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Year: 1872

In the Brcklayers National Convention yes
terday committee was appointed to wait upon
the Legislature of New York and ask the en-
forcement OF the Eight Hour law A resolution
was adopted recommending Meredith Moore
President Of the National Union for the position
of Commissioner of the Labor Bureau establish
ed by Congress. The Convention then elected
James T. Kirby President and VIM. o'Brien Vice
President.
Year: 1872

!. SUNDAY MARR1AGEs.-Sunday marri-
ages, we learn from the Presbyterian, are
according to the opinion of an eminent
lawyer, illegal. That journal says: 1.-The
legal gentleman Who has made this dis
covery says that note drawn and sign
ed on the Sabbath is illegal, OF any 9TH
er legal agreement between parties
Marriage is contract. if performed out
of the, Legal time necessarily must be
void and claiming this the sons and
daughters of recently deceased mil
lionaire mean to contest his will, because
in that large portion of his estate. was
willed to the children of their step-moth-
er, who was welded to their father on a
sabbath in church in the city OF Roch


ester, New York. If the question is to
be decided that such marriages are ilie-
gal, another long catalogue of vexatious
suits will be brought into our courts by
parties similarly related to the one
above mentioned. The decision lately
rendered by learned judge, that mar
riages of minors are illegal, and di-
vorce for such is not necessary in order
that they can separate and remarry le-
gally, since it was carried into immedi-
ate practice by the parties for whom thu
decision was rendered, is proving bane-
full to society. The harm that this
decision does to our social system is
temporary only, and if the entire marry
ing population but learn of this decision
the future will witness less elopements
of young couples and less number Of
cases where guileful and designing men
entice young ladies from home in order
to wed them. That the ceremony Of
marriage for minors on any and all days
of the week, or where one is q minor
and the other an adult, shenld be pro-
nounced illegal and non-effective is not
strange but in the face Of long-practic-
ed customs, that Sabbath day weddings
are illegal, will strike thousands akin to
CONSERVATION. With all our lavs and
codes il, is indeed strange that these le-
gal enactments which most concern our
personal welfare and happiness are least
known and Understood by the general
public, including our most intelligent
people. -
Year: 1872

WHAT TO DO WHEN You ARE IN TRou-
1LE.-Don't try to quench yonr sorrow
in rum or narcotics. If you begin this,


you must keep right on with it till it
leads you to ruin; or, if you please, you
must add physical pain and the con-
sciousness of degradation to the sorrow
you wish to escape. Of all wretcbed
men his condition is the most pitiful
who, having sought to drown his grief
in drink, av axes from his debauch with
shattered nerves. aching head md de-
pressed mind, to face the same trouble
again. That which was at first painful
: to contemplate, will after drink, seem


unbearable. Ten to one the fatal drink
will be again and again sought, till its
victim sinks ? hopeless, pitiful wreck.
Year: 1872

D1Er AND HAD1T.-The following OBJ
serxations on diet. habit etc., will be
found quite as valuable as any: Qui-
nine should not be eaten after hearty
meal of India rubber; the spermaceti
contained in the former will unite with
the oxxlc acid of the latter, and wagon
grease will be evolved with disastrous
results. Before taking bath the entire
body should be carefully washed. Then
lay ON a coating of tar and get into the
water. It can't touch you anywhere.
1t is not SO fashionable as it was to chop
q cord of wood before breakfast; none
but very old men, who cling to the ira
ditions of youth like lean leech to &
stuffed frog, ever do it. and they COM
monty perish at it. Getting ont of bed
in perspiration is to be avoided al
ways lie in bed as long as you can find
any excuse for it. Nothing is more in
furious than the ordinary method of 60
ing up stairs; it causes the ak, Ii in the
blood to settle in the core, producing
Arianism and strangulation. The pro-
per way is to lie on your stomach and
go up feet first. Never sleep with your
eyes shut; it is degenerate habit.
Bathing, as intimated above. isconduct-



ed on wrong principle. 1t is proba-
BILE thai the custom might be advantage
ously abolished altogether. Bath. houses
and bathing-rooms in dwellings are O
thing of recent growth. Our grand
fathers seldom or never bathed; and il
is conceded that they lived to oe several
hundred years old. Potatoes should
always be eaten with the skins, skins
contain bicarbonate of lnucilage. which
is Just what the liver requires. When
the custom of giving the skins to the
poor originated, science was almost
wholly unknown. There are more
things it would be well to know. but q
strict compliance with the rules already
given will enable you to live as long as
you wish to. Futher instructions would
not prolong your misery.-E1cha1ge.
Year: 1872

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To YouNa HoUsEKEEPERs.-By solemn
marriage you have just began solid life.
Why not, therefore, be satisfied to COM
mence on q small, moderate scale,
spreading out only as fast as circum-
stances will admit of.


"It is too common with young house
keepers to commence where their moth
ers ended. Buy all that is necessary to
work skillfully with; adorn your home
with all that will render it comfortable.
Do not look at richer homes, and covet
their costly furniture. If secret dissat-
isfaction is ready to spring up, go a
step farther and visit the homes Of the
suffering poor; behold dark. cheerless
apartment, insufici. mt clothing. and alb
sepce Of all comforts and reinements
of social life, and then return to your
own with joyful spirit. You will then
prepare to meet your husband with a
grateful heart, and be ready to appre-
ciate the toll and self denial which he
has endured in the business world to
surround you with the delight of home;
and you will cooperate cheerfully with
him in SO arranging your expenses that
lis mind will not be constantly harrass-
ed less his family expenditures may en-
croach upon public payment.


Be independent; a young housekeeper
never needed greater moral courage than
she does now, to resist arrogance Of
fashion. Do not let Smiths or Browns
decide what you shall; have neither hold
the strings of your purse. You know
best what you can and ought to afford.
1t matters little what people think, pro-
vided you are true to yourself. to right,
and duty. Keep your expenses within
your means. t.s
Year: 1872

CURE FOR DANDRUFF.-Good mild
soap is one of the safest remedies, and
is sufficient in ordinary cases; carbonate
of potash or soda is too alkaline for the
skin. Every application removes apor-
ton of the cuticle, as you may observe
by the smoothness of the skin of your
hands after washing them with it.
Borax is recommended; but this is also
soda combined with weak acid, boracic
acid. and may by protracted use also in
juriously act on the scalp. Soap is also
soda or potash combined with the weak,
fatty acids; and when the soap contains
an excess of the alkalies, or is sharp it
is in injurious as the carbanate of pot
ash. All that Injuries the scalp Injuries
the growth of the hsir. One Of the
best applications from the vegetable
kingdom is the mucilaginous decotion
of the root of the burdock called bar
dane, in French botanical name. Ldppa
Minor.) In the mineral kingdom the
best remedy is solution of flowers OF
sulphur in water, which may be made
by the addition of very small portion
of sulphide of potassium, say ten or
twenty grains to the pint. This solu-
ton is shaken up with the sulphur, and
the clear liquid remaining on the Top
is used. This recipe is founded on the
fact that sulphur is poison for inferior
vegetables or animal growth, like dand-
ruff, itch, etc., and is not poison for
the superior animals, like man.
Year: 1872

If the dew fell, it would fall for the
same reason that rain falls: but dew does
not fall, it is simply deposit of mois-
ture, always contain ed in the air to 9
greater or lesser degree, and which when
there is enough of it will always form on
any cold body exposed to the moist air,
IN precisely the same way that cold bot
tie or stone, taken from a cold cellar. and
suddenly exposed in the shale to the
moist, warm, summer air, will tecome wet;
this is not sweating, nor does the mois-
ture come out from the bottle or stone,
as many people believe, but from the air.
1t Is for the same reason that moisture
will condense against the window panes,
when the air is cold outside and moist
inside, the moisture slowly freezing while
its deposits form crystals of ice which we
so often admire In the windows When
the weather is cold enough, the moisture
deposited will even freeze on plants and
grass, and then We call it hear frost ifit
dose not freeze, it is simply dew The
only point left to DE explained is, why
does the ground become SO cool during
the night; so much coolor than the air
above it, as to cause the latter to deposit
its moisture ? This was for mauy years
vexed problem. till Wells first suggest
ed the radiation of obscure heat, which
takes place from the surface of the earth
through the clear atmosphere into the
space above, and so causes the surface to
become much cooler than the air itself.
lie demonstrated this by means of the
thermometers placed at different heights,
and also by the fact that dew is only de.
posted on cloudless nights. When there
are clouds, they reflect the heat, or pre-,
vent it from escaping The surface Of
the earth thus being kept from cooling
no dew is deposited
Year: 1872

The effect of the use of tobacco upon
the system is thus told by correspond
eut: We once had two acquaintances
who were remarkable for their abuse Of
the weed. To such an extent did they
use it, that their constitutions were
seriously impaired, and they determined
to abandon the habit, to escape from
premature grave. 1t SO happened that
they made their pledges of abstinence at
night, and the following morning they
were some miles in the country on fish
lug excursion. After the excitement of
arranging their tackle and throwing their
hooks into the water had subsided, there
came the quiet anticipatory of ga bite"
Presently" said one of the gentlemen,
who afteaward related the incident, .the
log on which | sat commenced whirling
round, the just rising sun grew dark in
the heavens, and all nature dissolved in
death like tremor, that seemed to divide
my soul from my body, and | fell head
long into the lake Fortunately the cold
bath brought me to consciousness. aud,
reaching the shore, found my friend
pale and insensible on the grass. Rous-
ing him from his stupor, we jumped into
our buggy, leaving our rods, reels, and
lunch dsregarded on the ground, aud
gaIloping like mad down the road, never
stopped until we reached country store,
aud seized, with the avidity of starving
men. upon some tobacco, but it was long
time before our systems were restored to
auietness, and we were capable of
coherneutly explaining the causes Of our
for the time being, apparently insane
conduct"
Year: 1872

Bees, tha. in some localities did moth
ing on white clover or on Linden, have
during August stored goodly quantities
of honey, "redeeming the time" The
danger is that in their eagerness to Sc,
cure it, they will cramp the queen for
room unless watched, and thus 20 into
the winter with few young bees The
more the COLONY is composed of young
bees the more sure you are of its safety
during winter. To avoid this put an
empty comb or two in the middle of the
cluster in the place of full ones, or empty
the honey from the centre combs. i he
queen will occupy them with eggs, even
as late as this.


1t is mistaken idea that queens do not
deposit their eggs now-if they have room
and the bees are gathering honey, they
continue laying just as freely as in May
You do not know how fast colony is de-
pieted of old bees during the gathering
of.fall supplies, unless you have watched
colony to ascertain. rs rEf


Take crowded hive with the combs
in the homestead all filled with honey, SO
that little or no brood can be put there,
and watch it from week to week, and YOU
will see how fast the number grows
beautifully less


We have seen one of these so called
strong hives" dimished in a month from
half busbel to less than quart of bees


A colony can only be called strong"
when the brood, in all stages, is at least
equal to its working force.


Be sure pow that every colony has SO
much brood that young bees will be pleu-
ty during winter. Very strong colonies
may safely be divided as late as this, and
In many cases the two will winter better
than one. Of course queens must be Civ.
en- to both parts to secure safety.
Those (and we hope there are mapy)
who wish to try Mr. Homer's method of
wintering, mustb be preparing now, remem-
bering. that his condition of safety are.


l. Young, healthy queens.


2 A quart or less Of young bees


3. At least fifteen pounds of honey to
each hive


4. A dark place that never freezes, but
is not too warm, in which to keep them


D. Plenty of upward ventilation Bee
Keepers, Journal
Year: 1872

Not many years will elapse before Cali
fornia will become one of the cofFee-grow
ing countries of the world. The Sance
Tito Herald states that party of Costa
Ricans, with former President of that
country at their head have purchased a
tract OF land near San Rafael, aud among
other employments designated to be fol-
lowed by the COLONY is that of raising cof.
iee Coming from country where coffee
is raised with success, these Central
Americans ought to know some of the re-
qulsltes OF country Tor the business. =
Whether San Rafael is the spot to in
augurate the new enterprise is doubtful
unit! demonstration has determined the
question, but that there are portions of
the State in which coffee can be grown,
has long been believed The Southern
part of the State has many localities where
the experiment may be tried with high
hopes of success Still, it is not impos.
sible that San Rafael and other places in
the middle regions of the State, may be
adapted to coffee culture A few wears
since, the general idea was adverse to the
possibility of growing oranges in
IN any but the southern portions of the
State; but actual demonstrations have
proven that they can be cultivated as far
North as Chico, aud in several of the
Sorges IN the Sierra Nevadas The capa-
cities OF the country are growing upon
US year after year, and the apparently
bold experiment of growing coffee near
Sau Rafael may be based on superior
Judgment.
Year: 1872

In Loe Angeles county, on the eastern
slope of the San Fernando range of
mountains, and in the imm mediate vicinity
OF the Leaning Petroleum Company's oil
region, there is the most wonderful collec-
tion of wild honey in existence. The
hive is located in rift, which penetrates
the rock to the depth ofprobably 160 feet
The orifce is thirty feet long and seven
teen wide four passages This rift was
discovered to be the abiding place of
swarm OF bees, that is reported as coming
out in a nearly solid column one foot in
diameter. Certain parties have endeavor


ed to descend to the immense store of
honey collected by these bees, but were
invariably driven back, and one man lost
his life in the effort Others have, at the
expense of much labor and money, built
scaffold l25 feet high in the hope of
reaching place whence they could run
a drift into the rock and extract its we'll
horded sweets, but finally ceased their
work. Within four years the bees have
added not less than fifteen feet of depth
to their treasure, as ascertained by actual
measurement, and it is thought that at
the present time there cannot be less than
eight or ten tons of honey in the rock


A man named B. Brophy lives in cabin
not far from this spot and obtained from
the melting of the honey by the suns
heat more than enough for his family re
quirements All through that egion i'm
mense stores Of wild honey are found in
trees, in the rocks, in nearly every place
where its industrious manufactures think
for bees seem to thiuk-that it will be
secure. They consume very small pro
portion, as the climate enables them to
keep up operations nearly every day in
the year, and flowers of some sort are
always in bloom. 1t must be a very
severe season indeed when the little fel


lows are not seen abroad iu vast mum bers,
busily engaged in their mellifuous work.
Year: 1872

The Layfayetfe Ind) Journal of Nov.
Is, contains the following curious snake
story =


On last Friday a citizen of Danville,
ILL.,. was buried. After the funeral cortege
had started snake of the blue racer
species was observed following behind.
1t continued thus to follow until the
cemetery was reached, when the serpent
jumped into the grave and coiled himself
around the box containing the coffin. 1t
there remained until the sexton dispatch
ed it and laid it out upon the ground. A
band of music headed the procession, and
the quest;oDis whether it was that or some
other cause which led to the singular
conduct on the part of the snake.
Year: 1872

City Controller Schroeder of Brooklyn has
presented to the Board OF Estimates statement OF the
amount required TO be raised by tax for city purposes
for 1873 far as bis department is directly concerned
The Controller states that he is at loss TO how the
city will be able, under the law limiting the rate Of tax
alton TO two cents and three mills TO provide the neces
sary amounts for meeting current expenses paying
the interest on the bonded debt He believes II TO be
bad policy. and 10 be dscountenanced by all honest
officials, 10 rely upon future deficiency bills TO pay the
current expenses Of the City Government, done
last year; aud he considers IT stIll policy 10
drawn upon imaginary aecouns TO transfer from
isng accounts, money to be collected at some future
tme in order seemingly 10 swell the OF the
city for the purpose of reducing the OF the current
year. This was done last year The Controller says:


The extraordinary items OF last years Budget are al
most wholly caused by the expensive improvements in
tated under special and irresponsible commissions. aud
Is SIMPLY ridiculous TO attempt 10 hold either the last
bic for the eXIrayagaaCes and shortcomings OF the pub
Year: 1872

All who have real estate for sale or to let
and those desiring to purchase rent such property,
will find 1t to theI interest to advertise in The TRIBUNE
It's aggregate circulation exceeds that OF any other
paper and in addition TO this advantage THR TRIBUNE
viii be found only I'm NewYOrk and all its cities and
villages but In every state and Territory throughout the
Union The advertisement should be as brief as VIII
allow Of the advantages claimed being made clear
reader We would especially dwell on the fact that the
subscrbers for the three editions of THE TRIBUNE Daily


Semi Weekly and Weekly, comprise individuals In every
busness profession consequently each
are read bv ali classes THB TRIBUNE deyotes especial
attention TO reports sales OF real estate both in city
aud country thus adding greatly 70 the value OF It's col
tislng are as follows DAILY TRIBUNE 80 cents per line
for each insertion WEEKLY TRIBUNE, 81 per line SEM.
WEEKLY TRIBUNE, g5 cents per line ADoutten words Oh
our wide columns average line Terms. cash in advance.
Year: 1872

The Connecticut Town Elections continue to
develop encouraging As well as curious iacts.-
One of the drollest is that Senator Ferry's home
develops midsummer madness TO the extent of a
Liberal Republican gain of 329 since last Spring.
The Senator should write another letter.
Year: 1872

The President OF the Board of Trade has found
it necessary to issue special circular to the
Managers of the organization, calling their at
tention to the meeting on tomorrow evening.
The number of Managers is twenty-five, and
only nine are required to form a quorum fer
business, yet there has been difficulty in getting
quorum together, for some time, and the Board
has been unable to attend to several subjects
which claimed its attention, on account Of this
neglect to attend.


1t might have been question, at one time
whether Board Of Trade was of any use or inn
portance in Wilmington. But among those IA
miliar with its work there is no such question
entertained, now. The Board has performed 80
many acts in behalf of the general interests of
the city, and has done so much TO advance to-
ward success several of the great enterprises
which have been undertaken and accomplished
here within the past three or four years, that its
value is placed beyond doubt, when the record
of those services is reviewed II it should be
permitted to disband, now, as it may be, if there
is not more energy manifested in the Board Of
Managers, its loss would be real blow to the
general interests of the city, which it has thus
served intelligently, and faithfully.


Let there be, by all Means full attendance
of Managers, tomorrow evening. at the rooms
to show that there is not the least willingness to
let the organization lapse. Wilmington is on
the tide Of growing Importance, and should not
give up a single one of the nstrumentalities
which command euccess
Year: 1872

The Maryland Editorial Excursion, thi. year
Is to the Pacific Coast. 1t will leave, probably,
in August, but it is likely that only few Of the
newspaper men Of the State will go, the trip
being extensive and requiring considerable time
as well az some funds
Year: 1872

sTOCkS DULL AND STRONG.


Very title was doing In stocks, but the tone of
the market was strong, particularly In the last half
hour Of business, when there was that sudden ad-
vance in prices remarked as occurring 30 often on
the eve Of holiday. The explanation Is that the
"shorts" are apt to close their contracts as
means to happy mind during the holi-
day. Hence as Pacific Mail has been
tho more prominent target recently Of
the arrows Of the SPECTATORS for decline 1t
was most sensitive to the operation Of this influence
and dumped" to 74k. The improvement else
where was most conspicuous in Southwest and
western Union, but otherwise hardly exceeded
range of one quarter per cent. Erie was excep-
ionally weak, Its domestic instability following the
renewal Of litigation, and the decrease Of trafac
receipts being aggravated by decline Of about one
per cent In London. In accordance with the
orders Of the Governing Committee business was
suspended at two O'Clock, at which hour the Stock
Exchange was closed The following table shows
the highest and lowest prices Of the principal stocks
during the day.
Year: 1872

FINANCIAL and COMMERCIAL.
The Eve Of the Glorious Fourth


q Half Holiday.
Early Adjournment Of the Gold, Stock


and Government Boards.
THE TREASURY SALE OF GOLD
Money Easy and I'm


changed.
The Stock Market Quiet


and Strong.
ERIE EXCEPTIONALLY WEAK AND LOWER.
A FURRY and Sudden Advance In


Pacific Mail.
Year: 1872

Geo. Palmer Putnam, the well known
publisher of this city, died suddenly this
evening.


Putnam had been at the store most of
the day, and seemed in remarkably good
spirits. He was in the act of exhibiting
book to friend when he fell suddenly to
the floor, striking bis head in the descent
upon projecting shelf A physician was
at once called, who applied restOratives, but
life was extinct. The cause OF death was
apoplexy.