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Year: 1876

honorable character Is more to be priced
than riches Let our youth look over
and beyond frolicking and sensuality, to
a higher and better plane Of human &C
ton. Man was created to hold com.
munion with "The True, the Good, and
the Beautiful in this world, and not to
companionship with the low and the
grovelIing- Whenever we see a young
man in idlensss, wasting his time, we
see one who like the brute is unconscious
Of the thri ling Importance Of life.


Let our young men look up and aIoft,
to posts of true private and public use
fulness. and not be content to exc out a
miserable existence in search of money
alone. There are too many men now in
society who might be eminently useful,
but are found prostituting their man
hood in breathless haste after wealth
They, and all such, viii find, sooner
or later, that they have been grasping
at a passiag shadow. The riches of a
true and noble life, in seeking and do
ing good, is more exalted and ennobling
than much money.


OBSERVER
Year: 1876

which Will enable them to gain wealth.
Hence the true RobIeness of humanity
IS prostituted to ignoble ends, and the
sweet music and choice flowers that
live and bloom in ths realm of high in
tel!ectual and spiritual requirement
have no attraction for them. The gilt
ter of dollar is more attractive to


them than the sparkle of fine thought.
Sensual pleasures are more eagerly
clutched than the flow Of unselfsh and
disengenuous Impulses. THESE causes
and influences are seriously threatening
the happiness of many homes Young
men who should become a comfort and
help to tneir homes are wasting the
strength and opportunities of life iu
vain and foolish enieavors to seek posi-
tions where money may be made at all
hazards.
Year: 1876

AessrS. Editors


Young manhood in this country and
at this time is under fearful influences.
Thu late revolution through which we
passed severely impaired the vigor and
sensitiveness of the public conscience.
Demoriiiza ton, as it Is generally vuI-
Garly termed, has poisoned the fountain
of public virtue and broken down many
mainstays that constituted pillars of
strength in the development aud matu-
rity of individual character


THOSE ENCHANTING GRACEs
the offspring Of tender, home love, that
were won't to adorn the personal worth
of the rising generation, have been
rudely shaken by whitening immoral in
fueuces. 1t seems that mother-loye,
that source OF the sweetest earthly joys,
is not SO warmly valued and tenderly
cherished now as it was before war in
troduced elements of sore trouble IN
society. Domesticity in American life
is not so pure and potent for the plaut>
ing and fruition of noble character as
of yore. This temple is in ruins. Pa
rental control has lost much of its charm
and power. Relaxation in the restraint
and management of child rem has spread
untold evils about in our midst.


All this is evident, corspicuously so,
in that young men in starting out in life
are led to measure success by the accu-
mutation of bonds and stocks, and the
ownership of broad acres.


They seek to be educated, not for the
purpose of developing the higher and
better nature, but that they may have on
hand
Year: 1876

7


There was considerably less acsvity in the stock
speculation to-day. though, in the aggregate, large
volume of business was done. The market started
of confidently but during the entire forenoon there
was a nervous feeling exhibited, with seo-saw
motion TO the various shares old contracts were
closed out or new ones entered into The bullish
sentiment, however predomnated, and in paricu-
lar asserted itself at the l o'clock Board, when
general advance all along the line took place, after
the disabling of two other unfortunate bears,
who wero compelled to default their contracts.
Lake Shore was the special card, but large trade
was driven in the other leading specialties the gen
eral market being without noteworthy incident,
beyond the fact that Union Pacific was weak, in
consequence no doubt of the drive" made at this
Company and the Central Pacific IN the United States
Year: 1876

The American Line steamer Illinois,
which left Philadelphia, yesterday, took
out to England another very valuable car
go. Included in it were goods valued at
over $60O,000 belonging to the British
section of the Centennial Exhibition.
There were two hundred and fifty oil paint
ings, and all the water colors, engravings
and ststusry, making up the entire balance
of the British fine art collection The first
instalment was sent out in the steamer In
diana last week. There were also several
packages of goods belonging to the South
Kensington and other museums.
Year: 1876

The old French arms investigation is now recalled by the evidence in the Fort Sill case. There was a mysterious woman in that investigation, who ap- peared to have made propositions to New York parties to procure contracts for consideration. She professed the power to secure anything she desired at the War department. There was a great deal of difficulty in finding the witness, but finally woman came before the committee and testified to general and unimportant affairs, and the impression was created that some woman had at tempted to get money from the New York contractors under false pretenses, and had really gained nothing. The next year after the investigation it be- came the current belief that the real woman in the case had been concealed. A senator on the committee was named as authority for this story. It is now suggested that the same lady who dis posed of trading posts delt in guns for the French army.
Year: 1876

It is suggested in the London Lancet that there should be an extension of the workship regulation act which would compel the registration and inspection of all rooms in which the making of wearing apparel for sale is carried on. It appears that i'll England as we'll as in this country epidemic diseases are fre- quently spread by tailors and seam stresses. Garments are made up in the homes of workpeople who are not only unclean and unhealthy, but who are sui fering from such diseases as scarlet fever or. even smallpox. The Lancet men tions several instances of work being carried on i'll rooms where some person was sick with scarlet fever, and of gar. ments being handled by those who were recovering from that disease, thus seat tering far and wide the contagion.
Year: 1876

Stories of danger to infants from cats attempting to suck their breath have been frequently narrated, but similar attempts of the animal in regard to grown persons are not so common. An instance occurred in this city, says the Utica (N. Y.) O6server, which would at least warn people to keep cats out of their sleeping apartments. A young gentleman was awakened by a slight pain to find the huge tomcat of the fam fly with his paws about his neck and en deavoring to get his mouth open. The cat was working on his chin, and had partly succeeded in opening his mouth when the movement awakened him. He tried to push the cat of, but could not get it away until he seized it violently about the neck, choking the animal un- til it released it's hold and then throwing it off. The cat has been excluded from the sleeping apartments of that family since the young gentleman's uncomfart able experience.
Year: 1876

A correspondent tells us story of the laws delay as follows: We have been for two years knocking at the door of the supreme court of the State of New York, praying for judgment on claim so obviously valid that we are utterly at loss to conceive any tenable ground upon which it can be defended. The debtor is anxious for delay, and the ex- cuses by which he slaves off trial have been great deal more numerous and far less cogent than many of those which are cited above. The other day we re- ceived notice from our counsel that the trial was positively to be "reached.' We smiled incredulously, but neverthe- less performed our customary journey to the courtroom, with 8 cartload of books and cloud of witnesses. To our "called, stage of progress far ahead of any that it had previously attained, and for moment we were cajoled into the belief that the end was approaching, of one of the chief miseries of our ex- ants lawyer had case to try in another court, and ours ''went over" the judge and counsel on both sides acquiescing with as much readiness as if they con sidered it matter of course. Not the slightest consideration was given to the circumstance that dozen witnesses or more were waiting, as they had waited many time before. Our own advocate smiled blandly while the adverse party mentioned that he was otherwise engag- | ed, said never 8 word, but took up his hat and papers anl left the room, very much with the air of man who felt that he had been practicing the recognized courtesy" which the gentlemen of the bar are so fond Of displaying towards each other, when they have clients who are able to foot the bills.

 However, we were told to keep com. ing until these little hindrances were got out of the way, and we did. Sure enough, after several days of expectancy, it happened that there was no other case ready, and ours really did begin. The jury was impaneled, and our attorney rose to commence his opening. He had not got sentence before his alert oppo nent interposed some objection. Ther ensued sort of conference between the two lawyers and the judge, and it turned out, as near as we could get at it, that our counsel hadn't put in the right sort of complaint-that it was not in suct form as would admit of his getting hit evidence in, and that everything must be done over again. And so here wt are, with nothing to show for our two years of anxiety but keen realization o the eccentricity of law and the shadow of an impending bill of costs of stuff cient magnitude to convince us that oul system of judicature is the dearest of al human institutions.
Year: 1876

A Washington correspondent of the Cleveland PlGiadeales- says: had a glimpse of this wonderful woman in the supreme court room. Then, entering Mrs. Jewell'sparlors, Iagain encountered the lady making her round of calls in a tasteful costume which diminished the look of age amazingly. It's color was violet, with pale lavender pipings, and it seemed impossible that seventy years could have passed before those wonder full eyes. say wonderful and I mean it, for they are still very beautiful. The great brown iris is just trimmed at the edge with the faintest line of gray, and the pupil looks like what it really is, only portal for sunbeams to enter, for Mrs. Gaines has no fancy for the dark side of life, no disposition to tarry in shadow. No one ever sees her without bonnet, and am compelled to admit that the fluffy crimps which show in front and the coil at the back of the head don't seem to be indigenous to the scalp of the wearer; but what if they ain't9 There are precious few of us who don't wear false hair in some shape, and if Mrs. Gaines chooses a wig it is merely matter of taste. I had long chat with her. She glories in fighting what she terms her "great moral bat tie" declares she might long ago have won her claim had she been willing to tamper with justice, and her hatred of MT. Cushing is something amusing in it's energetic expression. "Ah," said Judge D., "Mr. Cushing may be made chief justice yet: then you can marry him and have things all your own way l" l wish you could have seen her supreme scorn when she repelled the idea. For forty four years she has been before the courts; beaten back, she only drew breath and came again; every legal bubble is familiar to her, and she ayers that she is made better prepared now to assert her rights for forty years more than when she entered upon the contest. She is thoroughly familiar with Washington life, and utterly out of patience with it's follies. "Do you know what shall do some dayl" she asked. "I'm coming to Washington and I'm going to build 8 great hotel for Congressmen. It shall be so large that every man may have room for his family about him, and it shall be conducted so economically that every man can afford to enjoy it's conven- fences; then I know the members will behave a great deal better" That life may close for her before she achieves her purpose never seems to enter her thought. No one can be more enter taining than Mrs. Gaines, for which she has been the personal friend of so many distinguished people that her fund of anecdote is exhaustless. Y.
Year: 1876

They are first prepared by having
them cut To the right size in width
and about ten inches in length (they
can be bought for a small sum at any
glass warehouse); clean them, then
lay your picture on a pad Of blotting
paper, and place your glass over it
the blotting paper will serve as bed,
and the glass will keep the picture in
its place ready for tracing the outline,
which is done with camels hair paint
brush, using ivory black, ground up
in the best drying oil, made thin with
little spirits Of turpentine. The best
outlines are funny men and women,
animals, birds, and grotesque figures,
sheets Of characters, clowns, harle-
quins, etc. When done in outline
with the black, they are filed in with
the transparent colors. mixed up as
the black only use carmine, gam
boge, Prussian blue (the more bril-
liant the colors, the better effect they
produce), the above being for red,
crimson, yellow and blue. 10 form
other transparent oolors, mix carmine
and Prussian blue for purple, and law
ender, gamboge and Prussian blue for
all the shades of green, using for light
green more gamboge. Carmine and
gomboge make n fine orange color,
and for brown shades mix little ivo-
ry black with carmine or lake, with a
little gamboge to temper il. Many
other tints are made by mixing the
primitive colors first named-red,
blue and yellow-by using less of one
color with the another; and if at any
time the colors are too thick, thin
with turpentine it works more east
ly when not too thick, and is more
transparent.


When all the colors are finished,
mix nice thin black, and fill in care
fully all the ground of the glass round
the edges of the figures with the black,
leaving no part of the glass slide plain.
These slides should be made very well /;
and to take better care of them, have
them put in small wooden frames,
with a tongue at one end to move
them in the lantern without the finger
touching the glass part. Many beau
tiful designs can be copied from a
kaleidoscope, which, whca copied and
painted on slides, are very beautiful,
and show the colors to advantage.
Drawing and painting slides is an
instructive amusement, and worthy
the attention of all persons connected
with youth, as it gives them original
ideas for combining colors, and thus
can be brought into use for many pret-
ty designs in a pleasing manner
Scientific American.
Year: 1876

The loss of body heat in water is
now held 10 be intimately associated
with the cramp which SO often seizes
even able swimmers. Here there is
not only general powerlessness
induced, but the spasm OF the muscles
connected with respiration diminishes
the capacity of the thorax, and the
cnmp-stricken swimmer often disap-
pears Immediately without warning,
never to appear alive. The bouyancy
conferred by the chest being full of air
is largely reduced by this diminished
thoracic space, and the body at once
goes under No skill in the art Of
swimming will secure any one from
this risk and when the water is cool
II is well that the swimmers keep near
the shore. or at least near each other,
50 that aid can be readily rendered il
required. Record.
Year: 1876

In the case Of Barnet lie Van against
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
in Court Of Common Pleas No. 4, at
Philadelphia last week, the facts are
given as follows: The plaintiff in No
vember, 1868, purchased at Harris
burg ticket from the defendants for
passage to Philadelphia. the train on
which he was to take passage being
known as the Cincinnati express.
When the train reached the station ut
Harrisburg it consisted of but two pas
senger cars, an ordinary car and smo.
king car. The plaintiff asserts that
he was constitutionally unable to ride
in the smoking car, and the other car


was full, The plaintiff was afflicted
with a disease which made standing
for any length of time positively injuri-
Gus to him, and, as some other cars
were added to the train at this place,
he asked permission Of the brakeman,
and was directed by him to enter one
Of them, a sleeping car, where he
found a seat. When the conductor
took up his ticket he demanded s1.50
extra for the privilege of riding in the
car, which plaintiff refused to pay, al
leging that his ticket entitled him to a
seat, and that there were no seats else
where on the train. The conductor
afterwards put plaintiff off the train
aboot eight miles from Lancaster.
He walked in to Lancaster, and in the
long walk his disease, as he alleges,
was aggravated TO such an extent that
he has never entirely recovered from
the effects Of it. lie Vans suit for
damages has been pending eight years.
On the trial the company's version of
the affair was that the conductor al.
lowed the plaintiff to remain in the
sleeping car until there were seats va
cant in other parts Of the train; that
shortly after the train left Middletown
the conductor requested him to take
one of these seats and he refused,


whereupon the train was stopped and
he was elected. There was no force,
the defendants claimed, used on the
plaintiff except the mere laying on of
hands, so that he should not seem to
assent to his being put of the train.
1t wa the duty of the plaintiff, His
Honor said, to accept the sent offered
in the ordinary car, if such had been
actually offered him, and the conflict
ing versions of the affair must be re-
conciled by the jury. The jury, after
deliberation Of over two hour, re-
turned verdict of IS, 500 damages.
(Chicago Railway Review.
Year: 1876

An experience of many years with
this operation has taught me many
little hints not usually laid down in
the books. sincerely believe that
there is as much skill required in tying
the bud properly, as there is in cutting
and inserting il. When a "budder"
and "tyer" are each employed on a
large job, it would be advisable to
keep strict eye on the latter, as it is
a too prevalent belief that any one can
perform it-and here is where many
an operator fails. No matter how
carefully the budding is done, the
string must be wound tightly around
every portion of the wound, pressing
il close to the stem below, as well as
the eye above. A smart rub with the
thumb, when the job has been compile
ted, should never displace Il strand Of
the tying material. Formerly, was
a firm believer in the doctrine that a
damp time was almost certain to make
the buds take !" l now believe the
reverse. During dry spell of weather
the sap appears more sluggish, and the
buds adhere quickly and surely.
When the stocks are growing vigor-
ously, l mostly shear off their tops to
retard this luxuriant growth, and the
result is sure "take" of buds. A prac-
teal budder usually cuts as little wood
with his bud as possible, and in the
peach and plum none whatever
[Croppie, in Rural World.
Year: 1876

Kneading bread, ss commonly prac-
ticed, is decidedly Objectionable at any
time; but in warm weather, when the
perpiration is in constant flow, it is
the undoubted means of introducing
into the most universal article Of diet
loathsome impurities, and, too, fire..
quently, the seeds of positive disease,
from the body of the person making
the bread. How many persons eat
bread without so much as knowing
who makes it, or whether the maker
is infected with disease or noti 1t is
not a pleasant consideration, but an
important one. In the hard exercise
Of kneading bread and pastry. perspi-
ration, with all those impurities which
it is designed to carry of, is constant
ly exuding from the skin and is mixed
with the bread. 1t is no security that
the hand is externally clean. The
cleaner the skin the freer the perspi-
ration. What i'll effects result and
what diseases are communicated in this
way can be learned only by expert
ment and close observation. But that
impurities of the blood are worked of
through the skin is fact so well re-
cognized that specific diseases are treat
ed by this means, and it is even pro-
posed to eliminate from the system
the virus of hydraphobia by a process
Of sweating. The pores Of the hands
are more open than those of many
other parts of the body. The constant
perspiration of the hand in warm
weather, even when unexercised, will
remind every one of this fact. When
the hand is exercised it perspires free
ly, and physicians, especially, general
ly understand the danger of introdu-
cling putrid exhalations into the sys-
TEN in ever SO small a quantity. May
we not hope the time is not far distant
when other and more cleanly as well
as safer means Of bread making, will
be universally adopted. 1.-THE SANTA
rian.
Year: 1876

INC SO0ocso0s EsrRhOnts


Every school-boy remembers the
story of the elephant who put his
trunk into a tailor's shop in search Of
something good to eat. and received
only the prick from the tailor's needle,
and how he soon returned with trunk
full of muddy water and dsluged the
little tailor's shop for revenge. No
doubt that lesson was never read by
one OF the supes of the Grand Opera
House, or he would not be suffering
sore bruises on various parts Of his
body. 1t happened a few nights ago
he gave to the elephat that belongs to
the stock company of Kiralfy Broth
ers show, chew of tobacco. The ele-
phant gave no signs OF indignation al
the time, but quarter of an hour af-
terward, when the offending "supe'
next came within reach OF the insulted
animal, the handy trunk reached for
the bad young man, selected him un.
erringly from a group Of half a dozen,
caught him and tossed him up into
the air, allowed him TO fall heavily on
the floor. There en- be no doubt nov
shout the authenticity Of the story oI
the tailor and his needle and the mud
dy water.-[Cincinnati Gazette.
Year: 1876

REMOVING SUBSTANCES From THE
EAR.-Take a horse-hair, about six
inches long, and double il so as TO make
a loop at one end. Introduce this loop
as deeply as possible into the auditory
canal, and twist il gently around.
After one or two turns, according to
the originator of the plan, the foreign
body is drawn out with the loop. The
method is ingenious, and at all events
causes little pain. and can do no harm.
i Medical Record.
Year: 1876

1t is a bad plan to place unreserved
confidence in man OF woman. Never
tell any one everything about Yourself,
let there be little mystery aud re-
serve if your friends, they will like
you all the better for it. A book that
you know by heart" must inevitably
be cast aside for fresh volume so
will you be served if you allow your
self to be thoroughly read. But be
prepared, in any emergency, TO look
your own life and acts squarely in the
face without ever fiinching, or mark
yourself coward.


1t is not necessary, TO publish to the
world all that is strictly personal, un-
less ridicule and fritterlng Of power
are desired, but if gossip makes itself
busy with your name, do not be ag-
grieved if a grain of truth is spread
over a dozen lies. Pass them by in
silence, and 10 not even then forget
your habitual reticenCe. Justice will
be done you in time, never fear, aud
the less clamor for it the better. Don't
talk too much.