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Year: 1879

PREPARATIONS TO LIGHT UP THE NEIGHBon-


KLEcTRIcITy.


Arrangements are now in progress by electric
light company for the lighting up by electricity of
the immediate neghborhood OF the Fifth Avenue
Hotel. 1t is contemplated to make tho entire neigh
borhood including the park brilliant at night as
the Place de iOpera in Paris. This company claim
to have practically succeeded in subdividing the
electric light In connection with the carbon burner
For this purpose they adopt ingenious device by
which the main circuit can supply large number
of other circuits by means of induced electricity
The main CIRCUIT remains constantly closed and the
current IL therefore continually flowing over
It. Arranged ut different places Oh the main circuit
bobbins OF wire each connecting with electric
lamp. Around these bobtins second current Of
the subtle fluid is induced from the main line which
induced current gives the electric light. This ar
rangement is based on the well known principle of
electricity, that ~ current Is made to flow near
second wire the latter becomes charged with cleo
triciy OF higher tension than the electricity how
my in the first circuit Actual practice of the new
arrangement demonstrates. the company claim,
that these various induced currents do not deract
In any spprecable degree from the strength of
the main circuit.


Another advance in the science Of electric lighting
which the company claim as covered by their pat
ents the practical indestructibty OF the carbon
points, To accomplish this their carbons are manu-
factured in such way that asbestos In appropriate
quantities IL made to preserve the carbon from de-
struction. A second method, involving the same
principle IL the covering OF the carbon points with
hood of asbestos. which, while II does detract
from the How OF the current and the consea ient
brlliancy OF the voltac keeps tho carbon from
wasting away by consumption. by the use of either
arrangement no regulator for keeping the carbon
points close together In necessary, and the
company have discarded In all their late lamps
the use OF regulators. IL continued practice shows
that the votaic arc can be kept uninterrupted for
any considerable length of time without regulators
o marked advance has been made In electric light
Ing, inasmuch as the employment OF regulators
adds both TO the complication and the expense of
the electric light.


The president of the company stated. in an inter-
view with HERALD reporter yesterday concerning
the cost OF the light by the new system. that ho
had recently received report from large manufac-
tory in Hartford. whore the light Is used, showing
IL to be very much cheaper thni gas. The manufac-
tory in question based their report upon period OF
time covering the manufacture of several torpedo
boats for the Peruvian government. The light by
gas cost III ~ per hour, while the same light BY
electricity cost only eight cents per hour
Year: 1879




Jack Marshall is responsible for the
following % . dead cold fact: He says
that on Christmas night hs heard his
dog Jack barking furiously. and the
noise was 90 continuous that he finally
went out to the shed where the dog was
tied. There he found the dog with his
chain pulled taut trying to reach . rat
which Was about FIVE inches beyond his
nose. The rat Was squatted on his hind
legs and actually tickling the dogs nose
with Q straw. Several other rats were
seated about the 6rst hugely enjoying
the scene, and at times squealing with
laughter. The dog was frantic with
rage, and his teeth were clashing like
the knives Of moving machine.
Year: 1879

Thus giving the Republicans twenty-five
votes more than they need to elect the next
President of the United States. In this
way the great expounder of law and Ma.
tional polity has set trap in which il
would be caught as its party was when il
invented the Electoral Commission in the
hope of making final steal of the Presi-
dency, after having already bull-dozed the
Republican party out Of at least three States
that rightfully belonged to it. This trapping
for advantage very often upsets the calcula-
tions of the trappers.
Year: 1879

Ex-Governor Tom You've is now dis
covered to be the tenebrious equine in the
Ohio Senatorial race. He is n progressive
man and a reliable Republican, Which can
not be said of all the candidates for that
Office
Year: 1879

THE Democratic political managers are
now very anxious to provide for General
GRANT by making him president of the
Pennsylvania Central Railroad Company
But we admonsh them that his next prcsi
dency is liable to include one more COM
prehensive than that. The Pennsylvania
Company is large concern; but it is not
the United States.
Year: 1879

THE Democrats of New York are labor
ing to enthuse the people with such agen-
cies as Senators WALLACE and KEENAN,
and Speaker RANDALL. This is very much
like kindling a fire with wood soaked in
salt water. Either of them would freeze
out tolerably enthusiastic audience Their
eloquence is handicapped by dullness
where ignorance does not predominnte.
Year: 1879

THE necessity of a Republican victory in
by intelligent people generally, who under
stand that the coming election in that
State may settle the political complexion OF
the Presidential Electors therefrom for
1850 Messrs. BLAINE, GARFIELD, LOGAN
aud u dozen or hundred other Republican
campaigners cannot be more usefully em-
ployed in the interval between the Novem-
Der elections and the assembling of Con-
gress than on the stump in that immediate
section. The State is really and rightfully
Republican, and it would be worse than q
shame, under these inviting circumstances
to permit the bogus Home Rulers to retain
possession of it,
Year: 1879

THE strongest possible Republican form
of government is that which will withstand
q four-years' bloody rebellion and fifteen
years of Southern treachery since, and we
have t. The South need not look further
for it.
Year: 1879

THE judiciary of the South now serves
the purpose of the slave code in making
slaves of the colored population. On the
slightest pretext or allegation they are ar.
rested for petty oflenses, tried, convicted
and sentenced to long imprisonment. They
are then reduced to system of slavery
much worse than that which existed before
the war This is freedom in the South to-
day
Year: 1879

Of the North only in so far as the accident of
residence makes them 50 but they will
nevertheless enjoy the privilege of sham
ming non sectionalsm, despite the facts in
the case. But the Republican party can
readily Offset this advantage, if advantage
it is, by putting a Southern Republican on
its ticket for Yice-P President, and at the same
time do something in the direction Of en-
couraging the growth of Republican princi-
piles in the South.
Year: 1879

THE Baltimore american assumes that
Secretary ScHURz is quite right in placing
anembargo on the Republican voters in
his Department, If so, then the President
and the heads of all the other Departments
are quite wrong, for they have invariably


favored the exercise of suffrage by the EN-
ployees of all the other Departments. This
civil-service humbug has done al the mis-
chief in this Government that it should be
allowed to, and as it all centres at one
point, it should be plucked up and cast out
Year: 1879

Tom Butord, who recently sssassi
mated Judge Elliott, in the streets of
Frankfort, is one of the most reckless
and daring men in Kentucky. He dofs
not care for anybody or anything nor is
he afraid OF anything. One of his iste
desperate acts was TO draw double.
barreled shot gun on the sheriff and
posse who came to levy on some OF his
property. When the men arrived at the
gate he walked to the door and pointed
the gun at the first man, snd told them
that he yould kill the frs! rusn that
entered tie gate. He then invited sew
ersl Of them iuIo dinner, saying that as
friends he was glsd to see them, but Is
officers they could not come on his place.
When dinner was finished he told them
they must leave now lie had extended
the hospitslities OF his farm, aud be was
done with them Not one of those
twenty.six men had the pluck to disobey
or disregard what Tom Butord said, thus
showing that he was regarded as a dan,
gerous man by his neighbors They did
not levy on the land or offer TO do 70
after his threat, but retired gracefully
and in order.
Year: 1879

A friend writing from Washington says there is an apparently proper wish for the establishment, in connection with some one of the Departments, of a mining or mineral bureau. The call comes now from the older states in which gold and other mines exist, but the greater order and stability which would everywhere be introduced will commend the scheme to miners every where. Great interest is felt by all in the experimental lighting of portions of the Capitol by electricity. The hall of the House will not, at present, be supplied with the light, as the inventor is not wholly satisfied with his work But it is believed that not much time will elapse before the whole vast build ing will have its only light from cleo tricity.
Year: 1879

Ar the request of the City Trustees Col. Scott agrees to return to San Di ego one half of the land years ago granted to the Texas Pacific Company as soon as any other company shall have finished 100 miles of railroad eastward from that city. There will probably be extensive litigation over the matter, as the San Diegans want all the lands.
Year: 1879

WE are informed on good authority that the monthly pay roll in Gro Blan co District aggregates s7,OOO. There is a class of indifferent men in the district who find it difficult to secure employment, but good miners are in demand.
Year: 1879

A correspondent of Land and Water,


in reply to the question whether mon
keys swim, says: 81 was always under
the impression that they did not like
wetting their fur or hair, but at Sangur,


Central India, when I was stationed
there, had little monkey that was ex-
eeedingly fond of swimming and diving.


One day, on taking him to the pond at
the bottom of my compound, he jumped
off my shoulder and diyed 0ike NAM


into the water, which was three or four
feet deep; he had his chain on at the
time, and when he dived in the chain
caught in some grass or root at the
bottom and kept the monkey down; he
was Just able to come to the top of the
water. Feeling his chain had caught he
diyed down, urdid the chain, and con-
tnued the swim with the chain in his
hand. He swan just like man as far
as [ could see from the motion Of bis
arms. Several of my brother officers
came to see him swimming, of which he
was very fond, swimming very quietiy,
and elnningly trying to catch the frogs
that lay floating on tue top of the water. -
Year: 1879

scription, though eyideauy disguised,
had come down TO Norwich by the Lon
adon coach. 4 blacksmith, whose forge
l.was about half mile from Dr. Hunston's s
residence, saw a young man pass his
place about 9 o'clock in the evening
On the blacksmith and the driver of the
Norwich coach comparing notes, no
doubt was left that the man who come
down from London and the man seen by
the blacksmith were identical. Then
there was the wounded hand. When it
came to be question Of Importance,
funston refused to say how ho injured
his hand. Ii was clear however, that
on opening The sash-from which he
had probably removed the catch month
before when meditating the crime-he
tplaced his right hand on the sill. The
/ sash fell, and hence the injured hand.
IL spite of his frightful wound, however
he went on with the bloody work. No
doubt=he tied up the hand and then
worked with the left. This cleared up
the difficulty, and accounted for the left
hand being used to cut the throat and
open the lock, and also for the Impress
ion Of the left hand only in the soil out
side the window. The voice Of young
Hunston had probably pacifed the dog
before tho window fell. He and the
dog had been playmates for years, and
the dog was not given to suspect wrong
when his old friend was about. To COM
plete the chain of circumstantiaI evidence
some OF the missing jewelrY was found
in possession of man to whom young
Hunston sold it.


Hunston swore positively that his
father gave him the jewelry on his last
visit home, but Terwhit swore with equal
clearness that he saw it in the doctors
hands the very day before the murder,
when he was searching his desk for a
fruit-knife.


Hunston was convicted of The murder,
and hanged at Norwich.
Year: 1879

Conjugal affection depends largely up
on mutual confidence. 81 make it a
rule" said a wiseacre to his friend, 'sto
tell my wife everything that happens.
In this way we manage to avoid any
misunderstanding" Not to be outdone
in generosity the friend replied: ''Well,
sir, you are not 50 open and frank as
am, for I tell my wife a great many
things that never happen
Year: 1879

Captain Eads, with his pocket full of
cash and the glory which he thinks at
taches to his name in consequence of the
comparative success Of the jetty system
at the mouth of the Mississippi, has pro-
posed plan for ship railroad across
the isthmus of Darien. He thinks that
canal would be too expensive. He,
therefore, suggests plan by which a
ship with full cargo can be transferred
from one ocean to the other. As we
understand he proposes to float the ship
in either stone or q wooden basin, and
transfer the ship and the basin on iron
rails from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
The idea is certainly grand one and
worthy of the novelty of American gen.
ius, He declares that 5000, 600 will be
ample for all the purposes that he re-
quires; whereas, by the Lessep's plan,
which is in the form of an old fashioned
canal, the cost would not be less Than
300, 900, ,000.- Wisconsin.
Year: 1879

BELOW PAR"-That raminds me of a
little anecdote, is what every bright man
has heard over and over again, rs his
memory has been logged by some ones
telling good story. When good stories
and ready repartees are going on, ore
witty little thing is sure to suggest fam
other. Thus we thought day or two
since, when reading in an evening paper
that Charles Sumner was no musician,
and that lady friend once told him that
if he was to buy n music box set to Old
Hundred, she did not believe that he
conld make it play more than seventy
five. 1t was doubtless something in the
same vein that prompted old Mrs. Roth
child, when ninety-seven, to say to her
physician, "Doctor. You must keep me
up for three years more at least; it would
be disoreditable for Rothehild to go off
under par
Year: 1879

How THE INDIANS MADE THEIR ARROW


HEAps.-A yonny man in The Smithso-


man Institute, writes the Washington


correspondent of the Cleveland Leader,


has Just made public the discovery Of the


method employed In making the stone


and volcanic glass arrow heads, daggers,


knives, axes and raz'rs of the prehistoric
races Up to this time this has been


great pfob.cni to d.. a.i.s', ---I"U-.t,'Gents,


but no theory has ever been advanced
showing such practical results as sCushings.


He started to solve the difficulty by put
ting hun self in the identical position Of
the Aztecs or Mound Builders-without
ANYTHING to work with except sticks,
various shaped stones, such as he could
find on the banks of any stream, and his
hands After making some rude imple-
ments by chipping one flint with another
has discovered that no amount OF chip
ping would produce snrfac like the best
of those which he was trying to initiate.
He therefore came to the conclusion that
there was another way Of doing it, and,
by chance. tried pressure with the point
of stick, instead of chipping by blows
of a stone when, presto he found that
he could break stone, flint and obsldian
in any shape he chose. Soon he had
made spear heads and daggers that would
cut Ike razor, as good as any he had
b fore him, which had been picked up
from all over the world BY little more
observation he discovered that the " fax
ing" which he calls his process, and the
old arrow head left grooves that all turned
one way He produced a like result by
turning his stick in the easiest way from
right TO LEFT. He therefore concludes
that the prehistorics were right-handed
people hike ourselves. This conclusion Is
reinforced by the fact that occasionally
an arrow head is found that has fakes
running from left to right, showing left
handed person. The importance of the
discovery is that it shows that the early
races we're able to do tins work without
the nse of iron or bronze, thing long
doubted
Year: 1879

CoArIGG AN OsELIsK-Che famous
Egyptian obelisk, which was recently set
up on the banks Of the Thames, and
which it was found would rapidly become
disorganiz-d by the action of the peculiar
atmosphere, has been coated with a SILL
cious wash, which, it Is believed. will sue
cessfuliy protect Its surface for years
The effect of the process. 1t Is said, mas
surpassed expectation, and is only to be
compared to the restoration OF an OIL
painting. The obelisk now appears as If
lust ehiseled from the rock, showing Its
original oolors. the quartz and feldspar
glittering in the sunlight. The intaglio
also comes out much more distinctly than
before.
Year: 1879

ADVICE TO YoUNG MAN--And then
remember, son, that the world Is older
than you are, by several years that Tor
thousands of years it has been 30 full Of
smarter and better young men than Your
self that their feet stuck out OF the dor
mer windows that when they did the
globe went Whirling on, and not one man
ir ten million went to the funeral or even
heard of the death. Be as smart As you
can, Of course Know as much as you
can without blowing the packing out OF
Your cylinder head shed the hight OF
your wisdom abroad in the world, but
don't dazzle people with 1t. And don t
imagine q thing is SO simply because you
say IL is. Don't be too sorry for your
father because he knows SO much less
than you do; remember tae reply Of Dr.


Wayland to the student at Brown Uni
yersity who said it was an easy thing to
make proverbs such as Solomon wrote !:
" Make few" tersely replied the Old
man. And nc never heard that the
oouno man made any Not more than
two or three, anyhow. The world has
treat need ot young men, but no greater
need than the young men have of 1t.


Your clothes fit You better than your
fathers 6t HIM they cost more money !;
they are more stylish your mustache is
neater the cut Of your hair Is better,
and your are pre,tier-oh, far prettler
than .pa." But, Young man, the old
gentleman gets the biggest salary, and his
6omely, scrawling signature on the busi-
n IS end of check will drain more money
out of the bank i'll FIVE minutes, than you
could get out with a ream of paper and a
copper plate signature in SIX months
Young men are useful, son, and they are
oruam -ntal, and We all love them. and
we couldn't engineer picnic successfully
without them But tn y are no novelties,
son. Oh, no, nothing of the kind They
have been here before. Don't De So
modest as to shut yourself clear out, but
don't be so fresh you will have TO be put
axay into tn. cool to keep from spoIlIny.


Don t be afraid that your merit Will not


be discovered. People all over the world
are hunting for You, and if you are worth
finding, they will find you. A diamond
isn't so easily found as quartz pebble
but people search for it all the more IN


tentiy.-Ha,ckeys-
Year: 1879

Owing to the absence of Commissioners Wheeler
from the city and the consequent unwillingness Of
Commissioner French to be in minority. the Police
Board is unable to transact any business. At last
weeks meeting Mr.. French startled when he
learned that a few changes to be made IN the
removal of certain officials in the Street Cleaning
Bureau and the appointment of new hands in their
place. He saw clearly that if the two democratic
Commissioners voted together they would fill the
proposed vacant places with their own henchmen,
which would destroy the political balance of power
in the department. Mr.. French. therefore, pleaded
league. Mr.. Wheeler. radical changes
should be made. and on that account
he was in favor of laying the proposition
to remove Captain Rightmeye OF the schooner U. s.
Grant, for week. Mr.. MacIean urged that it
was necessary dispense with the services of Cap
tain Rightmeye, that official had been derect in
his duty in dumping garbage in the bay. After
prolonged discussion Mr.. French carried his point,
with tho understanding that the case would be con-
was to take place half-past eleven O'Clock A. NJ.
Punctual to the appointed time Commissioners
MacLean and Morrison were in attendance in
the Board room, while Commissioner French re-
maned in his office down stairs. That official being
notified that his attendance was requested AS the
Board was about to convene quietly slipped out OF
the building without leaving word when he would
be back where he had gone. This action pre-
vented the possibility of the Board holding its
chairman. announced that there being quorum
the Board would adjourn until half-past one P. NJ.
At that time the situation remained Unchanged
which necessitated an adjournment sine de.
Year: 1879

The iron pier at Long Branch was lashed by the
waves yesterday morning with terrific force. Pieces
of tho lower deck landing torn away. and
finally at high tide toward noon tho whole of the
plankng was lifted bodily by the swollen waters and
hurled upon the pier aud sands. Still the frame
work itself not Affected IL vibratcd, OF course,
when the gutter pile sheathing was driven against IL
by heavier sea than usual. but was not materially
injured. and ladies, clutching their escorts arms,
stood upon 1t, Watching the watery tumult
Year: 1879

The Thirteenth regiment Pennsylvania National
Guards, COO strong from scranton. and now in en-
campment at Long Branch, are to pay New York
flying visit to day. The regiment will have full
band and drum corps and will be accompanied
by many leading citizens of their town. They are
TO leave the iron pier on the steamer Plymouth
Rock, which win be decorated with flying colors In
honor Of the occasion.
Year: 1879

The 1st thing to do to make Il good
quirc singer is to giylc little. Put ur
your hair in curl papers every Friday
mite, so as to have it in good shape Sun
day morning. If your daddy is rich yo,,
can buy some store hair; if he is very rich
buy some more and build it high upon
your head; then git high priced bonnet
that runs up very high, at the high part
Of it, and git the mi|incr to plant some
high artatislcls into the iyhcst part OF
it. This will help you sing high, as So
prano is the highest part


When the tune is give out, don't pay
attention to it, and then giyIc. Giglc !,
good ,lccl.


Whisper to the girl next you that EN-
Jones, which sets on the second sect iron,
the front on the lcft-hand side, has her
bunnit trimmed with the same color cx-
act she had last year. and then put your
book to your face and giglc.


Object to every tune unless there is a
solow into it for the soplrano. Cotf am,


ham good deeI before you begin to sing.
When you sing shake the artafislcIs OIL
you, bunnit, and when you come to a
high tone brace yourself back a little


twist your head to one side and open
your mouth the widest on that side, shct
the eye on the same side Jest a triple,
and then put in for dear life.
When the preacher gifts under hed-way
with his preachin', write note onto the
blank leaf into the fourth part of your
note book That's what the blank was
made for. Git sumbody' to pass the
note to sumbody else, and you watch
them while they read it and then giglc.
If anybody talks or lat}s in the con-
grcgashun, and the preacher takes notis
OF 1t, that's good chance for you to gig
gle, and you ought to CYCLE great deal.


The preacher darsent say anything to
you bckaus you are in the quirc. If YOU
had bow before you went into the quirc,
give him the mitten-you ought to have
somebody better now.


Don't forget to gigle.