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Year: 1878

In the report of the committee on re-


vision of teachers salaries, submitted to


the Board of Education on Monday
night, it was stated that an annual saving
of So, ZOO by the revision but the publish
ed salaries did not sustain this state


meut The saving is not accomplished
by reduction of salaries but by a sus-
pension of the custom of allowing teach


ers half pay while sick, and Of allowing
them to be absent on the permission of
the visiting committees without reducing
pay for the time last These items in


creased the pay rolls at least S2,So0 per


wear, which amount will be saved here
of
Year: 1878

pass the House very soon. The Potter investigation,
they say, is thus far and if to its results
be promptly added recognition of the legal cOnse-
quences flowing from the acts of the XLIVth Con-
gress, the position of their party will be impregna-
BILE. If then il is proved, they say that the Presl-
dent or any one holding public position has commit
ted crime while in Office it will be treated as any
other crime and punished according to law This is
very different from an attack upon the title of the
President himself which these Democrats say they
will not tolerate.


These opinions are entertained by many OF the
more conservative and thoughtful DemocTats OF
both Houses of Congress- but there Is still grave
doubt if they will be approved by the rank and NE
of the parry. A majority of the Democrats IN lhe
House have had several opportunities Tor giving
just such an expression to their views as Is
now proposed, and on every occasion tney
have refused TO do it. Their position with that
OF a majority of the party is correctly
described in the Potter letter. They do mean by
what might be called peaceful revol luton, under
so-caled forms of law, to call in question the title
of President Hayes if the testimony taken by tne
Potter Committee is of such character as ~ tneir
it is barely possible that resolution may be
reported from the House Judiciary Committee or
introduced by some conservative Democratic mem
ber declaring the title of the President to be unaS,
sailabe il is far more probable that Congress VIII
adjourn without giving any formal expression Oh
this subject.
Year: 1878

WAsHINGToN. June G.-The Senate gave vote
to-day winch shows that the tacit understanding
reported week two ago that no further financial
legislation shall take place during the present
sion Of Congress will be lived up TO by majority
Of that body. While the Senate was debating over
the order of business, Mr.. voorhees, moved that II
proceed to the consideration Of the bill for the
peal Of the Resumption Act. On this question vote
was taken by yeas and nays and tho motion was
defeated thrty-hye Senators voting To take up the
Army Bill. Only twenty-thTee recorded themselves
i'm favor of Mr. NoOrhecs.s motion.
Year: 1878

Berlin dispatch The Daily Ners says that at the
PrussIan Cabinet Couucil. presided by the
Gown Prince, Yesterday. suggestion found
that the European representatives I'm the Berlin
Congress be invited consider the dangers threatening
society IN every civilized country from Socialism.


other dispatches mention the prohibition Of the sale OF
Nobngs photographs the streets, their exposure
IN the shop windOws


no LAW AGAINST A SOCIALIST CONGRESS.
Tho Municipal Council OF Gotha, desiring to prohibit
the assembling there OF the proposed Socialist Congress-
the legal adviser OF the Council has given his opinion
that no provision OF German law authorizes such proh
bltiOn.


THE Crown PRINCE IN AUTHORITY.


The Crown Prince Frederic william has been desig-
mated represent his father M the transaction Of the
routine business absolutely necessary from day TO day
after the precedent created in 1857 on the occasion OF
the assumption OF tho regency by the present Emperor
Of Germany during the alarming illness OF the King Of
Prussia.
Year: 1878

SOUND sense from the Shoe and Leather
Reporter: 1t is significant fact that all the


while that the cry of distress has reverber-
ated through the land there has been steady
increase in the aggregate of wealth. Year by
year the gain in actual property has been
considerable. From the 30th June, 1876, to
the 30th June, 1878, it has been exception
ally large, owing to the wonderful fertility of
the soil. Yet we have had during the whole
period continual succession of failures, and
even solvent people engaged in trade have,
as a rule, made comparatively little money.
This seems rather paradoxical at first glance,
but it is easy to account for it. The profits
the epoch of war and paper money were in
great measure fictitious. They were made
very much as the Frenchman used to increase
his store, when times were hard and business
dull. He marked up bis goods, and was just
so much the richer for it-on paper. People
have been marking down their goods ever
since the panic began, and are none the
poorer for it-in fact. 1t makes vast differ
ence in the figures, but not in the substance
of things, whether mems possessions are
counted at double or half what they are
worth, except that they are apt to be prodigal
when they place an inflated estimate on their
estates. There was much larger per capita
expenditure for living in 1873, when the
mercantile community lowered on the brink
and were finally swept into the vortex of
insolvency, than there hsss been during the
most fruitfal of the succeeding years of con-
vaescence and recuperation. The most Law
ish indulgence in superfpous luxuries and
Year: 1878

costly living which was ever practiced in the
New World was widely prevalent in our cities
and populous towns while the war was in
progress, and that was the very time of all
others when the country was being most
cruelty impoverished, through the destruction
that was then going on. We were jubilant
when we had the least reason to be so, and
are depressed when there are abundant
causes of elatioD
Year: 1878

We do not read anonymous letters and commuri
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
acases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
municadons that are not used.
Year: 1878

During dense fog Mississippi
steamboat took landing. a traveller
anxious to go ahead. came to the
unperturbed manager of the wheel
and asked why they stopped. TOO
much fog; can't see the river" But
you can see the stars overhead. I"
Yes" replied the urbane pilot, but
until the biler busts we amt going that
way" The passenger went to bed.
Year: 1878

o Pilgrim, comes the night so fast Z
Let not the dark thy heart appall,
Though loom the shadows vague and vast
For Love shall save us all.
There Is no hope but this to see
Through tears that gather fast and fall
Too great to perish Love must be,
And Love shall save ms all.
Have patience With our loss and pain.
Our troubled space Of days so small
We shall not stretch our arms in vain,
For Love shall save us all
o Pilgrim, but moment wait,
And we thall hear our darlings call
Beyond Deaths mute and awful gate,
And Love shall save us all.


Celia Thdrter in Scrtbner'
Year: 1878

Plenty of suicides are still reported,
says q New York correspondent. Many
of the victims are persons who were of
no account in the world, but now and
then we hear of the suicide of a man or
woman who promised we'll and who
might have done well. Failure to find
work is frequently the cause of the act
on the male side, but not always.
Domestic trouble usually leads to it
among women. A few days ago a
Spaniard, a man of good family connec-
tions and fair personal accomplishments,
committed suicide in his boarding house.
He had made a living by singing in
opera, but latterly this resource failed
him, and as his prospects in life were
growing dark he closed accounts with
the world by leaving it. One of his
fellow boarders testified before the
coroner that the Spaniard had frequent
ly expressed horror of work and said
it would be more honorable to die. But
most of those who take the last desper-
ate leap do so because they cannot, or
fancy they cannot, find means to live.
New York swarms with men of fair ca
pacity who cannot get employment of
any sort. AS a rule, such men fare
worse than men of a coarser fibre. be-
cause they are disqualified for taking
hold of the odd jobs that men of the
rougher class occasionally pick up. 1t
would be almost suicidal for stranger
to come to New York expecting to find
a situation.
Year: 1878


The lord loves his lRnd, and the mi'er his gold
And the hunter his horse and his hound,
The bishop his port, an the warrior bold
His sword and the clarion sound;


And the sailor his lasr,


And the beauty her gla s,
And the reaper benny bright shy


But give me a cot,


With love for my lof
And sparkle Of ninth in my eye,


And this ditty I'll sing


With the pride of king
"Though the cash in my Golfers be small,


The best OF all wea'th


Is good stock OF health,
With heart that is thankful for all"
While the duke has his castle, the monarch his
crown,
And the courtier his title and name,
And their ladies repose on their oouches Of
down,
Aud the minetielis honored with fame,


l will journey through life


without envy or strife,
Looking out for its beautiful flowers


Aud carry light


For adversity's night
Aud honey to sweeten its sours


And I'll merrily ring


Az march with a swing,
Since honesty fearoth no fall


"The best of all wealth


Is good stock Of health,
With heart that is thankful for all"
Lot the lord have his land, aud the miser his
gold
And the hunter his horse and his hound,
AMI the bishop his port, and the warrior bold
His sword and the clarion sound


And the sailor his lass


And the beauty her glass,
Aud the reaper his bonny bright sky;


But with love for my lot,


In sweet little cot,
And the sparkle Of mirth in my eye,


l my ditty VIII sing,


Spite of penury's sting:
"Thou IN the cash in my Golfers be small


The best of all wealth


Is stock of good health,
With q heart is thankful for ALL"
Year: 1878

To person of sentiment, no gift
eonfers the pleasure or touches the
feeling that does the gift of a ring.
In England the plain gold ring is
universally reserved for the wedding
ring, and whenever an Englishman
sees such an one on a woman's left
hand, he of course supposes her to
be married.


1t Is pity we do not observe the
same custom. Marriage is such a
high and holy, and awfully solemn
relation, that it might well have its
own peculiar badge all to itself.
But with US young girls constantly
wear plain gold rings, and that even
on the wedding" or third finger of
the left hand.


The diamond ring, too, is almost
by common consent the "engage-
ment" " ring, and in the " solitaire -
form certainly it ought to be sacred
to this office. At least unmarried
women under thirty-fve ought not
to wear the solitaire diamond ring,
nor should they ever have the bad
taste to purchase themselves one
If they inherit such a ring from
their mother let them wear it, il
they choose, when they consider
themselves hopelessly welded to the
single estate But in general this
most beautiful of all rings should
be reserved as a gift of happy love
There are varities enough of splen.
did gems to choose from, and dia.
mouds may surround, or be sci
themselves in rows or in clusters
Let, then, the young girl beware
how she assumes the solitaire dia.
mond ring, lest, having placed one
on her finger herself, she will fine
no future lover who will place a
second there ! On the other hand
a true lover will not he satisfied
with giving her whom he has choser
before all the world any symbol lesl
precious than this of the truth anC
purity of the faith he has pledged
her.
Year: 1878

agreeable or desirable. At last, to
put an end to a scene which was
becoming more and more ireseme
as it proceeded, an order was given
to drop the curtain. This stroke of
policy did not stop the ceremonies,
which proceeded without intermis-
sion until the sayages had finished
their song and dance, when, each
receiving his promised half dollar,
they consented to leave the house,
and our play proceeded without
them. Next night the same troupe
came to the theater and wished to
assist in the performance of Mac
beth, but most positively declined
their "valuable aid"
Year: 1878

what the Wits of Paris Have TO Say


in their Newspapers.
New York WOrld.I


Of women and the country {:
What woman pardons least of all
in the country is its bringing her
face to face with eternal youth and
imperishable beauty. Life at a
country seat pleases women more
by what it recalls of the city than
in that it removes them from the
country. In the country, eating is
the principal occupation of those
whose time is not taken up with
digestion. There is nothing so
amusing as TO set loose flock of
women in a lovely landscape it
does not take long to find out which
of them have wings, which Of them
only feathers.
Year: 1878

The President of the United States having
recommended THURSDAY, the twenty eighth
day Of November. 1873. as day OF Thanksgiving
and Prayer the Governors of many of our sister
States have made special requests to the people
thereof to observe the same. It ds especially
proper thatthe people Of Louisiana should join
in its observance. In the day of their suffering
and distress they have received the most signal
evidence of tho sympathy Of tho people of the
Union. Their voices should not be silent when
thanks are rendered for thS many blessings
which have been v0uchsafed our whole country.
Tho summer which has passed has left many of
our households in Louisiana des0late, but even
through the sadness Of the year there is no one
among us but who has cause to recognizes Gods
Kindness and mercy. In humble recognition
OF that fact / do recommend to the people Of
Louisiana that on the day suggested they unite
with the people of the entire country in a COM
mon expression Of gratitude to their Maker.


In witness whereof have hereto set my hand
and caused to be affixed the seal Of the State Of
Louisiana. on this tWenty-frst day Of Novem-
Der in the year Of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy eight.


FRANCIS T. NICHOLAS.
BY the Governor:


OSCAR ARROYO,


Assistant Secretary of State. no22 3t
Year: 1878

softest place in that pier, How he
avoids every finty grain How he
economies his physical powersl Rest
ing moment at each, again he cuts.
How every motion is watched from be-
low There stand his father, mother,
brother, and sister, on the very spot
where, If he falls, he will not fall alone.


The sun is half down the west The
lad had made fifty additional inches in
the mighty wall and now finds himself
directly under the middle of that vast
arch OF rocks, earth, and trees. He
must cut his way in a new direction to
get over this overhanging mountain.
The inspiration of hope is dying in his
bosom; it's vital heat is fed by the in
creased shouts of hundreds perched
upon cliffs and trees, and Others who
stand with ropes in their hands ON the
bridge above or with ladders below.
Fifty gains more must be cut before the
longest rope can reach him. His wasting
blade again strikes into the limestone.


The boy isemerging painfully, foot by
foot, from under that lofty arch.
Spliced ropes are ready in the hands of
those who are leaning over the outer
edge of the bridge. Two minutes more
and all will be over. That blade is
worn To the last half inch. The boys
head reels; his eyes are starting from
their sockets. His last hope is dying i'm
his heart-hfs life must hang ON the last
gain he cuts. That niche is his last. At
the last faint cash he makes, his knife,
his faithful knife, falls from hisnerveless
hand, and, ringing along the precipice,
falls at his mothers feet.


An involuntary groan of despair runs
like death-knell through the channel
below, and all is still as the grave. At
the length of nearly three hundred feet
the devoted boy lifts his hopeless heart
and closing eyes TO commend his soul To
God. 'Tis but moment--therel one
foot swings ofi'-he is reeling, trembling,
toppling over into eternity. Hark a
shout falls on his ear from above. The
man who is lying with half his length
over the bridge has caught a glimpse of
the boys head and shoulders. Quick as
thought the noosed rope is within reach
of the sinking youth. No one breathes.
With n faint, convulsive effort the
swooning boy drops his arms into the
moose. Darkness comes over him with
the words God and mother whispered
on his lips just loud enoug to be heard i'm
heaven, the tightening rope lifts him
out of his last shallow niche. Not lip
moves while he is dangling over the
fearful abyss but when sturdy Vir-
ginian reaches down, and draws up the
lad, and holds him up i'm his arms before
the fearful breathless multitude, such
shouting, such leaping and weeping for
joy, rever greeted the ear of human
being so recovered from the yawning
gulf of eternity.
Year: 1878

In the latter part Of Mesozoic time the
greater part of the basin province lying
west of the plateau as il is now, was q
continent, and the plateau province was
an open but shallow sea. During this
time the crust of the earth was greatly
broken and distorted. The plateau was
cut of from the Pacific saltwater, and
great bodies of fresh water accumulated
here above the general level of the basin
province itself: so that while the basin
was once drained into the plateau fact
demonstrated by the character If the de
posits in the plateau, in late Tertiary
time the drainage was reversed.


As the plateau was longer and later
submerged than adjacent regions, il was
in part exempted from the action of
forces which threw up great areas and
ridges along its borders. Hence, here
was vast tract of exposed sea-hoor, COW
cred with sedimentary rock, surrounded
by mountain ridges. The mountains
were not thrust up as peaks, but great
blocks were slowly lifted, as stated about
these the clouds gathered, hurled their
storms against them, beat the rocks into
sand, which, carried by the storms on
their way to lower land, dug out gulches
and valleys. leaving mountain peaks
So the clouds made the Rocky Noun
tainsi


On the heights snow fell, melted, and
ran down, mighty volume, the Colo
rado. From its thousand sources to the
ocean this river has no reservoir TO ac-
cumulate its sediment, and all that its
upper waters detach is carried along by
the current. The material il reduced TO
the form of fine sand and mud. At no
season of the year is the water free from
the red color of this detritus, whence the
name Colorado" The sand and mud.
together with that produced by the con
slant wear of the rocks, was, and is, the
chief tool by which the water accom-
plished the deep and still increasing eros
ion Of the canOns. Hurried on by the
swift current, il gnaws away whatever it
touches. Nothing can resist the perpetual
impact Of these fine siliceOus particles.
The marvellous canon Of the Colorado it.
self together with the innumerablc deep
canons Of its tributaries, such as the Vir-
gin Kanab, Escalante, Dirty Devil,
Grand, Yampa, San Juan, and many
more, are the wonderful results of the
erosion. The most rapid cutting is doubt
less done by the coarse sand carried by
frcshets, while the fine mud, borne by
quieter water, produces the perfect polish
which everywhere prevails
Year: 1878

PROFESSOR TICE, the Western weather
prophet, is going 70 lecture at Burline-
ton, Iowa, and the me man has
sharpcned his little hatchet and is going
for him with lot Of horrid conundrums
like these:


We want 10 know, then, why the un-
clouded sun always shines in glorious
refulgence on prize fght2 And on
the other hand,


Why it always rains on the Sunday
school picnic?


We want to know why it Is that
pelting rain-storn, with occasional
touches Of thunder and lightning fails
to reduce the audience Of theater.
while q cloud the size Of q mans hand
is sufficient 10 keep the same peO-
pie at home Sunday morning, grievinQ
at being thus deprived Of the privileges
of the sanctuary, but dreading to ex-
pose Themselves to the threatening
weather


If the first rain on record was an ex-
press or accommodation train, and what
time did it make?


If the color Of n tornado is sky blow 2


If n cyclone can be negotiated by q
syndicate!


If the mean temperature is ever rs
mean anywhere else "a 10 is in an Iowa
autumn2


IF you can fasten a door with q thun-
der bOlt2


", when snow is so soft and noiscless. q
railway train can be snow din2


And, finally, what would happen IL a
promissory note should be mist before
II is dew?
Year: 1878

The physical superiority of the ante
Alexandrian Greeks to the hardest and
most robust nations of modern times In
perhaps best illustrated by the military
statistics of Xenophon. According to
the author of the Anabasis, the complete
accoutrements of Spartan soldier. in
what we would call heavy marching
order. weighed seventy FIVE pounds, ex-
elusive Of the camp, mining and bridge
building tools, and the rations of bread
and dried fruit, which were issued in
weekly installments, and increased the
burden of the infantry soldier to ninety,
ninety>five or even to full hundred
pounds. This load was often carried at
the rate of four English miles an hour
for twelve hours per diem, day after day;
and only in the burning deserts of south
ern Syria the commander Of the Grecian
auxiliaries thought 1t prudent to shortea
the usual length of days march by one
fourth. The gymnastic tests applied by
the sysidnchus, or recruiting officer OF
a picked corps. would appear more pre-
posterous to the uniformed exquisitss of
a modern crack regiment" Even tall,
well,shaped men of the soundest consti-
tuition, could not pass the preliminary
examination unless they were able TO
jump their own height vertically and
thrice their own length horizontally,
and two-thirds of those distances in full
armor pitch weight equal TO one-third
OF their own to distance Of twenty
yards, and throw jsvelin with such dex-
terity that they would not miss mark Of
the size Of mans head more than tour
or ten times at distance Of fity yards,
besides other tests referring 10 their
expertness in the use OF the bow and the
troadsword.- Popular Science Monthly.
Year: 1878

There is great Diversity of opinion
as to what kind of food and the amount
to be given as best adapted to the wants
OF working animals. J. Stanton Gould,
In investigating this subject, visited the
horse-rxilrosd stables of New York and
Brooklyn, and found that they had all
settled down, each company for itself, as
the result of careful and repeated ex-
periments, upon one uniform rule for
horse-railroad horses, and that was
twelve pounds of hay and ten pounds of
Ipdian meal per day. In that way q
ralircad horse was kept up to his highest
condition, and they were enabled to do
Their work more satisfactorily than
under any other system that had been
tried. Oats had repeatedly been used as
an article of food, and their cost was
carefully compared with that OF Indian
meal 1t was found at the time that
during hot weather the feeding of this
amount of meal would be injurious; but
the result of their experience was, that
Indian meal, on the whole, for railroad
or omnibus horse, was the true thing.
But they have one very curious practice
which ought TO be stated in connection
with this, as possibly bearing upon the
subject They invariably water all their
horses at O'Clock at night. They have
an idea that watering their horses st night
adds greatly to their power of digesting
food, aud prevents injurious conse-
quenees.
Year: 1878




DO rot work too much nor too fast.
Work slowly until all the salt is thor
.uphiy ssd evenly absorbed. Otherwise
sbe butter will not be of uniform color.
Working it too fast viii destroy the
main. and the butter becomes salvy and
lard like in its texture. Let it stand or
mt Ii sway In the trsy for twenty -four
hours Then work it enough to remove
sa the bwttermilk or surplus brine, go
shst the butter may become dry or like a
ME o of cheese. Mould into rolls, and set
these avay for twenty four heurs, or
uptil they become hard and firm. THIS
elcth sAouid now be put on, 80 az to
cover one end, while the other is left
open for the stamp. The cloth should be
eut in pieces of exact size and dipped i'm
brips, and the butter rolled when the
cloth ID dripping wet. Butter should
never some in contact with the bare
hand. When In bulk 1t can be easily
handled with q ladle snd fat paddle.