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Year: 1878

Many American ladies who are so situ- ated as to be independent now make their homes in Paris. How cheaply ladies can live in the prettiest and merriest city upon earthis secret known only to some of themselves; but two art students who re- sided together and clubbed resources in one of the streets near the Luxembourg, managed comfortably on less than three hundred dollars year till better times came to them. They had their breakfast from cream and coffee shop (cremerie), a very different place to cafe, and their dinner from small eating house, fre- quented by artists, where moderate sized beef-stake cost them only seven sous. Their lessons and lecture on art cost them nothing, and their only professional ex- penses were incurred for the materials of painting and models. Ladies without special business in Paris, but who yet de- sire to reside there, may create for them selves peculiarly quiet and honorable home in such places as the Abbaye-au- Bois. This, like several similar establish, ments, is a convent where ladies can rent apartments and enjoy the protection of the ssterhood under conditions not too oner- ous. But cooking at home is much dearer than boarding out or arranging with the nearest hotel or eating house keeper to be served ready dressed. It is difficult to ex- plain the astonishing expense of home life in Paris, in view of the unquestionable fact that hotel prices have not varied for the last thirty years. Thirty years ago, the hotel price of lady's breakfast of tea or coffee and bread and butter was one franc and a half; it costs one frame and a half now The price of hotel bedrooms and the cost of hotel servants also remain sta- tionary.
Year: 1878

It may not be generally know that there are twenty-four varieties of plants whose blossoms open successively at the different hours of the day and night. The day lily opens at five o'clock in the morning. Midnight belongs to the ''cactus grandi- forus," or night-bloommg cereus, whose magnificent flower expands and dilTuses subtle perfume soon after sunset, gradually unfolds and then closes until before day. dawn, when its strange mission is ended. The African marigold opens at seven o'clock in the evening and closes at four, if the weather be fair. If it does not open rain is certain for the next day. It is said the flowers of tue wat,r lily close and sink in the water precisely a sunset, rise again to tie surface and expand with sunrise. Beside the floral clock there is a floral calendar, each month being marked by is own particular flower.
Year: 1878

! We see by the Jeff rson county papers that "Washbourd" Hale di, d ill the poor house recently. He wns character. For thirty years he had lived ill that vicinity on a washboard, as may be said. He made a few washboards, and he would take one under his arm and go to farm house and allow the wife to use it. If she bought it, all right, and if not it was all the same. He would have a dozen wushboards scattered around, and he was always the guest of tie house, got his meals, moved his washboard to another locality, and ate and drank on tLe board. He always managed to arrive nt house about meal time, and as he lad all the news 10 tell he was welcome. If a house wife had wood to split, COW to milk, or the man had steers to break, hogs to kill, or q wagon to grease, old Hale was ready to help. At times when the good housewife had not much in the house for dinner the arrival of Waslboard Hale would cause cloud to rest upon Ter brow, but cheerful word from him would soon diSpcl it, and we do not believe he ever went hungry day in his life. He was tramp, always on the move, in summer with his coat over his arm and in winter bundled up and always on the march. However hard up he might be, he could manage to get zinc enough for washboard, and any friendly carpenter would allow him to do the wood work in his shop, and his stock being complete he was on the road. In all his thirty years travel about Jefferson county no one ever heard him use an unkind word, and he never injured a soul Children wonld chaf him, until he got an opportunity to be of assistance to them, after which they were his friends. He would make kite for them or draw them miles on a sled, for the asking. He was great character and will be missed.- Miluaukce Sun.
Year: 1878

August is a good month for setting out boot-iaeks among cats. a

 It is said that girl in England was re- gently struck dumb by the firing of cannon. Since then a number of married men have invited the artillery to come and discharge their pieces in their yiein- ity.

 EANA AEA
Year: 1878

IMPORTANT TO PERSONS VISITING New
ToRK.-One of the best kept and most
convenient Hotels for Merchants and others
to stop at when in New York is the Grand
Union Hotel, nearly opposite the Grand
Central Depot, kept on the European plan
you therefore only pay for what you get.
Everything is first class, and prices mod
crate, adapted to the stringeney of the
times You save the expense of carriage
hire, and by leaving your baggage check
on the counter Of the Hotel, your baggage
will be delivered in your rooms, fifteen
minutes after the arrival Of the cars, free
of expense. We advise you to give the
Grand Union trial.
Year: 1878

Of the thousands who die annually Of
consumption, how many there are who
could be saved by timely care. The very
best remedy is SLoAN's LACTo PHOSPHATE
OF LIME, IRON & COP LIVER OIL.


1t is so delicately favored that even an
infant will take it willingly.


The Philadelphia hospitals use it with
great success. Get bottle OF it. mwf
Year: 1878

Frank Miller's Harness Oil and Backing
is pronounced by the trade generally to be
the best manufactured. The grade Of
these goods is always standard aud their
reputation unsurpassed anywhere. The
firm isone of the Oldest in the country and
has the largest trade in its line in the
country. dWtf
Year: 1878

unpleasant results Of indigestion, will no
lunger be experienced if q tablespoonful of
simmons Llyer Regulator is taken after
each meal This will prevent the distress
referred to; and perseyering in the use of
this remedy for few weeks d permanent
cure will be effected, and pain will no long
Ier be the penalty Of eating
Year: 1878

Sufferers from Catarrh are recon-
mended to use Jackson's Catarrh snuff
and Troche Powder, an Invaluable
specific for Catarrh and the best voice
remedy in the country. Sold by all
druggists. See ad in this paper. If
Year: 1878

It is the duty of every man to vote
not to hang round ward and district
pot houses discussing the merits Of can
diiates; but he should become acquaint-
Ell with their qualifications by careful
observation, and when once convinced
of their purity of character and honesty
Of purpose to make every honorable el
fort to place them ia nomination, and aid
in their election. The first duty is to
attend the primary meetings. While
respectable Ren excuse their absence
from the caucus on various preteXts, the
loafers, the vicious, and the idle bum
mers are out in force; they pack the
convention, name their own committees,
and lay the egg which matches much tu-
ture trouble and deviltry. The man who
refuses or neglects to attend the primary
meetings of his precinct, and thereby
enables bad men to find places upon the
ticket, and lay the wires for corruption
and fraud, should never complain Of the
quality Of the officers elected.
Year: 1878

The Iowa Democrats, having been
beaten at the October election, pro
pose to hold an election for mem,
Bers of Congress in November, al
by themselves, when they will Ol
course elect their candidates very
easily. Then if the Democratic
Clerk of the House will give them
their seats, as he did the Democratic
claimant from Colorado, the country
viii have another fine illustration Of
Democratic reform y The alleged
excuse for the November election is
that the October election for Con
gressmen- was unconstitutional, but
we suppose the Iowa Republicans
knew what they were about wher
they decided to elect in October
The whole thing has very much th'
appearance of another Democratic
plan to help secure a Democratic
majority in the next House.
Year: 1878

A Rochester newspaper man, who
was called upon to tell how he re-
ceived certain information published
in his paper, bearing on trial now
pending, declined to answer, on the
grounds that disclosure by him Of
the name of his informants would
seriously injure him in his business
as a newspaper man that the infor-
nation had been impaired to him
under the pledge Of secrecy, and that
all communications to a newspaper
man should beregarded as privileged
the same as communications between
lawyers and clients, and She cour.
sustained him.
Year: 1878

The honor of originating the
greenback for its great and patriotic
services belongs to the Republican
party, and to that party viii belong
the still greater honor of making
every note as good as the coin itself
All that the Democratic party have
now to say in its favor is compliment
tlry to the wisdom and Judgment OF
those by whom it was originated
against Democratic resistance.
Year: 1878

Capt. Tyson has returned from his
expedition toward thenOrth pole with
very decided opinions concerning
theorists like Symmes, who maintain
that the polar sea is as open as
South Italian lake, and such like va
carries. Capt. Tyson encountered a
vast quantity Of ice long before he
entered the Arctic zone, and the pres
-ence Of the CONCEALED liquid in such
quantity leads him to say that the
existence of an open polar sea in a
land which hasno sun for six months
of the year, and where the cold is so
intense as it there Is, is just about
as plausible as the existence OF Jason. S
golden fleece or Ponce de Icons
fountain Of youth
Year: 1878

bolt referred to struck the chimney first, and
hence would not puncture the tin, but under
microscopic examination you will find the
tin singed. And if you will examine the
mechanical effects of the bolt on the chimney
you will find that the projectile came from
the west or southwest, most likely. They all
come from that direction in the northern
temperate zone. I say without hesitation
that dwelling, or building, having metal
roof presenting surface of 1900 square feet,
or more, is insuficiently protected from the
destructive effects of thunderbolts. Solomon's
temple, standing at place very subject to
thunderbolts of the heaviest kind, during all
its time of standing, withstood the effects of
lightning, because it was literally covered
with metal, and of the finest kind. The finer
the metal, the less it takes to compensate a
thunderbolt."
Year: 1878

The Millers' National Convention was held
in Indianapolis last week, and on Thursday
the delegates went on an excursion. A well
coming speech was made to them by ex-Gov


Hendricks, aud, among other things, he said :
"As boy was acquainted with the miller,
and 1 thought him great man. When he
raised the gate with such composure and con-
fdence, and the tumbling waters drove the
machinery ahead, l admired his power. And
then be talked strongly upon all questions. He
was very positive upon politics, religion, law,
and mechanics, and any one bold enough to
dispute a point was very likely to have a
personal argument thrown into his face, for
he knew all gossi ip among his customers


[Laughter.] He was cheerful. l thought it
was because be was always in the music Of
the running water and the whirling Wheels


He was kind and clever-indeed, so much so
that be would promise the grists before they
could be ready, [laughter,] and SO the boys
had to go two or three times. He was a
chancellor, and prescribed the law. Every
one in his turn. The miller, standing in the
door of his mill, all white with the dust, is a
picture ever upon the memory of even this
generation. 1t is picture of a manly figure


| wonder if you, gentlemen, the lords of many
runs and bolts, are ashamed to own him as
your predecessor. It was small mill, some
times upon "a willowy brook and sometimes
upon the larger river, but it stood on the ad.
vance line of the settlement, with its one wheel
to grind the Indian corn, and one for wheat,
and in the fall and winter season one day in
the week set apart for grinding buckwheat


1t did the work of the neighborhood. Plain
and unpretentious, as compared with your state
ly structures, I would not say it contributed
les, toward the development of the country
and the permanent establishment of society.
So great favor it was, and so important to
the public welfare, that the authorities that
Year: 1878

A LESSON FOR ALL-Look most to your
spending. No matter what comes in, if more
goes out you will always be poor. The art is
not in making money, but in keeping it; little
expenses, like mice 10 large barn, when they
are many, make great waste. Hair by hair
heads get bald straw by straw the thatch


goes off the cottage, and drop by drop the
rain comes into the chamber. A barrel is
soon empty if the tap leaks but drop min
ute when you mean to save, begin with your
Year: 1878

day invoked in its favor the highest power of
the State-eminent domain. That mill and
miller had to go before you and yours, and
I am happy to revive the memory Of the mill
er at the custom mills, who, with equal care
adjusted the sack, upon the horse for the boy
to ride upon, and his logic in support of his
theory in politics or his dogma, in religion"
Year: 1878

mouth many things pass down the red lane.
In all other things keep within compass.
Never stretch your legs farther than the blan-
kets will stretch, or you will soon be cold.
In clothes, choose suitable and lasting stuff,
and not tawdry 6neries. To be warm is the
main thing, never mind the looks. A fool
may make money, but it needs wise man to
spend it. Remember, it is easier to build
two chimneys than to keep one going. If
you give all to back and board, there is moth
ing left for the savings bank. Fare hard and
work while you are young, and you will have
q chance to rest when you are old.
Year: 1878

Posi- OFFICE FOR NEW CAsTLE.-Our
New Castle correspondent calls attention
TO the want of post Office building in
that old city. We think it quite right
that the government should furnish com
Portable buildings for post offices where
such buildings are needed But we are
utterly opposed to such extravaganza and
waste as has been shown in the erection


of post office building In Dover. New
Castle ought to have post office build.
ing. The Government, I'VE are told, is paw.
ing 5000 year rent there. This is enough
to make it an object to the Government
to erect good house and save something
beside. Ten thousand dollars will built
house suitable for an Office and dwell


ling also and the rental value of tn,
Year: 1878

BLAINE took time by the forelock, had
his speech already printed and sent 1t to
the Republican papers several days ago,
and they published it yesterday afternoon
before he had concluded its delivery in
the Senate.
Year: 1878

The DoBsoS case came to an end last
night with verdict of mot guilty." 1t
was impossible for any jury to believe
the improbable stories which The negro
man Jones had told but the testimony
TO his character as a liar was oVcrwhclm-
ing by both white and black witnesses.
That Jones was whipped there is no
doubt. But tha. was done in MARYLAND
and our Courts and jury could have
housht 10 do with it. But the State
Jailed to prove the shooting by either
Vincent, Ncwcomb or Mrs. Dodson. by
any credtable witness or any witness at
all but Jones himself; and lie was proven
to be unworthy Of being believed on his
oath. Had the Court not kept him out
of the clutches of Messrs. Lore and
Gray OF the defence, or allowed them to
have questioned him fully they would no
doubt have shown to the jury some very
striking facts which could not be reveal
ed without. The verdict seems TO have
gwen general satisfaction, for it was hard
TO believe that an orderly family living in
the country, and wh hose head was mem
Der Of church, could have been 50 lost to
all human instincts as to be guilty of the
crimes of which Jones stories accused
them.
Year: 1878

WE HAVE received long communl-
cation from Samuel Townsend, Esq, in
answer to the article Of City Treasurer
Vincent on the subject Of wrecks on the
Delaware sea-coast, which we shall have
TO print at our earliest convenience. The
matter is of historical nature and will
not suffer by a short delay.
Year: 1878

evidently sick Of negro suffrage, are
quietly debating the best means to be rid


of it and its influence on Congress-
They will doubtless before long make a


movement in favor of cutting down the
representation in the lower House from
the Southern States or substituting some
qualification for suffrage. Mr.. Blane's
speech will quicken their ideas in this
direction, as well as be the means of
creating the worst feelings of animosity
between the two sections Of the country.
Year: 1878

holders of despotism exuted over the ruin that
seemed destined to follow.


This aerid torrent Of vitupsratlon flowed In
eassahtly ior year before and six months
after the meeting of the Cincinnati convention.
That it made no great impression upon our
citizens was evidenced by the unanimitv with
which Gen. Grant was renominated. 1t flowed
unchecked, however, till the middle of Auoust
1872, when the Republicans opened their cam
paign. When they did begin they made short
work of the pyramid of falsehoods, against
which their attack was directed They riddled
it mercilessly, gathering fresh strength with
every charge they made upon it, until when it
crumbled to atoms in November those who
had helped to rear it were buried beneath the
ruins. There were few survlvals of that shape
less WI ok.


Alth lgh no individual aims Of Mr.. Bowles
were thwarted by this signal overthrow the
catastrophe must have occasioned him intense
disappointment and chagrin. He saw that his
own state and his own neighborhood had re-
lected his counsels and manifested their utter
disbelief in any and every imputation upon the
integrity Of the administration he had Joined
IN tradncing. Moreover he must have discov-
ereo, unless he was completely blinded BIZ
prejudice, that they were right and he was
wrong The proof on that point was soIconclu-
slVe that the only escape fiom being convinced
by it was to ignore it altogether. Still he was
IN position which it was almost as difficult to
recede from as to adhere to. "a man cannot
change his politics every thirty days." as an
unfortunate New England Senator who had
followed the fortunes Of Andrew johnson
pathetleally remarked, when he found his con-
sttuents all against him. Under such circum-
stances he ia more apt to become morbid and
irritable and to take despondent views of every
thing and to be censorious towards everybody,
That some such feelings animated the spirit of
the Springfield editor after 1872 his columns
pear abundant witness. That the recollection
OF his lapse into the "any g-to-beat- Grant,
combination embittered his latter days is NOR
ally certain. 1t was the one failure in an hon.
orable and useful life which in other respects
was record OF uninterrupted successes. The
omission OF it in any biographical sketch of
him would be simply to leave out q chapter
which is essential to the completeness of the
delineaton OF his character. Many tributes have
been and will be paid to his worth, and there
are few men who have left behind them a mora
spotless reputation. We may properly say OF
him as Anthony said of Brutus:


"This was the nobest Roman of them all;


All the conspirators save only he,


DID that they did in envy OF great Casar:


he only in general honest thought,


ana common good to all, made one Of them.'


YARMOUTH.
Year: 1878

PRESIDENT Seelye Of Amherst College Is a
| man who cannot be classed with the "ma-
chine politicians" and will not be accused OF
wish to defend or extenuate any abuses
which may exist in the public service. He
has figured consplcuously as ''reformer''
himself, and his sympathies are all with
those who seek to correct the evils and errors
arising from mal-administration and drive
unworthy men from Office. His defense OF
the Indian Bureau therefore cannot be con-
demned as inspired by unworthy motives.
Whatever estimate we may place upon the
value Of that defense its sincerity is undeni-
able.


Perhaps the light that has come to Presi-
dent Seelye through the attack on the Indian
Bureau, may teach him and well-meaning
men like him that other assaults on men in
public station have been quite as unreasona-
BILE and are justified by as little evidence.
"We have not yet reached the level" he
says, "where everybody in Office is to be sus-
pected or where when charges are openly
brought against public officer they cannot
be openly investigated" Unfortunately we
have reached precisely that level. The last
political campaign was conducted by the DEM
ocratic party in exactly that spirit. The
spirit and method condemned by President
Seelye have been the spirit and method of
the Democratic House during the last three
years, and OF the independent" journals
for the last six years. The popular branch
of the national Legislature has wasted the
time it should have devoted to national inter
ests in secret investigations of open charges.
1t has pursued the course which Prof. Seelye
condemns when applied to the Indian Bu-
reau-"an investigation where the accuser
seems to have brought whatever charges he
pleased and to have sustained them in what
ever way he chose, while the accused, until
the conclusion which condemned him was
reached, was sedulously kept in ignorance
both Of the nature of the charges and the
nature of their proof"


This method of investigation has been the
sole stock in trade of great political party
for years, and upon the results of it they pur-
pose to make their fight three years hence.
The Democratic committees are organized
for SANDER, and the victims selected are to
have no means of defending themselves. The
tactics which so nearly effected the election
ofa Democratic President last year are to be
tried again. An attempt will be made to
smirch the reputation Of all Republicans
whose strength with the people causes them
to be feared by their opponents. The cham
pion liars of the country, the men who have
won the belt for their exploits in falsehood,
who sport the blue ribbon for proficiency in
slander, will be called to Washington and
urged to outdo themselves in calumny. Des-
pite President Seelye everybody in Office is to
be suspected by these committees, and the
accuser will be invited TO bring whatever
charges he pleases and to sustain them in
whatever way he chooses, while the accused,
until the conclusion which condemns him is
reached, will be kept In ignorance both of
the nature of the charges and the nature oI
their proof.
Year: 1878

The matter of the establishment of State
Board OF Health will probably come before the
Legislature this week. 1t should receive bet
ter treatment than has heretofore been given
1t. There seems to be a general expression
OF opinion throughout the State in favor of
the Board. 1t can no longer be dismissed as
"merely project Of the doctors''. The peo-
pie OF the State at last begin to see its neces-
sity, and understand apparently for the first
time, that the establishment of Board Of
Health is measure of true economy which
will result in great saving both of life and
wealth. The lie gislature should treat the
project with that consideration to which its
great and positive merits entitle it.