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Year: 1877

This is the story that tramp told to n
reporter of the Journal, in Dayton, o.


He went to Brazil in 1864 and tried his
luck in the diamond fields. His COM
panions committed a robbery, and he was
so much implicated that he shared their
fate of being sentenced to death. They
were guillotined together, and afterward
he was surprised to awaken to conscious
ness and find that he was alive. He felt
a strange sensation at his throat, and was
unable to stir. A man was bending over
him. Then he became unconscious
again, and the next that he knew he was
abed. The man whom he had seen be-
fore explained that he was physician,
and had obtained from the Government
permission to experiment on the bodies


He had quickly joined a decapitated
head to body, and made the two grow
together. The patient recovered fast,
but he soon discovered that his body was
not the one he had previously possessed.
The physician had blunderingly joined
his head to the trunk of Pedro, Brazil
ian. $50 you see," said the tramp,


"my head is all right, but my body has
all the laziness of Pedro, who was q
shiftless vagabond. You don't believe
it? Look here" pulling down his shirt
at the neck, "don't you see that line
around my throat? Above it the skin is
white, but below it the color is dark. !"
The reporter, however, was unable to
discern any mark or difference in color.
Year: 1877

LANDLORD REFoRMED.-A young man
and called for drink.


mo" said the landlord, "you have had
the delirium tremens once, and cannot sell
you any more"


He stepped aside to make room for two
other young..men, who had just entered, and
the landlord waited on them politely.


The other stood by, silent and sullen.-
When they had finished drinking, he walk
ed up the landlord and thus addressed him


''Sir, six years ago, at their age, l stood
where those young men now are. | was a
young man with fair prospects. Now, at
the age of twenty eight, l am a wreck in
body and mind. You let me drink. In
this room formed the habit that has been
my ruin. Now sell me a few glasses more,
and your work will be done shall soon be
out of the way; there is no hope for me, but
these young men can be saved; they may be
men again. Do not sell it to them. Sell
it to me and let me die, and the world will
more to themr'


The landlord listened, pale and trembling
for he knew every word the young man had
spoken was the truth. Setting down the
decanter, he exclaimed: I" God helping me,
this is the last drop will ever sell to any
oner'


He kept his word and may thousands
who are now selling Intoxicating liquors
make the same resolve.
Year: 1877

1t is wouderous advantage to man in
every pursuit or vocation, to secure an ad
wiser in sensible woman. In woman
there is at once a suitable delicacy of tact,
and plain. soundness of Judgment, which
are rarely combined to an equal degree in
man. A woman, if she be really your
friend, will have a sensitive regard for
your character, honor, repute. She will
seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing,
for woman friend always desires to be
proud of you. At the same time, her
constitutional timidy makes her moral eau
tious than your male friend. She, therefore,
seldom counsels you to do an imprudent
thing. By female friendship we mean pure
friendships-those in which there is no
admixture of the passion of love, except
in the married state. A mans best female
friend is wife of good sense and heart,
whom he loves, and who loves him. But
helpmate, female friendship ne must still
have, or his intellect will be without a gar
den and there will be many an unheeded gap,
even in its strongest face. Better and
safer, of course, such friendships were dis
PARTIES of years of circumstances put the
idea of love out of the question. Middle life
has rearly this advantage; youth and old
age have. We may have female friendships
with those much older, and those much
younger than ourselves. Moliere's old
house-keeper was great help to his genius;
and Montaigne's philosophy takes both a
gentler and loftier character of wisdom
from the date in which he finds in Marie de
Courtney, an adopted daughter, certainly
beloved by me-" says the Horace of essay
lists, &C with more than paternal love, and
involved in my solitude of retirement, as
one of the best parts of my being."-
Female friendship indeed, is to man the
bulwark, sweetner, ornament of his exist
ence
Year: 1877

IVONTINUED FROM FIRST FAGE.
moonshine, it is very possible that neural
gia, paralysis, or other similar injury,
caused by sleeping in the open air, has been
attributed to the moon, when the proximate
cause may really have been the chill, and
the moon only a remote cause acting by
dissipating the clouds and haze (if it do So,
and leaving perfectly clear sky for the
play OF radiation into space"
Year: 1877

"Yes," be said, as he mixed some
gin and sugar. life is a conun-
drum. In youth we believe in
much that is false, and in old age
we doubt much that is irne As Q
golden medium. Young man, you
may charge that drink 10 me. My
name is August -" The har-
keeper pensively pitched an zee
pick at the spot where he had stood,
but he had folded himself up like
an umbrella and scooted.
Year: 1877

Schenectady Gazette.


She led him TO a sofa, and in deep
bass voice called him her souls idol,
aud inquired what his monthly income
was. Seeing his gaze fixed on her boa
constructor like mouth, she remarked :
Darling, see you notice ny large
and beautiful potato trap; let me ex.
plain to you the reason OF its unusual
size. When was quite child 1 was
playing on papa's cellar door and 1t
gave away; / was precipitated down in
TO the basement, and caught by the
mouth on a projecting meat hook,
which ripped up my face and extended
my mouth several inches" With his
eyes full Of sympathetic tears he rose
from the sofa, aud replied, as he made
toward the door, my angel, you are
perhaps mistaken. Probably, in the
excitement OF that awful moment, you
left your mouth down in the basement,
and accidentally brought up the cellar.
We shall meet again in better world.
Adieu."
Year: 1877

From the Virginia, New, Chronicle.


A lady who determined to surprise
her husband, a few nights ago bought
him new pair OF rubbers and placed
them by the bedside, SO that when he
came in she could enjoy his delight a,
such a fond exhibition OF love and af-
lection. The man stayed out so late
that his wife fell asleep, and when he
came in his eye fell upon the overshoes.
He was just about to stab himself with
n cboese-knife. when he reconsidered
his intention and deter mined TO rouse
his wife, aud tell her that he knew all.
Grabbing her by the hair, he yelled
out: This once happy home is desc
lated by faithless woman's perfdy.
aud pointed 10 the overshoes. IL tool
nearly two hours to explain, and ther
he forgave her, with the understanding
that she would make him pair OF slip
pers with his monogram and q greer
dog on the toe.
Year: 1877

how long II will take to cut the
briars for II is far easier TO cut them
while they are tender than TO wait till
they have driven you rod INTO the
field. Look to your summer-fallow;
see that IL is well dragged and the
stones removed that will finder the
drill or the harvester. Sow your wheat
in good season. from the fifth TO the
twentieth OF September; one and one
half bushels is seed enough on a good
fallow. think a good drill for putt
ing in wheat is better than sowing
broadcast. Try and get the first cut
in your corn-feld-it is better than to
wait till Jack Frost has his cut. Gath
er in the fruit, potatoes, turnips, husk
out your corn and put IL into narrow
cribs, so il will cure out. Give your
fattenipg hogs all they will eat; they
fatten faster in warm than in cold
weather. After the falls work is done,
look around and see il your cultivators
plows, drags, harvesters. mowers and
rakes are stored in the fence-corner or
barn-yard for hayracks for winter use,
or are properly housed. / believe that
more machinery rots out than is worn
Oub. LCOuOIuN 10 Wuht Iuahcs uS pfoe-
per. IL is not what we waste but what
we save, that makes US a prosperous
people. Forming ON paper never rails
ell the irs. morscl Of bread. Theory
is good, but have learned by exper-
fence that il takes some muscle as well
as theory TO feed and clothe forty mil
lions of people. Some must produce
more than they consume to pay the de-
mands that are exacted to run our gov
ernment, our schools and churches.


notice that our agricultural school
and farm is asking for over fifty thous-
and dollars to keep it running for the
next two years. III L could have a
thousand or two to experiment with /
could give more theory, bread and
meat. Our agricultural college is not
asking for any more than are the other
institutions that have got lien on the
farms and farmers of this state. / ex-
pect to sec some of the fruits fully ripe
and ready for the market from of the
state farm and school, where they
want twenty-five thousand dollars a
year more than they produce 10 keep
them running; and perhaps some of the
professors will show an apple or two at
this time. God said that man shall
earn his bread by the sweat OF bis
brow, which is the only way / have
learned to earn mine as yet.
Year: 1877

10y the roaring, never-resting, cver-grce
dy pillows, that lash the shores of OBJ
livien's sea We have seen him this
week and are sure he is the most melon
cholic looking individual in this locality


He surely was intended for some field
but evidently not Poetic one-it may
possibly he a potato field.
Year: 1877

The friends of General Butler say that
he will reply to the letter of Wayne
MacVeagh, which was provoked by the
sarcastic letter Butler wrote to Marshal
Pitkin. Those who know the general
oest say that he never makes an attack
until he is amply fortified at every point
to sustain himself, aud they believe that
he has at least sufficient foundation for
the charge he made to give very soon to
the public the facts upon which he based
the charge that Jack Wharton did more
to get Nichols legislature in Louisiana
than did the five commissioners.
Year: 1877

According to Sunday paper the
aesthetic tastes of the clerks OF the
department of agriculture are cultl-
waited by the new commissioner Gen
eral LIE Luc. He has ordered the
ilowers in the garden attached to the
department to be cut every morning,
made into bouquets and placed on the
tables of the clerks. This is the first
indication of definite action on the
part of the new commissioner.


There's u master mind for you !!
See how he grapples with the duties
of his office! TO what high concep-
ton of the real object of a national
Agricultural Department does he at
tain 1t is to tickle the noses OF these
$1,000 clerks with bouquets. The
clerks run the Department and the
Department supplies the clerks with
bouquets. Thus the snake swallows
it's tail. And for this are we taxed
For this great end the poor people OF
our grasshoppered frontiers are taxed
to-day, through an increased price or
the garments that are to fence out the
winters cold from their pinched ribs
Great is the agricultural Department
Great is lie Due! Tipe la Humbug.
Year: 1877

1.-The unwelcome intelligence comes
that the liabilities of the bankrupt
firms of New York city reported in
June, show an increase of twenty-five
per cent. as compared with May, the
number remaining about the same.
There has been no extraordinary fail
ure and no panic; it is an ordinary re-
suit of mercantile life in that city
to have thirty or more failures with
assets of about SIC, 1000, and liabilities
amounting to more than $4,000, 900.
That "competition is the life of trade
is only partial truth; when carried to
an extreme it becomes the death of
the trader, which serves to bring a
stagnation in business through the
uncertainty and distrust engendered
thereby. st. Paul Dispatch.


Still making excuses. A little while
ago it was the presidential election
then good times were to come as soon
as Hayes was peacefully inaugurated
then returning spring was to bring
returning confidence.


Now it is competition Bosh. Was
there not competition all through the
war! And yet there were no bank
ruptcies. WHY! Because the amount
of currency was adequate to the de
mands of business.


Now Mr.. Castle of the Dispatch i
a fair minded man. He has taken tn,
right position on the silver question
despite the intimidation of the surl
old Pioneer Press. Why will he no
study up the financial question an
follow his convictions of duty!
Year: 1877

unfortunately the havoc is not
confined to Kandiyohi county. The
locusts are making a broad swathe of
desolation from Pope county through
to Nicollet and Sibley, some thirty odd
miles in width. And speaking of re-
lief for the destitute in this desolated
belt the people of the Southeastern
part of the State would consult their
own interests, if they would raise,
instantly, a large subscription to pay
the people of that region a small
bonus for catching and killing hop
pers. For there is no knowing where
these immense swarms will go to when
they take flight. ''-Grange Adrdnce.


We are second to no one in friendly
regard to Gov. Pillsbury, but we
think he made a grave mistake when
he refused to put into execution the
law of the last legislature providing
for 100000 of bounties for the de-
struction of grasshoppers. Half-a-
million bushels ofyoung grasshoppers,
equal to fifty million bushels of the
grown pests would have been de-


stroyed under the operation of that


law. and millions upon millions of


property saved that will now be de-


stroyed by the flying swarms. And


in the meantime the people of the


grasshopper districts would have


earned living. Next winter the


legislature will be called upon tc


spend a good deal more than 100000


to keep these same people from star


vation. and there will not be a grass


hopper less in the world after thu
money is spent.


The red-bug and the white grut


and the Governor proclamations ant
: the Congressional committee of bug
.. ologists are all humbugs together
There is no remedy but to kill th,
} vermin: and to do so bounties mus
be given on the land abandoned t
: them. 1t will pay the people to spen


one-half the assessed valuation of thei
| property to save the other half.


| Congress must intervene. not wit
! , a few thousand dollars to pay con
q mission to enquire into their habits,
: but with millions of dollars to provid
n for their funeral. If Congress coul
: afford to vote large sums for the relic
o of the victims of the Irish famin
l. surely it can afford to do as much fe
Year: 1877

ministration for the last decade
Litchfeld Independent.


And now the republican organ Of
this State proposes to cnre the disease
by killing the cramps - Nothing
could be more unjust. The cramps
are simply the result of bad laws ;
correct the laws and the cramps
would disappear into factories and
work shops and mines and mills, and
become once more valuable members
of society. When the law reduces
men to the dilemma of starving at
home or becoming servants abroad, OF
course they choose the latter alterna
tive and who can blame them.
Year: 1877

The cry has gone forth, as usual,
that Minnesota will have this year an
extraordinarily large crop of grain;
and the wheat spectators have taken
advantage of the cry to beat down the
price of the little that is left for sale
of the last years crop.


We do not believe that Minnesota
is to harvest this year any such inn
mense crop. We visited the other day
Winona county ,and we were told that
in southwestern Minnesota embracing
the counties of Winona, Houston,
Olmsted, Fillmore, ETC., the crop was
light. In Houston the chinch bug has
appeared. In Wabasha comfy we
learn, from the Lake City Sentinel, a
new enemy has appeared. The .Senti-
mel says:


ssThere seems to be general COM
plant of late among farmers in this
vicinity concerning the prospects of
the growing wheat. Many of those
who entertained the utmost confidence
of being able to harvest large crop
this fall have been led to change their
minds within the past few days, and
now feel a little despondent. The
change of color in the fields from dark
green to yellow. Notwithstanding we


have had a fair amount of rain, ARREST


ed their attention, and upon exami
nation they find that some insect is
making sad havoc with the wheat. BY


some it is supposed to be the weevil


and others pronounce it the Hessiar
flv. Whatever it may be. the dam


age to crops will be great. J. S
Peterson, an observing farmer from


the town of Lake. exhibited severa
stalks of wheat in our Office last week


and at the foot of nearly every stoo
could be seen from one to three O


these eggs or maggots, of a greenisl
color, about as large around as pi1
and about an eight of an inch il
length. Wisconsin farmers have beel
: greatly annoyed by similar pest
Year: 1877

This form OF transaction, in use and gen.
cral favor in most of the large and prosper
ous cities, especially in Baltimore and Phila-
delphia, is scarcely known and little; under


stood in Richmond. and we wish to see it
introduced here, being satisfied that when
understood and adopted it will be found to
offer SO many advantages that it will in most
cases lie preferred as the basis OF transac-
tions for the disposal and acquiring OF real
estate, and conduce greatly to the building
up OF the city with n better class OF houses
than is possible under the present system.
It offers to the owner OF unlmproved pro-
perty a means OF converting. what now
yields no income, but is q charge for the
taxes, into source OF fixed revenue, clear
Of all deductions Of any kind whatsoever,
and relieves him OF the many cares ana an
noyances which more or less attend the
management Of real estate, thus anoralnS
him the solid security OF real estate, WIN
an assured and fixed income thereirom.
Accordingly experience has shown thas
weil-secured ground-rents, in times oi


financial panic, not only do not share In tne
general decline with other investments, put
actually rise In value, and are, therefore, the
Year: 1877

another accident at Clover HW.-Your
reporter has, through the kindness OF
"Friend". "a Clover-Hill correspondent,
received the following information concern
ing an accident there on the morning Of
the 10Th:


can accident happened to the engine at
Bright Hope pit this morning at Sc O'Clock,
by which the rock-arm and spur-wheel
were broken and valve-stem bent. Fortu-
nately no one was injured. There are ten
or twelve men in the pit, and cannot be got
ten out until q new rock-arm is made"


Since the above was received we are glad
to learn that the workmen have been got
ten out, and it is probable that work is by
this time resumed. We thank Friend"
very much for his promptness in advising
us about affairs at Glover Hill. His former
communications were received, but were
not noticed because they arrived too long
after the occurrences they reported.
Year: 1877

The New York Graphic notices that
all the Governments which have de-
monetized silver, are suffering from f.
nancial depression. The Graphic
doesn't think contraction will do.
Down this way everybody Is in favor
OF the reconciliation OF silver and q
change in the management Of national
finance,
Year: 1877

The Governments attempt 10 reach
silver payment by contraction is like
the Irishmsn's effort to accus,om his
horse to live without eating. He gave
the animal less and less to eat every
day and finally he lived day without
eating, but be died that night.
Year: 1877

The New York "Sun" which is evi.
dently the workingnan's friend claims in
their favor, that one of the most patent
features of the recent strike was the tract
ability manifested by them. Never before
was there such an uprising of laborers
with SO little disposition to do any unnec-
essary injury. In fact, there was hardly
anywhere any number of real workingmen
who took any part in the rio.ing and fight
ing.


There was general feeling among those
who struck, that they were not paid as high
wages as they ought to receive, but they
Themselves seemed to feel very great doubt
az to the most proper and most expedient
course to adopt to obtain redress tor their
wrongs. Suggestions and advice from those
whom they had reason to esteem their
friends were received with respect and
with every mark Of appreciation. al They
seemed all the while to know how to make
allowance for enthusiasm, not to say mad
ness, shown by any of their leaders. In
deed. great as the mistakes of the strikers
have certainly been, we believe the bulk OF
Year: 1877

A CAREFUL revision of the tariff law'
is being advocated with vigor and fresh
ness very instructive to those who have
listened to all the old arguments, pro anc
con, and nave been worn threadbare by
constant repetition in Congress and out
Until the matter of political economy
shall have become an exact science, IL
teachers wholly free from the suspicious
of empiricism, and the true metes ami
bounds of International reciprocity shall
have become definitely fixed, We may no;
hope TO reach an agreement. But spnrrei
bv a lively sense Of the dangers threaten
ing us, men are grasping bindiy IN every
direction for remedies land the adjustment
of the tariff presents wide fed for those
who are grasping after specific for ma
tional ailHents.
Year: 1877

them to be we'll disposed, and not Inclined
to ask for anything they do not consider
themselves entitled 10.


This fact is worthy of consideration by
all who are seeking TO arrive at correct
and lust solution of the great labor trouble
which still underlies our whole social su-
perstructure.
Year: 1877

HANGING WALL PAPER
as follows Unglazed or blank paper redu-
ced from 1S to 10 cents per piece; glazed or
satin paper reduced from % to 20 cents per
piece all other qualities reduced in proper
ton.


am thankful for your patronage during
the past twenty years, and trust that with
my practical knowledge and personal su-
pervision the busidess will be so conducted
that it will be mutual interest for you To
continue your patronage.


We have hopes that on or before March
25th we will be able to reduce prices in the
material department, as well as at present
in the work department.


Yours very truly,


JOHN r. HOLT
jant-tf 223 Market street.
Year: 1877

The gun consists of number of very
simple breech loading riaed barrels, group
ed around and revolving about common
axis, with which they lie parallel. These
barrels are loaded from feeder and fired
while revolving in continuous succession.
Each barrel is fired only once in a revolu-
tion, but as many successive shots are de-
livercd in that time as there are different
barrels, so that ten-barrel Gatling gun
fires ten times in one revolution of the
gun. The gun is revolved by man turn
ing crank, and the action of each barrel
is wholly Independent of the others,
so that the bursting of one will not
interfere with the efficiency of the gun,
simply reducing the number of the shots
fired. The first guns made were operated
with what is known as feed case, which
was filled with cartridges and replaced
with others when exhausted, but the latest
guns contain an automatic feed-hopper
which has greatly increased the rapidity
of firing. 1t is believed that as many as
l,lOO shots in single minute have been
fired, the penetration at long range being
greater than from the common canister
shall Grad froon n N...l... - m
guns are made of several different bores
ranging from O.42 to one inch calibre, and
even above the latter, the smaller bore
being served with the ordinary centre FIRE
metalic-cased cartridges used with small
arms, SO that the ammunition is inter.
chaugeablc. The gun is so hung on its
carriage that it can be swung literally
when fred, thus increasing the execution
to great degree.