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Year: 1875

THE MONSTERS OF THE EDEEP.-Sword
fish are very powerful. An exchange
says: ave remember Captain Stones
telling of an incident which occurred
while he was running the brig Jose
phine' between Honolulu and Jarvis
Islands, about 1858. The brig was an
extraordinary sailer, and while going at
her full speed, ten miles an hour, she
was struck directly under the stern
counter, with such shock as to jar the
whole vessel and to awaken the captain
out of a sound sleep, who supposed that
the brig had struck whale or reef.
Immediately the pumps were started,
but there was no water in the hold. On
returning to port the brig was hove out,
to find the cause of the shock, when,
near the stern-post, imbedded in the
thick plank, the blade of a sword fish
was found, fully twenty inches in
length. To have hit the brig under the
counter, the fish must have been going
in the same direction as the vessel; and
one may imagine the speed with which
it moved to have plunged its sword
twenty inches through the planking. 1t
must have been going at the rate of
twenty or twenty-five miles an hour,
and evidently intended to hit the brig,
supposing it to have been a whale.
From this one can get faint idea of the
fights which take place among the mon
stsrs of the deep.n
Year: 1875

No doubt that work is a luxury, and
a very great one. 1t is, indeed, at once
q luxury and a necessity. No man can
retain either health of mind or body
without it. So profoundly do 1 feel
this, that one of the principal objects I
would recommend to benevolent and
practical persons is, to induce rich
people to seek for larger quantity of
this luxury than they at present possess.
Nevertheless, it appears by experience
that even this healthiest of pleasures
may be INDUCED in to excess, and that
human beings are just as liable to sur
felt of labor as to surfeit of meat; so
that, as on the one hand, it may he
charitable to provide, for some people,
lighter dinner and more work, for 9TH
ers it may be equally expedient to pro-
vide more dinner and lighter work.
Ruskin.
Year: 1875

A WOOING NOT LONG A DOING.-It is
told that Abernethy, attending a lady
for several weeks, observed those admir-
able qualities in her daughter which he
truly esteemed to be calculated to render
the marriage state happy. Accordingly,
on Saturday, when taking leave of his
patient, he addressed her to the follow
ing purport: "YOu are now so well that
l need not see you after Monday next,
when 1 shall come and pay you my fare
well visit. But in the meantime, [ wish
you and your daughter seriously to con-
slider the proposal [ am about to make.
1t is abrupt and unceremOnious, l am
aware; but the excessive occupation of
my time by my professional duties
affords me no leisure to accomplish
what desire by the ordinary course of
attention and solicitation. My annual
receipts amount to -, and | can settle
- on my wife. My character is gen.
orally known to the public, so that you
may readily ascertain what it is. /
have seen in your daughter tender and
affectionate child, and gentle and lady
like member of a family. Such per-
son must be all that a husband covets,
and l offer my hand and fortune for her
acceptance. On Monday, when 1 call,
L shall expect your determination; for
1 really have no time for the routine of
courtship." In this humor the lady
was woOed and won; and we believe we
may add that the union was felicitous in
every respect.
Year: 1875

Throughout the long hours of the day


How many tread its yielding plank,
That safely bears them on their way


Across the stream to either bank.
A motley throng, perhaps in haste


To chase their phantom, though II flies;
Once grasping it, they hope to taste


The blissful joys of Paradise.
And yet, what thoughts beat through the brain
In time with footsteps fast or slow;
What hopes they carry in their train,


Or what unrest, we may not know.
Could all their fancies take dim form,


And hover in the ambient air,
How strange and sad would be the charm


That little quiet bridge would wear.
But to that bridge who will repairs,


And passing leaves no other trace
Than that which constant treading wears


Upon its hard, enduring face.
Yet on our varied way in life


We leave the marks where we have been,
Disclosing in the restless strife


The silent path we tread within.
Year: 1875

What has my darling been doing to-day,


To pay for her washing and melding2
How can she manage to keep out of debt


For so much caressing and tending?
How can wait till the years shall have flown.


And the hands grown larger and Strongere
Who will be able the interest to pay,


II the debt runs many years longer2
Dear little feet! How they fly to my side :


White arms my neck are caressing;
Sweetest of kisses are laid on my cheek;


Fair head my shoulder is pressing.
Nothing at all from my darling is due


From evil may angels defend her
The debt is discharged as fast as tits made,


For love is a legal tender!
Year: 1875

A correspondent writes to know why
we do not publish more original poems.
The trouble is generally that they are
not long enough. Most young writers
confine themselves to twenty or twenty
five verses, and the sentiments have no
opportunity for expansion.-NorlOicb
Bulletin.
Year: 1875

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2Sd,

 In August of 1S41 took my first trip on 8 steamboat, and, in August 1875. my latest. The former is as fresh in my mem- ory as the latter. The railroad from AL bany to Buffalo was then incomplete, and, "e"-- -s DaEfaIO- nUL ,..;I.. ss.C1> ~ss laid, so, when the lakes were open, nearly all the travel west was by steamer, as far as practicable About the last of July of 1S41 occurred terrible calamity. The steamer Erie was burned on Lake Erie and a large proportion of her many pas sengers lost their lives, including every lady, except one, who was saved by hay ing on life preserver. India rubber life preservers were then a new invention, and one was for time considered indispen- sable to 8 traveller.

 As contemplated going from Buffalo to Cleveland one was provided for me and was as consoling as life insurance policy. As my escort had occasion to go to Ithaca, (nOt then made famous by CornelD, We left the stage at Cayuga Bridge and em- parked on the Dewitt Clinton for that place. The trip up the Cayuga Lake was as delightful as fine scenery on either shore and novelty could make 1t, but the adventure on our return the following day was the most exciting of my experience. Amid great commotion among the passen. gers my uncle came to me and said, "Put on your life preserver the boat is on fire," and then himself went to assist oth- CTS in extinguishing it. While some la- dies were shrieking, and some fainting. I proceeded to infate the preserver by blowing into tube at one end, after se- curing which. tied it beneath my arms and awaited the signal to leap into the water, and think was a little disap- pointed when told the fire was put out and the bath not necessary. An old gen. tleman told my uncle he vas amused to see me smiling while making my prepara- tions. The steamer escaped that time be. cause the recent disaster had caused them to take precautions. but they soon forgot. and few months later she was really burned, but no lives lost.

 Seeing the later invented kind of life preservers slowed away over the engine of the ''Flirt" on Lake Waramaug, remind ed me so forcibly of my first experience on a steamer that I could but contrast the first and last. Lake Waramaug has one advantage over the little lakes of New York state. in that she is so hemmed in by mountains and the trip is so quickly accomplished by the little "Flirt" that monotony is out of the question and every passenger expresses only delight. Every body, from the three-year-old child to the patriarch of ninety, enjoys steaming up the lake and back again.
Year: 1875

The name Remington has become a household word in all classes of society. Among ladies it is known as the name of the latest popular sewing machine; among military men it has long been known as the name of the most efficient weapon in use in the great armies of the world among, sportsmen it is known ss the name of the breech-loading rife which, in the hands of Fulton, Bodine, and Hepburn, mainly won the international match for America in 1874. and more recently the match at Dollymount, is the best score by far ever made.

 It is widely known as the name of a
Year: 1875

@THE case of the young girl, MARY
LoRETo, who recently stabbed and
killed her alleged seducer, in San
Francisco, will bring out and possibly
determine the question whether wo-
man is equally innocent before the
law with man, where both have COM
mitted offences precisely similar. The
axiom has been established by juries
and endorsed by public opinion, that
if the slayer of the seducer stands in
the relation of husband, father or
brother, to the seduced, the killing is
no murder, and the man who has
taken the law into his own hands has
committed no offence against the law.
If the father of the girl had done the
killing, and the evidence established
the fact of seduction, public opinion
would have regarded him as the aven-
ger of his own and his daughters
honor; the law would have been par
alyzed and the act of Staying general
ly endorsed. The girl has done what
her father or brother might have done
and escaped both censure and punish
ment. Will she be endorsed as they
would have been? If she will not,
why? Has not woman the same
right to avenge this crowning wrong
to herself, that her husband, father or
brother, has to avenge it for her? 1t
would seem so, yet we doubt if public
opinion will promptly recognize the
right. There is point of difference
between the woman avenging herself
and being avenged by another, so SUBJ
tie that it can hardly be seized upon,
yet every man who gives the subject
consideration recognizes its existence.
The question has another phase equal
ly curious and equally difficult to an
alyze, which is that public opinion
does not so readily occept as fact that
the woman has suffered the crowning
wrong, when the charge is made by
herself, as when it comes in the shape
of an assertion from her father, broth
er or husband. These subtle points
will present themselves in the trial of
the girl MARY LoRETO, and it will be
something of study to watch the
progress of case which could have but
one result, were the defendant man,
and which may have very different
ending as the prisoner at the bar is a
woman.
Year: 1875

The institution of the Sabbath day,


by MOSES must be regarded in all
ages as at least worthy of great law
giver if not of divine origin. Though
we do not at this day concede the rea-
son for such an observance assigned
by the wise Iraelite, as the world grows
old mankind feels more binding the
obligation to preserve the day Of rest


and reflection. The original edict,
commanded the keeping holy the sew
enth day, which is Saturday, but the
early Christians, almost with a fore
cast of the Interpretation which sci


ence would in after centuries put up
on the Book of Genesis, fixed the Sab
bath upon the first day of the wee k.
This was to commemorate the res ur-
rection OF Christ, and to distinguish
them from the unbelieving Jews. 1t
remained for the present century to
justify this change by proving that
the world was not created in six day s
oftwe nty-four hours each. But how
ever much we may dispute as to the
religious reasons for observing any
particular day of the week as a day
of rest, none will gainsay the sanitary
effect of the custom. The devotion of
one seventh part of the time TO eth er
rest from worldly labor or the worship
Of God must necessarily exert an ele-
Vating influence upon humanity.
Whether the Sabbath be observed as
a holiday or holy-day the world is
better for its existence. Without this
interval of rest or recreation which
the Sabbath affords the toiljng mil
lions of earth would soon degenerate
In mental and physical health to the
point of utter destruction. In this
great busy country where men pursue
wealth with such frantic zeal, VIII ere
life is such on excitement, and busi-
ness such an obstinate struggle, the
day of rest is the cnnservator Of the
nations strength. Viewing it from @
strictly religious stand point none will
Year: 1875

The law gives the Board of Educa-
ton the right to notify the Common
Council as to the amount of money
necessary to defray the expenses of
the school department for the ensuing
year, and it directs that the Council
shall lay a tax sufficient to raise this
amount. The Board of Education
gave the Council the requisite notifi-
cation, and that bo'ly levied a tax
equal to about half the amount re-
quired. The Board of Education ask
ed for mandamus to compel the
Council to comply with the law, and
the District Court has granted the
prayer So the Council in this case is
wrong as usual.
Year: 1875

deny its moral advantage. When the
din of commerce is heard no more, the
haunts of trade are deserted and ST.
lent, the pillow. stands still in the field
of promise, the OK, the ass and the
horse are motionless within their
stalls, the voice of the church TELLS
roll over hill and valley, sending a
gentle appeal to every heart, an ap-
peal in striking accord with the sur
rounding scenes, to come within the
sacred edifice and join in songs of
praise to the Great Power that rules
the destinies of the world.
Year: 1875

Az Idaho observer of Chinese human
nature says the moon-eyed Mongols al
ways aim ut their antagonists legs when
they have a little shooting scrape. The
reason is this : the one who is on the point
Of running is always the one who does the
shooting-he aims for the leg in order to
dis qualigv his adversary for the race.
Year: 1875

SINCE the law took effect giving the
jury the right to aiIix the penalty in mur-
der cases, there have been twenty nine
convictions in this State. OF this mum
b1r, eighteen were condemned to prison
and eleven to death.
Year: 1875

A TERRIBLE explosion of fire damp oc
Cured in coal mine near Mons, Ger
many. a full force of men were at work
at the time and it is reported that one
hundred and ten miners were killed.
Year: 1875

AIr. MIKE A1oDosA1D must own great
part Of Chicago lie is on the bail-bond Of
every distinguished rapscallion now under
indictment and still he had property enough
at his disposal to securo his own acquittal
from the chnrgo Of keeping gambling estab-
ishment. Probably not one Of the notorious
gamblers now on trial will be convicted
thanks to MCDONALD aud his influence,
Year: 1875

The past season has been one Of peculiar
abundance in the yield Of nearly all the sta
pie crops Of the state. The farmers Of the
Pine Tree State have every reason to be
thankful for the bounties Of the year. We
have had no severe drouth, or food, no de-
structive tempest or visitation Of devastating
insects. The season on the whole has been
very propitious and abundant harvests of ev-
erything except, in some localities, corn, tes.
tily to this fact 1t was too wet for a gene
raj good crop of corn, but this same wet that
initiated against the corn was the salvation
of the grass crop, and the making Of the
wheat crop. Under good systems Of culti-
walton even corn has done well the past sea-
son. We have seen as handsome corn as
one would wish to zee, grown the past sea-
son, but there were very many failures. The
grass crop, which is the underlying one Of
our agriculture-Of any agriculture that
thrives, for we must base our system on the
maxim "no cattle, no crop,"-wAs one OF
full average quality and quantity this is al
ways a cheering item. The wheat crop was
never better, and wheat culture is to receive
a very great impulse from this seasons ex-
perience-auother encouraging item for the
future. The other grain crops were proper
tionately good with that Of wheat. The po
tato crop was above an average in both quail
ity and quantity.


The retrospect of the past season has som'
important lessons for us if we will see, heed
and learn them. Stock has done very we'll
for pasturage has been better than usual il
abundance, if not quite as good in quality
Stock raising, especially cows for the dairy
sheep for mutton and wool, and in the NOR
remote sections cattle for beef, needs NOR
attention. We believe that there is NOR
attention turned to it to-day than for year
Year: 1875

A great improvement in the manufacture
Of butter is being made by the introduction
Of patent milk pans large enough to hold
one milking from dairy at a time, and by
means of metallic cooler in which tho pans
are set water is introduced to cool the milk,
and in this way it is claimed tnat much
m ore butter aud Of better quality can be
made and three-fourths of the labor saved.


The leading pan at present and the one
considered best adapted to all tho require
ments of the dairy is the compartment milk
pan, manufactured and sold by W. o. Camp
bell & Co., Of Richford, who are the sole
proprietors. This pan has only been manu-
featured for two seasons and their orders for
the past season have been SO numerous that
they have been obliged to enlarge their facil-
tiles for manufacturing them. One par
ticular advantage that this pan has over all
others is that it is divided in such a manner
that it can be adapted to any quantity Of
milk, and therefore be used at all seasons of
the year with large or small quantity of
milk, and still kept at desired depth. The
corners in the pan are rounded and the bot.
tom slightly inclined toward the outlets,
facilitating the drawing of of the milk and
cleansing of the pan, and the arrangement
of the joint faucet in the cooler for regula-
ting the depth of the water is so simple that
they can be managed without the slightest
difficulty.


This pan has always taken the highest
premium wherever 1t has been on exhibition
in competition with the other kinds. 1t was
at the Vermont dairymen's association aud
Vermont state fair of 1874, and at the lat
ter place was awarded not only the first
premium but also diploma and a silver
medal. About 100 sets of these pans were
put in in Franklin county last season, which
is considered one of the best butter counties
in the United States. The vast difference
which is made in prices between extra and
fair quality of butter makes it an object for
dairymen TO be properly prepared with suita
BILE utensils. LEO.


IraSJurgh, Jan. 8,


We think our correspondent puts it rath'
er strong. There are good many pans il
market, and good judges find it difficult tc
decide between several Of the best. LEO
may not have tested all the other pans thor
oughy, or may be prejudced. While W.
consider the Rchlord pans among the bes
we have no doubt several others belong il
the same class. Ed. FARMER
Year: 1875

pretty quick. Coax her aud card her then
GET dish of warm water and sit down be-
side her and gently rub the bag and teats
for FIVE or ten minutes, aud you can milk
her with no trouble if she is naturally gen.
tie. If she is chronic kicker, and you
wish to keep in grace sell her for beef.
This is certainly very important matter,
and as the COWS will now be coming in l
hope some of your more able and experience
ed writer's will treat Of 1t, as in the "multi-
tude of counsel there is safety. y."-Cor. NeW
York Times
Year: 1875

Speer's Port Grape Wine is one of the
best diuretics known. 1t gently acts on the
kidneys, stimulating and infusing in them
new vigor and urges them to throw from
the system all the worn out particles which
if suffered to remain would poison the
blood and create disease. Every disease
to a certain extent demands a diuretic,
every part of the system must be in work
ing order to maintain health, and the kid
neys especially are the main avenues for
the escape of the poisons of the system.
Physicians have, after strict trial and due
examination, found Speer's Port Grape
Wine to answer the purpose admirably,
and recommend it in cases where diuretic
is needed. This wine is raised in New
Jersey, and sold by druggists generally.
Year: 1875

SHOCKING ACCIDENT NEAR New
V1ENNA.-Last Saturday afternoon as
the limited express on the M. & c.
road was passing New Vienna sta
ton, it struck wagon which was
crossing the track, making a COM
plete wreck of it. The driver was
instantly killed. The pilot struck
the wagon squarely, and tore it loose
from the horses. The wagon bed
was thrown upon the pilot, and the
driver with it, striking his head
against some part of the engine in
such way as to split it open, killing
him instantly. The unfortunate man
wa Mr.. Nelson Ross, a wellknown
farmer about sixty years of age, iv-
ing about three miles from New
Vienna. He had been to mill, and
was returning with load of meal.
He either did not hear the train
coming, or miscalculated the time it
took to cross the track. The train
was going at such rate that it was
impossible to stop it after the en-
gineer saw the horses appear on the
track. The engine struck the wagon
with such tremendous force as to
burst the sacks, and send the meal
flying like cloud through the air. As
soon as possible the train was stop
ped, and the remains of the unfortu-
nate man carefully placed in the
baggage car, and taken back to tie
station, where they were left in the
care of acquaintances of the deceased
until the unwelcome news could be
borne to his bereaved family Gin.
Gazette, of Monday.
Year: 1875

The Gardiner Journal says very
truly that


Publishers of newspapers, and
more particularly local newspapers,
have to depend mainly upon their
advertising columns for their sup
port. Yet how many are there who
seem not to realize this fact. In
stead of giving their paper a liberal
advertising patronage, they perhaps
give it none; and if levee or enter
tainment is got up in the place, the
paper is expected to notice it for
nothing.


Now if all the patronage that a
paper can expect is that of the local
ity for whose interest it works, it
would seem that every one should
give it the advertising that legiti-
mately belongs to it, and not try to
get it without paying for it. There
is class of people that seem to be-
grudge every dollar that goes to their
local papers; and still borrow it and
read it, and are the severest critics
of its short -comings.


The publisher has to pay for labor
and paper, and every notice of any
kind, in the nature of an advertise
ment, he ought to have his pay for.
He has got to get his living out of
his advertising columns, and any So
ciety or individual can with just as
much propriety beg five dollars of
any other individual, as to expect it
gratuitously of newspaper.
Year: 1875

The difficulty Of obtaining pure wine
for sickness is one great cause why physi-
clans refuse to prescribe it where they know
it would be a benefit or even cure their pa
tient, because they fear that some poison
GUS mixture will be given them instead of
Port Wine, and the injury be irreparable.
Some California wines are being terribly
mixed and adulterated with alcohol and
water and other ingredients to make it
cheap, so as to bring a greater profit from
the sales. There is an excellent port, said
to be the finest wine in the market, made
in New Jersey, from the 0porto Grape, by
Alfred Speer, that has become the most re-
liable wine for Hospital and Communion
purposes. This wine has been thoroughly
analysed and is pronounced by chemists to
be the pure juice of the grape, and to con-
tain the most valuable medicinal proper
ties. 1t is sold by druggists, who purchase
direct from Mr.. Speer's Vineyards in New
jersey Evening Post.
Year: 1875

Mr.. Wendell Phillips makes much
of the fact that the currency in Eng
land is largely in excess of coin.
But he fails to mention the fact that
the holder of an English bank note
can get the coin for it whenever he
presents it for redemption.-TCin.
Commercial.


He fails to mention another fact.
The smallest note or bill issued by
the Bank of England is for five
pounds-$25.


The note was made SO large in
order that workmen would receive
their wages in gold and silver, andso
MOTTO be liable to loss byreason ofthe
daily fuetation of value of paper
money. The only money in England
between penny and five pound
note is gold or silver. No cheating
of working men there in paper
money.