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Year: 1872

The THIRD COMMANDMENT NOT GOOD FOR
CAR RIDE.-The New York correspondent
of the Boston Journal tells the following
amusing story:


A well-known doctor of divinity was riding
the other day in street car in company with
friend. He is positive man and resents
an insult quite vehemently. Earnestly en-
gagged in conversation, he handed the conduc-
tor ticket as he came TO collect the fare.
The conductor did not move on. As he re-
mained studying the ticket, the doctors at
tention was attracted toward the official, who
seemed to be highly interested in the car tick
ct He read it, smiled, shook his head, and
finally said to the doctor: '"This may be all
very well, but the ticket is no good on this
line." whats the reason it's no good, 1
should like to know ?'' said the testy doctor,
Its one Of your own tickets 1 bought it this
morning." 81 guess not" said the conduc-
tor. The alteration drew the attention of
all the passengers. "This is very good ad-
vice, but it will not pass you over this line;''
and the conductor read!' ''Thou shalt not
take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.'
And explosion fellowed-amid which the doc
tor paid his fare and left the car. He has
concluded to keep his religious cards in one
pocket and his car tickets in another.
Year: 1872

A DARING DEED.-The Nashville Union's
account of the recent confagration in that
city contains the following:


While the flames were darting like fiery
fiends through the building, and the whiskey
in the adjoining house was exploding, a party
of fremen entered one of the buildings. A
keg of powder was seen within few inches
of the fire. in fact, other articles of merchan-
disc were already burning, and notwithstand-
ing it was hard enough and at some risk the
firemen had ventured, "a still greater dangerw was
imminent. In less time than it takes to tell
it, the flames would reach the powder, the
explosion of which would have been fraught
with horrible consequences. Seeing the dan
ger of the situation, yet with a presence of
mind seldom preserved, Mr.. Alfred Nc
Wright, of Deluge Fire Company, No. 3,
quickly seized the keg of powder now envelop-
ed with flames, and bore it out of the build
ing into the street. There are few men in
such moments of danger that would think of
undertaking such hazardous deed, and not
one in a hundred would have sufficient con-
troll Of their fears in similar situations to have
accomplished this safe removal Such con-
duct is deserving of the highest praise of ev-
cry one
Year: 1872

THE WEAR AND THE REPAIR OF THE
BRAIN.-The notion that those who work
only with their brains need less food than
those who labor with their hands has been
the cause of untold mischief Students and
literary men have often been the victims of a
slow starvation, from their ignorance of the
fact that mental labor causes greater waste of
tissue than muscular. According to careful
estimates, three hours of hard study wear out
the body more than whole day of hard work
at the anvil or on the farm. ''Without phos-
phorus, no thought" is German saying;
and the consumption of that essential ingre-
dent of the brain increases in proportion to
the amount of labor which the organ is re-
quired to perform. The wear and tear of the
brain are easily measured by careful examina-
ton of the salts in the liquid excretions. The
importance of the brain as working organ is
shown by the amount of blood it receives,
which is proportionately greater than that of
any other part of the body. One fifth of the
blood goes to the brain, though its average
weight is only one-fortieth of the weight of
the body. This fact alone would be sufficient
to prove that brain-workers need more food
and better food than mechanics and farm la
borers.-Boston Journal Of Chemistry.
Year: 1872

Q Mrs. HARRIET BEECHER STOW
O' WILL WRITE EXCLUSIVELY
for the CHRISTIAN UNION during the year 1872 with
the exception Of one short story all ready engaged for
another periodical. .....
Year: 1872

The mode Of making comfortables war
mer, by lining them with newspapers, is
good as long as they last, which cannot
be long, especially after washing few
times. | have tried a similar way of at
tanning the same object on cold nights,
when have not had sufficient bedding
over me, especially at hotels, where we
cannot always get just what we want -
Throw OF one or two the top covers from
the bed, then pull from the pocket or
satchel two or three large newspapers
one very large one will do spread them
on the bed and replace the cover, and
you will have warm and Gem Portable
night, without any perceptibie increase
in the weight of the bedding. Again,
when you have a hard, cold ride in cut
ter, or ten or twenty miles against the
wind, place spread newspaper ovre your
chest before you button up your over


coat, aud you will not become chilled
throu1h. Nothing can he cheaper, aad
as far az il goes, nothing more eihcieut.
Year: 1872

re urued down the canon, pausiug to
glance at the COW which he had killed -
She had a magnificent head and handsome
horns. The Grand Duke Expressed his
admiration of them. and said he would
take them back to Russia with him as
trophy OF this mornings sport. Accord
ingly the tail and head of the cow were
afterwards secured and taken into camp
The calf was carried in entire, and we are
to have some Of the beef for break fast in
the morning before we leave the Red Will
low to return to the North Platte


The party paused and formed into a
group, while the Indians were sent off to
hunt aud charge the herd down the brok-
en- sides of the bluff on which he we
stood On dashes Spotted Tail and his
braves. For many minutes they were
lost to sight; but presently the herd was
seen emerging from the head of the can,
on up the slope on the other side, with
the Indians in hot and close pursuit :
Reaching the summit of the steep ascent
Spotted Tail and his chosen Sioux. with
wild whoop, charged into the midst of
the fleeing herd, and with unerring aim
let fly the feathcred arrows from their
bows. 1t was then that the imperial par
ty were favored with splendid view Of
scene that few white men, who have
lived many years upon the Plains, have
ever witnessed. 1t was difficult to de-
eide which to admire the more-the skill
of the Indian in managing his horse, or
the rapididity and accuracy with which
he let fly his feathercd darts into the side
OF the doomed buffalo In some repects
the scene resembled charge Of cavalry
upon troops already routed and fleeing in
disorder and the Duke was forcibly re-
minded of the riding of the Cossacks in
his native country. The party remained
wrapt in admiration at the scene until it
graduately faded from our view. New
interest, however, was awakened by the
sudden appearance of a portion of the
herd which had been turned by the In
dians in the charge, and coming towards
US, rushed down the slope of the canon
on the other side. We started down to
meet them, but as we advanced we came
successfully to obstacles which retarded
our progress aud were all but insur-
mountable. This gave an opportunity to
the buffalo to escape. Finally we sue
! ceeded is making the descent and crossed
the cannon, bat still more difficult and
| dangerous obstacles met US on the other
slope The most fearless horsemen in
the party, surveying the steep and slip
perry sides, were forced reluctantly to dis
mount and make the ascent on foot.-N
! 7. Herald
Year: 1872

What John said was, that he didn't
care much for pumpkin pie but that was
after he had eaten whole one 1t seem
ed to him that mince would be better
The feeling of boy toward pumpkin pie
has never beer properly considered =
There is an air Of festivity about its ap
proach in the fall The boy is willing to
help pare and cut up the pumpkin, and
he watches with greatest interest the stir
ring up process and the pouring into the
the scalloped crust. When the sweet
SAVIOR of the baking reaches his nos
trils, he is filled with the most delightful
anticipations. Why should he not be 7
He knows that for months to come the
buttery will contain golden treasures, and
that it will require only slight ingenuity
to get at them. The fact is, the boy is
as good in the buttery as in any part OF
farming His elders say that the boy is
always hungry but that is very coarse
way to put 1t. He has only recently
come into world that is full OF good
things to eat, and there is on the whole,
vely short time in which to eat them
at least, he is told among the first inlor
nations he receives, that life is short
Life being brief, and pie and the like
fleeting, he very soon decides upon an
active campaign. 1t may be an old story
to people who have been eating for forty
or fifty years, but it is different with a
beginner He takes the thick and thin
as it comes, as in pie, for instance. Some
people do make them very thin. knew
place where they were no thicker than
the poor mans plaster; they were spread
so thin on the crust that they were bet
ter fitted to draw out hunger than:to salts
fly it, They used to be made up by the
great oven full, and kept in the dry Gel
lar, where they are hardened aud dried
to toughness you would hardly believe
This was along time ago, and they make
the pumpkin pie in the country better
now, or the race Of boys would have beer
so discouraged that think they woul'
have stopped coming into the World
! d. Hdl1ier
Year: 1872

NEW YORK, July IA dispatch re-
ceived here from Wilmington, North
Carolina, says that Wilson, the can
didate for the Vice-Presidency, ad-
dressed a gathering, most of which
were colored, there yesterday evening.
He said the contest was not between
men, but between principles of two or
CARNATIONS arrayed against each other.
General Grant and Greeley We're be-
fore the people. Some men will tel
YOU you can vote the Baltimore and
Cincinnati ticket and claim to be a Re
publican, but you could as well have been
in Lees army, and say that you had
fought for the banner Of the Union. A
vote for Greeley is vote to defeat the
Republican party. 1t means not only
the defeat Of that party but its exterini-
nation.


They say that it is time for this great
party to die. Why, we have just begun
to live. We viii live a thousand
wears. He could not see why the
Republican party, which had done 81
much, should die. A greater work than
emancipation was TO change the hearts
of the three millions of American Dem
ocrats to the Republican party, which
was always in the right.
Year: 1872

MADRID, July "a Last night, at
midnight, an attempt was made e as
sassinate the King and Queen Of Spaiu.
Their carriage was fired ON. One OF the
assassins was killed and two others cap
tured. The King and Queen were driv-
ing home from the palace garden when
they we're fired upon. Neither were hurt.
The affair created inte 1se excitement IN
the city.


The assailants of the carriage contain
ing the King and Queen comprised a
party Of five men, who were convent
ently posted in Arnold street. One Of
the assailants was killed by an attend
ant of the royal party. The greatest
Indignation is everywhere expressed at
the cowardly deed The tranquility Of
the city is undisturbed, though when an
account of the affair was circulated,
there was much excitement; crowds
gathered in the neighbOrhOOd where the
attack was made. BY four o'clock in
the evening almost the entire pOpula-
ton of Madrid was fastening through
the streets.
Year: 1872

Most ofour books are only half bound
In fact, they seem bound to look shabby
and tumble to pieces with a dozen hand
lings. We would not bind publishers to
sheep, but they ought to bind books that
are books in covers that may be looked
at without losing their color, and handled
without dropping apart. Better bind
ings, at bigger prices If heed be.
Year: 1872

1t is painful to note the feeling of
gloom which the recent outrageous Oc-
currences in this county have thrown
over our town. Business, which was
dull before, seems, under the fatal infiu-
ence of suspense and anxiety, to have
come to a dead stand. Men talk of
nothing-can think of nothing-but the
horrible deeds of last Monday night.
The state Of public feeling is deep, but
not turbulent; intent, but not tumultu-
Gus.


All ardently desire to see the majesty
of the law upheld, End justice dealt i'm
partially to all, and there is manifest
resolution to do everything possible to
secure peace and safety; and, though We
recognize the strong incentive to excite
ment and impulse contained in the late
occurrences, yet we counsel all 10 the
exercise of prudence, patience, modera-
ton and coOlness, trusting that, in the
strong arm of the law, We will find a
power able and willing to protect the
innocent as well as punish the guilty.
Year: 1872

manner i'll which he acquits himself OF
his public duties. As chairman of the
military committee of the Senate he
has done much hard work for the coIn-
try, both during the critical period of
the war of the rebellion and since the
return of peace; and his name is ell
deared to many humble soldier by the
solIcltudr with which he has looked out
for the welfare and comfort of those
who fought for the Union Mr.. Wilson
began life as Il working man, and he
has always cherished an active sympa


thy for the laboring classes. This
Identification III practice and in theory
with the cause of labor has won him
many friends throughout the land, and
the position i'll which the present nom
ination places him will enable him to
exercise a beneficial influence for the
promotion of the true interests of labor
Year: 1872

The FIRE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. alarm
of fire, between three and four o'clock, yesterday
afternoon, was caused by the burning Of some
composition at the old match factory, Ninth and
Church streets. The tiremen promptly respond
cd to the alarm, but the fire was extinguished
before any damage was done.
Year: 1872

Henry Hull was up for hearing on charge
Of getting dunk, and breaking into the house
of Annie Carpenter. Henry was fined so cents
and costs, and bound over for 800 to keep the
peace.


There were four cases for drunkenness on
the docket Plead guilty and were fined so
cents and costs.
Year: 1872

FRUIT AS A MEDIcINE.-Fruits and
berries at this time of the year are not
only precious Injuries, but great pro-
aoters of health. They act upon the
liver, promoting that secretion naturally
which many are in the habit of obtain
ing only by the means of artificial med
icines. They thus divert many dis
ease resulting from torpid condition
of the liver. Another way In which
they act benefcially is in the mechan-
ical effect their little seeds produce in
passing through the bowels, very much
as the watering of an irritated eye bali
when any hard substance touches that
delicate organ. and this water, by dis
solving the hardened contents of con-
stipated bowels keeps them in health
ier state than any pill or purgative in
vented by the apothecary. There can
be no doubt that in the summer and fall
seasons, people who live mainly on
fruit and berries, and coarse bread, can
almost insure exemptness from sick
meas, while those who eat heartily of
solid meats or vegetables two or three
times a day, are liable to all the diseas-
es the flesh is heir to.
Year: 1872

freak of generosity, and exclaimed


"Oh, thank you more than l can
tell, and I promise to save that sum to
you in some way this very year ~


Before six days had passed. that
widow y as in possession of her hcme,
as well as having new faith in her early
friends.


He who made world in six days. had.
as Charley said he wonld, made that
little bit of money! and-what was far
more miracle-- he had drawn 1t easily
from a heart usually shut against all ap-
peals for aid.


When some great mountain in our
path is to be leveled. and the time seems
wholly too short for the work, let us re-
member this sweet boys words of cheer,
and take courage.
Year: 1872

RICE SoUP.-Let the liquor in which
beef has been boiled stand over night,
then remove all the grease from the top.
put in o halt teacup of rice, and let 1t
boil gently, a half an hour. Season
with salt, pepper and butter, and thick
en- with couple Of spoonfuls of flour
AMI water. stirred together.


For Vegetable Soup, instead of the rice,
put in the same liquor, add to it quar-
ter of head of cabbage, chopped fine, a
iurnip. q couple of onions if you rel
ish them, a half dozen potatoes. all
chopped fine; season to your taste.
Put in some of your cold beef. hashed
up. This makes excellent soup. New
,r be guilty of throwing away the liquor
ia which you have boiled fresh beef.
Year: 1872

The COOP OLD WAY.-There are not
few city churches whose choirs would
be benefited bya visit from the clergy
man i'll Vermont, OF whom the follow
ind incident is tol Several years
since he visited New York, and was in-
vited to ill city pulpit. He had nev-
er had the privilege of listening to a
church organ. and was totally unac-
qualnted with the fashion Of hiring a
few vocalists to do the singing for the
congregation. Giving out his first
hymn, the organist played a fancy pre-
lude and in the highest style of the art
the choir rendered the four verses.
Addressing the throne Of grace in Il fer
vent invocation, which stamped him us
IL man OF intellect and power with his
audience, he cooIy re-opened the
hymn book, and turning to the page,
exclaimed: The audience will now
Join with me in singing good old
Methodist hymn, and those persons
running that bag of wind IN the gallery
will please not interrupt"
Year: 1872

SOMEBODY has dug up copy Of the
first edition of Drydeu's translation OF
Virgil, In which there Is an engraving
representing men dragging load OF
hay, while all around are the sick. dy-
Ing and dead horses-thlngs, in fact,
looking pretty much as they do now.
The translation of the third book of
the Georges gives the symptoms of
this ancient epihippic, and they are
quite similar to those Of the present
disease.
Year: 1872

On retiring from business. wise
old man said to his son and successor:
Now, nv boy, remember that COM
mon sense Is the best thing you can
bring to bear on every affair OF life ex-
cept love making"
Year: 1872

AS the sign denotes, it is tru-
ly a Hat Store, both for Ladies
and Gents. Every person who
visits Independence is familiar
with Turner's Millinery and Fur
nishing Goods Store. Last spring
they added to their stock in the
shape of Gents Hats and Fur
nishing Goods, making it truly
a Hat Store. We say it land
without boasting), that we have
as large and as fine an assort-
ment as can be found in any
store of our class Of goods west
of Chicago.


To the Ladies Gas usuaD, we
solicit a share of your patronage.


To the Gents remember it is
truly, surely, and the only Hat
Store in the city. Our Facility
and Experience for purchasing
stock is second to none; expen-
ses small; consequently our
prices we guarantee.


Remember the place, The
Sign of the Big Hat.
Year: 1872

like children-he said to me one
day at table. / like 'em, and l
respect 'em. Pretty much all the
honest truth-tclling there is in the
world is done by them. Do you
know they play the part in the
household which the kings Jester,
who very often had = mighty long
head under his cap and bells, used
to play for monarchp There's no
Radical Club like . nest of little
folks in nursery. Did you ever
watch a baby's fingers? l have,
often enough, though l never knew
what it was to own one. The mas
ter paused half a minute or so,
sighed-perhaps at thinking what
he had missed in life-looked up at
me little vacantly. saw what
was the matter; he had lost the
thread Of his talk.


Baby's fingers-I intercalated.


Yes, yes; did you ever see how
they will poke those wonderful little
fingers Of theirs into every fold and
crack and crevice they can get at?
That is their first education. feeling
their way into the solid facts Of the
material world. When they begin
to talk, it is the same thing over
again in another shape. If there is
crack or flaw in your answer to
their confounded shoulder hitting
questions, they will poke and poke
until they have got it gaping, just
as the baby's fingers have made
rent out of that atom Of hole in
his pinafore that your old eyes
never took notice of. Then they
make such fools of US by copying
Oh a small scale what we do in a
grand manner.-O. ". Holmes,
atlantic Monthly.
Year: 1872

4 A few facts about tho elephants
now going to Cbittagong in the
Scotia, under the command of w.
3. Matthews, may be interesting to
our readers. The hoisting up into
the air and lowering down into the
hold of ship such huge animals is
not only an unusual sight to most
men, but also strange experience
to most elephants; indeed notwith-
standing the great age ofthe beasts,
it seldom occurs to them once in =
lifetime. We are sorry to see it
stated by contemporary that the
animals were goaded and i'll used
into submission. So far as we saw,
no ill-usage was. practiced, they
were simply secured, lashed with
strong ropes, slung as far as prac-
ticable in sings, hoisted up with
cranes with threefold tackles, and
lowered into the hold like bale of
cotton. When in the hold they
were placed in pens of strong teak
timber bulks, bolted to the ships
side to prevent them breaking loose.
The fear the animals suffered was
the only pain they underwent, and
by watching the eyes Of the poor
beasts, their terror was very mani
fest; tears trickled down their mild
countenances; and they roared with
dread, more especially when being
lowered into the hold, the bottom
Of which was sanded for them to
stand upon. We are told that one
timid female elephant actually faint
ed, and was drought to" with a
fan and many gallons Of water.


At sea it appears that the ele-
plants got into curious habit of
occasionally = evidently with a
preconcerted signal - setting to
work rocking the ship from side to
side by giving themselves simultan-
eously a swaying motion as they
stood athwart the ship, the waves
rolling heavily, as if in a sea way.
This they would do for an hour or
more, and then desist for several
hours until this strange freak took
them again. At Chittagong we
hear that they were hoisted out of
the hold, and swan on shore, thirty
five being thus safely landed with
out any accident whatever. Our
informant says that when they were
released from the sings, it was
supreme moment for the mahout,
who was always on the elephants
neck from the time of its touching
the water to letting 60. AS the
word was given to ''let CO." each of
the elephants, either from the light
ness of his heart from being freed
from his floating prison, or from his
own weight, we are not sure which
-lightness Of heart, like lightness
Of head, causes elephants and men
to play pranks plunged down deep
into the water, the mahout on his
neck. The anxiety on the face of
the mahout, just one second before
the plunge, was a study; so, too,
was it when elephant and man rose
to the surface again, the former
blowing water from his trunk, and
the latter from his nose. Forty
four more elephants go down by the
same steamer to Chittagong.-Cd Cal
catta Paper.
Year: 1872

WOODEN NAlLs.-A little matter
curiously illustrates the influence
Of the opening up Of the Far East
upon the nations Of the Vest
Wooden nails, as everybody knows
who has ever knocked tea chest
to pieces, or carefully observed any
piece of Oriental joiner's work,
are in common use in China, Japan
and Hindostan; and now, with the
increasing intercourse Of the United
States with the two former coun-
tries, the wooden nail is actually, to
= certain extent, driving the COM
mon iron nail out of use. 1t seems
remarkable, now that machinery
hos been so perfected as to pour
out the metal fastening in limitless
profusion, that this should be the
case, but the manufacturers in the
Eastern States are said to be strik-
ing up quite a trade in wooden
nails with tho Far West.