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Year: 1878

This IS the commencement season, and the
undergraduate is about to perform that process
always described by the valedictoriau as ''leay-
ing these classic shrnes and going out into the
world" Most people imagine that this going
out into the world is Joyous process. They
picture the undergraduate who hovers on the
brink OF graduation as cheerfully packing up
his well-worn text books and putting on his
commencement suit with a heart full of buoy
ant hope and gladness. He may, perhaps, fell
little sad as he bids farewell to his beloved
instructors and distributes few simple gifts
among the friends whom he leaves behind, but
nothing can seriously dim the joy with which
he looks forward to the magnificent success
which awaits him, whatever profession he may
adopt. Perhaps this was true in earlier dsys.
but at the present time. under the shiLinr
shrt-front of the graduate are concealed rriefs
and cares OF which the world has little con-
ception.


Those who heard De- McCosh deliver his
baccalaureate sermon last Sunday must have
noticed total absence of all hilarity in the
races OF the graduating class. These hardened
young men listened to their venerated presi-
dent with stern and sabdued faces. Ever and
anon tear tricklsd down some broken nose or
bandage was removed from some confused
eye LuaL the OWucE wipe ~ WITH the Cor
ner of his handkerchief. Aud yet no one who
knows the desperate character OF the Princeton
studeps will imagine that remorse was wiring
ing she hearts of the graduating class last Sun
Day. The undergraduate who has never spared
theological student in his wrath, or shrank
from sacrificing freshman to his pleasure,
does not become humanized by listening to q
sermon on the eve of commencement, What
really su5dued these young men was the knowl-
edge that they were shortly to be cast without
protection on would where policemen and
magistrates combine to suppress culture and
courtesy. IT, after next Thursday, Princeton
graduate assaults q theological student, or de-
stroys the property of a freshman, he will be
dragged away TO prison aud punished as GER
tainly as II he were not a scholar and q gentle
man. 70 the Princeton graduate is presented
the terrible alternative of reformation or Jail.
de must throw away his revolver and his
club; and he must abstain from riot and yio-
lence, or else he must be prepared to be treated
as an outlaw and ruffian. We need not won
dee that tears stained the scanned and battered
Year: 1878

THE later progress made by the Potter
committee is illustrated by story which
some correspondent attributes to Ben Butler.
Said the Massachusetts statesman, "This
whole thing reminds me of machine in
vented by a Delaware friend of mine. 1t
was an eating machine. 1t took up the
meat or fish, as the case might be, upon the
table and threw the meat into the mouth Of
the eater, shooting the bones over each shoul-
der at the same time. But the inventor
turned the machine the wrong way one day,
and sent the bones all down his throat, and
killed him. 1t seems to me that for several
days in this committee the bones have been
going all the wrong way"
Year: 1878

CONSIDERING that Democratic House
has examined and ordered paid the disputed
bills contracted by ex-Secretary Robson,
and that the Naval Committee did not make
the charges against him which it was repre-
sented in nearly every Democratic committee
in the land as making, isn't it about time to
drop these accusations which are made
against himp
Year: 1878

BISMARCK is said to conduct all his nego-
tiations over bottle of wine or measure of
beer, He probably gets the other fellow full
and wrings treaty from him while the re-
pentant ambassador is suffering from head
ache and will do anything to be let alone.
Year: 1878

THE Washington Star says the national
capital will soon become the ''literary, scien-
tifc and educational centre of the nation"
That may be so if the Republican party is
continued in power.
Year: 1878

we 10 not read anonymous etters and communi-
catons. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


we cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used,
Year: 1878

Paper emissions by the government are
of nature SO Liable to abuse, L may say
SO certain to be abused, that the wisdom of
the government will be shown by never
trusting it.eif w tn SO seducing and dam
gerous a power.',
Year: 1878

have strangely overlooked the influence of
its currency. When the vast amounts is
sued are considered, its necessary effect,
in overturning every useful industry. and
instimulating every species Of expenditure
and extravaganza, was quite enough to
produce all the terrible results that fol-
lowed, without the Influence of any OF the
causes that have usually been assigned. Ii
was contest which not only arrayed the
people against the Government, but turned
the hand OF every man against his neigh
Dor. Society was ship that was wrecked;
the crew and passengers perishng alike in
the desperate struggle to reach and appro-
pirate some of the fragments that were
fioatiag in the wild waste of waters. In
such struggle a few only of the strongest
were saved. The moneyed classes, fore
seeing the inevitable result, had methodc-
ally invested all the notes received by
them In permanent forms Of property, so
that. when the final collapse came, the
greater part of the capital of the nation
was In their hands, the worthless notes
being almost wholly In those Of the poor"
These historical combinations of the dan
gers TO which We are exposed might be
extended indefinitely. They are worth far
more than argument and the deductions of
reason In helping to solve the problem OF
the future. But 1t remaius to be seen how
much of history is to repeat itself, and how
far the sense OF duty and responsibility
shall assert itself when men publicly pro-


claim, with the Colorado man, that they
are in favor OF Boston Post.
Year: 1878

ry up with that fish-pole. as the man may
want it, and be careful how you stand
around In the hot sun!'


She left him there. He watched her
take the car for home, ard then he re-
turned the fsh-pole and crossed the street
and said to an acquaintance:


Tom, I'm suffering with neuralgia, and
the excursion Is off till next week. Too
bad, but we can never tell what Q day may
bring forth"


There was chicken and pickles and
other good things on the table at dinner,
but he never smiled. Even when his wife
wished she was an orphan, If that was the
way they were fed, he never betrayed the
gloom In his heart. 1t was only when she
handed him the bottle he had so carefully
tucked into the basket. and he saw it
labeled: GOOD for little Children" that
he said:


MARY, 1t is an awful thing for wife to
get the impression that her husband is
coldbooded liarv'


at must be-" she replied as he took the
other chicken leg.
Year: 1878

My only recollection of Demosthenes
Ia his attempting TO speak piece at dis
trict school exhibition when he was boy, i,
and breaking down. He was reciting the
familiar lines:


You'd scarce expect one of my age


To speak in public on the stage;


II should chance to fall below
Year: 1878

A Detroit young woman tried to
he aristocratic, and did not look at
the money that she gave to
the horse car conductor, but he
meekly gave her back the lozenge
on which was written, "I'll never
cease to love thee," and said that
he was an orphan with five brothers
to support and must be excused.
Year: 1878

Editors are generally poorly OF
for clothing. When you hear of
one Of them having two suits, you
can calculate that one Is the suit he
wears every day and Sundays, too,
and the other is libel suit
Year: 1878

A minister was riding through q
section of the State Of South Car


olina, where custom forbade inn-
Keepers to take pay from the
clergy who stayed with them
The minister In question took sup
per without pra, er. and a'e IL en- :
fast without prayer or grace, and
Year: 1878

Mothers live for their children, make self
sacrifices for them, aud manifest their tens
derDess and love so freely, that the name,
mother, is the sweetest in human language.
And yet soDs, youthful and aged, know but
little of the anxiety, the nights Of sleepless
and painful solicitude which their mothers
have spent over their thoughtless WaywaTd-
ness. Those loving hearts go down TO their
graves with those hours Of secret agony un-
told. As the mother watches by night, or
prays in the privscy of her closet, she weighs
well the words which she will addTess TO her
son in order TO lead him TO a manhood of
honor and usefulness. She will Dot tell him
all the griefs and deadly fears which beset
her soul. She warns him with trembling,
les, she say osermuch. She tries to charm
him with cherry love while her heart is bleed
ing. No worthy and successful man ever
yet knew the breadth and depth of the crest
obligation which he is under to the mother
who guided his needless steps at the time
when his character for virtue was 50 mar
roHly balanced against course Of vice and
iguominy. Let the dutiful son do his ut
most to smooth his mothers pathway, let him
obey as implicitly as he can her wishes and
advice, let him omit nothing that will con-
tribute to her peace, rest and happiness, and
yet be will part from her at the tomb with
debt to her not half discharged.
Year: 1878

As rule, a sneeze is the warming
Nature gives that some part of the body
is exposed to a colder temperature than
the other parts, and the sneezer is
catching cold" Next to the warming,
what is the use of the sneeze? 1t
throws open the pores of the whole
body, and induce a gentle perspiration
in word, it throws off the cold. A
child rarely sneezes more than twice
perspiration is readily induced in youth;
an old man, on the contrary, sneezes
half dozen to a dozen times, with a
loudly explosive" Catalogue" 1t is
harder to set him perspiring. When,
one is sitting by an open window, and
finds himself sneezing, nature tells him
he is taking cold. He should get up
instantly, walk about, and take a full
tumbler of cold water to keep up the
gentle perspiration that the sneeze set
in motion. If he does this, he will not
be telling, an hour after, that he has a


cold in the head" or chest, or lungs.
Year: 1878

Aparty of Indians were playing poker
on Court street recently, and one of the
players, who was in on bluff, having
all his money in the pot, pulled off his
blanket and raised his opponent one
blanket. The other Indian saw the
raise and raised it squaw better, and
then the buffer hesitated. He offered
to put up his mother, but the other
PLAYER said she was too old, and that he
had put up his wife and wanted the bet
called with wife or he would take
down the pot; and the Indian with two
duces laid down his hand, and will sleep
tonight with barley sack for bed
spread.-Austia. Neu., Reueiie.
Year: 1878

Beware of dissipating your powers;
strive constantly to concentrate them.
Following this rule explains the success
of the mule in kicking, as he generally
manages to land both heels on the same
button of q mans waistband.
Year: 1878

Canon Falrar carries his disbelief in
eternal punishment so far as to say that
the present revisers of the Bible will ut
terly fail in their duty if they allow such
words as damnation," hell" and
" eternal" to appear at all in the new
version.
Year: 1878

A st. Louis girl shook out her stock
ing Christmas morning, and was bitterly
disappointed at discovering no pres
ents. On a closer examination, how
ever, she was made happy by finding a
splendid upright piano, which, as it had
concealed itself at the extreme toe end
of the stocking, had at first escaped her
search.
Year: 1878

Fernando Wood now expects to have
his tariff bill ready to be submitted to
the ways and means committee next
week. The internal revenue sub-com-
mittee is not so far advanced. There is
an impression that the sub-committe
cannot agree to any reduction of the
whisky and tobacco taxes. although
considerable notifications will be made
in the method of collecting the to-
bacco tax.
Year: 1878

One of the NEST curious facts connected
with madness is the utter absence Of tears
amid the insane Whatever the form of
madness, tears are conspicuous by their alb
sence,. as much III the depression of melan-
cholla, or the excitement of mania, as in
the utter apathy of dementia. If patient
IN lunatlc asylum be discovered in tears,
1T will be found that it is either patient
beginning to recover, or an emotional out
break in an epileptIc who is scarcely truly
insane, while actually insane patients ap-
pear to have lost the power of weeping it
is only returning reason which can once
more unloose the fountains of their tears.
Even when a lun~tic IS telling in fer
vid language how Sue has beeu deprived OF
her children, or the outrages that have been
pcrpetrated on herself, her eyes is never
even moist The ready gush of tears which
accompanies the plant OF the sane woman
contrasts with the dry-eyed appeal of the
lunatic. 1t would, indeed, seem that tears
give relief to feelings which, when pent
up, lead to madness 1t is one of the priv
lleges of reason to be able to weep. Amid
all the misery of the insane they can fnd NO
relief III tears.
Year: 1878

what do you think the beautiful word
"Wi.e' comes from p asks Ruskin. 1T
is the great word in which the English and
Latin languages conquered the French and
the Greek | hope the French will some
day get word for it instead of that dread
ful word femme But what do you think
it comes from? The great value of Saxon
words is that they mean something Wife
means weaver You must be either house
wives or housemothers remember that. -
In the deep sense, you must either weave
uleu's fortunes and embroider them, or feed
upon and bring them to decay Wherever
true wife comes, home is always around
her. The stars may be over her head = the
glowworm in the night-cold grass may be
the fire at her foot but home is where she
is; and for noble woman it stretches far
around her better than houses ceied with
cedar or painted with vermillion, shedding
its quiet light far for those who else are
hsmeless This | believe to be the wo-
mau- place and power
Year: 1878

Carefully prepared statistics show that
there are over six hundred thousand drunk
ards in the United States, and that seven
ty thousand die annually who go to the
grave of drunkard. Every year one
hundred thousand men and women are sent
to prison under the influence of iutoxica-
ton, while three hundred murders and four
hundred suicides occur from the same cause
Two hundred thousand orphans are annual
ly thrown upon the charity of the world by
this curse of intemperance. Nne-tenths
of our crime and not less than seven-eighths
of the pauperisln is the immediate result
of whiskey, and that at cost to the Gov
ernment- beside individual want-of not
less than $50, 900, 900 every year.
Year: 1878

Haunted houses are plentiful in Washing
ton. There is a domlcile in Four-and "a
half street, where, i'll the evening twilight,
before the gas is light newspaper is heard
to rattle in an alcOve designed for a bed.
Investigation of the apartment develops the
fact that there is no person there to rattle
paper. The doubter may suggest rats, but
the solemn assurance is given that there is
no paper there to rattle, nor any possible
thing that could resemble the noise of fold
ing newspaper-no paper OF any KIND
that could be ratified or folded. Of course,
people will be found to scof at the ghost of
newspaper, but, perhaps, if t.ld of the
lnexplicable death of lady, the wife of a
literary man, in that house some years ago,
they might change their opinion.


There is another haunted house on New
Jersey avenue, which no tenant can be got
to occupy An effort has been made for
some time to get up party of bold spirits
to sit up in it all night, which | was invlt-
ed to Join, but declined because | am not
one of that kind The New Jersey avenue
ghost is known to hold some sort of rela-
tionship to gentleman and lady who lived
there some years ago One day it was
given out that she had gone to New York
aud shortly afterward he picked up his car
pet-hag and went away, since which time
neither OF them has ever been seen.


Now, at ii O'Clock at night carriage is
heard, but not seen, to drive dp, the bell
rings without any visible cause, the door is
heard to open aud close, and after that the
most pitiful sounds, as of female voice
begging for mercy and crying out that she
was not prepared to die, are heard bu
there is no pity. lie murders her again
every night If these things are not SO
why does the house remain vacant. although
some most Intelligent people have tried t.
live in it? If yoa suggest bugs, reaches
aud lats, Washington people laugh at yol
aud say those things don disturb anybody
Sometimes think, perhaps, the awful.
depressing weather, such as we have bcel
having for the last three days, has some
thing to do with it.
Year: 1878

All the paper for the money issued by
the United States government is manufac-
tured on a sixty-two inch Fourdrinier ma
chine, at the Glen Mills, near West Ches-
ter, Pa. Short pieces of red silk are mix
ed with the pulp in the engine, and the
finished stuff is conducted to the wire with.
out passing through any screens, which
might retain the silk threads BY an ar
rangement above the wire cloth, shower
of short pieces of fine, blue silk thread i,
dropped in streaks upon the paper while il
is being formed. The upper side on which
tle blue silk is the one us.d for the face
of the notes, and from the manner in which
the threads are applied, must show them
more distinctly than the reverse side, al
though they are imbedded deeply enough
to remain fixed The mill is guarded By
officials night and day to prevent the alb
straction of any paper.
Year: 1878

The great wall of China was measured
in many places by Mr.. Unthank, an Amer
lean engineer, lately engaged on a survey
for Chinese railway. His measurements
give the hei sht at eighteen feet, AMI
width on top of fifteen feet Every few
hundred yards there is tower twenty four
feet square, and from twenty to twenty five
feet high. The foundation of the wall is
of solid granite Mr.. Unthank brought
with him brick from the wall which is
supposed to have been made 200 years be-
fore the time of Christ In building this
immense stone fence to keep out the tartars,
the builders never attempted to avoid noun
tains or chasms to save expense. For 300
miles the wall goes over plain and noun
tain, aud every foot of the foundation is
in solid granite and the rest of the struc-
ture solid masonry. In some places the
wall is built smooth up against the bank
cheer decent of 900 feet Small streams
are arched over, but in tae larger streams
the wall runs to the waters edge, and a
tower is built on each side On the top OF
the wall there are breastworks, or defenses,
facing in and out, so the defending forces
can pass from one tower to another without
being exposed to any enemy from either
side 10 calculate the time of building or
cost of this wall is beyond human skill -


So far as the magnitude of the work is con-
cerned, it surpasses everything in ancient OF
modern times of which there is any trace


The pyramids of Egypt are nothing com,


pared to it,
Year: 1878

During the past month we have been
clearing our stock of old goods, and are
now left with line of new and desirable
styles for the Spring trade. Our store,
which is the most commodious in the city
or State, occupying three floors, and with
enterprise back of it. Our intentionis this
season to outdo all former efforts to make
the Boston One Price Clothing House the
place to buy Clothing and Gents Furn-
ishing Goods. With the confidence of the
public that FIVE YEARS SQUARE
DEALING has not impaired, and our es-
tablished system of Cash and One Price
to all, we feel assured the present season
will prove a successful one. Visit our store
and look at our immense stock of Ready
Made Clothing for Men, Youths, Boys
and Children.
Year: 1878

THE REPORT of the Trustees of the
Poor is as dwarfed and imbecile as its
compilers could makeit. They despoiled
more comprehensive one and paid
almost double price for the poor thing
they issued.
Year: 1878

A foreign paper says that cheese is
made from potatoes in Thuring,r and
Saxony in the manner described below
Possibly the process may be found
worth trying if not profitable in this
country:


After having collected a quantity of
potatoes of good quality, giving the
preference to large, white kind, they
are boiled in cauldron, and after be.
coming cool they are peeled and re-
duced to pulp, either by means of a
crater or mortar. To five pounds of
this pulp, which ought to be as equal
as possible. is added one pound Of sour
milk and the necessary quantity of salt
The whole is kneaded together. and
the mixture covered up and allowed to
lie for three or four days. according to
the season. At the end of this time it
is kneaded anew, and the cheeses are
placed in little baskets, when the su-
peraous moisture escapes. They are
then allowed to dry in the shade, and
placed in layers in large vessels, where
they must remain for fifteen days. The
older these cheeses are the more their
quality improves. Three kinds arc
made-the first and most common is
made as detailed above; the second,
with four parts of potatoes and two
parts Of eurdled milk; the third, with
two parts of potatoes and four part of
COW or eve milk. These cheeses have
this advantage over other kinds, that
they do not engender worms, and keep
fresh for number of years, provided
they are placed in a dry situation and
in we'll closed vessels.-GWorld.
Year: 1878

The above heading may seem some
what strange. yet l doubt not that "too
much seeding" is fraught with far
creator injury to the productiveness of
Canada farms, than most people are
aware OF. great many (shall l say
majority of?) farmers seem toact on
the principle, not exactly that the
more seed the larger the crop but that,
if they only SOW considerably more
than suficiency, some at least of the
superabundance will be sure to over.
come the contingencies of unfavorable
weather, &c., and yield them fair
average crop. The idea is erroneous
IF we stock field with twice as many
cattle as its We .station is capable of
sustaining, what is the result? Why.
Of course speedy poverty, which will
soon end in starvation, unless the ami
mails are removed to better pasturage.
Why so? Because they must all be fed,
aud there is not sufficient on the field
to feed them Now the analogy be-
tween this state of affairs and an over.
seeded field is complete. Plants, to
arrive at perfect maturity. must have
an adequate supply of their proper food,
Just the same as animals In both ca.
ses life and growth must be sustained.
What then is the difference between
overstockiag field with cattle that its
herbage cannot support, and overwhel.
ming the same field with number of
plants quite disproportionate to the
capacity of its soil and the moisture it
is capable Of deriving from the atmos.
phere? None whatever. The results
must prove alike either way-either
stuuted growth or utter starvation. In
the case Of thick sowing. how many Of
the plants, even after they do struggle
above the surface, produce nothing, or
next to nothing? Not only so. but they
serve as persistent impedient to the
perfect maturity Of stronger plants
around them, whose heads grow to
little more than half the length they
would attain with plenty of room aud
nourishment. The grain too, in the
hest heads, is not 80 full and plump as
it ought to be, and for the very natural
reason that the stunted growth. in
other words deformity, Of the plant
spreads itself through all its parts I
believe that the soil would produce a
very much larger quantity and better
quality of both grain and straw. if its
cultivators would SOW about one half
the quantity Of seed per acre that they
commonly do, and l would strongly
urge the readers Of the Canada Far
mer to try the experiment on at least
portion cf their fields Let them
SOW, say one bushels Of oats, one bush
el Of barley, or one and fourth bush.
els Of peas to the scre-about hall
the quantities usually allotted-and


no matter how thin the plants may ap.
pear for time. I will guarantee that
the returns will be more favorable in
every way than if double the amount
Of SEED had been sowu.-ECanada Far


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