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Year: 1874

USE OF MInK.-If it is absolutely
necessary to use secresy in the matter
of correspondence, use rich new milk
with clear quill on white paper 1T
leaves no mark whatever and the writ
ing may afterward be read by dusting
over it pulverized charcoal, or any
black powder; or the letters will APP
pear in deep yellow by scorching the
paper before hot fire.
Year: 1874

-Chewers tremble The tobacco crop of
Kentucky is almost failure, yielding not more
than thirteen per cent of an average crop.


In view of the Ross case, had not all children
better be branded


"A Carolina bastard chewed off girls ear for
rejecting his hand.


The advantage Of white dress is that it
doesn't fade
Year: 1874

Lecture of DR.. Brown-Sequard at Boston.l


There are many facts which show that
morbid phenomena of respiration can be
also stopped by the influence of arrest.
Coughing, for instance, can be stopped
by pressing on the nerves of the lip, in
the neighborhood of the nose. A press
ure there may prevent cough when it
is beginning. Sneezing may be stopped
by the same mechanism. Pressing also
in the neighborhood of the ear, right in
front of the ear, may stop coughing. 1t
is also true of hiecough, but much less
so than for sneezing or coughing. Press
ing very hard on the top of the mouth
inside is also a means of stopping cough
ing; and | may say that the will has
immense power there. There was a
French surgeon who used to say, when
ever he entered the wards of his hospi-
tai. "The first patient who coughs here
will be deprived of food to-day" 1t was
exceedingly rare that patient coughed
thea.


There are many other affections
associated with breathing which can be
stopped by the same mechanism that
stops the hearts action. In spasms OF
the CLOTHS, which is a terrific thing in
children, as you well know. as it some
times causes death, and also in whoop-
ing cough, it is possible to afford relief
by throwing cold water on the face, or
by tickling the soles Of the feet, which
produces laughter, and at the same
time goes to the gray matter that is
producing the spasm and arrests 1t al
most at once l would not say that we
can always prevent cough by our will,
but in many instances those things are
possible; and if you remember that
bronchitis and pneumonia, or any other
acute affection OF the lungs, hacking or
coughing greatly increases the trouble
at times, you can easily see how impor-
tant it is for the patient TO try to avoid
coughing as best he can,
Year: 1874

From the New York World, April 81


The death was recently announced in
the columns of the London papers Of
Mrs. Delane, wife OF the well known
editor of the London Times. In com
mon with the late Mr.. Thaekeray, Mr..
Delane has during the greater portion
of his married life been condemned to
forego all the pleasures of that state
through the mental illness of his wife,
and perhaps has on that account felt
the occupation which only gives him
one evening in a week TO himself the
less onerous. In London he resides in
one OF the inns Of court within easy dis
tanee Of the Times office; his horses and
his groom, are almost as well known to
the freQuenters Of the Strand and the
Temple as Temple Bar itself. His
Saturdays sad Sundays are usually
Year: 1874

Nor CoUNTED.-The vote in three of
the townships in Humboldt county where
Local Option elections carried, was not
counted by the Supervisors. they being
convinced that sufficient notice had not
been given. a similar state of affairs
would probably haveexisted here, had
either of the late elections been carried
against License.
Year: 1874

STILL STANDING.-At latest accounts
Smiths bridge, at Douglas City, was
standing and teams crossing on it as
though nothing was the matter. 1t is
now thought probable that the damaged
bent will remain in position until the
water becomes low enough to allow its
being repaired.
Year: 1874

AssEss1NG,-Paulsen and Deputy arc
busy but cannot finish the assessment Of
this county within the time prescribed
by law, having been detained by high
water. The State Board of Equalization
will be applied to for an extension of
time, which will no doubt be granted.
Year: 1874

Nor QUITE.-We are compelled to de-
fer another week tho announcement Of
the completion Of the West WeQyer
Ditch. Two points Of blasting rock are
now being operated upon, and when the
finishing touches are put on these the
ditch will be completed. There ARE not
more than ten rods yet to excayate, and
the men are working as thick as women
at Local Option election.
Year: 1874

AT the recent meeting of the Venango
County (Pa.) Medical Society at Oil
City, DIR. Glebnon reported a case which
had been reported to the Mercer County
Medical Society by DR.. D. La Cosset, of a
girl of nine years, apparently Of good
health, in which there was ptosis, or
falling of the upper eyelids, SO as to
close both eyes and in which the eyesight,
to all appearances, was defective to such
an extent as to cause blindness; yet the
little patient was able TO see well with
the eyes closed, to distinguish colors, to
read from book, and to distinguish OBJ
jects from a distance; and this she was
able to do even when her eyes were
closed and heavily bandaged, so that to
all reasonable appearances the light was
excluded. The Pittsburg Gazette says
that the report of the case elected quite
a good deal of interest by members of
the society, and were it not for the high
standing of the medical gentlemen
making the report, would have been
discredited. No explanation of the
phenomenon was offered. The patient
has. been in this condition some four
months.
Year: 1874

So-called accomplishments are a sort
of mansard-roof clapped on the sounder
structure of the average English educa-
ton Why they are thus denominated,
when in the possession of them so little
is really accomplished, it is difficult to
determine. Their material is generally
as unsubstantial as that of the thing to
which they have been compared, and,
subjected to the fiery tests of life and
experience, they are almost as readily
destroyed. The requirement of little
knowledge of music, certain rules of
drawing. the process of mixing colors,
and few foreign phrases, are oftenest
the result of much misapplied industry.
If music, drawing and painting were
studied and cultivated as arts, with the
intent of becoming thoroughly proficient
in them, that they might stand, if need
be, in good, practical stead, then the
time devoted to them would not be vast
ed Instead of being mental folfols in
which to deck their ill-clothed minds in
public, these attainments would be of
deep and lasting satisfaction to their
possessors, even though not put to any
severer trial.


Few girls care enough for music and
drawing to pursue them after being freed
from the restraint of masters, and many
never begin such study were it not for
the ambition of parents, guided by a So
cety that demands all girls to be nodded
after one model. This idea is so obvi-
ously impossible as to be absurd. Count
less good gardeners, milliners, dressma-
kers, housekeepers, have been spoiled in
poor piano players, simply because
knowledge of the piano was considered
an elegant acquisition while an under
standing of the other things was regard
ded as something that only necessity
should require. The hours of strumming
on unresponsive instruments, (unrespon-
rive because touched by no sympathetic
fngers,) which, otherwise employed,
might have made capital cooks, are in
calculable.


The original design was good-to ena-
BILE women to impart pleasure and i'm
movement to themselves and others; but
II sigEally failed. Seldom are girls will
ling to play, or exhibit the work of their
pencil to critical ears and eyes; and
when good nature impels them to, what
have they to offer? Ordinarily the mer-
est smattering-more repellant to ripe
judgment than total ignorance would be-


1t is evident that an acquaintance
with the alphabet Of many branches is
not so great an aid to intellectual i'm
provement as being thoroughly versed in
one. In this short life it is much 10
know even one thing well. If thorough
" understood, everything from steak
broiling to oratorio-composing, should be
considered an accomplishment Pupils
apt at figures should be taught book
Year: 1874

keeping in place Of minims and semi
breves and natural nurses given an in
sight into bottles and bandages, in lieu
of curved lines and neutral tint. Thus
the training of the mind in direction
at one natural and useful contributes to
its healthiest growth, and rebounds to
individual advancement and general ad-
vantage
Year: 1874

A man In Greenfield, whom We will call
William, got up one morning and proceeded
to put on shirt which his wife had made Tor
him after new pattern. As she stood at the
mirror curling her hair, she heard a suppressed
SOUND hall way between a grOan and an oath
and turning around said, laughing;


Why, my dear?'


Shut up! he calculated, you're dorm
tool. Never let a woman attempt to fit a
shirt; she cant do it; it is one Of the impossi.
bities.


But William" deprecatingly.


"Don'tyo talk-let me talk. Do you think
I'm going down town in this rig? 4 nrettv
disposition you We got just because | happen
ed to find little fault last week with your IRON
ing you must 90 and make me shirt without
a bosom Such malicious conduct, madam,
IS objectionable. Shut, up, | say, won t
hear a word


"When starched front is the only finery
that a man INDUCES in, is he not excusabe
tor being particular in regard to that, | should
like to know? And this thing sets like the
devil. Look how baggy it is here in front,
and 1t feels behind as if there was a board
across me; walking up and looking in the
glass, hltchng up first one shoulder and then
the other, the indescribablc manner Of men
trying a new garment


His wife dared not speak, but. bringing a
good sized mirror from the next room, She
held 1t up behind him for a moment, and her
calvIng from his chop fallen expression that he
saw the point, and the 'front.' she ran down
stairs to retire the coffee and see that Bridget
had set the table geometrically.


As William walked down to his office that
morning he said to the first friend that he
met: Il tell you, Tom that little wife of mine
is born genius Look at this shirt now: she
cut and made it all by herself no confovuded
button holes to bother fellow. just send
your wife up for the pattern


And it was by the way of Tom wife that
Lizzie first new that William was pleased with
his shirt.
Year: 1874

YALE CoLLEGE.-The authorities of Yale
College complains that it now costs the college
just twice as much to educate student as it
receives from him in tuition. Were it not for
the outside aid that the institution is constantly
receiving, it is easy to see that it would soon
become bankrupt. Thirty years ago the aver
age amount paid by each graduate was sixty
nine per cent. of the expense of his education.


The same disparity between receipts and
disbursements exists in other large colleges
and is increasing. On the other hand, it now
costs not very extravagant student nearly as
much for years study as used to be expended
by economical men in four years.


The average expenses of Yale students are
$767, while those Of the graduating class of the
present year averaged over 81, 900 per annm
Harvard is equally, if not more expensive.


Between the calls of the colleges for more
aid and the growing costliness of a collegiate
course, it begins to look as if what used to be
called liberal education will require hereafter
larger expenditure than all but few favored
persons are able to bear, and the children o
the wealthy are not usually the ones to prof
by the advantage. ge.-Philada. City Item
Year: 1874

A DEAR DUCK.-Dickens tells the following
story of an American sea captain On his last
voyage home the captain had on board young
lady of remarkable personal attraction-a
phrase [ use as one being entirely new, and
one you never met with in the newspapers.
This young lady was beloved intensely by five
young gentlemen passengers, and in return
she was in love with them all very ardently,
but without any particular preference for either.
Not knowing how to make up her determine
ton in this dilemma, she consulted my friend
the captain. The captain being man of an
original turn of mind, says to the young lady,
Jump overheard, and marry the man that
jumps after you" The young lady, struck
with the idea, and being naturally fond of
bathing, especially in warm weather, as it then
was, took the advice of the captain, who had
boat manned in case of accident. According,
ly, next morning, the five lovers being on
deck, and looking devotedy at the young
lady, she plunged into the sea, head-foremost.
-Four of the lovers Immediately jumped in
after her. When the young lady aud her tour
lovers were got out again, she says to the cap
tain, "What am | to do with them now, they
are so wet2 Say the captain, Take the dry
one ~ And the young lady did, and she mar
ried him.
Year: 1874

1.-THE shortest way by half mile
come often byit-
Is up the read. across the stile.
And through the meadow shall we try It
The days we're not without charm
When, talking soft and looking silly.
My love and walked arm-tn-arm,
And lanes were lone and fields were stilly.
We found SO many things to say
That always in shiny weather,
We took the-well, the SHORTER way,
To be Il longer time together.
We spoke about (but goodness knows
Our topics of cOnfabulatOn)-
About the weather. suppose.
The crops. the harvest, and the nation
At all events, although the talk
Was neither very wise nor witty.
We ended each successive walk
With " Home already-what pityP
We might have lost little ground
Through coming by the road selected,
But both agreed that we had found
The journey shorter than expected.
Can life's experiment support
The paradox that love prOpOsesr
Docs any path seem very short,
Unless it be the path of rosesr
We seldom find the nearer way:
And il we hit upon and take it.
BY creeping on from day to day
1t seems as long as length can make it.
The road to fame is never BRIEF
The way to wealth Is dull and dreary:
All earthly routes, in my belief,
Are very long and very weary.
Nay--ONB that leads through care and strife
Ii short when mortais once begin it,
We take the near cut " out OF life,
Although we take the longest in ii.


-TINsLBY'S MAGAZINE
Year: 1874

Historic FICrToN PUNCTURED.-Ou CO.
temporaries in their ghoulish search after
items, have invaded the sacred sanctuary of
the tomb and exhumed Napoleon's soldier,
Austerlitz.


Had lost both arms, what would you
have done, sir p said the mutilated hero. "I
would have made you officer of the Legion of
Honor" said the Emperor The soldier i'm
mediately drew his sword and cut off the
other arm.


That is how the story runs, but, ere we
pause to shed tear at the heroism Of the old
soldier let US calmly consider how the one
armed man managed to hold the sword with
which he cut off his remaining member.-.&.
Louis Globe
Year: 1874

ABSENT MINDED -Beedle's absent-minded-
ness is a source of constant perplexity. A few
mornings since, his wife presented him with a
pair of new stockings. Beedles was delighted
and declared his intention to put them on at
once. After covering one foot, the stocking
for the other foot could not be found. His
wife was certain he had taken both of them,
though a thorough search failed to discover
the missing one. Beedles finally encased his
ed on his boots and went down stairs complain.
ing bitterly of a tight boot At noon he told
his wife he thought he should be cripple fol
life from the effects of that "iufernal boot, y
which by their united efforts was removed
when 10 and behold. she found both Of the
stockings she had presented him on one foot
Beedles is so sensitive that his vile does no
dare to speak to him now about anything be
ing tight.
Year: 1874

Multitudes Of women lose health, and even
life, every year, by busying themselves until
warm and weary, and then throwing thom-
selves on bed or sofa without covering, or in
room without a FIRE, or by removing their
outer garments after a long walk, and changing
their dress while in a state of psrspiration. II
you have to walk and ride both, do the riding
first, and on returning go to warm room,
and keep on all your wraps until your forehead
is dry.
Year: 1874

At Calais, Me-, the ITniversalist Convention
by a decisive majority. have recognized the
Eligibility of women to the Christian ministry in
an amendment to the bylaws which forbids
the Committee on Education to make any dis
tinction against candidate ON account of SEX
Year: 1874

Says the Cleveland Leader:


Mr.. Charles p. Thompson. that hitherto
unknown man who has lifted himself into
conspicuous notoriety by defeating Ben
Butler for Congress-, seems to be q pretty
fair sort Of man for freshly caught
Democrat after all. There was jubilation
gathering at Gloucester one night last
week. wherear Thompson, being called out,
talked to his constituents as follows:


II stand now as no partisan. am not
the servant of the Democratic party: l am
not the servant Of the Republican party.
I shall advocate those measures and only
those measures that I believe for the COM
mon good. l shall never advocate prin-
ciple upon party grounds. In this canvass
there are some important questions. One
of them is the financial question. know
that my Republican friends who voted for
me did so because l was sound upon that
question. You may ask me if am in favor
Of the colored man. l answer, yes, l am
in favor of the white man and the c0l0red
man. I believe they are both entitled to
equal rights under the constitution. be-
lieve in equality of rights and an equality
of duties. l would not 60 for law that
would discriminate in favor of a white man
or black man. want the same law for
ALL"


Which is very fair talk for Thompson.
If he only pans out as well as he promises,
the country may learn to look upon his
conquest over bold Benjamin in the light of
special Providence.
Year: 1874

When day begins to go up 70 heaven at
night it does not spread pair OF wings
and fy aloft like bird. 1t just climbs
softly up on ladder. 1t sets its red sandal
on the shrub you have watered these three
DAYS, lest it should perish sEith thirst; then
it steps on the tree we sit under, and thence
to the ridge of the roof; from the roof to
the chimney, TO the tall elm, to the church
spire, and then to the threshold of heaven,
and thus you can see it go up as though it
walked up red rcses.-Jereny Taylor.
Year: 1874

Secretary Robertson has had mechanics
discharged from the navy yards in great
numbers on the pretense that Congress
will not appropriate money to pay them
In the mean tin the shops of John Roach
and other favored'contractors are running
on Government work which IL done at a
great profit to the contractors and an
equivaleat loss to the Government In
the matter of repairs especially, it ID safe
to say that work done IN private shops
costs the United States four times as much
as it would cost in the navy-yards under
an economical administration of affairs.
In these times mechanics can be engaged
for private Embellishments at very low
wages, but 1t is certain that the Govern
ment has to pay at full rates for every
days WORK done, and careful scrutiny
by competent experts into the coats Of
Government repairing done BY private
firms would doubtless lead to curious re-
suits. II Is a fine thing to bs on good
terms with heads of Departments under
this Administration Men so sltuated
are always provided for, ne matter what
happens 10 the poor working men who
are turned out into the cold in order 70
increase the. profits Of thias favored
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Year: 1874

The power Of q wife for good or evil is
irresistable Homer must be the seat Of
happiness, or It must be forever unknown.
A good wife is to man wisdom, courage
and strength "a bad one is confusion
weakness and despair No condition is
hopeless to a man where the wife p0sses-
ses 6rmness, decision and ecohomy.-
rbere is no outward prosperity which can
counteract Incidence, eXtrayaganoe and
folly at home. No spirit oan long endure
bad domestic Influence. Man is strong
bet his hea-E is not adamant. He delights
in enterpriss and action, but to sustain
him he needs tranquil mind and esPec-
tally # he is an intellectual man, with
a whole heart, be needs ms moral
forces in the conflict of hte


To recover his composure, home must
be place of peace, of eheeTfulness, and OF
comfort. Es9here his soul reDeWs It's
strength and goes forth with fresh vlgor
to encounter the labor ard troubles OF HE
But if at home he finds no rest, and Is
there met wIIh had 'temper stiffness
jealousy or gloom, or is assailed by som
plants and censare, hope yanishes and
be sinks into despair. Such Is the case
with many who. it might seem, have no
conf cts or trials of life; for such is the
Wile's power.
Year: 1874

One morning Hiddy seeing her mistress
in q, loose wrapper, was told it was the
style. of "haf dressed . The next morning
her master brouehtin some tomatoes fresh
from the vines which he told her to serve
M SIN an undressed state" When
breakfast was ready Biddy came with the
tomatoes having but few clothes on, in
fact but q single garment decked her
sturdy hmbs The master and mistress
viewed her with amazement, bat she made
sure her position as she placed the dish
on the table, by saying Arrah sure, I'm
in an undressed state, as ye ordered me,
] and begorra IN notstrip another rag il I
get my discharge" c-f-.rl.
Year: 1874

Here is the most beautifully bad oonun-
drum which We have ever met with. and
We have rarely met with a good ono
What is the difference between gauze
dress and drawn tooth7 Answer But,
really, We hope it will be we'll understood
that We didn't guess It ;apa still better nm
derstood that the oonundrum is none OF
ours. Answer. Because one is tooth IN
and the other is tooth out. Pooh 90 q
Year: 1874

BY an analysis Of the sbove tables it
win be seen that for the past month the
principal of the public debt has not only
been increased more than thirteen millions
of dollars, but that the increase of PLinci-
palover the reduction or payment of in
terest is nearly q million and half of dol
ara SIS saHs o-- -.5-l-
Year: 1874

A body of water said to cover an area
of two acres or more, has Just been dis
covered on the tip top of one Of the noun
tains in Flatenbury, Vt Some of the old
est inhabitants say that many years ago it
was known to be there and was called the
'Lost Pond" and that one day Stephen
Pratt, Esq, then Of Bennington, in COM
pany with two other gentlemen, were
roaming about in the then seemingly inter
minable forests trapping. Happening to
have some hooks and lines in their pockets,
they determined to see if there wasn't
some trout in the small brook which they
came across. After getting everything in
readiness they threw their hooks into the
little brook, and to their amazement, as
they afterward expressed it themselves :
sit was filled with troutn They fished
along up the stream few rods, and to
their utter astonishment, came to the pond
above mentioned. There, they said, the
trout ''took hold too fast for sport!" They
caught more than they could bring home
through the woods, and were consequent
ly obliged to leave some, but with de-
termination that they would visit the pond
the next day. After a long travel they fl
nally reached the road to town where they
had left their team, but greatly fatigued.
They travelled all the next dav, but could
not find the pond, and it has not been dis
covered until now