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Year: 1875

The vote for this gentleman's nom.
ination as gubernatorial candidate,
in the Owatonna convention, ought
to be sufficient answer TO all accu-
satlons of communism brought
against that body. Nearly every man
in the State knows that he is one of
the ablest and most energetic busi-
ness men that Minnesota possesses;
that his integrity is unimpeacbable,
and that he is true and earnest
friend Of the people, recognizing
that the prosperity of the laboring
classes is essential to the advance
ment Of the country. 1t is, also, as
we'll understood that he has always
opposed political corruption, that he
is a man who deserves to be honor
ed above his fellow-men, because Of
his usefulness, conservatism, and
honest dealing.


For him the convention cast twen-
ty-slx out Of sixty-four votes; and
had there not been present large
democratic element, predetermined
to nominate Mr.. Buell., he would
probably have been selected as the
leading candidate. For our part,
we were more than anxious to nom-
mate him, in order to show the sin
cerlty of the frequent declarations
of anti-monopolists that they want
only good men for candidates. In
Mr.. Banning they would have had a
standard-bearer they could have
been proud of. No mere politician,
but a first class citizen, who has
been identified with the develop
ment of the State from it's infancy
and has probably done more to fur
ther the development than any oth-
er man. In his hands the interests
of the people would have been en-
tirely safe, and it is to the shame of
the citizens of Minnesota that they
have not hitherto placed Mr.. Banning
and men Of his character in charge of
public affairs.


We are told that he is opposed to the
Owatonna platform. This we do not
believe. He may differ with us on the
currency question, but our knowledge
of him justifes us in asserting that he
is in favor Of a sound currency. This
is just what the anti-monopolists want.
There may be difference of opinion as
to the method for obtaining this. But
of two things we are assured: first, his
opinions upon this, as upon all other
questions, are the consequences of SIM
cere convictions that the public welfare
will be best promoted by the adoption
of the plan he advocates; and, secondly,
whatever conclusions he has arrived at
are the results of careful and mature
thought.


He is certainly not in favor Of in1at-
ing the currency above OF contracting
it below the quantity that trade de-
Year: 1875

The politics of a country are of
great Importance to the people, and
they should, therefore, understand
them thoroughly. TO enable them
to do this, the topics ought to be
discussed candidly. We are all striv-
ing to produce the same result-the
promotion of the general welfare.
If the country is prosperous, all our
private interests are advanced;
while the impoverishment of the
masses Of the people must necessa-
rily involve most us in the general
ruin.


But it is not discussing a question
to abuse those who disagree with us;
to call them blatherskites, fools,
idiots, knaves, etc. Indeed, the
man who uses such vulgarity in can
vassing an important question only
proves himself to be the thing he ac-
cuses his opponent of being. A
sensible, sincere man, though his
zeal may occasionally cause him to
display vexation, rarely descends to
abusing those with whom he argues.
B Take the financial question, for in
stance. Such men as Schurz, Davis,
Window and Kelly, IN discussing it.,
utter no word of condemnation
against those who honestly differ
with them; but content themselves
with giving facts and figures in proof
of their assertions, reasoning from
analogy, and referring to what they
believed to be historical parallel
cases. Each presents these in a
manner to sustain his own views,
honestly entertained, no doubt; and
the public are thus benefited by get
ting intelligent opinions on both
sides.


With the petty politician who has
only to serve his party, right or wrong,
there is no such thing as argument.
Their assertions are reckless, incon-
sistent, and frequently untrue, and
their every allusion to those who
differ with them is mere ruffainly
abuse. Such conduct disgusts men
of sense, and only serves to arouse
the meaner instincts of partizan
bruisers, whose highest delight is to
beat the opposition, no matter by
what dishonest and unworthy means.


But there is still another class of
political wranglers, who, impelled
by a love of demagogism, seize up
on the popular side Of a question,
and in their ignorance, vanity and
desire to create sensation, carry it
to ridiculous extremes. These, too,
have had their say about the money
question, and, from the shallowness
of their knowledge, have given the
PROPOSITION such fantastic shapes that
its best friends fail to recognize it.
These do more harm than those who
abuse their antagonists, for they
drive away from the support Of their
hobby such as are capable of render
Year: 1875

The Sixth Ward people sho1ld eiecr
Mr.. McCloskey to the City Council He
has done an immense amount TO improve
the property in that section. and added
thousands Of dollars TO the value Of real
estate in ali parts Of the Ward He is
we'll qualified for the position and is an
honest man, whom no ring can corrupt
Year: 1875

The puerile notion that the Catholic
Church has some indt finite and lurking
opposition to ecienti6c inquiry 10 not quite
so absoiete but that it finds favor in certain
quarters interested in the continuance of a
belief 10 the bugbear. 1t avails little that
the most emphatic contradiction to the
proposition has been afforded by dstin-
gushed children of the Church against
WHICH the reproach is leveled the, state
ment is again and again repeated, and no
doubt is eagerly accepted 10y the ignorant
and unrshecting masses for whose misip-
struction it is intended. The great bulk of
the English people, for iustance, know COM
paratively little OF the labOrs in the cause
"f science which have been brought to q
successful issue by humble priests of the
very communion they are taught to look
upon as inimical to the pursuits of science.
1t were needless TO remind Catholic readers
Of the fallaciousness of this idea but q
circumstance which we chronicle in our
news column will have q good effect in dis
pellipg much prejudice on this subject on
the other side of the Channel. The learned
priests of Stony hurst College, it will be re-
menbered, some months ago dispatched
two distinguished members of their Order
to the remote island of Ke-guelen, far away
in the Southern Ocean, for tie sole object of
adding to the worlds knowledge of our
planets distance from the SUP, by taking
observations of the phenomena accompany
ing tne transit OF enus. These gentlemen, {,
Fathers Perry aud Sltgraves, have return
ed from their tedious aud periious mission
and have just had an interview with the
Sovereign Pontiif, to whom they had the
honor of detailing the results of their in
terestipg observations. The Jesuits of
StoDyhurst have reason to be proud of the
service which two members of their much
'maligned Order have been able to render to
the cause of religion, in dispelling vulgar
error in regard to the relation in which IL
stands to true science. The Catholic Church
is the parent and fosterer of real scientific
research, but she resolutely sets her heel
upon such deceptive charlatanism as the
fascinating profanities of Hox!ey, Tyndall,
ct hoe genus omne.
Year: 1875

In the old times, when Catholic faith
held Christendom in one bond, there were
no seats at ail in the churches and now,
in the great cathedrals of Europe. the wide
floors are open and clear, for rich and poor,
beggar and nObleman, to enter and kpeel
together. In other days, Christian people
were not ashamed to kneel on the church
floor, bearing the fatigue in contrition for
their aims. Then religion was principle; but
now it ia fashion. In these days, we do not
go to church like the publican, with feeling
Of peaitence aud humility but We sail in-
to our pews in full feather, and kneel aud
sit on soft cushions, as if we were paying q
compliment to Almighty God.
Year: 1875

The following excellent recipe is from
DIR. Holbrook's Eating for Strength y:


This cake is made of No. 2 oatmeal
with water enough to saturate it, and lit
tie or no salt. Pour it into baking-tin
half an inch or three-quarters deep,
shake it down level, and when this is
done it should be so wet that two or
three spoonfuls of water should run free
ly on the surface. Put it in quick oven
and bake twenty minutes. Eat warm.
1t will be as light and tender as the best
'johnny-eake," or else you have wet it
too much or baked it too long. 1t will
do very nicely with longer time if the
oven is not quite hot. If it will not bake
tn en- at all, pour it into a frying pan,
cover it close and set it on top of the
stove, when it will even bake in fifteen
minutes.
Year: 1875

Washington never made a speech. In
the zenith of his fame he once attempted
it, failed, and gave it up confused and
abashed.. In framing the Constitution
of the United States, the labor was al
most wholly performed in Committee Of
the Whole, of which George Washing
ton was the chairman; but he made two
speeches during the convention of a
very few words each. The convention,
however, acknowledged the master spirit,
and historians affirm that had it not
been for his personal popularity, and the
thirty words of his first speech, pronounc-
ing it the best that could be united upon,
the Constitution would have been reject.
ed by the people. Thomas Jefferson
never made speech. He couldn't do
it. Napoleon, whose executive ability is
almost without parallel, said that his
greatest difficulty was in finding men of
deeds rather than words. When asked
how he maintained his influence over his
superior in age and experience when
commander-in-chief of an army in Italy,
he said, by reserve. The greatness of
man is not measured by the length of
his speeches and their number.
Year: 1875

A gentleman in Des Moines owns a
very intelligent little dog, which he has
trained to bring him his morning paper
from the front gate, where it is left by
the carrier. The other day some one
stole the paper directly after the carrier
had left it, and Carlo was greatly mysti-
fed about the matter. Fearing his mas
ter's anger if he entered the breakfast
room without his accustomed burden, he
secured about in great distress. A hap
py idea struck him, however, as he es-
pied a journal lying on the doorstep of
the opposite neighbor; and galloping of
in high glee, he soon came into the house
with ears prieked up, and tail briskly
wagging, with the stolen prize in his
mouth. 1t is quite needless to add that
his penetration, though misdirected, was
rewarded with bone of extra size.
Year: 1875




smallsy's Letter to the New York Tribune.


You cannot judge of the distress by
the state Of the thermometer, if you take
New York as standard. Everything
is relative. Freezing point here is al
most as trying as zero with you. We
are not used to cold. There is no prepar-
alton for 1t, and the want of preparation
is what occasions so much suffering.
Few houses in London can be thoroughly
warmed in winter There are no furna-
ces, few stoves, and steam is not availa-
Bile. Open CRATES are the rule, and
very good rule they are for single rooms,
If the rooms are not too large. But the
halls and stair-cases are without the
least heating contrivance, and that is
where most of the infiuenzas, and the
far more dangerous bronchial affections
come from. / was staying, some three
months ago, in country house-long
before there was any cold weather. and
even then it was impossible to keep
warm. Extra clothing would not do.
In the rooms you did not need it, and
in going from room to room it was no
protection. This, to be sure, was one of
those old houses built some three hun
dred years ago, and built to last. Its
architects were several of them,
for different parts of the house were built
at different periods-took account of ev-
erything but cold and damp. The walls
OF the most ancient part are nine feet
thick. The halls and floors are of solid
granite. There were double doors and
portieres, and every expedient for ex-
cluding cold from the drawing-rooms
and bedrooms, and huge fires all day
and night, even in October. But from
one room to another it was northwest
passage. So it is in London in less
degree.


Nor does London street.-The show any
more rational expectation of winter. An
inch of snow is enough to impede the
whole traffic Of the city seriously. Six
inches would paralyze it. don't know
whether we ever have six inches at
once, but when that comes, it is pitiable
to see the horses and carriages founder
ing along. If it freezes, the horses are
not shod for frozen roads. If it melts,
there are not enough Of them to draw
heavy vehicles through the slush."
No effort is made to clear it off the great
thoroughfares. The sidewalks are scarce
ly swept. The greatest possible benefit
to London would be an increase of cold
and snow. THEREAFTER century or so
some arrangements would be made
for them. 1t is certain that three inches
of snow here create far greater OBJ
struetion to street locomotion than three
feet do in Boston. If we had three feet
here as often as the New England capi-
tai has, we should not manage as well as
Boston--that would be too much to ex-
pect-but we should manage better than
we do now. Old travellers know that to
see cold country at its best you should
go in winter, and in summer to hot
country. St. Petersburg is delightful in
January, and Naples in July. They
know how to provide for cold in the one
and heat in the other. Englishmen who
come back from Calcutta tell you that
they never suffered from heat in India
as on sweltering July day in London,
and am certain that the occasional
moderate cold here in December is hard
er to bear than the regular extreme cold
of Boston.
Year: 1875

THE INVISIBLE CHILDREN.-It is not
when your children are with you; it is
not when you can see and hear them,
that they are most to you; it is when
the sad assemblage is gone it is when
the daisies have resumed their growing
again in the place where the little form
was laid it is when you have carried
your children out and said farewell. and
come home again, and day and night
are full of sweet memories it is when
summer and winter are full of touches
and suggestions of them it is when you
cannot look up toward heaven without
thinking of them, or look down toward
yourself and not think of them; it is
when they are gone out of your arms,
and are living to you only by the power
of imagination, that they are the most
to you. The invisible children are the
realest children 1T the children that touch
our hearts as no hands of flesh could
ever touch them.
Year: 1875

Not to tease Girl or boys o!lcr than
! Themselves


When their play is over for the day to
wash faces and hands, brush the hair,
and spend tiie evenings in the house.


T. treat tlr-ir mother as politely as if
she was astrange lady, who did not spend
her life in their services.


To be %, kind aud helpful TO their sis
ta.-;.S they are to other boys's sisters.


Not to gruinbIe or refuse when asked
to DO some erraud which must be done,
and which will Otherwise take the time
OF some one who has more To do than
themselves


To make their friends among good
boys.


To take pride in having their mothers
and sisters for their best friends.


To try and find amusements for tIe
evenings which all the family can join
in, large and small


To take pride in being gentlemen at
home.


Not 10 take the easiest chair in the
room and put it directly in front of the
fire, AID forget to offer it to the mother
when she comes TO sit down.


TO cultivate Il cheerful temper.


TO learn to sew on their own buttons.
If they do anything wrong to take their
mothers into their confidence, and above
all, never to lie about anything they
have done.


To make Ep their minds not TO learn
to smoke, TO chew, or to drink, remem-
bcring that these things cannot be an
learned, and that they are terrible draw
backs TO good men, and necessities TO
bad ones


TO remember that there was never
vasabond without these habits.


To learn TO save their money and IN
vest it, from the first penny they earn,
and they are sure to be rich men.


To observe all these rules. and they are
sure to be gentlemen.
Year: 1875

There is no institution of greater i'm
pOr;ance in this country than orr Sab
ba;h. And consequently there is none
that ought to BE- guarded and defended
with greater zeal and watehfulness than
this. As n matter Of mere physical
economy and safety every toiling and
labOriag citizen in the land should de-
fend the Sabbath, and insist upon its
strict observance as day Of rest. For
no labosing man, under this simple view,
can DO without the rest. Both his mind
and his body need this. And il has been
already demonstrated, without tine least
doab., that both the health and the
continuance Of human life largely de-
pend upon the proper observance Of the
Sabbath.


But higher considerations press the
claims OF this day upon Us. We all need
a day in every seven on which to reflect
upon those great questions which tend
to our spiritual and eternal peace. We
must bring ourselves to these questions,
and without this day, and its sacred mo-
ments and means Of grace, it IS impos
sible to accomplish a work 50 very mo-
nUentOus


There are just at this time many at
tempted enerOaehments upon the OBJ
servanee, ~ a religious institution, OF the
sabbath day. Some are trying to tuIn
this day into day Of sport and pasti;ne,
and others are disposed to make it a day
OF profit and gain. No such enerOa h
ments as these should be allowed. For
no one can predict the fatal eonse-
qUenees Of such an allowance. With the
continued desecration Of this day wi l
come its total abolition And this will
surely be followed with its ultimate
overthrow. Aud if you destroy your
Sabbath you undermine the Bible, the
Christian Church the Sabbath-sehOOl,
and religion. Christian World.
Year: 1875

Judge Underwood, Of Kentucky, made
these few remarks 10 four young candi-
dates for the bar who had Just passed an
examination in his court: Young gen
tleInen. l want to say thing or two u
you. You have passed as good an exam
ination as usual, perhaps better, but you
don't know anything, Like those young
fellows Just back from their graduation
college, you think you know great
deal. That is a great mistake. II you
ever get to be of any account you will
be surprised at your present ignorance


Don be too big for your breeches- Go
around to the Justices court. Try to
learn something. Don't be afraid Set
off on a high key. You Will, no doubt,
speak great deal OF nonsense, but you
will have one consolation, nobody will
know it. The great mass of mankind
take sound for sense. Never mind about
your ease-piteh in You are about as
apt TO win as lose. Dcu't be ashamed
Of the wise looking justice, he don't
Year: 1875

SoPHIsrRY.-You can't get an old
shoemaker to Blunder. TIE other day
when a weigIty woman sailed into a
Detroit shoe store and selected a pair of
No. Is and sat dowr to have them tried
on, the shoemaker saw that she wanted
sevens. But he didn't tell her so. and
start oui OF the shop on gaIlop. He
smiled and softly said:


Madam, all the ari-tocratic ladies
are now wearing shoes three sizes too
large for their feet, M order 10 have cool
extremities, and Of course you want to
follow the style"


She smiled like duck in reply to his
smile and replied:


You are iu position TO know best,
and leave everything to your judge
msnt."


When Size went onr She said She never
had sueh an easy fitting shoe on in her
whole l;fe.
Year: 1875

Gold declined during the week from 116k to 1141S,
and closed at ll5H. The effect Of the election not
immediately apparent although it is probable that the
latter had something to do with the decline 1t is still
more probable that the price will advance in the not
distant future the demand for commercial purposes
being good and the supply not equal to the
specuatlvey there just signs OF clique in
this market, but individual parties buying for q
RISE


Cash gold was easy and to per cent the
rates paid to havo balances carried with exceptional
loans at slight consideration for use. The following
are the
Year: 1875

n ItI-I ItAAIzA4NI1


About ten O'Clock yesterday morning there was
brought into the Essex Market Police Court a speci-
men Of poor humanity his clothes soaking wet and he
was shivering with cold. Two officers led him for
ward and held him upright against the railing.


s'What is the charge against this manS'


officer o'Connor of the Thirteenth precinct, said in
a quiet tone ''He fell overheard Your Honor at the
foot of Broome street,


Judge 0tterbourg (sternly)-He fell overheard,
and your sergeant captain him up here in this
condition instead Of trying to alleviate his suferngsl
This what call gross neglect OF duty In fact it Is
inhuman.


The officer then explained that the man picked
up in the river by boatmen and handed his
care: that he brought him to court by the order Of
Sergeant Granger The prisoner, who gave his name
as Charles McCabc, evidently suffering from de-
lirium tremens or mental alteration, and Was COM
mitted by Justice 0tterbourg to the of the Com
mssioners Of Charities and Corrections
Year: 1875

The event in military circles this evening will be the
full dress reception and grand promenade of
the Twenty regiment, at its armory Fourteenth
street. near Sixth avenue At quarter to eight the
dress parade and review will take place. the concert
will commence at halipast eight and dancing at ten
p NJ. The music will be provided by Gilmore's band
accompanied by Arbucke and other musical celeb
ritia
Year: 1875

A writer in the Scientific American describes the growth of oysters in the beds of the planters. At the age of three months the oyster spats are about the size of finger nail, and adhere to the planted shells to the number of fifty or sixty on each. The further growth during five years of development is close ly watched by the planter. The spats crowd each other on the shells to which they adhere, and are thinned out, the surplus usually being removed to other beds. At the end of the third year the oysters are taken up and removed to another field, it having been found that a change of water hastens the growth

 A firm, gravelly-bottom, with free flow of water, is considered best for oysters of that age, and in the location of the grounds the planters exercise the incest care. Oysters grown on muddy bot tom do not mature rapidly, and are not as fine in flavor. The effect of trans planting is to thicken the meat and make it fill the expanding shell. It is only the best oysters in the market that have been subjected to these processes, the most of those eaten in restaurants being either natural or only transplanted from natural beds. E.