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Year: 1876

Geraldine HartOpp' was considered by tn.
exoteric to be girl of striking beauty
The truth known to the esoter1c few was that
there was certain hydrostatic force in her
aspect which compelled either admiration or
bate, and had been known to draw tears Of
envy. She pawned her necklace 1T Baden
Baden to pay gambling debt, and the next
day it was returned TO her with a mysterious
note, which she associated with a mysterious
stranger who had watched her with some con-
tempt In his hooked nose az she plaved. At
ter this the family was ruined
Year: 1876

1t numbered about four hundred and fifty
men, all told. The march was continued
without intermission until about dusk, when
fifteen miles had been passed over, and a halt
was made and coffee taken. Here we waited
for ammunition wagons to come up. They
arrived little after dark, anda night march
was made Of thirteen miles. Early the next
morning the weary men again plOdded for
ward after a short sleep and marched ten
miles, when another halt for coffee was al
loura1
Year: 1876

Geraldine was never quite sure whether she
helped her husband to drown or not Ua-
mouna advised her to keep IT dark but did
not propose to marry her. 1T Is no matter
she said, Il shall be a better woman for al
you have said to me. ''Shallabalahr Said
Damouna, taking himself up by the collar.
this, he married the little Jewess he had
pulled out of the river.


For trained evening dresses are longer
hustles; that Is, they have more skirts and
tiOunces attached. but no more bones than
that Just described. If ladies realized the m-
pleasant effect Of the long skeleton frame
works that are now 50 generally wOrn. they
would soon abandon them for the more
modest ones that do not make themselves
evident.
Year: 1876

Shortly after starting cloud of horsemen
were observed gallOping toward US, and proved
to be some of the scouts who had been sent
forward. They reported the train coming,
and also that they had had a close, sharp
fight with about twenty Indians, who had
killed one of their number, and that they had
killed seven Indians while they were in the
advance. The train came in sight, and soon
Colonel Otis rode nm
Year: 1876

The sanitary regulations of the hive
are very wonderful; nothing uncleanly
or offensive is ever allowed to remain
which it is within their power to remove.
Reamur mentions that snail once in
vaded one of his observing-hives and at
tached itself to pane Of glass. The
weight of the creature was too great for
even bee industry and enterprise, but
not too much for bee ingenuity. They
fastened the shell securely to the glass
by means of propolis, and then sealed
over the mouth of the shell with guam
tity of the same gum. A slug which was
once caught in one of Maralde's hives
met SIMILAR fate, except that in this
case, the whele body of the creature was
entombed in the propolis.


This same substance is used to exclude
every enemy of the insect tribe, as well
as moisture and draught. The bees know
very well that currents of air are desira-
BILE and draughts treacherous. While
they cut off every avenue for the en-
trance of air where it would make them
liabl. to disease, they supply steady
ventilation where it is needed. Lines Of
workers station themselves readily from
the door to every portion of the hive; by
constant and well-timed motion OF
their wings steady currents of air are
generated which keep the hive pure and
sweet. The force of the current is suffi-
cient to turn small anemometers.-Home
and School.
Year: 1876

Our whole system of treating double
crimes with one-sided laws, cur whole
silly policy of treating one party to a


double crime as fend, and the other
party as an angel or baby, has been not
only inefficient for the end sought to be
obtained, but disastrous. The man who
offers bribe to another for any purpose
which involves the infraction of law of
the State or nation is, and must be, an
equal partner in the guilt; and any law
which leaves him out of the transaction
is utterly unjust on the face of it. If it
is wrong to sell liquor, it is wrong to buy.
Ifprostitution is wrong, it is wrong on
both sides, and he who offers bribe to a
weak woman, without home or friends OF
the means of life, to break the laws Of
the State, shares her guilt in equal
measure. Law can never be respected
that is not just. No law can be enforced
that lays its hand upon only one of the
parties to double crime. No such law
ever was enforced, or even accomplished
the purpose for which it was enacted
and until we are ready to have double
laws for double crimes, we stultify our


selves by our unjust measures to suppress
! those crimes. Our witnesses are all &C


completes, the moral sense of the com


munity is blunted and perverted, an6
those whom we brand as criminals lool
upon our laws with contempt of judg
ment and conscience.-Scribner for May
Year: 1876

Humility has this consolation: 1t finds
that the greatest minds have had the
least conceit; that Shakespeare bent down
from the imperial height of his intellect
to be taught by clown, to be informed
by milkmaid; that Socrates. in his cele-
bratedvoyage in search of acknowledge, with
his perpetual questions concerning the
causes of things, found that knowledge in
a workman's shop which he. could not
find amongst the schools of the pro
fessors or philosophers; that Newton
compared himself to child, who play
ing on the sea shore, had picked up 8
she'll here and stone there, an6
thought them pretty, but knew of then
no more.


The bullet of steel is worn smooth ant
polished when it has passed through tn,
gizzard of an ostrich. The most conceitet
young prig who ever lived will find hi
level when brought to the rude expert
ences of the world.
Year: 1876

A FRENCH journalist, having recently
made tour through Germany, reports
that old Marshal Blucher is still the
most popular hero of the day in that
country, and isinvariably represented as
cutting and slashiDg and driving the
French before him into the middle OF
next week.
Year: 1876

This now quite wellknown Celestial,
keeps laundry on Sixth street between
Market and Shipley. Mr.. Lee has been in
this country about three years, during
which time he has devoted his time and tai
ents to the profession of laundryman, and
it is safe to say that he has made himself
quite an expert in the business. To those
who desire to have linen and other wear
done up in the neat sst style, Sam should be
consulted.
Year: 1876

On Tuesday night there arrived al the
Queen City Hotel runaway couple from
Pocahontas county Virginia, who had ridden
on their way hither, one hundred and fifty
miles on horseback. The clerk of the court
went to his Office and issued the license.
The Rev. W. s. Edwards was aroused and


brought to the hotel at 10 O'Clock, and
large party assembled in the waiting room
to witness the marriage. But the minister
discovered that the intended bride was under
the age at which 1t is lawful In this State TO
marry without parents CONSENT sixteen
years-a refused to perform the ceremony.
The witnesses" went sorrowfully to bed,
but the determined couple sat up until the
arrival of the 4 80 q. m. train, and then
they took passage for West Virginia town.
Year: 1876

A SAGAcIoUs dog at Boca, who has
been trained by his master to go back
half a mile after anything accidentally
dropped, was ordered by lady, the other
day, who wishing to exhibit his inteli-
gence to some friends, had dropped her
veil at "A distance. The master not being
present the dog declined, and the lady
had to walk back through the snow for
her property. That dogs sagacty is
not now rated rs high rs il was.
Year: 1876

THE DIAMOND SAW. Diamonds are
likely to become as useful as they are or
namental. The diamond drill is the only
drill that can bore its way through certain
rocks whose hardness soon dulIs the best
steel drills. And now diamond saw has
beea invented which promises to do with
stone what the finest steel saw does with
wood. 1t consists Of a thin metal disk,
the teeth Of which are nothing more than
minute black diamonds embedded in the
metallic edge OF the sheet. When reyoly-
ing at high speed, this disk cut. into the
sides of a stone slab as though it were a
piece Of tim Der, and notonly can straight
cuttings be made, but, by an ingenious
mechanical device, bevels and rounded
edges are cut. A. a labor-saving machine
the inventor judges that one Of them will
do the work of fourteen stone-cutters.
Year: 1876

The meeting of citizens Of the District
al the Arlington hotel last night was not SO
well attended as it should have been; bat
the preliminary steps taken to induce the
Democratic and Republican National Com
mites 10 hold their respective conventions
in Washington this year were well advised.
The argument was advanced convincinely
that the people Of the country generally
would gladly embrace these opportunities
to visit the Capital during the Centennial
year. Our hotel accommodations are
ample, and in few months will be more
extended, while the proverbial hospitality


Of our citizens will serve to furnish accom-
mOdatiODs in private quarters for large
numbers Of visitors. As regards proper


building in which the conventions may
assemble, the suggestion has been made
that the hall of the House of Represent8.
tiYes might be used; but there is a better
place than that, and one the use of which
would not interfere with the progress Of
strictly public or legislative business. IL
is the Northern Market building With
the comparatively trifing expense ola few
thousand dollars the interior of this magni


ficent structure might be made comfortable
and convenient for the purpose indicated.


1t could with slight alterations be made %
excel any contention hall ever erected
especially for such use in the country, as it
is larger than the Chicago Wigwam was,
and is acoustic properties are entirely sat
isfactory. The fact that Congress will un-
doubtedly be in session when the conven-
tions will be held will naturally attract at.
tention to Washington as the focal political
point Of the period. and the convenience
to Congressmen and other political leaders
of holding them at this point at such time
will at once be admitted. By all means let
the people of the District show their pub
lie spirit and give the needed encourage
ment TO those who have "put the ball in
motion" There is not prominent city in
the Union that is not working to secure the
honor and privilege in question. Wash
ington may be considered debatable or
neutral ground, and in that respect has an
immense advantage, besides those we have
enumerated, over her competitors. Let
the adjourned meeting on Friday night be
well and largely attended by the solid and
public spirited men of the community.
There is no partisan interest however in-
directly, involved in this movement 1t
Year: 1876

The threatened impeachment OF Gov
crnor Ames, of Mississippi, by the Illegally
elected White League Legislature of that
State is not unexpected. The Democracy
long ago determined 10 capture the State
government, no matter at what expense or
by what means They are doing the same
thing in South Carolina and it would not
he amss, perhaps, if the Republicans of
TIA; State should retolt by impeaching
Governor Chamberlain. lie has certainly
proved himself to be traitor to his party,
and las been guilty Of a plain violation OF
the law in refusing to commission the Cir
cult Judges, recently elected by the Legis-
laturc. We repeat what we have said be-
fore. that we have not one word to say in
defen SC Of the character OF some of these
Judges. nor of the almost unparlOnable
blunder of the Legislature in electing them;
but we submit that if there is no legal JUS
tifcstion for the act of the Governor in
question, he should be impeached without
delay
Year: 1876

"REDUCTIoN of expenses, is the shib-
boleth of the Confederate war Democracy
Just now. Reduction of the army and navy
is an old and favorite measure with them,
and has been ever since 1861. But
they have enlarged their demands, and
now propose to include all the Departments
Of the Government, even at the risk of
lmpairing the efficiency OF the civil service.
One good result may follow from their ef-
forts, however, and that is the opportunity
which the heads Of the several Departments
will have in the reduction of clerical force
to discharge number of Democratic en-
plOyees.
Year: 1876

PERHAPS Mr.. Randall will introduce q
bill to reduce the salaries Of Congressmen;
but if he does, some one with even an ordl-
nary memory will be apt to remind the
House thatwhen the increase bill passed
he was one of its staunchest supporters.
However, he may have reached the conclu-
sion that it is not worth so much to serve
in Democratic House as it was when the
Republicans were in the majority. It Ger
tainly is MOTTO the country at large.
Year: 1876

consequently should command the sympa-
thy of all parties. Let every man who has
the interest of the District at heart put his
shoulder to the wheel aud there will be no
such word as fail.
Year: 1876

GOVERNOR CHAMBERLAIN, of South
Carolina, would like to be Vice President
falling in that, to be United States Sena-
tor, and in that, to be Governor again. If
he had his just deserts his ambition would
be cramped and confined by surrounding
distinctions Of iron and masonry.
Year: 1876

Turkey commences the year with the worst
financial outlook of any country on the Garth.
If she could only gobble up herself now in one
gulp, the great bone of contention in Southern
Europe would be destroyed.
Year: 1876

The grasshopper spook has appeared once
more in the West, and an imaginary hopper
sits perched on every withered twig and every


branch and leaf, and the husbandman is sorely
troubled. The probabilities are, however, that
the spring will be so continuously wet that all
Year: 1876

The Democratic House is making a great
effort to demonstrate to the people their capa-
city for reform. They propose to economic.
They insist on reduction ofexpenses in every
department of the National Government, but
we might remark that already bills have been
introduced for the relief of Southerners


amounting to s7O,OOO,O 900, the which is to be
paid from the Treasury OF the United States.
Year: 1876

A correspondent of The Baltimore Gd-ettc,
after making thorough Of all that part Of
North Carolina where the Democrats strongest gives
IL his reluctant conclusion that the State will go Ro
publican. Prominent Democrats have recently made tne
same admission


Mullett was always noted for pegging away,
whether at a tin roof a vacant Office. Just now he is
trying his hand at that has been filed His friends
say that Mr. Hills appointment is only temporary, aud
that Mullet may yet be Supervising Architect Mulet
as a nuisance, is assuming national proportions


The Cincinnati Gazette has made q speciality
of Gov Hendricks This Is its latest Gov. Hendricks
director and large stockhOder in the Indianapolis
Water Works Company. He Ia aIso by viruo Of his Office
as Governor President Of the State Board OF Equalza
ton whose duty it TO equalize the appraiseinent OF
property throughout the State This board rarely re
duces apprasement of property belonging to corpora
tons railroads know to their cost but the Governor
has succeeded in reducing the OF the water
Works Company sufficiently to reduce their taxes S52OO
The Governor owns $4,000 OF Water Works stock Dns
OF course this in no way lnnucncod MS acuon' Aho
Governor Is q reOrnier.


No glimpse has yet been had into the pri-
yate life Gov. Hayes that did not show him true TO
every profession OF his public career Here is part OF
letter given Howards biography which was written to
Gen. James A. Garfield in March Of the present year


My notion s that The contest is to be between In
Aation and sound currency The Democrats arc again
drifting all to the wrong side We need not divide On
details on methods, time when. The previous ques
ton will again be irredeemable paper as permanent
policy, or policy which seeks return to coin. My
opinion is decidedly against yielding hairs breadth
We can't be on the imitation side OF the question. We
must keep our face front, firmly in the other drec
ton. No steps backward d. must be something moro
than unmeaning platform words Tho drift Of senti
ment among our friends in Ohio which you inquire
about will depend on the conduct OF leading men,
1t is for that the right sentiment Is steadily
upheld. We are in a condition such that trmness and
n nrinc nj L
would consent to no backward steps. TO yield or COM
promise is weakness and will destroy u.s. II better re-
sum Oton measure can be substituted for the present
one that may do. But keep cool We can better anod
70 be Ucateu in Congress than to back out"
Year: 1876

history of his country, SO naturalZed himseu
in the hearts and memories OF a foreign people
that they have set him, jrreyOcably, i'll the ranks
of then own heroes. Other men have won the
gfaEtuie of lands not theirs by birth, and
place in the songs and legends OF alien
tongues. King John Sobieski is not forgotten
by tho Austrian people for his deliverance OF
Vienna Marlborough and Prince Eugene Of
Savoy live in many German ballad; We'll
lington was made Grandee of Spain but
Lafayette has been uncOnsciously adopted by
the whole American people, the most OF whom
neither know, nor care greatly to know, his
place in the annals of France. He seems to
be no less theirs than Washington and Frank
lin, Lee and Adams.-Of them by his services,
belonging to them through glory given and
received.


1t is most fitting that to-day's event should
bo added to the solemnities of the year. To-
day is, moreover, his birthday in 1877, ana
lacks but very little of being 90 years since
he first landed in South Carolina. AS yet, we
have given him no monument; but there Is
no reproach conveyed in the gift of one by
France at this time. 1t expresses, In per-
manent form, the centennial congratulaton OF
the Government, as the colossal figure OF Lib
erty in our harbOr will express that OF the
people of France. 1t not only records but
perpetuates that sympathetic alliance which
was our great external help during the Revo-
lutionary days. 1t is another of those utter
ances silent bronze though it be, which reach
beyond the limitations of race language, and
country, and draw all men nearer through the
sense of their equal humanity.


We are glad that place of honor has been
chosen for this statue. 1t will stand on the
southern edge of the parkoval OF Union
square, commanding the view down Broad
way as far as Grace Church. But it will also
be SO near to the statue of Washington that the
extended right arm of the latter will henceforth
seem to be raised in greeting, as if the older
and greater friend still expressed his lifelong
affection for the younger. The unfortunate
Lincoln, on tho opposite side, may possibly
serve to highten whatever artistic success NJ.
Barth0ldi has achieved; but it can hardly be
more isolated than at present. With Rogerss
statue of Seward in Madison-square, we shall
further gain, this year, in memorial sculpture.
Let up hope that both these new acquisitions
will satisfy Art as well as illustrate History!
Year: 1876

This afternoon will witness al event which
is probably without precedent in history. A
bronze statue of Lafayette, the gift of the Re-
public of France to this city, will be mvailed
with appropriate and imrosing ceremonies in
Union square. The French Consul will forn-
ally present and the Mayor will accept, mon
umental Offering which commentaries per-
sonal history as exceptional rs it is ilustrious.
Never before, we believe, has one great nation
made similar gift to another; for never be-


fore has man. without giving up his own
nationality OF ceasing TO play part in the
Year: 1876

"The Democratic party has been put back fort
night so the reform organs say, by recent unhappy
occurrences in Saratoga and along the telegraph line
somewhere between that city and Utica. AS they
assert also that "wc had no time to squander,"
must it be inferred from these statements that the
Democratic party cannot gather itsel in time for
vote before the middle of Novemberl This seems
too melancholy an Interpretation. Perhaps the hu-
man mind can form but hazy conception of the pc
culiar position in time and space occupied by party
which has been "put back a fortnight" The asser-
ton may be ventured, however that the Democratic
party would need to be put back" into no very re-
mote antiquity before t found itself upon platform
denouncing the war as failure, or upon one which
opposed the constitutional amendments, or upon one
which demanded the taxation of Government bonds
and their payment in promises; and who can guess
how far Spriggs may put the party back" when
the convention meets again and he gets another
whack at itf But suppoSe-bewildering Supposl-
-suppose Sprggs should choose to put the party
ahead Imagine Spriggs knocking the party into
the middle of next week. for instancel Lo, on
narrow neck of land, 'twixt two unbounded seas,
they stand. and there stands Sprggs-tho uncertain
but potent Spriggs-ready TO project the party al
most anywhere into the unsurveyed spaces oil the
posterior or anterior cternities!
Year: 1876

TO the very miscellaneous collections of
good and bad pictures i'll the Art Annexes at
philadelphia some guide is needed, If only to
save time The letter on this subject which
we publish to-day will be of assistance i'll in
dicating what should be seen and what
Stunned.
Year: 1876

The action of Mayor Schroeder of Brooklyn
IN suspending Commissioner Fowler from
Office will be largely supported in the Common
Council, and may command enough votes to
be effective THIS will bring to crisis the
long conflict of authority concerning the con-
structiOn of the Hampstead Reservoir. and
may perhaps assist in giving Republicans some
share in the appointment of employees on the
public works.
Year: 1876

The shocking disaster which has occurred i'll
conveying nitro-glycerine to He'll Gate will
add to the anxiety of the people of Astoria.
who fear the effects of the great explosion
that is shortly to take place. 1t Is the opinion
of those who are directing the work that no
danger to surrounding property need be appre-
hended. Let us hope that they are not so
seriously mistaken in that respect as they were
in managing the conveyance of the terrible
explosive.
Year: 1876

1t would be cheering TO hear that the occasional
showers which we enjoy had extended throughout
the parched area, but over most of this territory
II still prevails without mitigation. short time
ago when there was rainfall OF nearly three
inches in this city. IN somo sections OF New-Jer-
sey less than fifty miles away the dust was barely
laid There are entire townships where the corn
crop has been cut full fortnight earlier than usual,
not because the grain had prematurely rpened but
because it was slriveing away. Late sown buck
wheat is scarcely visible the pasture lands are abso
lntely bare the young clover roots are burned up,
and even the leaves of forest and fruit trees have
withered and are falling. Throughout the finest
dairy region of the country, at the season when the
grazing should be abundant and most nutritious,
there is mdwInter necessity of feeding the cattle;
and where there is the most urgent need of pure and
copious water supply the wells and springs have
failed and the beds Of the streams are dry. The
farmers have abandoned hope of any immediate re-
lief and predict a rain only when the moon
changes or when the sun crosses the line" has
advanced meteorology any morecomforting prophecy
10 offer' Will science ever teach how to compel
rain or even forewarn the farmer of killing
drouth