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Year: 1878

Many people have settled into the re-
Isious conviction that any pulpit is enti


tied to the very best brains in the land,
whether it can pay for them or not In
other words, that the minister whose ser
vices are of value should ignore the
church which pays a large salary and
choose the one which pays little or moth
iDg-that the spirit OF the gospel requires
it, This is a grave mistake. Ii minis
ter by hard study and discipline through
years OF self denial, brings himself at last
where his brains are worth five thousand
dollars a year to the church, what law Of
not have the reward OF merit? The plea
that weak societies need such men will
hold Just as good with the poor farmer
who wants modern reaper. Rich and
powerful societies need just as much, and
ordinarily great deal more. The bust


ness of the minister is to save souls. If
he is true TO his calling other things
equal, he can more reach souls with a
liberal salary than a scanty one, for he
can touch them through benevolent en-
terprises; he can feed them at his table;
he can provide himself with books and
periodicals and other appliances for work,
and if he has something to pay another
for doing the ordinary home duties which
must otherwise fail upon himself, thus
consuming and dividing his time, he can
be q more efficient servant than other
wise. II is true, moreover, that our lib.
eral paying churches are all in the large
Year: 1878

Our Paris Exposition correspondent
met with a serious mishap this morning
While descending the stairs leading to
our press room, he slipped and fell,
spraining his right wrist. As we can t
spare time to act as mis- amanuensis, his
Paris correspondence will not appear for
a few weeks
Year: 1878

4 Coon ONE--The well known Baptist
pastor at --- was out grabbing one day
with a PedObaptist friend, and a crab got
so firm hold on the hand of the former
gentleman that he had to call for help
from his friend The latter gentleman
gave instant heed to the call, and by way
of consoling his afflicted Baptist brother
said: Take it kindly as possible; its
only the hand of fellowship from hard
shell BaptistI'
Year: 1878

You can always tell boy whose
mother cuts his hair. Not because the
edges of it look like they had been
che~ed Off by an absent minded horse,


but you tell i, 10y the way he s'ops on
the street and wriggles his shoulders.


When a fond mother bns to cut her
boys hair she is careful to. avoid any


annoyance ana muss by laying y sheet
down on tie carpet. II has never yet
occurred to her to sit TIE boy over a
bare floor. and put the sheet around his
neck. then she draws the front hair
ever his eyes, and leaves it there while
SIZE cuts that which is at the back. Tue
hair which lays over his eyes appears to
that which is silently dropping down


his shirt band appears to be or fire.


She has uncoDsciously continued to
press his head forward until his nose
presses his breast, and is too busily
engaged 10 nOiice tue SpuiulHS SOuGu
which is becoming alarminsiy frequent.
In the meantime he is seZe,. with an
irresistible desire to blow his nose. but
recollects that bis handkerchief is in
another room. Then fly lights on his
nose. and does it SO unexpectedly, that
he involuntariiy lodges, ard cntcht S
The point of the shears in his left ear.
At this time he commences to CRY, and
wishes he was man. But Ills mother
doesn't notice him. She merely hits
him on the other ear to inspire him
with confidence; and gees on with the
work. When she is through she holds
his Jacket collar back from his neck,
and with her mouth blows the short
bits of hair from the top of his head
down his back He calls her attention
10 this fact; but she looks for a new
place on his head and hits him there,
and asks him why be didn't use his
handkerchief. Then he takes mis- aw-
fully disfgured head to the mirror. and
young as he is. shudders as be thinks
of what the boys on the street will say.
Year: 1878

An Eastern man locked his wife
into an upper room, and not being
satisfied with this punishment, but
wishing to aggravate her still farther
sent his son up with a bone. The
youth innocently brought it, and
said: Mother, father sent this up,
and says there is bone for you to
pick" The gentle mother replied,
Take it back and tell him l say he
is not yonr father, and there is a
bone for him to pick"
Year: 1878

A man in Sacramento. the other
day, bought suit of new clothes.
and threw away his old ones. After
awhile he remembered that he had
left $1lO in his old clothes, and went
to find them, but was too late.
Year: 1878

COOP WORDS FoR JOHN MORRIS
sEY.-He was not subtle enough to
be capable of drawing o distinction
between betting on horse race and
betting on the rise and fall CT
stocks between betting on the turn
of particular card and betting that
particular man viii rot die, or a
particular house burn down, or a
particular ship get wrecked. If it
be said that the prominence attained
in our politics by man who led
such a life is disgraceful thing,
the disgrace attaches to the com
munity and not to the man. And as
we are afflicted to-day with the pre-
dominance of other men who have
led lives as inconsistent as his with
the developments of the higher
qualities of human character. with
out overcoming as far as he did the
expressing influence of their cir
cumstances. it is. but simply just
to bear this in mind. Friend and
foe at least always knew where to
find him and he never struck below
the belt. He was rough but real
specimen of natural manhood.
Would that the country could say
as much o-day of some better men
in higher places.-N. 7. World.


Apropos of Lord Leitrim's
murder, the London Daily Neirs
remarks: at is curious that al
most all the more violent crimes
which mark Irish society are
perpetrated in districts in which
there is a strong infusion of
English and Scotch blood. Tip
perary, where the soldiers of
Cromwell were settled, has been
the centre and headquarters of
the most brutal outrages. Kerry,
which is almost purely Celtic, is
as peaceful as Kent or Wilt
shire perhaps more so. Ul-
ster, where the Scotch and Eng
llsh settlers abound, is the most
violent and turbulent of the
provinces. The mixture of the
Saxon and Celtic blood seems to
produce a violent and int1am-
mable compound, possessing dan


gerous qualities from which the
separate elements are free
Year: 1878

Put a teaspoonfull Of ammonia in a
quart Of warm soapsuds, dip cloth into
it and go over your soiled pantaloons, and
see how rapidly the dirt viii disappear; no
scrubbing is nescessary. To a pint Of
hot soapsuds add a teaspoonful of the spir-
its, dip in your fork or spoon Cor whatever
you wish to clean), rub with soft brush
and then finish with chamois skin. For
washing windows and mirrors it has no
equal. 1t will remove grease spots from
every fabric without injuring the garment.
Put on the ammonia nearly clear; lay on
blotting paper, and set hot iron on it
for moment. Also few drops in water
viii cleanse and whiten laces and muslin
beautifully. A few drops in bowl Of wa
ter, if the skin be oily, will remove all
uncleanliness and disagreeable odors. Ad-
ded to hot bath, it entirely absorbs all
noxious smell, and nothing is better to re-
move dandruff from the hair For clean
ing nail and hair brushes it is equally
good. For heart burn and dyspepsia,
the aromatic spirits of ammonia is espe-
cially prepared; ten drops taken in wine
glass of water viii give relief. For house
plants, FIVE or six drops to every pint of
water, once week, will make them -four
ish. 1t is also good to clean plant jars.
So be sure and keep bottle of it in the
house, and have glass stopper, as it eats
away cork
Year: 1878

be just as readily published as any other
crimes.


The testimony Of these facts and obser-
vations is that drunkenness is far, very far.
from being so common in southern France
and Italy as it IS in Great Britain, Ire
land, and the United States.


Other visitors may bear other testimo-
ny, but as in a court of justice each wit
ness is required to tell what he knows, so
this is what / have seen,- or is given to the
best of my knowledge and belief.


And is this absence of intoxication
caused by the fact that they drink wine
rather than spirits: fermented instead
of distilled liquors? No. The use Of
wine is the effect, not the cause. They
drink wine because the climate is so mild
that the stimulous of strong drink is not
needed. If they wanted it they could have
it. Brandy costs three times as much in
New York as in France. In the north of
Europe drunkenness prevails as it does in
the United States. In the south Of Eu-
rope it does not
Year: 1878

while stove-pipe hat is certain to bring
down upon it an army of the myrmidons,
to whom their master is, to do him Justice,
kind enough-so kind that after year or
two's work at Welbeck theyrequire to be put
into training before they are fit for another
job. 1t is toward his equals that it pleases
the Duke of Portland, like the old Duke
of Newcastle to insist on his right to do
what he likes with his own. Queer stories
of Harcourt House and Of Welbeck are
muttered with bated breath among the
dukeries of Nottinghamshire; some speak
ing well for the heart, if indiferently for
the head, of the great nobleman who Is
their subject, aud who, according to the
taste of the narrator, figures either as a
baleful wizard or as a benevolent sprite
like Robin Goodfellow.
Year: 1878

his every look and action. But the sail
ors quickly interposed, when he turned
upon them, and fierce struggle eusued.


"Secure him !" cried the skipper, as
soon as the crew had succeeded in over
powering him. "We will keep both 10
irons, and wait further developments.


But though everything was done that
could be to ascertain the cause Of those
strange cries from the sea, the day passed
without solving the mystery, and the su-
perstitious sailors all believed that the
dead had spoken. And their belief was
strengthened, when there was heard, at
different intervals the following night, the
same voice, only more sad and mcurnful,
saying this time:


"Warren Gregg, murderer a mur-
dererl murderer r.


The next morning Gregg called the
captain below, to whom he made full
confession of his crime, saying he had
killed Lewis mistaking him for young
Haywood; and then, upon his bended knees,
the guilty wretch begged for mercy.


The only reply he received was to wait
until be reached port


Gregg's confession, clearing Haywood
Of all guilt, he was freed at once; and part
ly to atone for the injustice he had done
him, the captain gave him the berth Of
first officer.


One morning, few days later, Gregg
was missing; and as no trace Of him could
be found, it was supposed that he must
have got upon the deck during the night,
when, unseen and unheard, he had thrown
himself into the sea. That to escape the
punishment of man he had gone to receive
the judgment of his Maker, with another
crime upon his already blackened soul.


The voice from the sea was not heard
after the murderer's confession; and soon
the superstitious mariners ceased to speak
of it, having solved the mystery to their
satisfaction, by deciding that the dead had
already spoken in vindication Of the char
acter Of the innocent victim.


In the due course of time port was
safely made.


A year later, Frank Haywood and Ma
bel Stanford were united in wedlock, amid
the congratulations Of all their friends.


But the strangest and best part Of it all
was, that among the wedding guests was
Lewis Stanford, the brides brother, who,
instead Of having perished on that night,
as was supposed, had, by the aid of box
which had been thrown overheard among
some other things, managed to keep afoat
till morning, when an outward-bound ship
had picked him up; and after considerable
difficulty he had succeeded in getting home
in season to attend his sisters wedding.


Thus their cup of happiness was full to
overfowing, and in their great JOY the
crimes and misdoings of the evil-minded
mate we're forgiven and forgotten.


Years afterward flock of young Hey
woods would gather round their mother
and ask her to repeat to them the story
of that fearful ordeal Of life, when their
father saved himself from an ignominious
death by his powers ofyentrilOquism which,
unknown to his accusers, he possessed, and
used with such a satisfactory result.
Year: 1878

THE TINE FOR SLEEP-Sleep obtained
two hours before midnight, when the neg
ative forces are in operation, is the rest
which most recuperates the system, giving
brightness to the eye and a glow to the
cheek The difference in the appearance
of person who sits up until twelve, is
quite remarkable. The tone of the sys-
TEN, so evident in the complexion, the
clearness of and sparkle of the eye, and
softness of the lines of features, is in
person of health kept at concert pitch"
by taking regular rest hours before twelve
o'clock, thereby obtaining the "beauty
sleep" of the night. There is a heaviness
of the eye, sallowness of the skin, and
an absence of that glow in the face which
renders it fresh in expression and round
in appearance, that readily distinguishes
the person who keeps late hours.
Year: 1878

How TO PRESERVE IcE.-During i'll
ness ice is generally needed in the sick
room. The following method of preserv-
ing it is highly recommended, aud is
certainly worth trying:-Cut a piece of
flannel about nine inches square, and Sc
cure it by ligature round the mouth Of
an ordinary tumbler, so as to leave cup
shaped depression of flannel within the
tumbler to about half its depth. In the
flannel cup so constructed pieces of ice
may be preserved many hours, all the
longer if piece of flannel from four to
five inches square be used as loose cover
to the ice cup. Cheap flannel, with COM
paratively open meshes, is preferable as
the water easily drains through it, and the
ice is thus kept quite dry. When good
flannel with close texture is employed, a
small hole must be made in the bottom of
the flannel cup, otherwise it holds the
water, and facilitates the melting ice.
Placed in cup of this kind, two ounces
of ice has been known to last for nine OF
ten hours.
Year: 1878

He who IS passionate and hasty is gen.
orally honest. 1t is your old assembling
hypocrite of whom you should beware.
There is no deception in bulldog. 1t
is only the cur that sneaks up and bites
you when your back is turned.
Year: 1878

To DRIVE RATS AwAY.-The floor
near the rat hole is covered with a thin


layer of moist caustic potassa. When the
rats walk on this it makes their feet sore;
these they lick with their tongues, which
makes their mouth sore, and the result is
they shun the locality, not alone, but ap-
pear to tell all the other rats in the neigh
borhOOd about it, and eventually the house
is abandoned entirely by them, notwith-
standing the houses around are full of rats.
Year: 1878

A telegram from Philadelphia says: The
water drank by Philadelphians will not be
so palatable to many to morrow. On Christ
mas day Maggie Lufz, Is years old, left her
parents house apparently for visit to
neighbor's house. She was attlred in a new
print dress. and her hair was neatly arranged
and clasped by ribbon. At night she had
not returned, and the alarmed household
searched for her vainly that night and sue
ceeding days, and her fate until yesterday
afforded food for spectators more or less
CHASTITY and anxious


About IL o'clock this morning two young
men, taking stroll along the walk skirting
the reservoir, saw what they presumed was
dead animal of some sort floating near the
south face of the eastern basin. They in
formed the superintendent, whose little
watch house surmounts the center of the
wall dividing the east and west basins. He
procured a scoop net and made several
lunges at the object until, with more Wig
orous effort, it sank and reappeared with
rebound, disclosing the upturned face of a
young girl, whose form was neatly attired.
With assistance the body was taken out,
and, all dripping removed to the Twenty
second district station house.


The many pedestrians who, in passing, be-
held the policemanis burden, soon spread the
tidings like wildfre. Some of Maggie Lutz' s
relatives visited the station house, Identified
the body as that of the long lost wanderer,
and it was removed to her former home.
Hundreds of people fiocked to the basin yes
terday, and the general inquiry was, in which
basin was she found. Many experienced
mawkish feelings when they reflected that
for two months past they had been drinking
water in which a drowned girl had been
macerating ali the while. Numerous inqui-
ries were made of the superintendent whether
the water would be drawn of, to which he
replied: What run off ten million gallons
of water just for one drowned person? l
guess not. Why, you're drinking this Della
ware water all the time, and that is always
favored with about dozen drowned men,"
In order to accomplish suicide, if such it
was, the girl must have climbed over the
paling fence, nearly six feet high, surround
ing the basin.
Year: 1878

Correspondence of the Boston Advertiserl


When you reach the end of the Nevsky
you should go down on the English quay.
This is the Beacon street of ST. Petersburg.
1t runs along the BANK of the Neva, and
here, on one side, are the English embassy,
the hermitage, the emperor's winter palace,
and the admiralty buildings. Looking at
the Neva, on the other side, you can imagine
you are gazing across some great snow. COW
cred field, with roads marked across it here
and there by evergreen shrubs. Before
people are allowed to cross the ice police
men go upon it in large squads to test
1t. When the river is safely frozen all
the temporary bridges are taken away.
As you drive along the quay l would
advise you to notice what a num-
Der of handsome women you meet,
with their broad fur collars and jaunty
caps, the white fiimsy shawls which they
wrap about their ears showing to advantage
the rosy tint which the fresh air brings out
In their cheeks. The black fox is the costliest
fur which ladies wear, excepting always the
sable, which is not warm enough for the
winter in Russia, Black fox is the same as
the silver fox we get in America; the back
OF the animal is black, the rest of his body is
the silver fur. For gentlemen the elk is the
handsomest, but it Is horribly expensive,
and the bear skin, which is much cheaper
has nearly as good an effect. Now the short
winter day is drawing to close, and before
the night falls and all the St. Petersburg
world goes back to their open fires and their
samovars, you had better muster enough
Russian to tell your driver togo home. There
you will dismiss him FOR the day and pay
him just one r6uble 80 cents)
Year: 1878

1t is better, wrote Thackeray, for you to
pass an evening once or twice a week in a
lady's drawing room, even though the con-
versation is slow, and you know the girls
song by heart, than in Il club or tavern, or
a pit of a theater. All amusements of
youth to which virtuous women are not
admitted, rely on it, are deleterious IN their
nature. All men who avoid female So
ciety have dull perceptions. and are stu
pid, or have gross tastes, and revolt against
what is pure. Your club swaggerers, who
are sucking the butt of billiard cues all
night call female society insipid. Poetry
is uninspiring to a jockey; beauty has no
charms for a blind man; music does not
please poor beast who does not know one
tune from another; but as pure epicure is
scarcely tired OF water sauces and brown
bread and butter, protest l can sit for
whole night talking with a well regulated,
kindly woman about her girl Fanny or her
boy Frank, and like the evenings entertain
ment. One of the great benefits o man may
derive from a woman's society is that he is
bound to be. respectful to her, The habit is
OF great good to your moral men, depend
upon it. Our education makes us the most
eminently selfish men in the world.
Year: 1878

half dozen times while he was writing she
was in his mind. Her face was as clearly
pictured as if it was before him, but nought
of her or her story did he tell Miss Margaret
Carlyle. He couldnot describe to the woman
of fashion and wealth this orphaned daugh-
ter of poor itinerant preacher. He knew
too well her power of ridicule, and there was
a sense of honor about him that made him
shield even a stranger from the keen darts
Of her sarcasm; and in addition there was
feeling. perchance that he scarcely acknowl-
edged himself, that this girl member of his
church might not please his betrothed wife.


ITO be Continued
Year: 1878

subcommittee Of tho Advisory Art Committee for
the PARIS Exposition now engaged IN preparing
report OF the work OF the committee in getting TO-
gether the American arr displny, which will include


list OF the paintings which nave boon soIscteu. This
report will be pubic soon II Is ready. The
nn1i meeting OF the committee takes place Friday
Year: 1878

Rev. Mr.. McCracken. of Grenada, Miss. in the
course of address delivered ut st. Marks Church
last evening related the bitter experiences he had
dergone during the pestilence of last People
in the North he said had but faint idea of the terri
BILE sufferings of their southern brethren. In the
preachers little parish first the members of the choir
then the organist and finally onehalf of the congre-
CATION and children of the Sunday school lost.
It became impossible at last to hold services. No
church bell could be rung the people sick
around. and sunday in the Court House. the
next week in the rooms of the Howard Associa-
ton people prayed to God to deliver them
from the plague. Finally Sunday when
there was not even time to hold services
as the sick and dying required preachers constant
tenton and the fearful fact that three out Of every
four whites died, made the despair.
Many children died and buried without the
knowledge Of the sick parents. the shock would
have fastened DEATH In family the reverend gem
teman had three sisters buried day after
other. The fourth and last. he had hoped. would
survive. but morning when returning from "a
ncighboring place he met hearse with the body of
this last daughter. making four funeral services in
one family within six days. There we're not windows
enough in the church to have memorials for all the
members who perished
Year: 1878

Alfred NJ Cox, the proprietor of drug store at No.
ll23 Broad street Newark with three OF his friends
hired coach yesterday morning at the livery stable
of William II. Miles. situated at No. Isl West Nine
teenth street. They drank pretty freely, and last
evening called their way home at the drinking
saloon known as the Evergreen" situated on Four
teenth street. Sixth and directly opposite
the Lyceum Theatre. Mr.. Cox being intoxicated was
left in the coach while his three friends repaired
10 the saloon. ON coming out they found that the
coach had been driven of and concluding that their
friend had got tired waiting. and or
dered the coachman to drive home. they
proceeded on their way to the Paisley House
at Twenty street and Sixth where they
were all stopping temporarily. When they reached
Twenty sixth street they met the coach com
ing in the opposite direction. and were
informed by the driver that he had come
To meet them. They all got into the vehicle
and ON arriving at the hotel of the party noticed
that Mr.. Cox's watch and chain were missing.
policeman was called and the conveyance driven
to the Twenty ninth precinct. where the driver
George Corcoran. who gave his residence IA No 2&i
West Thirtieth street. searched and solid gold
watch and chain found in his possession. which was
identified the property of Mr. Cox. The driver
wu locked