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Year: 1874

LETTER To BoYs AND GIRLs.-I am
going to ask you, Young folks, il any OF


you ever have kept a diary, or a journal


OF passing events connectedS with your


self or your family affairs You would


find 1t very usefuL 1 have done so for


seventeen years, and never missed a


day-which fact, shows q methodical


mind at least. And it is a good thing
to cultivate a methodical mind, let me


tell you. The practice OF keeping q


journal has been of great service to me,


as it would be to you. Get printed
diary with blank leaves, and under the
days OF the week write whatever hap
pens to you during the day, what the
weather may be also, any important
public event; and again, if you have
room, put down your good and bad
actions-which will be apt to keep you
IN good behavior, for, if you are truth
ful and omit nothing, you will feel
ashamed OF your wrong doings, and
strive to do better, when you see them
every day in black and white. And
then, as to the weather and passing
events, you will find it very interesting
to refer to these entries in after days or
years, and perhaps many of them may
be OF great importance to you, should
You wish to recall the date..o some
event in your family. In another part
of this blank book or diary you will lind
cash account where you can enter all
your eSpenditures-that is, the money
You spend every day, and also what you
may receive from your parents or
friends. AT the end of every month
You can add them up, and you will thus
know at the end of the year whether
you have been economical or extraYa-
giant. Now, / want you to ask your
parents or friends if this wonld not be
a very good plan for you to carry out {?
Suppose you ask them to procure you
the blank books, and commence, say,
next week; or should you prefer 1t,
begin on the first. day OF the New Year,
1S74.-R.,'al Ne,0 Vorkel.. -'n''.''' ~
Year: 1874

b WHERE does the salt on our dinner
tables come from? In the first place
two very strange things were Joined
together to make it a siivery metal
called sodium, and poisonous yellow
ish gas called chlorine. This queer
metal will swim on the surface of water,
in little dancing globules, which soon
take fire and vanish in blue flame ) but
no sooner is it breathed upon by the
poisonous gas, than both vanish, and
leave in their place the little crystals of
salt. without WHICH life could not be
sustained.


Salt is found IN immense quantities
in the mines of Poland, Norway and
Spain, where it is quarried like coal,
and is quite pure but a great deal is
found mixed with sy and sand, and
has to be purified by dissolying it and
then incorporating the water. In Germany,
and in our own country, are many valu-
able salt springs, which hold the salt in
solution and lakes around which the
salt constantly forms in solid blocks.
These solid crystals must be ground
fine before they are e. for table use.


Trees and plants need salt as well as
human beings but there are great salt
plains, where nothing can grow, like
the great region in South America, con
tanning more than twenty thousand
square miles and another in the heart
of Persia, covered with glittering crys-
tails of salt, and which have been thought
to be the beds of great oceans, whose
waters have been d1Gined away by vol
canOas
Year: 1874

4 young lady, st Trackee, California, who wished to get over sir feet of soft snow in or der to reach A passenger train. had sheet made into sack, entArsd the sack and slid down hill, just as easy as rolling Of log
Year: 1874

While all intelligent Arizonans hope tha Congress will enable Cot Scott to build southern Pacific railroad, many Of them .Sa that Congress will not grant such aid anG concessions as he demands.
Year: 1874

Ihave heard an amusing account OF
the failure of recent attempt to estab-
lish Confederate Home" In London
five families, possessing small incomes,
united in the establishment Of a common
home. A large house in the Bloomsbury
region was taken for the purpose, and
the arrangements for the regulation of
the household were made with the ut
most care and precision. There was to
be dining-room in which all the meals
of the household were to be taken, and
each family had a set of rooms, which
il was to furnish and arrange as suited
its own convenience. There was to be
one cook for the whole household, and a
couple of servants to do the other work.
The experiment was commenced, and
for the first day or two matters went
we'll enough. Before week had passed,
it became evident that to govern con.
federate home would be- nearly as diff
cult as to manage an Irish Parliament


The five families could never agree as to
what they should eat and drink. The
dinner, especially, was standing sub
ject of dispute, and the consequence was
that the kitchen became scene of con.
slant wrangling, between the unf0rtd.
nate cook and her five mistresses. The
other servants found IL impossible to
meet the commands of their mistresses


Five bells would frequently be ringing
at the same time, and one family would
complain that they were being neglected


and that another was receiving undue
attention. Then the children of the dif
ferent families would quarrel. OF course


each mamma was sure that her darling,
were not the cause of the disturbance


In short, before a few weeks had passed


the confederate home became what the
party who told me the story called 9
confederate discord," and had to bt
broken up.-London Cor. liverpool Post
Year: 1874

The voice and the Peak,


Far over summit and lawn,


Lne ione Pow and long roar
sGrsen rushing nom the rosy thrones Of dawn.
All night have heard the voice
lkaveover the rocky bar,
But thou vert slent IN heaven,


Above thee gilded the star.
Hast thou no voice, o Peak. t@
That standest high above aflf


am the voice Of the Peak
roar and rave, for fall.


A thousand voices 20
To north, south, east and west
They leave the heights and are troubled,
And moan and Enk to their rest.
The fields are fair beside them,
The CHESTNUT towers In his bloom,
But they they feel the desire Of the deep
Fall, and follow their doom.
The deep has power on the height,
And the height has power on the deep,
They are raised forever and ever,
And sink again into sleep"
Not raised forever aud ever,
Bnt when their cycle 10 DER,
The valley, the voice the peak, the star
Pass, and are found no more.
Ine feak rs high ana nush'd
At his highest with sunrise FIRE;
The Peak is high, and the stars are hign,
And tho thought Of man higher.
A voice below the voice,
And height beyond the height!
Our hearing Y not hearing,
And our seeing Is not sight.
The voice and the Peat
Far into heaven withdrawn,
The long glow aud the long roar
Green rushing from the rosy thrones OF dawn.
Year: 1874

The wife of Hudson IN. W grocer
sold her husbands old pantaloons to q
peddler the other day, and learned when
she informed her husband of her bar
gain" that the ipantaloons contained a
wallet in which were notes to the amount
of 81 800, and other valuable papers.
Fortunately the peddler was an honest
fellow, and the valuables were recovered.
Year: 1874

What shall say to you? Ny tongue and
pen are dumb and powerless, but must
force my aching heart to protest against
your cruelty. do not willingly chide.
! suffer most when | discover to you my
feelings. DO YOU not know that you are
fulfilling your threat that Il shall no
longer bc considered the saint Ny life
is before you. have aspired to nothing
save to do through manifold infrmitics
nv best, and that not for human praise
but for the grateful love feel towards
Jesus Christ my God. DO YOU not know
alse that, when in any circle, you blacken
Mr.. Beechers name, and soon after cou-
pie mine with it, you blacken mine az
well. When by your threats my mother
cried out in agony to me.
Year: 1874

feel my duty now and love to you,
my dear mother, impels me to send you
Il copy which l this morning have writ
ten to Theodore, which insist that You
destroy and use not in conversation with
him. This because Of my trust in you.
You will do this sure.
Year: 1874

% I experience so violently the hatred
that meets me that were not, in a
measure. tied to the State ! would resign.
| would not remain in so onerOus and
nnthankful an office, but l have to re-
main. ! hope that there may be no
trouble, but greatly fear that the Pa.-
sions of the mob have been so excited
that they cannot be controlled. They do
not wish to come in contact with the
United States authorities it is true, but
| fear we have not seen the last Of this.
Year: 1874

There Is in the museum al Rcuc au OBJ
ieei which attracts universal attention
from visitors Il IS only the skin Of a
rough, hairy dog, stuffed and sot up SO
as 90 look as natural as life. bat the dog
has had a history.


his home was tho Convent Of 81. Her-
nard away on the Alpine summit. There
In pleasant weather no was wont to roll
about aud play Ia the porch witE his lel-
lows, As jolly as any dog. But when the
storms came on, and the rough weather
set iu, Berry noryed himself ior the scri.
Gus business OF life, With a little basket
OF meat and drink tied upon his neck ,and
a warm blanket strapped ou his back, he
set out IN search Of lost travellers In those
fearful passes, Never fall Of snow so
heavy or a fog 10 thick but Barry could
dud his way, aud bis keen scent would
discover travellers at great distance. II
they were not too bennmbed 60 walk, the
noble fellow refreshed them with tho food
he brought, ana gladly parted with his
warm cloak, and went bounding Joyful
ly onward to show them the way. IL
they were fast sinking Into unconscious
ness, ho would warm them with his
breath and tongue, pul at their clothes,
aud il all his efforts to arouse them failed
he would dash of for other help. Forty
poor wanderers owed their lives to noble
Barry. Surely he has earned warm,
comfortable homo In the valley, when
his age OF service was over, aud this hon
orablc niche In the museum when his
short lifo was ended. There he stands
with bottle aud collar about his neck, ~
II ready to start on his old mission.
Some people live through whole lie,
and never accomplish so much as this
dog.
Year: 1874

The following record will show the cha'Hges in
the temperature during the past TWEEN y-iour
hours In comparison with the corresponding date
OF last year, as recorded at Hudnups Pharmacy,
HERALD Building, New York;
Year: 1874

THE CONvENTION.-The Republican State
Convention assembled at Georgetown yester-
day and did its work with such harmony and
enthusiasm as was hardly anticipated by even
the most hopeful. DR.. Isaac Jump was nom-
mated for Governor and Hon. JAS R. Lofand
was renominated for Congress with spirit of
concord and unanimity that told with marked
effect upon the spirit of the party. The Re-
publicans have never acted with more en-
thusiasm or harmony, perhaps, since their
organization in the State.


What, with the dissatisfaction with the
Wilmington ring" as it was called with
the time of holding the Convention, and with
the idea of the two candidates coming from Kent
county, it was feared that dissatisfaction would
arise in the Convention, but none was mani
tested.


With reference to the ring in Wilmington,
the contest was ended on Saturday, when in
choosing the delegates by ballot, as is the custom
in New Castle, it was shown that the majority
voted in favor of the Jump delegates. The
issue having been thus squarely made and
decided all opposition ceased with the election.
The time and place of holding the convention,
being matter of opinion, was acceded to-


The resolutions, it will be seen, relate
exclusively to State affairs, and are peculiar in
this feature Though rather prolix, they are
decidedly to the point and all OF them are ol
decided interest to the citizens of the State


Our space and time are too much taken VI
to speak more at length this week.
Year: 1874

THE COMPENSATION FOR TRANSPORTING
POSTAL CARs.--A correspondence has taken
place between Mr.. Hinckley, President Of the
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
Railroad Company, and the Post Office De-
partment with reference to an application for
higher compensation for the movement of the
Post Office cars over that road. Something is
said about the determination of the Company
not to move such cars after the lst OF August
unless their demand be complied with, but
there is an impression that this question will be
deferred until the newly-appointed Postmaster.
General shall have entered upon his duties.
In the mean time the Railroad Company will
be officially informed by Postmaster G Genera
Marshall that the law having fixed the com.
pensation for the various kinds of service the
department has no discretion in the premises
and therefore it cannot refer to the question o
compensation to an umpire, that course havinG
been suggested by Mr.. Hinckley.-M. Y
Tribune.
Year: 1874

BASE BALL TALK.-A match game was
played in this town last Saturday afternoon
between the Smyrnas and nine from Dover
known as the Independents The latter were
beaten by score of q for them to AZ for the
SmYrnas as fOllOWs:
Year: 1874

OUR readers must have patience with
as. Our advertisers are mOnOpolizing
most Of our space just now, but 10 few
days we will meet their demands with
an enlarged paper that will also enable
us to 90 justice by our readers.
Year: 1874

It would chill the blood of the
most vile wretch in creation, if the
many horrible deeds done under
cover of night, could be revealed
to him by some power or process.


The tale / am about to relate is
supposed to have taken place in the
month of cold November, at the
dead hour of midnight, when the
world was at rest, and the victims
of this bloody narrative were, as
was supposed, safely ensconsed in
their place of abode, weary from
the scenes of the day. The night
was cold, and an occasional cloud
would at intervals shadow the pale
light of the moon, while the chilly
winds whistled by with low and
pensive sound. AS the moon dis
appeared from view, two murder
Gus looking men, with hair matted
and uncombed, and villainous eyes,
stole from a clump of wood, with
cautious and noiseless tread, hesitat-
ing at times to convince themselve
that they were unobserved, and pro-
ceeded in the direction of the un-
suspecting sleepers. They reached
the house and opened the door
with great care, still keeping a
sharp lookout least some one might
approach, and then disappeared.
What was done within / will not
attempt to describe here, but suf-
flee it to say that their stay was
brief, and when they once more re-
turned to the open air their coun-
tenances wore mingled express
sion of vengeance and satisfaction
They stood for q moment, as il
listening for any sound that might
chance to fall upon the midnight
air, but hearing nothing, they
made q hasty retreat back to the
clump of wood, carrying with
them their poor, dying victims.


Next morning it was discovered
that a hen roost had been robbed.


AS rule, the first of April is
considered Gall Fools Day."
Year: 1874

1t is Il notorious fact that some timer
ant circus companys pay very poorly,
and that the man who does not get his
money from them in advance is not
very likely to get it at all. Colonel
Bangs, of the Argus, has suffered good
deal from these concerns, and when "The
Great Metropolitan Caravan" tried to
slip off without settling its advertising
bill he called upon the Sheriff and got
him to attach the Rocky Mountain bear
for the debt. The bear was brought in
its cage and placed in the composing
room, where it consumed SIS worth Of
meat in two days (the Colonel's bill was
only S12) and scratched one trousers
leg off the reporter, who was in front of
the cage, giving the foreman a lecture
in zoology. On the third day the bot
tom fell out of the cage, and as the
to roam around and inquire into things,
the whole force of compositors all at
once felt as if they ought to go sudden
ly down stairs and give the animal a
chance. With that mysterious instinct
which distinguishes dumb animals, and
which goes far to prove that they have
souls, the bear went at once for the door
OF Bangs sanctum, and it broke in just
as the Colonel was in the middle of a
tearing editorial upon "The Third Term
and Our Tendencies Toward Casarism."
The Colonel, however. did not hesitate
to knock of. He stopped at once and
emerged with fine airy grace through
the window, bringing the sash with him,
and then he climbed up the water-spout
to the roof, where he sat until hook
and ladder company came and took him
of. When they entered the Office they
found that the animal had upset all the
type, and had soaked himself in ink and
then rolled over nearly every square
inch of the floor; while the Coloners
leader on the "Third Term" was satur-
ated with water and perforated with
shot holes. After this, circus advertise
ments in the Argus will be paid in ad-
yaOce
Year: 1874

From the Courier Journal.


A rather mysterious affair occurred a
few nights ago in the Louisville Medi-
cal College building, corner of Fifth
and Green streets. Two of the students
have been paying attention to the same
young lady, who lives but a stones
throw from the Medical College, and
they got into quarrel with each other
about her. 1t was at last proposed that
each take a pistol and fight a duel in a
dark room in the college building. So
the pistols were selected, seconds chosen
and the party, when no one was in the
house at night, entered a room and,
locking the door behind them prepared
for the encounter.


The light vase extinguished, and, at q
proper distance from each other, at the
word each fred. The gas was lit. and
an investigation only proved that the
powder and ball had been wasted. The
light was again extinguished, and again
at the word the pistols were again dis
charged.


This time one of the .duellista was
found slightly wounded in the left arm
The honor of the medical gentlemen
having been thus satisfied, the two be
came friendly again and shook handl
with each other.
Year: 1874

There is a man in this State who sells
fruit in this city and probably in Gin
cinnati also, who can dispose of his
peaches and apples without the least
difficulty when other people find no sale.
The secret of it is that he has learned
the trick of honesty. Very likely he is
an honest man at heart. But whether
he is or not, he finds that the most rigid
adherence to honor in his business pays.
In box of his peaches or barrel of
his apples, as you go down through to
the bottom, they are certain to turn out
as we'll all the way as they appear on
the outside. There is no trying to cell
an inferior article by putting it out of
sight, to be found by the customer after
he has made the purchase. Those ac-
quainted with his brand don't care to
inspect before buying. The order is /:
Send me a box of Mr.. So and-so's peach
es, or a barrel of apples. And they re-
fuse sometimes to take any other, even
when another article may happen to be
equally good. No, it is his, or none.
There is wisdom here for those whose
heads are long enough to see it.
Year: 1874

To the young man leaving his ances-
trail farm for the first time for a trip to
"the big city" or TO the young damsol Of
the rural village who goes 10 the depot
Of n summer afternoon 10 "see the train
come in" there Is a romantic and unde-
fined charm about the life Of the steam
railroad employe. The youth thinks
nothing could be 30 desirable as 10 be
forever whizzIng from place TO place at
express speed, seeing the city and the
country every day, or twice a day, and
passing life Of adventure with a sufi-
cient spice Of danger TO make il exciting.
The rustic maiden takes many q sly
glance at the athletic form and the
bronzed face of the brakeman who 70
dexterously brings the train TO a stand
still at the long platform, and at the
brawny baggage-master who 80 lightly
whiris and tosses out the huge "Sarato-
gas" from their place Of temporary con-


inement, and doubtless after a time
grows sufficiently bold to exchange frst
mods, then kindly greetings with the
knights Of the rail, whose visits 20 agree
ably break the monotony Of her quiet
existence. To both, the conductor is
superior being, to be looked up to and
admired at distance, and his gold-laced
cap and authoritative "All aboard" are
seen and heard with something akin TO
awe. The youngster feels that his high
est ambition would Se Rratifed could he
secure place "on The line," with fair
prospect of becoming sometime a con-
ductor, and the damsel dreams, perhaps
of some day being the wife Of that no
blest creation Of civilization, a railroad
man. But the experienced traveller, who
finds in his own business journeyinga 20
and fro wearness and veKatiOn of spirit
is apt to feel that nothing could be more
tedious than to be compelled to assist IN
running a train, and the wife Of the con-
ductor or brakeman finds in the lonely
hours when her husband is on the road
and in the constant anxiety for his safe
~, little of the romance she anticipated,
and looks forward to the day when he
may get into some business which will
enable him to spend his meal times and
his nights at home and which will not
40 constantly imperil his life And yet
to the railroad man, himself, there al
most always remains sufficient Of the
fascination Of the employment TO make
him loath to quit it and often to induce
him to return to it after trial or other
occupations.
Year: 1874

Women in San Francisco are by law
deprived of the right to stand at the bar
and drink.


Woman were scarce in California in
1S49 and if it got about that one was not
handsomely treated by her husband, a
miners meeting was called and the case
considered. If the decree was granted
it always was-then this was the mode:
Two honest miners were detailed to hold
the broomstick in horizontal position,
and the parties to the suit required TO
jump it in token that their divorce was
an accomplished fact. The good morals
of the camp required that the woman
marry Immediately, and as one after an
other of the elect men fell from luck il
would often happen to the lady to have
IA many husbands as she of the Scrip
lures; and it might be said of the last
as of the first: And he jumped the
broomstick also.
Year: 1874

IMPRIsoNMENT FOR DEBT IN ILLi-
NoIs.-Justice Craig, of the Supreme
Court of Illinois, recently delivered an
opinion which is received as an author
itative construction Of the constitutional
provision abolishing imprisonment for
debt. He rules that court of equity
could not imprison for contempt on the
failure OF party to pay money accord
ing to decree. unless the disObedience
were willful. That is, popularity phras-
ed, defendant cannot be sent TO Jail for
refusing to pay money whsn he has not
got IL, but he can il he has the money.
OF course, under this rational decision,
fraudulent concealment or transfer Of
property, to avoid satisfying n decree,
would be punishable and very properly
AS contempt Of court but the debtor
who, through misfortune, found himself
penniless, would find himself protected
against cast-iron law and n vindictive
creditor.
Year: 1874

It is very easy TO ridieule any one OF
anything, and believe on any theory
to sneer, and smile, and say smart
things; but after all, ridicule proves no
thing. Almost every great discovery
or invention has been the subject Of rid
icule at some time. Nobody could
laugh enough at the idea that the world
was round, when the fact was first sug-
gesteted. As for steamboats,, there are
people still living who remember when
1t was believed to be the dream Of a
madman