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Year: 1875

A CooLER.-A writer on public health
recommends that dish or basin large
enough TO present good surface Of wa wa
ter be placed in rooms where the heat rs
oppressive, and the water changed once
or twice on very hot days, TO secure
general lowering Of the temp' rHture.
The hot air of the room takes mp the
water in the form Of atmospheric vaapor,
and diffuses the greater oooinesa OF the
vapor throughout the room, unhl ar
and water become Of the same tempera-
ture. When this takes place frosh wa
ter should be put in the dish. Ile says
chat he has found a tumbleriul OF water
"potential" enough when he has been
sitting in a small study, but tho greater
the surface OF the water in contact with
the mir the more effectual will be the
diffusion Of the atmospheric vapor.
Year: 1875

A SCoTCH granite monument at Cam
bridge City, Indiana, was recently
struck by lightning, the current follow
ing the shaft to the limestone base, tax
ing out every pal ticle of red color, and
leaving white zig-zag strip about an
inch III width. The monument was not
injured.
Year: 1875

bid Won ever think how strong the
growing plants must be TO force their
way up through the earth2 Even the
green daisy tips and the tiny blades OF
grass. that bow before breath, have 10
exert force in coming through, that, in
proportion TO their size, is greater than
You would exert in rising from under n
mound of cobble stones. And think OF
toad stools-what soft, tender things
they are, breaking at "A touch. Yet. i
can tell you, they're quite mighty in
their way.


Charles Kingsley, the celebrated Eng
lish priest and novelist. was a very close
observer of nature. One evening I'm
noticed particularly q square flat sto nR
that I should say, was about as looig
and rs broad as the length Of three be,
burdock leaves, He thought il would
require quite strong man 10 lift stone
like that In the morning he looked
again, and 10 the stone was raised so
that he could see the light under it.
What was his aurprise TO find on closer
examination, that crop OF toad-stoole
had sprung mp under the stone IN ths
night and raised it mp on their little
round shoulders as thew came


m told th0t canon hNiEHltg BlNos MI
account of THE in his book called
Christmas in the West ludies," but Il
was in Eugland that lac saw It.


Knowing that he was so close an OBJ
server, / shouldn't be one bit surprised
if he went still further and found out
that one secret of the toad-stools being
able TO lift the stone was that they
didn't waste time and strength in urging
each other 60 the work, but each one
did his very best without quarreling
about whose turn it was, or whether
Pink Shoulder or Brown Button was
Sinking his share. But then the toad
stools must have been strong.
Year: 1875

Dress Makers recommend 1t as being the pest
Corset 10 ft a dress over, because it is cut in
such manner that the front and back seams lit
like seams TO a dress.


And it is superior to any other Corset now in
use, because its peculiar style Of cutting gives
sufficient flllness at the bosom, without foiding
over The hips is longer front and back than Or
dnsry Corsets, and in fact is the only Corset cut


In addition to the DOLLAR CORSET will
be found large assortment of other makes at
the following prices-Sl.25, Sl.9O, Sl.7o' 9Z'oo'
So. so and S..
Year: 1875

the part of the House. The manifes-
tations of public sentiment have been


too clear, on the subject Of Il third
term, for him not to have perceived
that he had no chance Of renomina-


tion by Republican National Con-
ventiop, on the old issues. This was


sufficient, and, as we suspect
controlling reason, for his idtrodu-
cling into politics a new add explosive
element, which migle blow up the old
Republican orsan1zation, leaving some
of the constituent elements, with


ore..r additions form other sources. to
reunite and from a new party, which
would naturally concentrate upon him
as it's candidate. And if a majority
of the voters of the United States
shall ever be so reused up and in
furiated by religious excitement as
to elect man President on sectarian
issues-it is by such e. party, if any,
that we may expect the third term
que ,tion to be looked upon as minor
and insignii cate. General Grant took
his only chance-a desperate one, it
may be. But he must have taken it
with full knowledge that he had no
other, and with too thorough an un-
derstanding of the views of the COLI
spicuous Republicans on the third
term for the recent vote to have occa-
stoned him either surprise or upeasi-
ness.
Year: 1875

The New York Bulletin of Friday
says: ''The year is closing with symp-
toms of some improvement to the con-
dition of business affairs. During this
month there has been marked fall
ing off in the number of faiiUres,
which is rather remarkable fact CON
sideriug that the settlements 10 be
made IN the last month of tie year are
always the severest test OF the re-
sources of men of business. Failures
are in the best times expected at TIE
md of the year; but at present they
are few and insignificant. Another
welcome symptom is the growing ac-
tivity il the money market. It is re-
freshin9 to find the rate for call looms
quoted at plump Z per cent. and this
a;ot as the result OF any temporary
speculative manipulation. but of a
healthier demand for loans and of a
growing disposition throughout the
country to employ capital which has
long laid idle. There seems to be
some reason to hope that 1876 will
open with better feeling. After all
/ he liquidation Of the last two years,
the fall in prices, the cutting down of
wages, the economizing of trade ex-
renditures, the reduction of rents and
the wholesale wedding out of weak
tirms-after all this thorough work of
reconstruction, business eerte'nly
ought to be on a ar<basis safe enough
to encourage production and a gen.
orally freer employment of capital;
md merchants should feel that they
can afford to be less tin1id than they
have been since The panic"
Year: 1875

The New York Sun has sensible
arGele on Gen. Grants last dodge as
the anti Catholic candidate for the


Presidency. Finding that he had no


chance of securing the nomination of
lis party on any of the issues before
the country, the President has not


hesitated to make one against the
Catholics in order that he might be
made President for the third term.
The Sun says that General Grant has
been urged a great many times, in a
great many ways, by many persons
'fuential in his own party, to publicly
disaTow any intention of running as a
candidate for President again, and
thus relieve the Republicans of the
odium which was believed to alta ch
to the third-term idea. This he has
persistently refused to do. No ad-


yice and no entreaty to this end has
moved linn. His first public avowal
OH the subject was, in substance, that
no did not want the Office of President
again, and that only extraordinary
circumstances would induce him to
take it; the extraordinary circum-
stances meaning, we have no doubt, a
fair prospect and reasonable hope Of
eIt ction. Moreover, he intimated that


one great objection which existed to
his running the first time-to wit, the
oonrS&na, ab h. h. !.
not apply to third term, as it had
not applied to a second. Rumor has
it that one consideration which had it's
weight with Grant, in deciding to re-
i,.quish the Office of General for that
OF President, was belief on his part
til at the people would continue to re-
elect him President as long as he might
wish. He felt that he might have the
office then, as the candidate of either
party, and against all other aspiranEs.
A little vanity might lead him, under
th, Sc circumstances, to suppose the
time would never come when a major
lty OF the people, grateful for his
military service, would hesitate-in
spite of the force of precsdents-to
re elect him. However that may be,
there is no ground for doubling that |
he has long been most earnestly de-
sirous of an election to third term. |
Els own avowal that he put his anti
Catholic recommendations into his |
recent message because it was his last |
annual message before the choice of
his successor would be made; what
could this mean but that he wanted
to afford the people an opportunity to
elect his successor on that issue? And
WHO 30 likely to be elected on it as
bimself, its protector, its author, its
official as well as enthusiastic adj
vocate :?


We do not look upon the vote of the
House of Representatives against a
third term as interfering at all with
Grants programme. To be
sure it was very strong vote, 2S3 to
l7-approaching unanimity. But we
do not imagine it was any surprise to
General Grant. He must have been
pexfectly prepared Tor sucn action on
Year: 1875

but started back with cry Of terror-sho was
dead


do not remember anything after that for
some weeks. had had brain fever. When
recovered she was gone. ! had never again
kissed her dear, dead lips. 1t was some time
before was able to crawl out but orders for
songs came in thick and fast


My last songs had been success their wild,
dissolute tone had suited the young fools with
money, and had become small mine of wealth
to the publisher.


Years have passed since then, but from that
time I have never written song OF that kind al
though large sums have been offered me. hate
them. Day and night hear them bnzzng in
my ears. Scarcely . week passes but hear one
of them shouted out by some drunkard ~ he
staggers home, and then the whole OF that ter-
Tible night comes back to me.


They are evil spirits that have haunted me
night and day they have made me shun my fel-
low men they have made me live in utter secln
sion. Day and night--day and night live In
terror Of hearing them.


Sometimes in dreams hear Mllly singing the
first song gave her !; and in the midst of this
happiness some fend seems to chant those
dreadful songs in praise OF wine.


Hush hoar her voice she sings the song
gave her in those happy, happy Gays. She is 60
ing away must follow her. Hush she is
singing me to sleep. Milly my own dear Milly
Year: 1875

We are in favor of return to sound
currency ,redeemable at the will of the
holder, at the very earliest momentthat
it can be brought about, without detri.
ment to the business interests of the
country, and do not approve the acqui-
escence of the Ohio and Pennsylvania
platforms in the present. condition of
things, but we despise the hypocriti-
cal cant of Radicals in favor of hard
money, after they have made such a
medium of exchange impossible for
any time in the near future.
Year: 1875

ONE STEP IN CRIME LEADS To ASoTn-
EE.-lt is no pleasure to a Delawarean
to find that the good name of his State
has again been dishonored by one of her
former citizens. To the list of crimes
charged against Charles G. Fisher, late
Assistant District Attorney of the Dis
trict of Columbia is now added that of
stealing bonds from the Court rooms.
This is terrible offence, and leads TO
the supposition that this young man
may have been led to its commission
through the conduct of his father and
those whom his father called around his
office, and who assisted to cover up the
crimes of some of the vilest men that
have been known in the criminal prac-
tice of the Courts of the District.
Year: 1875

The following is the financial plank
OF the Democratic national platform
of 1872:


"A speedy return to specie pay
ment Is demanded alike by the highest
considerations ofcommereial morality
and honest government.
Year: 1875

From the Baltimore SUM-


The latest mode Of setting the hoops is
to place them 30 that the hoop shall be
less than eight yards from every bounda-
ry, and each player is compelled to run
the middle hoop four times. A late ya.
ration OF the game is to have two four
ball games, one set starting from each
end of 1.-THE lawn. If ball belonging to
the other set is in the way, it NAV be tn.
Ken up and replaced. By a rule lust
adopted, at starting, the players ball is
to be placed one foot from the first noon
and opposite its centre, instead of NAL
let's length, as formerly. The obieet il
to make the first hoop certainty, and SO
to bring all the balls into play at once
Ii the first hoop is missed the ball is NOT
taken up, but remains where it lies. and
is liable to be made use of by the other
balls, whether they have run the first
noop or not. This puts a player at the
nrst stroke OF his first turn in precisely
the same relation to all the balls as he is
at the commencement of all subsequent
turns. Thus a player may at his first
turn play either for hoop or a roouet.-
fortunately he had to run the first hoop
before playing for roquet; now he NAV
play for roquet before taking any boon
Stirling a ball tight ia abolished bnt
pegging-out is retained. 1t is a sore
point, especially with ladies, when abont
to 60 out, to have ones plans spoiIt bv
an adversary who knocks you outsid, the
boundary; but this is in the chances on
war, and makes the game more Interest.
ing.
Year: 1875

For the Middle States and the lower
lake region, rising to stationary ba-
rometer, westerly to southerly winds,
and clear or partly cloudy weather,
Win lower temperature In the later and
slight changes In the former.
Year: 1875

It Is the duty Of every Democrat te en-.
deavor to promote harmony and unsnim-
ity in the party; without this success can
hardly be expected. There are some very
active men in the party who imagine be-
cause they are active they should have
their own way about party matters. They
should remember that human judgment
Ia fallable, and that some others are quite
as likely to be right as themselves. There
are others who seem to think that the
party is only to furnish Offices out Of
which men are to secure livelihood
Such persons are very much mistaken
The Democratic voters OF Wilmington
owe themselves several duties in poll
tics. and one of these is to secure their
person and property from the heavy taxes
imposed upon them by the ruling party,
which has Lean so long in the enjoyment
o. power that it docs not sympathize
with the mass Of tax payers. Their own
property Ia we'll protected. or the taxes
they pay are made up to them in various
psrquisites. Now, a party that cannot
correct abuses must be put out and an
other that prmises to do 80 must take its
place. This is the use we make of suf-
frage. When q people are 80 welded to
party that they will not vote to change
bad rulers for better ones, repubicanism
becomes useless, and suffrage fails en-
tirely of its object. II voter is a SOW.
sreign it is only because he uses his vote
toswield the power Of government. When
he suffers his Judgment to be carried away
by political demagogues, who only seek
power for their own aggrandizement and
the injury Of the people. he is no longer
ft to be sovereign. and the right Of suf-
frage In his hands is real danger.


This 10 exactly the position of a great
nsdy OF the Republican voters to-day
They vote simply for men without regard
70 their qualifications for official position
or their wish to protect the right, or pro-
mote the happiness, of the community,
or elevate the character of tho people,
The estimate Of community is very of :
Ten formed from its representative men
It's Official heads. II they are deficient in
learning and in virtue, the impression is
very apt to be formed by strangers that
those who selected them are not up to O
nigh moral and intelligent standard. We
should endeavor too by the selection Of
our officers to impress youth with the ne
ossaity Of cultivating the finer and more
snnobing qualities Of our. nature, if the,
would aspire 10 positions of distinction
No man whose patriotism is up to tn,
1roDer standard should wish to see tn.
0enocratic party put men in Office VIII,
ars incompetent. or who are lacking il
xhs qualities necessary to inspire our owl
3oath. or command the respect of stran
GERS and the elevated citizens of neigh
boring towns.


Then let rs harmonic ON good, able ans
honest candidates for all the Offices a
the approaching city election!
Year: 1875

As an illustration of the extreme
dryness of the soil during the dry sea-
son in Brazil, it is stated that in June
all vegetation ceases, the seed being
ripe or nearly 30. In July the leaves
begin to turn yollow and fall of; In
August an extent of many thousands
OF square leagues presents the aspect OF
European winter, but without snow,
the trees become completely stripped
of their leaves; the plants that have
grown in abundance in the wilderness
drying up, and serving as kind OF
hay for the sustenance of numerous
herds of cattle. This is the period
most favorable for the preparation OF
the coffee that grows upon the noun.
tains. The beans are picked and laid
on the ground, which gives forth no
moisture, but on the contrary absorbs
it, and being surrounded by an at
mosphere possessing the same desicca-
ting properties, the coffee dries rapidly
without molding.
Year: 1875

THE DRY SEASON AND tTs CHARACTER


Asan illustration of the extreme dry.
ness of the soil during the dry season
in BRAZIL, it is stated that In june all
vegetation ceases, the seeds being then
ripe or nearly 80. In July the leaves
begin to turn yellow and fall of; in
August an extent of many thousand of
square leauges presents the aspect of q
European winter but without snow,
the trees being completely stripped of
their leaves; the plants that have grown
in abundance in the wilderness drying
up, and serving as kind of hay fol
the sustenance of numerous head oil
cattle. This is the period most favor


able for the preparation of the coffee
that grows upon the mountains. Tht
beans are picked and laid ON the GROUND
which gives forth no moister, but OF
the contrary absorbs it, and being sur
rounded by an atmosphere possessing
the same dissicating properties, the cof
fee dries rapidly without moulding.
Year: 1875

Lieut.. Gov. Van Zandt of Rhode Island is a
candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor
Of that State The choice Is thought to lie between him
and Col Henry Lppitt.


There is q unanimous disposition on the part
OF the Republican press to unite prayer Of thanks
giving that Gen. b. F. Butler has only few hours
OF public ife The general opinion TO be that
party does gain In popularity by having bully aud
q blackguard ior " leader In Congress-.


The kitchen organ explains its position on
the Third Term once The truth is," IL says,


I'VE have never discussed the Third Term except as an
abstract question. II President Grant is renominaed
as may response to the demands OF the patriotic
people, we shall rejoice because believe he Is de-
serving and because We believe his decision of character
may needed the troublesome times with which the
country is threatened But have never argued the
Thrd-Term proposition IN his behalf, although we have
been urged do by hundreds Of devoted Southern
Republicans" The Northern Republicans, then have
not been 80 urgenti 1t Is news that the carpet
baggers are ANXIOUS for IT. Their devotion" to the
power which holds them by force upon the throas of
the South Is perfectly natural


With rather indecent haste, The PHILADELPHIA
rusbes into print with Its obituary notice OF the
XLId Congress. Here somo Of the kind things IL
says Of the expiring body: The XLIIId Congress was
not the wses abes and most patriotic body that ever
sat In Washington 1t had many grievous faults aud
made numerous mistakes 1t had its sins Of omission
and commission. and t did not always satisfy pu blic
sentiment have tho public confidence. And yet It
was not wholly bad. Its chief crime was indication
For two years tred with Of the most dangerous
questions that In politics burning ts
fingers and threatening to set the national house afre
Only yesterday did dispose Of the Louisiana case Is
showed remarkable ncapacity for the MANAGEMENT Of
the nnanees an ncapac waion sonstimes sunk to the
depth OF tmbeoilsty And after tnkeng Ut tho subject
almost unlateilktble oeQdiusnes '.
Year: 1875

The most important of the votes which pre-
ceded the final adoption OF the Force bill in
the House of Representatives was that upon
the proposition to strike out the Thirteenth
Section authorizing the suspension of the writ
rest of the bill might have been accepted with
less wear and tear to the restless cOnsciences
of self-respecting Republicans. 1t is easy
enough to argue oneself into the belief that ceI-
tain administrative measures are necessary to
insure fair elections in districts where your
opponents have majority. But the suspen-
sion of the great writ of freedom is always O
serious matter to men bred in respect for
themselves and the institutions of their coun-
try. When it was first proposed to Lincoln in
the hour of agony in which the war began, he
and all the jurists whom he consulted had the
gravest doubts about its employment, even in
the very cases provided for by the text of the
Constitution, cases of rebellion or invasion. 1t
shows how insensibly the taste for poisons
grows, when we see the House of Representa-
tives, ten years after the war is ended, forcing
bill to give the President this momentous
authority for nearly three years to come, for
no purpose but O political one. 1t is not the
opposition alone who charge this. There is
no more sincere and earnest Republican in
Congress than Mr.. Pierce of Massachusetts.
He preserved enough honesty and cOolness in
the midst of that heated debate TO try still to
restrain his headlong colleagues by questions
like these, which must have sounded to them
as exasperating as the voice of conscience to
a man determined to do wrongs "Are we
mot at bottom working simply and solely
"for the continuance of political party suprem-
"acyi L. not that in fact the motive TO the
Year: 1875

Now there are great many thousand Re-
publicans in this country, better men than
most of these who go farther than Judge
Poland who not only think such legislation
as this at any time serious and dangerous
business, but who think that Gen. Grant is not
a safe man to trust with these enormous and


illegal powers. They believe that he and his
immediate supporters want these powers
granted SO that they may control the vote OF
certain Southern States for their own imme-
date advantage. They believe that neither
the President nor the men to whom be has
gwen his confidence have much respect for
law or much knowledge of it; and that in
case where their interests are at stake, they
would not scruple to violate the law and to
use all the powers in their reach to gain their
ends. The votes of this sort of Republicans
are necessary to the party, if the party is to
survive. They are numerous enough to defeat
the Administration if their sense OF justice
and decency is to be outraged in this way by
the new leaders Of the Administration party.
We think therefore that this last performance
was as stupid as 1t was reckless and law
less. 1t was intended to help the Administra-
ton. 1t will merely help the country to judge
what sort of Administration it is.