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Year: 1875

The season for rafting for turkeys.
geese and chickens, a process by Which
saloon keepers get fifty cents for twenty
FIVE cent hen. and two dollars for eight
pounds of poor turkey, has fairly COM
menced. and from this time until after
New Years the petty gambling will be
for game and fowls. Men who would
frown upon gambling will stay out much
later than usualto throw dice for poultry
of quality they would not buy of their
grocer or butcher, or sit round table, in
foul atmosphere. and play keno. lotto
and other kindred games for the same
stake. On Monday evening a well known
citizen of the Sixth Ward, whom we will
call Jones, was inveigled lover to
Schneider's" to play keno for turkeys


At seven o'clock in the morning he
reached home with three turkeys, and
succeeding in operating his latch key
successfully, but of this he has no posi-
tive recollection. S,me time later Mrs.
Jones found him sitting by the coal stove,
partially undressed, fast asleep. and
clasping picked pigs foot in one hand.
Three very bony turkeys formed o tab
leau in one corner of the room. She
woke her lord, not without some diff
Guilty. carried the turkeys to the kitchen
table. and then assisted him to overtake
the bed. Yesterday morning, when Jones
arose meekly and humbly to build the
kitchen fire, he fonnd his hat on the
floor with one of his boots in it, his
vest on chair and his coat on the floor
under it. but his pantaloons were invisi-
BILE. He searched every room in the
house, but in vain. He asked Mrs. Jones
for them, but the tone of voice in which
she exclaimed. You old fool Were
you so drunk that you came home with
out your pantaloons ?" convinced him
that she knew nothing of the where
abonts OF the garment. He donned an
other pair and was just filling the tea
kettle, when Mrs. Jones, who had gone
to the ice-box for the steak. screamed.
Jones rushed to her assistance, aud ar
rived just in time to see her drag out the
missing unmentionables, and to note this
that they had rested on the butter and a
cold boiled tongue, and then he left for
his days work without his breakfast.
He dreaded to go home last evening, but
he did it.-SdH Lake. Tribune.
Year: 1875

A LADY pnt her watch under her pillow
the other night. but couldn't keep it there
because it disturbed her sleep. And
there all the time was her bed-ticking
right underneath her, and she never
thought OF that at all.
Year: 1875

As to physical preference, I confess
that have felt sufficient interest on the
subject to ask score of short men the
kind OF stature they most admire in
women, when they made the following
replies: Two were for medium size.
two for small, thirteen for tall, and
three for very tall. But, as may be
observed, twenty n hardly sufficient
number on which to base theory still
1t is enough to indicate that there are
probabilities in favor of it, and in the
absence of more extended tests am in
clined to believe that, where there are six
teen for and only four against, the small
man prefers the large woman. #


In such matter the rough sex is more
outspokeL. Indeed, it is common topic
among men to give description of the
woman they admire, while the modesty
that belongs to woman usually keeps her
from entering into details after the mas
cullne manner. 1t is only in moments of
corner expansion that the woman con-
tides to a friend that she has marked
preference, in which case she is more en-
thusiastic in her admiration than the
man. and invests her type with the at
tribute of heroism lt


If the affairs of civilized life permitted
seclusion, unbiased by any other consid-
Grafton than that of natural attraction,
guided as it would be by human intelli-
gence. the race would of course reach a
degree of perfection which it is far from
possessing at present. Genius and learn
ing would walk hand in hand with the
Venus of Milo and the Apollo Belvidere.
In this age the obstacles to such race
ameloration appear to be greater than
ever, for the most important considera-
tions now entertained in the union Of
man and woman have but little to do
with their mental, moral, and physical
mproyement.-Gd
Year: 1875

MAN TO GIVE OUT MATERIAL FOR THE
~ ladies suit workroom must have good knowledge Of
workmanship style and finish familiar with these dutie
permanent and good position Address giving
reference, &c,
Year: 1875


A little leak will sink big ship.
All lay faults ON the willing horse.
A fault confessed is half redressed.
wise layerup is wise layer out.
All are not friends that speak US fair.
A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder
A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
An oak tree is not felled with one blow
A bad workman quarrels with his TOOLS
A good name keeps its lustre In the
dark.
A nod from lord is breakfast for a
fool.


Always put your saddle on the right
horse.


An honest mans word is as good as his
bond.


An unlawful oath is better broken than
kept.


A man may hold his tongue at the wrong
time.


An hour in the morning is worth two in
the afternoon.


An ounce ofmother wit is worth pound
OF book learning.


Borrowed clothes never fit.


Better 60 round than fall in ditch.
Better 60 alone than in bad company.
Be slow to promise but quick to perform.
Better 60 to bed supperless than to get
up in debt
Cut your coat according TO your cloth.
Catch the bear before you sell his skin.
Charity begins at home, but does not
end there.


Do not rip up old sores.
Doing nothing is doing i'll.


Diligence commands success.
Debt is the worst kind of poverty.
Dependence is poor trade to follow
Deeds are fruit, words are but leaves.
Do unto others as you would hare them
do to you.


Every couple is not pair.


Everything is good in its season.
Everybody's business is nobody's busi-
ness.


False friends are worse than open ene-
mics.


Fortune knocks once at least at every
mans gate.


Fire and water are good servants, but
bad masters.


Great barkers are no biters.
Great gain and little pain makes 4 man
weary.


Give rogue rope enough and he will
hang himself.


Home is home be it ever so homely
Hope is good breakfast but bad sup
per.


Have your cloak made before it begins
to rain.


Idle folks have the least leisure
Live not to eat, but eat to live.
Let not your tongue cut your throat.
Liars are not TO be believed when they
speak the truth.


Make hay while the sun shines.
Never split wood against the grain.
Never make a mountain out of a mole
hill.


None are so deaf as those who will not
hear.


One is not SO soon healed AS hurt
One eye witness is better than ten hear
says.


One bad example spolS many good pre-
cepts.


One hours sleep before midnight is
worth two after.


Praise a fair day at night.
Patience and time run through the long
est day.


Quick at meat quick at work.
Reckless youth makes rueiul age.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Short reckoning makes long friends.
Temperance is the best physic.
'Tis the second blow that makes the
fray.


The best physicians are DR.. Diet, Dr.
Quiet, and DR.. Merryman.


Welcome is the best cheer.
Where there is a will there is Il way
When the will is ready the foot is light.
What may be done at any time is never
done
Year: 1875

A case before Judge Lawrence is of interest
alike to fire insurance companies and Their
patrons. One of the companies expelled from
the Board of Fire Underwriters SUES to compel
the Board to reinstate it. The ground of ex
pulsion was that the company took risk
below the rates fixed by the Board. The
argument of the company in this suit is that
the Board has no right to fix uniform rates; ;
that so doing would prevent healthy competl-
ton between companies and be con-
trary to public interest. There are GER
tainly two sides to this question On
the one hand the drift Of our best laws,
and the spirit of our institutions, tend toward
encouraging competition. Yet the experience
of fire insurance companies here has invariably
shown that severe competition and lowered
rates brought ruin TO them, and consequent
injury to the public. If the individual man
agement of companies were sure to be pru-
dent, or if they secured their future by accu-
mulating large reserves in periods of pros
perity, they would not need to lean on each
other or to compel uniform rates. Anxiety on
this p~int on the part of the companies is
either a confession of weak management OF
desire for undue power.
Year: 1875

the medical and surgical history OF the war;
Their essays in this direction cannot fall to be
interesting, and ought to be preserved In per-
manent form for the use of the profession.
Year: 1875

Such gathering of ex-Confederates as that
of yesterday in Richmond is likely to do the
world some service. II was meeting of sur


geons in the Confederate army and navy with
the dmple object of making contributions to
Year: 1875

Is not Gen. Grant the worst enemy the Republican
party has He might better have taken Ben Butler
TO his bosom than have promoted the Ben Butler of
the West within two weeks of election. Chandler
bids fair TO balance and more than balance Ohio.
Year: 1875

The proposition to give Gen. Roy Stone permission
to bnild a section of his "saddIe-bag" railway
across City Hall Park, specimen of his work, is
So preposterous that there is little fear OF It's being
seriously entertained. The plan il an absurd one,
which was abandoned abroad years ago: and see
ton of il in City Hall Park would be a greater eye
sore than the old Broadway bridge was.
Year: 1875

In the trial of Engineers Yates and Babcock
by the Canal Board at Albany yesterday, the
defense made general denial of the charge OF
neglect of duty, but all the testimony OF the
accused involved confession of its truth. Col
Yates admitted that he did not even look at
the provisions of the Mohawk River contract
while the work hereunder was i'll progress.
lie seems to have delegated this duty, as well
as others of equal importance, to subordinates
with general direction that they should keep
things straight. Yet he signed ana forwarded
false estimates of the work, and justiiies him
self by the plea that he only followed the pre-
cedcnt set by some of the best men in the
State Mr. Babcocks admissions were quite
as damaging to the defense Altogether 1t Is
pretty clearly established that these gentlemen
are at least unfit for their positions, and that
the report of the Canal Commissioners, so far
as it touches their cases, has leaned to the
side of charity.
Year: 1875

Nobody questions that in the prosecution OF
ordinary criminals strict-Attorney Phelps
has been throughout active and vigorous. His
political enemies who endeavor to show to the
contrary, now that he is n candidate for re-
election, insult public intelligence. which is
not easily deceived. But it is nevertheless
true that in some instances Mr.. Phelps
has been influenced by partisan feel
ing to action contrary to that which
his sense as lawyer would have
dictated, and possibly that which his duty re-
quired of him. The evidence taken yesterday
by the Assembly Committee on Crime points
remotely to some mistakes of this character
made by Mr.. Phelps, and this proof cannot
but weaken confidence in him in greater o.
less degree. No man in the position of "a
prosecuting official can afford to be partisan,
or to have political friends whom it is neces-
sary to protect.
Year: 1875

democratic speakers are now preaching
throughout the West a crusade against prop
erty and capital. Gov. Allen asserts that
there is an irrepressible conflict impending
between the down-trodden people on the
one hand and the 'sbloated spectators" on
the other. He tells the men of Ohio that
an untaxed aristocracy has been created in
this country, body of coupon clippers and
national bankers, who are robbing and be-
traying the producers of wealth. The lesser
lights OF the party are as violent in their
utterances as is their chief. They assure
their hearers that the money to pay off the
national debt is to be coined out of the sin
ews and toll of the laboring masses, while a
privileged class which pays no taxes lives on
the fasof the land. They claim that wide
spread ruin, misery, and disaster are inevita-
BILE unless the people rise against the capital
lists.


These wild and revolutionary utterances,
breathing the very spirit of anarchy and COM
munlsm, are addressed to people already rest
less under the pressure of business distress,
little educated in finance, and ready to adopt
almost any plausible measure which will
bring them relief Among them, too, are
the penniless and insolvent who have eyery-
thing to gain and little to lose by general
upheaval.


The Democratic orators on the stump in
Ohio are provoking a crusade against proper
ty, are educating their hearers in frenzied
hatred of the 'tcreditor class" and the ssmon-
ey power" ara teaching them that the poor
are robbed and oppressed by the rich, and
that the government is aiming to create a
money aristocracy. In fact they are trying
an experiment which has ever resulted in
the most deplorable consequences. Not sat-
fed with arraying the West against the
East, they are melting the poor against the
rich, the debtor against the creditor, labor
against capital. 1t behooves every good citi-
zen; no matter what his political creed, no
matter what complaint he has against the
present administration of affairs, to pass over
all minor grievances and to do his best to
rebuke the growing spirit of communism and
the men who preach it. The only effec-
tual way to check the spread of the perni-
cious doctrine is to defeat the party which
has adopted it.
Year: 1875

The people of Ohio are beginning to grow
alarmed at the wild and revolutionary ha.
rangues of the Democratic leaders, at the
possibility Of class conflict between rich
and poor, and revulsion of sentiment is
noticeable. The prospects of the Republi-
cans are frightening every day, and they
have no doubt of carrying the state by a sub
staatial majority, Even Pendleton compre-
hends that he has gone too far and outraged
public sentiment, and is trying to hedge.
Year: 1875

DURING the three weeks ending Friday,
the rise on wheat has been 314 cents a
bushel, equivalent to S1.50 barrel on -four.
This rise in price is principally due to the de-
mand for shipment to Europe. Thursday,
the sales for shipment amounted to about
three-quaIters of million bushels-the
largest ever made in one day. The price of
corn has advanced ten cents bushel, chiefly
within the past ten days. This is partly due
to the foreign demand, but is largely due to
the fact that the supply in the country is
small, and to the fact that the prospect for a
crop is not good. The heavy rains in the
corn-growing portions of the West have
flooded the low lands, which are best and
also left water standing in the higher fields.
This, in addition to the fact that the crop
was two or three weeks late, causes appre-
tensions that crops will be very light TIE
price corn in this city has advanced about
five cents bushel within two or three days,
or about half the advance in the West. Yes
terday corn advanced in Liverpool three
cents in gold bushel, which will give i:
another upward push in this country. The
prospect for wheat crop is generally very
good, particularly the spring wheat.
Year: 1875

CONTRARY to the expectations of the met
ropolitan journals, gold has taken decidedly
downward tendency. The Tribune told us a
few days since that it was much liklier to go
up to ''twenty" than to go lower than eff
teen." The reason assigned for this was
that the banks held but very small amount
OF specie, and that the drain from Europe
continued. If causes are sought for this de-
cline, the heavy purchases of breadstuhs for
expectation would be the most obvious one
to asspn
Year: 1875

An earnest desire to justify your generous conf
aence, and strong regard for the honor and acel-
rare OF our State inspire me Nth the firm resolve to
spare no EFFORT and to consider no other consequences
IN ae emdearor to faithily discharge the duties that
ao'ss oe incumbent on me If your choice shall prove
20 oe tne cho'ce of the people also. pledge you and
o"S@nds for aohom you act. in that event, honest
purpose ana fred determination to make the public
good nay single aim and constant care


Gen. Connor's Acceptance.
Year: 1875

The Secretary of the Navy has directed
the fourth auditor to distribute the second
instalment of the prize money for the cap
ture at New Orleans by the Farragut fleet
and in accordance Herewith the fourth audi
tor is preparing the lists, and will pay all the
claims of those who were previously paid.
These lists will be finished in six weeks.
Year: 1875

The extension of the powers of the Ala
bama claims commission by the President,
for period Ofsix months, dates from Thurs
day. The commission has set aside quite a
portion of this time in which to take their
vacation. The court will not meet again
until the latter part of next September,
which will leave only about four months in
which to dispose of the actual business be-
fore it. Tne docket numbers about 14OO
cases, only about 500 of which have been
disposed of, 200 of this last number being
settled by demurrer, leaving about 900 very
important cases to be acted upon. 1t is said
that the commission intends 10 ask Congress
next session for further grant of power, for
the space Of one year; and furthermore that
it intends asking for the admission of the
claims of persons who were too late in filing
them. The time in which claims were to be
filed was so short-it being limited TO six
months-that many claimants, who were at
sea at the time, did not present their papers
in time, and their claims were ruled out. An
effort will also be made to secure from Con-
gress power to meet the judgments of this
commission as fast as rendered.
Year: 1875

we do not read anonymous letters and cemmuni-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily tor publication
but as guaranty % good faith.


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

To ALL particularly invalids, spring is trying
season. Indications of sickness should at once be
attended to. Fatal diseases may be caused by al
lowing the bowels to become coEstipated, and the
system to remain in disordered condition until
the disorder has time to develop itself An ounce
of preventive is worth pound of cure, Is an old
and truthful saying Therefore, we advise all who
troubled with the complaints now very prevalent
headache, indigestion, disordered liver, want OF
appetite nausea, or feyerish skD to take, without
delay, Schencks Mandrake Pills. We know Of no
remedy harmless and decisive in Its action. 1t at
strikes at the reot of the disease and produces
q healthy tone to the system. People never need
suffer from any disease arising from dsordered
condition of the liver they would take this excel
lent medicine when they feel the first indications
| Of the malady. Families leaving home for the
summer months should take three or four boxes oi
these pills with them. They have an almost in
ST ntaneous effect They will relieve the patient Of
headache in one or two hours, and will rapidly
cleanse the liver of surrounding bile and will effec
tually prevent a bilious attack. They are sold BY
| all druggists.
Year: 1875

longer impose upon the generosity OF


those to whom l already owe q dett
of gratitude far greater than | shall
ever be able to pay. Please Mr..


Morris, don't urge me longer to re-


main. shall begin to fancy | am a
real lady, and put on airs, and grow
proud, if stay under your tutelage
week longer. NO" as he was
about to interrupt her, 81 cannot,
must not listen to what | feel you
were about to say. | must 60 at
once. The days of toll will be less
dreary now, since YOU have taught
me how to find the beautiful in every
thing, and the memory of the pleas
ant days passed here will be pic
ture that can never tade. viii you
not say Good by pleasantly ex-
tending her hand.


"Floy! little one," and the voice
was very tender even in its firmness."
you shall not go away from me,
back to the drudgery of the old life.
l want you, my life needs you, my
soul is crying for the companionshiP
you alone can give. From the first
moment my eyes rested upon your
pure sweet face, | have felt that my
good angel had come to me. Do you
think, darling, that after | have
wrenched you from the arms OF
the monarch, death, by my strong,
overmastering love, that will yield
you now to any power on earth? No,
you are mine, sweet love, all mine.


Floy listened, first as if in a dream
but as the impassionel voice grew
more earnest, the light of loves
heaven burst in all its brightness and
blessedne>s upon her. She had pass
ed from under the cloud and the
parkness unto the unchanging sun
light of Il true man love.
Year: 1875

GRArrING WAx.-A writer in the
Germantown Telegraph uses liquid
grating wax, and prefers it to any
other. 1t is made Of four parts Of
rosin. one parts of beeswax and ono
part of beef or mutton tallow. Melt
them together in skillet, (Which is
the best, or tin cup, and melt well.
1t should remain in the vessel and be
used as needed. Twenty or thirty
scions can be waxed with one heating
up. When much grating is to be
done. little fire for heating the wax
should be made on the spot, between
two bricks or stones.


We have, says the writer, seen
various preparations for making
grating wax, and We believe We have
tried all that looked As if they would
answer, but prefer our own decided
ly. Applying it warm or hot does
no injury to the graft. The object to
attain in the proportion is that tie
wax will not crack in cool, dry
weather, or run in warm weather.
If, however, upon trial, different
proportions be required, the iorego-
ing can be altered, though after using
them in several ways We have come
back 10 these.
Year: 1875

THE PROFESSOR OF VEyTILATToy.
They have good joke on Pro
fessor Of Ventilation" down East,
who, being put in a room at hotel
with another guest. asked the latter
to raise a window at night, as the air
was so close Il can't raise IT," said
the guest, after working at the win
dow While. Then knock o pane
of glass out said the Professor, which
was done. After q while the Pfofes-
sor got up ard knocked out another
pane, then he was able to sleep; but
in the morning he discovered that
they had only broker into bookcase.


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