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Year: 1875

Two of our school commission
ers started out the other day to pay
a visit to one of the schools. On
entering the yard they saw little
boy playing around, whose face,
hands and clothes were not quite
as clean as they might have been,
One of the commissioners called
him up and told him he had better
go home and get his mother to
clean him up little and make him
appear more decent. On the boy
approaching the speaker the other
commissioner was heard to exclaim,
"Why, dash it all that's my, boy"
Rochester Union. ,, -. -.
Year: 1875

Detroit Free Press.


Bijah, we're you brought up among
heathens2' sharply inquired His Honor.


The Court had cut hole in a lemon
and was slowly sucking the juice while
the clerk was getting the warrants
ready. Bijah had been watching him
for two or three minntes, licking his
chops and wearing a hungry expression.


| guess | was-I was born in New
Jersey" replied the old janitor.


This being His Honors native State,
he laid the lemon on the desk, propped
it from rolling off with his pen-hOlder,
and remarked:


Mr.. Joy, you are getting old and
sassy. 1t grieves me to see it, but
realize that it is so. You have got to
turn over new leaf or the silkeu cord
Of friendship which has so long united
us shall be severed"


" Is it any harm to see fellar suck a
lemon2" exclaimed Bijah.


Mr. Joy, this world is full of harm.
This very lemon, plump and fair as it
appears to the eye, may cause my death
within one hour. You may now open
court and call out the prisoners, and
hope the words have spoken may make
a deep impression on your heart. If
you ever have q monument the funds
will come from my wallet and | shall
not care to remember anything but your
good deeds and your big feet. Bring
out the vicious and the unfortunate, and
let the cotillion commence.
Year: 1875

they now suddenly found themselves op-
posed. Thus it came about that at Lex
ington they became an easy prey to
random shots from bedgerows. And in
the same spirit General Gage sent his
men against Bunkers Hill, when a rude
but bold and well.armed militia, covered
by rough intrenchments looking down
the slope, asked no better than that the
enemy, whom merely to annoy was to
them victory, should come up to their
front in his steady parade fashion, pre-
senting an admirable target to their
muskets. The world soon learned the
lessons of the war, the English falling
to the use of rife battalions and light
companies, the French to more univer-
sal loose order and other nations follow
ing. And with the extension of trained
skirmishing and the adoption Of rife
practice for all infantry, visions of de.
tending country by the rude means
which guarded Massachusetts, century
since have vanished from all practical
consideration.
Year: 1875

London Letter, June q,


On Saturday the Prince and Princess
of Wales went on a visit of couple of
days to the Duke Of Wellington, at
Sttathfeldsaye, the estate presented to
the Duke by the Nation, in recognition
of his services. 1t is so seldom that one
hears Of the present Duke that his name
comes upon the ear as a revival of the
past. Even if he had been man Of
any power, be would have found it diff
cult to sustain comparison with his
famous father; but, in reality, he has no
pretensions of any kind. A quaint,
genial old gentleman, full Of simplicity
and gentleness, though not without a
touch of hereditary shrewdness, and
with softened resemblance to "Old
Beaky, as the soldiers called the hero,
in his face, he is a good farmer, gem
erous landlord, and, when in town, a
hospitable host, though avoiding all
forms OF State and public display. To
the generality of people his figure is at
terly unknown, and it is only some
casual circumstance that reminds one of
his existence. He will be succeeded in
the title and estates by Colonel Welles-
ley a nephew.
Year: 1875

"Hippohoriablecost" is the name for a
new epizootic which has appeared up in
Putnam county. The horse that any
disease with such a name as that gets
hold of may as well engage summer
apartments in the bone-yard at once.
Year: 1875

Parl- correspondent of the London -NeiCs,
in a recent letter gives some interesting facts
as to the origin of fashions


Trace fashion to its or igin, and you will
nearly always find that it springs from the con-
sciousness OF defect and wish to mask it
The iatherland OF crinOine is Spain, and
Spanish Queen first wore hoops to dissimulate
unequal hips \ Venus of the Boulevards,
who committed suicide by throwing herself
over balcony, a few years ago, revived the
high-heeled shoes, which Louis Quatorze
originally brought into fashion to appear tall
er than the King of Spain at the meeting in
the Isle of Pheasants. \ lady who derives
prestige from rank, fortune, and striking
beauty, scalded her arm three winters back.
An ugly mark bore witness to the accident
She thought Of wearing to conceal it those
long armed gloves, which, out of mercy to
the plebeian wives of Napoeons marshals
and generals, the Empress Josephine adopted.
The hat slanting down over the eyebrows was
the result of lady of exalted rank losing
her front hair. Queen Elizabeth's neck was
yellow and thin, hence the "stiff muslin
name The double veil Of white and black
tulle was contriyed by a Parliamentary
woman with bad complexion. She used
pearl powder to hide her red skin, and the
white and black veil to dissimulate the pearl
powder, which would have shown on black
net. An old Partisan beau, with an ex-
perience of more than half century of fash
ionable society here ard at the Continental
gambling and watering places, maintains that
when a fashion is not traceabe to deiormity
it must have originated in the desire of
reigning or rising belle to crush rival
Certain things now Ia mode owe their
vogue to this cause. 1t is a Young duchess
of the Faubourg St. Germain, intent on
wrenching the sceptre of fashion from wan
ing beauty, who has brought in here after
noon dances and the new bonnet. From
front to hack rim this is of endless diameter
1t is set on behind wreath piled up upon
the spot where phrenologists tell us the or
gan of frmness lies, and it defes madly the
laws of grayitation. With its trailing gar


lands it has wild, frolicsome look which
suits the giddy spirits of youth. No pity
has it for the faded or 'rejuvenated" hair
and it does not lend itself TO the stratagem
of double veil of white and black tulle. 1t
only goes with barred face. Endeavoring
to let herself down easy, the mature queen
Of fashion, whom this bonnet was meant to
dethrone, had recourse to artificial blossoms
of rueset tint, created entirely by her Aeu
riste. She is now being driven into her last
entertainments. The fiat has gone forth that
at afternoon and garden-parties natural
wreaths are to be worn. On removing her
light straw bonnet the ddnSeuse will retain
her floral crown. Those flowers with which
early summer decks the fields and gardens
are suitable only to bright fresh youth.
This fashion, with plain women predOmina
ing over pretty, is sure to be ephemeral, and


5 not original.
Year: 1875

We think there is a slight tendency in
certain quarters to deprecate what is COM
monty termed liberal education. The
vigor of the community inclines to practical
pursuits. Even scholarly men argue against
classical culture, as needless in the rough
and tumble of life. and as useful only to
ministers and certain grades of professional
men. Scholarship is not visibly productive
of material results. 1t perplexes common
people, has no value on Change" and
drives the majority of members of Congress
crazy with its gracefLi addresses, learned
quotations and knowlt ye Of history and
principles. In times Ol great and devour-
ing materialism, when SO many are mad for
gold, and some are over estimating merely
scientific culture, and scholarship of the
past, which disciplined the student in Ian
guages. history and philosophy, is very
naturally pronounced to be not up with
the times. " The self-made man" with his
exploits on the stump and in the caucus,
with his brilliant success in Congress, or
in the Presidential chair, or in the high
Offices Of the country with his railroad
chieftainship, and palatial mansion. and
victories in the gold room, iatters the pop
ular self-loye and fills the public eye. Even
the colleges recognize the splendid services
OF the hero of the stump. or the chamber of
commerce, or the caucus and convention,
with a mag glsterial decoration or doctorate
of civil laws. The universities cater to the
sentiment which depreciates high scholar
ship by giving their highest honor and de-
grees to those whose only distinction is
ability to manipulate an election or manage
political assembly.


1t is seems TO US vital to the welfare of our
country that high liberal culture should be
rescued from this cheapening process, and
from all that debases it in the popular mind,
and elevated to its legitimate position. A
higher culture Is the supreme need of our
country. And this is essential, not for the
profit OF the lew Tho receive 1t, but for the
benefit OF the many who are Indirectly af-
iected by 1t. The presence OF minds, strong
ly and vigorously developed, is the most
powerful aid to popular education, to pub
lie stability, to the preservation of our in
stitntlOns Ii is the necessary condition of
the best success of all our general growth.
In country where the ruling power is
public opinion, 1t Is above all things desira-
BILE that the ripest and most widely cultyat-
ed minds should have a fair share in form
ing it. A class of well-educated men, OF
strong and independent thinkers. is tho
palladium OF a republic. The ideas of such
a class cannot exist in any form in CON-
munity, without shaping it and determin-
ing its character and destiny. A few
thougAtiu and able men always give value
and power to a community. They help all
its interests. Even when their ideas do not
control. they modify, and in the end they
commend themselves TO the common sense
of the community, and are worked out into
practical life and Institutions. New Eng
land owes its superiority to-day to its colleges
and it, educated, trained men, far more
than TO it, climate or its natural adyan-
tages.-Dr. " H. Lord, IN the Montpelier
H.rtch...-,.
Year: 1875

A SKELETON IN EVERY HousE.-Ihe iol-
lowing conversation was overheard the other
day among lot of schoolgirls, who eOngre-
gated 10 front OF house.


Each one in turn appeared to be holding
IN the domestic skeleton which afflicted sew
eral homes. One told how her little brother
had broken his leg another about how sick
her mother was, and still another told about
how drunk her father would come home every
night. ,.o
grief to hold up all but one little beauty
Who seemed only unhappy to think there was
nothing that she could tell to excite the envy
or sympathy of tie rest. u,,


She listened to the recital OF all these trou-
bes as long as she could, and finally she ex-
pressed herself in this way.


.sWen, girls, we all have our troubles
Some have Sick brothers and drunken fathers,
and ugly mothers. Some of us have got
measles, and smallpox, and scrofnla. we've
got something awful in our family


=. What is it ?'' asked several.


my little brother Benny's lett HANDED
Year: 1875




Some men can survive all sorts of misior-
tunes and come out successful from every
trial. Others 20 down at the first fire, and
some have been known tosuryiye every other
test and perish by the hand of woman IN
their own homes Such was said to have
been the fate Of Agamemnon such 1t Is al
legged was the fate of George Pepper in B0s-
ton the other day His wife, it said, slew
him with carving knife. KILLED in a
family quarrel does not perhaps in these
days furnish clear title to renOwn, but for
what Pepper had survived he certainly de-
serves remembrance lie was sailor on the
Congress when the Merrimac made her
raid at Hampton Roads, and he was laid
away for dead, bat rallied and recovered,
having had skull, nose and jaw broken,
teeth knocked out, thumb carried away,
arm and leg wounded, an eye destroy
ed, and other damage done. Then he went
home and married A fire next door so scar
ed his wife that she and her infant died, and
be was alone again.


lie went to work in some tube mills and
tell and broke leg. Recovering, he was
handling lumber when a pile fell on him and
three ribs were broken. These he knitted
together again and returned to work, and, in
deed, so to speak, took another rib, for be
Year: 1875

found second wife. Back in the tube
works he had circular saw take off the
ioui fingers that his thumb left at Hamton (;
and when be had got well of this little in
Jury, what was of him was killed by cary-
ing knlie In his wife's hands. He scolded
her for not knowing how to carve and knock
ed her down for her ignorance. In the
seuiiie he fell upon her, and landed on the
knife: So closed his strange career, and his
wife Is on trial for murder.
Year: 1875

the country that prudence and patriotism
alike demand that the administration of the
government should be kept in the hands Of
the political organization which has always
been true to it; that temperance among the
people may be wisely promoted by probibi-
tory legislation. and that the policy Of pro-
hibition, always upheld by the Republicans
Of Maine, is now concurred in by vast ma
jority Of the people of the State.
Year: 1875

The papers are filed with Munchausen-
like descriptions of a new motor ''said to
be generated from air and water without
the application of heat or chemical agents,
and which is said readily to produce the in
credible pressure of $1,000 pounds to the
square inch ~ The World learnedly adds ;
"a good deal less force than this would
suffice to drive a good many useful ma
nbipe- -
Year: 1875

The London Globe says: "The expert
ment of farming ostriches for the purpose
of securing a regular and abundant supply


Of their valuable feathers is a novelty in in
dustrial operations, but is nevertheless re-
ported to be a success. The experiment is
being tried in South Africa, in the vicinity
of the Cape of Good Hope, where the os-
trich is native to the place and to the
manner born,' and where land of the right
sort can be obtained to any extent. The
recent files of Cape papers containing an
interesting account of a visit by a cores
pondent of the Eastern Pro0ince Herald to
the fourishing ostrich farm of Messrs.
Heugh and Meinjes at the foot of the
mountains. A large extent of suitable
bush land is fenced in, over which the birds
roam peaceably enough in ordinary times,
but in the breeding season the pairs select
and occupy one of the several camps laid
out for the purpose. The BIRDS are very
fierce and savage at this period, but at all
other times are as tame as flock of sheep.


They assemble to be fed at bugle call.
though the feeders have to be careful of
any loose articles there may be about, for
the ostriches snap up and swallow immedi-
ately any such tri1es as tobacco pipes,


knives, spoons, coins, ETC., and make at
tempts to wrench off buttons from boots
and clothing, and are not particular as to
watches and chains if they can secure them.


The plucking of the birds is dangerous
operation. They are enticed by bugle
call into small enclosure, where they are
packed as closely as possible to prevent
them from administering those terrible
kicks to the pluckers of which they are Ca
pable, and which are delivered with force
sufficient to break mans thigh. The
plumage of the farmed ostrich is stated to
be abundant in quantity and superior in
quality. and the yield from well-stocked
and carefully tended farm returns large
profit ON the whole outlay. Several farms
have already been established and more are
being laid out, and this new branch of in
dustry seems to be in q most fourishing
condition, and promises great expansion" !"
Year: 1875

Says writer on canaries: In this way
luck with BIRDS" Simply by allowing the
birds to attend to their own affairs, and by
letting them understand that their mistress
would never harm them. Also, by aecustom-
ing them to plenty of light and air and COM
pany, rather than, as recommended in books,
keeping the cage in dark room. for fear
of frightening the birds Make about half
the fuss directed in bird-books over the
matter, and you will have double the sue
cess in raising birds. Never give them
sugar, but all the red pepper they will eat.
It is the best thing for them. And if your
birds feel hoarse at any time put piece of
fat salt pork in the cage, and see how the
little fellow will enjoy it, and listen for the
result. Give him faxseed once in while,
and if he appears dumpy occasionally give
a diet of bread and water with red pep
per sprinkled in. Open the cage door and
give your pets the freedom of the room
soon they will come at your call and fly to
meet you whenever your voice is heard. /
had one who came regular to my desk
rs sat writing each day, and disputed, with
futtering wings and open beak, my humble
right to the inkstand. And when I had
reasoned him out of his mistaken notion he
would perch himself on my pen-handle (no
very comfortable proceeding for me), and
watched gravely as wrote. have many
a time also discovered him in the act of
eating off the corners of my papei, even to
the title Of my article. Another thought
nothing of trotting about ON my head and
shoulders, and even hoped under my throat
to nestle against my chin. He would take
his bath as I held the cup in my hand, and
coolly dry himself on my head. Another
would fly down or upstairs to me whenever
called him, and many time, when have
been out he has welcomed my return by
flying down the stairs and singing at the
top of his voice all the while, until, at last,
perched en- my shoulder, he would ac-
company me to my room.
Year: 1875

Always in your darkest hours strive to rememhe
your brightest. ii. p RICHTER.
Sing me song of Summer


For my heart is wintry sad,
That glorious bright new conner.
Who makes all nature glad!
Sing me song of Summer,
That the dark from the bright may borrow,
And the part in the radiant whole of things,
May drown its little sorrow!
Sing me song of summer,


When God walks forth in light.
And spreads his glowing mantle
Ger the blank and the gray of night;
And where he comes, his quickening tonch
Revives the insensate dead,
And the nnmbed and frozen pulse Of things.
Beats music to his tread,
Sing me song of summer,


With his banners of golden bloom,
That glorious bright newcomer,
Who bears BILE TX winters doom!
With banners of gold and silver,
And wings OF rosy display,
And verduous power in his path,
When he comes in the pride of the May.
When he comes with his genial sweep
Der the barren and bare of the scene,
And makes the stiff earth to wave
With an ocean of undulant green
Wit flourish of leafy expansion,
And boast of luxuriant bloom,
And the reve of life as it triumphs
Ger the dust and decay of the tomb.
Sing me song of summer;
o God! what glorious thing
Is the march of this mighty new conner
With splendor of joy on his wing!
When quickens the pulse of creation,
And maketh all feebleness strong,
Till 1t spread into blossoms of beauty,
And burst in peans of song!
Sing me song of Summer!
Though my heart be wintry and sad,
The thought of this blessed new conner
Shall foster the gem of the glad.
Meath the veil of my grief let me cherish
The joy that shall rush into day.
When the bane of the winter shall perish
In the pride and the power of the May.


Good Words.
Year: 1875

WASHING WooLEN BLANKETS. For two
or three blankets take one pint of soft soap,
two tablespoonfuls powdered borax, and
dissolve in boiling water. Add the solu-
tion to tub half-filled with cold water
and large enough to contain the blankets;
let them stand entirely covered by the So
luton from twelve to twenty -four hours,
then squeeze and rub thoroughly but do
not wiring them; put iii basket over tub
and let them drain. Rinse in clear cold
water, drain and hang up to dry. Be sure
to to use cold water and not wiring
during the process, then the blankets win
dry white and smooth.
Year: 1875

The Legislature of 1875 adjourns over, aft
er a session marked by more excess of igno-
rance in the performance of duty and reck-
lessness in the disregard of obligation than
have been displayed by any similar body that
has been assembled in the House of Repre-
sentatives for fifty years past. In re viewing
the acts of a majority of legislation it is too
frequently the object of the organs of a mi
notify to indulge in mere fault-fnding for the
purpose of making political capital. But in
this instance the burden OF complaint is made
up of testimony from friend and foe, and the
acquescense in the verdict of condemnation
is almost unanimous. The failure of the DEM
Ocratic party to admiRister the government
was never more. .signally manifested than in
the acts of the majority in the Assembly,
Philadelphia Press


The express companies will find that in
procuring the amendment to the new postal
Jaw which increases the rate on third-cass
matter to one cent per ounce, they have been
rather 'smart" than wise. They will get
considerable more business for few months,
by carrying small packages that have been
sent by mail, but the inconvenience of the
new regulation will be so generally felt, that
there will be an irresistible popular demand
for the passage of bill, in the first part of
the December session, which will cut more
seriously into the express business than any
law heretofore in force.-N. Y. Mail


Says floating item: "Every species of
snake may be permanently driven away from
an infested place By planting geraniums." In
this connection would it be deemed imperti-
nent in us 10 suggest to the editor of the COur-
ier-JOur7aal that he plant few geraniums in
his boots.-.St. Louis Republican.
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and cemmuni-
cations. The and address of the writer are in
all Indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as a guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nieations that are not used,
Year: 1875

MECHANICAL AND SURGICAL DENTIST, IS prepared to insert all kinds of Artificial Teeth. Also to treat and fill teeth in the best possible manner.

 office corner of Meyers street and Maid en Lane. Jan. g, 1875. l6-3m
Year: 1875

To fry is simply to boil in fat; yet it is
seldom so considered, much less practiced.
A little fat to prevent sticking is used, and
with pork, none at all. The fat is melted
or fried out, the part coming i'll contact
with the iron scorched; this is repeated on
the other side, leaving the centre, if the
slice is thick one, comparatively raw.
This surely spoils it. Immersed in fat
sufficiently hot and chance given it, it will
cook through, the inside being tender and
done, the outside light crisp, deepened in
color.


1t will be objected that too much fat will
have to be used. This is not necessary.
Suit the vessel to the amount of meat to be
cooked, so that the bottom is well laid over.
1t will then require but very little fat to
cover it. Particularly is this required OF
fish that arc cooked whole, SO that the hot
fat gets inside. This can be done by i'm
mersing but half the fish. Turning it will
cook the other half the whole taking but
few minutes. Never fry fish long, as it
is very sensitive to heat, yielding readily.
The freshness and sweetness will thus be
retained.


Fat used for frying should be kept for
that purpose, and that for fish used for fish
alone. You can heat it in few minutes,
and you can have this additional advantage,
that you can raise the temperature to any
degree you want it, which cannot be done
with water. The work can thus be expe-
dited with fat, and any color secured that
is wanted in the case of fried cake OIL
crulIers, almost the only things treated
customarily in this way, and it is the best
specimen of frying that we commonly meet
with-seldom a failure.