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Year: 1873

No. 165-Chicago and Northwestern Railway
COMPANY error the Circuit Court for the District Of
ad administrator for causing the death OF
his Burcb who employee Of the road
collision The defense that the collision and


occaoDd By the negligence Of the of
ented because bis
contributed toward the am The amin
the rule aS that the master not
liable for injuries By the negligence OF fellow
OF Iowa which expressly enscted that railroad
conendei that this provision
the void being repugnan TO the Constitution Of the state
said that all general laws shall be uniform IN their opera
ton whereas this not nasmoeh as Il makes railroads liable Tor dam
but does not extend that liability
employers generally B. C. Cook for plaintiff III errors j. d. Ashton
and n. Wilson for defendant


No. loo Mutual Life Insurance Company Of Newfork ag Teuv
the Creut Court for the District Of ksAs This
policy Insurance obtained by the defendant the


life in July 1861 The pocy contained provision
suicide Of the insured and the defense
bis hand To this replied that there
suicide but insanity and that the taking Of the poison causing The
caused BY such insanity The court asked 10
life knowing and realizing the act tue
the policy against suicde that the act OF
itself evidence Of insanity and that the burden
that when the committed
capable Of knowing its nature and
quence charged that the burden oOo the plain
that Terry impee the act by an n
which that left hm did not enable him 70
Oyerthrown by his mental
could them the act he about 10 DO
Company liable The assigned In this charge and the
". H. Neyson defendant IN H.
l.. AID !. 4. Davies plaintiff
Year: 1873

The theory ia very simple and theory circles OF
sensation varying In size In different parts of the body
continuity of circles OF sensation makes sensation
continuous The tongue is sensitive than the arm,
and the ann than other points Of the body. You
how much bigger hole in the gums is to the tongue
than to the finger The is that there arc more
feeling it. Our conceptions Of size mainly
subjective. -


Let pass very rapidly TO consider the sensation
OF smell. Nothlngcan be smelled except in gaseous
because they volatzed. When you examine the
internal organs, you find the cilary eptheum, COM
posed OF bodies which fare moving 10 fro like the
grain in harvest field. They continue this motion
consciously even for some time after the individual IS
citations OF the nerves OF smell Is very difficult tell.
This much we know that there Is nothing at all 10 the


the object itself We cannot tell why some things have
difference between odOrous and non-odorous.


When come TO taste we mud that the tongue ia the
ences Which seem designed stimulate the solution OF
object to be tasted AS nothing be smelled
solid form. though it must first be dissolved by the
saliva This can be shown by tne phenomenon OF the
Is dry. The glands of saliva must first mOisten 1t.
Many things that think you taste do taste:
into the chambers OF the nose and smells. II you
could close tho passages OF the nose like chemists
YOU could deprive many substances Of taste Take for


Let US pass now to the sense OF hearing Here we can
Esberg full statement of this You have heard already
about ght and hearing. Let me say simply that waves





IL be supposed that they vbraed upon the ear
In the first place drum will not vlnrate when hole
made IN 1t. In the second place, drum ever heard
OF, vbrated two tones nt We select through
this the tone wish 10 hear just you or
folio any fiddle In orchestra, In spite OF the
drum The drum OF the Is not the only participant
In lthis sensation. All the organs together assist
In propagatDg the impressions OF sound 20 the
extremIties OF the nerves. The best explanation
I have heard OF the manner In which the ear Ia
able TO hear different sounds at once s found In Prof
Roods lecture at the Academy OF Music year. The
analogy this On that occasion he sOundcd two tuning
forks. Ho sounded fork and by and by the other
took the note II the two forks not In absolute
unison, would not sound when the other sounded.
lie said that any could home and open the piano
and pronounce In a clear voice the different vOwels.
They related 90 different notes Certain strings will
certain yOwels aud vibrate 10 them In
car there 1900 oi tSse communicating wires How
Year: 1873

S1rews, or disappointed women
call them what you ike-generally,
sooner or later, 1nd themselves
alone in the world. Their children
have gone from them because they
found it impossible to remain and
live in peace. y week is quite long
enough to remain with disappoint-
ed woman-toO long, in fact, if you
do not wish to hear terribly long
catalogue of trials and troubles
But she will be amiable, so far as
yoa are concerned, for that time,
because You possess the charm of
novelty. After a week, take care.
Their true friends and relatives
have become alienated, through the
hard and bitter things which have
bean said of them, and the angry
alterations which have taken place.
All. in fact, who properly knew
is dangerous. Thus, they have to
rely on chance acquaintances for
cOmpaniOnship. From morning un-
til night they morbidly brood over
their unhappy lot, and yet in moth
ing can they see that they have done
wrong. They have ignored the
principle of "give and take" in
family disputes, and have upon all
occasions asserted their indepen-
dence and mastery. But they recog-
nize no fault in that. Yet they
mourn the loss of kindred and
friends, and long for genial cOmpan-
ionship. 1t cuts them to the quick
to see themselves Stunned by those
who, down in the bottom Of their
hearts, they really love. Yet so
completely has n long continued
sense of disappointment and wrong
operated upon their natures, that
they are utterly unable TO regulate
their conduct so as TO secure a re-
turn of this love. They must be
cynical, critical, quarrelsOme, spite
full and moody, when they would
rather be otherwise They are often
well meaning at heart. They can
be truly generous, and If you hap
pen to get them in the right mood,
will do anything to Oblige you. But
the difficulty is to get them in the
right mood, for at different times
they will be so different. They are
their own worst enemies. 1t is
pitiful to see them standing thus
alone, and to think that they will
never be thoroughly happy on this
side of the grave. 1t is more pitia-
BILE when IL is remembered what
they might have become had their
lot been differently cast. Instead of
thorns, they might have strewn
roses in our path; and instead of
embittering their own lives and
others, might have cast the hallow-
ing influences of love and content
ment around them.
Year: 1873

OUR Honse of Representatives at
Nashville recently called upon col
ored preacher to pray at the OPEN
,ing of the session. He very readily
complied, and during the progress
of his prayer told the Almighty that
if the Honorable members had JUS
tice done them they would have
been in h-l long ago, but hoped
they had been spared for some wise
purpose, but hoped they had been
spared for some wise purpose, but
human wisdom was unable to find
out what it was IFeHtoR Gazette.
Year: 1873

Beyond the boundry that lies be-
tween the visible and the invisible
world, hope promises ms a joyful
reunion with those who we have
dearly loved here and who have
preceded ms in undergoing that
strange and mysterious transforms
tion that ushers the human soul from
earth to immortality. This hope
banishes half of the terrors of death,
and IT tighten the gloom and dark
ness of the grave. The eyes lose
their Iustre, the lips cease to speak,
and the heart forever grows still;
while the soul is just beginning TO
understand the long hidden mystery
of the intangible world. Who can
say that these things are net so:
The most abandoned soul instinct
ively feels in its existence, a sense
of Immortality, that in its sober
moments is ever striving TO grasp
at the unrevealed glories of eterni-
". Let US hope on, that there shall
vet be a pleasant recognition OF
friends in the hereafter. II is at
least beautiful thought, if it may
not be an indisputible reality.-EU-
GEMS.
Year: 1873




"Now."-If 1 were to give ysu a
metto 20 60 through life with, one
that would stand you for warning
and counsel in any strait in which
you might find yourselves, would
give it in this one word, f'Now."


Don't waste your time and Your
strength, and your opportunities, by
always meaning to do something
do il! Only weakness comes of in
decision. Why, some people have
so accustomed themselves to this
way of dawdling along from one
thing to another that it really seems
impossible for them TO squarely
make up their minds to anything
They never quite know what they
mean to de next, and their only
pleasure seems to consist in putting
things Off as long as possible, and
then dragging slowly through them,
Yather than begin anything else.


Don't live a single hour of your
life without doing exactly what is
to be done in it, and going strait
through it from beginninging to end.
Work, play, study, whatever it is,
take hold at once and finish il up
squarely and cleanly; then to the
next thing without letting any mo-
ments drop out between. IL is won
derful to see how many hours these
prompt people contrive to make of
a day; it's as if they picked up the
moments that tie daWdlers lost
And If you ever find yourself where
you have so many things pressing
you that you hardly know how 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
company of well-drilled soldiers;
and though work may be hard to
meet when it charges in a squad, it
is easily vanquised when brought
into line. You may have often seen
the aneedote of the man who was
asked how he accomplished so much
in his life. "My father taught me, -
was the reply, "when / had anything
to do, to go and do. it.' There is
the secret--the magic word, Now"
-ErchdHge.
Year: 1873

Few persons know what a power
ful agent of happiness a lively sense
of gratitude is. II is one of the
most profitable OF all investments.
for il Yields dividends of peace aud
contentment not only annually and
semi-annually, but daily and hourly.
We are so constituted that we must
judge Of things by comparison We
call one object large because il Is
larger than another; we call one man
rich, because he has larger posses
sions than another. II we have an
active gratitude in our bOsOms, or,
if we viii cultivate it, we may find
constant cause for rejoicing in con-
trasting our own fortunes with the
unfortunate. We encounter, almost
every day, 3 misery that we are
strangers to. We meet the halt, the
lame, the blind, the sick and the be-
reaVed, at every turn Of life's de-
vioDs pathway. 1t is impossible 10
envy the lot Of these; we ought TO
pity them, and be ready 10 relieve
their destitution or solace their sOr-
row. In doing this we shall discov-
er how much unsuspected wrtched-
ness there is in the world, and ex-
perience q feeling of gratitude at
the privileges of our better lot
There are others who are better OF
than we are, who have more wealth,
more friends, and more faEOrs.-
These arc above US. But il is not
their lot we should contemplate
Let us look down on the lowly be-
meath us, and not up, on the lofty
above Us, and give our souls 20 graf
itude instead Of envy. Ambition is
a noble and proper passion, when
legitimately directed, but that am
bition that seeks to scale one hight
after another, that is ever looking
upward TO new realms of eminence
and power, and that goes on adding
conquest to conquest, without stop
ping to be grateful for its successes,
is an insatiate coVetousuess which
usually in the end, encouters a crush
ing disappointment sent as a punish
ment for its thankless selfishness.-
To ascend safely and securely, one
must accustom himself to look back,
not with naughty, but with grateful
feelings upon the conquered stages
beneath him, and remember that
every less successful toiler on the
rugged path of life is a proof of
heavens peculiar favor. No one
who is stranger to gratitude can
be really happy. but the humblest
person who viii, as he can discover
some cause for thankfulness in his
condition, will find contentment at
the same time. In one word, graft
tuds is itself serene and tranquil
happiness.
Year: 1873

There are two things which grow
stronger in the heart of man as he
advances in years-the love of his
country and of religion. Let them
be ever so much forgotten in youth,
they sooner or later present them
selves to US arrayed in all their
charms, and excite in the recesses
of our hearts an attachment justly
due to their beauty.
Year: 1873

= Eternity laughs at the little dis
tinetions of earth; and ere long an
eternity of woe could go by, the
proudest inteIlects in its dark king
dom must lind themselves but on
level with the meanest.
Year: 1873

The Elmira convention of New York
had rather mournful duty to perform in
undertaking to raise the liberal republi
can banner. Almost alone among the
States New York shows a sign of Organi'
zation. East and west the liberals have
gone down, leaving no trace in most OF
the States that they ever had an existence
This convention in New York was in
very impartial mood, bestowing its nomin-
atoms upon all parties, and rather plainly
evincing that what it did was only TO keep
up appearances. Spurned by the demo-
Gratis when Mr.. Cochrane and his CON-
mittee sought to continue the alliance
entered into with them last year, and no.
tilted that the sham Of liberal republican
ism would be no longer tolerated, the
liberals were reduced to forlorn condi-
tion. The platform smacks of Greeleyism
as was unavoidable, but the convention in
all its aspects was rather chilling to the
democracy. 1t is very probable that the
proceedings of this convention will prove
to be the funeral rites of the liberal repub-
lican party which Mr.. Greeley led. The
ticket nominated, except where the names
are borne upon the tickets of the other
parties, will receive but weak support.
the liberals themselves dividing to large
degree and casting either the straight re-
publican or democratic ticket. We doubt
if any attempt will be made after 1873 to
continue an independent liberal republi-
can organization in any State. The un-
derstanding among the members is that
the game Is up" and that each man is at
liberty to make the best shift he can for
himself
Year: 1873

Il is reported that the royalists in France
propose to make sure Of a monarch before
thew try the question of who the monarch
.hsll be. 1t is said that when the AS
sembly convenes the proposition will be
made to establish the monarchical princi-
nl. but to allow the country to vote
wbether Count de Chambord or some
other person shall be king. This is plac-
;no the cart before the horse. The peo-
nle ought to have a chance to say first
whether they desire monarch, and then
If they vote it the other question would be
in order.
Year: 1873

Boston will be left rather curiously
shaped by the failure of Brookline to vote
for annexation. Without Brookline,
Brighton is an outlying portion of Boston,
not adjacent in territory to any other part
OF the city, like the small spaces of Eng
lish maps marked belonging to Dorset, y
where small detached portion of one
country is surrounded by another. But
since Brookline is surrounded by Boston
the question of its surrender cannot be a
great while postponed. Brookline will
have to come into the arrangement or it
will be nowhere and will not know itself
Year: 1873

The 1les, Iolcd, InteItigeacer has the
following: Every woman will tell YOU that
man can be led easier by putting an arm
around his neck than by pulling his hair.
but we never knew till recently that the
reason you can't lead a COW behind
wagon is because she OBJ
jectS to having her horns pr lied.
The other day ared-shirted emigrant assed
through here on his way to Carroll county.
His family and household possessions were
IN covered wagon, to the hind end of
which was fastened a cow Behind her
with sharp stick, walked the eInigrant,
giving her smart welt occasional
ly when she hung back. Every
now and then she would brace
herself and stop the team, and then in I'M
clerical language he would beseech her to
go on, marking each forcible period with
prod OF the sharp stick. The poor COW
rolled her eyes, and rolled her tongue.
Ihe poor emigrant, too, was dusty
and tired, but his voice and stick
didn't fail him. She had suddenly
halted the procession in front of the post
office, and was shaking her head in reply to
his earnest entreaties, when man called
out to Red Shirt that he didn't ''under-
stand cows worth a cent"


well, what are you going to do about
it," asked Red Shirt


''Wlly, just take that rope Off her horns,
and put it round her neck, and she'll lead as
quie, as lamb. If she don't I'll follow her
a mile myself"


The rope was changed to her neck, and
the team started. The COW gave look of
surprise and walked along. "Well, that
beats all, said Red Shirt, and without a
word of thanks he mounted his wagon. The
procession moved slowly on toward Carroll
county, and the COW followed with counten-
ance us placid as if she were walking home
at milking time.
Year: 1873




Scheme.


NENITA, Indian Territory, Dec. 90
Considerable excitement exists in the In
dian Territory in regard to the recommen-
datiOn of the President in his message 10
Congress, to organize the Indian Territory
for the purpose Of locating the wild Indians
among those people. At a recent meeting
the Okmulgee Convention declined to take
any action i'll regard to modifying the
Constitution until Congress changed its
policy in regard TO the Indians of the plains.
They say, for sixty years they have been
trying TO ciyilize themselves and their chill
dren, and now to place ModocS, kickapOOS,
Arrapahoes, kiowaS and Comanches along
side them as neighbOIS, would demOralize
their children and destroy the labors of
years. Alarge numberof fthemtoldSuperin-
tendent Hoge that ifthe Government would
limit the boundary to the 9Sth meridian,
and adopt them as citizens of the United
States and cOnfine the wild Indians to the
country west of them, there would be no
opposition among the people to territorial
government.


a delegation Of prominent col
ored people will visit Washington in
January to urge Congress to give them their
property rights in the Territory and citizen
ship in the United States All the people
seem anxious that Congress should thiS
session give them courts, and form a gov
ernment that will protect them in all their
rights. They are now satisfied that citizen
ship and restriction of the limits of the
Territory SO as to exclude the settlement Of
wild indians in their midst will alone save
them from degradation and advance the civ
iliZation of the people.
Year: 1873

a large meeting of working men Of this
city was held tonight at the Court House
to consider the needy situation Of thous-
ends out of employment. The burden of
the speeches made was that the working
men want either paid labor, or money to
enable them to get through the winter. A
petition was framed, addressed to the Cen
eral Council, asking for immediate action
in the way OF assistance in labor on public
works or an appropriation Of money.


Gay CHANDELIERS.


The large number Of gamblers who were
forced to discontinue faro in this city by
the police regulations, and took their tools
to ,Jeffersonville, Ind, where they have had
a full swing for months, within the past
two days have been drivenfrom the tOwnby
the pressure brought to bear on them by the
Jacksonville reporter for the Courier
Journal. Three large, well patronized faro
banks have been broken up without the aid
of police by popular indignation, resulting
from exposures of the gambling localities.
Year: 1873

1t is told of young gentleman, whom
a maiden liked but father didn't that at a
reasonable hour the old gent mildly init
mated that the time for retiring had ar
rived. ~ think you are correct, my dear
sir" answered nineteenth century, modest
ly. 1--WE have been waiting over an hour
for you TO put yourself in your little bed"
The father retired thoughtfully.
Year: 1873

The grand cross conferred by the
King of Portugal is the twenty-fifth order
already given TO Thiers, and If he wished
to wear them all in their regular size, he
would be obliged to put half of them on
the back of his coat.
Year: 1873

If ever a latent feeling Of love and friend
ship assumes q tender reality, sweeping the
innermos. depths of the soul and kindling sad
emotions in two warm hearts, it is memory
lingering upon .he parting hour, and we whis-
per that little but impressive word-farewell.


Brave heart that has buAeted the storms Of
life, and did not tremble for the issue when
trouble came, how powerless st last to check
the rising tear or suppress sigh as you utter
ed an adieu to the friend who had shared your
Joys and sorsow-your little playmate in child
hoods happy days, when earth seemed para
disc of winning confidence, innocence and
truth.


Any one wLo stands in deaths silent cham
Der, aud while gazing on a dead face upon
which the sad word ended" Is written by
icy fingers, is ready to forget ami forgive all the
follies Of a misspant life, and even draw the
" soft mantle of charity" over the record Of an
enemy who wrongcd US, even so when we come
to part with those who only had a small share
Of our affection, and readily forgive any differ
ence that existed, or hard feelings that blunted
the warm current Of Our regard. IT, then,
such are our emotions upon saying adieu TO
some ordinary associate, how much more in
tense the feeling Of regard when the eye is
resting upon the features endeared 20 US by a
thousand hallowed remembrauces and the
hand clasps hand perhaps never to hear the
kindly voice, or welcome the smile that glad
deued us of yore


But isit the mere fact Of parting .hct gives
US pain Ali, no rather is it the question that
intrudes itself upon US: How when and
where shall we meet again We are 10th to
say goodbye; for kowiug how frail the tenure
we hold upon eartl's dearest joys and that
death is ever near, lurking in the hirest flow
ers, we canuot Danish an apprehension for our
safety and happiness, however grouudlcss that
apprehension may be and preseutiments Of evil
and danger, almost amounting TO superstition,
will sometimes take possession Of the bouyaut
and fearless hearts.


How will it be at the next meeting Reader
you may well ponder this. You have some
dear one who is going from you. 1t may be
some bright sweet face you hope to call your
wife at no very distant day; aud SIZE is going
from you, or you from her. Have you pledged
a vow for cous,ancy that nothing cn turn
aside or will time aud distance have taught
you that "absonco conquers love-" What is
your next thought? When VIII it be a
week, a month or year? VIII it be forever {?
Year: 1873

How TO CATcn FLEA.-Don't be in a
hurry and get frantic. Watch your chances.
Take 4 two foot rule and measure the distance
from your hand to the flea Take your pencil
aud calculate the time it will take your hand
to pass that distance, so you may be sure
Take long breath. Aim to grab his hind leS
Nerve yourselfup, take drink, make fero-
cious grab, if the lea strays of, continue the
chase around the room until you tumble over
The baby then Gee.
Year: 1873

SURFACE MANUHNG.-But a few years ago
it was considered very poor economy to manure
on the surface, as it was then thought best to
turn all manure under Now the practice Of
surface maucriug is gradually spreading and is
found to have many advantages. The loss
which formally deferred many from the prac-
tice proves to have been imaginary aud not at
all equal to that resulting from allowing the
manure to lay in the yard all summer exposed
to rain and sun. This is one Of the many
changes which have taken place Within twenty
years.