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Year: 1876

American press to the President. 1t arises from the
fact that he does not ask journalists to dine with
him. Descending to particulars, we learn that one
proprietor If a Republican newspaper-name unhap-
pv not giver-so resented this failure of courtesy
that he vowed he would never forgive the President
and he kent his VOW Probably" says this singu-
allv well-infomed chronicler there are not three
journalists in the whole country who have ever been
invited to his table" Nothing more need be said to
account for the criticism to which the public acts OF
this inhospitablc Chief Magistrate have sometimes
been subjected. There could be no better authority
than the writer of this eulogy for he, permit
ted 10 know is one of the three who hare been asked
He knows and tells us, what goes at dinner and
after dinner. must take leave TO quote part OF his
account, which will perhaps have some novelty for
American readers:


After dinner lust as the President is lighting his cigar,
and beginning TO hope FOR quiet evening IN come "a
batch OF visitors from MINNESOTA or Oregon, to tell him
how politics looking ont tcir way ana 20 assure l1
that Squash the postmaster ought TO bc turned out, ana
when Inc callers are n last got rid of for the night, yOr
happen to be alone with the President you VIII wonder
silent disagreeable" For he will talk wtk
much freedSn and animation, and with far greater in
bear upon any subject they may have in hand II you
have the good fortune TO turn the conversation into some
country the state of its Tadeyou will not seoR for
get tho store Of informaton marvellous in it's breadth





voice y gentle aud pleasant IN its tones bis choice u
words simple and varied than even the most
pracced writer's alway able to command lie taxes
The deepest interest in ali scientific questions.


And so on The minuteness of the authOr'sin infor-
patton is least as remarkable its extent There
can be few men who would have been capable of
ascertaining and recording the fact that when Pres
dent Grant receiVedm York half the merchants
and bankers of New-York," 10 whom " he stood all
day listening with attention" he lighted at eight
o'clock in the evening his fifteenth cigar! The
present writer saw him. having spoat his day III
counting the long succession of Hayanas. Let us
sOlcmnly commit this mOmentous fact to the future
historian. G. W. $.
Year: 1876

An English Admiral used to be fond ii
relating that on first leaving an humble
lodging to join his ship as a midshipman,
his landlady presented him with Bible
and guinea, saying God Hess you and
prosper you, my lad and as long as you
live, never suffer yourself to he laughed
out of your money or prayers.


The young sailor carefully followed
this advice through life, and had reason
to rejoice that he did so.


Never let your honest convictions bs
laughed down. Be true to yourself, anc
in the end you will not only be respected
by the world, but have the approval o
your own conscience.
Year: 1876

A little boy said to his mother the
other morning: "Ma, l had the
beautifulest dream last night you
ever saw. | dreamt that | wouldn't
go to school and that you went out
into the yard and cut long switch,
bu. just as you was going to give me
an awful dressin' the world came
to an end. Didn't get off easy,
thought"
Year: 1876

Here police. police. Just listen to
this fellow Of the Cobleskill, New
York, Index: "The spring style OF
pantaloons will be so large that no
modest man can climb ladder with
a pair Of EN- on
Year: 1876

New York will be more of a point
of attraction this year than Pniladel-


phia. Every body will, of course, go
to Philadelphia and see the ESposi-


tion-then they will come to New
York and see the metropolis. | want
to notify visitors that they may come
to New York and stay here long
enough to see the city, thoroughly, at
not very large expense. Avoid The
large hotels. avoid the small ones.
and, above all, avoid the European
hotels. In brief, dodge the hotels
altogether. Go to boarding houses,
where you can live for from s5 to So
a week, and be tolersbly well taken


care of. At least you will get all
Won can eat and good, clean, com.
Portable beds. These houses can be
found anywhere below Fourteenth


street, either east or west Of Broad


way. and the visitor whose ability 10
pay is limited can be accommodated
at any price desirable. Those who
have money will, Of course. go to the
frst-class hotels and be bled for the
style of the thing, but it is unneces-
sary. Stylish boarding houses can
be found at from $40 to s12 pei
week, in the vicinity of Lafayette
Place aud Tenth street; or, for the
matter OF that, on all the streets il
that vicinity. Aud let me say right
here, that when you come to New
York next summer come prepared to
stay long enough to see what great
city really is. Walking down Broad
way and going up to Central Park is
not seeing New York. You want to
get down in among the poor; you
want to see the shipping; W al


street ought to take up two days;
and then you ought TO penetrate thc
interior of the great business ware


houses in the lower part Of the city,
ana see something of the magnitude
Of their operations. By all means
get into the inside Of such an cstab-
lishment as Harpers, and go over te
Staten Island and up the East River.
that you may enjoy the finest water
view in the world and the finest sub.
urban residences. It wouldn't hurt
you any to spend day or two al
Long Branch to see the frivolity of {
summer watering place. Allthis car
be done for very little money, il
you only know how. Your wives
and daughters will, of course, wan


to see Stewards and the great jewel


ry stores; and if you have any tasts
for art, the picture galleries are oper
all the time. To do this cheaply, e.
to boarding-houses to live, use th'
street cars and stages, and by n
Year: 1876

TIE distinguished Earl Of Chatham
said to his son, "IWould have inscribed
on the curtains Of your bed and the walls
of your chamber, If you do not rise
early, you can never make progress IN
anything. If you do not set apart your
hours Of reading, if you suffer yourself,
or any one else. TO break in upon them,
your days will alp through your hands
Improbable and frivolous, and really I'M
enioyed by yourself
Year: 1876

One soon tires of sameness. Take an
invalid. She is confined to her room
perhaps TO her bed. She remains in one
position hour after hour, day after day
looking upon the same space or blank
walls, with nothing to interest. Posi-
bly, she may fx her attention upon fly,
q spider, or any irregular stain or crack
on the wall or on the ceiling; and soon
any change would be relief.


Now, why not act on this suggestion,
and place on view some agreeable OBJ
iect or Objects pretty picture, land
scape, pleasant faces such as can be seen
in chromos, or q vase Of flowers. Even
a map Of the world would be Q relief.
A change of the furniture, the bookcase
or the objects on the mantel. A sensi-
BILE nurse win know how to do these
things; and o sensible physician will
prescribe for the mind as we'll as for
the body. Nor are such changes less
useful or healthful to those who are not
invalids, but who occupy rooms. Every
room in every house should be we'll
lighted and we'll ventilated. No room
is fit to sleep in which cannot be made
light from the sun, and which is not
ventilated. Even Q cellar should be
80 constructed as to admit daylight and
fresh air. 1nvalids are always improved
by travel. II one be able to ride q
horse, good viii always come Of it Rail-
way riding is always healthful; and
changes from place to place will in many
cases, prove TO be remedial. Take rail-
way, run through the South during the
Winter, and it will be vastly better than
bitters, pills, plasters, cod-liver oil, or
anything from the doctors saddle-bags
or the drug store.


But begin by tidying up the room;
changing the places of objects putting
up pictures; and 30 giving the invalid
something interesting to look at.


MYsrxRIous.- The Assize Court Of
the Seine is about to try q mysterious
case. The prisoner is named Gervais,
and is working mason, who lived in
pretty house with Q garden attached,
called q villa, at Garenne, near st. Ger
main. It was his freehold, and his
neighbors wondered where he could
have got the money to purchase it.
Three years ago, he being q widower,
Q widow named Bonnerue hired half his
house and set up toy shop in the front
parlor. They soon lived together as
man and wife. Some months since she
disappeared, and Gervais said that she
had gone to her friends in Alsace. Two
months later he married girl Of nine
teen. and brought her home. The chit.
chat OF the neighborhood led to a search
OF the house, and the corpse of Madame
Bonnerue was found buried in the cell
lar. Gervais confessed to taking her
property, and selling her parrot for
fifty francs, but alleged that she died
suddenly, and that he concealed the
body tor fear of being suspected. The
autopsy discovers no trace of violence
or poison.
Year: 1876

One cup of sugar, one cup Of milk
one tablespoonful OF butter, one tea
spoonful OF dry cream Of tartar, one
half teaspoonful Of soda dissolved il
the milk, one egg, q little cinnamon
and -four to make it as stiff as pound
cake,
Year: 1876

F rom Harpc,'s Weekly.


The attitude and conduct of every
public man of this generation, when
the existence of the government and
human liberty itself were in peril, can
not be an obsolete question. There
are, indeed, present issues which are
and pressing but they
can be dealt with more wisely and fifty
by honest and experienced men, who
were instinctively true and loyal to
the country and its cause throughout
the war. 1t is not necessary that a
s:reformer" of to-day should have been
a s:Copperhead' OF yesterday, while
the Copperhead would desire nothing
more earnestly than that political and
patriotic memories should not extend
further than two or three years. The
war, indeed, is happily over, despite
such constant and skillful hostility as
that of Mr.. Tilden, but there are ques-
tions which the WAY has left that can
rot be treated safely and wisely by l
party and politicians who neither up.
proved the war nor sympathiZed with
reconstruction A Democratic restOra-
ton, with a candidate who was not
even ''war Democrat" would be
reaction which, as it is not necessary
to any reform or measure of progress,
we believe patriotic country Will
think long before it decrees.


I, for one, am not willing to transfer
the great power Of the government


from the hands which have held and


supported it to the hands still reeking


with the blood of it's brave defenders.
I do not stand here to defend


everything that the Rep'lbli'


can party has done; but when the


Democratic party is held up as the
+ S2,arty Of reform, am reminded Of the


Iecripit old lion in the fable, who


sought to gain by strategy what he


could not gain by strength. The spir-


4 and tendency of the Republican par
ty is toward reform. tits still worthy


of confidence, and though l am not


willing to throw up the party, l am


willing to expel those men who have


used the party for their own evil ends.
I accept the Republican party because


| believe in it's principles, which it


has neve- belied.-CongressmanSeelye,


of Massachusetts, President elect OF


Amherst College.
Year: 1876

An Eastern lady says: Have any of
you a spare bedchamber, seldom used,
which you would like to carpet at little
expense? Go to the paper-hanger' s
store and select paper looking as much
like carpet as you can find. Having
taken it home, first paper the floor of
your bed room with brown paper, or
newspapers. Then over this or these
put down your wall paper. A good
way to do this will be to put "A good coat
of paste upon the width of the roll of
paper and the length of the room, and
then lay down, unrolling and smooth
ing at the same time. When the floor
is all covered, then size and varnish,
only dark glue and common furniture
varnish may be used, and the floor will
lock all the better for the darkening
these will give it. When it is dry, put
down few rugs by the bedside and be-
fore the toiletltable, and you have as
pretty carpet as you could wish. A
carpet, too, that will last for years, if
not subject to constant wear, and at n
trifiing expense. myself used a room
one entire Summer prepared in this
way-used it constantly; and when
the house was sold in the Fall, the pur-
chaser asked me to take up the oilcloth,
as he wished to make some alterations
which would be sure to iniure it
Year: 1876

Men do fight, no doubt, from mere
recklessness, from hope of plumber or
glory; and sometimes they have been
whipped to it. But more often, when
they go where one out of every four or
five is likely to fall, it is with the nobler
motive uppermost, and felt with burn
ing earnestness, too, which only the
breath of the near-at hand death can fan
up. No! there is reason enough why
battle-fields should be, as they are,
places of pilgrimage. The remOteness of
the struggle hardly diminishes the in
terest with which we visit its scene !;
Marathon is as sacred as if the Greeks
conquered there last year. Nor, on the
other hand, do we need poetic haze from
a century or two of intervening time ;
Gettysburg was consecrated spot to all
the world before its dead were buried.
There need be no charm of nature; there
are tracts of mere sand in dreary Bran
denburg, where old Frederick, with
Prussia in his hand, supple and tough as
If plated into nation out Of whip-cOrd,
scourged the world; and these tracts are
precious. On the other hand, the grand
est natural features seem almost dwarfed
and paltry beside this Overmastering in
terest.-Apra Atlantic
Year: 1876

Time lost can never be regained. AZ
terallOwing yOurselfprOper time for rest
don't live a single hour of your life with
out doing exactly what is to be done in
it, and going straight through with it
from beginning to end. Work, play,
study, whatever it is, take hold Of it at
once and finish it up squarely and clean
ly; then to the next thing without let
ting any moments drop out between. 1t
is wonderful to see how many hours
these prompt people make out of a
day; it is as if they picked up the mo-
ments that the dawdlers lost. And if
you ever find yourself where you have
so many things pressed upon you that
you hardly know where to begin, let
me tell you a secret. Take hold of the
very first one that comes to hand, and
you will find the rest all fall into file
and follow after like a company of we'll
drilled soldiers, and though work may
be hard to meet when it charges you in
a squad it is easily vanquished if you
can bring it into lifie.
Year: 1876

A large life boat crossing the bar o
the San Juan River upset, precipitatins
the crew consisting of two officers
(white) and ten colOred men, into the
water, the boat being turned upside
down. "I felt" said the narrator
''that nv life was not worth half an
hours purchase. The cOxwain to the
boat, a weakly black man, rose along.
side Of me after the plunge; he was in
great terror, and / felt that if the sharks
did not harm him he could scarcely
reach the shore without help; so l en-
couraged him by telling him l would
swim by him, and give him a hand il
he felt tired. NO tired, massa; neber
live to be tired; look at dem round us.
1 felt that he was as near to the truth as
possible, for we were literally i'm the
centre of a shoal of sharks, whose black
triangular fins we could see on all sides
sailing round us. AS the beach was
quite close, we first endeavOred to make
that, but soon discovered that the cur
rent was so strong that we made nc
headway and we were forced to turn to-
ward the boat, which was 15O yards
away, drifting out to sea, turned upside
down, with the rest of the crew astride
on her keel. There was nothing, how
ever, for it but to swim to her, and, aided
by the strong current, we soon short
ened the distance. All this time the
sharks were around us, making, fam
cied, smaller circles, and once or twice
L thought l felt something touch my
feet with a rush, as these hOrrid brutes
do before they bite; if it was my i'm
nin
however, for we had not got twenty
yards ahead Of the spot, when my COM
paniOn shrieked, threw up his arms and
disappeared beneath the waves. A rush
of black fins, and their sudden disappear
ance under the water, was the last thing
l remembered until l found myself
alongside our ship i'm the stern-sheets of
the cutter which had been sent to the
rescue"


Considering the foolhardy rashness of
the negroes in bathing, it is surprising
how comparatively few accidents hap
pen. "Dive for six. pence, massa," in
to the water where sharks have been
seen the same morning. However he
will never venture in after dark.
Sharks, like many other fish, bite more
freely at night; in fact, sharky waters
where the fish are shy, and bathing is
comparatively free from danger during
the day, cannot be entered after night
fall without very great risk, the more
especially as at night sharks will, like
trout, prowl about shallow water barely
sufficient to cover them. The writer
recollects at Colon two stOkers of the
mail steamer Tyne taking fOrecastle
leave one night. The ship was warped
alongside the wharf, and these two men
crept along one of the hawsers, hand
over foot, to reach the wharf. The first
got over safely, but the second slipped
and fell into the water. Not at all
frightened, in a low voice he told his
companion to lower him rope from
the wharf, but he had scarcely spoken
when he DISAPPEARED and did not rise
again. A sharks stomach to a sailor is
matter of extreme interest. ''Let's
see what's inside Of him. is Jacks
first thought when the monster lies
dead on deck; though Jack is invariably
disappointed of finding treasure, silver
watch for example, would fill his soul
with pleasure.
Year: 1876

Think of what is meant by a happy
home. 1t is the best likeness of heaven
"a home where husband and wife,
father and mother, brother and sister,
child and parents, each in their several
ways, help each the other forwards, in
their different course, as no other human
being can; for none else outside the
circle of our own home has the same
opportunities, none else has known SO
the character of any other, none else
has such an interest at stake in the well
fare, the fame, and the grace and the
goodness of anyone else, as we have in
the welfare of those who are bone OF
our bone and flesh of our flesh, in whose
misery we become miserable by whose
selfishness, or weakness, or wOrldliness
we are decoyed down to earth, by whose
purity and nobleness and strength we
are raised up to duty, to heaven, and to
God.
Year: 1876

who even now are not unfrequently
prejudiced by the memory of the slave
days against the cane-field and sugar
factories, undertake willingly enough ;
and to judge by their stout limbs and
evident good condition, they find it
not unsuitable to their capabilities.
More than four million pounds weight
Of cocoa are yearly produced in Surf
nam, (which is a consideration as a
negro remarked to me, labOriOusly at
tempting to put his ideas into English,
instead of the Creole mixture of every
known language that they use among
themselves. Neither Coolies or Chinese
are employed at these cocoa estates,
much to the satisfaction of the CreOles,
who, though tolerant of, or clinging to,
European mastership, have little SIM
pathy with other cOlOred or semi-civil-
lied races.
Year: 1876

|
Red springs the rye
As autumn days decline,
And from the brilliant sky
Less ford splendors shine.
Its airy lust-ous line,
The gosssmer displays
And family breathes the pine


In autumn days.
And solemn is the hush
That on the earth doth fall:
And Of all birds the thrush
Alone is musical
The sparrow on the wall
Shivers in pallid rays,
And the frog has ceased its call


In autumn days.
But oh, the life. the life
That summer poured around.
The merry, ringing strife
And jocundry Of sound
In wood and sky and ground
What q chorus, what . maze
OF beauty there Was found


In summer days
lis gone. you hear no more
The bee hum in the flower;
Nor see the swallow soar
Around the hoary tower:
Nor the shrieking swifts devour
The distance in their plays
'Tis now the voiceless hour


OF autumn days


Atlantic Monthly.
Year: 1876

Hor Strdnge.-"It is astonishing"
said Deacon Green, chow sensitive
persons are in some ways and how dull
in others. / knew lady once who
went about in high spirits gossiping
and telling tales, thereby openly pro-
claiming herself a gossip and a tale
bearer, and yet she was furious when
told that she had not good ear for
music and I've known men who could
tell a lie without pang, but to have
any one doubt their word was more
than they could stand.nSt. Nicholas for
April.
Year: 1876

perhaps, more to be said on both sides. IL
the accusation shall encourage the republi-
cans to nominate better candidate some
good will have been done. Although we
shall feel bound, in that case, to support
Mr.. Calvin's opponent, we will not passively
see any injustice done to his character. He
may be IN upright, worthy man, and yet not
be the fittest person in the city for Surro-
gate. We need not revile him even if we
should feel constrained to support another.
Shortly before Mr.. Calvin's nomination we
took pains to inquire of lawyers, whose
standing and opportunities make them COM
petent judges, respecting Mr.. Calvin's
merits as Surrogate. We found only in
dorsements and no dissent He is now
before his appointment to his pres
ent Office. II it be true that he
was corrupt or stupid in that capacity a
faultless discharge of his duties as Surrogate
cannot obliterate the record, and he should
not be elected. So far as the facts have yet
been developed it does not appear that Mr..
Calvin violated his duty in the Starin case,
although there can be no question that the
claim was great swindle. The Board Of
Excise employed lawyer to prosecute
liquor dealers without making any stipula-
tion as to his compensation. He continued
to act in that capacity for a long course of
years, bringing many thousand suits by the
direction of the Board Of Excise. When. at
last, he presents his bill it is for an ex-
orbitant amount, which he cannot get aud
tied or paid. He assigns his claim to
Starin, who sues the city Mr. Calvin was
appointed referee and decided against the
city, in favor of the claimant. This looks
bad on its face but referee must decide
according to law. AS point of law Mr..
Calvin held that when no bargain
is made with a lawyer at the time
of retaining him he can collect his
fees on the scale allowed by the statutes.
If that be sound law Mr. Calvin was obliged
to make the award he did in the Starin case.
Whether his view of the law was correct or
not is question still pending, for an ap-
peal vas taken from his decision and the
case has not yet been finally adjudicated. If
his decision should be affirmed his Judgment
as lawyer would be vindicated; but if it
should be reversed, it would merely show
that he and the authorities he cited to sus-
tain his decision were mistaken on point of
law. It's reversal would no more prove Mr..
Calvin corrupt than it would prove that the
four or five judges whom he cited as author
tiles and from whom he took his law were
also corrupt. We shall attempt to shield
him from any real injustice, but if better
candidate is nominated against him we shall
advise citizens to give party to the winds in
voting for SO important a judicial officer
as the Surrogate