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Year: 1875

country be fools enough to elect men to |
Congress. who will waste the fruits of
toll and industry in luxurious living and
criminal extravagance2
This question must be answered by the
people, and by the people who helped to
fasten the present outrageous system Of
waste upon the country and thus brought
distress and poverty to their own door
stills.
1t is no use to argue that this country
can bear the rate Of taxation that now
weighs down its energies, and recover
its former strength and influence, under
its present system Of extravagance. 1t
cannot do it. Every thing the farmer
wears and buys is taxed; and thus the
land is robbed of its products and is re-
duesd to half Its former value.


Unless there is q change at Washing
ton reputation will be the result, and
there will come perhaps. a season OF dis
aster more injurious than the panic Of
1873.


Why should the people waste hun



frsd millions Of dollars year in expendi-
lures which are of no value to them?
Why should they give of their labor
$4,000 to President Grant, to horde away,
or keep him in style superior to WASH
ingten. Jefferson, Jackson. or to Polk,
who added an empire to the public do
main. These eminent men who added
lustre to the American name, lived upon
salary of $4,000 dollars q year, and
maintained the dignity of the Presiden.
tial office. They paid for their own table
and kept their own stables. Why should
President Grant be given another
$4,000 to keep up his household and
maintain his stables This was never
the case before. When the nation was
rich and out of debt Congress did moi
thus waste the peoples labor. 1t is al
outrage now to do so. When the Presi
dent sets the example all the under Off
oers wish to follow his extravagant hal
its. He goes to Long Branch to Will,
sway the summer, and all the heads O
departments follow. or go to somo otAe
resort.


just as the tax was added upon tn
lands and real estate it went down, an,
just as it Is removed will real estate i'm
prove in price and industry be stimu
iated. Now the heavy tax is wasted an
therefore it is unnecessarily collected
II it were applied to the national del
and Slo0.o0O,00o paid off yearly, hop
would be stimulated and a conyictio
follow that the tax would be wholly rt
moved in a specified time. But at pres
snt the tax serves to deter emigration an
the population of tie country. Indee
1t is fast sending people to Europe to e,
cape the enormous cost of living, which
since the reduction of the price of lab,
Is said to be comparatively much chea,
er in the Old World.


II our people have the courage an
energy to make Congress reduce all Il
salaries and bring the expenses down
near the point they were before the wa
the whole country will revive and tho
who have felt the depressed condition
Their property will zee themselves sot
again comparatively independent. N
tlons like individuals must go into r
trenchment and pay their debts, if til,
wish to feel just and honest pride
oeing able to compete ia the labor
Life and obtain success.
Year: 1875

A choice collection of art paintings will be sold
this morning and evening by Thomas DowIing,
auetionesr, at his salesroom, Star once building
The collection comprises Landscape and figure
pieces, and are really works Of merit portion
Of the collection came from the Peruvian Minister
These pictures far excell the usual class exposed
at auction, uISS should demand the attention Of
lovers Of the fine arts.
Year: 1875

Az EDTrOR's APPEAL.-As the report
that we are very wealthy has gone abroad
among our subscribers, and has made them
awful slow about paying up, thinking doubt
less we don't want The money, we hasten 10
say the report OF our wealth Is false IN
every particular If ocean steamers were
selling at a cent a dozen, we couldn't make
the first payment on canoe. The lightning
of poverty has struck US square, and had 1t
not been for an armful Of hay our devil man
aged 20 steal from a blind mule, our large
and interesting family would be without a
mouthful to eat this moment. Is not tins "a
sad picture, and can You delinquent subScri-
bsrs look upon It without feeling the green
backs rustic with Indignation in your pocket
books? We do not like to dun you, but We
must If you fail to take the hint.
Year: 1875

THE DESTRUCTIVE BUFFALO GNAT.-The
buffalo gnat, which Is causing so much de-
struction among cattle in the southwest Is a


small insect, no more than half the size OF
the horse-fiy, which suddenly appears IN the
air bv millions and settles upon all four foot
ed animal within reach. \ horse or COW


will be literally covered with them at
night; in the morning the animal will be
found dead and swelled 70 an enormous size.
The bite is very poisonous and the wound
quickly testers. Cattle owners find that the
most effective way OF protecting their ami
mails is TO cover them with coating OF dilu-
ted tar, but if that cannot be done, fires are
built and the smoke drives off the insect.
Amongst the wild animals, especially Il G
deer. on the Arkansas side OF the river side,
the ravages Of the gnat are everywhere aPPar-
emf. Without any protection, the deer fall
victims in large numbers 70 this poisonous
insect. which. however does not touch man
Year: 1875

SOMETHING AwFUL.-The following con-
versation was overheard the other day among
a lot Of school girls who had congregated in
front of a house Each one in turn appeared
to be holding up the domestic skeleton which
afflicted their homes. One told how her
little brother had broken his leg; another
about how sick her mother was; aud still
another told about how drunk her father
would come home every night In short
they all appeared TO have some grief to hold
ND, all but one little beauty, who seemed
only unhappy to think there was nothing
she could tell to excite the envy or sympathy
Of the rest She listened to the recital of all
these troubles ss long as she could, and finally
EXPRESSED herself in this way: Well, girls,
we all have our troubles. Some have sick
brothers, and drunken fathers, and ugly
mothers. Some of us have measles, and
smallpox, and scrofula. We've got some
thing awful in our family '' What is it p! ,
asked several. "My little brother Benny is
left-handed.
Year: 1875

DR.. HAMMOND read an assay on the
"a Brain not the sole Organ of the Mind - the
other day before a learned society in New
York He coutended that The spinal cord, b,
as well as the brain, was center of percep-
ton and violation If this is so, good
backbone Is even more important to a man
than has generally been supposed. The facts
given by Dr. Hammond are certainly very
curious, but whether they establish this the
ory in lis full length and breadth, must be
lett for the scientific world to say. DR..
Clark, one Of the hearers of the essay, in dis
cussing its merits, closed with this startling
question: May it not be true Of man as 1t
appears TO be of the lowest forms OF life, that
the mind prevades the whole body"
Year: 1875

a BosToY wag once wrote to Presi-
dent Grant, asking whether be would
accept a carriage and horses as a to-
ken of esteem from the Young Mems
Christian Association of that city. In
due time an affirmative answer was
received from Washington. The wag
thereupon sat down and wrote back
8 | thought So
Year: 1875

4 Western man set fire t. prarie for fun,
but after ne had run seven miles and climbed
a tree, with his pants about burned of, he
concluded the sport was little too violent
exercise to be indulged in oftener than Oncs
in q lifetime
Year: 1875

As garbage cart was dumped lately IN
the suburbs Of London human head rolled
out Of the mass II Was fresh and bleeding,
and the mystery Is from which one OF the ash
pans emptied into the cart that morning
IL came
Year: 1875

a BROoKLYN girl has Just rejected
her lover for using profane language
on Sunday night. The young man
had been recently vaccinated, and
when she threw her arms around him
and Rugged him with all the ardOr Of
true love, he slid out of her embrace
as if he bad been CREASED, muttering
Cesar 'Blaze'n Great guns!
and the like.
Year: 1875

have been selling this Standard Fertilizer
for the past four years, and can recommend it
with entire confidence as first class article.
The msterial Of which it is composed is of 8
durable character and furnishes al the neces-
sary plant food Tor. the cultivation of Wheat,
Tobacco and Garden Vegetables.


IT is IN FINE DRY POWDER, READY
FOR DRILLING, its mechanical condition be-
ing equal to that of any Fertilizer in this or any
other market


PRICE SIS PER TON OF 1000 LBS.


FOR SALEB


THOS. PERRY.
aug l7-2m II King street
Year: 1875

A writer says "In Elizabethan,
England, when gallimawfreys had given
wav co the substantial fare Of our later
cookery, It was the custom at private
dinners to place the principal joints and
masses of meat at the upper end of the
table, above the salt, so that the chief
guests could see clearly the best of the
good cheer, and also appropriate the
choicest cuts before the inferior folk
below the joint of honor were served.
Fashion having thus decided that the
carving should be done on the table,
the ladies were invited to the top of the
table. not out of gallantry, but in order
that they should do the work which
could no longer be executed convenient
ly bv professional cRrvers. It may cost
the reader a struggle to admit that our
ancestors had no more chIvairic pur-
pose in view when they promoted
woman to her proper place at the festal
board. But there is doubt as to the
| fact. The new ordering of places was
| the result of masculine selfishness and
insolence rather than masculine gallant
ry. just as in medieval society the
| lady of the house rendered service to
! her guests by discharging the functions
/ of q gentle serving woman, in prepar-
/ ing dishes for their enjoyment, and
[
/ own hands, SO in Elizabethan life she
went up to the top of her table, and
seated herself among the first guests,
/ in order that she might serve them as a
carver. At the same time the number


of great pieces requiring several carv-


ers, she brought other ministering Ia


dies to the upper end Of the table where
the grand Joints were exhibited. Hsv-
/ ing been thus called = tie top of the
table for her lords convenience, instead


of her own dignity, the mistress of the
house soon made It a point of honor to
occupy the place, which had in the first
instance been conceded to her as a ser
want, rather than as principal lady. Ere
long, with her characteristic cleverness


in making the best of things and stat
ing her own case IN the way most agree-
able to her self-love, she regarded her


carver's stool as a throne Of state, and


effected to preside over the company,


though the terms of her commission


only authorized her to help them to


food"


The fact that twenty men are


wanted by the SaC Francisco police fol


deserting their wives indicates changs


of sentiment from the time when th,


first white woman was received IN Cali
fornia with procession,
Year: 1875

room. I found Aunt Hetty talking to
Walter, and saw him gravely kiss her
hand as he came toward me. When I
saw the light In his eyes as he looked
at me, for the first time IN ny Iife I
thanked God for my gloxioHs beauty.


There was a grand time when I went
home, and for a while my unfortunate
appearance ceased to be the general
theme of conversation.


My first anxiety, when nurse brought
me my little Fannie TO look at, was
whether she was pretty. I need not
have troubled myself. Her nose is fiat,
her mouth is wide, and only her blue
eyes and sunny temper keep her from
positive plainnese. She has relieved
me from al fear of perpetuating the
race Of Lorleis. - The -Aldi1e.
Year: 1875

in the New York postofice there is
s clerk whose memory Of the Office
brings him back to the year 1886 when
a young woman used TO call every week
for a letter sddrss ssed to IS Miss Mary
n. Russell, post Office. 4" The regular
ity of her visits, her constant reserve,
and the quietness with which she re-
sented inquiry asto her history and occu-
patton excited in the Office a curiosity
which was never gratiied. Until within
ten years she made her calls with accus-
toned regularity and was never disep-
pointed in her expectation of letter.
Since, she has not been seen, but the
letters come as of old. They are for
warded to the dead-letter office where
they are opened, but contain no clue to
the identity of either the writer or the
recipient. In each is a s. note, with q
line saying when the next remittance
VIII be made-nothing more,
Year: 1875

The fact that twenty-seven men are
wanted by the SaC Francisco police for
deserting their wives indicates a change
of sentiment from the time when the
first white woman was received m Cali
fornia with q procession,
Year: 1875

have been selling this Standard Fartilize
for the past four years, and can recommend it
with entire confidence as first class article.
The material Of which it is composed is of q
durable character, and furnishes all the neces-
sary plant food for the cultivation of Wheat.
Tobacco and Garden Vegetables.
II Is IN FINE DRY POWDER. READY
FOR DRILLING, its mechanical condition be-
ing equal to that of any Fertilizer in this or any
other market


PRICE SIS PER TON OF 2OOO LBS.


FOR SALEBY


THOS. PERRY.
aug l7-2m II King street.
Year: 1875

THE NEW BAsIN.-Twelve men are
at work on Cool spring Reservoir this
morning, and more men will be put
to work ON Wednesday, the commen


cment of the week for workmen in the
water Department. The 12 inch mains,
that are to be laid under the embank
ment at Eleventh street are now on the
ground.
Year: 1875

PIECHBACK is an awkward fellow.
1t will hardly do to trife with the
darkey who can walk into the Louisi-
ana Legislature and get himself elect
ed Senator on short notice as often as
he pleases. If they do not give him a
seat at Washington, he may walk into
that Legislature and have Kellogg i'm
peached In fact there is no telling
what he might not do.
Year: 1875

The events Of the lasg two weeks have
developed a strong feeling in favor Of the
third term. Members Of Congress who
have hitherto been opposed to the scheme,
who hate Grant, and who have not sympa-
thized with him in the ring which is work
ing for his denomination, now begin to con-
cede that third term nomination is almost
inevitable. A leading Republican member
Of Congress from Pennsylvania says that
Grant has the whole thing in, his own
hands, and that he is evidently determined
to play every card in his hand.
Year: 1875

The general impression to-day is, that the
caucus bayonet bill willabe defeated. Re-
publican members who are opposed to it,
have to-day asserted that It will have over
fifty Republican votes cast against il, and
this would be ample, with the Democratic
vote, to defeat it. Others say that there
will be majority Of the Republicans in
the negative. On the whole, the defeat Of
the bill is almost assured.


Another GLIMPSE Of the Third Term
Year: 1875

THIS WELL-ENOwN COMPANY cor
u times to insure property against loss or daE-
age by fire. It's usefulness and willingness t6
meet its engagements have been shown by The
Davmenf Of over
Year: 1875

In its money article Of Saturday, the


Ne'7 York Tribune says that the lesson


taught by the recent railroad war


should not be forgotten, to-wit, that
Che business necessary to make rail
roading profitable does not at present
exist, as may be seen in the fact that
even at the low rate of 80 cents on
grain from Chicago to New York, the
shipments from the former place have
only averaged about one-third Of what
they were one year ago at the rate of
IS cents per 100 pounds; while the re-
cepts at the same time of wheat at
Chicago have been less than ene-half
of what they were last year. A de-
crease Of business in the West, by one
half to two-thirds, in spite of tempting
low rates, shows that Tennessee is not
worse off than some of her sister States
who are regarded as very prosperous
in the popular estimate down this way.
Year: 1875

which / accept, l cannot recommend to
your favorable consideration, a measure
evidently obnoxious, not only to the spirit
Of the constitution, both Of the nation and
Of the State, but to every principle Of honor
and Justice. If passed, il would be a long
stride toward the shameful doctrine Of re-
pudiatiOn. ID. E. PARKER.
Year: 1875

be chief thing thai distinguishes the
house Of the farmer from that Of a person
living III q city on town, is the absence OF
amy walks about the house Sometimes
there is a firm sod, but ordinarily this is
'ut up by the wheels of wagons and the
feet OF cattle, till it is in the best possible
condition to form mud After every rain,
topping out OF the house means stepping
MAO mud and mirc. Stepping into the
house means taking along with you rs
much clay, black earth, and manure, as
can be taken on the shoes. OF course, no
feet can he comfortable, no house can be
tidy, under such circumstances. In cold
weather we have no mud, but we do have
Il very uneven surface to travel over, and
often snow to wade through.


When we consider how much can be
3ayed il The way of comfort and tidiness
by the use OF walks, it is wonderful that
so many farm premises are without them.
There shonid be a walk leading from the
house To the street, another from the house
TO the stable, and still another to the well,
the carriage house and each of the other
farm buildings They would insure dry
ieet, clean floors, beside adding to general
health and comfort. The saving in the
course OF the year. IN the matter OF clean
ug boots, shoes, and floors, would more
than pay for making the walks.


1t walks are made Of brick, stone, OF
gravel, laid nearly level with the surface
Of the ground, they should be at least
four feet wide, so AZ to allow of planting
flowers along the sides of them, and still
have sufficient room to walk without hay
ing dresses touch the plants. If the walks
are lnade OF either of these materials,
pains should be taken to secure the pre-
yention OF the growth of grass and weeds
This NAV generally be accomplished by
removing the earth below the roots of the
grass and putting on a thick coating OF
leached ashes or refuse lime, with sand or
gravel well pounded down.


In most respects, however, the best,
cheapest, and most convenient walks may
be made Of common pine plank If planks
are used tor a walk, it need not be over
three feet wide. Good supports may be
made of two by four scantling set on edge.
A walk OF this kind will cost but little,
and viii last four years without repairs
Being elevated from the ground,i it is al
ways quite dry. while it isyery convenient
10 clean the snow from in winter
Year: 1875

lOllYe Harper III New \ OFk Graphic.


Three days ago Queen Victoria paid q
visit to the Empress Eugenie at ChiseI-
hurst, accompanied by two or three ladies
whose names | cannot remember. They
passed me at the station, and had good
opportunity to see Her Majesty. as She
was very close to me. She is medium
sized woman, somewhat inclined tO stout
ness, and has very tlorid countenancc
The features are not marked her mouth
falls open very often, and her lips are
rather full She seems kind and gracious
in manner, and very simple-entirely de-
void Of atfectation. Her voice is nrt
trained to such sweetness and grace OF
utterance as mark that OF the Ex-Empress
OF course, being somewhat stout, she does
not move so gracefully as she might but
take her all in all, she is pleasant-loohiu@
and one instinctively likes her for Il noble
woman. She was plainly dressed in black
silk, with heavy trimmings of Grape, and
wore widows veil and white cap
Queens look very like ordinary humanity.
fairy stories to the contrary notwithstand-
ing. Elizabeth, the Empress of Austria,
is tall, slender, very graceful woman,
some thirty live or thirty eight years OLD
Her eyes and hair are brown, and she is
rather thin in the face and of rather salloW
complexion But her manner is very
charming,


The daughter of the Gar of Russia,
who married the Duke Of Edinburgh, il
decidedly plain, IN spite Of all said to the
contrary, while the Princess Alexandra
has been, and is still, a tine-looking
woman | never saw the Empress OF
Russia, but | know her maid of honor,
Mademoiselle Annenkotf, who told me
she was plain and rather masculine look
ing.


To speak of the Sultaua of Turkey
would take more paper than have GOT
handy; there are so many OF her But it
is safe to say that You will find there "a
very beautiful woman or two after the
Turkish taste A fat, round woman. with
red cheeks and black eyebrows is a Turk
ish beauty-one easy to make since Bant-
ing wrote his book on dining and corpu-
lency, and cosmetics are so all-embracing


Of the Ex-Empress Eugenie | have
already spoken, SO | shall but say that
she still holds her seepter of beauty md
queenly dignity,


But the beauty OF all is the fair young
Queen Olga, of Greece Rarely have /
seen any person in the walk of life who
was so really lovely in all ways is She is.
and it is not to be wondered at that the
whole Exposition stood pctritied to sec
her pass, and that murmurs Of approba-
tion and delight followed her She wa,
dressed in light blue dress, with white
burnous carelessly thrown over her mag
nifcent shoulders, and Il blue and white
bonnet-the Greek colors.
Year: 1875

The Philadelphia Times very properly
animadverts upon that portion OF Geo
William Curtis otherwise very excellent
Grafton ut Concord, in which he raised Il
question OF nationality by expressing fears
Of the ignorance, paupersm, and foreign
religious faith OF the emigrants to th!,
country. The Times truly says


The Puritans have no right to usuIp all
the title in the sacred temple OF freedom.
OF to constitute themselves an exclusive
guard tor its keeping. The Blood Shed III
the revolution was not all OF one hue
That had been English that was spilled In
Massachusetts; that was Dutch in NeN
York German and Scotch-lrsh in PrnI-
svlyania; Swede in New jersey: there
was pure Irish in Maryland; cavalier Eng
lish in Virginia; Huguenot in the Carroll
mas, and Austro-German in Georgia The
glory of the achievement belongs to mo-.
one OF our thirteen tribes; and we will
have no high priests of Israel, nor Leyitr,
bearing the ark OF the covenant our tuther,
made with God in the name OF liberty amt
sealed with their blood. The essence Ui
our being is Democracy. The mcu ol ~
did not distrust one another because some
were English and some Irish, some Dutch
and some Austrian, some French and some
German. They came in search Of tree
dom, and they found it; the foreigner at
to day comes here in search OF liberty


and it shall not be denied him, no matter
what may be his political orreligious con-
viction. Therefore we tell our adopted
| fellow citizens not to fear the native, As
| the native does not fear them. They are
immigrants and children of Immigrants
to borrow Mr.. Curtis phrase, only as one


is to four, and we never heard Of one Of
hem asserting the ability to whip four
Americans ANY day. Mr. Curtis need
not be alarmed at the proportion


MEASURING BY THE EYE Years ago.
when we went to school in Il little weather
| beaten school house, what exciting con
| tests there used to be over the teachers


favorite exercise of having the scholars
| estimate with the eye the size and weight
of different objects in the room. He would
hold up his cane, and have each one tell
| how long he thought it was, and it was u
lucky child that could come within halt 4


foot of the right length. He would take


boys straw hat and ask how much the


crown would hold He would measure an


urchin and then have the scholars try to


reproduce the measure on the wall. lie


would mark off an inch or q foot or yard


in some conspicuous place, and then see


how near anybody could come to chalk


ing the same length upon the blackboard


And it was astonishing how wide astray


one would 60. The fact is, our eyes de-


ceive us ridiculously even upon the com


monest things. At first thought, which
should you say was the taller, three-year
old child or flour barrel? And could
anything but actual measurement CON
vince you that the same child is half as
| high as six-footer? There is an old say
ing that child at two years old is half as
tall as he ever will be; and after few


experiments in measuring one can easily
| believe it, but not before. Advance.