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Year: 1871

From the Springfield Republican.


Europe and America are a GOOD
ways apart; there is q distance be-
tween them which cannot be meas
ured In miles. The conditions OF
such problems as this are not the
same here as they are there. IL is
quite possible that an old world gov
ernment, operating with old world
machinery in narrow territory,
may work system of postal tele-
graphy efficiently aud proftably
which yet it would be the hight OF
folly for our republican government
operating In q territory which
stretches from one ocean to the other,
to dream Of working. This govern-
ment Is unwieldly enough, as 1t is
It Is encroaching right and left upon
domains which the wise founders
never meant 1t to occupy. The peo-
pie are becoming uneasy. They do
not relish this Capitalization. They
are going before long to call halt,
and compel the government to at
tend to its proper business, as the
constitution marks it out. leaving
the States and the individual citizen
to attend to theirs. Mr.. Creswell
chooses this moment tofpropose that
the people shall pay the telegraph
company $80,000,0 900 for property
which would be dear at half that
sum, In order to settle upon their
shoulders another army of govern
ment officials. We are very sure the
people will not respond to the sugges-
tiOn,
Year: 1871

A Sacramento lady found herself
under suspicion of larceny the 9TH
er day under rather peculiar eircum-
stances She was riding in q
crowded railway car and occupied a
seat with another lady passenger -
Like great many other women
of the present day she were curls--


her own hair, of course, but ID wasn't
fastened on strictly according to
natures programme. By-and-by, as
the train jolted along, she felt some.
thing falling about her face and
neck, and in a second 1t flashed
across her brain her curls had be-
come detached The predicament
was shocking one, but she en-
deavored to save herself as much as
possible by quietly passing the cap
illary ornaments into her pocket,
thanking her stars that she was al,
most at her destination. At the
station she hastened to the dressing
room to repair damages to her toilet,
when behold /! the mirror reflected
back the fact that her curls were In
the proper position, and an examin-
alton of those in her pocket showed
that they were not hers, but of a
different color, and belonged to the
lady who sat beside her In the car,
Year: 1871




In Is thought that the United
States Supreme Court will in a short
time render decision adverse to the
claims of the women's sufTragists on
the question of their right to vote
under the present constitution. 1t Is
understood that this decision will be
based upon the organic act creating
the territorial government, which
plainly specifies that meme but males
over twenty-one years of age shall
be voters. In case this decision IL
rendered, the suffragists intend to
appeal again to congress for either the
passage of the sixteenth amendment,
or the modification of the fifteenth
to general law.
Year: 1871

WATERING TEAMS OFTEN. N.-Hor.
ses and oxen at work need water
often. The plowman carries his Jug
of water or leaves his team to rest
while he goes 10 the house for a
drink. But the team works harder
than the driver, and probably need
drink As often; yet many teams are
taken out early in the field, where
there Is no water except i'm the dri-
ver's Jug, and work five or six hours
before they can get a drop. is IL any
wonder that they are injured by
drinking too much when they are
led to the spring at noon and even.
ing ?
Year: 1871

"A writer in the Sioux City Jour-
nal says that an acre of cotton wood
tree plants can be set out at price
not exceeding twenty dollars In
money and no more time consumed
than would be IN planting the same
ground In potatoes, In ten years an
acre of such timber at four dollars
per cord would yield two hundred
dollars or more. Who would be
without trees, when an acre--or 8, ,7sl
In number--can be set out for one-
half cent apiece?
Year: 1871

failure of which may be the cause OF
great inconvenience.


We could multiply examples, but
your own experience will fill up
the picture and il you are wise,
teach You that each day has its
own duties, which can b. ILsStered,
but Ii you add to them the work ol
yesterday you make the burden
grievous to be bourne. Your old
''copy-booksn told you when you
were young that "Procrastination
Is the thief of time" In ripper age
remember 1t. "Never put of till
tomorrow that which you should dc
to day. Christian Union.
Year: 1871

A Kansas paper says that M. q.
Page while digging a well on his
farm, short distance from salina,
In that State, came upon the most
perfect fossils yet found in this coun-
try. He found wonderfully perfect
specimens of oak, walnut, maple and
pine leaves, which would be Of great
value to a museum.
Year: 1871

SO universal is the practice of fishing
at st. Johns, Newfoundland, that the
very dogs, in many instances, acquire
the art. The following anecdote is re


lated by the late Professor Jukes, the
distinguished geologist, who visited this
island more than twenty years ago:
observed one day dog at work catching
fish on his own account. He sat on a
projecting rock, beneath fish stage,
where the fish are laid out to dry, watch
ing the water, which had depth of six
feet, and the bottom of which was white
with fish bones. One piece of Goldfish
being thrown into the water, three or
tour heavy, clnmsy-looking fish, called
in Newfoundland 'sculpins' (dragonets),
with great heads and mouths,
and many spines about them, and
generally about foot long,
would swim in to catch it. There he
would set attentively, and the mo-
ment one turned his brOadside to him he
dashed down like n 6sh-hawk, and seldom
came up without fish in his mouth.
As he caught them, he regularly took
them to place few yards off, where
he laid them down; and they told us
that in the summer he would sometimes
make n pile of sixty or seventy day,
Just in that place. He never attempted
to- eat them, but seemed to be fishing
purely for his own amusement.
Year: 1871

Rage. aiif NnY L


From the New York Sun, llth.l Va fe


The passengers on the one O'Clock
trip of the Mortified from New York tC
Staten Island on Saturday were treated
to a singular and exciting spectacle.


AS the boat reached Quarantine Land
ing, large school of porpoises were
coming in with the flood tide. Instead
of proceeding up the bay in an orderly
manner as they usually do, occasionally
showing their backs and swallowing a
mouthful Of fresh air direct from West
street and the Country Market, they
were in fearful state of commotion,
and fairly foaming with rage. Many OF
them sprang high in the air, while others
lashed the water furiously with their
tails. Occasionally a pair would dart
up, coming from opposite directions, and
after striking together fiercely, fall back
with a splash. ii a.'ataf


The fighting line extended for at least
half mile. The liveliest struggle took
place directly facing an old man-of-war
hulk moored off Quarantine. This hulk
is to be used as floating hospital in
case of an influx of yellow fever or
cholera patients.


Messrs. James E. Baker and Cornelius
Cole, of Staten Island, in company with
a Sun man, witnessed the battle from the
deck of the Mortified. Messrs. Baker
and Cole are experienced fishermen, and
have been familiar with the sea from
boyhood. They said that it was the first
time they had seen a battle of that kind.
The fight lasted for about ten minutes.


Mr. Baker said the school was an old
one, as the fish would average six feet in
length. At the close Of the fight, the
porpoises headed Quietly up the bay,
with their hog-like noses pointing di-
rectly for the Custom House dock.
Year: 1871

A Paris paper says that rich Ameri-
can has offered to rebuild the Tuileries
solely at his own expense, on condition
that one of the wings Of the new build
ing shall receive his name, and that as
long as he lives he shall be allowed an
apartment in it looking out on the gar
dens, and an invitation to all the cere-
monies which shall ever be given in the
palace by any government which may be
in power there.
Year: 1871

When we acknowledge that drunken
ness is a disease, let us not forget that it
is also a sin. No man is forced to be-
come a drunkard; he drinks to excess
with his eyes open, with his hands free,
with his conscience upbraiding him, un-
til he browns it in the bowl. He volun-
tarily surrenders his reason, his taste,
his judgment, his health, his character
and his conscience on the altar of appe-
tite; is not that sin2 He knows that
his habits of indulgence will unfit him
for the duties Of child, husband, parent
and citizen, and while they deaden the
faculties which should elevate him above
the dumb beast they intensity and
quicken all the animal and brutal in
stincts Of degraded humanity; and is not
that a sin2
Year: 1871

From Our Girls, by Dion Lewis.


The dress of French peasant tells
you at once of his place in society.
Throughout Europe the dress may be
taken as the exponent of the wearer S
position. This is as true of women as
of men. For good reasons, the language
of dress is not so definite and explicit
in America. But even here we may
judge very correctly, in most cases, by
the every day dress, of the position Of
the wearer, The social character and
relations of women, as class, in any
coantry, may be clearly inferred from
certain peculiarities in their dress. For
example, we are in Constantinople. If
in a moment, we could be set down in
that city, and not know where we were,
would any of US doubt the language of
that veil over woman's face2 Would
anybody suppose her to be a citizen2
Would anybody suppose she belonged to
herselfp Leaving Constantinople, let
us visit an old-time fashionable social
gathering in Vienna. Women entg
the ball room. They are dressed in
gauze so thin that you can see their
skins all over their persons. Would any
OIL us mistake the language OF that
kind of dress? Would any of us be in
doubt of their relation to men? Come
to America to-day. We attend social
gathering. Women appear with their
vital organs squeezed down to one-half
the natural size, their arms and busts
naked, while their trails are so long that
whenever they turn round they are
obliged to use their hands to push them
out of the way AS we all comprehend
at glance the meaning of the wells in
Constantinople and the nudity of the
women in Vienna, so we all infer the po-
sition of woman in America from these
peouliarities of her dress ! read thus:
The compressed vital organs and the en-
numbered feet mean that women are de-
pendent and helpless. Having but little
use for breath and locomotion, by a law
of nature, they cramp the instruments of
breath and locomotion, while the nudity
of the arms and bust signifies slavery
to mans passions. No one supposes
that when woman becomes n citizen and
mans equal she will compress her lungs,
fetter her legs, or appeal to his passions
by any immediate exposure of her per
con I.H...
Year: 1871


by any means, must pronounce without
taste, without reason, and in every sense
such an unmitigated offense against
civilization as to merit the epithet BAR
barous. We can stand the posterior
promontory, the shoes with heels in the
center, so that, indeed the hollow Of
the foot makes hole in the ground"
and the waving and switch movement Of
the body, and that brave swing of the
arms which ever prompts to military
this and more we can stand;
but the head-gear of the day we are
compelled to cry out against as un-
bearable.


Yet we only now put in plea for our
dear little friends under twelve. OH
take the haystacks from their heads and
shoulders 1t is crying wrong done to
them.


Now, sweet sixteen has notions Of her
own, and we may say will of her own.
Besides, she is candidate, and has a
right in some sort to fix up her own
platform; and while she does, in our
opinion, greatly mar her form by this
days head-gear, she is not exactly under
her mas control, and If she damages
her prospects she must take the conse-
quences Therefore we venture only to
give this bit of advice-for we love them
all-and that is to free their gay heads
from the abominable burdens which must
be as uncomfortable and unhealthy as
they are ungainly and shocking to good
taste. But mind you, fair young friends,
whose friendship and good opinion the
would not lose, hardly for the
world itself, we assume no authority but
in humble attitude we supplicate the
queens of love and beauty to make them
selves more beautiful by little indie
pendence in this matterl


With reference to our dear little girls,
for them we would head an insurrection.
Their heads are not so near the grave
hat their hair should be dead.
Year: 1871

The Boston Journal of Chemistry
says;


If man wishes to get rid of dyspep-
sia he must give his stomach and brains
less to do. 1t will be of no service to
him to follow any particular regimen
to live on chaff bread, or any such stuff
Ito weigh his food, ETC., so long as the
brain is in a constant state of excite
ment.


But if he passes fourteen or fifteen
hours day in his Office or counting
room, and takes no exercise, his stomach
will inevitably become paralyzed, and if
he puts nothing into it but cracker a
day, it will not digest it.


In many cases it is the brain that is
the primary cause. Give that delicate
organ some rest. Leave your business
behind you when you go to your home.
Do not sit down to your dinner with your
brows knit and your mind absorbed in
casting up interest on accounts.


Never abridge the usual hours of sleep.
Take more or less exercise In the open
air every day. Allow yourself some in
noeent recreation. Eat moderately,
slowly, and of what you please-provided
it be not the shovel and tongs. If any
particular dish disagrees with you, how
ever, never touch it or look at it. Do
not imagine that you must live on rye
bread or oatmeal porridge; a reasonable
quantity Of nutritious food is essential
to the mind as well as the body. Above
all, Danish all thoughts Of the subject.


IL you have any treatises on dyspep-
sia, domestic medicine, etc, put them
directly into the fire. If you constantly
talk and think about dyspepsia, you will
surely have it.


Endeavor to forget that you have
Keep a clear conscience; live
regularly, cleanly; be in
dustrious, too, but be temperate.
Year: 1871

LIFE is more precious than silver or
gold, and to preserve it as long as possible
ia our duty, consequently no plausible
scheme should be left untrisd to secure an
end so devoutly desired. DR.. Bells BAlsau
of Alpine Moss for Consumption and al
diseases of the Throat and Lungs, has be
came very popular within few years, Anc
We attribute its fame, to its success. Sci
Advertisement in this paper.
Year: 1871

A Michigan doctor who was arrested be-
cause his patient died, has been acquitted
on the ground that he did the best he could
giving ell the medicines be knew the names
of. He put in the plea that be never insured
g case when he took il.
Year: 1871

TIE Ruins OF CHICAGo.-At the Archi
tects Convention, recently held in Boston. the
Secretary gave an interesting account of his
r cent visit to the ruins of Chicago. He said
that IN regard to the building materials, the
bluc-whlte bricks ordinarily used in the North
western States and Canada were consumed by
the intense heat, and crumbed into rubbish.
In regard to building stone, the Illinois lime
stone Jared the worst, and the Cleveland and
Lake Superior sandstone were not SO much
affected The granite, of which there were
very few buildings, was cracked and split when
subjected to the violence of the flames. The
artificial stone and the protection stone Jared
the best, being in some instances scarcely in
lured: The heat was very damaging in wrought
iron foOrings and cast iron columns, and the
utter and early destruction of the iron work in
several instances proved the ruin of buildings
which has been considered perfectly fire proof.
In reference to fire proof safes, it was stated
that these receptacles for valuables should be
built up tower-like from the ground, instead of
being placed upon the floors Another lesson
taught by the Chicago fire was that roofs
should be made strong and fire proof, as the
currents Of air drove the flames up and then
over high intervening buildings and down upon
the tops of lower adjacent houses.
Year: 1871

Why WILL YE DIE?'-The New York
World, to save the life of the Democratic
party, is again advising its hide bound friends
to flee from dead issues" and the "white
mans party" In an editorial last week it
pleads as follows:


1t is to be hoped that the Democratic Ma.
tional Convention will have sense and discretion
enough not to drive the dissatisfied anti Grant
Republicans back into the bosom of the party.
as We so insanely did in 1868. No more green
back heresies no more denunciations of negro
suffrage no further vain attempts to roll back
the earth on its axis and put everything where
1t stood in the administration of President
Buchanan no more selection of candidates
fOredoomed to defeat from the moment of their
nomination! no more placing a bull on the
track to butt the coming locomotive! Of this
destructive sport the democratic party has had
more than enough. Let us now recognize the
fact that the earth moves forward in its orbit
whether we like it or not, and that we necessa-
rlly move with it. The year 1860 can never
come back; no human power can restore the
political questions on which the country divi-
ded at that time. We are living after the
deluge, when old landmarks are oblterated
There isno profit In trying to find the bounding
lines by which the soil was partitioned among
the antedlluvian inh1bitants
Year: 1871

A QUEER RELIC. C.-The bed and mattrass on
which President Lincoln died was sold at
public auction last week, and brought $50 A
restaurant keeper was the purchaser, and
intends to keep it as relic of the great tragedy
at Ford Theatre. The family that owned it
ing at the house to see the room and fnr1;tTre
in which Mr. Lincoln died and finally were
Obliged to get rid of both by leaving the house
Year: 1871

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.-Electons always
have their lessons. Att -tlessons are generally
pointed out by the partizan press. In looking
for the lesson taught from the November elec
Il ms by our exchanges, one matter is forcby
brought out and that is the extremity of the
situation in which the Democracy of the Union
now find themselves. The elections have dis
closed them both routed and demOralized; and
the most light hearted members of the party
have begun to cast about for the means of
relief In the future, as if annihiation itself
were staring them in the face. With New
York, the strong citadel, the magazine of SUD-
plies and base OF operations of the party for the
PRESIDENTIAL succession, lost and turned against
them, what are they to do? They are routed
and demoralized in the North, and by no
means united in the South Their snew de-
parture avaied nothing, yet their perplexed
leaders are debating still other new departures.
One OF the most important of these is what is
known a. Inc passive policy" promulgated
by the st Louis RepuJiican, leading Dome-
cratic journal oftln West This policy is, that
the Dcu ...r,inato M candidate hut
rely upon devlson in the Republican party.


By standing alOof it is hoped the liberal
Republicans, who are dissatisfied with Grants
administration, will put forth candidate. Then
they propose to spriRg out of ambush, rally to
the support OF the liberal Republican candidate,
secure Democratic nominations for members of
Congress and all municipal offices, and with
the help of 'disaffected Republicans" achieve
signal triumph. While there is objection to
this virtual retirement of the Democratic party,
many of the leaders are rohecting seriously
upon the subject. They confess the hopeless.
ness of any further conflicts unless allies can be
procured from the Republican ranks, and it is
hard to make q decision on the question
whether it is better to 20 into the field with
their own distinctive flag, and suffer certain
defeat, or fall in with discontented RepubIi-
cans, with small chance of defeating the
regular nominees of the Republican party.


This is a nice little scheme in the imagina.
tion OF some hungry Democrats, but its an
nouncement is its defeat ;--forewarned is FORE
armed. 1t will be found, when the time comes
that if Gen. Grant is regularly presented By
Republican Convention, on a platform which
expresses the convictions and progressive ideas
of the parry, it is only miserable faction, con-
temptible both in numbers and character.
which will lift the standard of revolt with the
expectation of contributing to Democratic
success.


Another departure" of startling effect is
that suggested by Washington paper, the
Year: 1871

Ihere Is no class of diseases of
more frequent occurrence or so little cared for as those pecu
"r 10 the female organism slight arrangement of health
from decaey cause is often allowed to continue
until the whole system suffers and constitutional disturbances
oil grave and serious character are often established


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Year: 1871

REV. MIR. CoOKMAN.-Rcv j. Todd, of
Wilmington, in the memorial service last Sun
day, related the following of the late Mr.
Cookman Mr. Cookman preached his last
sermon from the text, 1--WE all fade as a Leaf, ="
illustrating the discourse by leaf which he
held in his hand. At the conclusion of the
sermon he handed the leaf to friend remark
ing that the preacher and the leaf were both
fading. For three weeks he suffered intense
agony from muscular rheumatism, which he
bore with true Christian fortitude During
his sickness he rose in his bed and remarked
that he had a vision in which he saw his grand
father, who led him to the great white throne
and introduced him, saying, This is Alfred
Goodman, washed in the blood of the Lamb. 3"
He was then met by his father, afterward by
his brother and lastly by his little boy, all of
whom introduced him in precisely the same
language used by his grandfather.
Year: 1871

oOh mhoNifiSENI WATEh~fOWE Eh
will be sought by men Of capital and
developed to a greater efficiency than
now.


This water-power Is substan TALLY
q natural fall In the river, though II
has been improved somewhat. BE.
low the dam are stiff rapids, the cur
rent being very swift. The current
Is also strong above the dam, so that
II will be readily seen that the power
is not over one.half developed. -
Now there is head Of nine feet and
q volume Of water at a medium stage
of $500 cubic feet passing the dam
each minute or equal to nearly one
thousand horse power. 1t ID evident
that the dam might be raised higher,
giving ii foot head. This would
increase the power so that we would
have one thousand horsepower al
the lowest stage. Much OF this pow
er IL now used, but by It's full deveI-
opment that amount would be scarce
ly peroeptible In the flow of the wa.
ter over the dam.


This gives to Cedar Falls the best
water power In the State, placing
within the grasp Of our people. one
of the most extensive manufacturing
points In the West. sfas


1t is not unreasonable to expect
that by full development OF this
water power by capitalists who have
and will feel an increasing Interest
Year: 1871

THE NUMBER or VoTERs registered 50 far is
over ninety-one thousand. There yet re-
main two days to register, and from ap-
pcarances thare will be heavier regis
plainly that the people are fully alive to
the necessity Of q long pull and pull all
together In the interest of municipal reform.
From now until election day let the reformers
soan the registry lists and ''spot" those wrongly
registered.