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Year: 1873

A BAsHFUL young man in San Fran
cisco recently called upon some lady friends,
and sftfr spending some time in conversa-
tion. rose to take his leave. He was bowing
himself toward the door, the handle of which
he seized, with his fsca still to the company,
and in arother moment was gore, and the
door closed behind i'm. Then to his hor-
ror he discovered that in his confusion he
had made for the wrong door, and had


shut himself up la china closet, while the
uncomfortable laughter Of the the ladies by
no means tended to restore his equanimity.
Year: 1873

A MOTHERS love is holy thing, and is
beautifully illustrated in the case of the
Fren..h woman who murdered her husband
that she might become widow and thus
orocuye the discharge of her son from the
army.
Year: 1873

less severely, the conductor, express mes
senger and four eolored men. The wound
ed men give most terrifying descriptions of
the disaster They represent the waiIings
of the wounded in the darkness as fearful
The sleeping car stopped before it reached
the trestle work, otherwise the Slaughter
among the lady passengers would have
been fearful, as that car was the only one
crowded on the train. The embankment
was fifteen feet high. Some Of the pas-
sengers were badly burned and the panic
among them was fearful.


MILWAUKEE,, March PA daughter
and son of farmer named Shartzen and
a son of neighbor named Wodele. were
burned to death near Read Landing,
Mimi, March 23d, being encircled by a
prairie fire they were fighting and per
ished before they could escape.


ST LOUIS, March 27.-H. H. Fecken.
while fastening cable at the top Of high
trestle work on the west abutment of the
bridge this morning, slipped and fell to the
abutment beneath, ahghting on pile Of
iron bolts. The back part Of his skull was
badly crushed and he was otherwise dan
gerotlsly wounded
Year: 1873

VALUABLE CITY PROPERTY.-Tw GOOD
Paying Business Establishments. The under
signed, desiring TO relinqaish business in Rock Is
land, Offers for sale the Stock Ground and Build
lag Of his extensive Furniture H0use: also the
stock, Ground and Building adjoining used as a
boot and shoe store. MS property Il located on
Illinois street in one OF the best business portions
OF the city. Buildings sold with or without the
stock Also his residence on orleans street oppo-
-lte the new public school building The fact that
the undersigned has been engaged in the above
business for sixteen years in this city Is the highest
recommendation that can be given it,


3-2udacwIm ID. IINGIE
Year: 1873

A SEVERE TEsT.-The Commissary
General of the United States, after a trial
OF all the principal starches in the country,
decided that Duryea's Satin Gloss
Starch was the best that could be procur-
ed, and the government from that time to
the present are buying this article. This
Is fact worthy the attention of consum-
erS
Year: 1873

WHAT Is \ Tone > In past ages, men
have believed in the existence of an Elixir,
which were it only discovered, would pro-
long life indefinitely. This error the world
has long since abandoned, only, however.
TO go astray as far in the opposite direc-
ton. People say that there is just 50
much life, health, strength, in every man,
and that nothing which skill may admins
ter can increase this fixed quantity. Some
substances, they admit. may appear TO do
SO but whatever such may advance To-
morrow This is false In food, there
are forces stored up which, once the food
has been digested duly, are given out, and
positirely add to the sum total of vitality.
Once the food has been digested duly,
This is the condition And to insure the
tulfllment of this condition; not in any
magical way to confer strength as of itself
such is the Office of DR.. Gottlieb Fisch S
Bitters


This subject continued next week under
! 4 Good Cnp IF Tea.
Year: 1873

$50 IN CASH FOR $1.--We call the
attention of our readers to the advertise
ment in another column of the Nebraska
State Orphan Asylum Here is chance
to win fortune in a Public Legal Drawing,
and aid noble charity.
Year: 1873

embarrassed for want of remedial pro.
visions for enforcement.


The report states that the railroad
companies, so far as the Commissionel
ia advised, intended to contest the con-
stItutionality Of the levy of such taxes
upon several grounds; among other,
that the legislation imposing the tax
was special, partial and class legislation
that it Is an infringement of theiI
chartered rights; that portions OF
the roads lie outside Of the State; that
the property Of the companies is taxed
as other property, by one hundred dol
lars worth, and that this Is 3 double
tax, etc. The committee recommend
such legislation as will bring the main
question, namely, the power of the
Legislature to tax the income
ofrailroad companies, properly before the
courts Of the State for adjudication, recft-
ing that such taxes for two years are in
arrears, and that besides the question
involved Is one Of great importance to
the State, and that it is the opinion OF
many Of the legal profession that the
levy of said taxes is constitutional
standing pretty much on the same con-
st1tutiona ground as the privilege tax
on merchants.


The Senate joint resolution inquirins
into the validity of State bonds, author
ity OF issuance, etc, was concurred in.


The Senate joint resolution to inquire
into the matter concerning the Torbett
issue was cohcurred IN, and the blank
number Of the committee to be filed by
i've on the part Of the House.
Year: 1873

Editor Spectator:


have been shown bit Of timber
taken from one of the cross-sections of Thomas
smoothing harrow-made at Geneva, n Y, of
a brash cross-grained piece of white oak, that
breaks at every inch and half The earpen-
ter in our region, who would think of putting
such timber in hen-heuse, for roosts, on which
say two of Rosenbarger's turkeys, of our neigh
boring county of Rockingham, should indulge
in nocturnal repose, and of which the owner
should waken up some morning and find their
necks broken, if such carpenter would not get
his pate broken, it would be from the fact that
sympathy for his being natural or born fool
would save him. Yet this is the timber out Of
which an implement is made which is subjected
to the toughest usage tis possible to imagine
on a farm The purchaser of this harrow for
the present reserves his name, but on exhibit
ing the bit of wood to one of our plain Dutch
farmers. and asking him what he thought of
it? well, says be, Il would think he was a
pretty genuine Yankee who made that har-
row." and you know that there is no word 10
our language that contains as much, that we all
dislike as is found in that, and then, too, he
tried to cover up all the cracks with red paint.
Year: 1873

Don't tell me of o-morrowl


If we look upon the past,
How much that we have left to do
We cannot do ct lastl
To- day it is the only time


For all on this frail earth
1t takes an age to form life


A moment gives it birth.
Don't tell me of tomorrow


Give me the man who'll say,
Whene' er good deeds to be done,
Let's do the deed to-day
We may all command the present,
1t we act and never wait,
But repentance is the phantom


Of the past that comes too late.
Year: 1873

Let a person begin life by lodging, and he
must run gauntlet to the end, as rule. Let
him face the world squarely. and if his success
in overcoming is slow, depend upon it, it will
ho sllre
Year: 1873

The fashion papers say the Rutabagas-beg
pardon, we mean the Rabagas-is the popular
bonnet this season. You will know it when you
see it, for the rim turns up all around like a
sailor hat.
Year: 1873

We have no ordinary battle to fight In the
coming canvass. Since the war closed, there
has not been an hour when it more behooved
the people of Virginia to choose their very
abest and most valuable citizens for the Gene
raj Assembly. 1t is expedient to do this in Or
der to carry the State, and save it from the in
finite and irrecoverable political perdition of
falling into the hands of Radicalism. We must
bring forward for this purpose gentlemen in
every county and city who have the full con-
hdence and respect of communities in which
they live, and who can bring out, by the force
of their abilities aud character, the full strength
of the Conservative vote. 1t may be said that
the best men In the community cannot be in
duced to accept positions in the State Legisa-
ture. Ii they cannot, then, unless absolute
duty to their families forbids, they are recreant
to their duties to their State which has the
right, especially in an emergency like that at
hand to the services of its best citizens, and re-
creant to their own interests, which must be
literally ruined, if Virginia falls into radical
hands. Every one OF US, on such an occasion,
should be ready to make sacrifices for the sake
OF the common good. 1t is not only important
to the success Of the State ticket that the
strongest men should be brought out for the
Legislature, but because questions of extreme
difficulty and delicacy, involving the prosperity
of the whole Commonwealth will come before
that body.


As the people in different parts of the State
are beginning to look about them for candidates
for the Legislature, we deem these suggestions
appropriate and seasonable. NeUs.
Year: 1873

az That was not a bad reply given
recently at barn-raising in Pennsyl-
vania to young man who had been
relating his more than wonderful ex-
1'9oits ia various quarters OF TAG -ss.iabe.
At the close of one of these narratives,
he was little set back by the remark
OF an old cod: "Young man, amt you
ashamed to talk SO when there are older
liars on the ground"
Year: 1873

ATTENTION. Horace Greeley had
been elected President instead of Grant,
what howl would have gone forth in
relation to the stringency in the money
market since November, and the depre-
citation of the public credit. Now the
public debt is increased and hard times
everywhere complained of the first
month after Grants election, and even
in the third month matters continue to
grow worse. Look at it. In Decem-
Der last we had confession to the ef-
feet that the public debt had increased
nearly ten millions of dollars. Grants
organs asserted that it was all right
prominent business men stated in effect
that they had thoroughly and candidly
examined the accounts, when they had
never looked at them; and the eyes of
the people were closed. The debt in
creasing! Taxes not reduced! Where
are we drifting?
Year: 1873

ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY ON THE
PAcIF1c CoAsr.-In accordance with a
resolution adopted at the Troy meeting
of the American Association for the
advancement of Science, the Govern
ment has ordered the construction of O
twenty-seven-inch retracing telescope,
that when completed is to be set up
somewhere near the Central Pacific
Railroad, either on the Rocky Noun
tains or the Sierra Nevadas. The Nm
ing and Scientific Press states that the
observatory will probably be located
near where the road crosses the summit
of the Sierras, the elevation of which
is about 10, 600 feet above the seq level.
The same journal adds: The clear
ness of the California atmosphere, and
the freedom from obstructing clouds at
that elevation, will render the point
designated most admirably suited fol
astronomical purposes. It is said that
with such telescope, and the high
magnifying power of which it will admit
the use, there are not over one or two
days or nj ghts per year ON the low At
lantic-coast where it could be used with
its highest magnifying powers; while
on the Sierras, with our freedom from
clouds, many more favorable opportu-
mites must exist for such an important
use of the extensive power of the in
strument in making observations; and
we look forward for marvellous revela-
tions in physical astronomy, if the pro-
posed site is finally decided on. The
attention of the astronomical world has
long recognized the importance of an
observatory on this coast. and we trust
that no misdirected zeal or local jeal-
ousy will interfere to prevent the early
anticipated consummation of such a
work"
Year: 1873

lFSom Henry Wsersons letter to the Courier Journal

 The dormant hatred felt for America in the hidden heart of England is not without its cause. That this hatred does exist, no man who has taken the trouble to peer beneath the surface of things, and to see them as they are, can doubt. The toadies and turf hunters who come over to England in search of literary and social distinction, and who, when called upon to speak at public dinners, pnie about the bonds of union between Eng land and America which grow out of com mon ancestry and common language, are of course delighted with everything they see and hear. To be sure they have good time. The English have reduced their hospitality to science, and they are ready enough to patronize the American who will flatter their vanity and listen to their conceited gabble. They like him in proportion as he elongates bis voweis and stammep out his words They win take him to their heart of hearts if he confines his knowledge of American in stitutions to the Mormons and the Modocs considers the English method of riding the most graceful in the world, and eats kidneys In the purest form of fiattery, imitation, he can give but one higher illustration-if he is little brusque to ladies, he will prove him self at once hero and Briton But, at bottom, the English dislike the Americans They know that the United States must al ways be hostile power to them.
Year: 1873

Among the illusions swept away by


modern science was the pleasant fancy


that the moon was q habitable globe,


like the earth, its surface diversified
| with seas, lakes, continents and islands,


and varied forms of vegetation Theo-
! logians and saUdnts gravely discussed
| the probabilities of its being inhabited


by a race of sentient beings, with forms
and faculties like our own, and even
| propounded schemes for opening COM


munication with them, in case they ex-


listed. One of these was to construct


on the broad highlands of Asia series
of geometrical figures on scale so gi-
gantic as to be visible from our plane


tary neighbor, on the supposition that


the moon people would recognize the
object, and Immediately construct simi-


lar figures in replyl Extravagant and
absurd as it may appear in the light of
modern knowledge, the establishment


of this Terrestrial and Lunar Signal


Service Bureau was treated as feasible
scheme, although practical difficulties,


which so often keep men from making


fools of themselves, stood in the way of


actual experiment; but the discussion


was kept up at intervals, until it was


discovered that if there were people in


the moon they must be able to live
without breathing, or eating or drink
ing. Then it ceased. There can be no
life without air. Beautiful to the eye
of the distant observer, the moon is
sepulchral orb-a world of death and
silence. No vegetation clothes its vast
plains of stony desolation, traversed by
mOnstrOus crevasses, broken by enor-
nous peaks that rise like gigantic tomb
stones into space; no lovely forms of |
cloud float in the blackness of its sky.
There daytime is only night lighted by
a rayless sun. There is no rosy dawn |
in the morning, no twilight in the even
ing. The nights are pitch dark. In |
daytime the solar beams are lost against |
the jagged ridges, the sharp points of
the rocks, or the steep sides of profound |
abysses and the eye sees only gro |
tesque shapes relieved against fantastic |
shadows black as ink, with none of that |
pleasant graduation and diffusion of |
light, none of the subtle blending of |
light and shadow, which make the |
charm of n terrestrial landscape. A |
faint conception of the horrors of |
lunar day may be formed from an illus
tration representing a landscape taken |
in the moon in the centre of the noun


famous region of Aristarchus. There |
is no color, nothing but dead white and |
black. The rocks reflect passively the
light of the sun, the craters and abysses
remain wrapped in shade fantastic peaks
rise like phantoms in their glacial ceme-
try the stars appear like spots in the
blackness of space. The moon is q dead
world I; she has no atmosphere.
Year: 1873

A wanderer found deep green spot


With sliadowy verdure overrun:
Low grass, by any cam forgot,
And small young vines whose highest kno
Had seldom seen the sun.
And every Idle leaf and blade,


Catching at any wind astray,
With many-ningled murmnr prayed
Some breath, beyond the narrow glade,
From the great night aud day.
So that stir was in the dell


As of myriad beaten wings,
What time, with sudden fall and swell
The captive wind began to tell


tale of marvellous things.
Spell-bound with rapturous awe,


Within some secret, sacred place,
While up and down his pulses run
AS if his heart were played upon,


The listener bowed his face.
But fain at length with little will


To plod once more through bush and brier,
Upon his lips there fingered still
An echo like the haunting thrill


Along the smitten wire.
50, when he reached the !11-y street,
The gathered throDg about aim hung
Praying the utterance complete
OF that new song, so strangely sweet,
That treulbed on his tongue.
As best he could he sang TO them,
With many false note here and there,



Let fall her dewy diadem


In tremulous despair.
But when the crowd in rapturous mood
Besought the singer once again,
He led them to the lonely wood;
And all the people silent stood


To hear the magic strain.
The wild sweet melody anew


Stirred all his soul to smiles and tears
But nothing heard the gaping crew,
Except 8 noisy wind that blew
About their open ears.
Then straight besought the tuneless throng,
That scorned the masters instrument,
Its echo in that first rude song,
And praised and listened, right or wrong,
In measureless content.
And ever since that lucky rhyme,
The world has heard, at secondhand,
With many break of tune and time,
The strain whose freshly falling chime
It could not understand.
But who hath ears to catch the play
OF melodies unspoiled by men,
May hear the wandering wind to-day
Chanting the same sweet roundelay
Within the breezy glen.
Year: 1873

In those days miners would flock in
in crowds to catch glimpse of that
rare and blessed spectacle, a woman.


Old Inhabitants tell how, in certain
camp, the news went aboad early in the
morning that woman was come? They
had seen calico dress hanging out of a
wagon down at the camp grolnd-sign
of emigrants from over the great plains


Everybody went down there, and
shout went up when an actual, bona
fde dress was discovered futtering in
the wind The male emigrant was
visible. The miners said 'Fetch
her outf' He said: 1T is my wife
gentlemen-sie is sick-we have been
robbed of money, provisions, every
thing, by the Tndians-we want to rest. :"


"Fetch her out We've got to see
her % But, gentlemen, the poor
thing, She" Fetch her ont I" He
fetched her out, and they swung their
hats and sent up three rOusing cheers
and a tiger; and they crowded around
and gazed at her, and touched her
dress, and listened to her voice with the
look of men who listened to a memory
rather than a present reality-and then
they collected 81, 500 in gold'and gave it
70 the man, and swung their hats again
and gave three more cheers, and went
home satisfied. Once I dined in San
Francisco with the family of a pioneer,
and talk with his daughter, young
lady whose first experience in San
Francisco was an adventure, though she
herself did not remember it, as she was
only two or three years old at the time.
Her father said that, after landing from
the ship, they were walking up the
street, servant leading the party with
the little girl in her arms. And pre-
sently o huge miner, bearded, belted
spurred and brigtling with deadly
weapons--just down from a long cam
paign in the Mountains, evidently
barred the way, stopped the servant
and stood gazing, with a face all alive
with qualification and astonishment.
Then he said, reverently: "Well, if
it amt a child!' And then he snatched
little leather out of his pocket and
said to the servant "There's a hun
dred and fifty dollars in dust, there,
and I'll give it to you to let me kiss the
child p' That anecdote, is true. But
see how things change. Sitting at that
dinner-table, listening to that anecdote,
if had offered double the money for
the privilege of kissing the same child,
I should have beed refused. Seventeen
added years have far more than doubled
the price.-NGrk T3D0iT
Year: 1873

In view of the expected deluge it may
be hardly worth while to trouble our
selves about the coming race yet, If our
children are to be taught anything, or
to have any training, whether for life
In the bush or a share in the universal
republic, they must be instructed in
clvilty, which is only another name for
decent and comfortable intercourse with
ones fellows, whoever they may be.
The growing emancipation of young
people from old-fashioned forms of re-
spect would seem to be making them so
unendurable in society that they are
more and more exiled from it. What
does it profit that they possess all
knowledge if they do not behave "ac-
cording to their age and condition ?" Af-
lection is damped for the learned little
roughs, who would have been delightful
if only tn y had been trained in habits
or respect by attention to its outward
and visible signs. "Nature is" not al
together ga holy thing" whatever
Squeers and Rousseau may assert; she
has to be reformed from the cradle, and
infant-school teachers can witness how
important the conduct of the body is in
training children. We see how charm
4LlS ~ 10 III d 4elSSld1 C11I1u 10 KISS Ills
parents hand, to remain standing until
hidden to sit, and listen until asked to
speak. The disciple of these Tartars
and Cossacks is the same in which our
Philip Sidneys and Jane Greys were
trained, which gave models to Vandyke,
and kept green the family affection that
was once our boast; and we hardly do
well to neglect it. We certainly pro-
vide sufficient discomfort for ourselves
during those few minutes in whith our
Berties and our Hildas, admitted to the
drawing-room, endure the miseries of
shyness or inflict the miseries of rude
ness; both of which would have been
avoided if habitual good manners had
put everybody in his right groove. The
humors of the rising generation are al
most past joke. We shall soon pain
fully understand why our ancestors sent
their sons to learn behavior as pages in
other households, AMI the Gaelic laws
of fosterage applicable to prince and
peasent may regain approval. Our few
remaining opportunities of learning
manners are disappearing before COM
petitive examination; yet fortunately,
so long as military service remains, Ger
tain gestures of respect will continue to
be recognized as necessary to dicipline,
and disciple as necessary to serviceable-
ness.-LOndO7l ReUie1O.
Year: 1873

I remember reading, when very
little boy, about child who was in the
habit of going to an upper room or loft
where there was store of apples. She
went from time to time to steal the fruit,
but she met with something that greatly
troubled her. There happened to have
been placed in that store-room an old
oil-painting. It was a large face, the
eyes of which, go to what part of the
room the little girl might, seemed to
follow her; and they appeared to be
saving to her, as she stopped down to
take up the apples, ''Ah I see you. It
is very naughty. You are sure to be
found ont" This so annoyed the little
culprit, from time to time, that she was
determined to put stop to the threaten
ing of these two staring eyes so she
>procured q small knife, or a pair of
scissors, and struck them out All, but
there were still two large holes in the
place of them, and she never, could
look at them without thinking of the
eyes, and what the used to say to her
She had put out the eyes, but she had
not, nor could she, get rid of her con-
science. Moreover, the very means she
had used for SHINING without rebuke
only served to discover her guilt, for,
when what had befallen the painting
came to be found ont, it led to such in
quiries as at last to reveal the whole
truth.-N Y Observer.