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Year: 1876

| have seen some Of these ethereal
ladies swimming and diving rs fear
lessly as fish. Recently saw couple,
l suppose man and wife, a little further
out than seemed TO be safe. She would
get upon his shoulders and dive from
them through the heaviest breakers,
then she would attempt somersaults
over his arms; for moment her head
and half her body would be in the deep,
and her feet toward the zenith. Some
times, before she had completed the
revolution, big breaker would strike
and toss her fifteen feet away, when |
expected to see her half-drowned and
in need of masculine assistance. She
would simply spout like little whale,
snatch the brine from her eyes and was
ready for another trial.-Corner-S Stone.


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Year: 1876

The following rules, from the papers Of
DR.. West, are thrown together as general
way~remarks in tho Journey OF life:
Never ridicule sacred things, or what
ethers may esteem as such however absurd
they may appear to you. Never resent
supposed injury till you know the views
aud motives Of the author of it. On no
occasion relate il. Always take tho part
OF an absent person who is ceusurei in
company, so far as truth and propriety
will allow. Never think worse Of another
on account Of his difference in political
and religious subjects. Never dispute
with man who is more than seventy
years Of cge, nor with any enthusiast. Do
not jest so as to wound the feelings OF
another. Say as little as possible Of
yourself and Of those who are near to YOU.
Never court the favor Of the rich. By
aattering either their vanities or their
y.1cs. Speak With c.lmntss and dslhe err
alton, especially iu circumstances with
tend - irf;sats.
Year: 1876

An instance of remarkable self-con-
troll and presence of mind under sud
den and intense suffering recently oc-
Cured in Belgium. Two workmen
were employed at Ville-sur Ourthe, in
fastening lightning conductor at the
top of a steeple, seventy feet from the
ground. One man stood at work upon
the shoulders of the other, and sud-
den gust of wind caused him to spill
some of the moulton lead he was using.
1t fell upon the hand and arm Of the
other, and he had the nerve to stand
still while the hot metal burned into
the flesh. The slightest movement
might have thrown the man on his
shoulders to the ground The hero
who saved this life deserves to be re
corded, and we print bis name below,
that if there be any emigrant in Amer
lea who recognizes it, be may be proud
of his countryman. To face danger
deliberately for the safety of others is
high courage. But to do this while suf
fering intense pain, when physical na-
ture instinctiveIy fiinches, shows a de-
gree of fortitude as well as courage,
which deserves. to be called heroic.
The name of this man of nerve and
.onrooa ;S NJ Karis = pbj7rdeI11IiiG
Ledger.
Year: 1876

None love to be snubbed. Little chill
dren are won or lost to store by kind
treatment. Those men who distribute
an occasional stick of candy, or an
apple, a few crackers or nuts, under
stand this. 1t wins the boys and girls,
and they bring in the course of the
year thousands of dollars to your store
if you use them we'll


I Honest dealing pleases all No one


loves to be the victim of some petty
meanness or small trick. Don't give
the child the ponnd of cheese cut from


the dry side, the dry chunk of halibut,
small, thin cod or strong butter. Be
more particular than if the sender was
present.


Study character. Behind the coun
ter is one of the best OF schools in which
to study human nature Haven't you
learned to read a customers face2
Can't you tell in a glance whether the
price you have given him suits or notl
or whether this or that remark has


pleased? If you haven't, set about it


Time will prove it one OF your most
valued requirements. The storekeeper


has to put up with anuoyances and
even insult It's bard work TO keep e.
pleasant face when Mrs. y tells you


''that dollar Japan tea OF yours isn t
fit to drink-it tastes like old yarbs. y
Of course you have sold it to scores OF
customers and all have liked it, and
you know it's first quality; but it will
test your qualities as a salesman to
have to say, "Tm very sorry, Mrs. Y,
the wrong tea may have been put up,
or some accident have happened to it;
I'll exchange it for you, or make good
your loss, etc. You will be lied to
and lied about. Good butter and
double extra flour will be condemned.
If you do a credit business, you will
nnd the poorest pay the most exciting.
They didn't have this thing you have
charged. If they are short and mean
to pay only half of your account, ten
chances to one but wha5 list of griev-
ences about poor coffee, watery lard,
rusty mackerel and the like, must be
taken in. Grin and bear il. grocer:
laugh and smile; it will pay in the
long run. To sum up: Be courteous,
obliging, kind; not easily provoked;
not over bearing; accommodating, pa
tient, quick; don't keep customers
waiting; be active, prompt; be honest.
true and truthful, and you will make
friends and make money.
Year: 1876

has hardly any other meaning than
death.


A sensation has been created in Jersey
City by the discovery of a gold mine
while sinking a well. The workmen
after passing through vain of iron ore,
strucka quartz vein containing gold, at
a depth Of 900 feet. Biologists suppose
that this quartz belongs to the Appalach-
ian range running from Nova Scotia to
the Gulf, and having outcroppings in
Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia
There is at present quite a stir among
the Masons on the continent in conse-
quence of statement given on the
authority of the Freemason, that the
Countess Hadich, a highly educated lady
has been initiated into lodge subordin-
ate to the Grand Orient of Hungary
She was regularly proposed and second
ed, balloted for, elected, and admitted in
due form. The matter coming to the
knowledge of the Grand Orient, was
complicated by declaration that the
initiation was null and void, as woman
is disqualified from becoming a Free
mason. As the Countess was actually
received, the question is, Can her lodge
now keep her out?
Year: 1876

| WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct 90th, 1876.


The serious complications foretold
some years ago by Senator Morton, and
others, as likely to occur in case Con-
! gress failed to provide definite method
for counting the electoral votes of the
several States, threaten unhappy conse-
quences next February; and the matter
has been often and very warmly dis
cussed here during the past week, and
refecting American citizens generally
feel that we should approach the matter
diyested of all feeling of partizanship and
prompted only by the highest consider
ations of patriotism. In the absence Of
the joint rule, which existed many years,
but which was abrogated a few years
since, there is no guide save the vague
and rather indefinite method prescribed
by the Constitution and precedent BY
the former it is made the duty of the
presiding officer of the Senate to open
and declare the votes of the several States
in The presence of both Houses of Con-
gress: and so far as there is any prece-
dent, it all appears-to be in the same di-
rection But it is felt that, e.en were
there no doubts as to the exact mode of
procedure, many secondary questions of
vital importance may call for solution,
upon which the Constitution is silent,
and it was to provide against just such
embarrassing contingencies that the In
diana Senator unsuccessfully labored,
and whose want of success is now keenly
regretted.


Ordinarily the requirement. of Penn
sylvania Avenue, which is now in pro-
gress, and the completion of the Wash
ington monument would be thought
worthy of some attention; but they will
be only incidentally thought of till the
great struggle shall have been decided
on the 9TH, and the Centennial closed on
the 10th of November. The aspect Of
European at:S:.irs is regarded as rather
more reassuring for the past few days;
but it is evident that there is not the
most implicit reliance in the professions
of Europulers and diplomats.


Lovers of turf sports have crowded the
grounds of the Washington Driving Park
during the races of last week. Gold
smith Maid was brought here as an at
traction, and proved good card, al
though her performances did not come
up to the enthusiastic predictions of
some of he admirers.


Members of Committees have begun
to make their appearance upon our
streets reminding us that the beginning
of another session is at hand.


Maxwell.
Year: 1876

Is there no reason to fear that many
teachers in and out of school rooms
are doing much through the powerful
influence of example, to bring into dis
repute the drudgery of useful, neces
essary, productive labor? Multitudes
OF children acquire their only correct
notions of life, its duties, responsible
ties and means of success during their
brief period of attendance at the pub
lie school. And it is not unreasonable
to suppose that teachers may justly be
considered accountable, to some ex
tent, for the existence of ideas whose
subsequent development may be hos
tile to the highest practical efficiency
of lifel-E. C. Oelano.
Year: 1876

At any given point of the earth's sur
face the state of the weather always
depends on the prevailing air currents
The annual and the secular periodic
changes of the oceanic and the atmos
pheric currents are repeated in the
weather-changes. And on the phe-
nomena which, however imperfectly
established this periodicity, is based the
univeral belief that the moon has an
influence on the weather. The reser-
ches and calculations which have been
made by meteorologists to determine
the perodicity of weather phenomena,
and the influence of the moon upon
the latter, have hitherto been fruitless,
and this simply because the observa-
tions of single stations only have been
teken into account. From observa-
IONS made at one point it is impossible
to obtain decisive results as TO secular
periodic weatha- changes, even though
these observations were to be carried
on for hundred years or more. The
terrestrial atmospheric currents, in
their passage over the same portion of
the earth's. surface (whether this pas
sage be periodic or not periodic } never
take the samr route, or have the same
limits, and consequently the localities
over which they pass on their return
will happen to Oe at one time in the
center of the current, at another time
more or less near to its northern or
southern edge:


Under these circumstances the state
of barometer and of Thermometer, the
amount of precipitation, the force of
the wind, etc., upon which these re-
searches are based, must yield conflict
ing results. Some, however, have sup
posed that better results might be oh
tanned by combining these qualities,
and taking the mean of all the read
iDgs. This method does quite away
with auomolies, it is true, but then
the result has no specific value, though
the aim of all such researches must
always be to determine the weather
specifically. The periodicity of wealth
phenomena can only be determined by
means of investigations carried on ac-
cording to the geographical method, l.
e., by studying these atmospheric phe-
nomena in their continuity both as re-
CARDS time and space.-PopuLar Sci
erlce Monthly for Tocember.
Year: 1876

IN the assignment of lessons, work
should be given that all the members
of the class can do; and, further, as far
as the teacher under the circumstances
can do, give something for those who
can accomplish more or work different
ly from the rest. In recitation be sure
to call for something which is within
the capacity of the child to learn. A
little judicious management in this d.
rection is fruitful in good results.
Year: 1876

THERE is no principle in education
more firmly established Than that the
several steps in course of instruction
should be connected together in a per
fectly logical chain. In other words
the lesson of to-day should not be
given as something separate and com.
plete in itself, but as having an init
mate connection with the lesson of to.
morrow. Yet l will venture to say n o
principle is so constantly violated by
teachers in every grade of schools. and
who have adopted the most widely
divergent methods of instruction.
Year: 1876

DARBER SHOP is THE PLACE WHERE
% you can get the best of work done in the
neatest possible style Ladies' and Children g
Hair Cutting nd shampooing a speciality.
always found ready for business Call and
see him and get Good Job. Ladies desiring
work dore nv leaN word at the shop he
will ca; ce. 19
Year: 1876




most eminent and intelligent of the
bankers of New York. He has had an
experience Of nearly half a century in
the practical matters OF finance. He l.
now, and has long been, President of
the Metropolitan National Bank of New
York, one of the most considerable OF
the banking institutions of that
city. His is largely the credit
of having rid the State OF New
York OF the wildcat" banks which,
twenty or more years ago, vitiated the
currency Of that State. Mr.. Viii.
liams has some views on finance. and
he is competent to speak upon that
topic. Hfs opinions are valuable
not only because Ct his ability and
long experience, but because he Is
a banker, u national banker, and q ma
tonal banker in New York. They are
specially emphatic as to two points, the
proper attitude of the East toward the
West, and the volume of currency need
ed to transact the business OF the
United States. In a letter written to
Senator Sherman, chairman Of the FL
nance Committee of tho Senate, in May,
1874, Mr.. Williams gives some whole
some advice to the East:


Massachusetts and Rhode Island
should remember that Notwithstanding
all their abundant resources, yet, last
September, their mill operatives were
among the first to foresee danger and
feel distress, on the stoppage Of the fac
tories OF their wealthiest manufacturers,
mainly because no currency could be
obtained to carry them on! Nor will
they soon forget the alarm created by
threats to run on the savings banks.
Their very riches and careful savings,
even, heightened the danger OF panic
among the laborers who had savings
deposits. ,,,,
teach the East to look with, fraternal
would aid in relieving a pressure arising
from want of capital and currency
there, but which no longer is felt at the
East. In truth, the unprecedented and
irrepressible growth Of the West in pop
ulation and productive power indicates
also an approaching, IL not an existing,
political power that will soon speak to
the East in tones distinctly audible


PHENOMENON. There is in Jersey City
the perfectest child-double, or duplicate,
that ever was seen. 1t was brought to
light by curious circumstance that
raised disturbance In the streets. A
German woman on her way to her home
some distance off, saw child playing
near some door step, picked it up, and
was walking off with the little one. She
was rapidly followed by two women from
the house in front of which the child
was. who demanded the child OF the
German woman, stating that 1t was their
child-one was its mother and the other
it's aunt. The German mother protested
it was her child and she was bound to
take it home with her. There was a
scene which called for the interference
of the police, for the German motherly
instincts are strong, and SO were this
German mothers arms. The child was,
however, wrested from her, and she went
in agony home, where she found heI
own child all right and wept for JOY.
Year: 1876

An effort Is beng made to unite the Re-
publcans OF this city who ore opposed to the
Custom House Republicans machine. The
nucleus Of the proposed organization is the In
dependent Republican Central Committee. Of
which Mr. Ellwood K. Thorne is the Chairman.
Most Of the members Of this committee are
active politicians, and to them will doubtless be
assigned the duty Of perfecting the Assembly
district organizations Of the new party. The
confident that they can unite the Republican
Reform Club, the Bryant and Schurz party, the
National Reform League, and the Independent
contest the right Of the Custom House dele
gates to seats In the Cincinnati Convention
But should the union be effected, large num-
Der OF influential Republicans will doubtless go
To Cincinnati as It's representatives to protest
against the nomination Of the machine candi-
dates.
Year: 1876

AGGRESSIVE MEAsUREs.-Thc citizens
OF Antioch, Contra Costa county, took
summary method Of abating the Chinese
nuisance. 1t having been discovered by
the medical men of the place that num-
Der OF boys had been diseased and ruined
for life by the solicitation of Chinese pros.
titutes, the citizens of the town gathered
together, talked the subject over and then
went in body and notified the offending
Chinese that they must leave-thaC at 2
O'Clock that day-that upon no consider
alton would they be permitted to remain
IN the town another night. The heather
took hasty counsel among themselves
and came To the conclusion to obey the
order, and the steamer at the appointed
hour bore them away. None were per-
mitted to remain but few gardeners and
Others known to be industrious and honest.
1t is probable that these too will soon fol-
low, as public sentiment is averse to en-
poying them, and where public senti-
ment takes this direction il cannot tail to
nave an appreciable effect. We are sorry
70 add that the moderate spirit in which
the matter was begun did not mark the
end. That night some of the rasber mart
OF the citizens, learning that the Chinese
had not all departed, set fire to the town
and reduced it to ashes.
Year: 1876

TALK UP Your TowN THE follow
ing, from the Tehama Tocsii,, is good
for any latitude: Talk up your town :"
may be good as far as it goes, but with
out some substance to build up your town
will not amount to a row of pins. When
you talk up your town do not, when you
wish to erect buildings, give preference
to mechanics from abroad, and in short
time be compelled to employ home me-
chanics to repair imperfect work. When
you talk up your town do not send abroad
Cor plows and other machinery, when YOU
nave your own mechanics here who are
able and willing to produce as good arti-
cles at home. Do not send hundreds of
dollars abroad 1or ready made clothing
and the same amount for boots and shoes,
and let your men lay idle for want of EN-.
ployment. Do not send abroad for do.
mestic articles when the same is made I'm
your town. Do not buy furniture that is
made abroad and drive your cabinet
makers out of business. Do not take a
newspaper from abroad and refuse to
take your home papers. Patronize and
keep at home every mechanic and trades
man. Also, remember that the China
man Is the root of all evil.
Year: 1876

ATTEMPT AT ARsoN.-On Monday
last an attempt was made to burn the
Occidental Hotel at Trinidad. Coal oil
had been spread about the Kitchen
Luckily the cook, Chinaman, happened
in the kitchen or in its immediate vicini-
ty few moment after the fire had been
set. His lusty cry of fire called sssis-
tance, and the flames were extinguished
before much damage had been done.
Year: 1876

JOSEPH BRAGG was engaged in skim,
ming vat of boiling tallow in butcher
shop in San Francisco when he fell head
long into the seething liquid. He was
rescued in short time, but his burns
were SO severe that after lingering in
terrible agony for few hours he died.
Year: 1876

SUIT AGAINST MINERs.-Parties in
Wheatland are about to commence suit
against several mining companies in Ne
vada county for damages growing out of
the mining debris sent down Bear river.
George Cadwalader has been employed
by the farmers to bring suit.
Year: 1876

TIE Eureka Standard grows because
democrats support Republican papers
more literally than they do their own
And after we finish looking through the
Standard we are compelled to admit that
for once the aforesaid Democrats are right.
Year: 1876

Tue steamship Muriel worked off the bar
at South west Pass at four o'clock yesterday
morning, and went to sea. She drew
eighteen feet three inches.


The steamship Hudson, of the Cromwell
line, for New York, left the city yesterday
morning, and at two O'Clock she grounded
on the bar at the head of South Pass. She
was got of, but again grounded in the chan
mel at the lower end of the jetties. She
drew seventeen feet one inch aft, and four
teen feet forward. She grounded about the
place where the steamer Charles w. Lord
stuck last Sunday evening. drawing fifteen
feet aft and twelve feet forward, and had
to be helped off by tugboat.
Year: 1876

from him just SO much inducement to edu


cate himself and his children? Is not citi
zenshlp then a tremendous educational
force9 Should not the party Of emancipation
and of political enfranchisement be also the
party of education9 Can the Confederate
Democracy claim to be in any sense the
party of educations Ii the Republican
party abandons the negro and his educa-
tion. will not that act remit the colored
people of necessity to the care of the Catho-
lie brotherhood, whose policy of home and
church education would then come in to
finish the work of emancipation? Are
American Protestants blind as well as
deaf? B.
Year: 1876

The announcement is made by request
that the delegates to the State Convention
will receive their tickets of admission at
morning from the assistant secretary. No
visitors tickets will be given out, and no
person other than the delegates and con-
testants will be admitted during to- day s
a0ssiOn.
Year: 1876

ONE of the more remarkable features of
our export trade is the steadily increasing
traffic in grain. A decade ago "A per cent. of
the English grain imports came from Russia
and but IA per cent. came from America.
Now A per cent. comes from America
and one 21 per cent. from Russia. Odessa
has ceased to be the great grain market OF
tho world
Year: 1876

THAT the secularization of the schools is
greatly dreaded by the Catholics, as an insur-
mountable barrier to their scheme of educa-
tion receives new proofs every day. Sunday
afternoon the Catholic Bishop McQuaid de-
livered lecture in Boston in which he took
decided ground against secularzatio1, claim
ing for Catholics the right to educate their
children in their own way. This of course
means the destruction of the public school
system
Year: 1876

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty CT good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.