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Year: 1873




What weed does a gardener seldom
object to see "A cigar in his own
mouth.


What is the difference between far
mer and a seamstress :-The farmer
gathers what he sows, and the seam
stress sews what she gathers.


Why is nature like baby Be
cause there is a squall when its face is
washed.


A new dish is grape leaves fried in
egg batter; it is called French dish.
A contemporary remarks, "we can't
think of anything that would be more
delicious than fried grape-leaves, unless
it is a theatrical poster on toast"


The sharpest so far this month is the
girl who makes her unsuspecting father
the daily bearer of sweet missives to a
clerk in his office, who has been forbid
den to visit his employers house. She
pins the letter in the old mans cloak,
and when he reaches the Office and
throws off the garment, the clerk gets
it and responds by the same carrier.


A compositor in Southern printing
Office was escorted home the other
night by squad of dogs. The only
remarkable thing about the occurrence
was the rapid time made.


A female novelist commenced her
last work thus: "The sun had sunk
into his western bed, but drawing the
golden clouds up too high to hide his
face, allowed his shining toes to pro-
trude at the other end, thus casting a
faint pinkish and crimson glow over
natures face"


"Man wants but little here below,
nor wants that little long," is a libel,
Josh Billings asserts. MAN wants
everything he can see or hear ov, and
never is willing to let go of his grab.
Whenever yu find man who is thor
oughly satisfied with what he haz got,
yu will find either an ideot, or one who
has tried hard to get some more and
couldn't do it. The older a man grows
the more wantful he bekums; as hiz
hold on life slackens, hiz pinch on a
dollar grows grippy."


A well-known Connecticut clergyman
had deacon who insisted upon leading
the singing at the prayer-meetings. He
was a great blunderer, and he sang all
the sad and melancholy tunes he could
think of. The hymn was given out,


81 love to steal awhile away
The deacon began, 81 love to steal'-
to Near, where he broke down. He
started with Dundee-" love to steal -
The third time he commenced and
broke down, when the pastor arose and
gravely said, 81 am sorry for our broth
er's propensity. Will some brother
pray"
Year: 1873

A father, not very far from here,
read in the paper the other morning
that the Utica girls who want their
beaux to go home the same night they
call, pull string at the proper hour,
which reverses IA picture, on the back
of which appear the words, Ten o.
clock is my bedtime.


This father. who has a daughter
given to late hours when a certain youth
sits up and helps her to keep them,
thought to try this Utica plan, so he
wrote in large characters on the back
of huge portrait of George Washing
ton, this inscription:


80 O'CLOCK IS sALLIE's BEDTIME" D."


Then he arranged the picture SO that
when he attached string to the frame,
he could reverse it from his bed-cham-
Der. But when Sallie entered the room
at an hour later, her aesthetic eye was
outraged by observing the portrait of
George hanging slightly out of plumb,
SO to speak, and in adjusting it her
fathers little game was revealed in all
its subtle ingenuity.


Sallie was not Utica girl, however,
so she just went to work and neatly
efaced the figure co." leaving the 81"
standing solitary and upright - which
you will observe, made few hours
difference in her bedtime. That night,
as usual, Sallie received a visit from
her young man-which his front name
it was Eenry-and her paternal parent
attached his string to George Washing
toms portrait and retired to his downy
couch.


About ten o'clock, while Henry and
Sallie were deeply absorbed in some
knotty problem with their heads so
contiguous that you couldn't insert a
piece of tissue paper between them, the
Father of His Country suddenly turned
his face to the wall, as if he was asham-
ed to gaze upon such doings. Henry
with sudden start, glanced at the
picture, and saw the hand writing on
the wall, as it were, which read: 81
o'clock is Sallie's bedtime Then
Harry looked an interrogation in her
eye, which was partly dispelled by the
fair maid murmuring, cit is all right "
that he had long known one o'clock
was her bed time, and he thought it
was plenty late enough for young
girl to be out of bed; but what bust
ness, he said, had General Washing
tons portrait to be Topping about in
that way: Then Sallie explained-and
the twain resumed work on the prob
lem. Henry putting his arms around
Sallie to prevent her from falling off
the chair.


Meanwhile, the old man was listen
ing for the front door to open, and his
would-be son-in-law's footsteps patter-
ing over the pavement, with the toes Of
his boots pointing from the house.
These sounds not falling upon his ears,
and thinking maybe the old thing didn't
work right, he gave the string another
pull, and George w. again faced the
audience. Then he listened; but he
heard no footsteps nothing but Pc
culiar sound, something resembling the
popping of champagne corks.


Then he grew cross, and gave the
string another jerk, causing G. W. to
turn about with violent suddenness.
just as if he was dreadfully out Of hui
mo too.
Year: 1873

81 THINK remarked gentleman
who stood with one foot on the step
and the other on the floor of Broad
way stage the day before New Years,
"that it would be more respectable to
,uaM down. And more comfortable,
too" he added, after a pause. To
which sentiment the seventeen passen-
gers within mentally responded, not
withstanding the huge piles of snow
that blocked up the way, and the fall
ing sleet and the slippery streets.
Year: 1873

OLD ROMAN BABIEs.-I must also
say few words about the babies and
young children. They are made bond
slaves at birth, for the first thing the
nurse does after the ablution is to wind
around the intant-arms, body and legs
-swaddling- clothes, and these usually
indicate the rank of the parents. Some
are wrapped in very costly stuffs tied
with a golden band others with a pur-
pie scarf fastened by glittering buckle;
others with fine white shawl, such as
the wealthy ladies wear in cold weather
in their houses, fastened with scarlet
strings; while the poor wrap their babes
in broad fillets of common cloth. The
old Lacedemonians seem to have been
wiser, for they only wrapped a broad
fillet of linen around the body, and left
the arms and legs full liberty. These
Romans put their babies into cradles of
various forms. The most common are
those of boat and hollow shield
Josephus, the Hebrew have mention
ed, tells me that the infant life of the
great law-giver of his people was saved
by his having been concealed among the
osiers of the Nile by his mother in
boat cradle. Sometimes, when the
badly is year old, the mother shaves
its head and puts jewels in its ears, if it
be girl; and so soon as it begins to
walk an ornament called buVa is hung
about its neck. This is often only
disk of metal, with the name of the
child's family engraved upon it, SO that
the little one may be identified if lost ;
but more often it is hollow metal case,
sometimes highly ornamented, which
contains charms against evil spirits.
The children of the poor have disks of
leather so marked that the babe may be
identified d-Harper's Magazine.
Year: 1873

A GENTLE SNoB.-He is a very gen.
teel and amiable young man, but he is
now insane. He parts his hair in the
middle. The other day, in combing
his hair, he CHANGED to get two more
hairs on one side than on the other.
This destroyed the balance OF his head
and overturned his brain. He makes
very gentle lunatic, however.
Year: 1873

The Beecher- -Tilton scandal
continues to break out, and
every time a new place. There
in is an abyssof dirt somewhere
in connection with it, that will
some day be probed. We are
not sure at whose door the filth
will be found finally, but ulti-
mately, that neither noise nor
reticence will be able longer to
divert the righteous verdict Of
the people. All we ask is that
the guilty party be exposed,
that when retribution comes it
find the transgressor. And it
will, even though for a season
it be baffled by bravado on the
one hand, or a "dignifed ST.
lence" on the other hand.
Year: 1873

"a BEssBoR0UGH STREET, Nov. 4, 1873
OF ENGLAND:--


MY L0RD-Seeing the death OF the Lord Chief
Justice or the Common Pleas recorded in the pub
lie press and that the Attorney General is likely to
be made his successor, and knowing Your Lord
ships high character for justice, feel sure Your
Lordship Will forgive me for drawing your atten-
tion to the Attorney Generals conduct in the late
trial at the Common Pleas and the language made
OF by him about me and also to the fact that he
made use OF forged letters for the purpose OF de.
featng me a. the last trial, knowing, as the
evidence OF M. Chabot and his own letter OF July
"a 1873, published in the Times and other papers
proves that he knew the letters were forgeries at
the time he used them, or In legal language he
mas also had the same f0rgeries brought
against me In the present trial. although he
acknowledged them as Iorgeries In his speech, and
no doubt, tney would have been used against me
mad not the Lord CHIEF Justice OF England nj
once condemned them. The public, who nave
found me the money 10 defend myself know all
these facts as well as 90, and that this rosccu.
tion Is only carried on for the purpose OF crushing
me and saving the reputation Of the Attorney Gen.
era.


/ now ask you my lord, not to appoint this per.
eventually obtain my Just rights and where even
If he did not try the case, he would influence his
brethren to deny me justice In the same manner
as his predecessor. Sir william BOWL and. beg
TO remain Your Lordship's obedient servant,


Il. O. L. TICHBORNE.
Year: 1873

The American Colonization Society has sent
more or less cmigrants to Liberia every year since
the first company embarked from New York, In
the spring OF 1920 A goodly number are now on
their way ron the South to take passage in the
park jasper, which sails from this port for the
African Republic IN the course OF this week


The headquarters Of the society is in Washing
Ton CITY, but 10 has branch once In the Bible
House. New YORK, where any desired Information
IN regard to this expedition or the cause generally
can he obtained
Year: 1873

SYMPATHY FOR CASTELAR, is u feeble pretext
of our cowardly State Department and weak
kneed public men at the present crisis. Is
there no sympathy for the brave Cubans who
have been fighting five years to establish indie
pendent republican institutions on American
,soila Any one with ordinary common sense
must see that republicanism in America con-
Germs us much more than the mongrel sort of
republicanism they have or are likely to have
in Snan
Year: 1873

The Weather in This City Yesterday.


The following record will show the changes in
the temperature for the pas. twenty-iour hours in
comparison with the corresponding day Of last
year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnuts
IL
Year: 1873

Henry Town is a good enough
boy in some respects. He is
amiable and truthful and pleas
ant in his manners, but in mat
ters where he is required to
take upon himself any burden
Of responsibility or trust, he is
a broken reed.


"Henry," says his sister.
evil you be sure to put this
letter in the post-ofIice for me p


ooh certainly"


"Now, you won't forget it p


"No, really | won't"


"It is to Uncle Thomas
about meeting me in New York,
and if he doesn't get it and
come to the station for me,
shall hardly know what to do


"Oh I'll be sure to put it in
and Henry takes the letter and
goes off. He really intends to
go to the post-office the first
thing, but on the way down he
meets a companion, who has
something to say about a sail
ing party, and Henry forgets
the letter entirely, until about
three hours after the mail.
Then he drops it in, and thinks
no more about it, only to an
swer, ooh! yes" when asked
if he has done his errand.


The consequence is, that
when his sister gets to New
York, where she has never been
before, there is no one to meet
her. She has to find her way
to the other side of Brooklyn
alone, takes the wrong car,
and only finds her friends at
the end Of a very troubled dis
tressed, anxious day. She is
not well or strong, the fatigue
and the worry make her i'll for
a week, and the whole pleasure
of her visit is spoiled, because
Henry could not take the
trouble to keep his mind on
one subject long enough to post
a letter.


l might multiply instances of
the worry, disappointment, and
wear-and-tear Of the tempers
and feelings of others occasion
ed by Henry's habits, but one
is enough.


Henry is always very sorry,
and never means to do so again,
but the trouble is he does not
mean mol to do so, and | fear he
will never reform, unless he
takes to heart the lesson,
"What thy hand finds to do, do
with thy might" .
Year: 1873

Whenever we feel a want of Sc


cret prayer ora reluctance to engage


in it, we ought to ask ourselves at
once, "How should we like God to
become reluctant to hear our pray.
ers, or the Intercessor to grow wea-
ry of presenting them before the
throne?" And if this question
does not bring us to our senses at
once, and then send us willingly to
our closet, we ought to follow it up
by asking: "What should we think
-feel-do-were the Father to shut
his ear on our prayers; the Son to
exclude them from the golden CEN
ser of his incense, and the spirit to
withhold all its help in future? The
bare idea is horrible! And were
such a dread reality possible in our
case, how should we agonize in ter
rorand suspense, until we felt again
the Holy Spirit helping our infirm-
tiles, and pouring out on us the
grace of supplication?
Year: 1873

The United States Supreme
Court has decided that a de-
serter from the army, who has
been caught and made TO serve
out the entire term of his SER
vice, and obtained a regular
discharge from the army, is, ip
effect, just as good as if he had
been faithful from the first, and
is legally entitled to his boun-
ty. This will be good news
to those who have suffered by
the decision Of the Paymaster
General, which was exactly op-
posite.
Year: 1873

never darkness, never doubling,
AS we near the promised land;


Never fear lest we should stumble,


While He holds us by the hand"


"I'm almost homO," said an aged
Christian, while standing upon the
banks of the lonely river called
Death. His eye had caught q
glimpse of the shining towers of
the Celestial City, and in the dim
distance he could see the "house
with many mansions" which was
soon to be his everlasting home.
No cloud Of darkness could hide
the beautiful vision from the aged
wanderer, and no distressing fears
could drive away the blessed
thought that soon he was to mingle
with the holy ones that dwell
forever in the city Of light.


SIN almost home" he repeated
again, as his feet touched the dark
waters, and the world, with all its
glory, faded forever from his glazed
eyes.


"Home! home!" were the last
words that he ever uttered, and so
we know he had reached the peace
ful goal of happiness in the spirit
land.


almost home," whispered one
whose life had been blasted by
disease, even in the morning Of life,
while flowers were yet springing
up in their spotless beauty and pu-
rity at her feet. Yet death had no
terrors for the suffering one-for
her feet were standing upon the
firm rock which icy winds and
beating storms can never move.
Her eyes were fixed upon the hal
loved cross of Chrsst; and the
peaceful mansion, prepared for the
pure in heart, lured her soul to its
unfading glory.


Almost home. Oh what q bliss
full thought to the earth-worn
Christian, whose weary feet are
walking down by the rivers waves.
Only a little while and he shall sing
those holy songs with the redeemed
ones in the Fathers Home" A
little while and q golden crown,
shall adorn his brow, and robes Of
eternal whiteness shall he wear,
never to be changed for the gar
ments of the tomb. A little while
and he shall greet the last Of other
days to part again in sadness never
more, for he has gained an eternal
home.


Almost homel Toll on, then,
Christian; hope on, pray on, for you
are nearing the land Of sacred rest,
where peace, like the rivers waves
shall roll on forever. No death
Year: 1873

TAKE a round steak and make
a dressing. Lay on the meat
and sew up the edges. Put
this in a dripping pan with q
little water, plenty of butter
a little salt and pepper Turn
The meat and bake both sides.
Year: 1873

AS pertinent to the report of Utah officials being transferred to Arizona, we give this item clipped from the Washington correspondence of The New York Herald:

 The President will retain the judi ciary, especially Judge McKean. All suspected of want of vigor in aid to peacefully remove the last twin relic of barbarism " will be set aside This is the programme of the administra- tion.
Year: 1873

veying the mail on route No, from

 -, do swear that I have the ability pecuniarily to fulfill my obligation as such bid der; that the bid is made in good faith, and with the intention to enter into cen tract and perform the service in case said bid shall be accepted; and that the sigma lures of the guarantors thereto are genuine, and that believe the said guarantors to be pecuniarily responsible for and able to pay all damages the United States shall suffer by reason of my failing to perform my obligations as such bidder.
Year: 1873

TNOTE.-When the oath is taken before a justice of the peace, the certl ficate of the clerk of court of record should be added under h is seal of office, that the person who the oath is duly qualified justice of the peace.
Year: 1873

The Court OF Pardons Refuse to Com


mute tho Death Sentence-The Prisoner


To BE Executed ON the 9th Of January.


A special session of the New Jersey Court of Par
d0ns was held yesterday at Trenton to consider
the case OF Mechella the murderer. The Court
listened patiently to the petition Of the prisoners
counsel and the report Of the physicians who held


consultation regarding the sanity OF the prisoner.
discussion OF two hours took place, in which all
che iancNu suppositions and theories regarding
the prisoners mental condition were con-
sidered. Every member Of the Court who
spoke on the question declared his conviction
that the prisoner was perfectly sane, no convinc-
Ing evidence to the contrary having been pre-
Bented. A vote was taken, and the Court, by
unanimous vote, refused to commute the sentence
Of DEATH Secretary of State Kelsey transmitted
the decision OF the Court to Sheriff Reinhardt, and
at the same time the death warrant was issued by
Governor Parker. Mechella will be hanged next
Friday week, the 9th Of January. The gallows on
which Foster, Nixon, Real, Jerry O'Brien Friery,
Wagner and Others expiated their lives within the
IOmbS will be taken over next week and erected


In the yard at the rear Of the Hudson County Jail.


Tue prisoner was not apprlsed OF the decision OF
the Court last evening. There is no change in his
demeanOr, and he proves at times more trouble
some to his Keepers than before the reprieve was
granted. The Deputy Sheriff in charge states that
aS soon as Mechella understands that the auth0ri.
ties are in earnest and the law must be enforced,
he will at once 'sbend before the Storm and pre-
pare for his DOOM No person will be allowed to
L~.nmunicate with him except by special order
from the sheriff. The miserable wretch has been
repeatedly tantalized by Bohemians attached to
local Sheet and in every instance ne resented this
Intrusion. Sheriff Renhardt will permit only the
prisoners relatives counsel, spiritual advisers and
the representatives OF the Russian government to
visit him. Among those who have received per-
mission to witness the execution are the two dep
.nty marshals OF New York who were companions
of the murdered man. As the jail yard is small the
number OF persons to be admitted as witnesses OF
the execution will be limited to 100 including the
members OF the press, the physicians the jury and
the members OF the Board of Chosen Freeholders
VINO choose TO attend.
Year: 1873

They have Just received a fresh supply Of those
beautiful patent Toilet Mirrors at the DOLLAR
STORE, corner Ninth and Main streets, which they
are selling n the exceedingly low price of one dol
lar
Year: 1873

REES Co.'S PICTURES ARE UNDOUBTEDLY
the best made In the city. There IS scarcely day
passes that they do not make sitings for parties
who had them taken elsewhere and are not satisfied
Year: 1873

NJ. Janssen's method for photographing the apparent contact of Venus with the edge of the sun is worthy of description. The photographic plate is in the form of a disk, fixed upon plate which rotates upon an axis parallel to that of tele- scope Before it is placed another disk, forming screen, in which is small ap- erture, in order to limit the photographic action to the edge of the sun. The plate which carries the sensitive disk has 180 teeth, and is placed in communication with an escapement apparatus actuated by an electric current. At each second the pendulum of clock interprets the cur

 rent, and the plate turns one tooth, so that at each second fresh portion of the photographic plate is exposed. Thus, 1n as many seconds, 1S0 images of the sun and the planet can be obtained. When the series relating to the first contact is obtained, the plate is withdrawn and an- other substituted, which gives the second contact and so on for the four. -- -.-s-
Year: 1873

This body met in Knoxville yesterday
morning and adjourned over to the I'd Mon
day in November. There will be specia
term the I'd Monday in June, 1874.


The reasons 70: this adjournment were
as we understand from q private dispatch
TO gentleman In this city, ffom member
Of the bar of this circuit, that there were
scarcely two lawyers in any one circuit
ready to try any cases. And 60 the Court
would st from day to day and aays little or
nothing to do. Now that the Court have
tested the matter and found profitable sos
sion impossible, we hope there viii be NJ
more scolding. Chattanooga Tines, Sept
O
Year: 1873

While the seventy first regiment was
parading through the streets of Williamsburg
to-day, a balcony crowded with spectators
suddenly broke down and all were pracipi-
tated to the side walk. One person was
killed and fifteen, more or less severely in
inrpn.
Year: 1873

The Weather in This City Yesterday.


The following record win show the changes in
the temperature for the past twenty four hours in
comparison witn the corresponding day of last
year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hud.
NUTS Pharmacy. HERALD Ruilding
Year: 1873

A story is circulating which tells how fair
young thing went to Hartford drug store,
and told the man to fix up her one dose of castor
oil, and to mix it with something to take the
taste away. The man told her to wait. In a
few minutes he asked her is she felt like taking
a glass of soda water. She accepted the invita-
tion, and drank the beverage. Presently she
asked the roller Of pills why he didn't give her
the castor oil. The man smiled triumphant
smile, and said: Madam, you have taken it !;
| mixed a fearful dose with that soda water" P"
She turned pale she sank into chair; she
gasped: Immortal love | wanted it for my
mother!" Then she suddenly went home,
and the druggist is not so certain whether his
mancuver, after all, was so very smart.
Year: 1873

A Green Bay Mich clerk, who had a
mind for logic, applied it to to a farmer with B
Clerk-Yes step this way Farmer-Those
are too small; haven't you any larger2 Clerk
No, sir, the large ones are all sold. Rusticus
started off and got as far as the door, when
the clerk called him back Look here,
stranger, take one of these small bells for your
COW, and you won't have half the trouble in
finding her, for when you hear her bell you
will know that she can't be far of" The
logic was irresistible, and the farmer bought
the bell.
Year: 1873

In the wreck of the Northfeet, one navy
who was saved was heard by the correspondent
of the London Standard saving: "When saw
what was up, said, ses l, I'm aRoin' 30 die,
and l may as we'll do ID as comfortable as can,
and so liz my pipe" There was no high
feeling in that man, but there was an infinite
capacity for discipline. Fear did not over
power him iu any degree. He thought a
smoke even in the face of death still an object
worth desiring.