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Year: 1875

Waiting For what Shall ever know ?


Or shall the ne years creep drOWsily by


TIL my death day comes; shall never know Why
was born, and must live out my life Of woe 2
s the whole Of my lifetime merely pause


'rwixt my birth fhst was, aud my death to be7


Must always follow, aud never be free
Am only effect Can never be cauEe3
Or but a link OF the weaFiful chain


or life, aud the sequence Of things gone by y?
I am forced TO live. for I cannot die,
But my Life is empty and all in vain
Yet sometimes hear my spirit elate


At the thought OF the glorious deeds to be done,
Cry, Strkei 'Tis the time ~ But in answer,


one
Shall ever know who ?-whispers, Silence !


Waiti"
It cannot be Hope, for her voice is sweet.
It Is not Despair, for I know her well
'Iis ike the ceaseless drone Of Q kneiI,
And wearies the heart with monotonous beat.
Shall another voice ever whisper te me,
J. Awake 'Tis the bourl Go forward and fght
Thy probation is ended, and impotent night
Has burst into day :" So shall set me free?
know not, know not this only dread,
That, ere that voice shall proclaim that hour,
Not only the viii may be lost, but the power,
And may be cold with the nanelessdead.
Year: 1875

Charley Backus, well known negro
minstrel and practical joker, was in q
small town in Connecticut the other
day, and as he started for New York,
he stood on the rear platform of the
last car of the train. just as the whistle
was blown and the cars began to move,
Backus espied big fellow leunging IN
the depot, and shaking his fist st him In
assumed rage, be shouted


"Oh, there you are, you villain. I've
been looking for you all over this cursed
towR. Oh, you knave, you thief, you
scoundrel


At tins time the train was rapidly
moving out of the depot, and Backus
wildly shook his fist at the as5onished
stranger. ''Don't I wish had time to
get of and thrash yOu, You scoundrel -


To the horror of the minstrel joker
the train was stopped and backed into
the depot. Backus made a rush for his
compartment IN the drawing-room car
and locked himself IN, just IS the
brawny- -fistes depot iOunger boarded
the trsin and boSled


Where is that id dufTer who has
been looking all over this ere town for
me?'


Backus kept himself in his prison
until he reached New York.
Year: 1875

spoke hopefully of the Tobin system, D
now being applied to public balls in
England, which introduces fresh air
by means of pipes rising through the
floor and terminating above the heads
of the auditory. The theory is that
air currents thus introduced are
thrown upward like so many jets of
water, and are distributed without
draft or discomfort in a sort of at
mospheric spra
Year: 1875

REoENT experiments tend to show
that forests increase atmospheric humid
ity by the action of their roots rather
than by any attraction exerted on rain
clouds. The moisture, in other words.
comes from below, and not from above.
The roots seem to serve as outlets
through which water drawn from the
earth is conducted to the leaves and
passes thence into the atmosphere. An
oak tree, experimental upon by Prof.
Pettenkofer, was estimated to have
between seven and eight hundred thou
sand leaves, and the total amount Of
evaporation in a year was computed to
be eight and one-third times more than
that of the rainfall on an area equal to
that covered by the tree, the moisture
exhaled by the leaves being equal to
some two hundred and eleven inches,
while that from the rainfall was but
twenty five inches.
Year: 1875

We have for authority the Inter
Ocean for saying that the following
recipe is worth the subscription price Of
any newspaper IN the land As soon as
the animal heat is ont 0f the meat,
slice it up ready for cooking. Prepare
a large Jar by scalding veil with hot
salt and water. Mix salt and pulyerized
sal peter ia the prop r5ion Of One table
spoonful Of saltperire TO one tsacupful
Of salt. Cover the bottom Of che jar
with a prinkle OF salt and pepper.
Put down a layer OF meat, sprinkle
with salt and pepper, the same as II JUST
going 70 the table, and ccDtinue IN tins
naanner till the jaris full. Fold cloth
or towel and wet It IN strong salt and


water. IN waich a little Of the saftpetFe
is dissolved. Press the cloth closely
over the meat and set il in cool place.
Be sure and press he cloth on tightly


as each LAYER Is removed, and your meat
/ will keep for months. It Is q good
plan 10 let the meat lie over night after
/ it is sliced, before packing. Then
drain Of all the blood that oozss from
/ it. It VIII be necessary 70 change ths
| cloth o casionaliy, OF take e OF and


wash it. FIRST ia cold wateE--then scald
| IN salt water IS at first In this way
/ farmers can have fresh meat the yea


round. 81 have kept beef, says tn
/ writer. ssthat was killed the 18Th d
/ February, till the 2lst Of june. TbeI


I pal ked & large jar Of veal IN tbs sam.


way during the dog days, and It KEEP


six VI eks.
Year: 1875

THE design for the new postal card
has been agreed upon, and is now being
engraved at the printing bureau of the
treasury department It is very plain,
and will differ from the card now in use,
in that the border is left off, and it is to
be made of better material.
Year: 1875

AT convention of car builders held
IN New York, last week, It was shown
that the proportion of foul air in the
ordinary railroad car is greater than
in crowded church or theater. Muc
discussion ensued, and it seemed gene
rally agreed on that none of the man
fold devices for ventilation hitherto
used, viii meet the case. Several
Year: 1875

The court of appeals of Maryland re-
Gently decided, in the case of a man who
killed himself and who Lad his life in
sured, that when the act of self-destiuc-
ton is done during insanity it is death
by accident, and the insurance company
as bound to pay the amount of the pol
10y when insanity, temporary or other
wise. is proven.
Year: 1875

The question Of taxing the property
OF masonic and other lodges has been
sprung in Georgia as well as Ohio.
The state comptroller is of opinion that
1t hinges on the question whether such
bodies are charitable institutions within
the meaning of the code of Georgia.
Year: 1875

The postmaster general has been
aroused, by the sharp comments of the
press and the complaints OF the public
to the consideration of the Ubiquitous
imposition which laundering senator
caused to be levied upon the people.
de has expressed his purpose of calling
the attention of congress, in December
next to the law which governs the
postage upon transient papers, with the
view of securing q modification of the
rates.
Year: 1875

MOUNT VERNoN.-A public meeting was held
on Monday evening 20 express dissatisfaction with the
New Haven Railroad Company regard TO the propo-
sal Oh the part OF the latter to chang the site OF the
passenger depot to the block between Third and Fourth
aves After some di-cussiOu on the subject, commit
appointed To wait upon the officers of the road
and remOnstrate against anY change or location.
Year: 1875

TRY THE ENAMELLED PIPE, 1T WILL NOT
l Rust or crack and costs only tribe more than
common iron pipe. Is positively THE BEST thing
for water service pipe. haYc the exclusive agency
for Rock Island. FRED HASS.


Store in Star Block
Year: 1875

Amongst other anecdotes picked
up this week is the strangest anecdote
of 4 changeling. One year ago to 4
fashionable mother was born baby
boy. She got a wet nurse who re-
mained with her six months, and
then, rs the child liked the bottle
best, the wet nurse was discharged,
and wcnt-God knows whore. When
the baby was born the grandmother
was there from her distant Western
home, and shortly thereafter return
ed, to come no more till this summer.
In the mean time the young mother
had seen her child sometimes once q
day, sometimes once week, as the
case might be. The first thing on
grandma's arrival was a loud call for
Tommy, and Tommy was torthcom-
ing. lie was kissed and hugged and
praised, and pctted, and grandma
Just lugged him about till finally, old
lady like, she stripped him to see
how much he had grown. Then
came Il shrek. "Where was Tom
my's extra toe?" Tommy was born
with six toes; grandma knew it,
Father and mother knew it, too; in
fact, had heard of it at the time and
Year: 1875

The prisoners lawyer was working
like beaver. Yet he was unable to
account for the disappearance of the
note, or to discover the messenger
who had delivered it at the church
door. If either turned up it would
explain the prisoners motive in visit
ing the doctor that night, while the
direction of the wound, as well as
the pistal, which was the dead mans
would probably be sufficient to acquit
the prisnncr.


The Coroner's jury fully committed
the young man after they had heard
the evidence of the two officers who
arrested him, and who overheard his
damaging confessions to Miss Good
rich. Everybody admitted that it
would 90 hard with him, when an
unexpected clue came to light.


There was an idiotic lad in the vii
lage who had mania for stealing
especially wearing apparel; and when
ever poor Willie Webster was seen
out Of doors with parcel he was
pretty sure to be overhauled by the
first villager he met.


One morning, at the stage to which
our story has reached, the lmatic lad
was observed by the parson to leave
the residence Of the late doctor with
a large parcel. Visions of a whole
sale kleptomania rushed through the
holy mans brain, and he speedily
pursued and captured Willie. The
poor fellows story was straight
enough. Sally Madame, the doctors
servant, had given him the clothes
for himself, and they weren't the doc
tors either; they were Sally's clothes
-Sally's own clothes, and nobody
clse's.


The parson steercd the lunatic and
the bundle back to Sally Mabane's
presence, and sharply cross-examined
her. Albeit she was tough custom
cr, the clergyman piled her with the
terrors of the judgment day, Of the
undying worm and the quenchless
birthstone tire-until she wilted and
made an open confession. She had
several times worn these boys clothes
on the late masters business. In
fact, he had procured them for her.
She had worn them the last time on
Sunday night, when she delivered the
note to young Carleton. She wept
violent when the parson said he did
not believe her story, and threatened
to have her arrested.


II assure you, sir, it's all true" she
said, weeping violently; 81 haven't
told no lie, sir, here is the very letter
TUX the young gentleman, sir; | saw
master write it, and I know it by that
mark on the inside, for / saw him
write it; it was lying in the surgery
open, just like that Showing how
when | first saw him lying dead"


When the trial came on Sally Ma
bane's evidence and the fatal Sunday
evening letter led to Walter Garlic
tons acquittal. But the Liverpool
story of the one false step that plung-
ed two young hearts in misery and
produced this blight and desolation
also came to light. He never married
Ella Goodrich, for there was an earlier
and later taint upon his namc-a
forger and y homicide.


On the second anniversary of their
acquaintance the lovers rode in the
basket phaeton behind Rufe for the
last time. And the next day she en-
tered monastery, and he sailed for
South America.
Year: 1875

in the way OF literature, any of his
age we have ever had the pleasure of
listening to, and should nothing Oc-
cur to prevent, will one day stand in
the front rank of our best orators.


Some Of the boys of Pleasant Grove
took part in some dialogues, and
came off with the brightest laurels
on their brow. ADFINEM.
Year: 1875

AccIDENr.-This morning, when the
south bound New York and Washington
express which leaves this city at 2O3
O'clock, was n short distanco below New
ark, the engine struck and killed two
COWS. One of the cows was thrown up
against the bank, and rolled down under
the fourth car from the engine, causing
the forward truck to break, which broke
the coupling and threw tho front end oil
the car from the track. Fortunately no
one was injured, though the passengers
were roughly shaken: The wrecked car
was removed from the train, causing a
delay Of two hours. This morning n
wrecking train went out and brought it
to the shops in this city,
Year: 1875

bending HFAvr IEov.-It is now
possible by The AID OF hydraulic ma
chinery to bend iron shafts OF twelve
Inches IN diameter 10 any required
shape. Incredible Is this statement
may seem to an expert, crank shafts
are row so made, instead Of by the
slow, laboriou~ and expensive method
Of forging. The bent shafts are also
SAID to be much better than forged
ones, from the fact that the fibre of
the metal runs in one direction contin-
uousiy, whereas in forged ones il is
often across the line Of the strain.
Year: 1875

No one remedy is louder
called for by the necessities
OF the American people than
a sure and safe cure for
Fever and Ague. Such
We are now enabled 10 offer,
with 4 perfect certainty that
Year: 1875

A writer says: No event ever pro-
duced so great a sensation in English
society as the introduction of the Ger
man waltz in 1913. Up to this time the
English country dance, Scotch steps
and occasional Highland reel formed
the school of the dancing master and
the evening recreation of the British
youth, even in the first circles. But
peace was drawing nigh, foreigners we're
arriving and the taste for Continental
customs and manners became the order
Of the day. The young Duke of Devon
shire, as the msgnus Apollo of the
drawing rooms in London, was at the
head of these innovations, and when
the kitchen dance became exploded at
Devonshire House, it could not long be
expected to maintain its footing even in
less celebrated assemblies, In Lcndon
fashion is or was then everything. Old
and young returned to school, and the
mornings which had been dedicated to
louDging in the park were now absorbed
at home in practicing the figures of a
French quadrille, or whirling a chair
round the room to learn the step and
measure of the German waltz. Lame
and impotent we're the first efforts, but
the inspiring airs of the music and the
not less inspiring airs Of the foreigners
soon rendered the English ladies enthu-
siastic performers. What scenes have
we witnessed in those days at Almack's
etc. What fear and trembling in the
debutantes at the commencement Of the
waltz; what giddiness and confusion at
the end 1t was, perhaps, owing to this
last circumstance that so violent an op-
position soon rose to this new creation
on the score Of morality. The anti
waltzing party took the alarm. cried it
down, mothers forbade it and every ball
room became scene Of feud aud con-
tention; the walters continued their
operations, but their ranks were not
filed with SO many recruits as they ex-
pected.
Year: 1875

On the down-hill side Of life the constitu-
ton is beset with infrmities for which Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters is the best Of all reme-
dies. Invigoration is the most reliable means
of resisting disease, and is particularly neces-
sary at a period Of life when the decay of the
physical energies renders the system less able
than formerly to resist its attacks. The cheer
ing warmth which this prime tonic stimulant
ditiuses through the chilled veins, the un-
wonted steadiness which it gives to the totter-
ing limbs Of age, the prompt relief which 1t
affords from those maladies which are most
common in the decline Of life, constitute IL an
inestimable blessing to the old and in6rm.
Among the testimonials to the excellence Of
this most salutary medicine of which its pro-
prietors are constantly in the receipt, many
are received from persons Of advanced age,
who speak with unmeasured praise Of its
qualities as an lnyigotant and preventive.
Year: 1875

Detroit Free Press.J


She lives down on Baker street, and
she has daughter about eighteen years
old. The old lady retains all her sim
plicity and innocence, and she doesn't
90 two cents on style. The other even
ing when splendid catch called to
escort the daughter to the opera the
mother wouldn't take the hint to keep
still, and wouldn't help carry out the
daughters idea that they had wealth.
While helping her daughter to get ready
she asked:


MARY, are you going to wear the
shoes with one heel off, or the pair with
the holes in emp


Mary didn't seem to hear, and the
mother inquired;


Are you going to wear that dollar
gold chain and that looket or will you
wear the diamond father bought at the
hardware store"


Mary winked at her, and the young
man blushed, but the old lady went on:


Are you going to borrow Mrs.
Brown shawl, or will you wear mineH r


Mary bustled about the room, and the
mother said:


Be careful Of your dress, Mary; you
know it's the only one you've got, and
you cant have another until the mort
gage on this place is lifted"


Mary remarked to her escort that it
promised to be beautiful evening, and
as she buttoned on her glove her mother
asked:


"Those are Mrs Hardys gloves, amt
they2 She's been a good neighbor to us,
and | don't know how you would manage
Year: 1875




These extracts show that the nom
Board companies are more successful,
averaging higher per cent. Of premiums
to losses than Board companies. This
is doubtless attributable to the compul.
sorry lack Of the exercise of those intel
ligent principles of underwriting and
investigation of the character Of risks
applied for, and fixing of rates, by
Board companies, because all this is IN
intelligently assumed by the Executive
Committee Of the National Board; while
with the non.Board companies the rates
are fixed at the time the risk is applied
for, with the aid of ell the knowledge
that can be secured upon its character,
real and personal, and the sequel proves
this the only safe mode Of fixing ade.
quate rates or of conducting the FIRE in
surance business.


This self-eyident result confirms, also,
our frequently expressed opinions Of the
necessity Of the National Board, with
local in each Of the business centers Of
the country, through which to collect
and collate every species Of information
as to the history and standing of each
applicant for insurance up to the date
Year: 1875

the application is made out, in order
that the companies may know the char
acter and financial standing Of the ap-
plicant, his past commercial and per
sonsl history, so that if the risk is &C.
cepted it is done so under as intelligent
information as if it was an application
to bay like amount of goods upon
credit.


The National Board could well afford
to do this, and it would then fulfill the
duties for which the charter OF its organ
ization was granted.
Year: 1875

The BURNING OF STEAMSHIP CITY
OF WAco.-The steamship City of
Waco, of the Mallory line, took fire
before daylight yesterday-in what
manner can only be conjectured-just
outside the harbor of Galveston, and
was totally destoyed with her cargo.
II was at first presumed that the pas.
scngers and crew had taken to the
boats, and dilligent search was made
for them all day, but without result;
and it is now feared that the fire may
have been so rapid as to prevent them
even from trusting themselves to the
chances of stormy sea. We have
encouragement still, however, to hope
that later news may be happier.
Year: 1875

So says the supposed sole survivor
of the steamship Pacific, which went
down with 2 hundred people between
Victoria and San Francisco on Thurs
day last. The sea was comparatively
smooth, but there seems to have been
some fatal lack Of decision, in con.
nection with culpable neglect to pro-
vide against trouble, which prevented
the proper launching and manning of
the boats. So only one man was saved
and he by sheer accident was found by
a passing vessel floating on the pilot
house, nearly dead from exhaustion
and exposure. The disaster adds one
more to the large and melancholy list
of events which illustrate how few
men there are, who, even under most
favorable circumstances, are really
equal to great emergency in which
their own safety is involved with that
of others.
Year: 1875

For the Middle States and the lower
lake region, falling barometer, easterly
to southerly winds, slightly warmer
and cloudy weather, rain in the latter
and gradually extending eastward
over the former, and followed by
northwesterly Winds over Lake Erie.
Year: 1875

porting oities of the country clamored for it.
If 1t had been enacted over again. or If the
existence of this clause had been known,
Jayne and his confcderates would have been
powerless. Happily, complete exposure OF his
methods put stop to him and his outrages; !;
but in the meantime scores Of merchants had
suffered spoliation for the want of this very
protection against the misuse of their books.
Full publicity to the act in all its bearings
should now be given for the future protection
of importers, and it will doubtless save many
others from like imposition.


The prosecuting officer in the case in which
this law was quoted so eflectually asked for a
commission to take evidence abroad A care
full examination and liberal construction of
the clause would seem to prohibit the use of
testimony thus taken. The taking OF testi-
mony by commission in foreign country is
by "means of judicial process" and conse-
quently appears inadmissible under this law.
The point is to come up to-day, and further
ruling of Judge BlatchfOrd will probably
daci1a If
Year: 1875

In the Assembly yesterday the parliamentary
contest over the Costigan bill began in earn
est, and was conducted with unexpected
vrulence The debate soon revealed the
fact that the measure is opposed not
only by the Republicans, but by the
Governor and by considerable num-
Der of Democrats in the Assembly. The
policy of the opposition was disclosed by the
introduction of very plausible resolution
directing the Committee to report bill desig-
mating Mr.. Charles O'COnor and other we'll
known citizens to prepare general law Sc
curing to the several municipalities OF the
State the right of local self-gOvernment and
providing for the responsibility of munich


pal officers and their removal for cause.
This met with no favor from the
friends of the Costigan bill; they were for the
BILL the whole bill, and nothing but the bill.
A motion for the previous question brought
out something like test vote, when it was
seen that about twenty Democrats under the
leadership of Mr.. Davis of Washington were
in opposition. The ensuing debate was a fight
within the Democratic ranks, marked by some
apparently uncalled-for hard words about
the Governor 1t closed without decisive
vote, but with the prospects of the pending
bill apparently impaired. 1t is to be re-


gretted that its patrons did not make its pro-


fessed merits rather than the concerns and
demands of party, the subject of discussion.
What we really want is an honest measure
for restoring self-goverpment to the people of
this city. What we fear about this bill is
that it, like so many Others which previous
Legislatures of both parties have passed, is
largely partisan in its purpose and temporary
in its nature. Great measures affecting organic
laws like thelCharter ought not to have for
their inspiring motive hostility to particular
officer or desire to give more patronage to the
party that happens to be in power. If SEN
sible Charter substantially securing self-gov-
ernment to the people of the city, could be
adopted with as much deliberation as we give
to Constitutional amendments, and then made
as difficult to change, we should have attained
the ideal situation The COstigan bill does
not seem entirely to promise this.