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Year: 1878

A night or two agoI called to a
boy to come and black my boots; as
he went to work he passed the stump
of cigar he had in his mouth to a
little mite of an urchin, who didn't
seem to be more than six years old,
but who seized the stump eagerly ana
began putting away at my side. !
ventured the advice to him that he
was TOO young boy to smoke, and
that he should wait a few years; to
which the youngster, who can e about
UP to NY knee, answered, with the
greatest calm between the puffs,
"Well, yer see, when felier gets
the habit, it's hard to give it up
Buffalo Courier.
Year: 1878

Like bolt we sprang upon them,


Ere they had time to shrink,
We drank their blood and crushe'


them,


And tore them limb from limb,
And the hungriest lion doubted
Ere he disputed with him.
That was life to live for!
Fot this weak human life,
With its frivolous, bloodless pas


sions,


Its poor and petty strife!
Come to my arms, my hero;


The shadows of twilight, grow,
And the tigers ancient fierceness
In my veins begins to flow.
Come not cringing to sue me!
Take me with triumph and power,
AS warrior that storms d fortress!
[ will no shrink nor cover.
Come as YOU came in the desert,
Ere we were women and men,
When the tiger passions were in us,
And love as you loved me then!
Year: 1878

A cure for intemperance is recon-


mended in the New York Sun, by


Minneapolis, Mimi, medical men as


follows:


''Let the inebriate Git matters no,


whether he is just getting off, is be-


ginning it, or on spree,) begin by
taking every two hours one teaspoon
full of tincture of chinco, peruvian
bark. } This will make him feel good.
He can increase the dose to six tea
spoonfuls without danger, and take it
in that proportion four or ten times o
dayIt will not destroy his appetite for
food. In the course of a few days
anti-periodic properties of the chinco-
ma begin to tell and he looses all
taste, not only for the tincture, but
also everything in the way of alcohol.
Recently in this city well-known
gentleman who has in the time past
been on his $500 and $1,000 sprees.
tried this remedy, telling the various
druggists where he drank that he was
fighting and would conquer the great
est demon on earth, but they could
hardly believe him. Yet he conquer
ed, and the appetite for drink vanish
ed. He was never nervous, never
lost his appetite or sleep during the
seige, and came out of the ordeal in
perfect health. But the tincture Of
chincona did the business. This case
can be verified by the proprietors of
seven of our drug stores. So well
am satisfied of the value of this
treatment that will guarantee cure
in all cases using this remedy"
Year: 1878

It is now that the sentimental young
lady war ders through the garden and
throws her delicate eyes on the bud
ding roses, and wonders if last years s
straw hat will stand remodeling for
this summer.
Year: 1878

A huge snake of the Garter species
was lately killed in Atchison, Kan,
and ON being opened female quail
was found inside. The quail was
also cut open and three eggs were
taken from her and placed under a
hen. In a short time two of the eggs
hatched young quails, who were as
lively and healthy as any others are,
but had defective heads, as they were
shaped and had the appearance of 9
snake, being entirely destitute Of
feathers.
Year: 1878

A sanguinary bulldog in the San
Francisco dog show became so excited
by his surroundings that nobody dared
go near him. His food WAS poked to
him with long stick, and a strong
railing was put up to keep spectators
at safe distance. He growled and
showed his teeth whenever anybody
looked at him, and was generally y an
object of terror. Consequently the
people were Mortified when little girl
crawled under the railing, and
approaching the brute, said coaxingly /:
"Nice doggy, nice doggy" Her
mother screamed and tainted. A
valorous fellnw took off his coat and
prepared for the rescue. The child
coolly patted the dog, saying What's
the matter, doggy? What makes 90
growl so? The dog ferociously fixed
his teeth in her dress, but her fear
lessness seemed to cow him, and he
skunk back from her. She suffered no
harm except from the suddenness with
which she was yanked out of the
enclosure.
Year: 1878

THE telOw who has been lying around
town, Tor the past month wishing "some-
thing would turn up these hard times
was surprised to notice that something
turned up very suddenly one day recently.
II WAS an iron hoop, and he had un-
consciously trod upon its northeastern
boundary.
Year: 1878




The true wife is often questionable in
loving her husband, and him only-in not
caring to attract idle admiration or the
homage of the more serious adorer When
she married it was for love pure and simple;
and she did not look to her wifehood as to
her papers of release from control and her
character of unlimited freedom. She has
no very decided opinions on politics,
woman's rights or the doctrine of fate and
free will. She slips insensibly, and by the
natural training OF love, into the groove of
thought where her husband finds himself,
and holds. his position best of all because it
is he. She Is more content with his fame
than she would be with her own; indeed,
she finds hers in bis, and would not care to
be parsonage of her own account. She
desires for herself, her honor and supreme
personal happiness only his love, only his
health and prosperity; and so long as he is
safe her star is without a cloud to veil its
brightness.
Year: 1878

/ said we should try and get along with the
star light" And papa turned about in
speecbess amazement, and tried to walk
through panel in the wall paper.


rs Satan marriedg' asks the Chicago
Times. No, he is stingy, immoral old
bechelor, ana writes lying paragraphs about
mothers-in-law, in order TO scare young
men away from Appleton's
Journal.


We never realize how awkward bow need
lessly stupid, how excessively and depforab
ly faulty nature Is so strongly as when we
reflect on the fact that she has never yet
been able to create q man that will fit
custom made shirt.


When we see poor women trying to get a
living By making shirts at ten cents piece,
or teaching in public school at half the
salary which the masculine gender demands
for the same work, we feel that the little
girl was right who said. Il wish God would
smash me all to pieces and make me into a
boy


Why ladies are called ducks: Because they
are not all tame. Because there is good
deal of sport to be got out of the wild ones.
Because they may be captured. Because
they may be sold. Because, as proved by
the results of the public examinations, they
may be plucked. Because, as we can see in
the illustrated newspapers, they may be
drawn. Because they may be beautifully
done, a good deal of butter being usually
employed in the process. Because they are
often we'll basted. Because they are always
dressed in some fashion for dinner. Because
they have long bills, Because there are al
ways plenty of them in the market.
Year: 1878

The administration Is to be attacked no
more; it is to be wheedled; there are to be
no more sticks or stones SHE'D at the presi-
dent; melted butter is TO be tried upon him
and soft soap. Wind was powerless to divest
him OF his policy; sunshine, bright and
warm, Is to be employed.
Year: 1878

At the dinner given to Bayard Taylor the
subjoined poem was handed about by Mr..
Pierrepont, who related that twenty two
years since he was so impressed with its
merit that he had 1t printed at the Office OF
Year: 1878

Home love is the best love. The love
that you are born to is the sweetest you
will ever have on earth. You, who are
so anxious to escape the home nest,
pause a moment and remember this is
true.


Ii is right that the hour should come
when you, in your turn, should become
a wife and mother and give the best
love 10 others; but that will be Just il.
Nobody, not lover, not a husband,
Will ever be so tender or so true as a
mother or a father. Never again, after
strangers have broken the beautiful
bond, will there be anything so sweet
as the little circle Of mother, father aud
children, where you were cherished,
praised, and kept from harm. You may
not know it now, but you will know it
some day.


Whomsoever you marry, true and
good though he may be, after the love-
days are over and the honeymoon has
waned, will give you only what you de-
serve Of love or sympathy, usually much
less, never more. You must watch and
be wary, lest you lose that love which is
through the eyes because they thought
you beautiful. But those who bore YOU.
who loved you when YOU were the
dreadful little object, a small baby, and
thought you brilliant, they co not care
for faces that are fairer aud forms that
are more graceful than yours. You are
their very own, and so better to them
always than others.


To leave home should be a sad, not a
glad thing. 1t should not be so easy to
turn away from the ''Old folks" aud for
get them, as it seems TO be to many.


have said it once, but say it again.
There is no love like the love YOU are
born to, no home like the first home
you knew, If you have good parents and
that home is what it should be. When
you leave it you leave yOIr best behind
yOu.-NeU York Observer.
Year: 1878

The models and thoughts Of man are
revolving just as incessantly as natures.
Nothing must be postponed; take time
by the forelock, now or never. You
must live in the present, launch your
self on any wave. fiud your eternity in
each moment. Fools stand on their is
land opportunities and look toward an
other land. There is no other land,
there is no other life, but this, or the
like Of this. Where the good husband
man is, there is the good soil. Take
any other course, and life will be a sue
cessiOn Of regrets ThOredU.
Year: 1878

Owing to some unforeseen and una
voidable circumstance, the chapter Of
the story which should have appeared
in this issue did not reach the office in
time. We join our readers in their re-
grets at the misehance, and hope it will
not again occur.
Year: 1878

Nature has so ordained it that only
two women have true interest in the
happiness of a man-his own mother
and the mother of his children. Besides
these two legitimate kinds of love, there
IS nothing between the two creatures
except vain excitement, painful and
idle delusiOns.
Year: 1878

The REPUBLICANS SAID TO BE GROWING INTERESTED


IN ELECTION FRAUDS JUST AS THE DEMO


Gratis ARE COOLING.


IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUSE.l


WASHINGTON, April 30.-Just when those few
Democrats who have been so fierce for an inyesti-
CATION of the circumstances connected with the
electoral count beginning to hesitate and toquos
tiOn whether their party VIII gain or lose by such
an inquiry, some Republicans seem to be taking
aggressive steps in the matter. and friends Of the
President are declaring that they are quite willing
to try the whole question before the people by
means OF a committee of fair men Of both Houses
sufficiently numerous to have n strong work
ing body. They insist that the facts about the
Cronin College in Oregon and the attempts to
purchase electoral votes in louisiana Florida and
South Carolina can be proved and that if the cir
cumstances connected with the election in Alabama
and Mississippi well as in the disputed States
be inquired into Democrats will wish that they had
let the matter alone.


There are good many Democrats who will vote
with the Republicans to make the investigation
sufficiently general to cover all the operations of
MIR. Tildens agents and particular friends. They
will do this, they say, because they know that the
whole movement for an investigation originated
with him. and that it proceeds upon the theory that
all Democrats can be forced TO support it. The
only course, they say, for those thus forced
because of their nclinatiOns to get even with the
Iden clique is to make the scope of the inquiry as
broad as the Administration Republicans may de-
SIRE under tho belief that such an exposure of the
Jlden wing of the party will follow TO take its
chief eiectualy out of the way Of Democrats i'll the
Year: 1878

NEW-YORK CUSTOM HOUSE.


lBr TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNEI


WASHINGTON, April 30-The rumor which gains
currency in Washington about once a week that
tie President has concluded to remove Collector
Arthur and Naval Officer Cornell from their posi-
tOns in the NeW-YOrk Custom House, and thus
again to cross swords with the Senate made its ap-
pearance again to-day.


THIS time it was accompanied by an additional
report too absurd to have attracted any notice
eept for the fact that it was affirmed with such
pOstiveness by those who gave it currency. This
report was that in order to avoid a conflict with
Senator Conkling and a majority Of the Republ-
cans in the Senate the President would invite the
senior Senator from New-York TO recommend new
Collector.


1t is hardly necessary TO say that no changes in
the New-York Custom House have yet been decided
upon by the President, and that if he should con-
eude to send TO the Senate the name of q new
Collector ,ahe would not commit the bunder of at
tempting to purchase Senator Conklng's support in
the way indicated. The Administration has not
always pursued the wisest pOlicy in regard to ap-
polntments, but after its experience with the Penn
eylyania delegation and the English Mission, there
Is little danger that any experiment OF that kind
VIII be tried again.
Year: 1878

The Board met in regular session, all the
members present and President Bell in the
chair.


A bill of $155 from Curriers' Band for
services at Burnet Woods Park Concert and
a bill of 81, 175 for new machinery for the
Water-works were ordered paid.


Permission was given to the estate of
Michael Eckert to construct a roadway of
oak blocks in front of property.


The Clerk was directed to advertise for
sealed proposals for the improvement of
Copin alley.


An opinion of the City Solicitor, stating
that the Board of Public Works had not the
power to provide for the occupation of
streets without the consent of Council, was
filed
Year: 1878

Young ladies are wearing 'throat-handa"
These are of very broad velvet, the trout OF
which is ornamcnted with the wearer's
name lettered in gold, silver, or nickel
They are novelty, but not especially
pretty.
Year: 1878

A team belonging to Bullen & Nelson
had very narrow escape yesterday.
They were hauling load of lumber con-
tanning 1,0OO feet out the Little Traverse
State road and when going down the hill
near Mr., Passinos, the neck yoke broke
and the team was thrown down and were
only extricated by the prompt cutting OF
the harness.
Year: 1878

4 THE PEACE OF A HoUsEHoLp is often dependent
on the culinary and domestic skill OF the housewife


Ladies know this. and by using DooLEr's YEAHT-
POWDER insure themselves The most perfect bread
and pastry possible. Its use IL economy also. for
,,ycry ean is absolutely full weirftsnd
aud pure as TO demand the use Of much smaller
quantity than usual. ss.s5se e25
Year: 1878

"PAcIFIcATToN, IL what the Aus.
trians term their purpose. But it is
subjugation all the same. However,
the Austrians are now in an ugly fix.
Bad weather approaches and they
would like to quarter for the winter on
Austrian soil. This they might do did
not large force Of Bosnians occupy
Novi Bazaar with formidable artillery,
and it were impolitic to ignore that
important fact. The conviction forces
itself upon the Austrians that they
must maintain an imposing force in
their new gift.
Year: 1878

Two sailing ships and a steamer will
sail in February and March under the direc.
ton Of the secretary of the nnyy, with goods
for the French international exposition. The
commissioner of agriculture will prepare an
extensive display Of cotton, tobacco, wool,
Indian corn, sugar, rice and other products
of this county. lie also intends to exhibit
a choice collection of different kinds of wood.


The opinion of the naval court of in.
quiry into the Huron disaster has been pro,
mulgatcd by TIE secretary Of the navy. The
conclusions arc that the commander o! the
Huron is personally responsible for the loss
of that vessel, and that Lieut., Palmer, the
navigating officer, made errors in navigation;
also, her deck officers, on the night of her
loss, might have been at fault in not asccr-
taing the accuracy of the perpendicular
soundngs reported to them from time to time.
The ship is reported to have been in every
respect staunch and seaworthy. and she was
in that condition up to the time that she
struck
Year: 1878

Look with solemn eye through the
shades that part us from the world ot
spirits, and see that honse of misery
which men call hell! Ye cannot en-
dure the spectacle? Remember that in
that place there are spirits forever pay
ing their debts to divine justice; bnt
though some of them have been 70,
these four Thousand years swelteIing in
the fame, they are no nearer a dis
charge than when they began; and when
ten thousand times ten thonsand years
shall have rolled away, they will no
more have made satisfaction to God for
their guilt than they have done up till
now. And bow can yon grasp the
thought OF the greatness of your Sa
vionr's mediation When he paid your
debt. and paid it all at once: soy that
there now remsineth not one farthiug
of debt owing from Christ's people to
their God, except a debt of lovel To
justice the believer oweth nothing,
though he owed originally so much
that eternity wou!d not have been long
enough to suffi'-n for the paying of it:
yet in one moment Christ did pay it all;
80 that the man Who believsth ia en-
tirely justified from all punishment
throngh what Jesus bath done.
Year: 1878

Then suddenly we see that ~e ara
pityiog the young; truly We are mob Of


their number! And If we had no sensa>
ton of the sort before, henceforth We


acknowledge that we have one foot in


the grave Then, by slow access Of


saeaitstion, we src aware that maeh Of


the freshness OF feeling is gone, much
of that which o;ice gave us rapture, our
power OF joyous appreciation. our full>
ness of enthusiasm: we are not again
rapt by the spell Of any great painting
into fairy land, AS the case has been
with US, when all the lovely bues aud
aerial distances seemed to be portions
OF the region to which we Travelled and
into which tie coming years were sure
to bring MS; no single DASH OF color n
the sky flls US with unspeskshle de.
light and longing after the unknown:
We 90 not lean out into the sta lite
nights with conscious ,ompanionship Of
the spirits of the stars and the deeps and
the dark-we are little afraid Of tho
dsmps and draughts and rheums stisms:
Se remember all these things; We do
not feel them afresh.
Year: 1878

A little while ago. it is said, a farmer
in Pennsylvania set trap with a
tempting bait to catch fox which was
making unwelcome aud expensive visits
to his hen roost.


When the farmer went to see his trap
it had been sprung. or touched of. y
The bait was gone. and instead of a
live captured fox there was only quiet
stick Of wood fast in the jaws of the
trap. This happened for fourteen
nights. The farmer could see no tracks
but his own and those OF the fox II
perhaps seemed discouraging work to
furnish bats only to have them stolen:
but the man perseyered He did not
give up and think, "Well, it's no use. "
No; he bsited once more, and on the
fifteenth night he found fine old fox
with his nose fast in the strong jaws OF
the trap, and in his mouth was a stick
Of wood. Once too often he lad tried
his sharp game of spring,ng the trap
and stealing the bait. He Was csughI
at last.


This little story shows that som,
kinds of smartness are dangerous. TIL,
fox was cunning, but his cute trick
cost him dear.


Sometimes human beings, as we'll a
foxes, try to gain something by sharl
tricks. They seem to enjoy for awhile
the fruit OF their dishonest doings
They may many times escape citching
but they generally get safely "nabhed
at last.


Lying. cheating, rilfering, disobey
ing, and other naughty doings, ma,
seem to be profitable for awhile. but by
and by the trap snaps ill an unexpected
way, and the evil ,doer is caught ant
punished, or found out and pnt t,
shame The safest and hest way is tc
do right,
Year: 1878

A man was once walking along one
road and woman another. The roads
finally united. apd man and woman
reached the junction at the same time
walking on from here together. THE
man was carrying an iron kettle ON his
back; in one band he held by the legs
live chicken, in the other cane, and
he was leading a goat. Just as they
were coming to deep, dark ravine the
woman said to the man:


II am afraid to go through that ra-
vine with you. 1t is lonely place, and
you might overpower me and kiss me
by force"


"If you were afraid OF that" said
the man, "you shouldn't have walked
with me at all How can / possibly
overpower you by force when I have
this great iron kettle on my back. a
cane in one hand and live chicken in
the other, and am leading this goat:
might as we'll be tied hand and foot. u


YES" replied the woman, "but il
you should stick your ctne into the
ground and tie the goat to it, and turn
the kettle bottom side mp and the
chicken under it, then you might wick
cdy kiss me in spite Of my resistance. u


Success to thy ingenuity, oh, wo-
mani" said the rejoicing man to him
self; II should never have thought oi
such an expedient."


When they came to the ravine he
stuck his cane in the ground and tied
the goat to it, gave the chicken to the
woman, saying: Hold it while cut
some grass for the goat" and then
lowering the kettle from his shoulders.
imprisoned the chicken under it, and
wickedly kissed the woman. as she was
afraid he would do.
Year: 1878

BEWARE ,f the boy or girl. man OF
woman. who "don't care" Do no,
choose them for associates. If the,
care not for their own character the,
will not care about yon or yours. Il
self respect is wanting there is desire.
Seek the society Of those who value
THEN own character.
Year: 1878

1t is the solemn thought connected


with middle life, that life's last busi-
ness is begun in earnest and it then
midway between the cradle and the
grave, that man begins to marvel that
he let the days Of youth 60 by SO half
enjoyed. 1t is the pensive autumn feel
ing 1T is the sensation of half sad
ness that we experience when the long,
est day OF the year is past and every
day that follows is shorter. and the
light fainter, and the feebler shadows
tell that nature is Fastening with gi-
gantic footsteps to her winter grave.
So does man look back upon bis youth


When the first gray hairs become visi.
bic, when the unwelcOme fact fastens
itself upon the mind that a man is no
longer gong up hill but down, and
that the sun is always westeripR, he
looks back on things behind. When
we were childlen we thought as child
rem. But now there lies before US
manhood, with it's earnest work and
then old age. and the grave, and then
home. There is a second youth for
man, better and holieI than his first, if
he will look on and not look back.