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Year: 1878

The ANNOUNCEMENT that the Long Island
City Board of Health has determined to sup
press the Newtown Creek nuisances will be
gladly received by large portion of the inhab-
.tants of this city and OF Brooklyn who are suf-
fering from tho terrible odors at that point. The
existence Of these poisonous works is disgrace
to the authorities.
Year: 1878

AMONG the religious events in Europe this
GUNNER which will possess an interest for us is
that of the Worlds Conference of the Young
Mems Christian Association, which will take
place the middle ofAugust in Switzerland. The
work of the Conference promises to be of un-
usual Importance.
Year: 1878

an actual foul? But even that would not
have made the Henley course perfectly fair.
When England learns, as we have, that the
only absolutely fair course is one where
either there is no current or it is exactly alike
for all, and where the lane of each crew is
exactly as long as those of the others, she
will have fair courses. even though she goes
to the lakes for them, as we do, she will get
rid of her reputation for jockeying. and she
will as gladly bid goodby to washing and
fouling, the principal expedients in that
jockeying, as we in most of our races did
long ago.
Year: 1878

The Potter COMMITTEE ought to go down to
North Carolina and see what is the matter with
Bald Mountain. The terrible groaning and
moaning it is keeping up may possibly have
something to do with the Louisiana question.
Year: 1878

A dramatic suicide occurred at Capron,
Illinois, on Tuesday of last week. Early last
May, George W. Burleigh, who is an old
resident of Ohio, having lived in various
parts of that State, came to that town osten-
sibly to start tonsorial establishment. Bur-
leigh was a man of varied accomplishments,
fine education and versatile in conversation


While at Capron he was often in depressed
spirits. Last Sunday he published card in
forming the citizens that in order to crafty
an oft expressed curiosity on the part of his
townsmen to witness some such tragedy as
the hanging of Sherry and Connolly in Chi
cago, he would, on the evening of the 23d
inst, deliver a lecture in Thornton Hall, and
at its conclusion crafty them by shooting
himself through the forehead. The price of
admission would be 81, and the amount real
lied should be used for his funeral expenses,
and the remainder be invested in works of
Huxley, Tvndal and Darwin for the town
library His idea in ending his life was to
secure eternal peace by annihilation. AT the
appointed time the hall was crowded, and
after delivering an infidel lecture of wonder
full power, in manner and tone which
marked him as an adept, he suddenly drew a
deringer, placed it to his forehead, and de-
spite an attempt to prevent the deed, fired
and fell into the arms of two friends who
were on the wing of the theatre for the pur-
pose of hindering the execution of the design.
The large sized ball literally tore his brain to
pieces. He left request that his body be
forwarded to Cincinnati friends.
Year: 1878

According to the Buffalo Commercial Ad-
oertiser company has been formed in that
city to utilize the water passing over Niagara
Falls for driving machinery. The plan con-
templates the employment of huge air cylin-
ders at the bottom Of the fall and large
feeding basin above, the perpendicular fall
between the two being 214 feet. 1tis estima-
ted that power enough can thus be gene
rated to raise 1000 gallons OF water, $50
feet every minute. The working of the pro-
posed machinery is to be briefly as follows (:
After the water in the reservoir on the top of
the bank is high enough it will escape down
pipe and force the air into large cylinders.
The capacity of the reservoir and of the CYL
inders is so arranged that the former will be
exhausted by the time the desired compress
sion has been obtained from below. While
the reservoir is again filling up with water,
the cylinder becomes exhausted and is ready
for another charge. Thus the operation is
repeated at regular intervals in each cylinder,
and there being several of them, continuous
charge of highly compressed air is secured.
It is said that considerable capital has been
paid in, and that practical operations have al
ready begun.
Year: 1878

From the Carrolton (Mo.) Democrat


The last sensation occurred last Thursday,
when about fifty men were present by invita-
ton to see Jim Lawton beat his own time OF
two years ago, when his wife had bread
baked in eight and quarter minutes after
the wheat was standing in the field. At 10
o'clock the Buckeye Reaper, drawn by Cy.
Burnett's dun mules, stood at the corner OF
the growing wheat, machine in gear ready
for start. Men were stationed every few
feet along the line of grain ready to seize an
armful as it fell from the reaper, and rush
with it to the thresher close by. which, under
the direction of veteran drivers, was getting
under way for business. AT the mill, just
sixteen yards away, lawton stood at the
window watching the moment when McCaw,
on the sWiftest horse in the county, should
start from the thresher with the grain, while
Mrs. Lawton and her neice, Miss Alice, had
all the preparations made to make griddle
cakes and biscuits in the shortest possible
time. AT the drop of the hat the dun mules
sprang to the work, and in minute and fifteen
seconds the threshed wheat, about peck,
was in the sack and on the horse and the
race commenced for the mill. There were
two bridges to cross, and the excited specta-
tors could only see column of dust, hear a
couple of taps on the plank bridges as the
horse flew over them at lightning speed, and
the wheat was delivered to Lawton in the
mill. In two minutes seventeen seconds the
flour was delivered to Mrs. Lawton. and in
three minutes and ffty-seconds from the
starting of the reaper the first griddle-cake
came from the hands of Miss Alice, was COB
bled by dozen eager hands and-that was
the last of it. In four minutes and thirty
seven seconds from the starting OF the reaper,
according to the best double-timer stop-watch
in the country, pan of biscuits was deliv-
cred to the hungry crowd by Mrs. Lawton,
and that was the last seen OF them. Then
other pans of delicious biscuits were baked
more at leisure, and boiled ham and lone
minute biscuit formed a sandwich it wa
right hard to beat, and then, as it would be
impossible for Western gathering OF any
| kind to be worthy the name without speech
of some kind, Mr.. Smiley proposed that Gen
| Shields make speech, which he did, in those
incomparably graceful words of his that fiji
even so prosaic a proceeding as grinding
wheat with the poetry of eloquence. Then
Lawten, in his modest way, had to say some
thing and he made little speech, which was
heartily applauded as well as that of Genera
Shields, and the party separated.
Year: 1878

There is in New York club called the
Tally-ho Club. 1t is composed OF, can
hardly guess how many members, because
they never invited me to any OF their enter
tainments, but think they have ten, tour,


and six horse teams, coaches, and they drive
them on the high road between two
oalatial hotels, with fine looking man set
up behind the coach with tin horn, or, IN
this case, believe it is brass bugle, for
what? And who are they? They are all
Young men of great wealth, of great literary
culture, all graduates of colleges-all men
who have no other employment on earth but
to spend the income of their inherited wealth.
And all they can find to do is to play coach
men day by day for the fun of the the thing.
They toll not, neither do they spin; they are
men of class that is growing in the coun-
try, and they are, in my judgment, class
That ought to be sQuelched. lApplause.-
They are men that have nothing to do on
earth and do it every day. Every man in
this country should have some regular steady
employment for the good of his feilowmen,
and the more money man has the greater
is his responsibility for the proper employ
ment of that money in some industrial OF
other enterprise for the good of his race: anc
for the men who do not do that, the working


men ought to vote to bring about a law tt


do it. If had my way, if had the powe'
in the city of New York, as once had 10,


a short time, would set that class OF men tt


doing exactly what they have shown they ar
fit for, driving Broadway omnibuses rom
in the morning to at night, SO thai tneJ
should have enough of playing coachmen.
Year: 1878

BAD MANAGEMENT.-A Demo-
cratic House and an uuroofed Patent
Office 90 well together. y private
business firm would have commence
ed repairs within ten days after being
burned out. The Patent Office build
ing lost half its roof by the great fire
of September u, 1877. AS late as
June 1878, not one dollar
had been given to replace it. The
wise statesmen OF Democracy have
had their eyes so close to Investigate
ing committees that this unroufed
building has not been seen. Enough
money has been wasted on fruitless
investigations to have rebuilt the
structure. This neglect to repair a
public building, while starving men
have been looking for the work it
would have afforded, may be good
Democratic policy, but it is bad bus
mess management. If it takes a
Democratic majority nine months to
conclude that a roof is needed on the
Patent Office how long will it take
to rebuild public confidence? Come
gentlemen of the owl line, cipher
this out at your leisure. - Washington
ReDubHcdn.
Year: 1878

The American threshing machines
on exhibition at Paris are splendid
specimens OF workmanship, and they
fairly astonish the elegant Parisians.
The Echo Agricole, OF Paris, speaks
of them in the following compliment
tary terms: To see these threshing
machines constructed with perfect
taste as to shape, and with richness
In the materials employed, true spec
linens Of cabiuet work and inlaying;
these reapers and mowers, where all
the metallic portions shine like sill
Yer, one does not imagine himself in
the midst Of apparatus destined for
work which is reputed vulgar, such
as cutting the wheat or moving the
grass, but in a store OF enormous
iewelry and among true works Of art.
Never, In any country, have been
seen such grace and splendor. II by
the magnificence of the machine we
are to Judge OF the character OF the
workman who would be inclined to
suppose the American farmer to be
equally fine, walking the earth, not in
blouse and wooden shoes, as with us
but in full dress and with hands
gloved."
Year: 1878

A Portsmouth man was going east
with his wife last week. and the train
started off very suddenly while he
was talking with his friends. He
grabbed q woman, chucked her on
the train, jumped after her, and away
they went, fifty miles an hour, with
his wife shrieking and tearing her
hair on the platform, and a woman
he never saw before going into high
pressure Mysteries on the car, calling
him a monster, and yelling Save
mel" BY terrible mistake he had
got hold Of the wrong woman, and
the conductor, refusing to listen to
his explanations, kicked him out OF
the car, the brakeman chucked him
In to the ditch, the Sheriff rist him,
before he was half way back to town,
and put handouts on him; and, when
at last he got home he saw his busi-
ness partner holding his wife on his
lap and telling her that there were
men in the world who loved her much
better than her faithless husband
ever did. He says the next time he
travels he will walk.--LelcistO,cra
(Pa.,) Democrat,
Year: 1878

"That tenon does not fit the NOR
tise by quarter OF an inch" said an
employer TO young carpenter who
had just begun to work for him."


Il thought that for a garden gate
you would not be particular, and 1t
would make no difference" answered
the young man.


But it did make a difference. 1t
made just the difference between the
young carpenter having a steady
summer job at good wages and hav-
ing his time unoccupied on his hands.


The employer found no further
fault; but when the gate was finished
he paid the maker without another
word and dismissed him. The next
day there was another man in his
place. He happened to be a man
who thought it made difference how
everything was done; he always did
his best; and he kept his situation to
the end OF the season.


So it happens. Frequently some
little thing, which was not expected
to attract attention, is noticed by
some one to whom the excellence of
the work has commended itself, and
the man who has made painstaking
the rule of all his labor, is surprised
by a sudden and unlocked for acces-
sion of good fortune. He has been
brought into note by some inconsid-
cred trifle, which was we'll done mere
ly because it was his habit to do
everything as we'll as possible.


On the other hand, many man
who is lamenting his Ill fortune. and
don't know what to attribute 1t to-
owes it to some such carelessness in
the way Of doing his work as that
which doomed fhe young carpenter
to summer Of profitless idleness.


Men are by no means always told
by what particular act they are
judged; but any good performance is
always liable to make, and any bad
performance is always liable to mar
fortune.
Year: 1878

Marie b. was sitting on the side
walk in front OF a restaurant, slipping
a cup of coffee, when stranger step
ped up and dipped his forefinger in
the cup OF coffee. which the lady had
before her. The incident aroused all
the vindictive fury OF which the sex
is capable. Without moments hes
itation she took up the cup and
dashed its contents at the head OF
the practical joker. Unluckily, the
aim was not so good as the intention,
and the coffee instead OF descending
on the coat of the ill-bred fellow who
had offered the insult, fell upon the
fair form and light dress Of Amelia
", who happened to he passing at
the moment Thereupon ensued be-
tween the two women wrangle,
compared with which any alteration
between the original aggressor and
the offended coffee -drinker would
have been mere bagatelle. Finally
when a great crowd had assembled,
and the debate instead Of coming to
an end grew hotter, the disputants
were led to the poste to explain them
selves before the commissary. He
asked for the original offender, who
had plenty Of opportunity for esca-
ping while the combat ragged between
the two Amazons; and as this impor-
tant person was not to be found, dis
missed the case.-London Globe.
Year: 1878

has ever attempted to approach it in
its equipment of Pullman hotel and
sleeping coaches. 1t alone, Of all the
western roads has the celebrated
hotel cars, and on this line only can
the traveller between Chicago and the
Missouri river procure the comforts
and luxuries that these cars alone
can furnish. Other lines may talk Of
dining cars, and sixteen-wheel
coaches, but not one OF them can
offer you a Pullman or any other
form of hotel car. These cars COM
bine great luxury with the greatest
obtainable comfort, and at no increase
in expense over the common, old
fashioned and ordinary sleeping car.
The marvel OF those that travel on
them is to know how the company
can afford to run them and charge no
more for berths than is charged in
the old-fashioned sleeper. The an
swer is found in the great volume Of
travel this road is carrying. The
thousands flock to its lines where the
hundreds seek its competitors. We
are sure that no one who has once
seen these cars would ever use any
other il travelling in the direction
they run.


They are not for the exclusive use
OF the rich, but are just as comforta-
BILE and elegant for the poorer travel
er-costing to occupy these cars, no
more than does the occupancy Of the
old-fashioned sleeper, no one need,
for fear Of expense. be prevented
from using them. They have become
@the rage" so to speak, with the Cal
ifornians. and have attracted the ma
jority of that class Of travel.


If you are about to travel east or
west between Chicago and Council
Bluffs, Omaha, Denver or San Fran
cisco, it will pay you to see that you
get your tickets by the Chicago &
North Western railway. At some
future time we may give you further
ideas about this great road.-The
Democrat.
Year: 1878




That was a capital answer made by
a hard money man and Democrat
at Portland, Me-, to a Greenbacker
who had declared that no paper
money ever was redeemable in gold
and silver. Said this fool: @You
start bank and issue 100000 In
bills and keep on hand only $4,000 In
coin to redeem your bills; how can
you call that redemption?" To which
the sensible Democrat replied that
there are over forty thousand people
in Portland, all Of whom will some
time need collins, @but we have NO
need Of forty thousand collins con-
stantly on hand"
Year: 1878

The Terrible congress.


We do not remember time within
the last twenty-five years when the
people OF the country regarded Con-
gress with so much distrust as they
did during the last session. Had it
not been so sad, it would have been
exceedingly ludicrous to see the pub
lie funds go up, as they did, the mo-
ment Congress adjourned. Congress
in session was constant menace to
the public credit and the business OF
the country. When Congress was
scattered, a great power OF mischief
was felt to be removed; and people
could buy and sell without the appre-
hension that something might be
done any day to bewitch the tariff, or
disturb the currency. or "Mexicanize"
the government. There has been no
popular faith, either in the wisdom or
the patriotism OF Congress. Con-
gress seems to have been busy criti-
cising and watching the President,
entirely unconscious that the people
were watching their representatives
with much OF uneasiness and very
little Of approval.


III 1--WE inquire into the causes OF this
distrust to Congress, we do not need
to look far for the principal ones.
The Congressional leaders have made
a personal business of the session.
The men Of prominence who were
sent to Washington to do the busi-
ness of the country have been solely
engaged in doing their own. 1t
would be difficult to tell how many
candidates for the Presidency we
have in Congress-, but the names Of a
small number OF them are just as
we'll known as IL they had advertised
their candidacy over their own sigma
lures. These men were watched
from the beginning Of the session.
They were not Insignificant men.
They were men whose influence
would have been felt in the decision
OF every important question, II they
had chosen to exercise it. They were
men whose astuteness in the compre-
hension of public affairs, and whose
power in debate were needed by the
best interests OF the country, again
and again. during the session, but
who basely shrank from speaking a
word or performing an act which
might injure their prospects for the
Presidency. They sat in their seats.
or skulked In the lobbies, entirely
with reference to their private affairs.
There were great emergencies during
the session, but these men were
dumb. Their wisdom was needed,
their eloquence was needed, their
action was needed; but they had
nothing to spare for their constituents
or the country. 1t was their business
to take care OF themselves, and they
devoted themselves simply to that.
Nothing more shamefully patent, or
more shamelessly confessed, than
this devotion to a self-nominated
candidacy for high Office, was ever
seen In this, or any other country.
I: ought to condemn them forever to
private life. Such pusillanimous,
contemplate, self-serving and time
serving demagogues as these, playing
the role Of statesmen, were quite
enough to breed the distrust OF Con-
gress which the rank and file of that
body nourished to its commanding
growth.-Dr. Holland in Scr1bner foy
September.
Year: 1878

Many American girls, through
mere inattention to the way Of carry
ing themselves, unconsciously con-
tract the habit of bringing their
shoulders forward, and stopping
The position not only detracts great
ly from their appearance, but is also
very pernicious in point Of health
The celebrated Aaron Burr, in a let
ter to his daughter, TheOdosia, after
ward the wife of Governor Aston, of
South Carolina, wrote as follows on
this subject: 2df


@Your habit of STOPPING and bring
ing your shoulders forward on toyonr
breast not only disfgures you, but is
alarming on account of the injury to
your health. The continuance Of
this vile habit will certainly produce
consumption; then farewell papa;
farewell pleasure; farewell lifel This
is no exaggeration; no fiction to ex'
cite your apprehensions. But, set
ting aside this distressing considera-
ton, / am astonished that you have
no more pride in your appearance
You will certainly stint your growth
and disfgure your person."


There is reason to believe that
Miss Burr gave heed to the admoni-
ton of her fond father for she after
ward became renowned for her beau.
ty as well as for her superior mental
endowments and accomplishments.
Year: 1878

The other day mean man out in
Western Iowa went of into quiet
country place aud died 50 quick that
his wife got his insurance money before
the company had tune to fail. The
President says he never felt so swindled
and cut up since he has been in the
business.
Year: 1878

\ recent celebrated forger in New
York was ope Of the most faithful at
,endants upon the worship of a Chris
tian sanctuary. For years, while he
was setting his hand to the deeds for
which be now lies in the penitentiarv,
be was repeating every Sabbath the
prayers Of an ancient Church sing
ing the songs with the voices of mar
tyrs had hallowed; giving freely of
his stolen goods TO the benevolence of
Gods people; and. as be seems to
have believed, loving rather to do
deeds Of charity than TO hoard gold.
1t would lie just like man, if that
poor man really persuaded himself
that his religious devotions would
somehow Offset his crimes. Yes, that
is man as be is by nature Such are
we all, but by the grace of God. Our
very consciences become tortuous and
serpentine under the wiles of sin, till
we verify think we can mock God
with impunity. o, how idiotic we
become when we make Satan our
ally IS. S. Times.
Year: 1878

He got up one morning feeling
heavy at heart, without knowing tho
cause. He went to the backdoor, and
there saw his garden. the pride of bis
waking hours and the subject of bis
dreams. looking like an editors Office.
He sat down on tho doorstep and
said, "Of allsad words Of tongue OF
pen the saddcst are these: l keep
PEE.


Just substitute hog for ben 10 tho
above. and you will have An express
sion Of our sentiments this morning.
Year: 1878

Hcavan is an answer to the aspira-
tions of earth. As around the opening
and closing day there hangs a greater
glory of sunrise and beauty of sunset
than aronnd the MONDAY hours, so at
the close of this life and the
opening of the next there shall be
a fuliilment of all hoped for Joy.
Since he has made our hearts capbable
of a love that never dies here, He
has provided sphere for that love
hereafter
Year: 1878

One of the depressing signs of the
times is the general decay Of serious
ness, which shows itself in many
wavs-in conversation, in literature,
and in the occupations Of life. How
hard it is to engage anybody in So
Der aud earnest conversation ! PeO-
pie like to talk well enough, and will
talk without ceasing on the most
triiling subjects. They are ready to
gossip, to entertain each other with
the small talk Of society, but it is rare
in comparison that we sit down with
one who seems to delight in conver.
sation of higher kind.-NaShrille
Christian Adroc0te.
Year: 1878

''LET those who think alike act together"
is the cry of the Bangor Commercial. SPOOL
your issues" shouts Gen. Anderson, echoing
Communist Kearney. 1t would be well for
the believers in hard money, the friends of an
honest currency, to heed these cries, to pool
their issues, to act together. Let us post
pone the discussion as to whether the curren-
cy shall be issued by the Government or by
the banks until we achieve the result at
which we are all aiming, the redemption of
that currency in gold. Let us pool those is
sues and work for resumption. Let US who
think together act together. and vote for no
man who is infected with the Greenback her
esy, who wishes to postpone resumption or
who believes in any currency except that
based on coin.