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Year: 1875

Among the passengers who arrived from Europe on
the steamer City of Berlin, with the American tcam
Captain Bogardus who has we'll upheld tho
credit of America in his contests with the best pigeon
shooters of Great Britain. The gallant Captain looks
the picture OF robust health and expresses himself
highly pleased with the result of his trip Going over
his personal responsibility and at his personal
risk, and coming back victorious he justly thinks he
has to be proud OF his achievements, but
yet carries his aurcs with becoming modesty. Some
Of the numerous badges and other trophies which Cap
tain Bogardus brings with him the fruits OF his
tories of beautiful design and workmanship but he
regards them more many tributes TO American
skill than for any intrinsic value beauty they possess


Captain Bogardus is stopping at the International
Hotel, and will remain few days in the city,
Year: 1875

The extra race meeting at Monmouth Park begins to-
morrow and will be continued Thursday and Satur-
day OF this week. There will be four races each day
and from the number of horses that the park and
those their way thither from Saratoga most excel
lent meeting may bo anticipated.


The sceplechascrs being prepared for the trip TO
Newport to join in the various stcepechases that will
or at that fashionable resort of
good horses will be there, making good fields for each
There will be more starters in the Newport races
than before in of that kind in any
part of America.


The following list gives the OF the winning
stables at Saratoga during the past season. also the
amounts won by each, including the winners own
stakes, well second money where the entire sum
1
Year: 1875

THERE is curious story current that the
marble statue set up in the capital of Vene-
zuela, representing the president of the re-
public, has wooden, movable head on the
marble body. This is not to indicate that the
president is blockhead, but is measure OF
economy Revolutions are so frequent that
sculptors do not have time to chisel heads for
the new executive before he is deposed. As
the body is dressed in the official uniform it
of course does not require change. The re-
cent atterpt however to change the wooden
head has failed, for the revolution has been
summarily squelched, and the statue of Presi.
dent Guzman Blanco is safe, for the present
at least, from decapitation.
Year: 1875

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


We cannot undertake to return reserve commu-
nieatiOns that are not used.
Year: 1875

In his last letter to the Tribune Arsene
Houssaye discourses charmingly of the waltz,
and makes the following maxims: The waltz
is double life; the most reckless women are
less dangerous than the most platonic waltzes;
the waltz can give love to those who have
none, as love gives wit to those who lack it;
love is often nothing more than the exchange
of two quadrilles and the contact of two
waltzes; a woman has learning enough
when she can tell the difference between a
two-time and three-time waltz; after waltz
ing, some women go through a quadrile as a
purgatory to the waltz; women pardon to
the waltz what they would never permit to
the dance. Who but Frenchman could ut
ter maxims like these!
Year: 1875

UNLESS the temperature of March, April
and May is much higher than usual, say old
tillers of the soil, the frost in the earth will
not disappear before the first of June. In
many localities it is reported to be five feet
deep. Now isn't that an encouraging out
look for early potatoes and "garden truck?"
Year: 1875

There are many ways of keeping this
time -honored festival, and each one is
dear to many hearts from the associa-
tions with which it is connected. There
is only one which is to be regretted, and
that is the passing it by in silence and
forgetfulness.


No influence should be allowed to
stand between us and the opportunity
which Christmas affords us of shaking
off for time our every day sel6shness,
and for brief space thinking and acting
for others. Our daily lives are sufficient
ly crowded with our individual interests
to make us thankful to be forced out OF
ourselves and into the region of broad
er human thought, feeling and activity.
Do not forget Christmas then do not
set aside its claims do not think of it as
merely representative of religious event
or pious dogma. To all it means the
celebration of the festival of sacrifcial
love, loosening of the bonds of self, a
cementing of the bonds that bind us to
the larger family.


Let the plum pudding and the holly
berries flourish, then, not because OF
themselves they are better now than at
any other time, but because they repre-
sent the peace and good will, the hos
pitality and fraternity, which at this
season should be cherished towards all
men and women. Fill the children
stockings or decorate the beautiful
Christmas tree with liberal hands, for
Christmas may come to you no more,
and you would not miss the golden op'
portunity afforded you of adding your
mite to the sum of human happiness be
fore the present has gone into the past tc


return no more.
Year: 1875

The United States ordnance bureau,
in its report for the year, speaks as fol-
lows of torpedoes, which it is supposed
will create such a revolution in warfare


This branch of the ordnance service is
in very efficient state, and beg leave
to recommend liberal appropriations for
its support. The torpedo is in it's ma
trre defensive rather than an offensive
weapon, and is an adjunct to, but can
never supply the place of, efficiently
armed vessels even for defense. All au-
thorities agree in the opinion that tor
pedoes alone cannot protect themselves
or close important harbors, but should
be commanded by artillery fire, and be
supported by monitors, rams and mov-
able torpedoes. The defense may be
considered then on good basis if the
monitors are armed as above estimated
for. Our efforts are now principally de-
voted to developing the offensive use
of torpedoes by specially constructed
vessels, such as the Alarm and Intrepid,
by fast steam launches, and by the mov-
able torpedoes of Lay and Ericsson.
Each of these has achieved q consider
able success, but all are deficient in
speed. The movable torpedoes of Lay
and Ericsson can be submerged and di-
rected from the shore, OF monitor, with
great accuracy, and the former for con-
siderable distance, further indeed than
is, in my opinion, requisite or useful.
Further experiment will without doubt
develop an increased speed and value
recommend an appropriation for the
purchase of the "best movable torpe-
do, to be determined after competi-
tive trial, as I am of the opinion that in
vention in this direction is not exhaust
ed. All cruising ships are fitted with
the spar and towing torpedoes, and
many officers are well instructed in their
use. Since torpedoes are to play an i'm
portant part in maritime warfare, I rec
omend that all officers of and below the
rank OF captain shall be required to at
tend the course of instruction, as O
knowledge of the preparation and use
OF torpedoes is now as necessary as OF
the great gun drill.
Year: 1875

that sounded from far away out OF the
past, or only the strong odor, that roused
the poor soul from that long, heavy
sleep of exhaustion that had so nearly
been the sleep of death2 1 do not
know, but 1 know the eyes did open, and
beheld the tender face bending above
them. And then, like little child, the
children heard their mother cry


"Oh, Susie, Susie, haveI been dream
ing all this time2"


And then there were explanations,
and the story of the long years since
Susie Bryant and Ethel Carlisle were
girls together was told. But the best OF
it all, the children thought, was when
the lady from 'over the way took them
home with her and told them the boy
and girl there should be their brother
and sister, and they should live there
henceforth for she, wl.o, had found
again her best friend, would
never more let her struggle with want
alone.


And SO the children had gifts and din
ner, and merry, merry Christmas il
the bright, warm, crimsom-hung room
which had BEEN to them such para
disc of delights when they looked dow
into it from their fourth story window
through the falling shadowsof Christina
Year: 1875

Diphtheria was almost an unknown
disease twenty years ago. To-day it has
nearly assumed the proportion of an cpl
demic in many localities. 1t attacks
adults as well as children, but its raw
ages are chiefly among the young and
feeble. The dread which parents for
merly felt of scarlet fever has given
place to the dread of diphtheria, and
the rapid and fatal character of the dis
ease makes it more formidable than any
other of the diseases to which children
are peculiarly liable.


1t is sufficiently well established that
diphtheria originates, at least in very
many instances, from defective drainage
and sewer gas. The poisoned air and
polluted water, which are the conceded
causes of typhoid fever, are equally fatal
in developing diphtheria.


Diphtheria is not difficult disease to
combat when it is treated in time. The
distinctive feature of it is the formation
of false membrane in the throat. This
makes its appearance in nearly all cases
in the shape of grayish brown patches
and it is hence of the utmostimportance
to watch closely the throats of children
who are apparently ill with cold ant
sore throat. Usually there is fever ant
prostration in the early stages of thu
disease; though in rare instances thu
false membrane is formed suddenly ant
almost without warning. If the throat
of ailing children are frequently exam
ined, there will be little danger tina
parents will mistake incipient diphtherii
for an ordinary cold. Scores of children
have died of diphtheria who would un
doubtedly be now alive had the grayisl
brown patches in the throat been dis
covered at their first appearance, and
competent physician been prompt,
summoned.
Year: 1875

The report of the United States light
house board shows that the board has
made an extensive and careful series of
experiments with regard to the merits of
the mineral oils of this country for the
purpose of lighthouse illumination, and
an elaborate and extensive series of ex-
periments with regard to sound as
applied to signals for warming the mari
ner of his approach to danger in thick
or foggy weather, when all other guides
become of little use. Even at this stage
of the experiments success has been
most gratifying, and by pursuing these
inquiries the board hopes to arrive at
results not only valuable to science, but
of practical Importance in enabling it
better to contend with one of the worst
elements of danger which the mariner
has to meet on our extended and dan
gerous coast. Congress heretofore ap-
propriated 100000 for lightship for
general service, and lightship for the
winter quarter shoal, coast of Virginia.
Both the vessels are nearly completed,
and each has first class steam fog sig
nal on board.
Year: 1875

Many years ago the land on which
the present town of Williamstown, Pa,
now stands was considered of but little
value, and the entire tract was sold to a
man named Wagner for 5000. Subse-
quently coal was found in the neighbor-
hood, the tract was cut up into town
lots, and has been built upon. 1t now
turns out that the title was in the wife
of the man who sold to Wagner, where
as only the husband signed the deed.
The consequence is that an action of
eiectment has been brought to oust all
who hold under titles derived from
Wagner, and the litigation has naturally
created q great stir in the neighbor-
hood.
Year: 1875

1t was the twilight of Christmas eve
that twilight which always seemed 80
early, since nobody is ever quite ready
for it. The pale gray of the winters
sky was scarcely flushed by the low
lying sunset clouds, though sometimes
you could catch a CLEAN of their scant
brightness as you turned westward.


The streets of New York were crowd
ed, as usual, but everybody seemed even
more than usually in hurry. The air
was intensely cold, Ind nipped the noses
of those who were late with their Christ
mas shopping but, in spite of it, men
and women still jostled each other upon
the sidewalk, or stopped to look at the
tempting displays of holiday goods in
the shops. Everybody, it seemed, had
some small person at home who must be
made happy tomorrow. 81.


From the window of large but rusty
looking house on one of the avenues,
two children looked down at the throng
below, as they had been looking all day.
They were in the fourth story of the
house, and they could not see into the
street very far distant, but still the
movement and the hustle interested
them, and, their mother was thankful
that they had it to watch.


She herself was sewing, catching the
last CLINT of the sunset light for her
work, as she had the first ray of the
dawning. She had been a beautiful,
high-bred woman indeed, she was SO
still, though there was no one to note
the unconscious elegance of her gestures
or the graceful lines of her curving
figure and bent head. She was very
thin now and very poorly clad, but
q stranger would have felt that she was
lady, and wondered how she came in
the fourth story of this house, great
house, which had been handsome, too,
in its day, but which was now let out tc
innumerable dodgers, mostly of the de-
cent sort of honest, Woodworking, half
starved poor people. Not with such
neighbors had Mrs. Vanderheyden's lot
been formerly cast, nor for such uses as
this had the old house itself been de
signed. 1t had been stately mansion
in its time, belonging to the estate of {
Year: 1875

In the old Jail at Hampstead Plains,
Long Island, says the New York Ledger,
there is at present confined man named
Delaney, under sentence of death for
murder in the first degree, and soon to
be hanged. He killed the captain of a
vessel on which he was employed as
cook, for the purpose of robbery. After
the conviction of Delaney, the district
attorney who had prosecuted him hu-
namely sent word to the prisoner that if
he wanted any letters written he would
send one OF his clerks to write them for
him. Delaney replied that, strange as
it might seem, he could write much
better letter himself than would be sup
posed, and that he had passed three
years of his life at college


This is another and a striking illustra-
tion of the insufficiency of mere mental
education. The heart must be educated
as well as the head. This man had an
education far above the average, yet fol
a few dollars he could coolly kill his EN-.
ployer, an unoffending man who had
never done him an injury. And how was
this? Not because his head was not suf
ficiently enlightened, but because his
| heart was bad.


Of course the natural inclination;
have a good deal to do with the charac
ter of every man. At the same time the
heart may be trained and enlarged by
education as well as the mind, and nc
system of education is complete which
does not comprise both the head and th'
heart.
Year: 1875

The Night Before Christmas.
Twas the night before Christmas, when all


through the house
Not creature Uas stirring, not even mouse !;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with


care,
In hopes that st. Nicholas soon would be there
The children were nestled all snug in their


beds, .I- .......
While visions Of sugar plums danced through


their heads,
And mamma in her 'kerchief, and in my cap,
Had just settled ourselves for long winters


nap
When out on the lawn there arose such clat-


ter, . u..Is#r
sprang from my bed to see what was the


matter
Awayto the window few like q FASH
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.
The moon on the breast of the new-fallen


snow,
Gave the luster of midday to objects below
When, what to my wondering eyes should ap-


pear
But miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer,
With little old driver 30 lively and quick,
knew in moment it must be st. Nick.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them


by name
"N Now, Dasher now Dancer now, Prancer
... now, Vixen
On, Comet ! on, Cupid ! on, Donder and Bit


zen
To the top of the porch to the top of the wall
Now, dash away, dash away, dash away all ~
As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly
When they meet with an obstacle, mount to


the sky
So up to the housetop the coursers they few,
With the sleigh full of toys, and st. Nicholas,


too; ..ra ....-
And then in a twinkling heard on the roof
The pranoing and paving Of each little hoof
Down the chimney st. Nicholas came with 8
bound
His was dressed all in furs from his head tc
his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes


and SCOT
A bunlle OF toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like peddler just opening his


pack. 3 a..
His eyes, how they twinkled his dimples how


merry
His cheeks we're like roses his uoee like 1


cherry;
His droll little mouth was drawn up like bow
And the beard on his chin was as white as tn,


srow; '..
The stumpof pipe he held tight in his teeth
And the smoke it encircled his head like


wreath.
He had broad face and little round belly
That shook when he laughed, like bowl full


of jelly.
He was chubby and plum, right jolly old elf
And laughed when saw him. in spite OF my,


self


wink of bis eye and twist Of his head
Soon gave m9 to know had nothing to dread
He spoke not word but went straight to hi


work,


And filed all the stockings, then turned will


jerk,


And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving nod, up the chimney he rose
He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave


whistle,


And away they all flew like the down of


thistle


But heard him excaim, ere he drove out O


sight


Merry Christmas to all, and to all good


night i
Year: 1875

The PHILHARMONIC AssoCIATIoN.-This
welI.known musical organization is engaged
at present in rehearsing for series of con-
certs to be given during February. The
Junior class, composed OF fresh young voices,
will also take part, making the chorus one OF
the finest and richest ever heard in this city.
The chorus will number about fifty or sixty
singers.


A plan is also on foot to establish the AS
sociation on a frmer basis, and when the
changes spoken of are made this society will
be equal to any in the country. The mem
bers Of the Association are laboriDg faith.
fully Tor the success of the organization.
which is warmly appreciated in Richmond,
and their efforts will doubtless be fully re.
waIded.


Tonight another rehearsal takes place, af
ter which the active members are to pass
upon several important business PROPOSE
tions.
Year: 1875

A gentleman well acquainted with the coal market
remarked yesterday The rise and fall IN the price Of
coal is in inverse ratio 10 that OF tho Thermometer;
rising temperature is followed by depression in coal
quotations and a falling Inercurial column indicates
rise in the cost OF fuel"


An interview with agent Of the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western Railway Company revealed the
fact It all unusual for large
OF coal as g. 700 loads be standing this
OF the year in Hoboken. This place the
minus OF the coal trade which supplies New York and
the surrounding cities and hence there is always
extensive supply Of Il In the yards there.


Mr. Wells OF the Reading Railroad and Coal Mining
Company, visited in the Office Of that corporation,
the OF Broad and Wall streets He said that
OF the principal for stagnancy the coal
market general slackness of manufacturing in
terests over most parts OF the Union money too is
tight; and besides, there ie large
quantity OF the commodity on hand. With
regard 70 mining this and January are the dullest
months in the year; after the beginning OF February
tho aepth OF winter work on short time again
enabled 10 do their full hours This is natural
sequence Of the incoming spring trade The Reading
Company employ generally from 900 10 10 900 miners,
the number varying according 10 the exigcnccg Of
trade. At present there are some 5000 Of these
idle, they having been temporarily discharged week
ago The reasons OF their having been paid or
the small demand IN The market and the great quant
ties Of fuel IN the Company's depots


At the Office OF the Delaware and Hudson Canal
Company, II Broadway, II ascertaned that the
present ull the coal market is 10 be attributed TO
supply on hand amount Of the material
which Is far beyond the demand
Year: 1875

The Subcommittee on Organization met yesterday
afternoon al Tammany Hall, Arthur J. Delaney pre-
siding and George W. Morton acting secretary The
only business the consideration Of names TO be pre-
sented from the several districts for members Of the
General Committee Quite largo number were ruled
out as not trustworthy. Ii is the intention OF tho
Committee on Organization TO send only solid men TO
the trout After long deberaton the committee
erased about eighty names, and suggested that the
several district organizations present tho names for
the best interest OF the party.
Year: 1875

AM persuaded that have been brought
into retirement to teach me the value Of
prayer Alas | have not estimated Alright the
value OF near access unto God. II is not the
daily routine Of praying for certain things
that will obtain the blessing. But there
must be the need within--the real filial ask
ing of God the things which we need, and
which lie delights to give. We must pray
more. BE instant in prayer.-HcCheyne.
Year: 1875

Lake City (COi.) Silver World


Julv I2 was ssred hotter day in Lake
Mining District, in the san Juan country,
for on that day came an interesting
stranger into camp-nOt over the Saguache
Road. nor over the Antelope Park Trail
but in the good old way ordained
bv God and faithfully kept up by man
kind. On that day the wife Of /. HOyt
cave birth TO the first child ever born IN
lake District, and neither father nor
mother was more proud Of the event than
were the s'hOnest miners, who dropped piCk
end drill and fastened y town as
the news spread from mine to mine,
for they all regarded it as
fOrerunner Of higher ciYlllza-
tion, and were prouder than if they had
struck a veritable ebOnaDZa.~ The event
occurred in the morning, and VIXEN, toward
evening, it was announced that the hrst-
born in Lake City would hold a general
ptiOn, all were eager to gaze on Jhal
little mite Of humanity which IS to grow
with the growth Of our mines, and be some
day known as the cab initiO" settler IN the
METROPOLIS Of Southwestern Colorado. de
was passed from hand 70 hand, and 1t was
curious to note the manner in which he
was Manipulated. Some we're there who
wish to be considered in the ranks OF
the osingly blessed" who be
trayed themselves BY the easy
grace with which they dardled
him upon the palms Of their Outstretched
hands; Others there were who excited great
alarm in the breasts Of the doctors and
nurses by the awkward way in which they
grabbed the little fellow and held him up
as though be had a ramrOd in his back and
was a natural born drUm-majOr. A
number of complimentary remarks were
made, after which the crowd adjourned to
the "Eet grocery establishments across the
way. So many healths were drank to the
little stranger, that a passer-by, not know
ing the OCCASION thereof, might imagine
that Lake City had lost its calendar and
was celebrating the Fourth eight days be-
hind time.