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Year: 1876

From the Rochester Express, June a.


The stream known as Pine creek has long
borne the reputation Of one of the most
prolific of trout streams. During the latter
part of last week our townsmen Henry
Morse and William Kimball having received
favorable reports ofths May fishing, started
for their favorite summer quarters. After
half days fishing they filled their baskets,
and in capital spirits set out for their lunch
ing place. The spot chosen was ledge of
a precipitous bank Of rocks, shaded by a
giant hemlock tree about thirty feet above
stream, and bounded on all sides, save the
one facing the water and rather narrow
passage way, by an unbroken rocky wall
ten or twelve feet In height A sufficient
number OF trout were soon dressed the
lunch basket was taken from its place of
security, and blazing fire kindled to cook
the fish. But as the heat began to increase,
a colony of rattesnakes grew uneasy, and
determined to investigate the cause OF their
disturbance.


Kimble at this time had descended from
their elevated position in quest of some
Bordeaux, while Morse was busy cooking
the fish. The snakes, several In number,
had crawled meanwhile from their hiding
places and we're sounding the ominous
rattle, familiar to man and beast alike as
the certain precursor of danger ahead.
But the cracking of the twigs in the fire
deafened the sound. 1t was not until Kim
ball was climbing upward that he took in
the situation and apprised his brother
sportsmen of his danger. The snakes stood
coiled, and prepared for attack. Morse
sought hastily for way of escape, but the
reptiles stood in bis path, and, save the
deep pool far below him, he was hemmed
in on every side by prscipituous wall of
rock. His face blanched with fear, but his
resolve was soon taken, and, leaving rods,


luncheon basket, and we'll filled creels, he
sprang with a bound into the pool thirty
fesn tsss )W.


Ecsu nately, his decent was attended with
no more serious results than thorough
drenching, for the water was deep, and
being an expert swimmer, he found no diff
Guilty in regaining foothold on the opposite
shore, on less dangerous ground. Both
Morse and Kimball by this time concluded
they had had sufficient experience for one
day, and, without rods or fish baskets, with
the bottle of claret as their only consola-
tion, they lost no time in taking the nearest
route for their hotel.
Year: 1876

Col. Stewart Wortley. an English officer,
tells the following story of cat whose ac-
quaintance he made during the Crimean
war: "After the French troops had taken
the Malakoff, was sent into it on duty and
found an unhappy cat baynoneted through
the foot and pinned to the ground. I took
her to my tent; she was carefully tended,
and every morning taken to the doctor to
have her wound attended to. Four or five
days after I was too III one morning to get
up, and puss came and scratched at my tent
door. took no notice, but not long after
the doctor came to say that mine was a
wise cat, for she had come to his tent and
sut quietly down for her foot to be examin-
ed, and have its usual bandaging. She was
watched to see what she would do the next
morning, but she declined wasting her time
scratching for me, and went straight to the
doctors tent and scratched there. She was
very affectionate animal, and 1t was alb
surd to see her following me all over the
camp with her tail carried stiff in the air."
Year: 1876

The Chicago Inter Ocean of Wednesday
last says: "The hotel business in this city
begins to feel the effect Of the hard times.
We note that levy was made yesterday on
the furniture of the Atherton House, on
Wabash avenue, just northof Twenty second
street, and was taken out by the creditors.
The Clifton House Company does not pay
the interest on its bonds, not even the rent
of the ground on which the building stands.
There was q meeting Of the creditors Of the
Gardner House last week to consider what
should be done in regard to the large bills
it owes for current expenses. The building
and the lot of the Woodruff House have
also, we understand, been turned over to the
mortgages who loaned the money to erect
the building"
Year: 1876

Horace Shipley, Of Berlin town.
ship, had quite an encounter with a
snake last week. lie saw the snake
in the field where he was at work,
and attempted to kill it with a fence
stake. As he raised the stake the
snake darted at him, and coiled itself
around his legs. He reached in his
pocket for his knife /; it was not there,
and no stick or stone was within his
reach. while the snake was coiled SO
tightly around his legs that he could
not walk. He threw himself on the
ground and rolled over and over nn-
ill he reached some stones, when he
smashed its head with one blow. II
was d blacksnake, and measured six
feet eight inches in length.
Year: 1876

We extract from the Scientific
American the following useful hints
on the dangers of petroleum lamps


All explosions of petroleum lamps
are caused by the vapor or gas that
collects in the space above the oil.
When full of oil, OF course lamp
contains no gas, but Immediately on
lighting the lamp consumption of oil
begins, soon leaving a space for gas,
which commences to form as the lamp
warns up, aud, after burning short
time, sufficient gas will accumulate to
form an explosion. The gas i'm a
lamp will explode only when ignited.
In this respect it is like gunpowder.
Cheap or inferior oil is always most
dangerous.


The flame is communicated to the
gas in the following manner: The
wick tube in all lamp burners is made
larger than the wick which is to pass
through it. 1t would not do to have
the wick work tightly in the burner
on the contrary, it is essential that il
move up aud down with perfect ease.
In this way il is unavoidable that
space in the tube is left along the
sides of the wick sufficient for the
flame from the burner to pass down
into the lamp and explode the gas.


Many things occur to cause the
flame to pass down the wick and cx
plode the lamp: First, a lamp may
be standing on table or mantel, and
a slight pun Of air from the open win
dow or door may cause an explosion ;
second, lamp may be taken up
quickly from table or mantel, and
instantly exploded; third, a lamp is
taken into an entry where there is a
draught, or out of doors. and am eX-
plosion ensues fourth, IA lighted lamp
is taken up a flight of stairs. or is
raised quickly TO place ii Oh the man
tel, resulting in an explosion. In
| these cases the mischief is done by the
air movemcnt---eithcr by suddenly
checking the draught. or forcing air
down the chimney against the hame
fifth, blowing down the chimney 10
cX.ingnish the light is frequent
cause .of.explosion; sixth. lamp explo-
sions havs been caused by using q
chimney broken off at the top, or one
that has piece broken out, whereby
the draught is variable and the flame


unsteady; seventh, sometimes 9
thoughtless person puts a small-sized
wick in a large-sized burne., thus
leaving considerable space along the
edges of the wick. An old burner
with its air draughts clogged up
which rightfully should be thrown
away, is sometimes continued in
use, and the final result is an explo.
Year: 1876

Again the poor benighted beauty
raised her voice to one Of the most
solemn, sacred airs,


"0hl where shall rest be found,


Rest for the weary soul?


and continued her melancholy
chant until we reached the steamer
Mount Vernon, on board Of which
we descended the magnificent
James river. His was a sorrow too
profound for ordinary consolation,
and no one dare intrude far upon
his grief as to satisfy the curiosity.


We were standing on the prone
made deck admiring the beautiful
scenery of the river, when at one
of the landings the small boat
pulled away with the unhappy PAIR
for the asylum at -. She was
standing erect in Che stern of the
boat, her head still uncovered, and
her snowy dress and raven tresses
fluttering in the breeze. The
boat returned aud the steamer
moved on for Norfolk. They were
gone that brother with his broken
heart, that sister with her melan-
choly union of beauty and madness
Year: 1876

A Good gqu are Dianer fora Nickel.
New York Graphic


The general reduction of prices
is nowhere better -hown than in
the sudden appear lce, in all parts
Of the city, of the cheapest posi-
bic style Of restaurant, where soup
anG meat, bread and vegetables
enough to satisfy a moderately hun
cry man may be had fol five cents.
Possibly We are growing like the
French-and, by the way, the
French colony in New York has no
notion of spending on its meats
what the Americans pay for them
and shall soon have restaurants
where the two.sous plate of soup
shall be filled up with the syringes
commonly used for that purpose in
Paris. 1t has always been a just
reproach to Americans that In our
dietary we waste material enough
to feed all our paupers and have to
spare. The waste naturally has
told in the prices charged by res
tauranteurs for their dishes. The
rigid economy Of the Chinese in
such matters has for ages kept a
healthy, athletic and contented peo-
pie in densely crowded empire.
A genuine Chinaman viii get a full
days work out of a handful of rice
Year: 1876

Our Coffees are all roasted
and ground on our premises.
Our ground Cofiees are cut up
in a Steel Mill, which granu-
lates them without powder
ing, and are, in consequence,
fee from dust. Only fine
favored Cofees are used By
us for grinding.


Our Roasted Coffee trade is
constantly increasing, owing
to the fact that all our Coffees
are carefully selected for their
body and fine flavor, and as
we roast in the best style OF
the art, using our own Water
Power, and roasting three
times a week, they are always
fresh and fragrant when sold.
WEI. DEAN e. CO.,


1SgPOplar st.
Year: 1876

HE CONNECTICUT CENTENNIAL BUILDING

 has come out from the obscurity into winch an enormous and unsightly fence had thrust 1t, and now appears at the end

 or lovely garden. It's interior furnish ing IS nearly completed. and it promises to be one of the coziest retreats on the grounds. One sees in the little edifice

 ample evidence. of the refined taste of tha designer, sIk Marvel" the author. who has given us so many delightful sketches
Year: 1876

In prepa ing the present edition for the press has accordingly been the aim of the editors to bring down the information of the latest possible dates and to furnish account of the recent discov cries in science, of every fresh production in tera ture and of the newest inventions in the practical arts, well as to give succinct and original record Of he of
Year: 1876

The work originally published under the title of THE NEW AMERICAN CYCLOPEDIA was completed in 1885, since which time the wide circulation which has attained in all parts of the United States the signal developments which have taken place in every branch of science, literature, and ar have induced the editors and publishers to submit it to exact and thorough rev1son to issue edition entitled
Year: 1876

A pious father entered saloon with a horse-whlp one night last week, and found his son playing tuchre. He tanned the young mans jacket and sent him home, and then sat down and finished the game himself.
Year: 1876

The stock market to-day again wos subject TO one
of those spasmodic conyulsions that have come and
gone at irregular periods during the past few
months. This time anthracite" was the stimulant
that inebriated because of a too free Indulgence of
"short" sales after decline of 40 to so per cent
The total business of the day shows large decline
from that of yesterday yet the coal shares represent


over co per cent of the transactions Delaware,
Year: 1876

Id. InsersOll, an able and interesting
speaker, will address the people Of Mar
shall county next Monday. At l o'clock In
the afternoon. We trust that the Re.
publicans Of Marshall will give him .
meeting worthy Of their fame as the but
tress Of the Republican party.
Year: 1876

THE increase'of attendance upon the Cen
tennial the past few days will greatly encour-
age the friends OF that great enterprise who
feel that they are its sponsors. This is doubt
less largely due to the fattering accounts of
the Exhibition which returning visitors in
variably take to their homes, and also to the
fact that people in all parts of the country
have learned that it need not cost one dol
lar minute to remain in Philadelphia, but
about the same expenditure of currency re-
quired in any other city full of hotels and
boarding houses, where there is no Worlds
Fair this year. One Portlander of moderate
means, who has spent week in Philadelphia
expresses the determination to take another
seven days Of sight seeing on the Exhibition
grounds later in the season.
Year: 1876

THE spread of the soft money delusion in
North Carolina has been effectually checked.
A North Carolina editor did it with his little
pen. He reminded his readers of the time
in the history of the Confederacy when the
currency was SO deprecated that gallon of
apple brandy cost a hundred dollars, and he
asked them if they wanted to see such terri
bile times again
Year: 1876

IF anyone cares to see how malicious and
mendacious newspaper can be, we invite


them to compare the special of the Boston
Herald relating to Mulligan's testimony re.
specting Mr.. Blaine, and the full official testi-
mony as sent by the Associated Press agents
and printed in full by the Boston Advertiser
and Journal Comment on such journalistic
indecency is superfuous.
Year: 1876

THE Man with the Fork in his Stomach is
before the public again. The surgeon who
rescued the fork gave it to scientific society,
and now the man has sued for its recovery.
Hesays his victuals don't taste good unless he
takes his dai ly fork with them, not as mat
ter of etiqu cite but digestion.
Year: 1876

THE Tennessee Democrats are not content
with declaring against resumption. They
clearly pronounce for imitation and that the
currency already withdrawn shall be reissued
Naturally enough they support Hendricks.
Year: 1876

THE latest device at fancy dress parties is
for ladies to get themselves up as icicles-and
then presumably some fellow comes along
and gives out that he is July sun, and melts
tharn
Year: 1876

NOTICE is hereby given that shall apply at the
IN next meeting of the Board OF Mayor and Alder
men for permission to erect and maintain Station
ary Engine in Brick Building, SO Union ST.


ju1d3t w. LOWELL.
Year: 1876

Remit by Express, Postal Order. Bank
Draft, Certified Check, Registered Letter, or
payable to the order Of the Secretary of the
Industrial Exhibition Company, II East 18th
Street, New York Specially chartered by the
state Of New York, for the purpose of build
ing in New York
Year: 1876

A Ii BONDS PARTICIPATE IN EACH
n Series drawing until redeemed


Each Bond will receive more than its cost
All the risk purchaser runs is the loss Of q
portion Of the interest.


A,whele Bond must receive one Of the fol-
lowing Premiums:
Year: 1876

The Berlin correspondent of the London
Daily Nsrs writes -@..r-


" Among the persons who were moving
about the ruins of the catastrophe, in the
course Of the afternoon, was q frst-class
passenger, seemingly foreigner, who ex-
pressed great regret at the accident, and
also addressed several questions to the Cap
tain. When, during the evening, some
persons were passing through the state.
room, kroans were heard to issue from one
Of the cabins. One hurried immediately
toward the spot, and the door, closed on the
inside, was forcibly broken open. Stretched
out on the sofa WAS man in shirt sleeves
breathing with difficulty, perfectly uncon-
scious, and bis face covered with blood He
was the passenger observed above, identi-
fed as William K. Thomas, of New York
The doctors discovered him to be severely
wounded in the head, and ordered him to be
transported to the Lazarets where the other
victims were lying. At the first medical
examination, merely superficial, owing to
the darkness OF the cabin it was naturally
supposed he was also sufferer from the
explosion land only when the Captain assert


ed that he had spoken to Thomas after the
catastrophe, and it was stated the cabin
door had been locked from the inside, was
more minute search made, terminating in
the discovery Of q six-barreled revolver
under the sofa, from which two shots had
been fired. The transport of Thomas q
very corpulent man, to the infrmary was
performed with great exertion by six or
seven sailors, who rolled the wounded man
in blanket, carefully carried him down the
steps alongside the Mosel, and bore him in
cradle to the place where the other suf.
erers were under medical skill. By this he
was restored to consciousness. After re.
peated questions and urgent adnonitions be
confessed to have been the owner of thu
fatal case. The criminal examinat ion.. in.
stituted in consequence of this declaration


brought circumstances to light from which
It was proved tho explosion did not arise
from negligence, but from a plan deeply
and coolly laid" D." ".. UT -


..
Year: 1876

When swimming a horse never touch
the bride, as horse is easily drowned
when checked up or otherwise intertered
with about the head. Sit well back and
guide the horse with the hand, gently
slapping him on either side as required |;
thus horse will swim mile or moro
with full grown man on his back and
suffer but little Or better still, throw
yourself from the horse on the down
stream side, and with the right hand
grasping the name at the withers, aid
the progress OF the horse with the other
and feet, as in swimming.


The theory of the more violent Radi.
Gals is that, q man may be regularly and
legally elected President by the whole
people, yet he may be defeated and Sci
aside, and another man put in his place,
by fraudulent, count, proviaed it is all
done under the form of law.gaa' -aias1.


According to Republican theory tits
patriotism to obtain the Electoral votes
of three States by fraud, but it is revo
luton for the House to decline to lene
its "presence" to the counting of these
fraudulent votes. aaasssIhPieat-7,
Year: 1876

The ono and threcquartcr inch "carrics" f0ps
which was brought over from tho Brooklyn sfs %
Thursday fastened to the New York anchorage
Saturday afternoon and completely secured. II IL
fixed in position to support tho large cradle ropcf
which II Is expected will bo run over ths
latter part this week tho beginning
of next Mr. Martin said yesterday thai
cradle ropes had not been received and he could
not toll exactly when they would be ready. la the
meantime workm-n the New York aud Brook.
lyn towers will bc prncpalIy engaged in making prep.
aratons for these larger ropes Yesterday there
on y five or six men working on the New York tower,
and about the same number on tho Brooklyn side Al
the ancnorages lew mon werc working and they were
engaged removing the woodwork under tue arches and
pointing tho masonry
Year: 1876

tance, and the first of these specks were known to
be Capt Cooks crew, they scarcely had voice in re-
serve Nearer and nearer the shells, wider and
wider the gap between them, and wilder and
wilder was the hurly burly on shore. Yale leaped
into the fourth mile with a quickened stroke, and
Harvard, as everybody saw, had lost the race. All
Yale had it's mouth open now. "Look at Cook; see
his feather" cried enthusiastic maiden from the
grand stand. The crew rowed even more steadily as
they drew near the line, and in a moment it vas
over With one long drawn-out cheer, Yale on shore
fell back exhausted. II could shout TO more. Har-
ward took ts defeat without word. II was so COM
plcte that nothing was to be said. All that the aver
age Harvard man could do was to creep into a
crowded corner OF the train, and when hc Massasoi
was reached to ask the hotel clerk when the first
train East or West was to start.
Year: 1876

The House Commerce Committee this morn
ng decided postpone the investigation OF the special


freight contracts Of the Pennsyyana Central and oter
companies until next December II had been suggested
that the Committee should sit during the recess, but MI


opkins the mover OF the resolution, opposed this
he said the unwiliogness manifested by the Committee
Year: 1876

where the best, there also is the worst tc


be found. The fashion of drinking good


champagne as festal wine has led to the


custom of supplying what it is hoped may
pass for good champagne, and what may
be a harmless preparation of cider ol
| some other Indigenous egervescing LIQUID
or harmful compound imported from
abroad. A year or two ago there was q
kind of panic as to ballroom champagne,
when it was suggested that petroleum
was largely employed to poison unsus-
pecting people under the guise of hOspi-
tality and this panic was the exaggerated
expression of fear which had some foun-
datiOn.


1t is not difficult to produce limitations
of champagne, if not by the agency of pc
trOleum, by that of, among otAer things,
chloroform water, which, like many other
chemicals, has been pressed into the
service of ordinary tradesmen. 1t is per-
haps not surprising that many people
should waste their substance in the pur-
chase of riotus and spurious champagne
But it might be well for such people to
consider that fine wines produced by
such processes as we have described are
of necessity costly. And they might with
advantage turn their attention TO the ex-
istence of certain sparkling wines which
cost little, and yet have the exhilerating
and harmless qualities of fine champagne
without, of course, its delicate SAVIOR.
such as the Austrian Voslauer or the
French VOuvray.
Year: 1876

hidden in her mouth. They are cast out


of cities; they lend to kings. Antagon-


lied for ages, they have yielded at last


to the softening influence of toleration
| and kindness. Assured against molesta-
| ton, they have became holder OF land


and lots in the cities of the new world.
They hold about one-third of the best


real estate in the city of New York !;


their synagogues lift their rich facades 10


the light, where the Moorish horseshoe


and Dubious domesof silver gilt are inter
mixed with texts of chaldean. Many
of them give literally to build christian
churches and to christian charities, but
in worship and in marriage their faith
fulness seldom wavers. We agitate to
keep the Sabbaths we will not keep, but
silently and not to proselytize, the Jew
puts up his shutters on his own seventh
day, and loses the lucre of two Sabbaths
without a whine.


The Jewish maiden takes her bath,
and as she leaves the water, with her
clothes clinging to her, she is stalwart
as a section of SolomOn's temple. Her
thick, black hair is fit for bow-strings
like shafts of cedar are her limbs. She
lunches heartily on cold meats and
bottle of beer, and goes up and dresses
for her lord. When he arrives in the
stage she is on the piazza wearing vel
vet dress with an overdress of lace cur
tain, Maria Stuart collar, big diamonds
in her ears, and a straw hat full of illu-
sion pinned down with tulip of gold
and carnelian. They address each other
in three or more languages during the
same sentence, being true cosmopolitans,
and in a minute the carriage is up for
drive. That night, about ten or eleven
of the clock, they are eating the entire
Passover lamb, drinking champaign, and
laughing like the happiest people in the
world, ali dressed richly, bareheaded,
taking the world for all it is worth.
Year: 1876

THE man, who, weary of his wife's alb
sence Ona visit to her mother, had photo
graph ofhis house taken with himself and
his neighbO wife standing on the porch,
which he sent to his better-half, has rival
in the one who simply saw that his letter
contained, as if by accident, red hair
about three feet long. His wife wouldn't
have waited for the next train to get
home, could she have sent herself by
telegraphy.