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Year: 1875

No SUCCESS WITHOUT WoRK.-When
Charles Dickens said that all that he had
accomplished had been achieved by diligent,
patient, persevering application, he only
stated what had been the experience Of
every successful man. Nothing is more inn
portaut to young men than that they should
early learn and comprehend this great truth.
1t is step by step, by toilsome effort added
to toilsome effort, that all great achievements
are made. As has been well remarked,
there is no royal road TO learning. Neither
is there any royal road to anything else of
great value in this life. Work steady,
long continued and regular application MS
the only price for which anything worth the
having can be bought. There is no great
success of any kind without great labor.
Year: 1875

If EVERY man had torpedo
planted in his head that would set
itself off whenever he attempted a
downright criminal act. what a
blessed thing it would be for the
age! But then with such thin
ming out among our sensational
preachers, congressman, govern
ment architects, and the like, how
could we get along!
Year: 1875

A NEW star, small but brilliant.
has appeared on the musical hori.
zon. Gemina Luziani, of Pisa. is
little girl seven years old, but so
small as to seem about five. Last
week she gave concert, and every
one is talking of her marvellous
talent for piano playing. Her
hand is so small that she can bare
ly strike sixth, but she takes the
'octaves by a quick movement that
is admirably executed. The mu-
slcal critics say she plays with
wonderful expression and with a
Just comprehension of the music
that is rare even in adult perform
ers. A young lady who sang at
the concert told us call she re-
celved from the little prodigy.
The child walked into our parlor
with the greatest dignity, and COM
ing directly to me said very rapid
~ and in perfectly monotonous
tone. Signorina, 1 have to say l
thank you very much for singing
at my concert Then she made a
little bobbing courtesy and sat
down. I complimented her play


ing; she got off the chair, said
thank you, repeated her courtesy
and sat down again. This she did
every time I said word of COM
mendation and always with the
same grave, old manner" It is
generally thought she is too preco-
cious to live long, and as 1 am told
she practices six hours a day, l
can well believe that she will be
pmartyr to the ambition of herself
and friends. : Letter from Italy


A New KIND OF POISONOUS
DRESS GooDs. = Professor Gent
says that in some English and
Alsatian print works the expensive
aibumen is partially replaced by
glycerine arsenic and acetate Of
alumina. Some of the dress goods
in the market contain three or four
grains of arsenic in yard of the
stuff. Muslins and cambrics with
little white spots, circles, stars, or
flowers, on a violet ground, and
those printed with brownish yellow
or reddish brown patterns, have
been found to contain arsenic; and
these Sre colors which have never
before been considered with any
suspicion, and would be purchased |
by the uninitiated without any
forebodings of the danger that
would attend the wearing of such |
dresses. The danger is no slight |
one; for aside from the large guam
tity of arsenic in it, the compound
is not an insoluble one. If the
goods are soaked in water, there is
dissolved out sufficient amount
of salt to give distinct reaction.
This latter peculiarly is explained
by the supposition that the goods,
being comparatively cheap, are not
washed or rinsed after printing,
but sent directly to be finished.
Year: 1875

ESPECIALLY ASSORTED FOR SCRAP
BOOK RILLUSTRA7TONS AND DRAW


ING CLASS COPIES.


A large collection of pictures OF different
Lies and on almost every conceivable sub
Ject have been put up in an attractive envel-
ope and are How offered at a price intended to
make them popular in every sense.


Envelope No. containing so beautiful en-
gravings) is now ready, and will be sent, post
age paid, to any address for ONE DOLLAR
A liberal discount to agents and teachers.
Year: 1875

SPECIAL NOTICE. Subscribers wishing to
make changes in the list of periodicals taken,
should give early notice Of their intention. 1t
is also well to have periodicals begin and end
with the calendar year.
Year: 1875

The Cincinnati Price Current, which
is usually well informed on such matters,
saws: (: "Taking the country at large, we
may say that there never was a more
favorable season for almost everything
which the land produces. The wool clip
is doubtless the largest ever sheared III
the country. The winter wheat was IN
iured somewhat in the West, but the
deficiency, if there is any, will be neu-
tralized by the largely increased amount
of breadstuffs produced in the Southern
States, which will reduce the demand
from that section upon the West, and all
other grain promises exceedingly well.


The cotton crop at the South holds out
an equally cheering prospect, and the
probabilities in regard to the root
crops are also encouraging. IN
Europe, too, the crops are uniformly
good, SO that we may expect only mod
crate export demand for breadstuffs.
With such prospects there is reason to
expect continued low prices for the STAN
off life. and other articles must come
down to their nominal level. A year IN
which the crops are good cannot be al,
together a bad one for business, and
Though the long -looked-for revival OF
trade may not be realized this year,
solid foundation will be laid whereupon
to rear a new commercial superstructure
that shall be enduring. If the crops
throughout the world turn out according
to their present promises it will be I'M
possible for the present depressed state
of the trade to continue beyond the close
of the present year. With good crops


we may defy commercial panics, ana
look forward with hope to prosperous


era for business all over the world.
Year: 1875

A man in Whitewater, Wis, has made
a will in which occurs the following
"First set apart sufficient sum of
money to pay any and all claims against
my estate at the time of my death; also,
enough to pay my funeral expenses,
which shall be as follows: Let there be
coffin made of plain boards, no paint,
no stain, no trimming, no box. Cover
the coffin with plank laid crosswise the
grave. Let no undertaken have any lot
or part in my burial. I wish, if posi-
BILE, to avoid this last swindle and ex-
tortion. I wish to be buried by friends.
desire and request that none of my
kindred change their apparel in conse-
quence of my death. l protest against
this relic of barbarism, of having my
remains conveyed to the church and
placed on exhibition. I wish to be
buried from my house. Let the reli-
gious services consist simply in reading
from the scriptures and prayer; no ser.
mon, no exhortation."
Year: 1875

With lungs of iron and wings of fame,
With nerves and sinews OF quiyering ttse',
With ribs of brass and giants frame,
He spurns the earth with an angry heol.


Through the midnight black


His eyeballs glare


With ghastly stare


On the startled track,
And he rends tine sky with 4 scream Of pain
Oh, a monster grim is the lightning train!
The legend tells of a miIk-wlite steed
That carried Mohammed from earth TO heaven;
As swift as fash of light her speed,
And jcweled feet to her feet were given:


Each leap WIS as far


As the eye has sight,


And each hoof as bright


As a blazing star,
And gleam like the stream that the comet yields
Al Borak left in the rosy fields.
A wonderful arrow was that of old
That bore Saint Abaris through the land;
It was feathered with light and barbed with gold,
And sped by the touch of Apollos hand.


With sibilant song


1t cleft the cloud


That shouted aloud


As 1t flashed along,
And the sea never saw from its throbbing tlde
vision 80 rare as the prophets ride.
The Sultan's cap and magical wand
Bore Fortunatus to isles remote,
The talis1nan took him to every land
And to every sky in its airy boat


But the cleaning shaft


From the archers arm,


Aladdns charm,


And the phantom craft,
And the steed that skinned the azure plane
Are all combined in the flying train.
1t deyours the forest and drinks the lake,
Then plunges down the wild ravines
With the wealth of the world on its burdened back
sooty man from the saddle leans,


And murky wreath


Its jaws emit


As he tightens the bit


In the dragons teeth,
And his cheek is swept by the fiery name
oh, q monster grim is the lightning train!
Year: 1875

BALTIMORE is excited over the mar
riage in that city of scion of English
nobility to colored woman. The Bal
timore papers set up the bridegroom as
a direct descendant of the Plantagenet
family of England, and that at one time
he stood first-late chance of ascending
the British throne.
Year: 1875

THE Worcester Spy gratifies the peo'
pie of Massachusetts with the announce
ment that they are more heavily taxed
than the people of any other State in the
Union. The State and municipal taxes
for the current year amount to $17.10
for each each individual of the popula-
ton, while each New Yorker pays only
$11.06, and the fortunate dweller In the
sparsely settled State of Texas only
$1.37.
Year: 1875

Col. GnDERsIEEvE seems to have
thought it necessary to dissipate the i'm
preston that this country was "a land OF
riaemen. 1t was only the day after the
Dollymount contest that az Irish paper
spoke of us as ga nation of forty mill
ions, who are familiar with the rifle from
their cradle;" and no doubt it was sin
cere in thinking that our infants went to
Central Park with Remingtons slung to
their backs for fear of Indians, and that
hotel soiourners in New York could have
for breakfast the buffalo they had shot
about sunrise.
Year: 1875

Yesterday forenoon, while the workmen
were engaged at the old College lot on Dela'
ware avenue, in digging the trench for lay
ing the large water mains, a portion OF @ an
embankment gave way and fell IN on WIN.
Baird, laDorer. His ankle was broken
and other severe injuries inflicted. lie was
taken to his home in a carriage where the
necessary medical aid was rendered him.
Year: 1875

A st. Louis clergyman who,
while preaching q sermon ON Sun
day evening last, perceived a man
and woman under the gallery in
the act of kissing each other be
hind hymn book, did not lose his
temper. No, he remained calm.
He beamed mildly at the offenders
over his spectacles, and when the
young man kissed her the fifteenth
time, he merely broke his sermon
short off in the middle of thirdly"
and offered . fervent prayer IN
behalf of the young man In the
pink necktie and the maiden in the
blue bonnet and gray shawl who
were profaning the sanctuary by
kissing one another in pew 76, and
the congregation said amen Then
the woman pulled her veil down
and the young man sat there and
swore softly to himself He does
rot go to church - much now as
he did
Year: 1875

A dispatch from Ottawa, the
Dominion capital, says that small
pox of the most malignant type Is
raging among the Indians at Pick
anock. on the Galinia River On
the 9th of December the bodies of
nine children were lying unburied.
The Indians are In pitiful state of
destitution. The male portion are
either dead or have left the place.
Year: 1875

A man whose wife hung herself
In his presence. on being asked
why he did not prevent the tragedy,
replied: Il cut her down three times,
last week, and I can't be always
cutting her down"
Year: 1875

Toledo papers announce that
there is plenty of work in that city,
but carefully conceal the fact that
said work is sitting on a-bench In
front of q coal stove and wishing it
were spring.


Mr. b. Young. of Salt Lake City.
Is sick nigh unto death. Mr.. Young
is married man, and we have a
great deal of sympathy for his wife.
but not enough to go around
Newtown Herald


We modestly inquire whether those
who are so anxious to vote Con in the
Constitution have Him in their
hearts?
Year: 1875

The bark Mignon, which arrived on Wed.
uesdsy from Vera Cruz, delivered at that
port, from Genoa, several thousand pack
ages of cigarette paper, at freight of $1,000
in gold. The Mignon left this port laden
with cotton for Genoa, and it was rare
thing for her to get so good return freight.


The vessels Of the Mexican line have
transported from this city to Mexico 1000
bales of cotton the present season. This is
owing to the failure of the crop in Mexico
the past season. The cotton crop comes in
there again in the month of February,
which will then stop all shipments from
here.


There are twelve cargoes of salt due at
this port. Most of the ships have been out
over sixty days from Liverpool.


Every pound of stone ballast that arrives
on shipboard is Immediately bought up BY
the Jetty Company at sixty cents per ton
about the cost of discharging. This clears
the levee, while those that bring dirt bal.
last are either obliged to dump it in the
bottom, or have it hauled away immedi-
ately.
Year: 1875

We are again called upon to commend the
Louisiana State Lottery for the liberallty
and enterprise displayed in assuming the
risk of all unsold tickets in the great golden
drawing of December 27.


AS measure of precaution it was at first
determined to reserve the privilege of seal
ing of prizes in case of all the tickets not
being sold. Since then, however, 50 many
tickets have been sold. and those on hand
are going off so rapidly, that the compan y
has wisely determined that no scaling of
prizes shall take place, and that all holders
of lucky tickets shall be paid in full Merry
Christmas is rapidly approaching, and al
most before one is aware the day for win
ming golden fortune will pass away. We
advise all those, therefore, desrous of Sc
curing competency to at once come for
ward and purchase ticket in the golden
drawing.
Year: 1875

More Victims of the Grinding Monopoly.


The action of the executive committee of
the Western Union Telegraph Company last
week, in reducing the salaries of all the
employees of the line from five to twenty.
five per cent, is exciting considerable feel.
ing among the operators in the Office here,
who number among them some of the best
and most accomplished in the country, and
this feeling seems only to be in harmony
with that prevailing in most of the cities in
the country. The dissatisfaction is not
limited to the operators and clerks, but
affects the higher officials as well, for they
are the most seriously hurt by the proposed
reduction.


Meetings are to be held this morning in
Chicago, Washington, Cincinnati, Cleve-
land and other cities, for the purpose of
drafting resolutions of remonstrance, and
it is probable the New Orleans operators
will take the same course in day or two.
Year: 1875

The new postmaster of the House has
drawn the indignation of those who elected
him on his own head by appointing eight
out of twelve of his subordinates from Alex.
andria, his own place OF residence.
Year: 1875

Ex-Surgeon General Hammond, in a
criticism on the report of the examination
of the body of the late Vice President, by
DR.. Baxter, says that the Vice Presidents
death was not caused by apoplexy, but by
the plugging up of some vessel of the brain.
Year: 1875

The hall of Home Hook and Ladder Fire
Company No. l, on Marengo street, Sixth
District, will be occupied tomorrow even
ing by the Rosedale Social Club, which club
will give complimentary soiree dsnsante
for the entertainment, then and there, of
many friends invited.
Year: 1875

Mrs. Jervis, the wife of farmer
living near Sacramento, died a few
DAYS ago in this city, from the bite Of
a tarantula. The case is singular,
and is another instance of the deadly
attributes of this insect, not uncom-
mon in many portions Of California
Some six months ago, Mrs Jervis,
then living on her husbands farm,
had occasion TO strike light, and
going TO a closet felt about for a
match. While SO doing she found
something in piece of writing paper
which she thought might be bunch
of matches, and took hold of it, As
she did she felt a sharp pain like the
prick of a needle or pin, and found
something attached to her fore-fnger.
She screamed with terror, her
husband rose lit candle, and to his
horror found that she was bitten by a
tarantula-whose poison is deadly
unless the wound be Immediately y eau
terizeG He told his wife that she
bad only one chance of her life, to
have the injured part cut out. She
consented, and getting his razor, be
cut a piece one inch square out Of
her finger. The unfortunate woman
stood the operation heroicaIly, but its
effects were not such As were desired.
She fingered for siN months iu CON
tinual agony, her blood literally dry
ing up, till she was reduced to an
absolute skeleton Three months be-
fore her death Ter entire right side
became paralyzed yet, strange to
say, the hand had a tendency to crawl
and the fingers necessarily moved like
the legs of spider. This feeling
she said she could not control, and it
presents one of the strongest phases
of this disease, though usual ac-
Compartment, so averred, of poison
ing 10y insects Of the spider kind
San Francisco Post.
Year: 1875

In order 10 increase the sum Of hu-
man happiness, we should cultivate
kind and fra,ernal feelings with one
another. \ true life consists in some
thing else than simply accommodating
property. We do not and cannot
live by bread alone A writer in
the Journal Of agriculture discourses
on this subject most beautifully, as
follows: The sole object and aim
of too many individuals seems to be
to get gain, grab ALL let the con-
sequences be what they may TO others.
The design to accumulate wealth, re-
gardless of the comfort and social
happiness of our neighbors, and the
interchange of friendly sentiment,
should be ignored. On the other
hand, we should so live and act that
the generous impulses Of our own
hearts would prompt Us to extend the
hand of fellowship to all our neigh
borS, and, looking them squarelv in
the eye, feel that glorious Inward
consciousness that we had never
wronged them in thought, word or
show. Then, too, let little deeds Of
love be done; let the princlples of
the golden rule be exempliied in
daily lives let Us he more soclabIe,
and cultivate our convivial qualities
by frequent intercbangeS Of friendly
greetings at social gatherings; let no
arist,cracy he acknowledged save
that of the intellect let Us beau,ify
our homes; let US make them what
they should be 10y cherishiny a love
for the beautiful, so that


Blessings may attend US forever;


Aud Whatever We ssty for or do,


May our lives be one grand endeavor


Tutype the pure, the good and the true
Year: 1875

Of oil the plaques which afflict our
country, cholera, fever, grasshoppers,
and scallawags included, an ordinary
session of Congress is The most pro-
voking and ruuious. Their last piece
of foolery and oppression before the
last adjournment was the doubling of
the rates Of postage on al mercban-
disc, while at the same time the in-
famous franking privilege was restor.
ed by which they are enabled to send
tons of worthless matter through the
mails free. There is little doubt that
the measure was bought by the eS-
press companies to whose advantage
it acts. Had such On outrage been
perpetrated by the aristocracy of the
old world what howl of righteous
warning would have gone up from
the same congressman, as they be-
sought the honest people at home to
send them back to Washington that
by their vigilance they might protect
our country from the influence o
such oppressors.-Erchange.
Year: 1875

IT'S ALWAYS So.-Something al
ways happens 10 spoil any grand
speech which Detroitcr may try
to get off Yesterday among the
people at the ferry dock to see the
ice sweep by was long-haired. pro-
found-looking man, whose soul took
in all the grandeur Of the sceue He
had just raised his arm and commenc-
ed: How puny is man compared
TO nature and her" when a ware
house clerk rolled "a barrel of beans
against his legs, and the long g-haired
man, sat down on bis plug hat, which
was lying on the dock. He wouldn't
even be a spectator ahy longer.-Free
Press
Year: 1875

They attempted to give out on
eight syllable word at one of the
Rhode Island spelling matches the
other night, bat found that there
wasn't room for it in the StIte.-Bos
ton Tran script.
Year: 1875

The State Agricultural Journal,
after speaking of the increasing sale
of grass seed in Raleigh, y. c., says:
Now suppose we make calculation
as to the relative value of hay and
cotton crops which Ough; to be raised
on tie quantity of land named:


VALUATION OF HAY CROP.
600 acres, average yield of


5000 pounds per acre, at


Sl.25 per cwt. s3I,oOO


VALUATION OF COTTON CROP.
600 acres average yield Of


300pounds lilt cotton per


acre al ID cents, S2I 900


We give the foregoing information
for the benefit of those who believe in
the all-cotton system Of farming


What is true now, however, will
remain true to the end, as the key to
the true philosophy and economy Of
the matter. Land which is best suited
to cotton should he planted TO cotton.
Land that is better suited to some
thing else should be planted to some
thing else. Add to this the intelligent
aud determined effort of every farmer
and planter to raise his own supplies,
whenever he can do so, bay included,
and all the primary conditions Of
southern farming success are satisfied.
Year: 1875

A MIsER's END.-During the past
week Henry, Beamer, a German indiyid-
ual, well known in the western section Of
his economical traits ofeharacter, died
at his home on Garrison's lane, near
the Frederick road, after a brief ILL
ness. He was 20 years Of age, and
shortly before his death he an
nOunced to q friend that during his
whole life he had never given away =
cent, nor spent one when it was not
absolutely necessary. Some four years
ago he married third wife, who, by
the way, is young woman, bur unlike
most men in their dotage, he had held
her we'll in hand, and compelled her
to work in Wilkins fair factory Her
weekly earnings were regularly turned
over to Beamer, who attended person
ally to all household matters, and
bought the coarse food they lived upon.
About six years ago he bought n
second hand pine coffin case from an
undertaken, and that piece of furniture
was stored away In the upper part OF
the house until IL would come into
use. A few days before dying ne told
his wife that his funeral expenses
must not exceed ten dollars, and he
decided that his mortal remains could
be carried to the graveyard by two or
three men much cheaper than they
could be hauld in harse. On max
ing inquiry it was found that 1t would
cost about sl2 to employ SIX men TO
convey the miser's body to the grave,
and rather than pay that sum an ex-
press wagon was hired for 80 to do the
Job. The night previous to his death
| Beamer sent for a barber and was
shaved, as that operation would have
cost 81 if postponed until after his
death, while before it cost but ten
cents. He also stipulated that there
was to be no money wasted in buying
candles or oil to burn at his wake.
The funeral procession consisted OF
the furniture wagon, containing the
remains, and eleven friends and rela-
tiyes of the deceased who followed
along on foot The faithful wife of
the dead man carried out his instruc-
tions to the letter, and the total ex-
penses attending the funeral only
amounted to 1915. Beamer had dur
ing his long life managed, BY quite
economy and abstinence, TO scrape te-
gether a considerable amount ofwealth.
He owned about $4,000 worth Of real
estate and had $4,000 in bank. He


made will leaving the property to his
son in Indiana and his wife, but eau
toned them to saye.it carefully.-Botti
more american.
Year: 1875

YIELD A LITTLE.-It is better to
yield little than to quarrel great
deal. The habit of standing up, as
people call it, for their (little) rights
is one of the most disagreeable and
undignifed in the world. Life is too
short for the perpetual chickering's
which attend such q disposition; and
unless q very momentous affair indeed,
where other peoples claims and inter-
ests are involved, it is a question if it
is not wiser, happier and more pru-
deut to yield somewhat OF precious
rights than squabble to maintain them.
True wisdom is first pure. then peace
able and gentle.