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Year: 1872

Is there any barrier against pre-
sum ption, and against an attempt
at equality, like Thoroughbred
courtesy? "Do what you will, you can
never be so thorough lady as I am, "
was the impression made upon me
by the sweet humility, the plain
dress, the almost forlorn surround
ings of Mrs. Custis. the former mis-
tress of Arlington. It was more
what she did not do, the absence OF
effort, coupled with the desire to
make you happy, the thorough
breeding the self-abnegation, tie
graceful dignity that made this lady
a duchess in her faded realm,
Such breeding and such manners as
hers are not within the reach of ev-
cry one,-they are partly natural
gifts-but the virtues which led to
them are to be cultivated by every
bodywith some hope Of success. Miss
Sedwick was cne Of those wonder
full well-bred women. No woman
IN America was more famous than
she in her prime, and she had much
of the grace, with little of the for
mility, of these "old school" man
ners in which she must have been
trained. Flattery never turned her
head; she was humble and modest
as q village girl, graceful and court
ly as Madame Sevigne. Her man
mer Of introducing two persons has
never been surpassed; she made
them both feel honored and distin-
guished. Her attitude of listening
was itself compliment, and to the
very last she maintained a charm
beyond beauty-the charm of per
feet manners.
Year: 1872

JudiciOus advertising Away
pays.


If you have a good thing, adver-
tise it. If you haven't, don't.


Large type isn't necessary in adj
vertising. Blind folks don't read
newspapers.


Don't be afraid to invest in prin-
ter's ink, lest your sands of life be
nearly run out.


Never run down your opponents
goods in public. Let him do his
own advertising.


Let your advertisements have
something Of the dash in them,
without great exaggeratioA.


You cau't eat enough In one
week to last you a whole year, and
you can't advertise on that plan
either.


It's as true Of advertising as Of
anything else in the world-if it is
worth doing at all, tits worth doing
well.


Hand-bills and circulars are good
of their kind, but they cannot take
the place of newspaper advertise
ments.


Injudicious advertising Is like
fishing where there's no fish. You
need to let the lines fall in the right
place.


No bell can ring so loudly as
good advertisement. People viii
believe what they see rather than
what they hear.


Small advertisements, and plenty
of them, is a good rule. We we're
all babies once, yet we made con-
siderable noise.


When you advertise, see that you
do It on the same principle that you
buy goods Get the most you can
for the money.


We don't recommend advertising
as the best way to get wife /; but we
know that it is the best way to get
a good trade.


People who advertise only once
IN three months forget that most
folks can t remember anything long
er than about seven days.


If you can arouse curiosity by an
advertisement, it is a great point
gained. The fair sex don't hold all
the curiosity IN the world.


A CONSTANT dropping will wear a
rock. Keep dropping your adver-
tisements on the public and they
will soon melt under il like rock
salt


sQuitting advertising in duh times
is like tearing out dam because
the water is low. Either plan win
prevent good times from ever
coming.


Dull times" It is said, care the
best for advertisers. Because when
money is tight, and the people are
forced to economize.. they always
read the advertisements TO ascer-
tain who sells the cheapest, an
where they can trade to the best
advantage.


According to the character or
extent Of your business, set aside a
liberal percentage for advertising.
Keep yourself increasingly before
the public and it matters not what
business of utility you may be en-
gagged in, for, if intelligently and
/ industriOusly pursued, q fortune
viii be the result.


The man who advertises shows
not only a business talent above his
neighbors, but he may be at once
reckoned among the independent,
generous and public-spitited of the
Community. BE who hides his
LIGHT under a bUshel, when such ad-
vantages as those at present afford
ed are so fresly offered him, does
not deserve to succeed.


The most ancient manuscripts arc
written without accents, stops, or
3 a. !
Year: 1872

Many ladies express great dis
like for the "Dolly Warden cos
tunes, and confidently assert that
they VIII never be seen wearing
them. If the fashion lasts any
length of time, however, We would
not be too sure that they would not
change their minds.
Year: 1872

THE Philadelphia Brewery saloon, on the corner of Meyers and Mesilla streets, is in full blast with cream ale direct via Guaymas from the the Philadelphia Brew cry in San Francisco. Levin has the agency for this fine creamy beer, and will keep it constantly. He has also received a full variety of Topic cigars and an in- voice of fine claret. See advertisement.
Year: 1872

PUBLIC SURVEYS. - MT. Theodore F. White, civil engineer and thoroughly accomplished workman in all departments of civil engineering and surveying, took the field this week with a complete party and outfit for public surveying. For twenty months prior to the first of this month, he was engaged in the Surveyor Generals office and his work throughout is a model of correctness and neatness. Outdoor labor is better for him. and by giving him that kind of employment was the only way he could be retained in the surveying service in this district His present work is to the east and southeast of Tucson, and is for a small balance of the appropriation for the fiscal year end ing June 30, 1872. Mir. White has been appointed a U. s. Deputy Surveyor of mineral lands under the recent mining law, approved June 10, 1872, and is in every way fitted to correctly do that class of work.
Year: 1872

CHEAP IF NOT CHEAPER than any other House in the Territory. We are therefore certain that as to quality and adaptability to the wants of the com munity our stock is unsurpassed.

 For these reasons we respectfully solicit @ share of the public patronage, feeling assured that our goods and prices cannot ail togiye entire satisfaction.

 FULLY, OCHOA & co.
Year: 1872

Is there decent man, in Tennessee,
who would vote for Brownlow for any
position outside of the Penitentiary
Now, We ask the best informed John
son man to point US to single official
act of that old brute, by which our
people were oppressed and insulted,
that was not originated by old Andy
practiced by him while military Gov
ernor and endorsed by him as Presi-
dent of the United States? The man
who can establish the negative of this
can claim, our vote for
but not for his alternate,
Andrew johnson. We will not waste
upon the decoy, when the
real duck is in sight. When we want
to vote for Radical, we will do it
openly, and not hide under any man
coat-tail whilst we sneak the ticket
into the box.
Year: 1872

TENNESSEE won well deserved praise
as the first to endorse the Liberal
movement. Is she going to exchange
it for merited censure, by going back
upon that movement The Radicals
hope much from our divisions and are
likely to get all they expect, for we
see no immediate remedy for the mala-
dy which afflicts the hearts and heads
of men once conservative and patri-
otic, now working, unconsciously, in
Radical harness.
Year: 1872

THE authorities of Hopkinsville are
vigorously prosecuting conductors of
trains running at a too rapid rate
through the streets of that town.
Several have been arrested and fined,
and the railroad officers have ordered
no freight to be received at or coal
shipped to Hopkinsville.
Year: 1872

For increasing the practical utility
of their church organization, Bishop
Marvin of the Southern Methodists,
proposes that there be a Sunday school
Conference to meet regularly every
wear.
Year: 1872

OhCA VI DslVHSLVHs


1t was said of Thoreau, we be-
lieve, that he could take up any. Civ
en- number. of lead-pencils without
counting. A celebrated trapper
once assured us that he could tell
how many balls he had in his bullet
pouch by placing his hand omit, and
without stopping to count them, and
added: ''I can tell the number of
bullets instantly without counting,
as you pronounce a word without
spelling it" Southey was accus-
toned to take in the substance of
book in turning the leaves over con
tinuously, glancing down the pages.
Houdan, the magician, trained him
self to quickness of perception when
a boy, by running past a show, win
dow at full speed, and then trying
to tell what was in it We once
met a man on a canal boat, who was
amusing himself by going from pas
senger to passenger, and telling al
most every one where he had seen
him before, on such train, in such
a hotel, in such a street. giving date
and place to people with whom he
had never exchanged a word. This
training of the faculties in partieu-
lar directions is carried to q amarvel-
Gus extreme by woodsmen, trap
pers, and men who guess the weight
of animals. Perhaps the most re-
markable instances are the markers
who leap from log to log at the
mouth of boon, standing OH the
floating log and translating instant
ly an old mark into new one, re-
membering what equivalent to give
for each of hundred marks, and
chepping it upon the log in the time
that it floats its length. Itis said
that Thoreau knew the relative or
der of the Towering of all elephants
in the Concord woods, and knew
the note of every bird and a thous-
and other out-of-the-way things be-
Sides Hearth and Home. .
Year: 1872

The MINE owners of Great Britain
for many years have been endeavor-
ing to procure machinery which
should take the place of hand labor
IN getting out coal, but they have
not succeeded. The difficulty which
the coal -proprietors have recent
ly experienced in procuring sufi-
cient labor to enable them to supply
the demand for fuel, which has de-
cidedly outrun their facilities for
production, gives this subject pecu-
liar interest at the present time. At
a meeting of the Institution of Me-
chanical Engineers recently held at
Liverpool, description was given of
a coal-cutting machine, with rotary
cutter worked by compressed air,
which has been in actual use for the
past. two years In q seam OF coal
known as the Pemberton Little Coal.
This coal was about two feet and
four inches in thickness, and 50 hard
that it was difficult to obtain men to
work it. The cutter is driven by
compressed air, which is conveyed
down the shaft and along the main
roads in iron pipes. The coal is cut
by spur wheel, fitted with teeth,
which cuts lis way into the coal with
out any pvevious "hoilng." The
machine is drawn along the face of
the coal as it cuts its way, throwing
out the small coal, or slack, be-
tween the train rails upon which it
runs. It is considered that under
ordinary circumstances this machine
does the work of forty men, and as
it never gets tired, it can be worked
day and night without stopping. 1t
is also found that the proportion of
slack to coal taken out by the ma
chine was only as one to eight, while
with hand labor the propotion was
as three of coal to one of slack.
The actual cost of getting coal by
this machine, however, taking all
contingencies into accout, has prov
ed quite as great as by hand labor,
the only advantages claimed being
more rapid production and less pro-
portion of slack to coal.
Year: 1872

We have stated a number OF times
and repeat for the benefit of numer
GUS correspondence, that neither up
per nor under skirts are lined
/ throughout, even of silk dresses
About an inch of material of silk anC
popIins is allowed at the bottom o.
the skirt, which is hemmed up over
the facing.


Washing materials and thin woods
are somewhat less gOred than form
erly at the sides and In front. This
is in consequence of fat trimmings
having superseded ruffles to a con
siderable extent.


Skirts that will wash are aim ost
uniformly gathered instead ofplaited.


Overskirts are now made in two
parts the apron rounding up at the
sides, and Overlapping the back,
where it is finished with bow.
Sometimes the apron is double, the
upper one being shorter than the
other but they are always cut as
nearly without fullness as possible,
the fullness being confined to the
back. No looping is required, or is,
indeed, admissible, the aprons be-
ing rounded at the sides up to the
waist.


Lower skirts, walking length, are
cut to just escape touching the
ground. High fashion allows them
to touch, but the train upon the
streets is not sanctioned either
abroad or at home; and ladies who
adopted it last season because they
were told it was fashionable have
discontinued it, finding themselves
subjected to much dirt and dIscom-
fort, and chiefly kept in eOuntenance
by the denei monde. saI.


Sixty to sixty-fve inches is a suf-
fcient length for trained skirt the
enormously long trains which form-
erly dragged like the tail of a comet
without grace or apparent use, hav-
ing been very much reduced.


The front of the skirt and perhaps
the vest is still frequently made in
some contrasting color, and thus an
opportunity is afforded for utilizing
scant, Id-fashioned silks, either
black or colored. Black and green,
black and pink, black and white,
stone color aud blue, dove color and
pink or ashes of roses and green, are
all good combinations.


OF course there are many others
for new materials-pale salmon or
the rose with chocolate brown, wood
color and delicate green; but a
cameo tint, pale blue or green with
black is the most stylish.


Sometimes the basque or jacket,
sometimes a vest only, is made of
the light color which forms the front
of the skirt, but the two colors must
be effectively combined in the trim
ming or the result will not be a sue
cess. .-s . #a...


Black ribbon velvet will be much
used as flat trimming during the fall
and winter French folds of the ma
terial will also be in vogue.


Piping, in the old-fashioned sense
of "cJrding," is only used for arm
holes but the narrow doubled fold
is still extensively used and is gener-
ally called piping.


Coat sleeves tight to the arm viii
be worn to some extent during the
coming fall and winter, and are
quantity ornamented with two puffs
ono at the top of the sleeve, the
other near the elbow.-DemOreSt.
Year: 1872

Every industrious, wide-awake per-
son can find ways and means of
earning money, but after it is fairly
earned the great trouble with every
body is that it slips away so easily.
Every time you turn you will find
ways and means of spending money.
Now the great art In spending well,
is to make every dollar show where
it is invested. There are so many
ways of disposing of it which never
seem to give any returns. Your
housekeepers need to learn the art
of spending well. a dollar invest
ed in a nice covered dish for the
table, a useful mat for the hall,
beautiful tree for the front door yard,
will give a hundred-fold the pleas
ure that it would in strip of trim
ming about the hem of a dress, or q
fat chicken for the table, which
leaves you no better satisfied than if
you had dined off an inexpensive
chop. Think well over every dime
you pay out, and resolve to put it to
the best possible account. The art
of spending is even more impor-
tant one than the art of earning
money. You can gain it by the
spadeful and yet fritter it all away
by the spoonful. -.......
Year: 1872

Women make a great mistake who
want their lovers to see in them
the end of all beauty and loveIiness;
they should rather try to make win
dows of themselves, TO let eternal
beauty that is above and beyond,
shine through them.
Year: 1872

The large hall Of Cooper Institute was crowded
last evening for the second OF the course of Proes.
sor Tyndals lectures. For fully half an hour
before the appearance OF the lecturer nearly
every seat In the hall was occupied. The audi
ence, as might be expected, embraced all the
scientists and savans Of the city; but be-
sides these the great majority was from
the more intelligent portion Of our citi-
zens, and these were evidently interested
in the simple expositions and entertaining expert.
ments. Professor Tyndall must have felt in the
highest degree complimented at the large numbers
ofpeople who had come to hear him, for science
as an attraction soon ceases to draw large houses
The success OF the Professor as popular lecturer
in this city must be conceded, his first lecture
being In subject and treatment o fair test
most abstruse questions and calculating them
had been suf1cienty appreciated. The lecture
last evening was commenced by Professor Tyndall
flourish being attempted and the subject being
seized at once as matter OF business and its close
was marked with the same unpretentiousness. The
used at the nrst lecture.


The subject Of the lecture was an inquiry az to
Tue agent which IN the nrst lecture chad been gen.
Grated, reflected, refracted and analyzed," and
soon the emission theory OF Newton was under
consideration, with the protests OF Huyghens and
Euler, the establishment OF the undulatory theory
wave motion, and the principle OF nterference:
the origin and interference OF musical sounds and
the col0rs which are produced by the extinction OF


The experiments were all successful not even
the slightest failure occurring. The cearness OF
the definitions enabled the entire audience TO fol-
the succeeding illustrations OF the various points
OF the subject never went beyond the bounds
already Understood. The lecturer was frequently
applAuded, and most noticeably SO for the evident
felicity OF dcton used In running up the results OF
Dota the expositons and experiments.
Year: 1872

despatch was received by Inspector McDer.
mott, at Police Headquarters, last night, saying
that notorious pickpocket, named Sophia Elkens,
had escaped from the prison at Sing Sing in car
riage. This wOman's husband, "Edn Lyons es-
capped from prison a few days ago in
the same manner. Detective Farley was sent
for and consulted upon the matter, but he
was OF opinion that the woman would
not dare to show herself in New York. It is most
probable that she has turned her face toward
Cauada and is In some part OF the Dominion by this
timc The growing lOoseness of things ut Sing Sing
looks peculiar and would really seem to Indicate
the end Of the official life Of the present auth0ri-
tieA
Year: 1872

The Methodist Book Committee met again
yesterday all the members being present The report Of
Mr. Kilbreth expert who had been appointed to ex-
anime the books, presented confirming, 1t IS sad


the charges Of frauds In the Binding Department The
report will not be made public at present. and probably
Year: 1872

admit that the United States ever had doubt that it
owned this strip Of country and these gentlemen have
bill Mr.. COTbett attempted to call II up during the
morning hour to-day but Mr. Cassery inerposed his Veto
About o'clock this evening Mr. Cassery and MI Thur
man both being absent, Mr.. Corbett moved II as an
amendment to the Deficiency bill then pending. and
succeeded IN getting 1t adopted


The Goat Island bill is likely to meet with strong oppo
son In tho Senate Mr. Coles action to-day in object
ing TO second reading can be taken as an indication
The amount Of business already the Senate calendar
is 50 great that there will probably be little chance for
the passage Of any private bill like this which will cause


long debate, especially Congress should adjourn be-
fore the lst of July.


Two officers OF the army still illegally performing
the functions OF civil officers at the White House. not
whstanding Is week since attention was called TO
the law OF 1870 forbidding this


The CLAYTON Invest eating Committee Is holding daily
sessons and has taken immense OF testimony.
One reason why has not reported before that very


much OF the testimony taken has been Irrelevant The
Committce has now adopted rule that the counsel In
troducine witnesses beforehand what he pro-
noses 10 prove Some Of the most damaging testimony


against Clayton has been given yesterday and to-day and
sustained Clayton will either have to resign or DC ex
PEELED from the Senate.


The Senate Committee on Patents did not have o
quorum its last meeting and therefore has come to no
decsou on the application of WILSON, for an extension OF
the Wheeler and Wilson patent No application before
the Committee this session has brought TO Con-
gress half 80 many remonstranees IA this. and
every day a fresh food OF them IL poured in
really set forth that this patent Is allowed 70 expire
price sewing machines VIII DC redueeu one hai
and support Of this assertion say that the wheeler
an wilson Company send TO England and sell there, Tor
$40 or ass the same Of which the price In this
country Ia $65.
Year: 1872

When quite young man Tom Cor
win was elected a member of the
General Assembly of the State Of
Ohio, and early in the session he
brought a bill for the destruction of
the public whipping-post- He made
an earnest speech in favor of the
measure, to which an elderly Iaem-
Der replied as follows: "Mr. Speaker,
the gentleman Is not as old az / am,
and has not seen as much of the prac
teal operation of the system of pun
ishment which we desire to abolish.
When | lived in Connecticut, if a fel-
low stole a horse, or cut up other an
ties, we used to tie him up and give
him a real good ,hrashiRg, and he al
ways cleared right out, and we never
saw anything more Of him. It's the
best way Of getting rid of the rogues
that was ever tried, without expense
to the State" Mr.. Corwin, who
never failed to carry his point by
joke, if the argument was against
him, only made the brief reply: ''Mr


Speaker, | have often been puzzled
to account for the vast emigration
from Connecticut to the West, but
the gentleman last up has explained
it to my satisfaction" 1t is almost
needless to say that Mr.. Corwin's bill
passed by an overwhelming majority.
Year: 1872

The fact is never disputed that the
great body of temperance men are
Republicans. and whether they are
induced by Republicans, TO be sober
men, or are Republicans because they
are temperance men, we do not pro-
pose to discuss, but the fact, as we
state it, is admitted BY all who give
the matter any attention. Now, what
good can temperance men hope TO ae-
complish, by running an independent
ticket for Governor, Supreme Judge
and Auditor Generaly The most
visionary adherent of that good cause,
does not expect to elect any of these
candidates, and, therefore, every vote
for the temperance State ticket, cast
by Republican, is just so much in
favor of the Democratic ticket, and a
direct blow at the Republican NOM
inees. The intelligent Republican
who is sincerely attached to the prin-
ciples of his party can at once appre-
ciate the situation when confronted
by such facts. The Democracy en-
courage the pOlitieo-temperance move
ment, because they hope to accom-
plish two results thereby, namely,
bring the cause of temperance to re-
proach, and overwhelm the Republi-
can party in disaster We submit
these facts to the honest temperance
man who is Republican, a consider
alton of which will at once convince
him that he is sought to be made
tool by his bitterest enemy actually to
destroy his dearest and most cherish
ed moral and political principles. The
success of the Democratic party
has always been regarded as an i'm
pediment to labor and moral reform
and he who votes against a Republi-
can candidate for the humblest Office
in the gift of ths people, is sure to
give aid and comfort to the bitterest
opponents which social progress and
true political and moral reform have
ever had in this country.
Year: 1872

The Green Bay, Wis, Gazette
says: A little boy-by the name of
Schmidt obtained IL bank check upon
the Bank of Commerce, and filed it
out for s400, payable to his uncle,
forging the signature of Anton
Klause. He presented the check at
the bank for payment, saying his
uncle had sent him to get it cashed.
The cheek was apparently a genuine
one, but the officers of the bank mis-
trusted that something was wrong.
and stepped out to make inquiries


The boy concluded to step out too.
and did it so effeetuallv that he was
not found until late in the evening.
This preeOciOus scamp is scarcely
twelve years old. but he carried out
his rascality with the shrewdness and
manner of veteran. When examin-
ed he at first stoutly denied any
knowledge of the transaction. but
finally confessed the whole.