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Year: 1878

In underground places, the intelli


gence Of mules displays itself in re-
markable manner. They soon learn TO
obey every command their driver gives
them. A curious freak about mules is
that when anything touches their heads
they dodge, while touching horses ears
makes them throw up their heads For
this very reason horses cannot be used
underground, for they would so break
their skulls, while mules never get in
iured in that manner. The switch
mules in the Nevada mines, when the
men are eating, go from man to man
begging for something 20 eat, and they
will eat cooked meat pies, drink coffee


in fact, take anything the men have.
Some Of the mules, when the men
are not looking, are in the habit
Of upsetting the mems lunch pals
and helping themselves without leave.
They have also taken TO drinking ice
water and are not satisfied except they
get their regular allowance. The mules
which pull the rock-trams are driven
three or four tandem, each having q
torch upon its head which keeps bob
bing up and down as they move along,
and they present a novel appearance
as seen from n distance in the darkness.
Year: 1878

The Rhone, as it issues from the lake of
Geneva and rushes on its arrowy flight, is
the most beautiful of rivers.-green as an
emerald, yet as clear as clearest glass SO
that the pebbles on the bottom where it is
twelve feet deep are as distinctly seen
as if they were lying at ones feet The
Arve-a river of about the same size, and
flowing for some distance nearly parallel
with the Rhone and but little way from
it's dirty stream, carrying with it the
wash of the mountains and the mud of the
valley About two miles below Geneva
these two rivers unite, and flow together
toward the sea. But-though joined in one
channel-they are still for several miles al.
most AS distinct as when they occupied their
separate beds. The beautiful Rhone keeps
its green clearness on its own side of the
channel, while the Arve flows as turbid as
ever, from the middle to the further shore
So two discordant characters thrown to-
gether by circumstances, often maintain
each its own peculiarities aud neither is
the wicked sanctitied by the just, nor the
righteous contaminated by the unfortunate
association. In many family the goddess
husband goes his own worldly way, while
the pious wife lives only nearer the cross
because she cannot enter into her husbands
heart. But some miles below the junction,
the river rushes into chasm beneath a
mountain. When it issues on the further
side it is one river called the Rhone, but in
character the Arve. The emerald lost, the
purity gone, it is just common river alter
the common pattern-opaque and muddy
from shore to shore. SO, often-so, gener-
aHy-" evil communications corrupt good
manners" A few days ago went, with
friends, to the junction, to see the famous
uniting without commingllng of waters.
The rivers were both unusually low within
their banks, and TO our surprise the Arve
was very nearly or quite as clear as the
Rhone. They met and we're not to be dis
tinguished in their common channel. My
friends who had been there very often, as
sured me that they had never seen it SO
beiore-that to them it was phenomenon
as strange as the ordinary appearance would
have been TO me. All 1t was not the first
time that muddy character has appeared
! temporarily as clear and fair as the purest.
Even Satan sometimes appears as an angel
OF light. 1t will not always do to judge by
present appearances Wait until the rains
come. "When atilction or persecution aris-
eth, Immediately they are offended" 1t
must be a sad character, indeed, which is
not amable when its possessor has his own


way. Aud it must be a very bad man who
cannot conduct himself respectfully for a


little while-especially if he have his own


purpose TO serve in so doiug. Let those who


may be tempted to decide hastily in regarc


TO lifelong companionship remember thai


even the Arve is not always muddy


Irdueler IN Genera.
Year: 1878

The following anecdote was related by
Mr.. Webster in reference to his connec-
tion with the celebrated Dartmouth Col
lege case, in which the New Hampshire
Legislature attempted TO interfere with
the ancient charter of that institution /;
I'm which, IL may not be forgotten, Mr..
Webster triumphed, by the decision of
the United States Supreme Court CON
frming the claim of the college. While
engaged in the case, Mr. Webster told
the president that as the original charter
was granted, and the endowment made.
by Lord Dartmouth expressly for the
purpose of civilizing and instructing the
Indians, question might arise on this
point; and, so as mo- Indian had been at
tached TO the school for long period, it
would be well for the president to go
into Canada and bring some of the abo-
rigines within the walls of the college.
so that jury could not find that the
charter had been abrogated ON that
score. Accordingly the president went
and found three choice specimens and
brought them to the brink of the river !.
and after some delay he procured boat
and began 10 ferry them acrOss--when
the young Indians, not precisely under
standing the object of so much kindness
on the part of the president, and espying
the walls of the college on the bank, had
not only their wonder excited, but grew
suspicious that, If once within those
walls, it might be difficult to escape.
Whereupon the young Indian at the
bow OF the boat cast significant glance
at his associates, gave the war-whoop,
and, quick AS thought, they all plunged
into the middle of the river and swan
for the shore. Said Mr. Webster, "The
falling Of the walls of Jericho on the
sounding Of the rams horns could not
have astOnished Joshua more than this
unlooked-for escapade of the Indians
astOnished the president He hallooed.
entreated and tried 10 explain all; but
the Indians kept straight on their course
to the shore, and made with all their
speed for the woods-the last President
Wheelock ever saw or heard of them. ="
80 Mr.. Webster had TO 90 on with the
case without the Indians This anecdote
used to amuse him exceedingly; and
Judge Story would join in with his
happy, light-hearted laugh, which only
those who knew him can appreciate.
Year: 1878

RAGE is essentially vulgar, and never
more vulgar than when it proceeds from
mortified pride, disappointed ambition,
or thwarted willfulness. A ba1led dcs-
pot is the most vulgar Of dirty wretcbes,
no matter whether he be the despot Of a
nation vindicating its rights, or q don
key sinking under its load.
Year: 1878

IHE superintendent of n factory in
Canada, which manufactures paper from
wood, says that the process Is now so
much improved that the paper can be
made ready for use in six hours after
the cutting Of the tree.
Year: 1878

lDctrOit Free Pfcts.l


The latest thing in ladies' shoes
ladies feet


A great many Detroit beds are wear
ing comforters this year.


IL gives a parlor stove an unique ap-
pearance 10 paint the legs red.


How 10 make one yard Of red flannel
construct skirt-put it at the bottom
and splice upward with calico.


IL is in order for b0otbIacks 10 yell
out at fashionable bonnet, "Blow yer
buglesp


Corsets no longer wind up with n
crank They are keyed up from behind.
Milliners are in luck this fall. IL moth
ing else turns up their hats will


TOnsorial artists have become so skill
ful that they can now "bang" hair so
close to the regular State prison cIt
that only an old convict can detect the
cheat


The fashion Of wearing cheap rings
over kid gloves still prevails. The wearer
can be set down as very wealthy and re-
fined.


There arc several new devices in cuff
buttons. On one there is an engraving
Of a business man forced into bankruptcy
by the extravaganza Of his wife.


Pulse-warmers have undergone n radi-
cal change in style, but yet nothing can
equal the tender grasp Of young man
with Roman mustache.


"This upsets me, ~ the mattress said
10 the girl who was making the bed
Year: 1878

NEW YORK, Nov. THE news Of the theft
of A. T. Stewart was received at II 80 q. m.
when the following was sent over the police
wires at the request OF Judge Hilton to the
various police precincts "The remains of A..
T. Stewart were last night stolen from the
family vault in st. Marks church yard.
The casket was found broken open and the
body removed. The decomposition OF the re-
mains is so offensive that they cannot be con-
cealed. This is apparent from standing at
the opening of the vault this morning. Con
sequently 1t cannot be taken across the
ferries or placed anywhere above ground
without discovery. Cause diIigent search to
be made In your precinct rs the remains were
evidently stolen In hopes of q reward
Year: 1878

NEW YORK, Nov. No clue has yet been
obtained of the remains OF the late A. T..
Stewart nor Of the thieves that carried away
the body. There is not the slightest doubt
but what the body was taken In the hope Of
Year: 1878

explicit declaration Of PRINCIPLES, to
cucumber the platform with vowels
about forced resumption of specie
payments.


The republican and democratic
parties have distinctly declared in
their national policies. in favor OF
specie resumption. They only differ
as to the day when it shall be enforced.
These parties have now the power.
and if our government money must
be redeemed in coin. it is a matter of
no concern to the National party,
when their purpose is to be executed.
The National party antagonized both
the old parties on this question.


Your, ETC., S. F. CARY.
Year: 1878

'Tis said plain working men should
not agitate the financial question, but
leave that to the tinanciers. Are not
those men who make the wilderness
blossom like the rose, who cut down
the primeval forest and III one short
year reap "a harvest of golden grain,
who fashion raw hides and raw cotton
into articles of use and beauty, who
build ships upon the sea that walk the
water like thing of life. and houses
upon the land that equal in magniti-
cence the palatial residences OF the
ariStOcratS over the seas, who go down
into the bowels of the earth and bring
up hidden treasures, who makes the
steam engine his servant the same as
Il dog minds his master, who with
powder pick and shovel bores through
the mountain Il passage way tor the
rapid transit train. who safely carries
the precious freight of human lives
over the deep ravlne, along the noun
tain side, and high up above the
rivers foaming tide, forty miles an
hour, who hew rough blocks of gran
ite so that you can see no dividing
line where the faces come together,
and make the keystoneS to public
buildings with such exquisite work
manship that they lit into their places
to hair breath;-are not these men
capable of understanding the money
question!


To say that such men can't under
stand the financial problem is to say
that the men who have filled this land
with milk and honey cant provide Il
way to distribute the products of their
toll SO as to be Il blessing and not Il
curSe to the country.
Year: 1878

Passed at the las, session OF the Legislature
compels me TO turn over to the Auditor all the
tax books in my Office on the first day of
June, and upon that day 10 per cent. PEN
alty will lie added to all unpaid taxes Ii tax
payers delay calling until late in MAY it will
be i'm possible to make out their ceit<s-and
the penalty will b. added bv the auditor. All
interested will find it TO their interest to call
and settle ~ Early as possible


Il. NJ. RICE,


County Treasurer.
Year: 1878

Diphtheria is disease which springs from the growth of real fungus on some of the mucous surfaces of the system, more generally of the throat. It may be spread by contact of the mucous surfaces of 8 diseased with those of healthy person, as in kissing, and is to limited degree epidemic. From the local parts affected it spreads to the whole body, affecting the muscular and nervous systems, vitiating the lymph and nutrient fluids, and producing paralysis. As soon as the bacterium or fungus appears in white patches on the throat, it should no more be neglected than bleeding gash or 8, broken arm, and there is almost as little need of a fatal termina- tion of one incident as of the other. It has been found by actual experiment, both in and out of the human system. that this bacterium is killed by several drugs, the safest and most certain of which is chlorine water, diluted with the addition of from two to four times the volume of water. This wash is harmless, even when swallowed, and is pretty certain to arrest the disease. The great cyclopedia of Ziemessen on the practice of medicine gives the highest place to this method of treatment. To keep the patient well housed and warm, with additional flannel clothing if necessary, and to keep the system we'll nourished and the bowels open are matters of nursing often neglected but, with care in these respects and early application of the remedies above suggested, there IS no need of the disease proceeding to fatal termination, or even to the facilitating illness and painful cauteriza- tions which go together in it's later stages. As to the origin of diphtheria, the weight of testimony is that it belongs to the class of filth diseases, but further than that its source is not clear. Fami- lies which would be scandalized at the suggestion of untidiness are attacked, while others of filthy surroundings escape. This simply shows that our sense of cleanliness needs cultivation, so that we may discriminate between what is offensive to the system and what offensive to our falsely educated tastes. The farmers wife, to whom the closed and carefully dusted parlor or the preternaturally scrubbed floor are the essentials of neatness, may endure the proximity of a sour swamp or of the kitchen cesspool for years without taking offence. To many a careful and laborious housekeeper, a chance cobweb or the children s |" litter J of few hours play will outrank in heinousness 8 defective drain for the cellar or badly conducted privy.- Springfield Republican.
Year: 1878

The Watclsn,an tells this sermon stealing story of a young man who stood before q Presbytery in Scotland asking ordination. Principal Robinson was Moderator. The young man was rigidly examined, and asked to preach. The examination and sermon were both sat isfactory. The candidate retired, and the Moderator said : "Ifeel compelled to say that the sermon which the young man has preached is not his own. It IS taken from an old volume of sermons, long out of print Where he found it do not know. I suppose the only copy of the volume to be found was in my library, and the candidate has had no access to that" The young man was called in and asked if the sermon he had preached was his own. "No," he frankly said. s'I was pressed for time, and could not make 8 sermon in season. The sermon preached was one which heard Principal Robinson preach some time ago. took notes of it, and liked it so we'll that I wrote it out from memory and have preached it to-day. !" Nothing was said there was nothing to be said
Year: 1878

Electricity has been added to the duck ing-tub as mode of punishment in the Columbus (Ohio) Penitentiary. The prisoner is first stripped of his clothing, then blindfolded and taken into the room where the tub is kept. There he is or dered to sit down in water three inches deep, and one pole of the battery hay ing been placed in the water, sponge ia attached to the other. With this sponge the body of the prisoner is touched rapidly in several places. Not knowing where he is to be touched, as his eyes are still kept blindfolded, his suffering becomes the greater. The pain sometimes produced is said to be great, and causes the prisoner to shout in loud and piercing tones. Unless a careful physician is employed to direct the use of the electricity, people will be led to question the wisdom and humanity of this innovation.
Year: 1878

Every one must remark that favorite article of winter clothing for children is a comforter swathed around the neck. This is great error the feet and wrists are the proper members to keep warm j; the face and throat will harden into g healthy indifference to cold; but the muller, exchanged for an extra pair of thick socks and knitted gloves, would preserve boy or girl really warm and we'll. Bronchitis and sore throat have declined fifty per centum since the absurd use of high collars and twice round neckerchiefs went out of fashion; and if the poor would take better care of their children's feet half the infantile mortality would disappear. It only costs trihe to put piece of thick felt or cork into the bottom of boot or shoe, but the difference is often considerable between that and doctors bill, with perhaps the undertaker's beside.-G Green Mountain FreenaGn.
Year: 1878

Those who hunt the bison for his meat are a class by themselves. A hole like a grave is dug in the ground, and a hide placed therein with the fur toward the earth. The rim of the hide is staked to the edge of the grave, and makes a leather vat. The hams are cut into three chunks and thrown into the vat. They are sprinkled with salt and seasoned with saltpetre. The vat is then covered with stiff hide, and the meat thus pro- tected from the sun. Tongues are pickled in similar way. After the meat is thoroughly soaked it is taken out of the vat, and cut into smooth pieces. These pieces are strung on bear grass, and hung in rude smoke-house covered with hides. The meat cannot be smoked too much. It cures according to the weather. Sometimes it is in the smoke house two months before it is market able. It finds ready sale in the frontier towns, and is frequently scld as far south as New Orleans. Itis very palatable.

 "Half the fun in killing buffalo," said well-known hunter, "is in ob- serving their curious actions. I have stuck up hat, and seen Q whole herd gather around it, and stare at it for hours. If one animal gets begged, half dozen others are pretty sure to fall into the trap. Anything will stampede them. Their stupidity is most remark able. AS stupid as buffalo is com mon expression among herders. The little calves are more suspicious than their parents. Bulls have shorter tails than COWS. Their tails are bad fly brushes, for they could not hit fly in a week"

 When the fleshy side of the green hide is exposed to the sun, the skin becomes as hard as iron. Fourye ago party of Texas cowboys caught horse thief on the border of the Indian Territory. As there was no tree handy on which to hang him, they sewed him up in green buffalo hide, and left it on the plains, under the burning sun. A year after ward the hide was found. The skeleton rattled within it as do dry peas in a pod. It was cut open with an axe, and the remains of the unfortunate horse thief were identified by the clothes.
Year: 1878

This is really the West End OF our beau
tifuI city, with the benefit OF FRESH
uncontaminated by gas or sewer efiiuvia.
glance at the elegant mansions and
fashionable residences now e.ected and
In course OF erection must satisfy any per-
ION desiring home that this is the place
Year: 1878

The increasing circulation Of the TRANSCRIPT
has made it necessary for us to seek some
more satisfactory means of mailing than BY
pen or pencil, and this week we have put IN
operation iii our Office a Rukenhrod mailer,
which neatly prints the name Of each subscri-
Der either on the margin Of the paper or the
wrapper. We have not been able to get the
whole of our list up this week, and only part
Of this issue will 60 through the mailer, but in
the future the pencil will have lost its ocrupa-
ton as mailer in this Office, and our Ruken-
brod will do the mailing at the rate of about
forty minute Mailing newspapers with pen
or pencil is the system of a past age. 1t was
good enough for stage coach times, but alto
gether too low for the days Of the railroad,
telegraph and civil service reform. We are a
little surprised that any paper with even fair
circulation will continue to use pencil; In
fact, we are little astonished that we have
been fool enough to do SO for a whole year,
and when we look back and think of those
damp papers on which we have tried to wIite
with hard pencil we feel that we might have
been better man if we had purchased mailer
sooner. The mailing of papers with pen or
pencil is as tiresome as turning grindstone
for dull axe, besides, printers scrawl is
frequently the hardest hieroglyphics post
master has to tackle.
Year: 1878

The grand jury in their report to the court
say that at the present term they have had be-
fore them l22 cases, returning 100 true bills
and ignoring 10. They have visited the Aims
house, and have no hesitation in expressing
their entire approval of the manner in which
that institution is conducted. The Almshouse
of this county, they are glad to say, stands
second to none in this or adjoining States
They have also visited the county prison and
find the attention to the proper comfort Of the
inmates, as we'll as the general management of
the prison, worthy Of the highest commenda-
ton. They condemn the former practice Of
allowing some prisoners to ''run at large"
and compliment the sheriff for stopping the
practice The practice Of findiscriminate visit
ing to the Jail is also condemned. Itisrecom-
mended that the workshops Of the prison be
put ia operation as soon as the state Of the
case will permit, as ''whether the labor Of
these persons is profitable or not it is better TO
keep them employed" They have examined
the jail and are unable to find any defect in
the construction, except it is in the mauner in
which the iron bars are placed in the windows.
The jury are convinced that there is pressing
necessity for some change in the laws Of this
State for the punishment of crimes of inferior
grade, especially cases Of assault and battery
and petty larceny. Persons charged with
these trihing offences are frequently supported
as prisoners by the county for several months,
the time of the grand jury and court is occu-
pied for considerable time, and scores of men
(whose time is valuable) are kept waiting for
days together until such cases are disposed Of,
some of them not involving in the issue as
much as the fees Of one witness for a single
day. The hope is INDUCED that 1.-THE time is
not far distant when we shall have some tri-
bunal by which offences Of this kind may be
disposed Of in a more expeditions and and less
rnoppar ~
Year: 1878

DBThese Reprints are NOT SELECTIONS; they
give the original IN FULL, and at about ONE THIRD
the price of the English Editions.


The latest advances and discoveries in the arts and
Sciences the recent ambitions to knowledge in every
department of literature, and all the new publica-


ons as they issue from the PRESS are fully reported
and discussed in the pages of these periodicals, in
language at Clear forcible and comprehensive.
The articles are commonly more condensed and full
of matter than the average books of the period.
Year: 1878

In our columns to-day will be found the
sworn statement of New England skipper
reciting his adventures on the Newfound-
land coast, where with many other Yankee
shippers and the Gloucester fleet he
was engaged in the herring fishery.
1t appears by this story that the
i'll disposed and belligerent natives
OF those parts set upon and maltreated the
said Yankees. cut and destroyed their nets,
so that they lost their fish, and drove them
from the fishing grounds. AS the American
fishermen believed they were acting under
the rights guaranteed them by the Treaty Of
Washington. Formerly the fishermen who
went to Newfoundland for herring did not
catch the fish themselves, but bought
them already caught at so much barrel
from the natives, and this commerce was
naturally of certain Importance to the
people of those parts. But lately our fish,
ermen have taken with them large and effi-
cient nets and have caught their own fish,
which makes great gain to them and great
loss to the Newfoundland people Hence
the assault of the latter, determined not to
permit encroachments of that sort on their
ancient sources of income. AS the fisher
man is to make his stat tement the basis Of
demand for indemnity the government will
doubtless ascertain whether the treaty is of
any value or VIII ether the will Of the New
foundland mob shall rule.