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Year: 1877

An affecting deathbed scene occurred
in Oakland. says the San Francisco


Chronicle. A young man, George
Edward Murray, who died from the
effects of an accident, which was reported
in tho Chronicle, had been engaged to
marry n young lady living at the same
same hotel with him; two weeks before
the fatal accident the lovers had dis
agreement about some trifing matter,
and Mr. Murray released her from her
engagement. Although exceedingly
nettled, her love for him had not
diminished, yet she encouraged the at
tentions OF rival suitor, worthy young
man of Berkeley, who pushed his suit
and engaged the young lady to marry
him, the wedding being arranged to take
place on the day of the accident to her
old suitor. That morning, just as the
expectant bride began to robe herself for
the altar, her former lover was brought
into the house in a dying condition.
The moment she heard of it she rushed
to the bedside of the dying man, and,
with eyes streaming with tears and voice
tremulous with emotion, she brushed
aside physicians and attendants, and
clasping her arms about the neck of her
former sweetheart, pressed his pale lips
to her own and kissed him repeatedly,
all the while calling him by his first
name in tones the most tender and
pathetic. A faint smile of recognition
passed over the pale face of the wounded
man and the lovers parted forever, she
to finish her dressing for the altar and
he to suffer for few hours before pass
ing over the river of death. At this
time the physicians had not completed
their examination so as to ascertain the
extent and fatal character of Murray's
injuries; but soon afterward, as DR..
Foulkes was leaving the house, he saw
the gay bridal party in the parlor and
remarked: Ladies, enjoy yourselves
and be gay as BELTS bridal party, but
you are going to have wedding and
funeral from the house almost at the
same time" And it was even SO.
Year: 1877

The Anaheim (Cal.) GogcHe says: 1t


may not be generally known that shark


catching is one of the industries of Ana


helm Landing. For about four months


every year the business is carried on Wig


orously, and proves quite lucrative,


there being no lack of fish on which to
operate and the oil finding ready sale.


Mr.. Ramage informs lis that the shark
catching season has just commenced, and
that the fish are swimming into the
sloughs and creeks at the landing. In
one day one man caught fifteen. Large
stakes are driven into the sand at inter-
walls along the beach. 10 these stakes is
tied one end of a long rope; on the other
end is n strong iron hook, baited with
fish. This is thrown into the water, and
when tempted by the bait the shark is
caught on the hook, drawn upon the
shore and killed. There is sometimes u
very exciting struggle during the latter
operation. The sharks are generally
from six to seven teet in length, and
weigh about $50 pounds. OF course
fish of this size is possessed of consider
able strength, and it is not often that
one man can manage the caught mon
ster. At such times assistance is in
voked, and it occasionally requires the
united strength of three OF four men to
place the victim on terra trina. Three
kinds of shark are caught at the landing
The leopard shark $50 named because of
its spotted appearance) and the flat
shark are worthless, except for their
fins, which are sold to Cinnamon. The
make delicious soup from
shark fins, and it is also said that they
make excellent combs from the same ma
terial. Each oil yielding shark yields
about two gallons of oil, which is sold at
retail at fifty cents gallon and makes
an excellent sheep wash.
Year: 1877

A Kentucky pig has suddenly develop
ed genius for gymnastics and engineer
ing which eclipse the proudest previous
achievements of his race. This eminent
pig was recently placed by his owner in
pasture surrounded by high wall,
and ornamented by elm-trees festooned
with wild grape-vines. The walls, how
ever, could not contine his bold and
vagrant spirit Selecting tree standing
near the western wall of the pasture,
he carefully bit loose the lower end of a
stout grape vine, which was attached by
its tendrils to limb ON tree, and tax
ing this improvised rope in his mouth,
swung himself in the air until he had
gathered an impetus which sent him
entirely over the wall, and landed him
in the next field. Though often recap
tured, he has constantly repeated this
extraordinary feat, and his intelligent
owner, instead of cutting down his elm
trees to restrain his pigs wandering pro
pensity, has decided to educate him for
the trapeze business.
Year: 1877

An unusual number of trusted men


have been found guilty recently of fraud,


writes New York correspondent. Some


have had years of experience, and were


supposed to be thoroughly tried. These


men represent all classes, and have filled


all positions. Years seem to give no


guarantee that man can be trusted to-


day. Church relations, church offices,


and church professions and high posi-
tions amount to nothing. Some of the
saddest falls have occurred with men


who have enjoyed years OF repute.


These reverses of character come sud-
denly. Yet i'll many cases the develop
ments show that the honesty was only
seeming, and that the men wore garb
of piety only to accomplish base ends.
Men do not leap from the high tower on
probity to the gulf of infamy at a bound.
The descent is gradual and the steps no
less real, because invisible. was talk
ing to-day with church official who was
associated with a gentleman who has
just now covered his family, and his
church with the pail of shame. He
said "To the outside world this event
is sudden and astounding. This man
has stood very high in the community.
He has been leader in our church for
fifteen years. The pastor did nothing
without consulting him. In the absence
of the pastor he took control of the
prayer meetings. He was treasurer of
all our boards, and was ruling spirit
everywhere. 1t was so up to the hour
of his exposure. Yet many of us felt
fora long while thai all was not right.
He had two bad failures. If it had been
any one else, fraud would have been
charged. He sold out an institution of
which he was president, which was an
extraordinary thing but as the gentle
man lost his Office and $4,000 salary by
so doing, it was supposed to be all right.
We did not know then that he received q
bonus of $50, 900 for the transfer Two
years ago myself and several prominent
men in the church refused to contribute
to the church funds as long as this
money unaccounted went through the
hands of this gentleman. The world
now knows what we have long feared"
Year: 1877

A great deal of discomfort arises from
over-sensitiveness about what people
may say of you or your actions. This
requires to lie blunted. Consider
whether anything you do will have much
connection with what they will say.
And, besides, it may be doubted wheth-
er they will say anything at all about
you. Many unhappy. persons seem to
imagine that they are always in an am
phitheater with the assembled world as
spectators whereas all the while they
are playing to empty seats. They fancy,
too, they form the particular theme of
every passer-by. If, however, they
must listen to imaginary conversation
about themselves, they might, at any
rate, defy the proverb, and insist upon
hearing themselves well spoken of.
Year: 1877

4 few weeks before his death, Vice
President Wilson was dining at the same
table with well known bishop of the
Protestant Episcopal church, who raised
the question as to the degeneracy of our
public men with each generation of the
republic. Mr.. Wilson spoke at some
length from his own long experience of
public life, comparing the many Con-
crosses of which he had been member,
and showing how rapidly and decidedly
the moral character of their membership
had risen during the recent decades of
our history. Especially have drunken
ness, profanity and icentiousness de-
creased among public men. The heroes
of forty and fifty years back, whose lives
are the theme even of our Sunday school
books, and whose characters are con-
tinually held up to the admiration and
imitation of our young people, were al
most to man persons whose morals
would not now bear inspection. And
even the confusions and disturbances
which occur in the halls of Congress,
though sufficiently numerous and undig-
nified, are as nothing to the disgraeefu
rows which once took place there.
Year: 1877

Nc man ever prospered in the world
without the cooperation OF his wife. If
she unites in mutual endeavors, or re
wards his labors with an endearing smile,
with what confidence will he resort to
his occupation, meet difficulty end en-
counter danger, if he knows that he is
not spending his strength in vain but
that his labor will be rewarded by the
sweets of home Solicitude and disap-
pointment enter the history of every
mans life, and he is but half provided
for his voyage who finds but an associate
for his happy hours, while for his months
of darkness and. distress no sympathiz-
ing partner is prepared.
Year: 1877

Sickcning tNctdcnt Of the M0uhSHsh


AIend0w Massacre.


Lees behavior on the scene of the
massacre and his subsequent demeanor
while lying under sentence of death viv-
idly illustrate two phases in the life Of
an inveterate Mormon. EveythiAg goes
to show that Lee, who led the first as
sault of the Indians upon the immigrants,
acted under the profound belief that he
was serving the church and pleasing its
prophet. Nothing in history is more inn
pressive than the desperate determine
ton of Lee, after he Ind once imbued
his hands in the blood of the immigrants,
to finish them up 50 thoroughly that no
trace of their fate should ever pass out
into the world. His determination to
kill, kill, kill, outran the ferocity OF his
superiors and interiors alike. One ghast-
ly incident of the massacre will illus
trate the cruel pertinacity of the man.
In the midst of the last mclee two beau
tiful young girls escaped together from
the camp of the immigrants and concealed
themselves in neighboring thicket. An
Indian chief discovered their. refuge and
sought them in it. At the same moment
an Indian boy attached to John ID. Lees
person discovered the whereabouts of the
girls and the curiosity of the chief and
ran to Lee and informed him. Lee turn
ed at once and fastened to the thicket.
There he found the trembling fugitives
and confronted the chief, who asked him
what he was going to do with them.


Lee responded "They are too old
to live."


The Indian answered "They are too
pretty to kill.


At this iuncture the eldest of the two
girls threw herself on Lees breast, and
wound her arms about his neck and said
''Oh, sir, for Gods sake, for your moth
er's, for your wife's, for your sisters
sake, please let lis live! Don't kill us
I can't bear to die. Oh, sir, I'm too
young to be put to death so cruelty! If
you will let me live 1 promise to be
your faithful servant to tend upon you,
to see to all your wants, to be everything
you could wish poor girl to be, all your
life long. And poor Ella, sir, she is
younger than I. For the love of the
Savior, don't let the Indian do her harm.
Please, sir, as you hope to rest beyond
the grave, let us have our lives p


Tho Indian, not understanding word
that was said, again asked Lee: "What
shall we do with them ?" According to
the testimony of the Indian boy who
stood near, Lee said, not to the Indian
but to the wretched girl whose arms
were Locked around his neck: cit is
beyond F5y power to save you. I am
acting under ORDERS"


At thi. Che girl who stood apart, named
Ella, drew her sun bonnet down over
her eyes. The Indian chief, overawed |
by Lees authority, took humane and
certain aim, and shot her directly
through the forehead. She dropped to
the ground without moan. At the
same moment Lee, lntwisting from his |
neck the arms of his own victim, drew
her head back across his breast and cut |
her throat from car to ear with his hunt
ing knife. Even the Indian turned in
disgust from this callous butchery-a
butchery, however, which Lee persisted
to his death in regarding as a part of his
duty as Latter Day Saint.
Year: 1877

Men know how thunder and lightning
come from the clouds in summer, and
they want to thunder and Lightning
sometimes themselves; but it is better
that the contents of the clouds should
drop down in gentle rains, and make
something grow, than that there should
be flashing and resounding in the
heaven, and that the oak should be
crushed to pieces which has been grow
ing a hundred years; and it is better,
not that men should produce a great
racket in the world, and work destruc-
ton round about them, but that they
should create happiness among their fel-
low-men.
Year: 1877

When passing southwark, may cross the line
Between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans,
may net tell-by any test OF mine,
by any starting signs or strange connections


Across my track
But IL the days grow sweoter one by one
And con tho icobergs melt their hardened


faces
And sailors linger basking in the sun,
know ! must have made the change of


places


Some distance back
When, answering timidly the Masters call,
Ipassed the bourne of life in coming to him;
When in my love for him gave mp all
Tho very moment when | thought l knew


him,


cannot tell
But as increasingly feel his love-
As this cold heart is melted to oerhowing-
Asnow SO dear the light comes from above,
wonder at the change and move On, know


ing


That all is well.
Year: 1877

A well dressed gentleman, wearing a
brown mustache, kid gloves, a shiny
silk hat, and cane with a silver head,
amused himself catching mouse in the
gutter at Fayette and Eutaw streets,
Baltimore, recently, while waiting for
Fayette street car. He labored for some
time with gloves and cane, and finally
brought forth the ridiculous mouse, and
then he ran, holding it by the tail, into
the street car. The car was partly filled
with ladies, who at the sight of the mouse
went off into dainty little screams habit
ual to them when they see a big bug OF
little mouse.


Shrinking forms quailed before the
blushing mouser as he passed through
the car to his place, looking red and hot
from exercise. He at first hid the cap
tive in his glove, and then put it in his
coat pocket.


In short while he exclaimed:


ooh, it's gone '' and looked about
the floor as though searching there for it.


The ladies screamed, in gentle chorus:
ooh, myp' and raised their feet and
made general stir. A boy, however,
soon allayed the feminine fears by find
ing the mouse in the tail of the gentle
mans coat, where it had retreated
through hole i'll the pocket lining.
The mouse was again brought forth in
triumph by the tail.


The victor said he had caught it for
his dog, and finally, to make sure of it,
placed it in his hat, where for the rest of
the ride it enjoyed the exercise of skim
ming over the surface of bald head,
which was as smooth as a billiard ball.
It was not the least amusing feature of
the incident to observe how q young
bald-headed man carries mouse in his
hot
Year: 1877

When Boxer was our resident minis
ter in Constantinople Ignatieff called
upon him and said that he had honored
him and the United States with the first
official visit, although a little while be-
fore Boxer had seen the general enter
the British embassy. The American
knew the Russians peculiarly so well
that having heard one day that the lat
ter had so bad cold that he had lost his
voice completely, remarked d" If that is
80, the recording angel will enjoy a re-
spite"
Year: 1877

Many animals enjoy music. The fond
ness of the camel for music is well at
tested fact, and when the Arabs wish to
get extra work out of these animals, they
play upon some favorite instrument
bright and cheerful airs. Blows are of
no avail, but music spurs the animal to
exertion. A spur for the horse, but
music for the camel, say the Arabs.
Year: 1877




In the first place, begin swine raising
by procuring good, well-breeding ami
mails of sound health and great constitu-
ional vigor, and then endeavor to main-
tain all that vigor. To do this avoid the
pernicious practice of breeding "in-and-
in, using none but thoroughbred males,
even if your females are mongrel or grade
animals, and do not crowd your sows into
having two or three litters of pigs an
nual!y. A young SOW, under two years
old, ought never to have more than one
litter of pigs year. After that age she
may, for general feeding purposes, be
bred to farrow in spring and autumn,
but her progeny in this last case will not
be as good for breeding purposes as if
bred to farrow only in April or May.
When sows are in pig, let them be pro-
vided for in manner to keep them in
good thriving order, but do not allow
them to get too fat. Give them the
range of n good roomy pasture, with
plenty of blue grass or clover and shell
ter, either natural or artificial, to which
they may have ready access whenever
they desire it. Let them have plenty O.
pure, clean water, both for drinking and
bathing. Warm, dry, clean bedding is
of course essential in the cold weather;
and never permit them to make bed in
old rotten straw or manure of any kind,
as such foul bedding doubtless promotes
mango, cough, and perhaps many other
diseases. In winter let the want of grass
and other vegetable diet be made up, as
far as practicable, by liberal allowances of
cabbage leaves, boiled potatoes or turnips.
or, better yet, generous supply of arti-
chokes. Give them, twice week,
mixture of salt, wood ashes, sulphur and
charcoal. A SOW in breeding must not
have as much corn, or fat-producing
food, as if it were the object to fat her,
but more food containing the phosphates,
or bone-producing food. This demand
of nature is evinced by the greedy man
ner in which sows in such conditions
will devour old bones.-G. W. Whitcsidc
in Rural World.


Value Of Cattle Foods.


There is an enormous difference in the
values of the cattle foods used in this
country, both for fattening and for labor
sustentation. The difference is mainly
due to the varying amounts of water and
nitrogenous substances they contain.
Take the difference in the manurial value
for illustration, between two kinds of oil
producing seeds, Inseed and cotton seed,
after the expression of the oil. The
worth of the manure from ton of lin
seed cake is about $17.50 in the New
England markets; that from ton of cot
ton seed cake is worth nearly $24. This
value is based upon it's use when fed to
fattening animals. If fed to working
oxen and mich cows, it falls to about
half this value The amount of labor
and milk obtained will be in proportion
to the manurial value of the experiment.
All foods that hold large amount of
water, like roots, potatoes, apples, etc,
have comparatively small value as fat
tening or working foods. The percentage
of nitrogenous and phosphate substan-
ces is so small that large quantities must
be consumed to produce desirable re-
suits. The percentage of water in sew
eral of our most ordinary foods is as fol-
lows:


Per cent.
Meadow and clover hay. .14.3 to 16
Straw 3 to 16
Year: 1877

SitptlC lOOtiS SllOtlll 10 SeleCtcV Will
reference to the ends desired in their
use, and the relative cost of the same.
Foods for work, for milk, for fatteping,
should be better understood among
farmers. The time will come when
science will be applied to the use of cat
tie foods, and it will be of immense SER
vice to the cattle industry of the coun-
observation-disclosures POughm0n.


Household Recipes.


SUBSTITUTE FOR STRONG DRINK. Five
drachms sulphate of iron. eleven
drachms peppermint water, one drachm
Jamaica ginger; tablespoonful night and
morning.


To REMOVE SPors OF PAINT.-Rub the
paint with spirits of tlrpentine; if dry,
drop the turpentine on the paint, and
let it lie; rub the spot, and if not re-
moved, repeat the process. Pitch OF tar
may be removed in the same manner.


A USEFUL HINr.-To keep an iron
from sticking to starched clothes, scour
the iron off on some sand placed on Il
board, and then rub piece of coarse, ,yel-
low wax, placed i'll cloth, over the face
of the iron. Wipe off well before putting
on the clothes.


To REMOVE INK Spots. Place the
muslin where the sun will shine brightly
on it; sprinkle the ink spot thickly with
common table salt, then keep the salt
very wet with lemon juice. If the ink
spots have been on very long time it
may be necessary to keep the muslin in
the sun all day, wetting the salt quite
often with the lemon juice.


WASHING SUeGEsrIoNs.-The quickest
and most thorough way of having a
weeks wash for six or eight persons
done: Do not boil the clothes; use two
of powdered borax to
every tubful OF clothes; have the water
hot; after one rubbing, let them soak for
q short time in tub of clean boiling
water containing borax; use very little
soap; rinse in one clear water. Washing
can be done quicker and better II the
clothes are put to soak over night in
borax water, not soaped.


PIMpLEs. requires self-denial to
get rid of face pimples, for persons
troubled with them will persist in eating
fat meats and other articles of food cal
culated to produce them. The use OF
gravies or pastry, or anything very rich
Or greasy, must be avoided. Outdoor
exercise must be taken, and a late sup
per never indulged in. Sulphur to
purify the blood may be taken three
times n week-a thimbleful in a glass of
milk before breakfast. 1t takes some
lime for the sulphur to do its work.
Year: 1877

An ingenious use of carrier pig
icons is on record. They were en-
Iployed in Belgium to smuggle tobac-
co into France. Each bird carried
from ten to fifteen grammes of the
weed and two dozen pigeons per day
we're regularly despatched. How
long the new industry had been IS
tablished is not stated; but one day
it came to grief. A bird was too
heavily loaded, and he dropped with
his burden, exhausted, into the Seine.
A police inquiry resulted, and the
whole business was exposed. r's -


j On the night of Sept. 29, after
considerable opposition on the part
of the military officers in charge of
the Fort Yuma reservation, the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
laid their tracks in the Territory Of
Arizona. On the following day a
train was run over the newly-built
track, and for the first time the whis-
tie of a locomotive sounded in Ari-
Zona.


Electricity has been applied to a
novel use in the East Indies. A
platinum wire, connected with the
poles of battery, is stretched
around tree, and becoming red hot,
is gently see-sawed. until it burns its
way through. 1t is thought that a
tree can be cut down without any
waste of timber IN about fifteen min
utes. that would require two hours
to fell in the ordinary way.


A woman was dragging her trail
ingskirt out of a Memphis] theatre.
A man stepped on and tore the
expensive fabric. She did not turn
and smile sweetly when he begged
her pardon. She struck him sting
ing blow in the face, and said, "take
that, you awkward loafer ~
Year: 1877

A recent writer says: After long
observation | have come to the con-
sion that great majority of the farmers
that are poor might have made money
If you inquire into their business habits
you will always find that they always
sold the best and kept the poorest. Fer
instance, if they have too many sheep
on hand, they pick out the best to be
sold. If you ask them why they do so,
they will say, Because they bring twice
as much as the others, and l am hard up
Just now for morey. l know that it is
not good plan, and do not intend te
follow it always [ think the habit of
selling the best is a very poor plan for
any man, I don't care what his circum-
stances may be. | have a man in my
mind now who always sells his poorest
sheep for more than twice as much as
the average farmer gets for his best. l
have seen farmers in the fall pick out
their best pigs TO fatten, because they
would make few more pounds of pork
than the others. This / call very poor
economy.