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Year: 1879

l. 81


For the truth of the incident related
below have the most possible proof:
George Shaw, a brave Englishmap when
surrounded on the fed at Waterloo by
a number of the enemy, made gallant
struggle for existence, and fought his
way back to his comrades over the dead
bodies of dozen Frenchmen whom he
had slain. AS reward for his bravery,
Wellington sent for the soldier, and in
the course of his conversation with him,
gave him permission to take home with
him whatever relic he chose from the
battlefield. Shaw's choice was the
skeleton of a French General, killed in
the action. The CHASTITY trophy was
safely transported to England and hung
in the soldiers closet at Hanley and
Staffordshire, England, till he came to
regard it is nuisance and disposed of
it to Samuel Bullock. manufacturer of
china. AS bones form large proportion
of the Ingredients from which English
china is made, it occurred to the manu-
facturer that the remains of the poor
General would look much better made
up in some handsome ornament than
dangling from peg in an obscure
closet; and in accordance with this in
spiration, tine French General was
ground down, and, in due time, was
metamorphosed into teacups and sauc-
ers; in which condition he adorns to
this day the museum at Hawley, appro-
priately inscribed with the history of
his transformation. 1t happened one
day that Marshal Soult visited the mu-
scum, and his attention was attracted
by the china, which has bright pink
tint and is ornamented with flowers
But when his eye rested upon the label,
which enabled him to recognize in the
collection the remains of one of his
former generals, the marshal was deeply
shocked; and, wrapping his martial
cloak around him." walked Indignantly
away. He. did not forget to inform
Napoleon, then at st. Helena, of the
indignity which had been offered TO the
memory of their departed countryman
"It is no indignity," quoth Napoleon; !;
"what more pleasing disposition can
there be of ones bones after death.than
to be made into cups to be constantly
in use, and placed between the rosy lips
of ladies2 The thought is delightfulp
This was an aspect of the case which
had net occurred to the prosaic marshal !;
but he was forced to content himself
with it.
Year: 1879

The gas meter tells the same lies
under all skies. Says the London cor
respondent of Manchester paper: "a
gentleman, after paying his quarters
gas bill, shut up his house and left
town, being gone full three months, and
yet ne received bill for that quarter,
which he found to be for the precise
amount that he had paid for the cor
responding period of last year." .
Year: 1879

A CORRESPONDENT of the Nation,
writing from Ann Arbor, contradicts
the assertion that most of the lady stu
dents are believers in suffrage. Out of
fiftv-three students interviewed on the
subject two would give no opinion, five
were undecided, fourteen were in favor
of woman suffrage and thirty-two were
more or less decidedly opposed. The
students canvassed represent the literary
department only.
Year: 1879

The skating accidents have begun,
and it is sure that long list of drown
ings among venturesome lads will be
recorded before the season is over. But
no warning proves Of much use in this
matter; those who read Of the fatal re-
suits Of skating on too thin ice usually
20 and do likewise.
Year: 1879

The New York Herald remarks that
skates have been introduced in the Nor
wesian army with good results. Per-
haps our own War Department may
take the hint and provide some of our
Western posts with snow shoes. Re
cords of our soldiers experience in
heavy snow are as thrilling as any
elsewhere.
Year: 1879

The winter thus far has been more
severe in most parts Of Europe than in
this country. The weather has been
vsry cold in London, and Berlin has
been visited by o heavy snow fall,
while all over the northern portion Of
the continent severe weather is re-
ported.
Year: 1879

CALIFORNIA apples are not seen in
the markets Of the Eastern States, and
II Is not known that good varieties of
that fruit are produced on the Pacific
coast; but the TACT is that they are very
fine and are monopolizing the markets
of New Zealand.
Year: 1879

with frosts every month in the twelve,
and as for the attack upon Thornburgh,
it was fair fight, and any white man
in bis place would have done the same.
1t is plain that Jack Knows - much as
he ought to about the matter.
Year: 1879

The Gold Hill Ners says that the heat
Is so great in the Julia Mine that Super
intendent Bawden, although thoroughly
Injured to it, was recently overcome by
IL and had to be run out on truck.
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON, Oct. l4.-General Sher'
man and Secretary Shurz had several con
ferences to-day about the Ute difficulty
and the War and Interior Department.
are acting imperfect harmony. as they have
done in all matters relating to the Utes
There is no truth in the rumors that the
two departments are trying to make one
another responsible for the troubles tha,
have occurred. The Secretary of the In
terror has sent special agent TO Los Pinos
to do all that may be possible with the aid
of Ouray and other friendly Indians to
secure surrender of the guilty party and
to discover and rescue the female members
of the Meeker family.
Year: 1879

Call at our Drug Store and get tria
bottle of DR.. Kings New Discovery
free Of charge, if you are suffering with
Cough. Gold. Asthma, Bronchitis.
Hay Fever, Consumption, loss of voice
tickling in the throat or Lungs. This
is the great remedy that is causing so
much excitement by its many wonder.
full cures, curing thousands of hopeless
cases. Over one million bottles of Dr..
Kings New Discovery have been used
within tbs last year, and have given
perfect satisfaction in every instance.
We can unhesitatingly say that this is
is really the only sure cure for throat
and lung affections. and can cheerfully
recommend it to all, Call and Get a
trial bottle free Of charge. or a re- ular
size for 81, 90.
Year: 1879

No use of having the chills, no use OF


headache or any of the ills that come from
disordered or inactive liver. One bot
tie of this old and reliable family remedy


will cure the most stubborn case-will
relieve the system and make you feel like


new person. Try it and be satisfied.
Year: 1879

Each of Warmers Safe Remedies-the
Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, Safe Pills,
Safe Nervine. and Safe Bitters, is assert
ed to be the best of its class, and the in
tention is to keep it so, If any medical
expert can add an ingredient which will
improve any one of them, he will be paid a
high price for the improvement.
Year: 1879

Frank Miller's Harness Oil and Blacking
is pronounced by the trade generally to be
the best manufactured The grade oi
these goods is always standard and their
reputation unsurpassed anywhere. The
firm is one of the Oldest in the country and
has the largest trade in its line. diff
Year: 1879

Caesar, not to seek quarrels, for peace is
the origin of life, whilst war is the cause
of death. Come, let us make peace with
the Romans; let us conclude a friendly
treaty with them; for bitter and terrible
will be the day when the soldiers, with
hatred and vengeance burning in their
hearts, will fall upon us like hungry lions
seeking their prey and thirsting for
blood. The babe and sucking will not
even be spared then, every one will fall
by the sword or dagger, and those who
escape will become slaves to the bias
phemers of God and the enemies Of Is
rael. But if you are fully determined
to proceed against your enemies with
the sword, in which case you may rest
assured that they will leave nothing un-
tried in order to exterminate you: then
you must first attain victory over the
enemy chat is in your midst. Quench
the burning hatred and jealousy existing
between your different parties; make a
true peace between every man and his
neighbor, so that perfect unity in our
midst may be established; for false
brother is like unto g SCORPION whose
bite cannot be healed, and a quarrel
among brethren is like lion among
tame beasts, like tiger in a herd of
sheep-it consumes, devours and exter-
inmates, and there is none to save. You
also should know that the Gentites never
prosecuted our nation from their own
desires, since the day we became nation
even until now; the evil proceeded from
ourselves every time, and our tormentors
and destroyers originated from our own
midst. Examine historical records and
yon will find our words to be true So
spoke the sages and scribes who foresaw
the great evil that would result from a
rebellion against the Roman government.
But the zealots jeered at them, Knocked
at their words, and would reply to them
by saying: You are towards; you fear
the sword and tremble at the sight of
iavelin, therefore you desire to make
peace with our enemies and the destroy
ers of our land, this is the reason why
you care not if our adversaries enter the
portals of Jerusalem and plunder it's
treasures. We will, however, cause star.
vation to pervade your houses, and hun
ger to enter your bodies, and thus we
will compel you to fight against the Ro-
MANS. With malicious wickedness those
zealots arose and set fire to all the gran
aries, which caused terrible famine to
sprrad through the city. With the end
of the affair you are undoubtedly famil-
lar, my daughterl"


''The present time cannot be compared
with those evil days!" answered Ketu-
rah, ''for all the nation has now conclu
ded a covenant of brotherhood, and there
exists true peace among all Israel"


True peace in Israeli" answered the
old man. when did such thing ever
occur in Israel! When was the time
when mutual hatred was not engrafted
upon the heart of this doomed nation,
Year: 1879

airtight. "Whcn the honey is poured


from the fruit it viii have the fruit flavor
and the appearance Of Jelly, making a
delicious dessert dish" Whether heat is
to bc employed is not said viii some of
our country friends who have plenty Of
honey make the experiment and let us
know the result Philadelphia Times.
Year: 1879

Little Agnes H, aged three years
was one day looking over i "Children's
Bible and came across picture of Adam
and Eve in the Garden of Eden. She ask
ed me who they were, and when | told
her she turned again to her book study
ing the picture intently for some minutes
and trying to reconcile the partial Nudity
of the figures with the present style of
dress. At last she arrived at some CON
clusion, and looking up in my face with
big, serious eyes, remarked ~ dess they
are dom bathin' New York Evening
Post.
Year: 1879

4 little Toronto girl said to her mother, II don't
think the people who make dolls are pious
enough" When her mother asked why. she said,
because you can never make the dolls kneel down.
have to lay mine on her stomach to make her
say her prayers
Year: 1879

A BOUT a century ago there lodged in
n two very small, badly furnished
second floor rooms in Cornaby street,
Golden Square, London, a middle-aged
German musician named Bernhard Dill
linger, and his daughter Bertha.


He had resided in England for several
years, and until stricken down by
paralysis nine months previous to the
opening of this tale, he had held an en-
gagement as one of the repiano vio-
Inns in the orchestra of Her Majesty's
Theatre, which at that time was the
only Italian Opera House in London.


The two rooms which they inhabited
were, though remarkably clean and tidy,
wretchedly bare of furniture; for dur
ing his long and disastrous illness every
available thing they had formerly pos
sessed had been sold at sore sacrifice
from time to tim to provide daily bread
and supply medical necessities for the
helpless invalid.


Poor Bertha There was nothing -
literally nothing whatever in their
rooms on which she could raise single
penny. Two common rush bottom
chairs, a deal table, the truckle bedstead
with its coarse mattress on which her
fatherilay, and an old guitar that hung
on the wall, constituted all the furniture
that now remained to them. Even her
own little couch, which stood in the
outer room, she had, unknown to him,
sold a fortnight before to procure food
and pay a months rent to their stern
Ian dlady and she had slept upon the
hard boards ever since.


AS she sat toasting the last morsel of
stale bread, which, with cup of weak
tea, was to form her fathers last meal
for the day, she might we'll be pardoned
If she gave way to feelings of utter de-
spair.


She had hitherto borne her burthen
bravely; and though, through all the
long tedious months that had worn
their dreary course along since he was
stricken down, she had scarcely ever
left his bedside, but sat hour after hour,
day after day, week after week, cheer
full, and apparently content; she now
felt herself sinking under the complete
hopelessness of their future prospects.


She pressed her poor little thin hands
convulsively to her forehead and wept
bitterly.


But she was not one of those shallow,
Year: 1879

such wholesale stuiIing. Hence they fear,


since tue result Of last falls election, that


the Republicans will carry the State in


1880 They do not really feel sure Of a


single Northern State since the fall and


spring elections, having been so generally


beaten in them, and 1t Is natural on their


part 10 wish to sec Cincinnati and New


York captured by tho bummers and
strikers who train under the Nasbys Of the
party. 1


It will be necessary for the South TO
capture forty.seven Northern votes in
orderto succeed in 1880. II they could
carry Cincinnati las In lS78D and New
York in 1893, they might hope to cap
tare Ohio and New York. A million Of
money could he raised to capture these
two cities II necessary, because they are
the stronghOlds ottheir respective States.
We all know the frauds that were perpe-
trated in Cincinnati and New York, and
how very necessary it Is to guard
against their repetition. Hence the
fight in Congress to day hinges
on the repeal Of the Supervisors
law. The Democracy threaten to
starve the government into repeal Of it
even to the dlsbandlng of the army.
They are apparently prepared to go any
length to coerce the President. To this
end they have called the present session
of Congress and put the country to q vast
expense for partisan purposes. To this
end such men as Randolph Tucker, Of vir-
ginia, Senator Beck Of Kentucky, and
Representative Blackburn, Of the same
State, have threatened the very existence
Of the government, iustas they did in 1861.
Year: 1879

Since the result Of the recent Northern
elections has shown that the North is in
danger Of being solid against solid South
'nlSN, there is considerable speculation
"to how the vote OF the two sections may
i'o'up, in case the ex.sIave States should
vote solid on one side and the free States
'olidon the other, the South would be lit
etaIly nowhere in the contest, There are
''be cast S69 Electoral votes, and 1856 are
Necessary to an election.
Year: 1879

The amusing spectacle in the House yes
terday, presented by the Democratic effort,
with the aid of the Democratic Speaker, to
choke off Democratic debate upon ques-
tions evolved from Democratic dissensions,
will not soon be forgotten. Speaker RAN
DALI did not neglect the opportunity offered
thereby to stultify himself and increase his
reputation as tricky and partisan presd-
ing officer The Republicans, who were one
and all in favor Of free speech, the utmost
freedom, were fully alive to all the sad re-
strictions imposed upon the Opposition by
the mo(u )rning hour.
Year: 1879

RumOr has it that the President is liable
to veto the arrears of pension bill now be-
fore him for his approval, but we take no
stock in any such view of his action. We
are not unaware of the fact that some of his
official family are deadly hostile 10 the
measure, and would be exceedingly gratifed
to know that he had returned it to Congress
with his objections, but we cannot, and will
not, believe that he will apply the veto
until his own act shall determine the ques-
tiOn against our present Judgment. An
effort is being made to aggregate the
amount involved TO gigantic proportions to
the prejudice Of the measure, by creating
the impression that it will drain the Ma
tonal Treasury severely, If tits not crippled,
through its operations. 1t is said that the
Secretary Of the Treasury computes the
amount involved at Sl50000000; while
the President himself estimates it at %
little less than S5000OO0O. In view of
certain data furnished by the Pension Office
of the Interior Department to Congress on
March g. 1876 we cannot conceive it possi-
| BILE to swell the amount above S2jOOO,O 600.
At that time, when q kindred bill was pend
| ing, the House committee called on the
Pension-Onice for u carcfully-prepared de-
tailed statement of the amount it would
then require to meet the provisions of the
bill and the submitted report showed m
aggregate of Sl34l7il00.16 From this
amount the chairman of the Committee on
Invalid Pensions very properly deducted
one-third on account Of deaths, suspensions,
&C., leaving tho sum at S0,00O,0OO, as the
total amount due on the 1st OF January,
1916. Taking these figures at the largest
sum, it does not seem possible that the
amount can be more than doubled but for
argument sake, admitting that it may be
trebled, that affords no good reason for
oyading this honorable Obligation through
the agency OF the veto power.


Congress- which represents the popular
sentiment of tho country, aud which las
Year: 1879

OUR morning cotemporary is quite correct
in its declaration that the Posi-erior "is
" about AS near rs THE REPUBLICAN ever
gets toy it. But we hardly expected this
confession from it of the efficient reaching
capacity Of our rhetorical boot
Year: 1879

A BETTER illustration of the difference


between the average Democrat of the South
aud his average fellow-p partisan of the North
could not be found than that presented in
the contest in the House between General
BRAGG, Of Wisconsin, and General CHAL-
AIERs, of Mississippi They are both ex-
soldiers and ex-brigadiers, the former of the
Union, aud the latter of the Confederate
army aud now that they have crossed
swords in parliamentary dobate it is dis
covered that thcyare as wide apart in times
OF peace as they were during the late war.
Democracy and Unionism do not go hand
ia hand In the South, AMI when an intelli-
geat Northern Democrat like General BRAGG
follow the logical outcome Of his political
Year: 1879

Is IT true that General BUTGER had for


gotten that he had in his possession q large
number of cipher dispatches until his men,
ory was refreshed by one of his committee :?
II not why were they not presented to the
committee at an earlier period? General
BUTLER has right to answer these inter-
rogatores, though he is not compelled to do
Year: 1879

Ben BUTLER continues his supremacy as
the great political detective of the day.
The cipher kilograms of 1916 turn up in his
possession in the most mysterious and un-
accountable mauner but the discovery is
so Characteristic of the man that no Que is
astonished The only curiosity is regard.
ing what he has mol got slowed away among
his detective archives.
Year: 1879

The indications are that the pet scheme
for abolishing the Government Printing
Office and letting the work by contract
a measure which our private interests would
heartily approve, while n sense of what is
for public interest would condemns likely
to come to grief Mr.. FINLEY has submitted
report in reference to the pending ilivesti-
CATION, recommending the abolition of the
Government Printing Office, and that the
public printing be let out by contract to
the lowest bidder. Only three members of
the committee favored this feature of the
report,
Year: 1879

GENERAL BRAGG, of Wisconsin, having
won an enviahle record during the war
among the conquerers of the Bourbon de-
mocracy on many q well-fought battlefield,
does not propose now to become the sup
plant tool of the same party in the more
peaceable, though hardly less important
contests parliamentary and political war.
fare
Year: 1879

CONGRESS swithin the last thirty days OF
the close of the session, and yet it moves on
with snail's pace that would indicate it's
continuance until June. 1t looks now very
much as if the majority of the House desire
an extra session, and are determined TO make
it necessary. The recoil of an extra session
gun is usually very damaging to those who
serve it at the breech.
Year: 1879

EXACTLY why General Ben BUTLER
should hesitate now to publicly expose all
the cipher kilograms of 1876 in his posses
sion would puzzle anyone who expected
the least bit of consistency from ths re-
ceiver of these alleged stolen goods. Last
summer, when the caprice seized him, or
his personal or political purposes were to
lie served thereby, he did not hesitate to
drag out and parade before the POTTER
Committee certain kilograms which, it was
supposed, related to the manipulations of
Louisiana affairs by Republicans
Year: 1879

Another curious feature of learning
by heart is that which is known to
actors as " studying a part out of your
head" The process is an unexpected
and alarming one. A man studies in
tensely and hurriedly, with no relaxa-
ton. He gets perfect in remarkably
short space of time, when all of sudden
he finds he cannot remember single
word of all he has studied.


He is frightened-he thinks his MEM
ory has failed him-and as memory is one
of the first essentials to an actor, he be-
lieves he is ruined man, with his oc-
cupation gone; but he is not-he has
simply applied himself too closely and
has studied part clean out of his head.
The words will, in all likelihood, come
back again like dash-as suddenly and
for as little reason as they left him.
But to insure this good result he must
stop studying or even thinking of the
words-he must go out, look in the win
dows, talk with friends and try to forget
the mental strain, and to lead the mind
into different channel of thought, and
by the time he has managed to forget
his trouble and fright, the whole part
will come back, as have said, like Q
flash of lightning.
Year: 1879

THE clergymen of Troy, N. Y, have
adopted a resolution recommending the
omission Of unnecessary expenses at
funerals, suggesting the expediency Of
consulting the officiating clergyman
before fixing the time, and disappearing
of the fashion of costly mourning attire,
all of which is founded in good sense.
Year: 1879

The Washington ID. o. Star says
that every now and then somebody
sends to the Treasurer for redemption
some of the old paper money issued
under the Continental Congress. This
money was never Iedeemable by the
United States, but was up to 1877 receiy-
able in resumption to a United States
loan mt the rate of one dollar for one.
Year: 1879

A RAILWAY employee in France, by
way of piece of bravado, lit his pipe
with his ticket, No. 955, ,089 in the great
French lottery, and that there might be
no doubt on the subject, he chalked the
figures On a wall in the presence of sew
eral Of his comrades, who stood all agape
at the sight. Now, chance has so willed
that the number in question has turned
out famous prize, and had the employee
only been able to produce his ticket he
would have received in exchange the
sum-to him fortune-of "a, 900 francs.
Year: 1879

AT an early hour this morning two oi our most worthy citizens were observed in front Of THE CITIZEN office. engaged in an earnest conversation. Alter watching them several hours some sympathetic friends started to their relief with a couple of chairs. Their approach was quickly discovered and the selfappolnted relief committee was greeted with volley of rock and some emphatic sentences, where upon the would-be benefactors beat a nasty retreat. The last seen of our worthy friends they were supporting themselves against the west wall of the Cosmopolitan Hotel, and the last audible whisper was do ou understand me nows"