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Year: 1873

Greasing buggies and wagons is of
more Importance than some imagine.
Many wheel is ruined by oiling too
plentifully. A well,msde wheel will
endure constant wear from ten to
twenty years if care is taken to use
the right kind and proper amount of
oil but if this matter is not attended
to, the wheel will be used up in FIVE
or six years, or may be sooner.
Lard should never be used on a
wagon, for it will penetrate the hub
and work its way around the tendons
of the spokes and spoil the wheel.


Castor oil is a good material for use
on iron axle; just oil enough should
be applied TO a spindle to give it a
light coating; this is better than
more, for the surplus put on will


work out at the ends and be forced
by the shoulders and nut into the hub
around outside the boxes. To oil
the axle tree, first wipe the spindles
clean with cloth wet with turpen.
tine, ifiit won't wipe without it. | On
a buggy or carriage, wipe and clean
off the back and front ends of the
hubs, and then apply a vely small
quantity of castor oil, or more espec-
tally prepared labricator near the
shoulders point. --Scientife Press. gs
Year: 1873

Dsy- Alligator skins are being quite
extensively used in the manufacture of
suspenders and pocket books. Some
of the latter are very tastily gotten up,
and are qnite attractive. being prepared
in various colors. The natural mark
inss of the shin give them an odd APP
pearance, but as they are an essentially
American production they will no doubt
become quite fashionable.
Year: 1873

They b ave had man up in New Haven
police court for stealing an umbrella, forget
full of that common law which holds that
umbrellas are not property, and at last ac-
counts it was even feared that the court
would shut down ON him. A New Haven
paper very properly asks, ''Who is safe?"
And we suppose it will be long time before
the question is answered.
Year: 1873

An unintelgent foreigner, who is quite
unable to understand and appreciate Ameri-
can manners, writes home that when great
man dies in the United States, the first thing
done is to propose fine statue in his honor;
next, to forget to order any statue, and last


to wonder what became of the money. -
Year: 1873

Wise sayings of great men are very interest
ing reading, and the remark of the Missis-
sippi judge will be handed down among the
sayings of eminent persons. Said he splitting
out a quid of tobacco, and taking fresh
one: 'I haven't been judging great while,
but think can snatch justice baldhead as
well as any on 'em.
Year: 1873

A Rochester woman married to her second
husband recently said to him, "Oh, how
happy POOR George would be if he were still
alive to see himself replaced by man as
agreeable as you are!"
Year: 1873

Kate Field writes from London that Mark
Twain has been "eDdeavoring to instill civil
lization into the Shah by sitting on the floor
and playing draw poker, and says that his
august pupil makes wonderful progress in
this great American game, and will soon be
able to play agaii st the American minister or
the brilliant editor of the Louisville Courier
journal, who now pines in May Fair for
partner worthy of his deal.''
Year: 1873

While in Rochester met Mr.. Hub
bard, an old resident of Genesse county,
who saw Sam Patch make his famous
jump of the Genesse Falls, thirty or for
ty years aoo. He says that jump day
was great day in Rochester. The peo-
pie gathered for miles around to see this
intermittent American jump, as he per-
formed his last feat


Sam Patch had previously jumped
over Niagara. Then, saying, "some
things can be done as we'll as others" he
slashed around like Sergeant Bates
through the western part of the States,
to back up his proverb. Before hi last
jump he bought big black bear of
circus man and led him over the turn
pike to Rochester.


The morning of the day came. Sam
had arrived in town with the bear and
the crowd rushed to Rochester from
miles around. Twelve o'clock was the
hour to jump-to jump hundred feet
down-down the terrible fall into the
boiling caldron below. A staging had
been built out over the water, and Sam
appeared on the staging dressed in
sailors garb. His friends now took up
collection on. the shore, while Sam
swung his hat and said after jumping
himself he would return and throw the
bear over. Then, amid a death like
stiffness, he ran few steps and gave
one leap in the air and fell, cutting the
mist like a led sinker, two hundred feet
into the seething whirlpool. AS he left
the staging his body assumed an oblique
position, his head foremost, but above
his feet. As he struck the water there
was dreadful silence, while the popu-
lace awaited with choking breath his re-
appearance. One minute, two minutes,
three minutes, aud no signs of the dar-
ing jumper. Then the people set up
loud wail-a long murmur of sorrow.


They say he had been drinking du-
ring the morning. and failed to keep his
feet together and his body perpendicular
as on previous occasions. So when he,
struck the water the breath left his body
and he was knocked senseless. A month
or so afterwards they found his body
away below Rochester, drifted upon the
rocks
Year: 1873

Oninos are specific against epidemic.
says the Scientific American not as an
esculent, but sliced and kept in a sick
room, where they will absorb any at
mospheric poison. They should be re.
placed by fresh ones every hour. 1t i.
noticed that in the room of smallpox
patient they will blister and dscompose
very rapidly, but viii prevent the spread
Of the disease. Their application ha.
also proved effective in the case of snake
bite.
Year: 1873

The Boston Saturday Evening Gazette
has the following sensible remarks on
the habit of eneoring songs. Though
written for the latitude OF the "Hub,"
they can be read with profit in Burling-
ton:


"The abuse of encoring comes in
with the concert season, with all its
wonted vigor. Perhaps it is idle to re-
monstrate against it; ; but we are moved
to say another word of protest neverthe-
less. AS practiced in Boston, it is un-
Just both to performers and to many in
their audiences. We do not object to
hearty demonstrations of approval.
These indicate satisfaction that is
stimulating to artists, and places them
in pleasant relations with those whom it
it is their mission to entertain. In ex-
ceptional cases of general and obvious
delight, a repetition may be q graceful
and gracious favor which it is pleasant to
see conveyed. But this is widely differ
ent from the wholesale system of demand
ing repetitions that is becoming the hab-
it with portions Of Boston audiences.
They are not the most numerous por-
tions, but in the vigor OF their youth
and persistency, they succeed in making
noise out of proportion to their real
strength, and thus induce artists unwill-
ingly to acquiesce, and compel the bal
ance of audiences to submit. Do these
enthusiastic people realize that there is
culpable disregard OF good manners in
their proceedings We presume not, but
their ill-breeding is none the less mani
fest. To urge upon singer, who has
appeared and indicated a wish to be ex-
cused, the repetition of a difficult per-
formance, that if they knew anything of
music they would be aware has been
tax both upon mental and physical fac
ulties. is to perpetrate a boorish act,
which is not at all redeemed by the en-
forced acquiescence that may follow it.
Then the portions of the audience not
encoring have rights also, or at least are
entitled to courtesy. They came to hear
the programme. 1t may be that some of
the last things in it are what they most
desire to hear. They could hear it all if
the concert was kept within reasonable
limits. In some instances, being con-
fined to the cars as means for reaching
their residences, they are compelled to
leave long before it is completed, and
thus are deprived of what they paid
their money to listen to. In others they
are so wearied that they leave the con-
cert room in disgust at the unnecessary
and unreasonable prolongation of the
programme. We don't know how far it
is in the power of concertgivers to resist
this increasing unpleasant custom; but
we heartily wish there could be combina-
ton among them to reform altogether
the practice of responding to encores.un-
til it can be brought within reasonable
limits
Year: 1873

The wife and three children of Mr..
Grain were killed by a falling tree, at
Mayville, N. j., few days ago. They
were in a sleigh at the time, and the
man who was cutting the tree by the
roadside, seeing them coming just as
the tree was totering. shouted for them
to stop. Mr. Grain did not hear him,
but stopped opposite the tree TO speak
to the man, and, just as he had STEPPED
from the sleigh, the tree crushed down
upon it, instantly crushing to death ha
entire family. sati -
Year: 1873

The New York correspondent of the Buff
alo Commercial Advertiser writes:


ga case in my own intimate acquaintance
has this very day appalled, large circle of
friends of this city. The victim was exact
ly of my own years, and companion from
early boyhood. For thirty years at least he
has been daily smoker of the choicest ci-
gars, but in all his other habits temperate
and regular, and of excellent constitution
one who, of all men, would have laughed at
the suggestion that tobacco was killing him.
A few weeks ago last Sunday night he was
stricken with the progressive paralysis
Characteristic of nicotine, and on Sunday
night he died. His death was most pitiful
First, sight was lost, then speech, then mo-
ton of the neck, then motion of the arms,
and SO on, throughout the body, and he lay
for fortnight unable to move or make a
sign, save pitiful, tongueless, inarticulate
sound, which sometimes rose TO almost
frantic effort, but all in vain, to make known
what he wished to say to his family or
friends; for his consciousness and mental
faculties, were left unimpaired until within
two hours of the last, to aggravate to the ut
termost the horrors of his situation-a iv-
ing soul in dead body. The sense. of hear
ing was impaired, SO that he was conscious
of all around him, while as incapable of
communication with them as if dead, save
by slight sign of assent or dissent to ques-
ton. The doctors were fully agreed that
tobacco was the sole cause of this stroke.
Year: 1873




In referring to the happiness OF
early Housekeeping, Henry Ward
Beecher recently said in the pulpit: !:


81 would not give up the first two
years of my married life for all have
now. I live in a big house, with a
brown stone front, and very fairly
furnished; but, after all, among the
choicest experiences Of my life were
those which I passed through in In
dana, when I hired two chambers up
stairs when all my furniture was
given to me, and was secondhand at
that; and when the very clothes which
I had on my back had been worn by
Judge B. before me. We we're
not able to hire servant. Wehad to
serve ourselves. It was study every
day how to get along with our small
means-and it was study never to
be forgotten. I owe many of the
pleasures which have run through my
life to sbeing willing oabegmwhere I
had to begin, and to fight poverty
with love, and to overcome it, and to
learn how to live in service and help
fulness, and in all the thousand inge-
nuities wllichlove sweetens and makes
more and more delightful"


Is there another clergyman in the
country, of any degree of prominence,
who would stand up in the pulpit, be-
fore fashionable audience, and say
that the very clothes he once had on
his back had been worn by Judge B
before him! Is it any wonder that
Mr.. Beecher is beloved by the people?
Il New York Ledger.
Year: 1873

President Grant, on taking the oath
ofioffce at hislast Inauguration, kissed
these words in the 11th chapter of
Isaiah :" And the spirit of the Lord
shall rest upon himsthe spirit of wis
dom and understanding, the spirit of
counsel and might, the spirit ofknowl-
edge and of the Lord and shanmake
him of quick understanding in the.
fear of the Lord !; and he shall not
judge after the sight of his eyes
neither reprove after the hearing of
his. ears" sr s
Year: 1873

aie enter1ng the Tribune office
thef edlOor would often notice a Dor
rover lying in wait, and tell him be
forehand there was no use of asking
for money; that he could not get
another penny under any circum-
stances. The cozener, however, know
ing his man, would follow him into
his sanctum, and, in less than a min
ute, Mr.. Greeley would be seen open
ing his pocket-book, and be heard to
say, "Now, take that, and don't come
here any more for I'm going to turn
over a new leaf Of course, the new
leaf was never turned over, unless in
backward direction. The journal.
lists reputation as succorer of suck
ers was SO firmly established that he
drew them from every quarter, and
could not shake them off-INew
York Letter.
Year: 1873

child of the humblest day laborer may
aspire to the highest and most hon
ored position, provided he has the
necessary attainments. No narrow
prejudice or rigid custom, with nearly
the force Of law, hedges the way, to
compel the son into the same occupa-
ton as the father and grandfather be-
fore him, as in some countries of Eu-
rope. Here, no public opinion ties
the individual to the position in which
the accidents Of birth may have placed
him, or dares to frown on honest eff
forts to assume higher position in
the social scale. Here the proverb,
"Once cobbler always cobbler,"
finds no acceptance; by integrity and
mental capacity the artisan or labor
er OF to-day, may in few years be
transferred to the halls of legislation,
or clothed in the ermine of the Judge.


In the future, as in the past, by
means of our free education, there is
no reason why we may not again find
"tanner" and.a ''cobbler" called by
thevoice of a Nation to occupy the two
highest places in the Government.


What the farmer and mechanic
need, like all other men, is a good ed
ucation, and the very object of the
munifcent grant of Congress was Sin
order to promote the liberal and
practical education of the industrial
classes in the several pursuits and
professions of life"


Not until the liberals added to the
practical in education, will those great
Year: 1873

W WAsH1SGIoS, April 29.-The Supreme
Court, in the case Of the collision between
the schooner Champion aud the steamer LII.
ellie, confirmed the judgment that the steamer
is responsible for all damages; the sailing
vessel must keep on her course and the
steamer must avoid her.
Year: 1873

we would advise alr who are in want of PICTURE
FRAMES to go to the RICHMOND FRAME STOKE,
where twenty-five per cent. can be saved. Don't
forget the place. next TO the Dollar Store, corner
Ninth and Main streets.
Year: 1873

They have just received fresh supply of those
beautiful patent Toilet Mirrors at the DOLLAR
STORE corner Ninth and Main streets, which they
are selling at the exceedingly low price OF one dol
l,r
Year: 1873

Get STRONG Es3rnesS ana SE!S.


Considering the lives ot these Wha
sit behind horses often depend on the
soundness of BIZ or strap, it IS re


markable how little attention is paid
TO the condition of harness by those
who trust themselves, not only IL
strange carriages but also in their owr
vehicles. An English journal devoted
to the harness trade, sfter Observing that
scarcely 4 day passes without The &C
carreuce Of an accident arising from
bit breaking while in the hoTse's
mouth, points out that there are three
ways OF making these bits: One Is 10
forge them throughout Of the tough


est iron or of soft steel the other is
to use cast cheeks,and forge the mouth
pieces; while the third is to cast them
throughout. The first is the only
method that should be followed, bat
buyers viii not pay the prices asked,
and manufacturers cannot affozd 10
sell them for less. The wrought
mouth is the next best, and if The
cheek has been properly annealed, it
makes most q seryicable bit. Cast
checks, however, are not alwaystrust


worthy, and the manufacturer Is SIS
likely to be deceived in this respect as
the buyer. The cast bit Is one thar
ought never to be used. Harness
makers should Inform their customers
of the quality of the article and leave
the responsibility with the buyer Il
Tor the SAKE CT the difference in price
between two kinds a man chooses to
risk his lite by using the poorer bat,
neither the harness maker nor the Iii.
manufacturer should be blamed. The
bits, and reins should always be of the
strongest kind, no mater what the
merits OF the rest of the harness.
Year: 1873

PETER CooPER's PROTEST AGAINST PARTISAN


POLITICS IN MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS.


Peter Cooper explains with even greater
emphasis than in previous letter to Senator Benedict
his views the defects of the Charter In the following
letter 10 Gov. Dix:


His ErceiiencH JOHN A DIX. Gorernor:


DEAR SIR: The profound interest with which the
posed Charter WILL trust be accepted by you sut
cent excuse for asking your attention TO Views Of
the which TO 10 be OF especial Importance
The opinions essed in your inaugural address met
general and cordial response from the class OF citizens
whose Judgment is entitled 10 weight from their
est in the welfare OF the city. Those opinions,
instead OF losing force by the events and dis
cussions that have since taken place. have been growing
stronger and more fixed every day since they were ut
tered until n may be safely said that to-day no intel
gent map in New-York controverts them who has not
This interest alone claiming TO be sustained
by the whole power OF the Federal Administration, Is
the only obstacle existing TO the easy and harmonious
settlement every question at issue respecting the dis
position powers among the different branches OF
city government. The confidence In and attach
ment for Gen. Grant among the best men OF
New-York has been attested by such hearty
ton they viii be slow To believe that it IA Dy his
sanction that his best friends are embarrassed and
thwarted In their effort 10 give this great city such
government they know 10 be necessary 10 It's safety
and prosperity. But whether this claim DO we'll or III
founded the fact that II rs openly made aud as
absolute necessity OF asserting against 1t tho indopend
ence the from Federal interferonoe respect
TO all thoso matters coming solely within the limit OF
Sita nraotiou. while at the ttno carefully aud
Year: 1873

OUR NEW IMPROVED MACHINE


Stands without a rival, and should find its
way into every family. 1t has reached the
highest state OF perfection of the Sewing Ma
chine yet produced, and its sales are constant
ly.increasing throughout the world.
Year: 1873

Dinner over, a siesta on the soft mats


is next in order. These mats seem made
for sleep and Incidence. No booted


foot ever defiles them. Every one leaves


his clogs on the ground outside, and
glides about in his mitten-like socks,
which have each a special compartment
for the great toe. Ny waiting damsel
having gone out, and there being no such
things as bells, I do as the natives, and
clap my hands. A far-of answer of
he-i-i is returned, and soon the shut
fling of feet is heard again. The house
wife eppears with the usual low bow,
and, smiling so as to again display what
resembles a mouthful of coal, she lis
tens to the request for a pillow. Open
ing the little closet before spoken of,
she produces the desired article. It is
not ticking bag of baked feathers in
closed in a dainty, spotless case of white
linen, but little upright piece of wood,
SIX inches high and long, and one wide,
rounded at the bottom like the rockers
of cradle. On the top, lying III a
groove, is a tiny rounded bag o calico
filed with rice chaff about the size of a
sausage. The pillow-case is a piece of
white paper wrapped around the top,
and renewed in good hotels daily for
each guest. One can rest about four or
six inches of the side of his O8 OcciDjti8
on a japanese pillow, and if he wishes
may rock himself to sleep, though the
words suggest more than the facts war
rant. By sleeping on civilized feathers,
one gets out of training, and the Japa-
nese pillows feel very hard and very
much in one place. The dreams which
one has on the these pillows are charac-
teristic In my first some imps were
boring gimlet-hOles in the side Of my
skull, until they had honey-combed it
and removed so much brain that I felt
too Iight-headed to preserve my cqui-
librium. On the present occasion, after
falling asleep, thought that the pillow
on which lay pressed its shape into my
head, and the skull, to be repaired, was
being trepanned. Ny head actually
tumbIing off the pillow was the cause Of
the fancied operation being suddenly
arrested
Year: 1873




Charleston may congratulate herself
that the embarrassed condition Of her
city finances has thus far prevented her
from venturing on any extended scale,
upon the costly experiment Of wooden
pavements. We may take a profitable
lesson in this matter from the experi-
ence of the rich cities Cf the north and
west. OF the even, pleasant noiseless
surface presented by the wooden pave
ments when new there can be no ques-
tion. Bot they lack the first requisite
of a good pavement they will not last
st. Louis Is the latest city that has
voted them a failure, if not a nuisance
The mayor, III a message to the common
council, embOdies the results of twelve
years trial of this kind of pavement.
He says the fact is clearly shown that
wooden pavements are not suited to
streets used by heavy traffic, and 1T is
expensive under any circumstances. He
says that tine average wear of such a
pavement Is six years, and the cost of
repairing is one dollar and a half per
Iineal foot. In Philadeldhia the wooden
pavement averages only three or four
years, and Is voted to be comparatively
worthless. In Pittsburgh inve5tiga-
tions are IN progress that are likely to
result in a similar verdict. New York
has long since found out that it Is the
most costly and worthless of all kinds
of pavement.
Year: 1873

r. Z. G. Stearns of the California
academy of science, gives a description
of a newly discovered zoophyte, found
in Buzzard's Inlet, Washington terrific
ry, known as PaUonarjH Blanket. A
form much resembling the specimen
described by Mr. Sbearns Is found at
Oban, on the coast Of Scotland, and the
genus was so named from the fancied
resemblance to a PeacOck's feather. 1t
is about six feet in length, the central
stalk being about as thick as common
lead pencil, with the feathers on one
side stripped entirely off, and the feath-
ers on the other side removed for about
one-fourth of the length of the quill,
from It's lowest part. Suppose the
whole to be covered with thick coat of
transparent pink wax, and the surface
Of each side of the remaining feathered
portion divided into two hundred and
fifty slightly elevated rows of ridges,
which run obliqueIy and upward from
the outward edge Of the feathered part
this, reckoning the two sides, makes five
hundred rows, and each row IS com
posed of from ten to fourteen small
flowers with petals resembling fern
leaves; thus we have total of about
five thousand tiny flowers on a single
stalk or plant, or feather. Each one of
these small flowers IS an animal, fixed
stationary in its place IN the row, All
the whole combined form a compound
I animal with ducts and circulatOrY ar
rangenents running through its entire
length. The food secured by either
one of the tiny flowers or PolyPes helps
/ tn nourish the whole. The stalk or axis


Is the only hard portion, and resembles
hone In texture. 1t sustains the entire
colony and structure in an erect or per


pendicular position at the bottom of the
sea, the lower part being planted in the
mud or sand. This wonderful curiosity,
as beautiful as it Is wonderful, belongs
to the zoophytes, an is related to the
sea anemOnes and coral animals. Each
one of the Ave thousand flowers IL
miniature sea-anemone.-SGH FFa5scfscO


Bulletin.