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Year: 1876

Naught may endure but mutability.


Character is a perfectly educated
will


AS your enemies and your friends, 80
are you.


The certain way to be cheated is to
fancy ones self more cunning than
others.


The door between us and heaven can
not be opened if that between us and our
fellow men is shut.


1t is the most sympathetic and intelli-
gent minds which are the most delighted
with simple scenes.


1t is vain for the coward to fly; death
follows close behind; it is by defying it
that the brave escape.


Difference is the most complicate, the
most indirect, the most elegant and the
most effective of compliments.


What other dungeon is SO dark as
ones own heart9 What jailer so inexor-
able as ones self


The violet grows low and covers itself
with its tears, and of all flowers yields
the sweetest fragrance. Such is
humility.


Though the camomile, the more it is
trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth,
the more it is wasted the sooner it wears.


He whose first emotion on the view of
an excellent production is to undervalue
it, will never have one of his own to
show.


The nerve which never relaxes, the
eye which never blanches, the thought
which never wanders-these are the
masters of victory.


The parent who sends his son into the
world uneducated defrauds the COM
munity of useful citizen, and bequeaths
a nuisance.


The weariest and most loathed worldly
life that age, ache, penury and imprison-
ment can lay OH nature is paradise to
what we fear of DEATH
Year: 1876

A Hopkinton On. H. correspondent
of the Boston Journal says The cir
cumstances we are about to relate are
not recent, though of such a remarkable
character and of such scientific import
ance, if true, we wonder that apparently
no informed person of the time to which
they belong made any account of them.
But now, as years have passed since the
publication of "Elsie Venner," it may
be proper to inquire if any such phono-
mena as we are about to describe can be
correctly ascribed to the subtle poi
son of the rattlesnake.


Sixty years ago, or thereabouts, Cap
tain Parker Parsons kept a country
"tahvern" in the district of Hopkinton,
known from time immortal as "Stump
field" Being personally engaged in
variety of rural pursuits, the captain
kept about the farm, as general help, a
young man about twenty-five years Of
age, who bore the somewhat oppressive
lysuggestive cognomen, Moody Swallow.
At that time the rattlesnake was by no
means an infrequent habitue of this
vicinity, though the number of repre-
sentatives of this class of reptiles had
been greatly reduced since the first set
tlement. One day young Swallow gave
out that being himself close to cluster
of elder bushes growing by wall at the
side of the highway, a rattlesnake in
fiicted bite upon his leg, at the same
time confirming the statement by ex-
hibiting wound or scratch upon his
naked skin.


The information reaching us does not
state whether or no Swallow immediate
ly exhibited the effects of the serpent 8
venom, but it is sclemnly affirmed that
soon he became the subject of "spells, y
during the attacks of which he mani
tested traits peculiarly and strikingly
snaky. His brow corrugated, his eyes
flashed, and he would actually crawl or
wriggle upon his belly. A resort during
these attacks was quite noticeable. Near
the "tahvern stood the old Parsons
homestead-an ancient, unoccupied,
dilapidated building, with roof extend
ing far down toward the ground on one
side. Here Swallow would repair and
give demonstration of his fitful malady,
not the least astonishing of his exploits
being the exploring of the whole roof
on his belly, wriggling up one side and
down head first on the other, and SC
about to the extent of his serpen
tine impulse or pleasure. These fits be-
came matters of such common observa-
tion in the neighborhood that on an oc,
currence of one people would say
Swallow is having one of his spells
his snake is after him"


According to the information, these
things continued at least year, though
we are not told how frequently the at
tacks occurred or how long they lasted
Swallow does not appear to have been o.
this town, nor its long resident. He
soon went to Vermont, where he wal
convicted on criminal charge of some
kind and sentenced to the State prison
at Windsor, where he was visited by the
person, now living, who informs us o.
these circumstances. From this time
we have no account of him.
Year: 1876

The Berlin correspondent Of the Lon
don Daily Nea0S writes to that journal:
A case which recently came to light here
through the courts throws singular
light upon one phase of Prussian life.
Some time since a on-commissioned
officer of regiment stationed at Konigs-
berg committed suicide, and Just before
the act wrote letter to Berlin journal
explaining his motive. He had pre-
viously published certain facts highly
discreditable to two officers of his regi-
ment, and from that time they had per-
secuted him with every form of military
cruelty that the superior can visit upon
the subaltern. No opportunity was Of
fered to him to prove his charges, and
the standing of the officers screened
them from any investigation. Life,
therefore, became intolelable to the
poor man, and he decided on suicide.
The allegations against the two officers
"a paymaster and, believe, ieuten-
ant-were repeated in the testamentary
letter. But as soon as this was pub
lished the entire line aud staff of the
regiment-which seems to have been
less solicitous about vindicating its
honor so long as the accuser lived
hastened on this posthumous publica-
ton to prosecute the newspaper for
libel. The case came before the civil
court here, and, much to the surprise OF
all parties, the journal was acquitted.
It proved the truth of the allegations.
Year: 1876

Sit down, sad soul, and count
The moments flying;
Came, tell the sweet amount


That's lost by signing!
How many miles-a score!
Then laugh and count no more
For day is dying
Lie down, sad soul. and sleep,


And no more measure
The fight of time, ner weep


The loss Of leisure;
But here, by this lone stream,
Lie down with us and dream


or starry treasure
We dream ; do thou the same;


We love for ever;
We laugh yet few we shame,


The gentle-never;
Stay, then, till sorrow dies,
Then hope and happy skies


Are thine forever
Year: 1876

y correspondent propounds to US sew
era iuqpiries which We will briefly ans
WEI:


ls,. Was not The financial panic and
business depression caused ty contrac-
lion OF the currency?


Answer. No. At the time The panic
and depression came upon the country,
the amount of currency snoat Was larger
than ever before.


Pad. Is not The proslration OF indus
tries partly dne g = !ack OF currency


Answer No. There is an abundance
of currency which can be hired by re-
sponsible parties at lower rate oi inter
esl than was demanded during the ten
years before the panic. Under the act OF
1879. more national banks eau be organ
lied, and more currency obtained when.
ever the requirments OF business justify.
The fact that comparatively none have
been organized, aud that on the other
hand many have surrendered their char
terS. shows that the supply OF currency
in all The commercial centers is greater
than the demand.


Sd. Why was business SO active and
industries so prosperous during, and i'm
mediately after the war, when our
currency was more deprecated than
now?


Answer. Three millions OF men were
non-producers and enormous consumers
OF every product, at the expense OF the
nation during the war. The diminution
of producers and the increase OF con
sumption of course made it lively work
Tor the population at home. The excess
of consumption over production was not
then felt by the nation. because it bor-
rowed the money which it is now paying ;
and pay day for property consumed long
ago, has much 10 do in making times
comparatively hard. We should have
had The business depression soon after
The close of the war, had not the South,
which was destitute OF all kinds of pre-
ducts, stepped in as a large purchaser.
When the excessive Southern demand
stopped, aud the government was no
longer q purchaser for war purposes,
very naturally the demand for the pro-
ducts fell off, and glut in the market
succeeded.


Alb. To what do you ascribe the de-
preston OF business


Answer Primarily TO the excessive
use Of credit and the over-strained man
uer ia which ordinary business is pushed,
causes which are at work in all countries,
and which for long time have produced
business revulsion all over the civil
Year: 1876

my SON"


well" said the pilgrim, "if each
dwelIs out time in the castle. and in
time must depart and make way for an
other, what are you here otherwise than
guestsP The castle, then, is truly an inn.
Why. then, spend so much money adorn-
ing dwelling which you will occupy but
u short time? BE charitable, tor he that
hath pity upon the poor endeth to the
Lord, and that which be hath he will pay
him again"


The knight took these words to heart.
He gave the pilgrim shelter tor the night,
aud was ever aiterward more chutlbIe
unto the poor.
Year: 1876

their respective plantations very at
tracliye.


The present is very pleasant time TO
visit The Centennial, and from the daily
increasing attendance. il is believed the
remaining portion OF the time it will be
much more crowded than during the first
hot months of its existence.


ANuCUs
Year: 1876

Burns and scalds are among the most
common Of accidents, and perhaps there
are none for which moro remedies have
been suggested and employed. With
some of these remedies it is the duty of
all of us TO become familiar, that we
may know what to do in an emergency.
1t is thousand pities to have the chance,
once in a lifetime, of playing the part of
the good Samaritan and lack the skill.
The first thing to be noticed is, that in
moving injured people great care should
be taken not to add to the effect of the
shock which the system has already ex-
perienced. In removing the clothes
there must be no tearing off of the
burnt or blistered skin, which affords O
useful protection for the injured sur
face. The next thing is to cover the
burnt or scalded parts with material
that will exclude the air. Flour answers
we'll. and should be freely applied. Or
common whiting, reduced by cold water
to the consistence of thick cream, may
be spread on light linen rag, and ap-
piled to cover the injured surface. The
ease it affords is instantaneous, and ii
only requires to be kept moist by occa-
sional sprinkling of cold water. Cotton
wool, if at hand, may be wrapped
round the injuries, or lint, or linen rags
stepped in water may be used. These
may be covered with oiled silk.
mixture of inseed oil and lime water, in
equal proportions, may be applied with
rags laid over the burns. The more ex
tensive the surface involved in the acci
dent, the greater care should be taker
not to expose it to atmospheric in
fuence, which increases the pain. and
also adds constitutional depression
Should the sufferer be greatly exhausted
give brandy or other stimulant /; if tn,
pain be excessive and irritating to the
nervous system, ten drops of laudanun
should be given until professional ait
can be obtained.
Year: 1876

There seems to be more natural diff


Guilty for the woman to learn than the


man. There is sweet tooth running
through her sex which affects her taste


and renders her less trustworthy. She
is less exact, at least in the pursuit of
this vocation, and does not reason as the
man does. If he fails he thinks and
tries to find out the cause of the failure,
which she is less apt to do. He gives
pounds and ounces as to quantity where
she gives approximate handfuls. The
man is more particular about the food
which he consumes himself, which
makes him more careful about what he
prepares for others. Many women are
content provided they have ice cream
and sweet cake, or something equivalent
thereto. Count de Najac, man of some
authority concerning the table in Paris,
AYERS that the interest and traditions OF
the kitchen can only be confined with
safety to men, and that if the women
guests at a table were not under the eye
of the stern sex they would begin dinner
with the dessert. As may be conceived,
this is painful mistake for O French.
man to make, but sense of duty doubt
less rises above all other considerations.
Notwithstanding, even if men be su.
perior to women in this calling, if any
widespread movement is to come about
the movement must come from them, fol
the kitchen is virtually in their hands.
Year: 1876

Dan Sheppard, workman on the
South Pueblo water works ditch, Oolora-
do, some time since, the Denver NeeUs
says, was bitten by tarantula. Shep-
pard was sleeping in cabin on the
Grayback ranch. He had made his bed
on the floor, and had scarcely gone to
sleep when he felt something pinch his
left shoulder and then run across his
face. He tried to catch it with his
hand, but it escaped him. Severe pains
beginning to shoot from the shoulder,
Sheppard became convinced that he had
been bitten by tarantula. He then
ran up the railway track to M. t.
Robinson's, about mile distant, in the
hope of getting some whisky for use as
an antidote, but unfortunately Robinson
had no whisky on hand. He then re-
turned down the track and went to a
house near where he was bitten.


Sheppard is stout, powerful man,
but by this time he was nearly exhaust
ed. The pain had passed from his shoul.
der down. his left side, then into his
legs and up his right side, until his
whole body was affected, and he was in
a state of tho most excruciating agony.
A neighbor Immediately mounted his
horse and galloped to Pueblo, eight
miles distant, for supply of whisky.


In the meantime Sheppard returned
to his cabin, and in short time, from
the action of the poison, he became al
most insensible, and his body, head and
limbs became frightfully swollen. Ii
just two hours and half from the time
he was bitten, the much needed whisky
was received from Pueblo.


The poisoned man was now in very
critical condition, unable to move, ant
evidently at the very gates of death
The whisky was Immediately admins
tered, and he speedily revived. Abou
quart was given him, when, as Shep
pard himself says, he began to feel him
self the strongest man in Colorado, an(
it was with difficulty that four mel
could hold him. 1t soon became eviden
that the whisky would prove an effectua
antidote to the tarantula poison.


Sheppard is now recovering rapidly
and though he is still weak, and has los
some thirty pounds in weight, there i
little doubt that in a week or so he wi
be all right again.


It is little singular that, althoug
the effects were 80 terrible, the bite il
self left mark so small as to be scarcel
perceptible. Although the whole of th
rest of the body was badly swollen, th
spot bitten was scarcely affected.
Year: 1876

At dinner party there were two
sisters present, one widow who had
Just emerged from her weeds. the other
not long married, whose husband had
lately gone out to India for a short
term. A young barrister present was
deputed to take the widow down to dim
ner. Unfortunately he was under the
impression that his partner was the
married lady whose husband had just ar
rived in India. The conversation be-
tween them begun with the lady's re-
marking how extremely hot it was.
"Yes, it is very ot," returned the
young barrister. Then happy thought
suggested itself to him, and he added
with q smile "But not so hot as the
place to which you husband bas gone."
The look with which the widow an
swered this "happy thought" will
haunt that young barrister till the day
of his death.
Year: 1876

When We are young our boys are sweet,
They climb our knees and lie at our feet;
When we are old they are hard to please,
Cold as the rock and wild rs the breeze;
They kiss us kindly and speak us fair,
But we know their hearts are otherwhere.
Oh, my sons my son till he gets him q


wife,


But my daughters my daughter all her


life.
When we are young our days our bright,
And full Of hope from morn till night;
When we are old we sit alone,
Aud think Of pleasant days long gone,
When the house was full of the children's


noise,
The willful girls and the naughty boys.
Oh, my sons my son till he gets him a


wife,


But my daughters my daughter all her


life.
Year: 1876

The Bushmen account for the origin
of the milky way by relating how girl
of the ancient race wished for little
light, so that the people might see to
return home at night. She therefore
threw wood ashes into the sky, which
became the milky way. This same girl,
being vexed with her mother for giving
her too little of certain red edible r OF,
threw up portions of it into the sky,
where they became stars.
Year: 1876

The ELECTION is over, and with it we
venture the prediction that there will be no
more blood-curdiing tales of Southern out.
rages. Morton will now fold up his "bloody
shirt" and carefully put it away until an
o,har election
Year: 1876

BErrrNG.-Au day on Wednesday and part Of
Thursday our people were wild over the fresideh'ill
electicn, and as the favored one party or the
other betting Was indulgei in 10 an extent never
betoo, known From what We have seen and heard,
half the ioose cash in the country Is locked up IN
the shape of bets, and unless the result Is known
soon We may expect terrible tghtness IN the money
market
Year: 1876

The British Ministry appears to have
reached the conclusion that its only escape
from the difficulties of the Turkish question
must be by assuming the attitude of the
most vigorous of the peacemakers, and the
world is consequently called to witness the
queer anomaly that England, which sup
ported the Ottoman government in its re-
sistance to o joint programme OF reforms
which might have averted the war, now prac-
tically compels that government to accept
terms of peace that will be palatable to the
friends OF Servia. On Wednesday of last
week the Sultan's Ministers were determined
not to grant an nrmistice, and to propose to
the representatives in Constantinople of all
the great Powers terms of peace that it was
known beforehand could not be accepted.
In other words, Turkey was determined to
continue the war, to crush Servia and to
trust to the mutual jealousy the great
Powers have of one another to prevent their
acting in concert to restrain her. But she
did not notice that there was new element
in the case; she did not consider that indigna-
ton which her acts had excited in England.
Her Britannia Majesty's Ministers, how
ever, considered it, and when they learned
on Wednesday night of the refractory tenn
per in COnstantipople they perhaps sent
some peremptory messages thither; and
then, in order to keep up the appearance of
not seeming to govern Turkey altogether by
their own will, they invited the other minis
ters to join Sir Henry Elliot in new remon-
strances. All that was done, and the Turk
has consequently modified his course and is
likely to accept moderate terms. If the
whole trouble passes away thus the British
government may congratulate itself that it
has escaped from q great difficulty very
adroitly for to have stopped the pressure
on Turkey by making the war, and to avoid
recriminations for the war by making peace
would be to succeed, as the world goes, in
the way Of diplomacy But the success is
not o solid one. Just now the discussion,
it is true, is not on the original issue it is
on making peace and saving Servia- But
the other issue will not down. Peace once
made, Turkey herself will be the first by
her acts to force the great States to return
once more to the consideration of that gross
misgovernment and oppression that led to
the insurrection and England cannot inter-
fere again to save Turkey.
Year: 1876

THE HOSTILE SAvAGEs are covertly creep
ing back to the agencies to be fed during the
winter, SO as to be the better prepared for
the next summers campaign So little is
known by the military authorities of the
Indians really engaged in the Sioux war that
most of Sitting Bulls warriors are not only
likely to escape punishment but to be
received with open arms. The arrest of John
Grass, the Chief of the Blackfeet at Standing
Rock, has created sensation, John pro-
testing his innocence of the charges against
him with avehemence that is sure to touch
the hearts of those who deal with the gentle
CayaQp
Year: 1876

strength, the dexterity or the skill of the
chosen representatives in an international
match We like the Irish all the better from
meeting them at the butts. and they feel not
less cordially toward us because of our sue
cesses. Yesterdays result cannot fail TO in
crease the attachment and respect of all who
participated in the match and Of all who
In every respect it was a well-contested trial
of skill, and we have every reason to antici-
pate that it will leave no heartburnings
behind it.


The impetus given to manly and athletic
sports by these matches is theme upon
years ngo few Americans could shoot Mt eight
hundred or q thousand yards, fewer still
could handle the oar with skill, and none
even thought Of games requiring the strength
and dexterity of polo. Now we are match
for all comers, which. is saying great deal
when our rifemen are pitted against antago-
nists who can make fifteen bulls-eyes in sue
cession and compelled to contend with
teams which exceed the best scores ever
made at Wimbledon. With such results
attained in 80 short time and with so little
practice, with an almost equally brilliant
record with the oar and the sail,
the future must be as rich In promise
for US as it is for our more experienced
rivals. Tho only trouble is that the
standard is becoming 80 high that the next
generation will be compelled to take up the
plant of the old theatre-goer, who never
and deplore the decay of long range shoot
ing. If international contests ever fall into
desuetude it will be out Of despair at
reaching the brilliant records of the present
epoch.
Year: 1876

It seems waste Of energy for any one to
trouble himself as to how or why it is that
Tweed is surrendered to us by the Spanish
government. There is no doubt of the fact
that he is to come hither, and the fact is
what is important; and the whole public
must equally rejoice that, whether his COM
ing is or Is not an embarrassment to any
person or any party, the discredit of his
escape through the slippery ways of our
local prison keepers may yet be effaced by
his punishment for tho offences of which he
has been guilty. 1t is, however, but natural
that it should stir the wonder of the people
to find man thus snapped up and handed
over to justice by the authorities OF one Of
tho countries with which we have no treaty
for the surrender of fugitive offenders. and
country within whose limits it is commonly
accounted that q criminal from this country
is safe. There is no end of queer surprises
in the administration of justice, but it is
very queer surprise indeed that if Tweed
had gone straight to England country
with which we have treaty-he would have
been safe and might, like several other fugi-
tives, have snapped his fingers at us, while
his roundabout journey to q country with
which we have no treaty simply lands him
at last in Ludlow street. In Spain the gov
ernment order on a subject of this nature is
supreme. Though nominally o constitu-
tional country the habeas corpus is not
thorn in the side of justice, and there is no
point of support in the law to protect
fugitive rogue from the supreme authority.
An extradition treaty in such circumstances
is not necessary. II is only necessary to
have the good will of the government. and
that, it appears. had been gained by us in
this case by an act Of the same nature, our
government having delivered to the Span
ish authorities fugitive from justice. 1t is
said that in SO doing our government arbi-
trarily trampled on the law, which might be
a nice point for courts to deal with, but its
discussion elsewhere would hardly be profit
able. 1t must be remembered. however,
that Mr.. Seward was not ignorant of our
laws and not the man to wantonly offend
them.