due upon 81, 100000 bonds and
other securities lodged in the Mercantile
Safe Deposit Company, New York, would
more than pay all his liabilities. He had
not qualified he remarked, for the receiver
ship of the National Insurance Company,
and did not owe it anything.


With respect to the Clairmont Savings
Bank Receiyership, the bonds and securi-
ties he held were lodged in the Park Bank
Safe Deposit Company He was the Receiver
of the Chicago, Saginaw & Canada Railroad,
and the $4,000, 900 of bonds which he said
we're lodged in the Mercantile Safe Deposit
Company belong to that Receiycrship. He
denied in the most emphatic manner that
he had meddled with the funds of any of
the estates for which he was trustee He
assured your representative that he was
simply off on spree, and that as soon as he
got through, which would not be for three
or four weeks yet, he would return to New
York and set all matters straight. He took
the train west last night, stating that lie in
tended going to Toronto
Year: 1878

The Board met in regular session. All
the members present, and President Bell Ia
the chair


The contract for repaving sidewalks 70,
one year in the Fourth District was award
ed to Thomas Lloyd


The Superintendent was directed to con-
meet the water main and -cistern on Eimunt
avenue ...... ea-' g..


The Engineer was directed to prepare the
necessary papers for the Improvement OF
Fourth street from Broadway to John, and
also repair the inlet at the northwest corner
of Central avenue and Sixth street.
Year: 1878

That crime is increasing in our coun'
try is not a pleasant thought, but its
unpleasantness should not lead US to
ignore that fact. In Philadelphia is
said that there are 100, 600 people who
never pretend to attend church. We
do not say this with any idea that a
mere attendance at church OCCASIONAL y
makes people any better, but as an in
dication that the church as an agency Of
reformation is losing its hold upon the
community for good, and that the un


disputed fact, that our jails, peniten.
tiaries and real reformatory institu


tions are crowded while our churches
are half filed, shows that the school OF
crime is doing more effective work thar


our school of morals. There are tive
demands at the present time, neither o


which is the healthiest sign for the in


crease of morals and the stability o


good government. One of these sign


is the proposition to be met with every


where to build new and enlarge OLE


prisons, and the other is to build new
and expensive churches while minister
preach to half filed churches already


We might naturally have looked for


larger interest to have been manifeste'


in Sunday School and church work 70
the evangelizing of the masses, afte


the apparently successful effort
; of Moody and Sankey, and other evar
; gelists, but it does seem somehow to b
, a fact that crime springs perennial i
|. the track of Christian civilization. TIL
;. darkest side of this rather dar
view of an important subject, is that tn
J increase of crime is more appareI
s amongst the young, and commences
: show itself at very early stage of lif'
t The question naturally comes home
: us as to what is to be done to uprot
) this vast preponderance Of crime Unfit
I ence which is sapping the very founds
Year: 1878

IT ~ HOPED that as the election ap-
proaches our Republican friends will
make up their minds to turn out and
give the candidates upon their ticket a
. large complimentary vote. The par
ty never had better ticket than it now
has, and it is due to the gentlemen
who are upon it that they should re-
oeive the undivided vote Of their par,
~. They have stood by the party il
all its defeats as well as its victories IL
the past and now that they hav" throw
themselves into the breach as q for
lorn hope they should not be made u
feel the indifference Of their party asso
ciates by receiving only a moirty Of the
Republican vote.
Year: 1878

The Gagged lion or tiger is seen at a
great disadvantages; he is prisoner,
and cannot be expected TO show off. AT
the London Geological Gardens a play
ground has been attached to the cage of
the tigers, sufficiently large for them to
sport in and exhibit some of their jun
gle habits. Mr.. Buckland thus de-
scribes, what he saw while looking at
the tigers in their playground:


1t was indeed q beautiful sight to see
these lovely, gigantic cats, the fclr IT,
gers, gradually emerge one by one into
their new, large open play ground.
When they arrived at the opening it
was beautiful to watch them crouch
down, making themselves appear as
small as possible.


Finding nothing hurt or alarmed
them, they curiously examined the
trunks of the trees and rockwOrk placed
there for their especial benefit. They
trusted to their sense OF smell rather
than to their sense of sight.


One of the greatest ornaments the IT,
gers head possesses beside the regula-
ton V mark over the eyes, which is
observable in all thorough bred tigers,
the loveliness of their countenances is
much enhanced by the long, graceful
whiskers, situated for the most part on
each side of the upper lip.


To the lower end of each whisker is
adjoined a very large bulb of nerve
matter and from this bulb of nerve mat
ter goes directly to the brain a nerve.
This nerve is in fact telegraph wire;
and the whiskers are the office at which
news is received.


When the tiger is crouching for or
gradually creeping up TO its prey in the
Jungle, these whiskers act like so many
sentries. which warn it TO keep to the
right or left, that the coast is clear or
obstructed, so that when the animals
eyes are fully occupied watching its
prev, the whiskers act as watchfui sem
tries to guide it.


When the four tigers were loose in
their play ground, and the door closed
behind them, they at once began to
play, and very beautiful were their
movements as they ran after each other,
tumbled and gam5oled like young kit
tens before fire, their coats looking
like satin in the warm sun.


All of sudden a new, and, to them.
a most interesting object. made its sp-
pearsnce. This was a young and very
white zebu calf of few days old, which
Year: 1878

House-cleaning must 90. And our
only purpose in the few desultory re-
marks is to Oenjoin the mesdames to take
it easy. Rome wasn't built in day,
and there Is no necessity for cleaning
whole house in three days. Necessity
Even in the case of the fortunate few


who do not have to give any personal
attention to the work, the confusion
and discomfort of the household cannot
be avoided when the job is done on the
plan of the old-fashioned grand raid.
Proceed gradually, and attempt no
more each day than can comfortably be
completed between breakfast and sup
per. 1t will be only apleasant surprise
to the ''man of the house'-no matter
what the sex!-to find the apartments
that were dingy and dusty in the morn
ing fresh and bright in spring array ut
nightfall, and no other signs Of ''house-
cleaning" visible. Aside from the
agreeableness of this method, it is a
great saving of somebody's nerves and
muscles. The straining and OVERRIDING,
the exposure to drafts and cold, the
wear and tear of temper, the wholesale
and universal discomfort of the plan of
tearing mp whole floor, or the entire
house, and getting it settled when un-
certain weather or more uncertain
help will permit, are almost enough to
reconcile man to ''living i'm the dirt"
Year: 1878

We wandered all through the sad,
silent mansion. We looked at the spin
die legged furniture, and at a rusty key
on the wall, the key of the Bastile. We
see Washingtons vest and small clothes


in the glass case, and a lock of his hair,
and original letters by his hand and
Lafayette's. We see pretty Eleanor
Eustis' wedding gift harpischord, that
her stepfather brought from foreign
lands for surprise when she left her
girlhood's home. The pretty Eleanor
is buried long ago. All traces of her
pink and white beauty have left the
earth; here stands the dusty barpis-
chord, brought back by strange hands
to her old home. The room that inter-
ests me the most is the tiny attic cham
Der where the devoted widow passed
her days after her husbands death.
The large chamber below was closed
after his decease. None entered il from
that time on. A rug and single ben
Mrs. Washington had moved to the at
tic room, and here, winter and summer,
she watched with longing, crazy eyes
the tomb that held her dead. There was
no place for stove or CRATE; all day, in
the room under the roof, she sat by the
small window (her feet in winter on
zinc foot stool filed with GOALS, with
a shawl wrapped about her bent form,
true Martha Washington, first lady of
the land! First, in elegance in times OF
peace; in courage in time of war; in
faithfulness in time of death. All
women look with tenderer eyes at the
small marble resting-place than at the
grander casket by their side. One bears
upon it draped flag, cut in the stone,
shield and crouching eagle; the other
only the words-"Martha, ,consort of
Washington" Yet these words dim
the eyes of loving wives; they pierce
the hearts of lonely widows. and bind
all true and fervent womanhood close
to the form that sleeps so dreamlessly
beside the one she loved truly and long.
Year: 1878

came out of its shed, that was situated
in full sight of the cage, only few
y4r Is of.


The moment he saw it one of the til
gers crouched TO the ground, and re-
mained stationary and statue-like,
watching the innOeent-lo locking baby
zebu. He was all fixed and statue-like,
perfectly motionless, except the very
tip of his tail, about two inches of which
kept jerking from side to side, signify
ing great anxiety, expectation, and
readiness for immediate action.


Presently the other three perceived
that their comrade had seen something.
They also instantly assumed various at
titudes, indicating their intense desire
to kill this young zebu calf and eat him.


This group of four magnificent tigers
all intent upon one and the same object,
was grand in the extreme. 1t was also
very Interesting TO observe that the
mother of the young zebu seemed to
know insTinetively that her calf was in
danger, as she seemed to warn it in her
own peculiar way.
Year: 1878

OF the Au Sable as :: navigable river,


| am constrained to state | cannot speak
in a way calculated TO allure people


thi,her for the purpose of sailing upon
il. Three of us were induced by our


backw woolsman TO embark upon a raft
and make run of fifteen miles to
Thompson's. We did so, and failed to
acquire upon the journey any marked
prejudice in favor of that particular
form of navigation. Cedars growing
at the waters edge have their roots
more or less undermined, and some of
them fall outward over the river, their


branches hanging in the current and
becoming denuded of their foliage or
dying. the trunk or stem of the tree
is in some cases parallel with the
waters surface, and in others it dips
below itor inelInes gradually upward
from it. These trees have been named,
with a nice sense of the fitness of terms,
''sweepers. We found them such.
Our raft was guided by poles, one
aft and the other forward. A vigorous
use of these might have had something
to do with determining the course of the
raft, but one was dropped and the ether
broken. and she forthwith proceeded to
work her sweet will of us. She seemed
possessed of a mischievOus intelligence,
and if an obstruction came In view,
made directly for it. There was gem
orally room for her to pass between
"sweeper, which she always did;
but it was different with the passengers,
who, with couple of unhappy dogs,
were rasped from one end to the other,
sometimes into the water, and at other
times only half into it, but alwas hold
ing on to the logs with grim desperation.
1t was only by a united effort that the
runaway was ultimately turned into the
fence, so to speak, and held there long
enough for us to jump off.
Year: 1878

The fish which contends for the d.
minion of the Brazilian portion of South
America is one of terrible voracity {;
there is hardly any animal that ventures
into the water but that suffers from its
attacks. The victim of the piranha is
generally surrounded by large shoals
or swarms of them; they may be justly
compared to nest of water hornets.
Horses and cattle do not venture to
drink of the water below the surface,


est their snouts should be bitten Off
An accident which, however, some
times befalls them. The cayman him.
self is forced to fly before this terrible
enemy, and turns his unprotected belly
towards the top of the water; the otter
alone, whose hairy skin deadens the
force of the bite. is proof against their
attacks.
Year: 1878

am sitting on the old porch stoop tonight
OF the farmhouse long and low,
And the moon bathes in its silvery light
All the objects that / know
The shadows lie thick on the grassy walks
From the long row Of maple trees,
While the cricket chirps its lonely sound,
And the night wind rustles the leaves
| am lonely in heart and soul tonight
For memories crowd thick and fast
OF the ones who sat where l sit alone
In the times forever past
How many thoughts-some sweet some sad
VIII cling here evermore,
Where the sheltering caves, dropping low,
Shadow the old stoop o'er.
am thinking. as gaze on that halIowed


stoop,


OF the feet which have worn it away
OF how many, weary with the march of life,
Would long for its rest to-day;
And the quiet shelter of the clustering vines
That creep around the door
But they must ever keep moving on
They may come back no more.
In memory hear the tramp OF the feet
And see the heads bow low,
When they were borne across the time-worn


stoOp
The loved ones long ago.
| can see where L sit, with tear-dimmed eyes,
by the rays OF the moon so bright.
Where they lie at rest ON the side of the hill
Their head-stones cleaning white
All lonely l mourn the voices l loved
That have slipped away, one by one,
And are mingling now in the worlds busy


strife,


or with voices beyond the sun
How many in the days forever gone by
Hare tripped over so light and free
And some with a sorrowful step and slow
They have all left the home-nest but me.
Year: 1878

The inquest on the body of Herman
Bisack was concluded at noon to-day befoe
Coroner Stich. Several witnesses were heard.
but their testimony being exactly the sals,e
is unnecessary to repeat it. The Coroner
rendered the following verdict: Death from
conclusion of the brain, and extrayasa ion
of blood, caused by blow of the fist and
kicking with the foot, on the head by Don.i-
nick Devote during an affray which ha
brother John had with the deceased
Year: 1878

National Associated Press to the Star.


SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 4.-The Montague
Company left this city for the East yester-
day The Company take with them the
remains of their loved leader and manager,
who brought them all here with such bright
hopes and expectations only a month ago.
Year: 1878

s'ofthe peace and order of the city and win the
ministerial management of elections" lne
whole letter is sensible and frank. This part
of it especially will win for Mr.. Cooper great
many firm friends.


If we are ever to have well-governed cry
the control of the Board of Police must De
taken ont of politics. Nobody ought to have
a keencr realization of this truth than the
Tammany candidate for Mayor. for whose
word upon the subject New-IOrk is now anx-
iously whiting. Mr.. Schell is q good citizen
responsible and experienced man, large
property owner, and, we are sWe,
friend of justice and good order. No
body understands better than he does
what enormous evils must result from
the control of the police by partisan organ
ization, which Is in turn controlled to great
extent by the dangerous classes. We call
upon him to give the same promise to the
public which has just been given 10y Mr..
Cooper. There is only one Interpretation
which can be put upon his silence. II he VIII
not pledge himself to an bipartisan Police
Board. he may rest assured that much
larger proportion than usual of the respectable
voters will be driven away from the Tam
many ticket.
Year: 1878

The pIllaging-for it can hardly be called
robbcry-of the Manhattan Savings Institution
is. for its holiness and the thoroughness OF its
work, one of the most extraordinary events
of the kind, if not the most extraordinary, in
the recent history of this city. 1t is scarcely
credible that savings bank standing on
Broadway, at the corner OF one OF It's busiest
cross streets and within a few steps ct the
Police Headquarters, should be entered by day
light, the janitOr and his wife bound an"
gagged, the combination of the vault lock eX-
tortcd from the ianitor and nearly S3,ooo,Ooo
worth OF securities taken from the vault and ont
of the building. without so much as breath OF
suspicion disturbing the quiet OF the neigh
borhood; and that all this while other ten
ants in the building should begin the LIE OF
the day unconscious that this bold crime was
being Dcrpctrated within few feet of them.
The only reassming feature III the whole
case is the fact that the great bulk
of these securities are not negotiable. The
robbers have secured, however, $4,000 IN
coupon bonds, and S11 900 cash and they
have compelled the bank to take advantage
of the sixty days act The absence of
the securities will practically suspend the



police find the robbers soon the bank may be
forced, in self-preservation, into one OF those
disgraccful compromises with the thieves in
which such operations so often end.


1t is easy to blame the police in these cases,
and yet il is plain that great robbery like
this might be committed. either through col
fusion with persons inside the bank building or
by the great skill of the burglars, in such
way that the police would have no reason to sus-
pcct any such crime to be Oh foot. The fact
which will be much more apt to force itself
upon the attention of the public Is that Ettle
better care seems to have been taken OF the
vast sums committed to the charge of
the bank than a dIyg00dS merchant or
even a c0rner-grOcCr takes OF his stock.
The night -watchman seems to have been in
the habit of leaving his post as soon as he had
Knocked on the ianitor's door and received n
sleepy response; the Waterman declares Ill
his defence that he shut the door OF the
building on leaving, but tenant states that
he came through and found the door wide open.
These are perhaps lapses from fidelity winch
bank officers cannot always know, and can
not therefore punish; but what shall be said
of the management of bank which Intrusted
TO its jantOT the combination opening its
gleat vault2 There is only too much reason to
suspect that this janitor was III cOiluslon with
the robbers; there is only too much reason
TO fear that any poor man, holding such
! place, might be tempted or forced to give up
| such secret. If such system exists in any
well-rcgulatcd bank in this city, the public will
be astonished to hear It. Whether it does exist
! or not, the managers of the Manhattan
| Savings Institution can hardly escape general
censure for gross carelessness upon vital
point respecting the safety OF the funds con-
| fded to their keeping.