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Year: 1872

You praise me with a lovers praise,
My ready smile, my winsome ways,
You lavish kiss and fond caress
On snowy brow and sunny tress;
Our hearts, you say, will ne'er grow cold,
But closer cling as we grow old


Grow old
You count the years that you and
Will watch the Summer days GO by,
And when our fields are turning brown,
And age like night comes softly down,
Fond lips, and hearts that love makes bold
VIII brighten life as we grow old


Grow old
And ali the while you talk TO me,
i hear nm inward prophecy,
That tells me, ere year has flown,
Each will go on his way alone;
shall not feel your clinging hold,
Nor you my faltering steps uphold,
...... AS we grow old.
IT'S not that time will coldncss bring
To lips that kiss and arms that cling;
You will not seek loves sweet replies
In other lips and other eyes;
My heart its loyalty will hold,
But, darling, 1 shall not grow old


Grow old
And whom your tears are falling fast
Upon brow whose pain is past
When all your loving words are vain
To win one answering smile again,
Take then one sunny tTcs5 of gold,
Remembering love cuu np'cr GROW old


GROW Olli
Year: 1872

The Boston Globe says:


"The Uxbridge Bank robbers seem de
termined to add to the air of romance which
they threw around their burglary, and to
increase theirreputation for eallantry which
their treatment of the family to which they
paid the unwelcoms visit at that time CD
tained them Last Saturday Messrs. Eben
B. Hayward and Jacob Taft, gentlemen
connected with the bank. came into the of,
fee Of the Chief of Police with a letter
bearing the New York post mark, but no
signature, which Informed them that some
Of the stolen property could be found at a
certain spot 10 the Back Bay lands. Ac,
companying the letter was diagram on
which the spot was carefully indicated =
After some discussion as to the probability
of its being hoax, Officers Ham and " ood
with Messrs. Hayward and Taft, started on
tour Of exploration. Borrowing tools
from some workmen in the vicinity they dug
about near the junction Of Newbury and
Dartmouth streets for a while, and at last
had their faith rewarded by discovering
wrapped up in Boston newspaper, gold
watch, diamond ring, two plain gold rings,
a gold thimble, pair of hair bracelets, two
gold pencils, two pairs of gold bowed spec
tacies and several other articles, which
were keepsakes, the property OF little Ma
bel Taft, left to her by her deceased moth
II, and which had been placed in the vault
OF the bank for safe keeping by her grand
fatter, the cashier. 1t is tn ught the rob-
bers made this disposition of these articles
In response to statement 10 some Of the
papers that they belonged to an orphan
child. Another letter has also been receiv.
ed with the information that bag contain
ing fifty dollars in five cent nickel pieces
could re found behind a stone wall near
the railroad depot in South Farming ham
and search at that place Saturday after
noon was rewarded by the finding of the
tag and contents"
Year: 1872

HASTE AND HEALTH.-It is not at all
wholesome to be in hurry. Locomotives
have been reported to have moved mile
in minute for short distances but loco
motives have often come to grief by such
rapidity. Multtudes IN their haste to get
rich are ruined every year. The men who
do think maturely, slowly, deliberately, are
the men who oftenest succeed in life
People who are habitnally in a hurry gen
erallY have to do things twice over. The
tortoise beats the hare at last. Slow men
seldom knock their brains out against post
Foot races are injurious to health, as are all
forms of competitive exercise; steady labor
in the field is the best gymnasium in the
world Either labor or exercise carried
to exhaustion or prostation, or even great
tireduess, expressed by tagged out" al
ways does more harm than the previous
exercise has done good. All running up
stairs or to catch Up with vehicle or fer
ry boat, are extremely injurious to every
age an sex and condition of life 1t ought
to be the most pressing necessity which
should induce person over fifty 10 run
twenty yards. Those live longest who are
deliberate, whose actions are measured, who
never embark in any enterprise without
sleeping over it," and who performed all
every day acts of life with calmness =
Qnakers are rroverbially calm, qniet peo-
pie, and Quakers are thrifty iolk, the
world over.
Year: 1872

The Republicans throughout the State
should pay no head to the political tele-
graphic dispatches coming here from the
East, but for which the Associated Press
hereare not responsible, nor is the telegraph
Company. The agent OF the Associated
Press at the East, is a Greeleyite the
Telegraph Company, agree to transmit a
certain number of words for specific sum
but over the combination of which they
have no control. They accept whatever
he brings in and send it, the same as they
would any other message If he is first
class liar, which the Eastern agent of the
Associated Press is, they cannot help it,
particularly if the newspapers comprising
the Associated Press, have leaning the
slme way their paid liar has. Republicans
on this coast must be patient aud wait un-
til details can be received through the
medium Of the Eastern press, or they must
be coniented with what news those papers
receive which are not in the newspaper
combination and receive their dispatches
over the wires Of the Atlantic and Pacific
line. The associated liar, at the East man.
ages to compile everything that can be
found that will initiate against Grant and
assist Greeley, and by strange concatena-
tion of circumstances finds it convenient to
pass by all that is in opposition to Greeley
aud might favor Grant.-S. F. Spirit of
the Times.
Year: 1872

How many farm matters are forgotten,
that should be attended to in the proper
time The memory is called upon to re-
tain every little item of labor aud with
the multiplicity of "cdds and ends, aOoa,
the farm. it is no, singular that some should
be forgotten and the work left undone :
How much time would he economical,
and how great, too, would he the saving
money. we're farmers to initiate the ex


mple Of the old farmers. who kept Slate


" iotting down everything which requ'r
d attention From the Rural New York


i We have an account of the good use to
which systematic old gentleman put hls


late Ie. every farmer be assured 1t Will
10 well for him to d. the same


Writing about Improvements romlnds
me ,hata farmer does not always think Of
what is necd'ul, aud may be done when
leisure tine occur, aud il recalls 10 my
mnd the practice o. a large and success
| iuI farmer, who at bis death, left his af
fairs in prosperous condition and his
premises in complete order. His neigh
bors often wonder at the ease with which
be conducted his operation; he never hur
ricd, but the right thing was always done
at The right time aud his work never lag
ged Much OF the improvements be made
was in odd spells, when the routine Of reg
uar farm work was broken BY rainy wealth
err or after finishing the work on a crop.
and while waiting for another to ge' to The
proper stage He keeps a large slate
hanging in the kitchen where all his work
men could see it, and whenever job oc-
ours to him, it was noted on the slate :
For instance, some Of bis entries ran thus:
Make gate for the brook lot Clean out
the open ditch in the wheat 6eld;' Lay Il
new floor on the scnGold over the barn
6oor;' Bury the large stone in the middle
lott Get some abte.wood trees to mill
for making garden 'ercc pickets;' Plant
shade trees along the roadside;' Dig the
aldrrs out of the fence corners. and look
after the wild mustard that came up where
the tbrcshiug machiug stood last year =


In this way his slate was filled aud i
any leisure half.days occurred, his men had
plenty Of work; and if the master happen
ed to he absent, the slate told the work
men what to do After a time it was his
custom to lay out the days work on tn"
slate each evening previous, and when
the job was finished the record was erac'd;
TO ret the slate clean was the ambition Of
the workmsu
Year: 1872


The Grand Duke Of Florence. il is said,
once proclaimed that every beggar who
would appear in the grand plaza at a Ger
designated time. should be provided with
new suit Of clothes free Of cost, AT the
appointed hourSthe beggars of the city all
assembled. whcreupon tho officers caused
each avenue Of the public square TO be
closed, and then compelled the begeas to
strip Of their old clothes, and gave to each
one according to promise nca suit la
the old clothes thus collected enough mon.
ey was found concealed to build a beautiful
bridge over tho Arno, still called the Beg
gar's Bridge.
Year: 1872

Ten minutes Of weak repining will
plunge brave heart into tho depths Of
unhappiness as sudden as n thunder storm
will overcast a summer sky. The only
way to live is to cast away troubles and
contentious which cannot be cured ,y, b, lret- ret.
ting. A thing that is done belongs'o tho
past In justice to the requirements OF
the preseut, and possibilities Of the future,
you cannot look back and make yourself
wre'chad over things which cannot bo un-
done.
Year: 1872

An editorial sanclnm is most assuredly
n sanity place at least none but SAINTS
could possibly endure what i,s occupants
have to submit to. When an editor has
collected bis thoughts as we'll as his scraps,
and is ready to 60 to work in comes some
body to scatter both. and talk or rustic
his pagers. and make him feel very much
like swearing All business is suspended
until quiet is restored by the retirement Of
the intruder, and work is resumed only to
be interrupted a dozen times tho same
way during the day lfcditors were not
saints they certainly would swear under
the circumstances, but as it il they smile
mud smic.-but mediate murder while
they smile. lfpcoplc would only cons'd-
or that editors aud reporters have work to
do. Tint their work requires profound
stiffness, and that very few writer's or
readers can either write or read unless
alone, they would not think au editorial
sanctum so proper aplnce to spend their
leisure hours in, = -Bufalo Erpnss.
Year: 1872

aud then laid upon their bridal bed of Ice
which was furnished however, with a
quantity ofpillows aud covering Watch
MN were placed at the doors 70 prevent
the newly married couple from abandoning
their cold quarters before the break Of the
next day


And all this was provided for the dis.
traction of one whose weak crimes aud
cruelies had brought her remorsc 1t Is
said that she enjoyed it immensely,
Year: 1872

Somebody wrote to the editor Of a paper
to ioonire how he would break an OK
The editor replied as follows: III only
one OK, a good way would be to hoist
him. hy means Of a long chain attached
to his tail, to the top Of pole forty feet
from tao ground Then hast bya rope
tied to hi. horns to another pole. Then
descend on to his back n five ton pile driv
or and if that fails TO break him. let him
start country newspaper and trust people
for subscriptions, Ono Of the two ways
will do IT,"
Year: 1872

The London Globe publishes a statement
which is an illustration Of the danger Of
relying upon circumstantial evidence, even
when it approaches posi'ivtne-s A gen.
,leman went to the British Museum with
M order to have a case opened containing
some valuable medals, for bis inspection
He examined particular medal, which
was supposed to be unique, restored il to
the tray and after talking some time with
the custodian was about to leave, when the
lptter discovered that the medal was miss
Ing It was searched for everywhere, and
could not be found, when it was suggested
that the pockets the visitors Should be
examined To this be objected; and po.
licemau was scut for. However, before
he arrived the medal was found to have
slipped between the tray and the bottom
of the ease. When asked why be refused
to bc searched the supposed culprit pro
duced medal FROM biz pocket, the exact
counterpart Of that which was in the case.
and remarked that his object had been to
verify the Authenticity Of bis own, which
being identical With the missing one and
discovered in hi' pocket. would at once
have convicted him Of the theft.
Year: 1872

TnE SIMPLE SECRET Twenty clerks 10
a store, tweaty hands in printing office
twenty apprentices 10 shipyard. twenty
young men in village all want to get
On u the world. and expect to do so.
One Of the clerks will become q partner,
and make a fortune, one ofihe composi'ors
will own newspaper. and become an in
auental citizen; one Of the apprentices will
becune master builder; one Of the TWEEN
" villagers will get handsome farm and
live like patriarch but which one is the
lucky individual? Lucky! There i 10
luck about it The thing is almost as Ger
tain as the rule of three. The young feI
low who will distance his competitors is he
who masters his business, who preserves
bis integrity, who lives cleanIy and purely
who devo,cs his leisure to the acquisition
Of knowledge. who gains friends by dc
serving them. and who saves bis spare
money There are some ways to fortune
shorter than this old dusty highway; but
the slannch men Of the community the
men who ACHIEVE something really worth
having, good fortune. good name, AM,
serene old aye, all goin this road
Year: 1872

By some it is maintained that the State is
unable to pay Its debts, aud, therefore, should
not attempt to do it. Certainly it is not bound
to do what it cannot. 1f The State is insolyent,
it should give up its assets and go into bank
ruptcy. We do not believe that it is insolvent.
Ii, with property assessed at nearly S400 O00,-
600, and a population of more than million,
We cannot pay, with reasonable indulgence,
debt of SAC, 900, 600, then We are an efete race.
It is said there is no money in the country
We know it is scarce. We profoundly sympa-
thize with our impoverished fellow-citizens.-
But let US not magnify our poverty. Our crops,
for several years, have failed but, we trust,
they will not always fail. Industry and econo-
my, with a few fruitful seasons, would restore
the country to prosperity. Let Us pay our debts
with the money we have In possession, and con-
fde il gracious Providence for the means of
paying them in future. We have suspicion
that the money annually expended in the State
for chewing tobacco, cigars, and strong drink,
equals the amount of interest on our public
debt; and we have a pretty strong conviction
that II to that expenditure were added the
amount lavished on superduous inery, the sum
would be adequate not only to pay the interest
on the debt. but to create sinking fund for
its extinction. We do not make these remarks
in condemnation of these expenses; bat to
show that if our public debt is not paid. the
failure will be, not for lack of ability, but for
want of inclination to discharge it.-Religious
Hernh
Year: 1872

force January Oath, 1879.


l. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
That the fifth section of the act entitled an act
ior the re- assessment of the lands throughout
the Commonwealth, approved July ninth,
eighteen hundred and seventy. be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:


2. Any person feeling himself aggriered by
the assessment of his lands OR lots, made under
the provisions Of this act, may, upon giving
notice to the assessor, or In the event that
there is vacancy in said Office. notice shall be
given to the Attorney for the Commwealth
apply to the court By which the assessor was
appointed, at the first, second, third, fourth,
fifth, or sixth term after the passage Of this
act, aud not after, to have the assessments OF
his lands or lots corrected, which notice shall
be In writing, and shall have appended thereto
an affidavit, that in the opinion OF the athant
the assessments Of his lands or lots is above the
true value thereof which affidavit may be made
by the owner or his duly authorized agent
La all such applications it shall be The duty of
the Attorney for the Commonwealth, 10 such
court, to attend to the interests of the Com.
monwealth, aud if the court shall be satisfied
hat the assessment is too high, it shall reduce
he same to what is. in its opinion, the true
,aue of such lands or lots, but il it shall be
IF opinion that the assessment is too low, then





anpIication shall have precedence over all other
causes pending in said court. In any case in
which the owner of lands or lots, or his agent,
shall be dissatisfied with the value assessed,
because it is too low, the assessor shall adopt
the estimate OF the owner, CIR his agent; but
in cases of appeal from the decision to the
court, as herein provided for, costs shall not
be taxed for or against the appellant or the
Commonwealth.


8 The Superintendent of Public Printing is
hereby authorized to print and forward 10 each
clerk of the county court of each county in the
State six copies of this act as soon as practica-
Bile after it has received the approval of the
Governor, and shall also print one thousand ad-
ditional copies for the use Of the members of
the General Assembly.


4. This act shall be in force from Its passage.


A Copy:


j. BELL BIGGER,
Clerk of the House of Delegates, and Keeper
of the Rolls Of Virginia.
Year: 1872

and contrasted the seven years penal
servitude and forty lashes with cat,
given as the sentence to a robber who
knocked a man down and tried to steal
his watch, with the three months i'm
prisonment awarded to the brute who
pushed his wife under dray on London
bridge, causing her death. She refuted
the idea that the complaints of the
women were sentimental, strongly urged
the passage of the resolutions, and at
the conclusion Of her address was loudly
cheered.
Year: 1872




From the London News, April III ali


IL IS now quarter OF century since
Madame Taglioni retired from the stage,
and went with her husband TO live in
Italy. Poets whom society thought
much Of then have passed away, and
are forgotten; politicians who were ex-
pected to hold the destinies Of Europe
in their hand have sunk into oblivion;
and yet the name of the famous dan
seuse is household word at this day
among thousands and thousands of peo-
pie who never saw her. The enthusiasm
created by the young girl who began her
public performances in the South-Ger-
man capitals some fifty years ago was
most extraordinary, and it was at the
very hight of her reputation when Eng
land, Russia, France and Italy were all
striving to induce her to enter into en-
gagements, that she married. She re-
mained on the stage until l847, and then
the public lost sight Of her, although her
name remained as the equivalent Of every
thing that was delightful ead graceful in
the art which she practieed. Now she
is among us once more; and although o
certain reserve causes her to shrink
from Announcing the fact, there can be
no harm in letting it be known that she
is engaged in giving private lessons in
dancing to few pupils who have heard
Of her arrival in this country. During
the war of 1901 she lost the greater
part of her property, and thus, in old
age, she is thrown back on the profess
sion which made her famous in her
youth. This temperance Of an old fa-
vorite of the public seems rather tragic
in its aspect, and it is certainly a pity
that she should have TO begin a new ca
reer; but the fckleness of popular favor
cannot in this instance be blamed,
Madame Taglioni is fortunate in that for
there is scarcely household in England
which is not familiar with her name.
twenty-five years hence will it be possi-
BILE to say as much of one out of every
dozen of the famous orators, politicians,
poets, authors and painters whom we
have among us at present2
Year: 1872

NOTICE. am still at the corner Of Second and
~ French streets, and any one wishing to secure
as sell as low as the lowest Fine yara cigars al
greatly reduced prices. Come down and see me


and you VIII be waited upon courteously and be
satisfied that you came TO the right place Yours


ResDectfullJ. ivs.n K \. RICE m
Year: 1872

Professor Tyndall states that almost the
whole Of the dust in rooms is Of organic origin,
and prominent among these organic bodies III
horse manure. The removal Of this offensive
contamination from the air Of infected localities
has been the subject Of careful experiment and
investigation by the London Board Of HEALTH
Not only have the droppinss been removed
from the streets, but the surfaces Of the pave
ments have been purified by jets Of water
thrown BY steam power whereby all the crevices
between the stones forming the pavements have
been cleansed. In some districts the practice
has been adopted Of covering all surfaces that
are soaked with foul organic materials with q
layer Of fresh earth. This has been attended
with the most satisfactory results The Val d.
Traven asphalt pavement is:however regarded
BY Sir Joseph Whitworth, the great English
authority on all questions connected with stree
economy, AZ offering the most promising relic
from such organic dust, since its introduction
will lend TO hasten the employment Of hot nj
engines with India rubber tires for all the pur
poses street traffic and the source or cause ofth
contamination will Of necessity disappear
ScRIBNER's FOR MAY.
Year: 1872

ORIGIN OF FooIsCAP PAPER.-The


term foolscap, to designate certain


kind Of paper, no doubt has puzzled


many an inquirer. The origin is not


only amusing but historical. Charles I


of England granted numerous mono
poles for the support of the govern


ment. Among others was the manufac'


ture of paper. The water mark of the
finest sort was the royal arms Of En-
gland. The consumption of this article
was great, and large fortunes were made
by those who had purchased the eX-
elusive right to vend it, This, among
other monopolies, was set aside by the
parliament that brought Charles to the
scaffold; and, by way Of showing con-
tempt for the king, they ordered the


royal arms from the paper, and fool,


with his cap and bells,to be substituted.


1t is now over two hundred years since


the FOOLS cap was taken from the paper.


but still the paper Of the size which the
rump parliament ordered for their jour
mails, bears the name of the water mark
placed there as an indignity to Charles.
Year: 1872

The following is the experience of a
mechanic concerning the benefits of u
newspaper:


Ten years ago lived in town in In
diana, On returning home one night,
for | am a carpenter by trade, / saw lit
tie girl leave my door, and asked my
wife who she was. She said Mrs. Harris
had sent her after their newspaper, which
my wife had borrowed. As wesat down
to tea my wife said to me, by name:


81 wish you would subscribe for the
newspaper; it is so much comfort to me
when you are away from home"


81 would like to do SO, said |, "but
you know ! owe payment on the house
and lot. II will be all | can do to meet
it,"


She replied; "If you sill take his
paper ] will sew for the tailor to pay for
it,"


subscribed for the paper il came in
due time to the shop. While resting
one noon and looking over it, / saw an
advertisement ofthe county Commission
ers to let bridge that was to be built.
| put in bid for the bridge, and the job
was awarded to me, on which | cleared
$500, which enabled me to pay for my
house and easily, and for the newspaper.
If had not subscribed for the newspa-
per, would not have known anything
about the contract, and could not have
met my payment on my house and lot.
A mechanic will not lose anything by
taking a newspaper, especially the lNTE-
RIoR JOURNAL.
Year: 1872

WE learn from an exchange that they
have in Mississippi a hens egg, within
which a brass button has been found.
"The conundrum is, how came it there,
and what would have been the result
had this particular egg been subjected to
the hens own cubation for twenty-one
days| We admit that this is strange,
but not half as remarkable as il would
have been If the hen had laid a brass but
ton with an egg inside of it, or as if a
brass button had laid hen with an egg
inside of her, or as if the egg had laid
the hen with brass button for a heaf.
As TO the possible result, if the hen
had dwelt upon the egg for three weeks,
our opinion is, that she would have
Matched out. a brass foundery, or an Off
Ger OF the marine corpse, or cadet from
one OF our bobtail military institutes,
just as fancy took her.-Appeal.