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Year: 1877

Those who have never personally in
spected the lower levels of our mines
may obtain some idea of the degree of
heat to be found therein by visiting the
Savage works at the change of shifts.
The men-packed together as close as
they can stand on the cage-are popped
up out of the shaft all steaming hot, for
all the world like bunch of asparagus
just lifted from the pot. They make
their appearance in cloud of steam
that pours mp continuously from the
"depths profound" and are dimly seen
until they step forth upon the floor of
the works. AS the men land and sep
arate, each carries with him for half
minute his little private cloud of vapor.
AS this passes of, the man is seen to be
naked from the waist up, his skin as
wet as though he had just been lifted
out of pool of water. The men bring
up with them-besides the steam-an
amount of heat that may be felt by the
spectator as they pass. All this is at
the top of the shaft, where it is cOnsid
cred quite cool-what then, must it be
hundreds of feet below, where the men
started from-dOwn where the water
stands at 157 degrees Fahrenheit 2
Down there no steam is seen-it is too
hot for it, 1t is only when the hot,
moist air coming up from the lower
regions strikes the cool air toward the
top of the shaft that it takes the form
of steam. Down there where the men
come from you must keep your hands
off the pump column and the pipe, and
if you pick up any iron tool you will at
once put it down without being told to
do so. Down there they handle things
with gloves on, or wrap rags about the
drills they are guiding and iron appara-
tus they are moving, and down there,
too, you will learn to keep your mouth
shut after you have drawn a few mouth
fuls of hot air into your lungs. Per-
spire 1t is no name for it. You are
like sponge that is being squeezed.
You are ready to believe that you have
ten million pores to every square inch
of surface, or as many more as any au-
thority may mention, and that all these
pores are as big as the cells of honey
comb. You go for ice-water, and it al
most seems to hiss as it passes down
your threat-yOu keep going for it and
thus, in a short time, find out what be-
comes of the tons and tons of ice that
are daily consumed in the mines. Re-
main below among the miners for al
hour or two, and when yOu are finally
popped out at the top of the shaft, all


red-hot and steaming, among the other
asparagus sprouts, you will appreciate
the beauty, the light and the GOODNESS
of the upper world Virginia (Neu.,
Enterprise.
Year: 1877

Once upon time a young man was
convicted of crime in Detroit and
sentenced by Recorder Swift to the
state prison for three years. He made
an A No. record in prison, and was
pardoned by Gov. Bagley short time
before the expiration of the term for
which he had been sentenced. On his
return to Detroit he found employment
at SIS a week in one of the largest
wholesale and retail houses in the city.
He conducted himself in an exemplary
manner, and he began to believe that
his lines had really fallen in pleasant
places, until one morning an ominous
message came informing him that he
was wanted in the prOprietor's private
Office. Apprehensive that his history
had been disclosed, he entered the
office with heavy heart, but resolved
to meet the issue like man. The pro-
prietor stood by his desk, holding in
one hand letter. His manner indi-
Gated nothing of what was passing in
his mind, but with a deprecatory ges-
ture he handed the letter to his clerk
and told him to read it. The young
man glanced hurriedly over the letter
"a cOwardly anonymous production
which was simply recital of the dark
episode in his career. "Is that true n
inquired the proprietor. "It is true, ,
was the sad reply. The merchants
face lighted in an instant. He grasped
the abashed and trembling clerk by the
hand and said to him, "You are the
man 1 want. You may draw $l3 a
week from this time until further notice
and at the first opportunity l shall give
you charge of a floor. l can trust a
man who will face the truth in this
fashion and under these circumstances
and you may count on permanent sit
uation so long as l am in business
What the young man said in response
to this unexpected declaration of con
fidence has not been told but the mer
chant, whose sense of justice and low
of truth were so signally illustrated
may be assured that he has gained ;
loyal friend, and earned the deathles
gratitude not ouly of that young man
but of all his family. 1t is an example
worth more than whole decades of i'm


prisOnment.
Year: 1877

DIR. S. F. Waters, of Boston, has dis
covered new and certain remedy for
the pain of scalds and burns. 1t is
simply cooking soda, (bi carbonate,
which is found in every kitchen.


He lately gave a practical illustration
of its efficacy by scalding his arm in the
presence of the members of the Mass
achusetts Dental Society at its meeting
in Salem. The pain was instantly re-
lieved by covering the scalded surface
with soda, and wrapping the whole in
wet cloth.


We have since had an opportunity OF
testing the remedy. A lady friend OF
ours met with bad scald, which af-
fected the larger part of the four fingers
of one hand, on the back, front and
sides. The pain was excruciating
At our urgent solicitation, she applied
the soda, though she had no faith in its
helping her. But the pain began to
lessen sensibly; in half an hour it "was
not worth minding;" within two hours
all trace of it was gone. Now, the
third day, there is no trace of the scald
excepting in its worst parts, where il
had blistered. But even from this she
has not felt the least Inconvenience
and it is rapidly healing. 1t is possible
that second application of the sOds
might have FASTENED the alleviation
Wet the part injured, and sprinkle OF
it the dry powdered soda.
Year: 1877

For several years Judge Bay of this
city, has been a great sufferer from
facial neuralgia, and to avail himself of
any benefit that might possibly result
from change of climate, spent most of
1873 in California, and the last part of
1874 in Colorado, without any material
benefit, and on his return fIom Colorado
DIR. Hodgen cut out little over one
half inch of the fifth facial nerve, and
for seven or eight months the Judge ex-
perienced entire relief from the disease,
but at the expiration of that time it
gradually returned upon him with in


creased severity until life was almost
unbearable. DR.. Hodgen became sat
isfied that the separate parts of the
nerve had united, and he determined
to perform second operation and on
the 9TH inst, at the residence of Judge
Bay, 1920 Chestnut street, and in the
presence of several medical gentlemen,
cut out two inches of the nerve, and
removed several collateral branches.
The operation lasted fifteen minutes,


was exceedingly painful, and, though
the Judge declined to take chlorOfOrm
or any opiate, he stood the knife with
out fiinching. This operation has been
very rarely performed in the West, and
from the proximity of the nerve to the
eye, requires great care and much skill.
The Judge has had no return of the
neuralgia pains, and all the indications
are that the operation will prove emf
nently successful, though it will proba-
bly, be week before he will be able to
leave his house.-St. Louis Republican.
Year: 1877

taking the Lake Willoughby Hotel in
our way, made few minutes halt.
The house ought to be fully patronized,
for its location is on the borders of a
wonderful region. 1t is six miles from
West Burke station, and about nine
from Barton. The country all around
is full of interesting scenery, and the
fishing is said to be excellent. The lake
tout are large, and the speekled brook
trout are plentiful in the little streams.
There is forest enough for hunters to
get lost in, and game to reward their
skill. lr fact, Willoughby should be
better known. L. w. r.
Year: 1877

(From "a Bed of Boughs," by John Burroughs ;


Scribner for November.)


Not the least of the charm of camp
ing out is your campfire at night.
What an artist What pictures are
boldly thrown or family outlined upon
the canvas of the night Every object,
every attitude of your companion is
striking and memorable. You see eff
fects and groups every moment that
you would give money to be able to
carry away with you in enduring form.


How the shadows leap. and skulk,
and hover about Light and darkness
are in perpetual tilt and warfare, with
first the one unhOrsed, then the other.
The friendly and cheering fire, what
acquaintance we make with it We
had almost forgotten there was such an
element, we had so long known only
its dark offspring, heat. Now we see
| the wild beauty uncaged and note its
manner and temper. How surely it
creates its own draft and sets the cur
rents going, as force and enthusiasm
always will 1t carves itself a chimney
out of the fluid and houseless air. A
friend, ministering angel in subjec-
tiOn tiend, fury, monster, ready
to devOur the world, if ungoverned. By
day it burrows in the ashes and sleeps
at night it comes forth and sits upon
it's throne of rude logs, and rules the
camp sovereign queen.


Near camp stood tall, ragged yel-
low birch, its partially cast-off bark
hanging in crisp sheets or dense rolls


''That tree needs the barber" said
Aaron, "and shall have call from him
tonight"


So after dark he touched match into
it and we saw the flames creep up and
wax in fury until the whole tree and its
main branches stood wrapped in a sheet
of roaring fame. 1t was wild and
striking spectacle, and must have ad'
vertised our camp to every nocturna
creature in the forest.


What does the camper think about
when lOunging around the fire at night
Not much,--of the sport of the day, o.
the big fish he lost and might have
saved, of the distant settlement, of to-
mOrrow's plans. An owl boots off il
the mountain and he thinks of him il
wolf were to howl or panther tC
scream he would think of him the res
of the night. As it is, things flicker and
hover through his mind, and he hardly
knows whether it is the past or the
present that possesses him. Certain
it is he feels the hush and solitude o
the great forest, and whether he viii
or not all his musings are in some wa,
cast upon that huge background of thu
night. Unless he is an old camper-Ou
there will be an under-current of dreat
or half fear. My companion said h'
could not help but feel all the time tina
there ought to be a sentinel out ther'
pacing up and down. One seems to re
quire less sleep in the woods, as if thu
ground and the untempered air reste'
and refreshed him sooner. The balsan
and the hemlock heal his aches yer.
quickly. If one is awakened often dur
ing the night, as he invariably is, b
does not feel that sediment of sleep il
in his mind next day that he does whel
the same interruption occurs at home
the boughs have drawn it all out of him
Year: 1877

friends would never see her again. She
had had symptoms of consumption for
some time, and had been under appar-
emily successful treatment at New York
but on returning home she became
worse, went to Niagara under terrible
depression of spirits, and probably
sought relief from her wearisome life
under the waters of the whirlpool.
Year: 1877

A MAN UNDER THE BED.-A probable
attempt to rob the Summit Hill (Pa.'
savings bank was frustrated a few
nights ago by woman's instinct for
looking under the bed. Cashier Marcy
servant girl hearing an unusual noise
about the middle of the night, began
an investigation, and soon discovered
a man lying at full length under hel
Year: 1877

~ 1t is sad and weary life that
Christian K. Ross is leading in search
of his lost child. The history of man
kind shows nothing that will compare
with the unhappy condition of this sad
affair. Time comes and goes, but in
the ever-changing tide OF time no trace
of the lost boy is visible. He has spent
100000, his entire fortune, and is now
travelling salesman for an eastern
house. He has made 300 journeys in
search Of his lost boy, and says he shall
persevere until the child is found or he
dies himself
Year: 1877

SOCIAL LIFE.-Any great movement
for good in social life begins at home.
1t begins with fathers and mothers.
The first and highest duty is to make
home cheerful and attractive. Hus-
band and wife must do this for each
other. Without this, their mutual af-
fection will dry up. If they have chill
dren, it is their duty to make home
sweet and precious to them. Children
with good homes seldom go to the bad.
Girls who have learned to trust their
mother, in their whole round of thought,
seldom get talked about. Boys who
are made to feel the strength of a
fathers and the tenderness of a mothers
love, seldom run wild. Their natural
love of fun and mischief does not bind
them over to the DEVILS service.
Pleasant, cheerful, bright homes, then,
are the great demand. They may be
poor, but they can still be pleasant and
attractive and good. The heart and
spirit are more than furniture and
dwelling.
Year: 1877

~The other day a groceryman at
Vallejo gave a large party, at which
the daughter of the carriage painter
who lived next door created decided
sensation. 1t was not that she was
more handsomely attired than the other
ladies present, but that when she
gyrated in the "dance of DEATH she
was observed to display the only pair
of pink silk stockings in the room. She
left the house for a few moments at the
expiration of the dance, and in the
next waltz exhibited a pair of light
blue dittoes. An hour later her crushed
and exasperated female friends beheld
these supplemented by further hose of
a delicate. chocolate shade. And so it
went on until her miserable rivals de-
termined to follow her the next time
she disappeared. They traced her to
her fathers paint-shop in the back yard,
where she was discovered, brush in
hand, and about ornamenting her neither
extremities with final artistic coat of
light salmon. The exulting spies rush
ed back with the damaging news, but
it was too late. The men were all too
tight to understand, the music had gone
home and the lights were being put
out. Thus it is that frand and duplicity
triumph, while honest simplicity walks
around with darn on its calf and a
hole in its heel.-San Francisco Post.
Year: 1877

Mrs Gen. Sherman has written an
other letter against dancing. She says
that she has noted "the wall of the
wounded and the guilty dancers since
her first denunciation of the amusement.
1T is not to be expected, she continues,
''that young girls. who sre unconscious
of evil in the beginning, should reflect
long enough to summon the moral eour-
age to resist the alluremeLts of the dance
unless with encouragement and support
of their parents. To the honor of pure
maidenhood be it said, however, that
there are young girls who decline from
instructive delicacy, even when their
parents would have them join the throng
who dance down the broad road of
worldly pleasure.
Year: 1877

MERCHANT TAILORING ESTABLISH
.INl ment, on Sth street, near south end of
Bridge The tailoring department is complete,
and contains a large assortment of fashionable
cloths and Gents furnishing goods constantIy
on hand Please call and examine before pur-
chasing elsewhere
Year: 1877




This afternoon, the water will be let into
the North Basin Of the Cool Spring Reser-
voir the occasion will be taken advantage
of to also celebrate the semi centennial OF
the Introduction of the Brandywine water
into Wilmington.
Council will meet at the City Hall, at 2
O'Clock, and citizens generally are invited to
assemble there at the same time and accom-.
pany the Council 10 the reservoir, where
without any formalities, the Introduction OF
the water will be witnessed. The procession
to the basin will be headed by the City Cor
net Band, which will be followed by the
Council.


All the companies of the Fire Department
except the Water Witch and Phoenix, who
were unable to make proper arrangements
10 time.


At the Reservoir fifty guns will be fired,
commencing with the Introduction Of the
water. At 7.30 . banquet will take place
at the Clayton House, where may be ex-
pscted some excellent speaking.
Year: 1877

One of the firm who run commits
sion house on Woodbridge Street is a
man of muscle. He can lift barrel of
flour as easily as common man lifts a
bag of oats, and it scarcely makes his
ears grow red as he heaves barrel of
salt into farmers wagon. For weeks
past he has been boasting of his strength
of muscle, and wanted to see something
he couldn't lift, and the boys around the
store got their heads together the other
day. They took a barrel of salt and
filled it with broken pig-iron, old
weights, and other things, put two
inches of salt at either head, and rolled
it to the curb-stone; and at favorable
hour dray backed up in most inno-
cent manner, and an order from a gro
Ger for barrel of salt was handed out.
The drayman and two of the boys
fooled around the barrel so long that
the strong man got out of his chair in
disgust, threw off his coat and said:


"You fellows had better get porous
plasters for your backs. Get out of the
way and give me chance!"


He seized the barrel by the chimes
and lifted away. 1t didn't move. He
spit on his hands and laid out to pull
the hoops right off. The hoops staid
right there. So did the barrel.


cit takes four men to lift one o. them
barrels" said the drayman.


"Nonsense! I've lifted a score OF
them, and I'll pick this up or break my
back. / guess the salt must be wet.''


He got in position, drew long
breath, and then lifted till his eyes looked
like two towels left out on the clothes
line in a dark night. The barrel didn't
lift. Pig-iron was too much for muscle.
and the litter sat down on the walk
His back used to be plumb up and down.
but it hasn't been since that lift. His
eyes are getting back to their Original
positions, and the red is leaving the
back of his neck, and he sees two mer
handle a bag of dried apples or a bush
ell of beans without a word of comment
Detroit Free Press.
Year: 1877

Editors Dispatch: Gentlemen,-Please
allow sufferer, through the medium OF
your valuable paper, to call the attention OF
the City Council, the Police Board, and the
Board of Public Interests, to the apparent
entire insecurity Of property in the very
heart OF the city. Within the last thirty
days four stores between Eighth and Four
tcenth, on Main street, have had their front
windows wantonly smashed in-some OF
them heavy quarter-inch thick plate-gIass,
which the owners will have to replace at
considerable cost, with no redress, to be
smashed again whenever the thieves see
what they want within their reach. / would
suggest that the city fathers should either
protect the peoples property or make an
appropriation to pay damages done by
thieves to the owners Of property.


ONE OF THE SUFFERERS.
Year: 1877

THE Boy ORATOR To-DAY.-The child
orator, Ralph Bingham, will delight our peo-
pie, especially the young folks, this after
noon at O'Clock at Mozart Hall, with an
exhibition OF his remarkable oratorical tai
ents. TO those who have heard little Ralph
at the Bethel-school exercises nothing fur
ther is needed to induce them to hear HIM
again, and to those who have not we would
say do not miss the opportunity !! this
afternoon. The entertainment Is for the
benefit OF the Lee-Monumcnt fund, and it
is to be hoped it will result in substan-
tial success. The price Of admission is
very small.
Year: 1877

A CASE OF SEVERE PoUNDING.-A goodly
number OF the congregation of the Pine
Street Baptist church invaded the residence
OF their pastor, Rev. ]. B. Hutson, on
Christmas eve and so severely pounded that
individual that scarcely enough breath was
left within him to return the thanks which
he so deeply felt. Not content with this,
huge turkey, large ham, and royal salver
of sweet things were sent in the next day.
Year: 1877

DIRECT IMPoRTATIoN.-W. D. BLAIR & co.
have received another Tot of that really fine TABLE
SHERRY, which they offer at s2.40 per gallon. The
quality Of this wine for the PRICE is unsurpassed.
Year: 1877

THE MIsTLEToE BOUGH. This pantomime
will be presented at Mozart Hall tonight,
with such accessories as will be sure to de-
light all those who attend. A large and
fashionable audience may be relied upon.
Year: 1877

RopE-WALKING. Quite large crowd
gathered yesterday afternoon on Franklin
street in front of the Capitol Hotel to see
man walk rope stretched from that building
to the one opposite, occupied by an under
taker. He handed around the hat before
attempting his perilous feats, but gave no
instructions Us to the kind Of wood he pre-
ferred in the event of accident.
Year: 1877

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The liveliest interest has been felt all over
England and Wales in 4 story which illus
tratcs with startling clearness the dangers that
lurk in the bowels of the earth and the pluck
and hcrosm which sometimes ennoble the
dull, hard life Of The miner. On wednesday
evening the 11th Of April, as the men were
on the Point of leaving work in the Tyncwydd
Mine, near PontyrIidd, the roar OF rushing
wafer was heard and the galleries and tunnels
suddenly began To fill. The water had broken
through from an abandoned ana Hooded
mine. and Of course rose in the MAN
shaft and the lateral workings until it
found It's level Most of the men made
ihclr escape, but when the roll was
called fourteen were missing. An exploring
party went down to look for them. They
found all the galleries within a few hundred
yards of the bottom filed to the roof, but Il
Knocking heard behind wall of coal indicated
that some OF the missing men were imprisoned
alive in a gallery which sloped upward, its
mouth being under water. The wall was u
few yards thick. Volunteers went at 1t with
their picks; the prisoners worked from within (;
in few hours they could hcar one anothers
voices. Bat the moment hole was broken
through, the confined air, kept under great
pressure by the rising water, burst out with Il
terrific explosion, aud one of the imprisoned
miners was shot into the opening rs it he had
been blown from a gun. lie was taken out
dead. -Four others in the chamber with him
were rescued uninjurod. Kuockmgs, however,
were heard further on, and it appeared that
other missing men were in similar but stlil
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compressed air. it is with the efforts to release
this second party that the chief interest OF the
story begins.


The wall behind which they were confined
was in heading Chat was flooded and nothing
could be done with the pick until the water
had been pumped out Divers first attempted
Year: 1877

The aggressive advance of Russia continues
but slowly. During the last three days the
reports from both fields of war have been
scanty. bat less contradictory than usual. On
the Danube, Hobart Pasha's feat of running
under the Russian guns Of Gaatz and escaping
to the Black Sea is an incident more piciur-
es0uc than important. We shall hear Of no
movement indicative OF Che plan Of the cam
uaIen from hat quarter until the bulk Of the
Russian army has been masSed at the points
where it's serious operations will begin. How
LARGE Il proportion of the troops have crossed
the Pruth, and how far they have advanced
toward the Danube cannot yet be definitely
known. Probably week or ten days must
elapse before the main features OF the Russian
military plan will be developed sufficiently to
discuss them.


In Asia, however, where the field Of action is
narrower, and to n great extent determined by
the physical features of the region, We begin
to understand the character OF the invasion.
Russia is moving into Armenia in three
columns-one near the shore, against the Port
of Batum; the central, and undoubtedly the
main force. upon Kars and Erzerum; and the
third upon Bayazid, which lies at the south
western base of AnIat, on the road to Van,
which lies upon the large lake of the same
name. The news that Bayazid has been taken
is likely TO be correct. This may be either a
movement in flank against Erzerum, in co.
operation with the second force, OF an