Year: 1872




heartily to condemn what are amiable in calling
the coarseness of a recently-published " Life of
Lincoln That passion for the truthful III biography
which leads a writer to declare to all men those
things which during life the dearest reserves OF
his subject can scarcely be considered virtue. 1t
is rather a sensational impertnence, and deserves
much the same sort of contempt which is accorded
to the petty gossip of a Mercy Pecksniif. In every
mans life there are experiences, hopes and
sorrows, which are and should be sacred always
things with which curious world has nothing to do.
and over which the grave should close in absolute
oblivion. The intimate and varying phases OF
his religious belief and the story of unhappy love
are assuredly among these things They do not aid
our Judgment of political and intellectual career,
and TO chronicle them is an oftense not only against
courtesy but against decency. 1t Is an onenSe
which is becoming too common in this country, and
which grows not more endurable but more disgust
ing but constant repetition. Mr. Lincolns latest
bographer does his best to prove that the man the
Republic delighted to honor was a weak. vulgar,
ovesick pagan. 1t is TO be hoped that his success
in this noble effort will serve as a scarecrOw TO
other writers of his taste and his ambition.


This is the time for publishing the various cures
of hydrophobia but catalogue of all of them would
be too much for the crowded state of these col
umns. When a patient is seized with this disease;
l. Inject morphine under the skin. .. Give half "A
dram of powdered castor internally g. Administer
small quantities of chlorofom by inhalation. 4.
Wrap the patient in blankets saturated with a warm
solution of nitrate of ammonia. s. Apply oil Of Iuni-
per externally. 6. Administer. vapor baths. Z Put
the patient upon diet of raw onions. S. Try tho
maidstone if you can get a specimen Of it. If tho
dog was mad, this stone will adhere to the wound


A newspaper paragraph sometimes gets a dread.
full diminuendo The Boston Trdrelier Of the 2Oth
printed an awful account of how the Hon Theophi-
| lus Burr was knocked down in North-square by a
| man with slungshot or sand bag. Comments wero
added upon the safety of life in Boston and tho
efficiency of the Police The Boston Herald of the
next day had the following damper: An inyeStiga-
ton into the reported attempt to rob the Hon. Tho
ophilus Burr shows that he accidentally struck
on the head by "a loaf of bread with which two boys
were playing and that no attempt was made at rob
| berry, Rather coming down, that


Opinions differ not only in regard 10 politics. but
also in regard 10 garments. TIE Columbia Is. c.
| Pbonir does not take that peculiar view Of Mr.
Greeley's clothes which suggested itself TO tho
esthetc soul of Harpers Howadii. ." Mr.. Greeley"
| saws The Phanir, has a level old head under his
! hat and his heart is as big as a bushel measure
whether the coat that it be cut in the fashion
or notD We are inclined to think that this will be
the popular view of the great clothes question. tho
Beau Brummel philosophy not having been gen
orally accepted by the voters OF this uee aud Gu
| lightened Republic.