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Year: 1877

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Mary Olemmer in Cincinnati Commercial.l


Carl Schurz dismisses from the
Interior Department twenty clerks,
nineteen Of whom were women. |
am not prepared to say that it was
not necessary to dismiss every one
OF these women only say the
proportion of the sexes was more
remarkable than that even of Mas
sachusetts, and goes some way to
prove the assertions constantly
made to me by women in this de-
partment, that Carl Schurz says she
does rot want women in the de-
partment at all, and is going to
clear them all out" never heard
Mr.. Schurz say this, and l give him
the benefit of the faintest doubt. |
am not willing to believe that the
husband of Mrs. Schurz ever said
anything Of the kind, or that a man
SO liberal and enlightened as Carl
Schurz would lay a straw in the way
Of any woman earning an honora-
bic living, especially in a
town thronged with women who
must work or die. Only yesterday
my soft-eyed neighbor told me of a
lady born and educated-one of
those turned out of this very de-
partment-who came and offered
her gold chain, a souvenir of better
days, as a hostage for a little plain
sewing that she begged to do to
keep her from starving. The pawn
shops are full Of these treasures,
while their owners go from door to
door begging for work. Whole
bureaus of clerks are discharged
and sent adrift because there is not
cent to pay them, and there is no
money because congress worse than
wasted its time bullying and fight
ing last winter, and because for
political reasons no extra session
could be called for months to come.
In the face of such facts, what do
Presidential letters and orders and
Secretarial disquisitions ON civil
service reform amount to? They
amount to nothing. For there is
net one man of them all from the
President down, who does not
brush away his fine theories of
"refOrm quicker than fly the
moment it bites his own interests.
Year: 1877

A correspondent sends an ac-
count Of the perlous journey
down the mountains of two Neva-
da miners, who made the trip in a
mining fume. The fume was
owned by Messrs. Mackey & Fair,


and is located in the mountains
near Carson City. 1t is about fif-
teen miles in length, leading from a
lofty elevation down to the plain,


and crossing in its course deep ra-


vines, skirting terrible precipices
and chasms, and presenting many
sharp curves. 1t is fed with water
from Lake Tahoe, and empties into
a creek near Carson City. This
Aume, said to be the longest in the
world, is used to carry down tim
Der which is cut on the mountains.
There are several places in its
course where the incline is slight,
and visitors are occasionally
treated to a short trip over these
inclines in a boat constructed for
that purpose. The two meu
who took the trip were work
men, who some months ago
conceived the notion Of shoot


ing down the entire length Of
the hume. To carry out this fool
hardy adventure, they constructed
a strong boat, sharp at the bow and
square at the stern, and fitting the
flume closely enough to keep it
steady. The men describe the trip
as something terrific. The heavy
boat gotta fearful headway, and the
men had no means Of stopping it.
In shooting around the curve they
thought it would jump the Aume
and precipitate them into the chasm
that yawned beneath. Down the
sleeper inclines the boat sped with
more than express-train velocity.
The fifteen miles were passed. lin
less than eleven minutesl From
the foot Of the mountain to where
Year: 1877

jealousy Of European nations. But
there were errors Of youth in ma
tons as in men, and he would
remind them of two he had noticed
in them-too great precipitancy in
the pursuit of material things, and
too proud a feeling of independence.
They prided themselves on being
Republicans land here there was a
laugh in which the cardinals join
ed), but they must remember all
must bow the head to enter para
disc. They must be humble, and
not let material things interfere
with prayer.
Year: 1877

the Aume empties the incline is gen.
tie, and here the boat gradually lost
its terrific Roadway, and at length
glided smoothly into the creek.
Unharmed, but scared almost out
of their senses, the men stepped
ashore, and one of them was heard
to remark that he would not make
that trip again for all the silver and
gold in Nevada.
Year: 1877

The Legislature of Massachusetts,
has passed a law to facilitate some
what the procurement of divorces.
1t permits a person married in that
State to sue for divorce after three
years residence next preceding the
date Of the petition. The law here
tofore has required a residence OF
five consecutive years next preced-
ing the time of filing the libel, un-
less it appears that the libelant had
moved into the State for the pur-
pose of procuring a divorce. The
new law seems to ignore the latter
consideration entirely, and reduces
the necessary period of residence by
two years. Attempts are made
nearly every year to make the pro-
curement of divorces in the State of
New York easier, but they have
not proven successful
Year: 1877

When he received The American
pilgrims the other day, the pope
spoke in great praise of the Ameri-
can nation and the great things it
had accomplished, and how, in the
flower Of its youth, it had acquired
strength sufficient to arouse the
Year: 1877

Youth gave it to him. After-years could
not efface it. The impress of his face was
upon his heart. Her voice was always in
his ears. Every word that she had ever
spoken to him was treasured up in his
memory and heart with an avarice of love
which prevented any one word from even
being forgotten.


At church and home, during service and
out of it, in the street or in the study, he
saw only one lace, and heard only one
voice. Amidst the hustle of committee
meetings he was conscious of her image-a
sweet smiling on him,a tender voice say ing
Lama" Was there ever 80 musical and
go dear word as Lamar For him,
never.


The hunger Of his longings grew stronger
every day. The strong, proud, self.seclud-
ed nature Of his was most intense in all
its feelings, and dwelt with concentrated
passion upon this one object of its idolatry.
He had never had any other object but this
one.


A happy boyhood passed in the society
ofthis sweet playmate, then young girl
Of his own age; happy boyhood here in
Hobby, where they had always been insep-
arabic, wandering hand in hand along the
shore or over the hills; happy boyhood
where she was the one and only companion
whom he knew or cared for-this was the
sole legacy Of lis early life. Leaving
Hobby he had left her, but had never for
gotten her. He had carried with him the
tender memory of his bright being, and
cherished his undying fondness, not know
ing what that fondness meant. He had
returned to find her married, and severed
from him forever, at least in this life.
When he found that he had lost her he
began to understand how dear she was.-
All life stood before him aimless, pointless,
and meaningless without her. He came
back, but the old intercourse could not be
renewed; she could not be be his, and he
could only live, and love, and endure
Perhaps it would have been wiser if he
had at once left Hobby and sought out some
other abode. But the discovery of his love
was gradual; it came through suffering and
anguish; and when he knew that his love
was sointanse it was then impossible to
leave. 10 be near her, to breathe the same
ar, to see her face occasionally to nurse his
old memories, to board up new remema
brances Of her words and looks-these now
became the chief occupation of his hours
OF solitude, ,and the only happiness left him
in his life.


One day he went up with stronger
sense OF desolation in his heart than usual
going up to see her in order to get consola.
tlon from the sight Of her face and the
sound Of her voice. Their former levity
had given place to seriousness of manner
which was very different. A deep, intense
Year: 1877

On Monday evening, very serious
stabbing affair took place in an alley at
Chester. The man stabbed was Thomas
Farral, and, the wound was in the abdo-
men running parallel with the medium
line of the body and extending about
inches. The stabbing occurred about
7 o'clock in the evening, ,and no one seems
TO have seen it done. The wounded man
was placed upon settee, and carried to
his residence where he..mrde several con-
Trajectory statements.


His first statement to the mayor was
that young man by the name of Patrick
Young had met him in the alley, and
saying "You here again." stabbed him.
The cause assigned for the cutting was
jealousy, there being a young woman
living in the house near where the affair
took place, whom Farral went to see.


Officer Kershaw being informed of the
affair went to Young's clearinghouse, ,and
arrested him.


On Monday evening Farral being very
low the Mayor took his ante mortem
statement in which he explicitly implicat-
ed Young.


Yesterday morning, he was much bet
ter, and made another statement contra
dictory to the first. At the hearing be-
fore the mayor, Young was discharged
on his own recogniZance to appear II
wanted.


1t is impossible to tell whether Farral
will recover or not. He has been very
badly cut, and if notification should take
place his death would be only question
of time.
Year: 1877




We wish to call the attention of the
proper authorities to the law requiring
the cleaning of sidewalks, and would he
pleased to see the ordinance enforced. as
there are q great many owners and agents
who pay little or no attention whatever
TO the law. Suppose, for instance, that
no person would clean the pavement of
suow, what condition our city would
be in to be sure. There are Instances
where one-half the squares are built
upon and the pavements are properly
cleaned off, tae balance of the SQUARE
may be owned by some person who does
not trouble to have any cleaning done.
and those who have to walk, as most OF
our citizens do, are obliged to walk
through slush, sometimes to the depth
of or inches. Now is this right ?
Should not the property owners and
agents be compelled to do as required by
the law as much SO as well disposed citi-
zens, and, iif we are right in our views
why are not the laws enforced?


The street crossings are another matter
which needs looking after for all this
present winter the most of them have
been in a fearful condition, and ever
where the iron cutters are, they have
been really worse than they would have
been had there been none of them. Here
and there we see crossing where the ice
has been cut away to make room for
water to run. Probably if there was tc
be an election very soon there would be
more men employed by the city for thi
purpose. We would suggest to the City
Council, that, instead of wasting. time
which will not be really needed for il
ten years to come, it would be as we'll t
attend to the present necessities of tn,
people. D. CITIZEN.
Year: 1877

A charity ball was elaborately planned
in st. Louis, and the intention, in imita-
tion Of the charity balls in New York
city was to make it fashionable and Sc
lect. There was carelessness in the sale
of tickets, however, and several hundred
Of the most depraved men and women
conspired to slyly buy them. On the night
ofthe ball, when wealth and culture had
got to dancing, there was suddenly an in
tiuX of the unexpected class. The hall
was soon left to the sole occupancy Of
the latter, and St. Louis is now divided
between Indignation and mirth.
Year: 1877

Here is Baltimore tramp's tile: "At
Peryville went to a house with brick in nv hand
ana asked the lady if she would please be so kind as
20 Pp5 some butter M on IT, The request excited her
SSu.itoslty anu Sne asked Why do you want to put


surely she said you are not so hungry as to eat a
Duttered Drlek? Come into the house and will give
YOU IOod 1 bagged square meal for which had
et 50 sick trap In the western section of the State
asSed for something to eat at a house and was re-
Lused. 1 then begged for a loOking-glass which
aroused curiosity to know what would do with the
mirror replied want to see myself Starving to
ueath. They then gave me what wanted"
Year: 1877

Modern science is shedding an immense
light on the nature of law. Formerly men
objected it as arbitrary and unjust in God
to visit the iniquities of the fathers upon
the children to the third and fourth genera.
tion. Modern science teaches us that
hereditary evil is a first truth, and that the
iniquities of fathers are visited upon child
rem down through successive generations
by the simple law Of heredity.
Year: 1877

ltisvery singular how the fact of mans
death often seems to give truer idea of
his character, whether for good or evil,
than they have ever possessed while he was
living and acting among them.
Year: 1877

1t matters to us in life not so much what
part we play, as it does to play our part
well. In drama it is not so much cues.
tion who played the king or the peasant, as
who played the part best.
Year: 1877

Cosrced innocence is like an imprisoned
laFk-open the door and it IS off forever.
The bird that roams through the sky and
the groves unrestrained knows how to
dodge the hawk and to protect itself; but
the caged one, the moment it leaves lis
bars and bolts behind, is pounced upon by
the fowler or vulture
Year: 1877

1t is estimated that there are two thous.
and four hundred disorders to which
the human frame is liable When q man
Is laid up with the rheumatism, he is apt to
think that the entire number has struck
him IN CONCERT.
Year: 1877

nomcti.- are living beings in
nature as beautiful as in romance. Reality
surpasses Imagination, and we see breathing,
frightening and moving before our eye
sights dearer to our hearts than any we
ever beheld in the land of sleep.
Year: 1877

CARBoLIc ACID.-A few drops Of carbolic
acid in pint of water will cleanse house
plants from lice in very short time. If
mosquitoes or other blood-suckers infest
our sleeping rooms at night we uncork a
bottle of pennyroyal, and these insects
leave in great haste, nor will they return so
long as the air in the room is loaded with
the fumes of that aromatic herb. If rats
enter in the cellar, little powdered potash
thrown into their holes or mixed with meal
and scattered in their runways, never fails
to drive them away.
Year: 1877

AN ECONOMICAL CHARACTER.-Amos Fish,
who died in Albany last week, leaving
property worth $4,000, once described his
manner of life to friend thus: "I buy a
shank of beef from the butcher, which
costs me ten cents. My wife makes
enough soup from this to do US one meal +:
then the meat cut from it afterward makes
two more meals, or one days food for ten
cents. 1 split the bones and get the mar
row for cooking purposes, and my wife
finds sufficient fuel in the bone itself to do
considerable cooking. Then in an iron
box | save the ashes, which use for man.
uring few plants that bring me six cents
each" Yet when extra taxes were put
upon his property he very rarely, if ever,
demanded more rent from tenants than
what they had been paying. He married
a widow, who had two children and little
money. He offered to borrow the money
and to allow her seven per oentum. His
wife accepted the proposition, and he was
in charge of the property for a long time.
One day he forced a settlement with her,
bringing in bin for her own and child
rend's board, and leaving her in debt to
him.
Year: 1877

HEALTHFULNEss OF LEMoNs.--When
people feel the need of an acid, if they
would let vinegar alone and use lemons or
sour apples, they would feel just as well
satisfied and receive no injury. And a
good suggestion may not come amiss as a
good plan, when lemons are cheap in the
market. A person should in these times
purchase few dozen at once and prepare
them for use in the warm days of summer
when acids, especially citric and malic OF
acids of lemons and ripe fruits are SO crate.
ful and useful. Press your hand on the
lemon and roll it briskly on the table to
make 1t squeeze more easily, then press
the juice into bowl or tumbler (never
into TIM; strain out all the seeds, as
they give bad taste. A few minutes
boiling is sufficient. Put pound of white
sugar to pint of juice, boil three minutes
bottle it, and your lemonade is ready. Put
a tablespoonful of this lemon syrup in a
glass of water and you have cooling
healthful drink.
Year: 1877

TASTE IN DREss.-Is there anything more
absurd than that which prescribes the same
sort and style of dress for all individuals of
certain class? Why should tall ladies
and short ones, thin women and stout ones.
dark complexioned and blonde girls, all be
required to wear clothes cut and made in
the same style, and of materials of the same
fabric and colors? That dress or bonnet
that is becoming to aud adorns a.tall, thin
girl, is not only not fitted for short, stout
female figure, but positively makes the
wearer unattractive. Why not allow a
degree of individuality in dress, and let
each person exercise individual taste and
judgment in wearing the style and material
OF dress that are most becoming to each ?
The tyranny of fashion is not greater than
its absurdity in this matter, and the in.
dividual who will inaugurate revolution
in public sentiment that will abolish or
mitigate the ridiculous rules that now force
people of the most widely different figures,
sizes and complexions, into garments of
uniform cut and color, will achieve distinc.
ton as genuine reformer, and also confer
a great benefit on civilized society.
Year: 1877

WINTER OATs.-Down South they have
new variety of oats which they call
" Winter Oats" They are sown in Sep.
tember, make excellent fall pasture, stand
the winter well and produce very largely
yielding more than twice as much as
northern, springsown oats. They grow
and stand the winter well in Tennessee.
Those who have grown them in the South
declare they will flourish anywhere on the
Peninsula.
Year: 1877

The N. Y. Egening Post has an article on
the complaints of the authors of rejected
manuscripts, which complaints, it adds,
amount to this, that in the opinion of the
authors of manuscripts which the editors
do not want, those manuscripts are better
than the ones which are accepted, and that
there are many of the unsuccessful writers
who need the money which their writings
would bring them if they were accepted.
The Post continues:


:" In both of its heads this complaint is,
OF course, ridiculous, because in both it
overlooks the most important fact con-
nectedwith literary work-the fact, namely,
that whatever degree Of sentiment there
may be in the minds of writers with re.
spect to their work, the sale and publica-
ton of literary wares is as strictly com.
mercial matter as the sale of soap is.
Every competent magazine editor knows
whether or not an article is likely to help
the sale Of his magazine, and he governs
himself accordingly in every case. To sup.
pose that he is guided by any other rule is
to suppose that he is fool. He cannot
buy articles merely because their authors
need the money, any more than he can 90
about buying dry goods which he does not
need, merely because their owners wish to
sell them. This matter ought to be plainly
understood by the persons who now mis-.
undapSfopd ~ 10 Al o,r,, cou,,z,.. M
ought to learn that if they can write what
the public wants to read there will be a
market for their wares, while if they cannot
do this, however excellent their literary
productions may be, they would do better
to abandon the business for which they are
unfit, and seek work Of some other kind.
No man can afford to publish newspaper
or magazine for the fun of the thing,
and no publisher of newspaper or magazine
can afford to purchase any manuscript
which he does not want.


"The mistake in this case is the same
as that which is made in many others.
The persons who complain persistently re-
gard their cases as isolated or nearly
isolated ones, which might be dealt with
by little generosity. In fact, however
every magazine editor picks the articles
which he uses out of five or six or ten
times their number, and if every article
sent to him was thoroughly good he must
nevertheless return the greater part Of
them, simply for want of space in which to
print them.''
Year: 1877

The New York Journal Of Commerce says
that two of the largest silk mills in Patter-
son, New Jersey, have received an order
from Paris for the manufacture of certain
description of silk goods. This is probably
the first order received from Europe for
American silks, and comes from the nation
which, having made a speciality of the
manufacture, stands in the first rank as a
producer of manufactured silks.
Year: 1877

Cooking classes have been popular
among fashionable young ladies of late
years. But there is no cooking class quite
equals in its opportunity for excellent in
formation that which you may find at home.
Presuming that l am talking to girl who
has just left school, advise you to make
use of your leisure in taking lessons from
your mother. There is an absolute splendid
feeling of independence in knowing how to
make perfectly light, sweet, substantial
bread. Then try your hand at biscuits,
mullins, corn bread, toast, and all the
different forms into which breadstuffs may
be blended. Toast seems a simple thing
enough, but it is so i'll made that it does
not deserve the name. Cruel, necessity
of the sick room, is often hopeless mys-
terry to women who have the vagrant idea
of how it is evolved from the raw material.
Alter you have mastered the bread ques.
ton, try meats and vegetables. Any
bright girl who can comprehend an equa.
ton, or formulate a syllogism, can over
come the difficulties which beset her when
learning to cook. Lucent syrups, golden
cake, delicately Drowned bread, quivering
jellies, melting creams, and the whole set
of material things glorifed, because made
for loves sake, and for the good of ones
dear ones are fit expressions for any
woman. The charm of this accomplish.
ment lies in the fact that it imparts to its
owner a gratifying sense of power; il
bestows on her, too, the power of blessing
and resting Of those she loves best.
Wherever the cook goes she takes her
welcome along. One may tire of the
sweetest singing, of the loveliest poetry, oi
the finest painting, of the most witty con.
versation, but of good cooking never. Yet
l would be sorry to have you be contented
to be only cook, only a domestic
machine. That is not my meaning or in
tention. BE artist, poet, inventor, and vel
bred women; be the most and best that
you can, and add, as matter of course
ability to keep house we'll and ia do all
that good housekeeping includes.--,S. s
Times.
Year: 1877

CHINESE COMMUNICATIONS who dine
with the Chinese are surprised at the per.
fection to which they have carried their
cooking. During a recent Chinese banquet
at San Francisco an orange was laid at the
plate OF each guest. The orange itself
seemed like any other orange, but on being
cut open was found to contain within the
rind five kinds of delicate jellies. One was
at first puzzled to explain how the jellies
got in, and giving up that chain of reHec.
ton, was in worse quandary TO know how
the pulpy part Of the orange was cut out
Colored eggs were also served, in the inside
OF which were found nuts, jellies, meats
and confectionery. When one of the
Americans present asked the interpreter tc
explain this legerdemain Of cookery, he ex
panded his mouth in a hearty laugh, and
shook his head and said, Mclean man
heap smart, why he not findee OUT
Year: 1877

The Richmond (Va.) Wig tells of a sad
case of a reverse of fortune to young lady
Of that city, who was worth 100000 year
ago, but married a man who squandered
her property and has left her and gone to
Europe. She is now penniless, peddling
small articles in the streets for livelihood,
and is not yet eighteen years of age.
Year: 1877

Cape May has its romance. A married
woman living in one of the cottages near
the Stockton House being aggrieved at
something in her husbands conduct, at
tempted to commit suicide the other morn.
ing by drowing in the surf. She was
rescued by gentleman who suspected her
purpose.